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Watching the Big East and Atlantic Coast Conferences slugging it out is a little like watching sudden-death overtime at a sporting event.
The highs and lows are incredible.
Unfortunately for Pitt, the outcome is much more significant than any one game.
I felt pretty good yesterday about Pitt's future as a legitimate presence in major college football when ACC officials again passed on a chance to extend official invitations to join their little fraternity to Big East members Miami, Boston College and Syracuse. The ACC clearly didn't have the necessary votes from its membership to expand. The legal action brought by the other Big East football schools -- Pitt, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Rutgers and Connecticut -- to stop the expansion might be a nuisance lawsuit, as many legal experts believe. But it appeared to be a nuisance that at least three ACC schools -- Duke, North Carolina and Virginia -- didn't want to face.
Then late last night, The Associated Press reported that the ACC has decided to also offer an invitation to Virginia Tech in attempt to get Virginia's expansion vote. Virginia has been opposed to the expansion because it's been under tremendous in-state pressure from every politician from the governor on down not to leave Virginia Tech behind in the ruins that would be the Big East.
So the question now is this:
Will Virginia Tech remain loyal to its Big East lawsuit partners or will it go running off to the ACC?
I'm not sure I want to know the answer.
I'm trying hard to believe that the best thing for the Big East and for Pitt also is the right thing for Virginia Tech.
There's no way the Big East is going to stay intact. Miami is gone. There's just too much animosity between its president, Donna Shalala, and Big East officials. Shalala's hollow promises to keep Miami in the Big East for the long term are at the heart of the lawsuit. That's why it seems certain Miami will be in the ACC by the 2004 season. The ACC will take it even if it ends up having to expand by only one team.
But that no longer means the Big East has to crumble and turn into a second-rate league, some sort of ugly mutation with Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference.
That's assuming Virginia Tech stays loyal, of course.
Syracuse and Boston College also would stay. That might make for some uncomfortable moments at Big East meetings because Boston College also is named in the lawsuit because of its alleged duplicity. But it would enable the conference to keep its automatic BCS bid and the $13 million pay out that goes with it, which is all the legal action really wants to accomplish.
I have a hard time believing any Eastern league without Miami -- or Penn State, for that matter -- can be a top league and deserving of a BCS bid, but I seem to be in the minority there. Word is the Big East would keep the bid, drop its suit and add a school to replace Miami. Louisville, probably.
Pitt couldn't ask for anything better.
Neither could Virginia Tech, if you think about it.
Forget about what the Louisville-for-Miami swap would do for Big East basketball. Can you imagine Rick Pitino bringing Louisville into the Petersen Events Center? How about appearances by Marquette and Xavier? Speculation has the Big East turning into an aggressor in the conference shuffle game and trying to add those schools as basketball members.
Think about what the revamped Big East would do for Virginia Tech and Pitt football. Miami, which figures to win the Big East eight out of every 10 years, would be gone. It would be off to the ACC, battling every year with Florida State to go to a BCS bowl. Virginia Tech and Pitt would be left as the Big East's power teams. Is it really so hard to picture Virginia Tech and Pitt each winning, say, four conference titles -- and four BCS bids -- in a 10-year period?
What isn't there to like about that?
Pitt will tell you absolutely nothing.
All we can do now is hope Virginia Tech comes to the same conclusion.
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BAMcinemaFest is now in full swing and Brooklyn cinephiles are getting a chance to sample some of the films they might have missed at Sundance, Cannes and SXSW. Though the festival is already halfway over, there are still plenty of interesting films coming up, including So Yong Kim's "For Ellen," Josh Radnor's "Liberal Arts" and Craig Zobel's "Compliance" among others. Check out the full line-up here. One of the highlights of the fest so far has been Ry Russo-Young's "Nobody Walks." The dramedy centers on young artist Martine (Olivia Thirlby) who comes to stay in the pool house of a Los Angeles family while she completes her short film. The family includes sound designer Peter (John Krasinski), his wife Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt), a therapist, and teenage daughter Kolt (India Ennenga) who are all affected in one way or another by their new houseguest.
Featuring strong performances across the board from the entire cast, a sharp script by Russo-Young and Lena Dunham ("Girls") and unexpectedly mature views on relationships and sexuality, it's bound to be a conversation starter when it's released this fall. We called it "one of the best" from Sundance this year and after taking a look at the film a second time at BAM over the weekend, we stand behind that sentiment. We interviewed director Russo-Young last week where she told us about working with co-writer Dunham on the screenplay as well as creating a cast of characters with whom the audience's sympathies are constantly shifting. After the screening — where we spotted director Deborah Granik ("Winter's Bone") and comedian Michael Showalter ("Stella") in attendance — there was a lively Q&A featuring co-writers Ry Russo-Young and Lena Dunham along with cast members Olivia Thirlby and India Ennenga. The quartet of ladies were on hand to discuss trying (and failing) to make a non-female-centric film, casting John Krasinski in the Jon Lovitz role and how sound can create accidental intimacy.
1. The screenplay was developed out of a shared admiration between Russo-Young and Dunham as well as a fascination with Los Angeles which had always felt a bit foreign to the two native New Yorkers.
Describing the origins of the film, Russo-Young said it began with a mutual fascination of Los Angeles. "Lena and I kind of came together always knowing that, you know, we were gonna write something together that I was gonna then direct. I think we kinda went back and forth in terms of characters, I created one character, she created another character, and then we started working those characters together and finding ways in which they could kind of connect, and bouncing them off each other. I think it also came from a fascination of Los Angeles, and that was a place that people visited and been to, but were also really interested in and intrigued by."
Dunham said for a long time she had been "big fan of Ry's from afar" and was excited at the opportunity to collaborate with her on the screenplay. "I was always like four years behind her so, sort of like, enamoured of her in the way that, like, pre-teens are of teens, and I loved her first two features so much, so I was just really excited by the idea of getting to be involved in any way with her process, I think." Because Dunham knew that Russo-Young would be directing it, she didn't feel the same pressure as with her own projects. "We knew the entire time that [Ry would] be directing the movie, so I always compared it with you know you're pregnant with a kid, but you know you're gonna give it up so you don't name it and you don't get that attached to it – like, in the best way."
Russo-Young was equally effusive with praise for her co-writer, saying she felt lucky to get "the opportunity to work with Lena early on." She continued, "And the writing that I've learnt from her in terms of her ear for dialogue and incredible astute nature in terms of characters, is something that I feel like she completely brought to this movie and made it come alive." This helped alleviate her fears about working with a larger budget and higher profile cast than her previous features saying, "We were all working on such a great blueprint, I think that's one of the things that helped kind of cast the movie and get the whole movie in gear."
Dunham recalled that the genesis of the script had also come out of both filmmakers desire to do something different. "I think it's also really funny, we first had this idea cause we'd both written I think one feature at that point, Ry made two when we started they'd been super female-centric," she said referring to "Tiny Furniture" in which Dunham herself starred as the lead and Russo-Young's two features "You Won't Miss Me" and "Orphans," which both featured a female lead. "There was this idea we were gonna make a movie with a male protagonist, which clearly didn't work out. But it was, like, this funny thing was like we were sort of running away in some way, over and over again from what the movie was and a big part of the Sundance Lab was sort of like figuring out, like – we both have this sort of feminist, female-centric concerns, and sort of these big sort of meta-questions about balancing life and art, and gender and sexuality, and that we didn't have to be afraid of those."
