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At SXSW this afternoon, Wall Street Journal editor Geoffrey Fowler interviewed former Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane, who had been an Apple (AAPL) beat reporter and is now putting out a book, "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs," for Harper Collins. The discussion is basically an exploration of themes discussed in that book.
Comment: With all due respect, much of this analysis seems to reflect Kane's recent scoops reporting without a broader perspective. Jobs didn't make "vision" statements of the kind Kane suggests. Companies that do that are IBM, Cisco, HP, etc. Jobs & Co. came out with products. And then after the fact, Jobs might offer thoughtful, articulate remarks about a general philosophy. Also, the hand-wringing about Apple posits that the company came out with new "categories" of product every day. There was a six-year gap between the introduction of the iPod and the introduction of the iPhone. Kane falls prey to the kind of image of Jobs as infallible, whereas many things happened under his watch that people at the time ridiculed or dismissed. The original iPhone was dismissed by the cellular industry. The iPhone 3GS was viewed as underwhelming by some. The Mac "Cube" computer was a sales flop. The iPhone 4 was a PR nightmare for a brief moment at the time it came out. On and on. Lastly, per the claim that Apple is announcing products in some cases in advance of ship date, the same happened under Jobs for some products that were important but not top-secret, such as the AppleTV set-top. In sum, much of the discussion seemed to rehash only recent history and some very recent mis-conceptions about Jobs and the company.
Fowler notes Kane had racked up several scoops during her tenure, from fall, 2008 through Jobs's resignation from the CEO spot in 2010, including stories about Jobs's liver transplant, the prospect of a cheaper iPhone, and also writing Jobs's obit.
Kane said she considered writing about the turnaround while Jobs was still alive. "A year after I started working on the book, it became clear the real story was how the company was coping with the passing of someone whose identity was so tied into the company," she says.
Kane got no cooperation from Apple, she says. She "kept them in the loop" including sending email to CEO Tim Cook, though he never responded. She says last spring. "Apple decided formally not to participate."
Is she an Apple lover or hater? "I am neither. I am a journalist I observe, I challenge." She does work on an Apple Mac and has an iPhone and an iPad.
Kane contends she went into the project thinking, "if anyone could keep going, it would be Apple, and so I am more pro-Apple" than not.
Fowler poses the main question, Can Apple remain great?
"I ultimately reached the conclusion that the answer was, No, as long as the answer to great was intertwined with Steve's definition of great, which is to make insanely great products. If they don't redefine what great is, I think it's really going to be hard to stay great.
Fowler asks what has changed at the company.
Everything has changed because Steve *was* Apple. And Apple was Steve. And so this company has lost its center."
Three things stand out: Siri, which was a project under Jobs, but which she thinks was not marketed in a way that Jobs would have approved. "I'm not sure he would have put a beta product at the center of a new product launch. Siri was defining what iPhone was."
Kane talked to a Siri developer and concedes it is "a very difficult technology. I wouldn't criticize Apple for it not being as great from the get go, but setting expectations is something the company traditionally did very well."
She cites the commercials for Siri with Samuel Jackson and other actors and she says no one prepared the Siri development team for things that were shown in the ad, leaving that product vulnerable to user disappointment when customers actually tried to carry out those voice commands.
Second, Maps. "It was really interesting, because to get something so wrong, you gotta wonder where the breakdown occurred. I don't know, but the questions I'm asking, did the mobile software head, Scott Forestall, did his people not tell him? There was a breakdown somewhere. My sense is they would have been more scared of Steve to not tell him, than to tell him."
Kane opines the great minds and great egos at Apple "held it in check for Steve," meaning in-fighting. The loss of Forestall was a "big loss" for Apple, she opines, but "Tim Cook couldn't control him."
Fowler wants to have the conversation about "skeumorphism," the trompe l'oeil effect that was ditched under Jony Ive with iOS 7. Why was it killed?
"I think a couple things were going on, Scott was out, they wanted to emphasize they were a different company. It's a different time and you do something different. Maybe it was a sign of insecurity."
Fowler asks whether it is different now working at Apple. He notes a raising of hands from the audience: several former Apple employees here.
Kane cites a conversation with an Apple engineer who talked about the Greek myth of Sisyphus. He said, his job was like rolling the rock up the hall, working extraordinary hours, on blind faith that the result would be "something extraordinarily significant."
That moment, she says, would come when Jobs got up and showed that the company had changed the world. The engineer told her he finally left because the reward wasn't as great as it used to be, it "wasn't as meaningful."
Is Apple a friendlier place to be?, asks Fowler.
Kane says, Yes, that people close to Jobs told her Steve made a point of recalling people from vacation on purpose. She notes, people said Jobs himself couldn't take vacations, that he got bored. But Cook is a "reasonable manager," and "what I've heard is people are taking vacations, they're buying second homes, which they never did before, you know, Eddie Cue joining the board of Ferrari, which, Steve never allowed his execs to join boards of other companies."
Kane says friends of Jobs told her he would have moved into philanthropy if he had lived longer.
So, what's wrong with a friendlier company?, asks Fowler.
It's not terrible if you work there, but to continue he to be the edgy company that drives innovation requires an intensity that's just insane.
Fowler asks about an Apple term, "G to G." That is a new term for Apple employees leaving, "Go to Google." What I hear is there are farewell parties almost every week."
Fowler wants to dig into what makes Jobs and Cook different as leaders. Kane cites stories about Jobs "ripping people to pieces, he routinely pit people against one another."
But Tim is "no slouch," Fowler observes.
True, says Kane, he has constant drive, the "Attila the Hun of Inventory."
She cites a story from early in Cook's time at the company about inventory turns. That metric was in the low teens when Cook joined. Cook had a rep for being a stickler for getting inventory turns to a higher level, perhaps 100 turns. When Cook arrived to meet with staff, the team presented their plan for how to get to 100 turns, but Cook asked how they would get to 1,000 turns. The team thought Cook was kidding, she says, but Cook was not kidding. She notes that within a month of that, the company was down to daily inventory turns. That is "really impressive," she notes. Kane notes she would prefer to have worked for Jobs than Cook, because he "seemed to be more of a guy with whom you knew exactly where you stood. If he thought something was crap, he would say it was crap. Tim Cook, people tell me, it is never good enough."
What is Cook's vision? asks Fowler. Kane says he articulated a "manifesto," even while Jobs was on sick leave. But that was still Jobs's vision. "I still don't know," she says of Cook's vision. "He would say he is doing what he thinks he should do, not what Steve would do, but I'm still waiting for it."
Should Jony Ive be running the show? asks Fowler. Despite Ive's brilliance, everyone "needs a feedback loop. I don't know who that would be for him."
Fowler notes the famed "Reality distortion field." Does Cook have the same powers of persuasion? "No, I think that's one of the big problems, the issue that perception was always a big part of the magic with Apple. Jony Ive still has the product videos, he talks about the wonderful things. I think that message is starting to ring hollow as well."
Fowler asks about the debut of the Mac Pro last year, citing the company's boast that it was a sign of innovation.
"It's sleek, but if you're going to pin your entire success to a product that 10 people are going to buy, it's a problem. And there's a contradiction. When Tim Cook tells you that the company doesn't disclose products in advance, but then they talk about this thing nine months before shipping, you see its unraveling."
Is Apple out of ideas?, asks fowler. "I would imagine no. They're smart people, they are clearly looking for what they're going to swing for next. The question is, Who is the decider?
Is it Tim, asks Fowler?
"No, we saw that with Maps. It was Scott's project, and he got rid of him. His style is he delegates, he gives you responsibility, and if you screw up, you're gone."
Fowler says there is a greater-than-ever need for products that simplify your life that Apple is famous for. It seems the opportunities are giant, he says. "We really need a big idea."
"I think Apple could go in many different ways. It's hard for me to say what their next big idea is until I see what is their vision. That was what Steve was good at, things like, Your Mac is your digital hub, or the "post-PC world." The problem is everybody is chasing that now. The problem is the disrupter is gone. You've got all these other people, Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings, Mark Zuckerberg, and they all have moral authority."
Should Apple buy Tesla? asks Fowler. Kane answers with the stock observation that the company wants to buy the "little guy" in a field and build the technology themselves. The thing apple was great at is finding the thing that didn't exist that people wanted."
How will this play out in the industry?, asks Fowler. Is it like the car market, where Apple ends up being BMW?
"I think Apple needs to decide for itself what it wants to be. Apple risks being that small, expensive niche player again. The best technology can be mainstream, but not if you don't care about market share. They say they don't care about the low end. I think it is dangerous to assume the low end will always stay cheap.
Kane warns of the lesson put forward by Clay Christianson, author of the "Innovator's Dilemma," assuming the market that exists now is the one that will persist.
Are Apple's best days ahead or behind the company?, asks Fowler. He notes people still buying the products in droves.
"I think you can't have somebody as larger than life as Steve Jobs and lose him and get even better because the way human nature works. For Apple's best days to be ahead, Tim cook needs to be a better leader, to be more of a superstar than Steve Jobs, more iconic. But what I wrote was my observations based on the last couple years. Apple's done it once and they could do it again."
Kane says the story about Jobs having left behind a five-year plan has to be reconciled with the sense that "Steve had a plan, but he also didn't have a plan." And the market has already changed so much in the last two years, she observes.
Note: The Guardian's Charles Arthur has reviewed the book and is scathing.


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A tiling window manager for X11. One feature that makes it unique from most tiling window managers is that It allows you to place and create your windows in anyway you want to, based on a logical tree structure. It has excellent documentation for both users and developers.
DocumentationFor the latest and complete list of documentation, visit the i3 documentation page.
For users
- User's Guide Introduction and reference. Read this!
- Multi-monitor Interesting for users of the nVidia driver.
- Debugging i3 Explains you how to enable debug logging.
- External workspace bars About bar programs such as i3bar or dzen2.
- i3 reference card Might be useful to memorize i3's shortcuts.
For developers
- Hacking Howto Helps you if you want to get into i3's source code.
- Debugging i3 Explains you how to enable debug logging.
- Inter process communication (IPC interface) Read this if you want to talk to i3 within your script.
- i3 testsuite Makes you able to read and write i3 testcases.
- i3bar protocol Documents the JSON based protocol which i3bar uses.
User-contributed articles
- i3 buildbot setup (2012-09, by Michael) Describes the buildbot setup i3 uses for automatic docs, compilation and debian packages.
- Lukáš Zapletal's i3 configuration (2012-08, by Lukáš) A detailed explanation of Lukáš's configuration of i3 and related tools.
- Swapping workspaces (2012-09, by Sagar) Shows how Sagar uses i3's IPC interface to swap workspaces between two outputs.
- Using conky with i3bar (2012-11, by Gianrico) Shows how to configure conky to generate JSON input for i3bar (with colors)!
- Enhanced and extensible i3bar with py3status (2013-02, by Ultrabug) Introduces py3status, a wrapper script for i3status which is easily extensible.
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Dentists get a bad rep. Partly because they pull things out of your mouth that generally want to stay attached to your face in an often painful way. But also because many of them have a tendency toward sharing really terrible jokes. And when you've got a bunch of cotton in your mouth or a man wielding massive needles near your face, there's really nothing you can do about that.
And so that gets us to today, April Fool's Day, whereby anyone and everyone who feels so inspired can make up ridiculous stories and ideas and then gaffaw uproariously when you confuse the sentences that they've strung together as truth. April Fool's Day is what happens when the world turns into a smelly breathed dentist who makes you sigh through the exposition of a joke until he* weezingly get around to the punchline, which is always the same: Just Kidding!
*My current dentist is a woman. And she is lovely.


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Raspberries and chocolate unite deliciously in this showstopper dessert.
Raspberries are made up of many connected parts, called drupelets, each of which has its own seed. We're most familiar with red raspberries, but this sweet-tart fruit also comes in shades of black and gold.
The heavier, the better. Heavy whipping cream, with a milk-fat content between 36 and 40 percent, whips up faster than light whipping cream, which has a milk-fat content of about 30 percent.
A sprinkling of powdered sugar on dark plates or dusting of baking cocoa on a white platter adds an impressive finishing touch to this elegant dessert.
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Dig the shnazzy MDI window manager UI on IntelliJ! It has two great features that would be wonderful for general window managing as well as for MDI.
The first is the ability to keep windows automatically tiled; growing one window shrinks the other, such that their borders stay stuck together. In today's world of big monitors and bigger resolutions, most simultaneous window work is best done with all windows completely visible. (For example, when I edit code in one window, consult a reference in another, and discuss it over IM in a third, it's now sensible to have no overlapping windows.) This style of MDI has none of the disadvantages of the traditional "window within a window" style; it's very clear what's going on, and windows never get "lost". It even handles minimizing one of the windows nicely, causing the other window(s) to grow to fill the newly available space. Maybe "maximize" could be overriden to give a tabbed interface :).
The second great feature is iconifying windows to fixed locations at the borders of the main window. This is wonderful, because unlike the taskbar model, it capitalizes on spatial memory. (e.g. My log viewing application is always the blue on an inch below the upper left corner of the screen.) You don't have to consciously remember where the representation of each task is, because your muscles will develop the habit of finding it. Of course, "corners of the screen" is just as good as "corners of the main window", and you could implement hiding behaviour so that these icons are aren't visible (or as large) until you mouse-over them.
Just like tab support in the window manager, this might be tough to implement. Anybody take that as a challenge?