2. Russo-Young and Dunham weren't concerned with creating likable characters and their elastic screenplay allows each of the characters to be sympathetic in one scene and off-putting in the next. At the center of which is Martine (Thirlby), who ends up unintentionally wreaking some emotional havoc upon her gracious hosts.
The film is full of complex characters making sometimes crucial mistakes that might cause the audience to shift their sympathies scene by scene. When asked if Martine was supposed to be a sympathetic or unsympathetic character, Russo-Young was quick to explain. "I don't really see it that way, I mean, I really empathise with all the characters in the movie – at certain times, at certain moments in the movie. I think we wrote all the characters to be empathetic at one point in time, and then that completely sort of changes, and it shifts throughout the movie and I think that's one of the things to me that was really appealing about the movie is that life's life, we're human beings, they screw up or they do bad things, they do good things to redeem themselves and we're constantly push-pull good and bad and working through that, and I think that in that sense all characters in that sense are often in that place."
Dunham responded, "Olivia [Thirlby] brought such an amazing – I knew Olivia since we were five, so I was really excited, and I was very excited when Ry cast her. But I think that the thing about Martine is that, like, I leaned over to my friend Wes at one point because I just felt like I needed to comment 'What a ho.' I didn't even mean that, I just felt like I needed to prevent myself from being implicated in what she was doing. And at the same time there's just, I think, for everyone who's ever lived or worked or been confused about the boundaries of things, like, her behaviour is completely understandable – what she's supposed to do, like do something like that and then stab herself or she's behaving like a 23-year-old girl?"
She then asked Thirlby if she ever hated her character while playing her and Thirlby responded definitively. "Definitely no," she said. "I really understand Martine, I have to come from a place of really understanding her in order to do her justice and not just turn her into this kind of ho. But you know, I think she definitely makes some really dumb moves, that we all as the audience have the ability to kind of watch from this bird's eye view and watch somebody flailing around in naivety and inexperience, but she herself is really acting from her heart and she just I think hasn't had the experience and hasn't really lived long enough to understand that sometimes you can act from the heart but you also have to have a kind of backseat view of yourself as well, so that you can make sure that you're, you know, check some balances, keeping tab of yourself. So I never, in my mind – she was never the villain, she just, you know, she just – she just didn't know any better when she should have and her mistake was kind of not seeing the huge red flags that kept popping up."
3. The film does a remarkable job of eliciting great performances across the board from cast including Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt and John Krasinski, who was initially very different than who they had in mind for the part.
As sound designer Peter, Krasinski gets to flex some of the laid back charm he displays on "The Office," but also allows him to play to his darker side including an outburst untethered emotion. If seeing Jim Halpert freak out isn't what fans of his sitcom are expecting, it initially wasn't what the writers had in mind either, but they were won over by him. "John Krasinski actually came in for the role of the patient, initially," Russo-Young said indicating the role played by Justin Kirk in the film. "[But] when I just met John he seemed so Peter to me, it was like everything I'd just imagined about that character from his physicality to his sense of hungriness. He had like hunger to him that it just felt like this person is Peter, I can't deny that, this is right. Rosemarie DeWitt and John Krasinski also had an incredible kind of relationship, like they seemed like they sort of spoke their own language."
Dunham said that she was even more surprised as she had been expecting someone with a completely different physicality to fill the role. "I was so surprised, cause I was totally outside [on the casting when I] heard about the John Krasinski addition just because I'd imagined the character being like 40," Dunham said. "I imagined a Jon Lovitz instead of John Krasinski. So when I heard, I was like 'Ry went to LA, she lost her mind, I'm just gonna have to bid that one farewell.' Not because he's not a great actor [but] he was not what I [had in mind]. He just felt, in my mind he was like 28 and there was like a casualness to what he did that wasn't completely…" she trailed off before explaining. "I was being completely judgemental, and the minute I saw the first cut, I was so impressed by what he'd done, there was so much pathos and intensity, I was moved and aroused, I just…I loved it."
Russo-Young jokingly added, "I'm moved and aroused."
4. Though Thirlby's character Martine does some unlikeable things in the film, Dunham felt that her behavior would've likely been viewed differently had the role been written for a man.
"I think Ry and I talked about is ideally how would you view the behaviour of a character like Martine if she were male." Dunham said, "There's a sense that when a man sort of mixes work and sexuality he's a man, and when a woman does it she's a whore, and I feel that when women make the moves that they need to get their work done, that they're somehow, it runs counter to the idea of like being a mother, being a nurturer, and sort of like, somehow people act like serious professional women, women committed to their work in that kind of primal way, that there's some sort of missing chip or broken link, and… I don't know, that's for me what I was interested in looking at and talking about. It's like a topic I think about all the time, and my feelings about it shift constantly. And also the way we also both talked about the fact that we both make work that's about our life and sort of rides the line between reality and fiction and how you wanna try to do that in a way that's considerate and doesn't fuck with people, but that can be a real challenge. The idea of this character that sort of life is her work, and her work is her life, and they're all mixed up together in her, and her attempts to be moral are made harder. Yeah, it's really rich territory that I hope to always be exploring."
Ennenga mentioned that the director had told her that she saw all of the female characters in the film as being potentially different points in the life of a similar type of woman. "I think that something we – Ry and I – talked about a while ago was looking at the three women in this house, living together, and how they represented in a strange way very different point in a sort of similar life," Ennenga explained. "There's the teenager [Kolt], and then the 23-year-old [Martine] and then the completely grown-up woman [Julie], and how the sexuality of the characters changes over that time period is really interesting, and I know that going in, at least, I didn't necessarily see it that way. But then I think that being in the house with everyone and working on the scenes, I really came to understand that that was a big part of the story, which is really important for me and my role, and I found that very interesting."
5. The cinematography & intimate sound design helped achieve the intimate feel of the film, which features several sexually charged scenes between the characters.
For inspiration Russo-Young and cinematographer Chris Blauvelt ("Meek's Cutoff") looked at "The Long Goodbye," "Short Cuts," "Shampoo," and "Bob & Ted & Carol & Alice" for how to shoot L.A. "In terms of the cinematography we looked at a lot of films that felt like Los Angeles to me when I'm there. [And ] just the feeling of this was this sundrenched world that almost like days go by and wouldn't necessarily notice the difference between the days and there's something about Los Angeles that feels like it sucks the time away, almost in a wonderful way and almost in a scary way simultaneously."
Since Krasinski's character Peter is a sound designer, sound was a crucial element for the film. Rich Bologna ("Inside Job") was responsible for the sound design on the film, which gets the spotlight thanks to extended sequences of Peter and Martine gathering sounds for her short film. "Rich was so incredible in the bug scenes [in Martine's short film] and make those come alive with this kind of psycho sexual sort of textures and sounds," Russo-Young said. "But then also in terms of making the recordings seem really grounded – not only believable in the reality but also impressionistic. So I think that also Rich in terms of the sounds worked really well with our composer Will Bates [of electronic duo Fall On Your Sword] and I think that for me it was really important from the beginning to have the sound and the music, sometimes seem interchangeable [so] it was like an omnipresent texture of the movie"
Thirlby added that she thought the sound was an especially important feature in this film because it created an intimacy between the characters. "I think that sound is really intimate, and that if we were all to decide to sit in silence and really open our ears and try to listen for a specific sound, it would suddenly start to feel really intimate," Thirlby said. "And there's something about having to open your ears and kind of leaning closely, especially between two people, I think it sets the groundwork for a lot of accidental intimacy, and I know that had to be intentional somehow."