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Well, it's been quite a while since my last post, but I figured this topic is important enough to warrant a return to the blogging world (even if it's a brief return). The Michigan Legislature recently released their maps for the 2011 redistricting. For reference, here are links to the current boundaries:
Now, those were created by the 2001 Legislature, which was controlled by Republicans, and signed into law under Republican Governor John Engler.
They're not bad, and look pretty good. This year, it seems as if the Republican members of the Legislature have gotten a little more ambitious, and a little more creative. So let's take a look at what they've proposed. Here are links to PDFs of all 3 maps, and I've copied the images below, where I'll analyze them:
This first map is the proposed Congressional districts:
And here's a zoomed in image of the Metro-Detroit area:
I'll admit – I cringed when I saw the 14th district, and the 11th district isn't exactly pretty either. They've got some awkward separations, like putting Farmington Hills in the 14th, but keeping Farmington in the 11th; putting Bloomfield Hills in the 11th, while placing Bloomfield Township in the 9th; Southfield Township is placed in the 9th, while Southfield City ends up in the 14th; Clawson is split up; and Rochester Hills is split up.
In an attempt to squeeze Democratic Congressmen Sander Levin and Gary Peters into the same district and force a primary between the two, saving the Republicans from losing a seat, the map has turned into something I like to call gerrymanderliscious.
But it gets even more creative as we move on to the Michigan Senate map:
And again, a zoomed in view of the Metro-Detroit area:
For the most part, this one isn't too bad until you get to the Metro-Detroit area. District 1 is incredibly awkward, as is District 6. But the really weird ones are 14 and 25. You can't see it on my uploaded images, but if you view the original map at 100% zoom, you can see that Springfield Township and Waterford Township just barely overlap for the 14th to be contiguous. As for the 25th district, I'm guessing they've just connected them along a strip of County Line Road, but I'm not positive.
So that brings us to the state House of Representatives:
And again, a zoomed in view of Metro-Detroit:
And a zoomed in view of Grand Rapids and the southwest corner of the state:
The House map isn't too bad, other than more awkward county splits than I'm really comfortable with. The Grand Rapids area looks pretty decent, although 86 is a bit wacky. And Metro-Detroit looks pretty good with the exception of the 13th.
So, by far, my biggest complaints are with the Congressional map, but what was really sad was the Republicans claims that they had to draw the lines like that to abide by the Voting Rights Act, which mandates 2 majority minority districts for Michigan. That's just nonsense. There are plenty of ways to draw the lines so that you have decent looking districts that obey the VRA.
Obviously Democrats Sander Levin and Gary Peters weren't happy with the maps, but even Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is unhappy with the map, because as of the current proposal, Oakland County, the second most populous county in Michigan, would be represented by people who all live outside of the county.
Now, gerrymandering can be a lot of fun; I enjoyed playing around and making this little beauty for Maryland:
But when it comes to ACTUALLY redistricting, our legislature shouldn't be drawing crap like this for partisan gain. Doing so takes the focus off of the good things the Republicans have done in Michigan and tells voters, "We know you voted for us in 2010, but we don't trust you for the next 10 years, so we're gonna cheat to win."
Am I advocating that the legislature adopts a plan where we have 14 districts and each one is competitive at a 50-50 level? Absolutely not; that'd be ridiculous. The GOP won in a landslide in 2010, so it's expected that the maps will favor us, but there's no need to mangle the maps the way they've done. That's just petty politics, and when the people of Michigan see that, it gives them a bad image of the party.


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We weren't sure where we wanted to spend the night and were debating between the Cayuga Lake State Park and the Waterloo Harbor Campground. They were about the same price, but the main difference is that there is internet at the Waterloo Harbor Campground. We already decided that we are going to try to do a wine tour tomorrow, which leaves from downtown Seneca Falls. We would have to ride our bikes to the start of the wine tour though so we drove both routes to see which one we thought would be a better bike route. The Cayuga Lake State Park is about a mile closer to downtown Seneca Falls and seems like a much safer bike ride so we decided to stay in the Cayuga Lake State Park.
We headed to the state park and booked it for 2 nights so that we could stay tomorrow night after the wine tour and so that we could go in to downtown Seneca Falls tomorrow night to watch the Phillies 1st game of the NLDS
After getting set up in the campground it started to rain so we just hung out in the RV and relaxed.
Saturday, October 1st
We got up early so that we could bike in to downtown Seneca Falls to see if we could get two seats on a wine tour. We found the Seneca Wine Tour, which is a bus that takes you to 5 different wineries on the Cayuga Lake for $20/person. This was the best deal we could find, but it was too late to reserve seats online. The woman who runs the wine tour operates out of the lobby in the Hotel Clarence in downtown Seneca Falls. There is no phone number listed for her online so we had to ride to the hotel in the hopes that there would be available seats left on the bus. I called the visitor's center yesterday and they had a little bit of information about it and basically told me that the lady gets to the lobby around 9am and the first bus leaves at 10am. So if we wanted to try to get seats it would be better for us to get there earlier rather than later. We rode our bike the 3.5 miles in to downtown Seneca Falls in a light drizzle and were there by 9:30am.
We were in luck and there were available seats on the 10am bus so we paid the fee and locked up our bikes to get ready for the 10am bus. There actually were tons of seats on the 10am bus and we only had 2 other people with us. They happened to be from outside of Philly in Bucks County. We all had our Phillies gear on so it was easy to tell they were from the Philadelphia area
The way the bus worked was that it would drop us off at a winery and give us a half hour to do our tastings and check out the winery and then it would pick us back up to drive us to the next winery. At the third winery they allotted an hour for us so that we could get some food for lunch. The five wineries we went to in order were the Sheldrake Point Vineyard, Buttonwood Grove Winery, Knapp Winery & Restaurant, Cobblestone Farm Winery & Vineyard, and Montezuma Winery. Each winery charged either a $2 or $3 tasting fee and you got to sample about 6 wines of your choice from each.
We ended up buying two wines from the Buttonwood Grove Winery and one bottle of mead from the Montezuma Winery. We liked some of the wines we tried at pretty much all the wineries except for at Cobblestone Farm Winery & Vineyard. The wines here were all pretty sweet and not really what we like to drink. All the other wineries had sweet wines too, but they had a good amount of dry wines we could try. We ate lunch at the Knapp Winery & Restaurant. You could do a box lunch which included a turkey wrap or you could have a sit down meal in the restaurant. The turkey wrap didn't sound all that appealing to me since I am not a big turkey fan so we opted to do a sit down lunch
After finishing up at the last winery the bus dropped us back off at the Hotel Clarence. We retrieved our bikes and tried to figure out how we were going to get our three bottles of wine home. We didn't think in advance and didn't bring a back pack with us or anyway to strap the bottles on to our bikes. Jared ended up being able to fit one bottle of wine in each of his rain coat pockets and then he had the last bottle in a brown paper bag hanging from his bike handle. It was raining pretty good on the bike ride home though so he ended up having to hold the bottle in his hand after a while since the bottom of the bag got pretty soaked and he didn't want the bottle ripping through. We made it home all in one piece and pretty wet. We got changed in to some dry clothes and relaxed before heading out again later for the Phillies game.
It was raining out again so we decided to call a cab to take us in to downtown Seneca Falls to find a bar to watch the game in. We tried to set up a cab for earlier today so we weren't biking in the rain, but they couldn't pick us up as early as we wanted to go
The other two guys left a little bit after we got there and it ended up being us and the bartender for most of the game. He said they would get crowded later, but not until like 10 or 11pm. By the end of the game there were 4 more people in the bar with us. After watching the Phillies win we played a game of cricket, which I won and finished up our last beers before calling a cab to take us back to the campground. When we got back we just relaxed and then headed to bed.


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Hepatitis B is irritation and swelling (inflammation) of the liver due to infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV).
Other types of viral hepatitis include:
Hepatitis B infection is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV).You can catch hepatitis B through contact with the blood or body fluids (such as semen, vaginal fluids, and saliva) of a person who has the virus.
Exposure may occur:
People who may be at risk of hepatitis B are those who:
After you first become infected with the hepatitis B virus:
Symptoms of hepatitis B may not appear for up to 6 months after the time of infection. Early symptoms include:
Symptoms will go away in a few weeks to months if your body is able to fight off the infection. Some people never get rid of the hepatitis B virus. This is called chronic hepatitis B.
People with chronic hepatitis may not have symptoms and not know they are infected. Over time, they may develop symptoms of liver damage and cirrhosis of the liver.
You can spread the hepatitis B virus to other people even if you have no symptoms.
A series of blood tests called the hepatitis viral panel is done to help diagnose the condition.
The following tests are done to look for liver damage if you have chronic hepatitis B:
You will also have a test to measure the level of HBV in your blood (viral load). This lets your doctors know how your treatment is working.
Acute hepatitis needs no treatment other than careful monitoring of liver and other body functions with blood tests. You should get plenty of bed rest, drink plenty of fluids, and eat healthy foods.
Some patients with chronic hepatitis may be treated with antiviral medications or a medication called peginterferon. These medications can decrease or remove hepatitis B from the blood and reduce the risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer. It is not always clear which patients with chronic hepatitis B should receive drug therapy and when drug therapy should be started. You are more likely to receive these medicines if:
If you develop rapid liver failure, you may need a liver transplant. A liver transplant is the only cure in some cases of liver failure.
Other recommendations:
Severe liver damage, or cirrhosis, can be caused by hepatitis B.
Some people benefit from attending a liver disease support group.
The acute illness usually goes away after 2 - 3 weeks. The liver usually returns to normal within 4 - 6 months in most people.
Almost all newborns and about half of children who get hepatitis B develop the chronic condition. Very few adults who get the virus develop chronic hepatitis B.
About 1 in 100 people who get hepatitis B dies from the condition.
There is a much higher rate of liver cancer in people who have chronic hepatitis B.
Call your health care provider if:
Children and people at high risk for hepatitis B should get the hepatitis B vaccine.
All blood used for blood transfusions is screened, so the chance of getting the virus in this way is very small.
The hepatitis B vaccine or a hepatitis immune globulin (HBIG) shot may help prevent infection if you receive it within 24 hours of contact with the virus.
Measures to avoid contact with blood and body fluids can help prevent the spread of hepatitis B from person to person.
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Perrillo R. Hepatitis B and D. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2010:chap 78.
Sorrell MF, Belongia EA, Costa J, Gareen IF, Grem JL, Inadomi JM, et al. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Management of hepatitis B. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:104-10.
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In 1926 Carter G. Woodson, an African-American historian, author, journalist, and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (1915), and founder of the academic quarterly, Journal of Negro History (1916), founded the second week in February as Negro History Week. For me, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, Negro History Week, was one week in the year when we focused on the achievements of Americans of African ancestry – achievement in the arts, sports, science, education, politics, business, religion, community uplift, and other areas of success. Marian Anderson, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Ralph Bunch, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson, Dorothy Dandridge, Father George Clements, Father Rollins Lambert, Bishop Harold Perry, and so many other individuals living and dead were lifted up with pride as if to say "Because they did we can."
In my childhood Negro History Week, which in 1976 was expanded to Black History Month, served to negate the inferiority complex that had gripped the psyche of Black people. Achievement was not just for the purpose of personal success or even the uplift of a race; it was also proof, to others and ourselves, that we are equal.
Now in my sixties, I can add so many other names to that long list of Black achievers, most notably President Barack Obama. For me today, that list is no longer as much a body of proof than it is a legacy. My pride is less to negate an internal sense of inferiority and more to give praise to God for giving us such bright lights in our dark history as a nation. I suppose that I have evolved as have so many of my generation.
Yet, today internalized racism still grips the psyche of so many African-Americans. Living conditions for African-Americans on many levels lag that of White Americans. While many Whites have evolved beyond their "burden" of internalized superiority, there are still many who consciously and subconsciously see themselves as the primary race for whom our nation's founders intended those inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Racism in America, from the beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 16th Century to today, did a number on all of us. While we have come a long way since slavery, Jim Crow, and legal apartheid in our country, we still have a long way to go.
For Catholic people of faith who uphold the dignity of every human person, what can this February focus on African-American History do for us? It can help us all appreciate the worthiness and giftedness of all people regardless of race, economic class, sex, and sexual orientation. It can also help us appreciate that within those categories there are unique gifts that add to the richness of life in community. We are more when we are inclusive.
I take great pride in being African-American. That pride isn't to inflate my sense of self or to boast; rather it is to share with others what God has done despite our nation's ignoble history. African-Americans, especially during Black History Month, are a prophetic people who point us all toward God. And that's what we all celebrate.
For more information on Black History Month visit the Office for Black Catholic's website, www.blackcatholicchicago.org.
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Comments Pinch the growing tips in June for a more compact plant. This goldenrod does not spread by rhizomes or become invasive. It is resistant to salt spray.
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Native Distribution Coastal areas from Newfoundland. to Florida, Texas & Mexico
Site Preference Saline places along the coast
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From indulging those with a sweet tooth to lining pockets, lending institutions have been buying the favor of sticky-fingered college administrators for some time now. Instead of protecting their students from predatory lenders' high interest rates, hidden fees, and poor service, many school officials appear to have fed students and their families directly into student-loan companies' gaping maw in exchange for a few dollars or a nice vacation — or a box of chocolates.
Now that the players are getting caught, students find they need protection — not only from lenders themselves but from their own colleges and universities. So public officials, at the national and state levels, are trying to provide that assurance, by proposing laws banning the receipt of gifts from student-loan companies and making the process of recommending lenders more transparent.