"Nobody Walks" will be released on VOD September 7th with a theatrical release to follow on October 12th.


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She Devil
She once co-owned a shop in Glendale called Saints and Sinners, but now you can only find Nancy Nenad's south-of-the-border treasures at the occasional local festival (like the Desert Botanical Garden's Días de los Muertos celebration) or anytime on eBay (search under sellers for funkychickeneggranch). Nenad uses the proceeds from sales of her devilish wares mainly Day of the Dead skeletons, which symbolize and celebrate the dead, and maybe the occasional voodoo accouterment to fund more trips to Mexico and to support her menagerie of injured animals, which includes a canary with broken legs and a hog with a smashed skull. She and her mother, Bets, 80, have made their trips south for years Nancy first went at age 3 and the evidence is scattered around her Phoenix home, along with Planet of the Apes collectibles and a large ankle-nipping parrot that loves blondes.
You're Not Going to Find This Stuff at the Mall
These days we go to Mexico City, Guadalajara and Oaxaca, and on occasion we drive, if we have a lot of items to bring back. But that's a bit dangerous, for two women to be out there on the road. . . . It takes three or four days of a lot of driving, but you want to get off the road at night.
Art Walk
We just scour the streets and the markets, and we know a lot of people who are involved in the arts down in Mexico City, and they'll give us a heads up about this artist or whatnot, and we are invited to gatherings of artists, and that's where we find the really incredible people, just out there walking the streets.
Nancy Nenad
The Most Unusual Thing She's Sold on eBay
A fur-lined baby coffin. That we found when we were walking down the street in Pueblo, Mexico. I said, "Look, this is horrific and it's beautiful all at once." Fake white fur, lace, little rosettes. That sold for about $70, I think.
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This is a super nice & very exposed arete. It is not really in the climb but it makes good pictures... a shot just like the one in the guidebook!
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Evidence on Price Stabilization and Underpricing in Early IPO Returns
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- Author(s): Daniel Asquith, Jonathan D. Jones, Robert Kieschnick
- Published: Dec 17, 2002
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Using data on 560 firm‐commitment initial public offerings of common stock for the 1982–1983 period, we find that the cross‐sectional distribution of one‐day returns is modeled better as a mixture of two distributions, with the parameter estimates of one distribution being consistent with underpricing and the other with price stabilization. Further, the evidence that early IPO returns are drawn from a mixture distribution persists for at least four weeks. The implications of these results for the analysis of IPO returns are illustrated by examining the influence of a measure of ex ante price uncertainty on IPO pricing.


text: Dave Schroer, owner of Shoreline Golf, was out on the beautifully greened East End Road course on June 1 when he heard some excited shouting. The cause of the noise: Homer golfer Mark Brinster's first hole-in-one. "I heard the hollering when they found the ball was in Hole No. 17," said Schroer. Golfing with Brinster that morning was another Homer golfer, Mike Houghton. "He hit it, I watched it land on front of the green and bounce toward the pin and trickle in while Mark was just not even paying attention," said Houghton, who has been golfing for 25 years and hit a hole-in-one at Fireweed Meadows in Anchor Point a year ago. "I told (Brinster) it went in and he didn't believe me. He thought he'd hit it long and so he didn't even watch it." Brinster laughed when asked about sinking the shot. "It's not that unusual," he said of golfers hitting a hole-in-one. "(Schroer) has hit 13 holes-in-one on that course." However, this was the first one to occur since Schroer opened Shoreline Golf in June. The course began years ago as two holes in Schroer's front yard and, after retiring in 1982, Schroer developed it into a nine-hole course he opened to the public in 1986. After devoting 12-14 hours a day seven days a week to operating and maintaining the course, Schroer sold it and he and his wife, Beth, began spending their winters in Arizona and summers in Alaska. The golf course went through several transitions under its new ownership, including being renamed Kachemak Bay Lynx Par 3 Golf. Following the owner's death, the course was closed and sat idle last summer. It was eventually put up for sale, Schroer bought it back and reopened it in May. Brinster's hole-in-one also had personal significance because No. 17 is a hole where he often has problems. "I can be shooting a great game and then I get to that hole and all too often it all blows up," he said, adding with a laugh, "The fact is, you can hit a hole-in-one on one stroke, but then you still have to stand up to the next shot. You still have the opportunity to completely blow up again." Brinster began playing golf near Seattle when he was a youngster. "I think it was something for me to do to keep me out of trouble," he said of his parents' encouragement of his interest in the sport. A few years ago, during a visit with his mother, he walked out of her Seattle area apartment and noticed a nearby garage sale. "There was a set of golf clubs for sale for $4 and, well, I couldn't pass that up," said Brinster. "I bought them for $4 and when I came back to Homer, I went out to the Links and started playing again." It was with those clubs that Brinster hit his hole-in-one. Of having a Homer golf course available, Brinster said, "We are so happy to have Dave, who built that course, buy it back. It's been an amazing gift that Dave bought it and it's coming back to life." McKibben Jackinsky can be reached at email@example.com.


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#2: "Billy Budd" [1962]
Born: 12 August 1913, Perth, Australia.
Died: 16 August 1981, London, UK.
Education: Photohändler Schule [Dresden, Germany]; Art School [Paris, France].
Career: Worked as asst at the Paramount Studios in Paris. Came to London in 1932 and became c.asst and c.op for prod/dir Alexander Korda. Later he worked for RKO-Radio British and Two Cities.
Retired in 1965 because of ill health.
Was a founding member of the BSC.
Appeared in the doc 'Insight Anthony Asquith' [1960, Peter Lee].
Awards: 'Oscar' AA [1950; b&w] for 'The Third Man'; BSC Award [1954] for 'Romeo and Juliet'; BSC Award [1961] for 'El Cid'; BAFTA Film Award nom [1964] for 'The Running Man'.
'Robert Krasker's greatest photographic triumph is undoubtedly 'The Third
Man', a work which earned him the Academy Award in 1950. A superb film,
thought by many to be [Carol] Reed's finest, it needs no introduction. Krasker
was a key factor in its initial impact on contemporary audiences and upon its
lasting impact since. The photography has a spidery, deliciously expressionistic
quality to it, which Krasker brings not only to the realistic daylight scenes in
the Vienna environs but to the famous night scenes in the streets and sewers as
well. As was customary other cinematographers needed to be brought in to help.
The many second-unit night scenes in the streets and sewers of Vienna were shot,
very much with 'The Fallen Idol' in mind, by John Wilcox and
Stanley Pavey [ironically, Wilkie Cooper turned down the invitation to do these
second unit shots]. Yet 'The Third Man' remains Robert
Krasker's masterpiece.