Not surprisingly, efforts to impose ethical order on the unruly student-loan–university-administration nexus are meeting resistance. College and university administrators, including many in Massachusetts, insist that they can police their own operations, thanks.
That claim took a blow on the chin last week when Emerson College fired its dean of enrollment, Daniel Pinch, for earning $36,000 as a consultant for Collegiate Funding Services Inc. (CFS) while he was recommending CFS to students for loan consolidation.
Pinch's actions were disclosed not by college officials, who say they have been blindsided by the allegations, but in a report issued by a US Senate committee chaired by Edward Kennedy. The report further showed that Pinch also lobbied on behalf of CFS, lent his name to CFS marketing materials, and even recommended CFS to financial-aid officers at other schools.
CFS is one of 16 lending institutions whose nefarious dealings are documented in the report of Kennedy's Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The 16 companies, including Sallie Mae, Nelnet, Citibank, Bank of America, and other huge names, dominate the market (of more than 3000 lenders) in large part because students select them from their school's so-called preferred-lender list.
Those lists are select, indeed: among 3000-plus options, only two made it on to Emerson's list; other schools typically include no more than five. The 12 million undergraduates who annually take out an average of $4000 in loans each rarely even know that other choices exist.
Schools insist that they put only lenders with the best rates and service on their lists. But the Kennedy report suggests that baser considerations — quid pro quo arrangements — might too often be at work. Regardless, this much is clear: untangling the web of relationships that determine how lucrative student loans are made has become increasingly pressing for students, their families, and government representatives.
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Emerson is not the only Massachusetts school with the ignominious distinction of appearing in Kennedy's report. Also making cameos were financial-aid directors at Lesley University, Tufts University, Boston University, Wellesley College, and Mass Bay Community College, which all appear on a list of Student Lending Associates' gift recipients.
Bizarrely, officials at Boston College, Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, and Salem State College received chocolate rewards for ranking among the "Top 100 volume producing schools" by lending company Student Loan Xpress. Citizens Bank documents show that it wrote and paid for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy's financing handbook, its "Financing Your Education" brochure, its award letter to students, and even some of its business cards.
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Amusement Parks
A selection of 8 postcards of Amusement Parks
Historical Article
Many Parks Preceded World of Fun
The following account is by Mrs. Sam Ray, familiar to readers for her Postcard From Old Kansas City column which appears as an editorial page feature of The Star. The illustrations, of course, are from her extensive collection of old postcards.
Troost Park
One of Kansas City's first amusement parks was Troost Park, which was opened about 1889 by the Kansas City Cable Car Company, to stimulate trade for its street car line. The entrance to the park was at the end of the Troost Avenue cable line at 24th. Patrons of the line had free admittance to the park.
In the early '90s the Shoot the Chutes ride was built, the first thriller of its kind used in a local amusement place. There were wooded spots of picnickers and boating, as well as the usual concessions.
The area was originally part of the Porter farm. The Rev. James Porter, his wife and son migrated here from Nashville, Tenn., in 1832, bringing horses, cattle, hogs and 25 to 30 Negro servants.
At what is now the corner of 27th and Tracy, Mr. Porter and his servants began construction of their future home. A sturdy 1 1/2-story log home with five rooms was built, with a kitchen 8 or 10 feet away. Servants' quarters were nearby, each head of a family having his own cabin.
For several generations the site and home was preserved by descendants of Mr. Porter.
Troost Park was purchased by the city in 1902 and still contains the 3 1/2-acre lake and a Mormon marker at the south end of the lake. The marker indicates the site where Joseph Smith and 11 of his followers of the Colesville branch met and camped, in August, 1831. A log was laid for the first house and school as a foundation of Zion in Kaw township.
Forest Park
The impressive entrance to Forest Park at Independence and Hardesty was also the end of the line for Independence Avenue cable cars. The amusement park was privately owned and operated between 1903 and 1912. Col. John D. Hopkins, Lloyd Brown, W. R. Fisher and John D. Tippett were among the managers and lessors.
Attractions included glass blowers, a laughing gallery, scenic railway, Cave of the Winds, pony track, donkeys to ride and a $15,000 English carousel. Lenge's military band played concerts and there was a restaurant, picnic grounds and even a large round well-stocked monkey house.
Today residences and businesses fill the four city blocks the park occupied, with an auto parts store on the corner pictured.
Mt. Washington Park
Mount Washington Amusement Park, with the reputation of being the largest and most beautiful in Missouri, was a development of Willard E. Winner, who owned 2,400 acres west of Independence.
He also was the president of a street car line serving the park, the Kansas City, Independence and Park Railway, completed in September, 1887. The company operated steam cars, covered with dummy tops (to keep them from frightening horses).
Through the park ran the sparkling Rock Creek which Winner dammed in 1887 to form a 20-acre lake, used for swimming and boating and enhanced in places by the natural beauty of a rocky tree-lined shore.
Musical shows, such as Pinafore, were performed on summer evenings from the deck of a ship tied to a dock, with the audience sitting on chairs on a grassy bank. A covered bandstand was built on an island in the lake, and concerts were given there.
There also was a lecture platform and a dance pavilion. There were the usual concessions and rides, and picnic tables and benches were scattered throughout the shady park. Birds and wildlife were numerous and protected. All the trapshooting clubs of Missouri gathered for an annual state shooting event at Robert W. Elliott's shooting park at Mount Washington. Live pigeons were used as targets.
The park closed in 1900, due to the competition of Fairmount park which had more direct transportation. Since that time the old park grounds have been the property of Mount Washington Cemetery. Today the lake is filled in and landscaped and the wooded grounds of the old amusement park includes the graves of more than 30,000 persons, many who once enjoyed the pleasures of old Mount Washington Park.
Carnival Park
When the $250,000 Carnival Park opened in Kansas City, Kansas, May 17, 1907, it was announced to be equal to any park in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis or any large city west of New York, and rivaled only by New York's Coney Island.
The 13 1/2-acre plot it occupied, bounded by 14th, 16th, Minnesota and Barnett, was near the city limits at the time. Today the bleachers, stadium and football field of the Bishop Ward (Catholic) High School covers the area, leaving not a trace of the popular amusement park.
Being in historic Wyandotte County with its many Indian associations there were areas given over to Indian dances and games, and a restaurant called Wigwam Café.
Some of the amusement features were a large scenic railway, quiver, a shoot-the-chutes over a waterfall, a moving stairway to a great height, a living merry-go-round, billiards, bowling, a natatorium and the largest roller skating rink in the West.
Panoramic features included The Great Chicago Fire, Under the Bering Straits of Siberia, the Johnston Flood, Venice and a fire show larger than that seen at the St. Louis World's Fair. There were shady picnic areas, sunken gardens and daily free band concerts.
The name Carnival Park embodied the idea of a genuine Southern carnival time when confetti and flowers, reasonable license and fun mingled.