His output is so varied and interesting and so visually distinctive that, if space
permitted, one could with profit study many of the films he worked on and learn
thereby the art and artifice of motion picture photography from him and no one
else, and this is said with all due respect to his many talented
fellow-cameramen working during that intensely creative time. Later in his
career he became almost 'typed' as the cameraman for great screen epics. From
Robert Rossen's 'Alexander the Great', Krasker's first 'epic'
assignment, to Samuel Bronston's hugely enjoyable 'El Cid' some
years later, both magnificently photographed, the cameraman would show that that
delicacy he learned years before under the great Périnal was not submerged by
the need to create mere spectacle. That gifted eye of his, however, brought a
look to Bronston's next epic that has, in this writer's opinion, never been
surpassed. The film was the 1964 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'.
An unusually intelligent super-production, 'The Fall of the Roman
Empire' received from its cameraman his very best work ever. Because
the film was not the commercial success hoped for it has become somewhat buried,
a fact, sadly, that prevents those who admire Bob Krasker from seeing what can
be achieved by a skilled, sensitive cameraman with a big enough budget to allow
him all the tools he needed. If ever an original Technicolor print of it
surfaces in a classics theatre, drop everything and see it. Then, if you have a
strong enough stomach, compare this work of beauty against the hysterical,
over-the-top and unofficial remake, 'Gladiator'. That simple
comparison will eloquently argue the point of the earlier film's vast
With the alarming decline in motion picture standards and craftsmanship ushered in
the late 1960s, and still plaguing us, Robert Krasker, like several of his
contemporaries, decided to retire. As there were no films of any distinction
being offered him any longer he did not wish to end his career on a sour note.
True, his health was failing a little at the same time. But the rubbish-flingers
were slowly and inexorably winning the day and Krasker decided that he had done
enough. After 'The Trap' in 1965 his only other film was a
low-budget 1980 thriller, shot to help a young filmmaker get off the ground
[neither the film nor the filmmaker were ever heard from again].
When grace, skill and great style are once again commodities appreciated by audiences
and critics then the fine work of Robert Krasker and his fellow-British
cameramen will resume their natural prominent place.' [Copyright
© 2002 by Daniel H. Guenzel (excerpt)].
'The Third Man' [1948]: 'Filming took place in Vienna and London over a period of six months. Cast and crew began work in Austria at the end of October 1948 and stayed there three weeks. It was a typically inclement autumn, with rain, sleet and snow. The rain gave the streets a pleasing sheen and when it snowed [Carol] Reed could always move filming to the sewers, where the film's culminating chase takes place. Much of the photography was done at night, by the first unit [under the supervision of Robert Krasker]. Stan Pavey headed the second unit in the sewers, while Hans Schneeberger and a third unit handled daytime photography. Orson Welles, incidentally, hated it down in the sewers. According to Reed's biographer Nicholas Wapshott, he complained vigorously to Reed. "Carol, I can't work in a sewer, I come from California! My throat! I'm so cold!" He finished the scenes as quickly as he could. Studio shooting took place in London, first at Isleworth then Shepperton, from December 1948 through to March 1949. At Shepperton Vincent Korda, Alexander's brother, designed the sets, assisted by the gifted backdrop painter Ferdinand Bellan. The Vienna cemetery was recreated there and, in January, when Welles arrived, the Great Wheel scenes were shot with the help of back projection. [From article by Rob White on the screenonline website.]
1937 |
Over the Moon [Thornton Freeland & William K. Howard] c; uncred ext ph; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
1941 |
[The Story of] '......one of our aircraft is missing' [Michael Powell] b&w; assoc photographer (+ co-c.op); ph: Ronald Neame |
1941 |
The Saint Meets the Tiger [Paul L. Stein] b&w |
1942 |
The Rose of Tralee [Germain Burger] b&w; 2nd cam; 1st cam: Jack Parker |
1943 |
The Lamp Still Burns [Maurice Elvey] b&w |
1943 |
The Gentle Sex [Leslie Howard & (uncred) Maurice Elvey] b&w; spec pfx: Derick Williams |
1943 |
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France/Henry V [Laurence Olivier] c |
1944 |
Caesar and Cleopatra [Gabriel Pascal] c; cph: Jack Cardiff (ext ph Egypt), Jack Hildyard & Freddie Young |
1945 |
Brief Encounter [David Lean] b&w; addph: Ronald Neame |
1945 |
Great Expectations [David Lean] started the film, but was replaced by ph Guy Green after a few days |
1946 |
Odd Man Out/Gang War [Carol Reed] b&w; 2uc: Stanley Grant |
1947 |
Uncle Silas/The Inheritance [Charles Frank] b&w |
1948 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie [Anthony Kimmins & (uncred) Alexander Korda] c; assoc ph: Hone Glendinning; ext ph: Osmond Borradaile |
1948 |
The Third Man [Carol Reed] b&w; addph: John Wilcox, Stanley Pavey & (Austria) Walter Partsch; 3uc: Hans Schneeberger; see above |
1949 |
The Angel with the Trumpet/Angel with a Trumpet [Anthony Bushell] b&w |
1949 |
State Secret/The Great Manhunt [Sidney Gilliat] b&w; addph: John Wilcox |
1950 |
The Wonder Kid [Karl Hartl] b&w; cph: Günther Anders |
1950 |
Entführung ins Glück [Karl Hartl] b&w; cph: Günther Anders; German-language version of 'The Wonder Kid' |
1951 |
Cry, the Beloved Country/African Fury [Zoltan Korda] b&w; 2uc: David Millen & Peter Lang |
1951 |
Another Man's Poison [Irving Rapper] b&w |
1952 |
Never Let Me Go [Delmer Daves] b&w |
1953 |
Malta Story [Brian Desmond Hurst] b&w; 2uc: Ernest Steward |
1953 |
Senso/The Wanton Countess/Livia [Luchino Visconti] c; took over after the death of G.R. Aldo; cph: G.R. Aldo & Giuseppe Rotunno (uncred final scenes; + co-c.op) |
1954 |
Romeo and Juliet/Giulietta e Romeo [Renato Castellani] c |
1955 |
That Lady [Terence Young] cs/c |
1955 |
Alexander the Great [Robert Rossen] cs/c; 2uc: Theodore J. Pahle |
1956 |
Trapeze [Carol Reed] cs/c; pfx: Walter Castle |
1956 |
The Rising of the Moon [John Ford] b&w; 3 seg ('The Majesty of the Law', 'A Minute's Wait' & '1921'); uncred cph: F.A. Young |
1956 |
The Story of Esther Costello/The Golden Virgin [David Miller] b&w |
1957 |
The Quiet American [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] b&w |
1958 |
Behind the Mask [Brian Desmond Hurst] c |
1958 |
The Doctor's Dilemma [Anthony Asquith] c |
1959 |
Libel [Anthony Asquith] Metroscope/b&w; 2uc: Douglas Adamsson; spec pfx: Tom Howard |
1959 |
Have Jazz, Will Travel [: London] [Richard Lester] ?; mus doc/30m; or a tv-pilot |
1959 |
The Sound of Jazz [Richard Lester] b&w; mus doc/?m |
1959 |
The Criminal/The Concrete Jungle [Joseph Losey] b&w |
1960 |
Romanoff and Juliet/Dig That Juliet [Peter Ustinov] c |
1960 |
El Cid [Anthony Mann] str70/c; 2uc: Manuel Berenguer |
1962 |
Guns of Darkness [Anthony Asquith] b&w; addph: Harold Haysom |
[Left with dir Peter Ustinov - "Billy Budd"
1962 |
Billy Budd [Peter Ustinov] cs/b&w |
#1: [Right] with Anthony Mann - "The Fall of the Roman Empire"
#2: [Right] with producer Samuel Bronston
1962 |
The Fall of the Roman Empire [Anthony Mann] up70/c; 2uc: Cecilio Paniagua |
1963 |
The Running Man [Carol Reed] p/c |
1965 |
The Collector/The Butterfly Collector [William Wyler] c; UK ph; USA ph: Robert Surtees; 2uc: Norman Warwick |
Dir Anthony Mann - Richard Harris - Kirk Douglas - RK
"The Heroes of Telemark"
1965 |
The Heroes of Telemark [Anthony Mann] p/c; 2uc: Egil S. Woxholt |