Fairyland Park
Fairyland Amusement Park opened in 1923 on 80 acres of farm land between Prospect and Indiana, 75th and 77th.
At a fourth anniversary event in June, 1927, a balloon ascension and parachute jump entertained patrons, while the free open air theatre Fitzpatrick & Sparks sang, Mme Peris' students danced and Albertine & Paul did a group of sensational hand stands.
There were picnic facilities, wild animal acts, a great Ferris wheel and name bands played in the big ballroom every evening, except Mondays.
Each year, in the season before the park's opening day, thousands of school children have attended Parent-Teachers Association picnics at the park, with rides at reduced prices and the P.T.A. benefiting from the entire sale of gate admission tickets. Many business firms entertained their employees on annual picnics at this south side park.
The swimming pool was an early day drawing card and there were ponies for children, miniature train and the flying tiger.
The park continues operation today. A telephone recording at the opening day in 1971 stated: The 1971 season began May 9 and lasts until Sept. 6. The recording continues: We have 33 major rides including the largest all steel roller coaster, the largest kiddie park; picnic grounds and bumper cars imported from Italy. The Giant Dipper is the last classic roller coaster between Vancouver, British Columbia, and San Diego.
Frank Meister's photographs of night scenes of the giant lighted Ferris wheel and roller coaster rides at Fairyland, won national acclaim and much publicity for the park in the 1950s.
Winnwood Park
Crowds numbering to 10,000 on Sundays visited old Winnwood amusement park in rural Clay County, 1913. Swimming, boating, dancing, picnic grounds, cottages, roller coaster, rides and sideshows were available.
The park, with spring fed lake was built and developed by Frank Winn, member of a prominent pioneer Clay County family with large land holdings and a pre-Civil War mansion. The boardwalk was copied from Atlantic City, N. J.
The Kansas City Clay County & St. Joe Interurban railway carried visitors to the park, as did horse-drawn buggies and motor cars that today would be premium-priced antiques. Four-lane I-35 now follows the route of the inter-urban tracks through the old park.
Electric Park
A whole generation of Kansas Citians will vow there was never a place of its kind equal to Kansas City's Electric Park. It opened May 19, 1907, to a crowd of 53,000.
The park of music, rides and thrills was named for the 100,000 electric light bulbs out lining buildings and rides. After dark they turned night into day. Enthusiastic writers termed it the great white city of Brush Creek Valley.
Old city maps of 1908 show this amusement park to be located at the extreme southern city limits at 46th and the Paseo and extending east to Woodland.
An important feature of the park was a nightly spectacle of Living Statuary at the fountain in the lake. Here beautiful, shapely young women on a pedestal emerged from the fountain as if by magic and held the crowd spellbound with their graceful poses, while flooded with colored lights that merged, blended and changed shades over their lovely forms.
The park's owners, the Heim brothers, had installed a $70,000 fountain in the lake with a device that elevated a pedestal out of the water, bringing the classic group up from the base (actually the girls' dressing room).
Fireworks, a nightly feature, were shot high over the waters of the lake, and on the Fourth of July were especially elaborate.
John Phillip Sousa, the march king, maintained that the band shell at Electric Park was the best he had ever played in the U.S. or abroad. There were daily concerts both afternoons and evenings by world renowned bands.
Today the entrance to the old park site is occupied by the Village Green apartment complex and shopping center.
Fairmount Park
For 36 years Fairmount park furnished summer fun and water sports for Kansas Citians, at its 8-acre lake located north of what is now U.S. 24 highway, at the eastern city limit.
Canoes and boats were available to rent and a long bathing beach as seen in the background of the picture, boasted impressive diving structures and a 2-story bath-house where bathing suits, caps and life preservers were also for rent.
The park was Arthur E. Stillwell's creation and was planned primarily to furnish trade for his Air-line interurban line, which ran from 2nd and Grand to Independence. The idea was successful and records show that as many as 15,000 fares were collected in a single day.
There was no air conditioning at the time, but the fast, breezy car ride to the country with windows wide-open was a cooling experience and one of the chief incentives for going to the park.
For the years between 1897 and 1901 a 9-hole golf course was maintained for the newly organized private Evanston Golf Club. The list of club founders included R. W. Hodge, R. George B. Norberg, John Harriss, John Lumpkin, Earnest A. Cronin, Neal S. Doran and Albert Young. (By 1908 the club had moved to the old Swope home, near Swope Park, and had a membership of 300, among them Colonel Swope.).
Fairmount park suffered a bad fire loss in 1933 and water pollution and the depression finally ended park operation.
No trace of the park remains today. Buildings have been razed, the lake has been drained and the terrain leveled.
Comfortable suburban homes on tree-lined roads occupy the 50 acres once so popular as a recreational area.
Kansas City Times
June 3, 1973
Ray, Mrs. Sam (Mildred)
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Winnwood Park
Washington Park
Amusement Parks
Troost Park
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"I need to know what boba fett is all about????
where does he come from,
you now that kind of stuff
"I need to know what boba fett is all about????
where does he come from,
you now that kind of stuff
Highlight to read Boba Fett is a clone of his father, Jango Fett, Somehow young Boba Fett gets the armour and his fathers ship (slave 1) repaints them etc and calls them his and somehow becomes the most feared Bounty Hunter in the universe years laterEnd
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
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I think I heard in some spoilers at TF.N that Jango gets killed by Obi-Wan. This would explain why Boba hates Jedi. End Spoiler
Mace Windu swings his saber and JF's helmet is shown bouncing onto the arena floor.
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yeah. Guys? This is the Episode II SPOILER section. You don't have to do the whole "highlight this post" thing. And it doesn't work anyway. Okay. Mace kills Jango in II. Boba kills Mace in III. (I know. I know. he's only 14. I didn't write the darn thing.)Anyway. After that, Boba Fett becomes the most feared Bounty Hunter in the galaxy even though all he does is hangs around Jabba's as far as I can tell and then falls into a Sarlacc Pit. Not very fear inspiring.
[size=-2][color=darkblue]Let's consider our world not as inherited from our parents but as borrowed from our children[/color] -- [i]Unknown Kenyan[/i][/size]
Although they maybe right and as intriguing as the above replies are, and no matter how much info, or confirmed reports on other sites, and rumors and leaks about the movies we have, the above replies are still just speculation and not cold hard facts!
Facts: BF is in EPII, He's portrayed as a 14 year old boy. We will see Slave I in EpII, we will see BF in Slave I in EpII! BF and Jango Fett are related(but we don't know how).