1965 |
The Trap/The Mad Trapper [Sidney Hayers] p/c; 2uc: Osmond Borradaile & Bill Boozeboom |
1967 |
Oliver! [Lewis Gilbert] c; artist test (6m) with Shani Wallis |
1976 |
Red [Astrid Frank] c; short/24m |
1980 |
Cry Wolf [Leszek Burzynski] b&w; short/31m |
1933 |
[The Rise of] Catherine the Great [Paul Czinner & (uncred) Alexander Korda] c.asst; ph: Georges Périnal |
1934 |
The Private Life of Don Juan [Alexander Korda] c.asst; ph: Georges Périnal |
1935 |
Things to Come [William Cameron Menzies] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1936 |
Forget-Me-Not/Forever Yours [Zoltan Korda] c.asst; ph: Hans Schneeberger |
1936 |
Rembrandt [Alexander Korda] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal & Richard Angst |
1936 |
Men Are Not Gods [Walter Reisch] c.op; ph: Charles Rosher |
1936 |
The Man Who Could Work Miracles [Lothar Mendes] co-c.op; ph: Harold Rosson |
1937 |
I, Claudius [Josef von Sternberg] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal; unfinished |
1937 |
The Squeaker/Murder on Diamond Row [William K. Howard] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1937 |
The Drum/Drums [Zoltan Korda] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1937 |
The Challenge [Milton Rosmer & Luis Trenker] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal & Albert Benitz |
1938 |
The Four Feathers [Zoltan Korda] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1939 |
The Thief of Bagdad [- An Arabian Fantasy in Technicolor] [Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan; (uncred) Zoltan Korda, Alexander Korda & William Cameron Menzies] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1940 |
Old Bill and Son [Ian Dalrymple] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1941 |
Dangerous Moonlight/Suicide Squadron [Brian Desmond Hurst] c.op; ph: Georges Périnal |
1941 |
[The Story of] '......one of our aircraft is missing' [Michael Powell] co-c.op (+ assoc ph); ph: Ronald Neame |


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– Hillary Clinton Caught In Another Lie (ZeroHedge, April 1, 2015):
Three weeks ago, when Hillary Clinton was scrambling to come up with a credible lie to explain why she was using a personal server for email distribution – one that was not US government property and thus exempt from official FOIA requests – she said during a press conference at the United Nations that the reason was simple: it was simply a matter of "convenience" of carrying just one device.
"when I got to work as secretary of State, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."
As it turns out she lied. Again. Continue reading »
Tags: Apple, Barack Obama, Freedom of Information Act, Global News, Government, Hillary Clinton, iPad, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.


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Great God, how oft did Isr'el prove
By turns thine anger and thy love!
There in a glass our hearts may see
How fickle and how false they be.
How soon the faithless Jews forgot
The dreadful wonders God had wrought!
Then they provoke him to his face,
Nor fear his power, nor trust his grace.
The Lord consumed their years ill pain,
And made their travels long and vain;
A tedious march through unknown ways
Wore out their strength, and spent their days.
Oft when they saw their brethren slain
They mourned, and sought the Lord again;
Called him the Rock of their abode,
Their high Redeemer, and their God.
Their prayers and vows before him rise
As flatt'ring words or solemn lies,
While their rebellious tempers prove
False to his cov'nant and his love.
Yet did his sovereign grace forgive
The men who not deserved to live;
His anger oft away he turned,
Or else with gentle flame it burned.
He saw their flesh was weak and frail,
He saw temptations still prevail;
The God of Abram loved them still,
And led them to his holy hill.
Text Information | |
First Line: | Great God, how oft did Isr'el prove |
Title: | Psalm 78 Part 4 |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Publication Date: | 1806 |
Meter: | L. M. |
Scripture: | Psalm 78:32-72 |
Topic: | Children: instructed; Education: religious; Religious Education(10 more...) |
Language: | English |


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I suspect that vampires aren't big breakfast-eaters. They're probably more of the midnight snack type. This is precisely why I was inspired, as I was looking for a late-night snack during an evening of pre-Halloween scary movie watching, to make these vampire pancakes. These are buttermilk pancakes made with a red, raspberry jam filling that oozes out when you cut in for a bite. The ... Read More »
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Halloween Oreo Cheesecakes
Oreo cookies are a great addition to cheesecake, whether you use them in the crust or chop them up and mix them into the batter. The crisp, chocolaty cookies are a nice textural contrast to the creamy cream cheese base of the cake, and the creme filling of the cookie blends in smoothly and sweetly to the rest of the dessert. I like them in ... Read More »
Creative, Homemade Halloween Recipes
You can get creative with recipes for Christmas and decorations for Fourth of July, but no holiday is quite as fun as Halloween when it comes to looks. You can have all manner of decorations, from simple carved pumpkins to full-sized haunted house displays, and can take your holiday treats from snack sized candy bars to more elaborate, homemade treats, like Vampire Cupcakes. The food, ... Read More »
Frankenberry Cereal Bars
In 1971, General Mills released two Halloween cereals: Count Chocula and Franken Berry. The former was a chocolate cereal and the later was strawberry flavored. These two cereals are still popular today and have an almost cult following as far as cereals go, largely because you can almost only find them around Halloween (I hear some stores stock them year round) and need to wait ... Read More »
Spooky Peanut Butter Puff Truffles
The folks at Betty Crocker invited me to try and come up with a spooky Halloween recipe using some of the General Mills cereals this year. At first, I wasn't sure that I could do it. Cereals? What can you do with those besides make rice krispie treats and similar marshmallow bars? But I accepted the challenge and set about trying to come up with ... Read More »
Pumpkin and Chocolate Layer Cake
It's just not fall without some kind of pumpkin dessert. How can you not think of pumpkins when the stores are filled with them and people put them out on their porches as decorations? Getting in the spirit of pumpkin desserts, as well as the Halloween season that prompts their presence, I used pumpkin in this beautiful orange and black Pumpkin and Chocolate Layer Cake. ... Read More »
Halloween M&M Chocolate Cookies
I am a big fan of the Halloween M&Ms this year. They're not just black and orange, but black, orange, neon green and purple. The combination of colors looks fun, bold and a bit spooky. I honestly love the look of them. I wanted to showcase their bright seasonal colors in something other than my candy dish, so I incorporated them into a batch of ... Read More »
Wilton Halloween Cookie Pan
Halloween is coming up in a couple of weeks and that means that stores are starting to stock up on Halloween items, from candy to costumes. Wilton has a new Halloween Cookie Pan out this year. This pan is designed with separate cavities for cookie dough balls and bakes your cookies into one of 12 different Halloween shapes. It's really nice that each of the ... Read More »


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December 16th-19th 2011 :: Theme: Alone
Hewwo 1, 2, & 3
by KniteBlargh - 48 Hour Compo EntryThis is one of the dumbest games I've made yet, and I'm proud of it!