This was originally posted in another section, so we had to highlight it and now its moved to this sectionOriginally posted by Utinni
yeah. Guys? This is the Episode II SPOILER section. You don't have to do the whole "highlight this post" thing
''You fool, my reach is far greater than the Jedi.Only a Sith can wield the force over such a great distance.'' - Darth Sidious
If you mean EU (Expanded universe IE stuff that's not in the movies) there's a really good short story in a book called "Tales of the Bounty Hunters." What we know of Mr. Fett according to the EU and speculation from the films: Boba is the clone/son of Jango Fett. After watching his "dad" get beheaded by Mace Windu, Boba begins training to be the galaxy's greatest bounty hunter. The next ten years are a little fuzzy (whatever orphans do in a galaxy far, far away...bounce from system to system, getting into trouble I suppose. I always thought he should befriend a wookie, who gives him a wookie braid out of friendship and respect and that's why he wears them on his uniform. Fett doesn't seem the type to hunt wookies for sport.) He eventually reaches a planet called Concorde Dawn and begins training as a journeyman protector (a kind of law enforcement officer on that world) but ends up killing his commander (who deserved it, he wasn't a nice guy.) and is banished from Concorde Dawn (no big deal as he wasn't from there anyway) He joins the Empire and becomes a stormtrooper for awhile, but that doesn't agree with him (at least he didn't kill his commander this time around) so he quits and decides to fulfill his destiny as the galaxy's greatest bounty hunter by donning the armor of his long dead father/clone thingie. He builds a reputation for himself, but then eventually starts hanging out with Jabba and ends up on the wrong end of a Sarlacc Pit. After Dengar rescues him from the Sarlacc Pit, he is forced to consume large amounts of medication to keep himself alive after the Sarlacc Pit incident and goes into bounty hunting overdrive. And that's where he is today...Originally posted by getoboy
I need to know what Boba Fett is all about. Where does he come from? You know, that kind of stuff. plmk.
As I said EU, for the most part. Go and read as much EU material (comics and novels) as you can about the enigmatic Fett and you should get a rough outline of where he's been and what he's done.
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Hmm... it would be interesting. Or ask if you could put a paper in the window at TRU, they'll put anything up there no matter what - they put Pokemon stuff up didn't they?
Hmm... it would be interesting. Or ask if you could put a paper in the window at TRU, they'll put anything up there no matter what - they put Pokemon stuff up didn't they?
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Sorry I've been away so long, been busy with wife, kids, work etc.
For these petitions to work we need at least 100 to 200 members to get 100 signatures each. I'm already working on mine. I will submit them to you when I'm finished.
I guess you meant to retract your TFN post. I edited mine for you.Originally posted by Dryanta
well so much for editing that out.It's not your fault forhekset.I am sorry for that post.And I really wish now I hadn't done that.Not what we need at all.
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Thanks forhekset.Again I am sorry that i wrote that.and I appreciate the respect you showed in editing your post.Thanks alot.
IJG,I keep a few with me incase I run into other collectors.If they think others may want to sign it I would then give them copies.I don't try and post them or hang around trying to get sigs.I'm sure we'd get on peoples nerves quick and get the boot.
No problem Brandon,got a wife and kids myself.Your numbers are right.I think we at SSG will have to lead the way on this one.It's not only myself that has had bad experiences elsewhere.
So here we are.Don't send them to me.Send them to the addresses at the top of each.I get buried in petitions the postage would kill me.
On that note I was wondering since it will be just us,should we all set a submission date.Like three monthes from now?That way they'll get them all at once,instead of an ignorable trickle.
There are alot here that are still thinking about supporting this.I'd like to give them time.The more the merrier.Also if we do end up with the support of another fan site we'd need to try and coordinate with them.SS you could beat them to it!
This is for all of us.It's YOUR site that's going to lead the way.You set up a site that drawn the best of collectors,and you're partially responsible for this too .
LT thanks for the support,great to see you.Also Jason B mentioned the possibility of setting up a website for this thing.Any one else think this is a good idea?Or are we going to gain enough vocal support here to keep it here?
Input guys,input.I'm not smart enough to make this thing fly alone.And for the small number of people really involved,we'll get overwhelmed and discourged pretty quickly.You wouldn't believe how much time some of us are spending on this for ALL OF US!!please give us some input.
Jeez I feel like a politician.after all the talks I've given this week.
This is the last real push for me all.I really do believe we need to get it together and be heard,or we'll be looking for other things to collect before the end of next year.Lets prove that this is the best community and collector site.
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
Calm down, we'll get this done no problem. As for a date ( i.e. Three months) to send them or send them one by one. I say at least one month for everyone to get their stuff in order. It will not take three months, I hope not, that's way too long. After everyone has completed their mission, we should meet here on the forums and decide a date to send them all at once. So both Hasbro and GL get bomb barded with this message. The more we send the better. We should also make sure that there is no duplicate petitions sent. I'm already working on my petition. Got 75% left to do, then I'll be waiting for everyone else to complete the task. As for getting signatures, they don't have to be from Star Wars collectors in General. It could be just someone you know who wants to help out your cause. i.e. Family, Friends, Collectors, anyone you can get to sign the petition would be an asset to this task at hand.
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Thanks Brandon.You are right,I need to relax a bit.Got a Pm today from a supporter who has also been treated badly over this.Sad really sad.Got me a little wound up.Sorry Lt.I'm going down to TRU tomorrow and I'll see if I can put them up.You never know right?
I think A month would work.I'll look at a calender and come up with a date for us all to decide on.feel free to do the same.
I'm out until some time sunday afternoon.I just got back to posting again in all the threads I've started on other sites.
We'll see.
Have a great Saturday and I'll be back Sunday.Keep it alive.And we'll see if anyone else shows over the weekend.
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
Cool Dryanta,
Catch ya L8R
So eh....where the heck do i sign?
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Hello all,
Everybody hold up.Stop everything!!
No joke.I was contacted twice over the weekend by a collector who has done this same thing with another toy company in the past.His insight and advice is awesome.And I think we should take it.So hold tight.I need to bang somethings around and I'll be back in the AM.I mean it.we need to hold tight.
It will be worth it.On one last note on two different site we gained alot of support over the weekend.I will post a link inthe Am to a major complement that was paid to us ALL.
Good night all.And hold tight.
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.


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From Laika, the animation company that brought us Coraline, comes another impressive stop-motion animation - the darkly comic horror film ParaNorman.
Filled with misfits of both the human and supernatural kind, ParaNorman is a story that reminds us it's the things that make us different that can also make us heroes.
Norman (Smit-McPhee) is an 11-year-old boy who is bullied at school for his ability to see dead people. It's a family trait; his reclusive, black-sheep uncle (Goodman) also sees ghosts and is the one to tell Norman about the centuries-old witches' curse that affects their small New England town.
While Norman's talent makes him the local weird kid, his supernatural powers turn out to be just what his town needs when a vengeful witch and her loyal zombies are unleashed on them. It's up to Norman and his eclectic band of sidekicks, including the fat, freckly kid Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), Neil's older brother, Mitch the jock (Casey Affleck) and Norman's cheerleading sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick) to put these ghosts back in the ground.