Not sure if this can really be called a game even, but whatever.
Please don't take it too seriously!
(There may be an exciting sequel in the works.)
Edit: The sequel to Hewwo, Hewwo 2, has now been included. (Not sure if this is even allowed, didn't get any answers.)
(There may be an exciting sequel of the sequel in the works.)
Edit edit: Okay, the sequel to Hewwo 2, Hewwo 3, has now been added to the download, and my entries are complete!
To get the proper experience, please play them in order.
Downloads and Links
#14 | Theme | 4.00 |
#29 | Humor | 3.42 |
#51 | Audio | 3.36 |
#80 | Mood | 3.36 |
#108 | Graphics | 3.50 |
#135 | Overall | 3.17 |
#167 | Fun | 2.83 |
#181 | Innovation | 2.92 |
#685 | Coolness | 0% |
I don't know why I can't edit this post again, but my three-part series is now complete. All three games can be downloaded in one pack here: http://www.mediafire.com/?8i6cw4qy9y7rpj9
The download above only has the first two. :/
This game was really cute and I really loved the ending. This is my favorite game of all the ones I've seen so far (with the exception of mine of course)
This game is a work of art Knite. It should be framed and put up in a gallery for people of all kinds to witness. The dialogue must have taken ages to plan and write. The music: hours and hours of scoring pages of complicated melodies and harmonies. I still don't know how you did this in 48 hours.
That's an intersting idea you had there. Sadly only 3 parts :(
Anyway, audio was good, theme was okay, innovation dito.
Awecute! (awesome+cute)
I really love the idea and the fact you made 3 games (instead or 3 levels for exemple). I even wrote a review about Hewwo : http://oujevipo.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=614:hewwo&catid=35:5-minutes&Itemid=53 (in french)
Very cute and interesting. I liked that you divided the game into three parts, where i got to know the world and it's characters a bit more in each. Well, sort of. Graphics are great, audio to. Good job!
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(DPS) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Hits 52-Week High
Shares of Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (DPS) reached a 52-week high of $50.37 on Thursday, May 15, 2013 following the announcement of solid first quarter 2013 earnings results and positive 2013 outlook on Apr 24. The closing price of this beverage company on May 15 was $50.36, yielding a year to date return of 11.4%.
Share Price Drivers
Share prices have been rising since Dr Pepper Snapple reported first quarter 2013 adjusted earnings of 53 cents, which is 15.2% year-over-year increase on the back of sales growth and increase in adjusted operating income. Earnings also surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 12.8%.
Dr Pepper's net sales grew 1% year over year to $1.38 billion on the back of gains from favorable price/mix. Gross profit improved 3.0% in the quarter to $796 million. Adjusted operating income increased 9.7% in the quarter to $204 million on the back of gains from improving productivity.
The company maintained its prior guidance for fiscal 2013. Full-year 2013 adjusted earnings are expected to be in the range of $3.04 to $3.12 per share. Dr Pepper expects 2013 sales to grow approximately 3%.
The solid quarterly results and positive full-year 2013 outlook for the upcoming quarters led to an upward bias in estimate revisions. In fact, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2013 and 2014 increased a respective 1.0% and 0.3% to $3.10 and $3.33 per share over the last 30 days. Moreover, DPS has beaten the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three out of the past four quarters, with an average surprise of 3.58%.
Dr Pepper carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Some other companies from the consumer staple sector that are performing well include The Coca-Cola Company (KO) and Pepsico, Inc. (PEP). While Flower Foods carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Coca Cola and Pepsico carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Faced with rapid changes in media and technology, Social Security Administration officials are clashing with federal auditors about how far ahead agencies should plan for expansions of online services.
SSA Inspector General Patrick O'Carroll Jr., in a recent audit report on the SSA's 22 Web-based services to the public -- including popular features such as the online Retirement Estimator -- recommend that SSA needs to plan the expansion of such services farther in advance. In a relatively rare kind of response, SSA officials disagreed sharply with the recommendation.
O'Carroll's report gave a mixed picture overall of the SSA's moves into electronic services.
Related stories:
SSA narrowly missed target for online applications
SSA needs better plan for online customer service, OIG says
On the one hand, the agency has set a goal of 50 percent retirees filing online by the end of fiscal 2012; about 37 percent were filing online in the most recent report. The SSA has created the 22 online applications, which generally score well in customer satisfaction, and has plans for several more, including offering individuals a single sign-on authentication and an online personalized statement of benefits and payments.
On the other hand, as of fiscal 2010, only 1 percent of the public interacted with the SSA online, with the majority interacting by phone, followed by office visits, the audit showed.
Furthermore, while the agency has made forays into social media such as Facebook and Twitter to publicize its online services, it has not measured whether those efforts have brought it closer to meeting its goal for increased rates of retiree electronic filings, O'Carroll wrote.
The inspector general recommended that SSA develop a strategic plan for its electronic services to carry out the SSA's customer service goals.
However, SSA officials disagreed, stating that they needed flexibility more than a comprehensive plan.
"We do not believe it is wise to commit to specific expansions or refinements of agency electronic services in future years given the constantly evolving needs of the agency and our customers," Dean Landis, deputy chief of staff for the SSA, wrote in an appendix to the report. "We continuously evaluate the satisfaction of our customers and our available resources, and adjust our electronic service plans accordingly."
O'Carroll called that response "unusual," noting that the agency's Future Systems Technology Advisory Panel had previously recommended that the agency set a long-term goal of 90 percent of transactions online.
"Overall, we have stated in prior reviews the Agency lacks strategic planning for customer service and information technology processing need," O'Carroll wrote. "As SSA implements solutions to address its customer service and IT processing requirements, it needs to have a more strategic and integrated approach to its planning efforts."
While that dispute appears to be unresolved, SSA officials also disagreed with the auditor's second recommendation to develop a metric for online customer service. The rest of the recommendations were uncontroversial.
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Thursday, 29 September 2005
"Passport to the World Festival" in San Francisco
As one of the endorsers of the GotPassport.com campaign to promote international travel, I'll be at the Airtreks.com table at Lonely Planet's Passport to the World Festival featuring Michael Franti and friends, Friday night at Mezzanine in San Francisco. Good music, a good cause, and a chance to meet fellow travel entusiasts and get more information about how to travel around the world. Hope to see some of you there!
Link | Posted by Edward on Thursday, 29 September 2005, 23:24 (11:24 PM) | TrackBack (0)Sorry, missed that event since my RSS didn't kick in with your message until the following date. Did you see the image of Bantayan Island I posted a few days ago on my main SE Asia blog? Wow. Wanna go!
Posted by: Carl Parkes, 2 October 2005, 13:05 ( 1:05 PM)It looks nice, Carl -- I'll try to get there on my next trip to the Philippines (although I don't know how soon that will be).
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013
#WIN Personalised Chocolate from Joyville Made
Seeing your own name on the iconic packaging is such a thrill! My "Wendy Bar" really made me smile when it arrived in the post. So whether you want to treat yourself or surprise a loved one, you can be assured that there will be joy aplenty in your special bar of chocolate!
To win, all you need to do is fill out the Rafflecopter entry form below and leave me a comment telling me whose name would you put on your bar of Joyville Made chocolate if you won a code! Closes at 11.59pm on the 2nd March 2013.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
108 comments:
- Anonymous26 February 2013 at 12:30
My husband Richard who has the sweetest tooth, and is the sweetest man!
ReplyDelete - Sam Clarke26 February 2013 at 12:34
I would have my Partner Adams name as he always shares his choccy with me so I want him to have his very own bar! :-) xx
ReplyDelete - Tracey Peach26 February 2013 at 12:35
I would put the name of the most special person in my life My Mum xxx
ReplyDelete - paula burnside26 February 2013 at 12:55
I couldn't put any of my children's names on the bar because there wouldn't be a chance of me getting any so I would put 'The sharing bar' and hope for the best!
ReplyDelete - Wendy Lam26 February 2013 at 13:32
i just saw my own name on a chocolate bar. That's more than a coincidence it seems. So it definitely has to be 'Wendy' for me. Would do it for my mum but her name is 'Tobin' which looks like To bin which will be a problem. I promise to share though :)
ReplyDelete - Hollie Adlam26 February 2013 at 13:46
I put 'Nanny' on the bar, if i won. Its my mums first mothers day as a nanny, so it would be from my little one xx
ReplyDelete - ELAINE GREENALL26 February 2013 at 20:00
I would probably just put J J on it, then it would do for both my son and daughter!
ReplyDelete - Angela Webster27 February 2013 at 12:35
I would have my hubby's name on it, he is a huge chocoholic !
ReplyDelete - Helen Dickinson27 February 2013 at 16:43
Id put the name Susan on there as its a person joke for me and my partner
ReplyDelete - missingsleep27 February 2013 at 21:37
I would be selfish and do it for me! But only as I have two boys so not fair to signal one out! I can share the bar though :) If they are quick! x
ReplyDelete - danielle woodman28 February 2013 at 15:03
I would have to have my own name put on there :)
ReplyDelete - cheryll h28 February 2013 at 21:20
It'd have to be for my little girls :) Small, Smaller and Smallest *not their real names :D
ReplyDelete - Nicole1 March 2013 at 15:10
Daughter, because she is a wonderful mum to my lovely grand children.
ReplyDelete - Shona J2 March 2013 at 02:41
Since it is nearly Mother's day I'd put my mum's name, which also happens to be Wendy :)
ReplyDelete - Rachel Blackburn2 March 2013 at 17:58
i would get 'my darling' husband put on it, but expect him to share ;)
ReplyDelete - Jane Brown2 March 2013 at 20:22
It would have to be either of my son's names, they love seeing personalised things.
ReplyDelete - Amez20122 March 2013 at 23:49
I would put my name (Amy Ripley) on it - it would be a great treat for finishing lent!


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It is a Girl. Turned and carved from Maple where two trees had grown together. I beleive this is what you want to see.
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#1 posted 01-04-2014 04:27 PM |
That don't look like a girl to me! Ha! You posted 22 projects and got twice as many views for this! Lumberjocks….You're so nailed!.... what? no comments? Come on! this is goof stuff! so, is that crotch maple or burly walnut? did you have to trim the bush? and rub out a happy finish? I sure hope that G string is covering the knot hole! that's all I got. |
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Looks more like a nut dish :) -- Interested in Oregon property? Visit me at http://www.willamettepropertiesgroup.com |
#3 posted 01-04-2014 07:05 PM |
That's better than the crap box I posted. Great thinking. Well done. -- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams. |
#4 posted 01-04-2014 09:23 PM |
might be a girl in Bangcock but not that I have ever seen. lol Very creative. -- Failure is always an option. :-) |
#5 posted 01-05-2014 01:41 AM |
It's cute. Not my type of girl though. -- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. |
#6 posted 01-05-2014 02:18 PM |
That is some serious hard wood – if you know what I mean. -- "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art." Frank LLoyd Wright |
#7 posted 01-06-2014 04:05 AM |
You need to put a couple $1 bills in the waist band to really dress it up. I'm not sure I could eat anything from there though! All the rest of the good comments have been taken…....except maybe, if you turn it around we would see a "bowl movement"......... Hoping you get a top 5 out of this! -- Tony, Colorado, email@example.com |
#8 posted 01-06-2014 06:01 PM |
You sure it isn't a banana hammock? |
#9 posted 01-06-2014 06:27 PM |
Thnaks all the comments. The nut and bolt on the left side was to set a kinfe blade on, but has been removed. Just a plain ole candy dish now. -- REVEALING HIDDEN BEAUTY OF CREATION - Ron & Nancy Dibble |
#10 posted 01-06-2014 07:32 PM |
OK, I don't even think a shot of penicillin is going to help on that one! Now I understand why you had that….that….that "thing" covered! ROFLMAO -- Tony, Colorado, email@example.com |
#11 posted 01-06-2014 07:52 PM |
I don't think I'd eat candy from that! did you add that picture? I can't even look at it. in fact, I think I just turned gay…..NOT that there's anything wrong with that! I'm going to go wash my eyeballs |
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Not sure what lollolollo… means??? -- REVEALING HIDDEN BEAUTY OF CREATION - Ron & Nancy Dibble |
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this was the last of the dodger sportscaster cards that i needed. i had been watching a few versions of it for the past few months, and finally decided to pull the trigger. it's really a fascinating card. at first, i assumed that it featured a photo taken at dodger stadium - perhaps during the 1977 or 1978 world series because of kuhn's presence. to be sure, i did some research on the program that the guy in front of o'malley is holding. it turned out to be the program from the 1977 all-star game.
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Szechuan Tofu & Green Bean Stir-Fry 30 This spicy vegetarian stir-fry is a great way to use green beans when they're bountiful and inexpensive at the supermarket. You can also try it with other vegetables, such as broccoli or peppers, just make sure to cut them into small pieces so that they cook quickly. Coating the tofu in cornstarch before you cook it gives it a light crust.
Tofu & Broccoli Stir-Fry 29 We like broccoli best in this tofu stir-fry, but any mixture of vegetables you have on hand will work. One way to get great tofu texture without deep-frying is to toss the tofu in cornstarch before stir-frying. Let it cook for several minutes without stirring to help it develop a little crust. Serve with: Chinese egg noodles or rice noodles and a glass of Riesling.