The animation is terrific. It's the second-ever stop-motion animation to be created in 3D, and along with the distinctive design of the characters - which in a fun way, borders on grotesque - and the brooding gothic nature of the story, ParaNorman is unique and wonderfully detailed. It's also well-written, with plenty of gags to appeal to adults as well as kids.
This might be a family flick, but British directors Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and Chris Butler haven't been afraid to make their horror film genuinely scary at times. Pre-schoolers might find it too much, but for older kids without ghost or zombie issues, ParaNorman will be one of the more enjoyable holiday flicks.
Stars: 4/5
Voices: John Goodman, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: Sam Fell and Chris Butler
Running time: 93 mins
Rating: PG (scary scenes)
Verdict: Weird is good in this smart, fun, ghoulish animation
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notre dame earned their way into the game. then notre dame went out on the field and won the bcs championship game..........coin toss!
notre dame earned their way into the game. then notre dame went out on the field and won the bcs championship game..........coin toss!
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Notre Dame was a 3 loss(Pitt, Stanford,USC) team masquerading as an undefeated one....whether by divine intervention or immaculate reception they were exposed last night as a pretender to the throne...personally I would have dropped them out of the Top 5 in the Final AP poll after their miserable showing....the BCS might have gotten the matchup they wanted, but the POLLS got it wrong this year
I would agree about smash-mouth football in SEC, and getting through the league without a couple of losses. As a "Yankee transplant" dog guy in So. Ga. during winters, it reminds me of Big 10 basketball--smash-mouth without benefit of protective gear! Go Golden Gophers! (And Dawgs next season).
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no, no, no i say! it has to be 64 teams. basketball has it right. we can't possibly leave anyone out that thinks they should participate in this "football tournament", can we? let's just go ahead and include at least half the elligible d1 teams no matter what their body of work looked like. everyone will be happy, right? except teams 65 through 119 or how many ever there is. let's call it "december and january madness" and get on with it.
better yet, why not play a seven game series like baseball and the nba. then we will really know who was best....who was hot at the right time....etc.
i will be shocked if anyone is happy when the much anticipated "playoff" actually gets here.(aside from the winner obviously)
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Y'all people floor me. The game Monday night proved nothing more than 1 team played the worst it could & the other played over their heads. Sometimes that crap just happens. The gumps should have lost three games. They weren't that good.
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While I do think that Notre Dame was not the #1 Team in the Country, and still being a little aggravated with Bama not playing Florida, Georgia or South Carolina for 2 years in a row during the regular season, it's really hard to say 'They aren't that good'.
In fact I'm not sure anyone would care b/c all you have to do is simply look at the trophy case.
We all said it before. The REAL NC Title game happened on Dec. 1st. This January game was just for the REST of College Football Fans
The fact remains though that LSU is one Crystal Ball away from being tied with BAMA on 'BCS' NC Titles
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The two most common backup/off-duty handguns a few decades ago were the S&W 2-inch .38 snubnose revolver (in its many incarnations) and the .380 caliber Walther PPK (my choice for 20 years). Variations of these two guns, like the Colt Detective Special, Charter Arms Undercover, and the Sig Sauer P230/232, were almost as widespread.
Police officers who were into guns (The Police Marksman readers) were known to pack more exotic weapons. The Detonics compact 1911, the custom S&W ASP, a squeeze-cocking HK P7, or a Beretta .25 in a wallet holster were chosen by cops "in the know." These guns often served double duty as both backup guns and for off-duty protection.
Unfortunately, both then and today, not all officers utilize a backup or an off-duty piece. Common excuses are the guns are too expensive, too heavy, or too difficult to keep concealed.
However, the proliferation of civilian concealed carry has resulted in a flood of new small handguns that are perfect solutions for backup and off-duty carry for today's police officers.
Tiny .380 semi-automatics are all the rage, led by the huge market splash made by the Ruger LCP. It holds six rounds and, due to its polymer frame, is thinner, lighter, and smaller in every dimension than the PPK that carries the same number of rounds. Competitors worked diligently to offer their own .380 mini-pistols, including the S&W Bodyguard reviewed in this issue.
Ammunition has improved as well, with faster burning propellants making better use of .380 pistols with stubby 2-inch barrels. Polymer-tip bullet designs force expansion in almost any type of media for improved stopping power.
Revolvers have not been forgotten for the cops who still appreciate them. New snub-nose wheel guns have emerged with polymer frames to match their semi-automatic cousins. Ruger and S&W both offer polymer frame revolvers (like the Bodyguard .38) and others are following suit.
Charter Arms' new Pitbull is chambered in both 9mm and .40 S&W with a spring-loaded retaining device that chambers semi-auto cartridges in the cylinder without the need for moon clips. Since the .40 S&W round is the most popular round for police use in the United States today, we figured we'd test the five-shot revolver chambered for it.
The outside vest carrier has also afforded uniformed patrol officers a new hiding place for their backup guns. Holsters sewn underneath secure a handgun while still affording fast access if needed.
The single-stack 9mm pistol seems to be the next wave police officers are clamoring for. Most major gun makers are answering the call for slim and compact pistols in 9mm that are more powerful than a .380, while only slightly larger in size. Springfield-Armory's XD-S and Kahr's PM45 offer slim .45s for big bore fans who can handle their recoil.
More cops are packing backup guns and carrying a firearm off-duty because the weapons are smaller, the ammo is better, and holster systems are more accessible and convenient to conceal. Another advantage of polymer frames is they keep prices down.<?p>
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Binghamton University Crew Club to host the annual John McKenna Memorial Run
BINGHAMTON, NY -- The Binghamton University Crew Club will host the seventh annual John McKenna IV Memorial 5K walk/run on Saturday, March 16, at Recreation Park in Binghamton.
John McKenna IV, a Binghamton graduate and member of the crew club from 1994-1998, was killed in combat during his third tour with the U.S. Marines, in Iraq on Aug. 26, 2006. The run is held to remember his indelible spirit and commitment to his team.
Proceeds will benefit the Captain John McKenna IV Military Courtesy Room at the Albany Airport, and the Binghamton Crew Club for future equipment expenses.
On Saturday, March 16, race day registration will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 9:30 a.m., followed by a Children's Fun Run for the 5K beginning at 9:30 a.m. The John McKenna 5K Memorial Run will begin at 10 a.m. An awards ceremony will follow.
The cost is $15 per person. To register online, visit www.getentered.com. An online registration fee of 6% of total cost of registration, plus $1.50 will apply. The deadline for all advanced registrations is 10 a.m. Friday, March 15.
This event is supported by the Binghamton University Campus Recreational Services, Student Association, OC3, OCCT, Sodexo Campus Services, residential area community governments and Pipe Dream. In addition, community support has also been provided by CommuniKey, RoadID and Twin River Commons.
For more information, including registration forms, visit www.binghamtoncrew.org/5k. Email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call the Binghamton University Club Sports office at (607) 777-4259.