Kung Pao Tofu 26 Tofu and lots of fresh vegetables are stir-fried in just a bit of oil in this traditional Chinese dish. In the Sichuan province of China where this dish originates, the tofu wouldn't be deep-fried like it is so often in America. Similarly, in our version of this takeout favorite we stir-fry the ingredients in only a little bit of oil.
Wok-Seared Chicken Tenders with Asparagus & Pistachios 24 Here's an East-meets-West stir-fry that will soon become a family favorite. Serve it over rice or noodles, with a simple salad of arugula and orange sections dressed in a light vinaigrette.
Spicy Beef with Shrimp & Bok Choy 21 Oyster sauce and rice wine give this speedy stir-fry a rich flavor that balances the clean, sweet crunch of bok choy. Make It a Meal: Rice noodles or brown basmati rice and a Tsing Tao beer will make you feel like you're eating in your favorite Chinese restaurant.
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Celtic striker Gary Hooper has not broken his leg but he could still face six weeks on the sidelines.
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A statement on Celtic's official website read: "Following an MRI scan, the specialist and the Celtic club doctor confirmed that the player could be out for up to six weeks with a severe ankle strain."
Hooper, who has netted 11 goals in 13 games since moving from Scunthorpe in a £2million deal in late July, went off in the 35th minute of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League game after a clash with Killie defender Frazer Wright.
The 22-year-old has already endured a six-week lay-off in his Celtic career after tearing a calf muscle during a pre-season friendly against Blackburn.
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In the last decade, the total cost of moving has increased by nearly a quarter, compared to house price rises of almost a third.
Moving for those in London and the South East is even more expensive, with the average cost now £20,825 and £16,187 respectively. The average homemover in London pays £10,850 in stamp duty and £6,510 in estate agency fees.
The South East has seen the highest rise in the cost of moving over the last 10 years, with an 85 per cent increase from £8,773 to £16,187. The most affordable place to move house is in Northern Ireland, where the average cost is £4,253 - the cost of moving in Northern Ireland has fallen by 15 per cent too, as the average house price has dropped below the level at which stamp duty is paid, significantly reducing the total cost.
Marc Page, Lloyds Bank mortgages director, said: "The cost of moving can be an expensive one, and rising house prices have had an impact on this with more property sales now within higher stamp duty brackets. On top of the costs of moving, homemovers also need to consider the costs involved with changing mortgages, such as product and administration fees.
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Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and chief co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Task Force for Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2009 with Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND), today reacted to the Senate's defeat, in a 53-46 vote, of the Conrad-Gregg amendment to the debt limit bill. Under a previous unanimous consent agreement, approval of the amendment would have required 60 votes.
"The Senate's defeat of the Conrad-Gregg amendment is yet another indication that Congress is more concerned with the next election than the next generation. This bipartisan task force is the best and most realistic option for tackling our tremendous levels of debt. To discard it is a major set-back for the future generations of Americans who will be left to pay down our debt at the expense of their standard of living and future economic growth.
"The statutory structure of the Conrad-Gregg task force is critical to this exercise, as it will guarantee true bipartisanship, expedited consideration of the task force's policy recommendations, and an up-or-down vote. In fact, a statutory task force like the one outlined in the Conrad-Gregg legislation may be the last and best chance to address the coming crisis in a bipartisan way."
Senator Gregg joined Chairman Conrad in introducing their updated Bipartisan Task Force (S. 2853) legislation in December, after originally introducing it in 2007. The Conrad-Gregg Bipartisan Task Force would create a commission of eight Democrats and eight Republicans from the Congress and two members from the Administration, who would be charged with making bipartisan recommendations to Congress on how to return the country to fiscal stability. These recommendations would be fast-tracked through Congress and guaranteed an up-or-down vote. Final passage would require supermajorities in both the Senate and House. In addition to Senators Conrad and Gregg, the bill currently has 27 co-sponsors.
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He may have led the Dallas Cowboys to victory on the football field this past Sunday, but it's Tony Romo's handiness with a car jack that has a couple of his fans all wound up. Bill and Sharon White of Irving, Texas got the surprise of their lives on Sunday, stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire.
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By smundhra | 09/04/2008 - 10:55
We know Tony Romo is a pretty good catch (hunky, athletic and Latin? sign us up!), but we had no idea the Dallas Cowboys quarterback had the power to cause all-out war between ex-girlfriend Carrie Underwood, and his current flame, Jessica Simpson.
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By smundhra | 08/28/2008 - 09:29
Somewhere, Nick Lachey is reading this and rolling his eyes. His ex-wife, Jessica Simpson, can't seem to stop gushing about her Nick-lookalike beau, Tony Romo. She tells People: "I just told him today, 'You're the love of my life. I don't really ever say that to anybody."
Umm, isn't that exactly what she told Nick repeatedly on their MTV reality show and in the lyrics of their love song duets?
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By smundhra | 08/21/2008 - 13:17
Jessica Simpson isn't gonna stand on the sidelines and let her boyfriend, Tony Romo, reconnect with his ex Carrie Underwood. She's gonna catch him, uh, before he cheats. That's why when she read Carrie's claim that Tony still calls her, she decided to do some investigating.
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By smundhra | 08/12/2008 - 16:16
Tony Romo is getting greedy. Not content with having just one beautiful, blonde country singer fawning over him, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback is trying to get a second—namely, his ex Carrie Underwood.
In an interview with Allure, Carrie implies that her former boyfriend (and Jessica Simpson's current) still tries to remain in contact with her. She says cryptically, "I don't know. The phone will ring and it'll be him, and I'll maybe not answer."
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By smundhra | 07/31/2008 - 14:34
Sigh. Why won't Jessica Simpson learn her lesson and keep her mouth shut about her relationship with Tony Romo? The last time Jess gushed about her man, she damn near lost him, and now she's doing it again in the September issue of Elle.
"Most of the guys I dated were captivated by my heart but they had different ways of trying to get to me," she tells the magazine. "Tony understands me. He appreciates my talent. He's the first person I've spiritually connected with."
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By smundhra | 07/10/2008 - 09:18
After a storm of rumors, ultimatums, and pushy fathers, we were impressed that Jessica Simpson was able to find her way back into Tony Romo's heart. But now, the blonde beauty has pulled off the ultimate coup—she's back on Tony's playlist.
When the hunky quarterback was asked by People for his top three iPod picks, he named Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and Guns 'N Roses "Sweet Child of Mine" before pausing and blushing over his final choice—"something by Jessica Simpson."
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By smundhra | 07/01/2008 - 09:23
So, doesn't look like Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo are breaking up any time soon. The popstar-turned-country singer—who's grown accustomed to fancy dinners in Beverly Hills—proved her love for her down-to-earth quarterback boyfriend by taking him and his parents to the Olive Garden in Janesville, Wisconsin, where Tony grew up and had returned to play in a golf tournament.
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By Latina Staff | 06/11/2008 - 13:15
Tension? What tension? Jessica Simpson's sometimes-overbearing father Joe Simpson denies rumors that he's the cause of his daughter's turbulent relationship with her NFL star Tony Romo. Poppa Joe chalks it up the break-up talk to just hear-say, claiming that Jessica "is as happy as I've seen her in years." Romo apparently told the pop singer to "tell dad to back off!," after it was rumored that Joe asked to be allowed to represent Tony.
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