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This film directed by Venkat Prabhu has a host of other stars including Arjun, Premgi, Vaibhav, Mahat, Anjali, Lakshmi Rai, Andrea and many others. Music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
The film is a racy one with many twists and it will keep one glued to the screen till the very end of the film, not even sparing the end credits as it will showcase Ajith's and other stars' bloopers which will be quite a laugh riot.
So how did you like this Venkat Prabhu game, Ajith's new avatar as a villain, the various twists in the film, music and the visuals? What according to you are the hits and misses of 'Mankatha'? Tell us and we'll make sure the team will get a glimpse of your feedback!
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Starring: Ajith Kumar, Trisha, Arjun, Andrea Jeremiah, Lakshmi Rai, Premji, Anjali, Vaibhav
Direction: Venkat Prabhu
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Production: Dayanidhi Azhagiri, (Cloud Nine Movies)
Mankatha after having played 'uLLe veLiye' for quite a while, strikes finally, AND in style! For his golden jubilee flick, Ajith, the 'golden hearted' lad of Tamil cinema teams up with the uber cool Venkat Prabhu and his gang of boys and the effect is exciting to say the least.
When you have the handsome Vinayak Mahadev (Ajith) team himself with a few boys on his 'Money' mission and when there is cop Prithviraj (Arjun) who is hot on their trail, what you get is a heady cocktail of events that suck you into the premise of Mankatha albeit a bit late.
For Venkat Prabhu, it is a huge responsibility to fuse in his irreverent style of film making with the sensibilities of Ajith's image and the director has not compromised one bit here and kudos to him for this.
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When we talk about performances, Ajith is unarguably the pièce de résistance of Mankatha and it is his uninhibited performance that captivates the audience. For him, it is a superb knock on the field well laid out by Venkat Prabhu. He simply sizzles in his action shots and his cute expressions in dance sequences are a revelation. The consistency in Ajith's characterization is a major plus for the film. Next to Ajith, it is action king Arjun who has held on to his fort. Premji, Jaiprakash, Vaibhav, Mahat and Ashwin round out the supporting cast who blend in with ease with the story. As it is a men's film, women have nothing to do in Mankatha.
On the downside, the number of gun battles and their lengths may tire you a bit and the vital heist which should have been extremely powerful lacks the fizz. Songs are not a value addition to the film at all and are mostly road blocks sans 'Machi open the bottle'.
Success of a cinematographer and editor lies in their unobtrusive work in sync with the subject, and cinematographer Sakthi Saravanan and editors Praveen & Srikanth score in this department.
"Unakku ide maadiri 500 pondaati kedappa daa." - with this dialogue, Ajith completes his mission of breaking all the syntax of a Tamil hero and has gone on to prove that an actor should strictly treat the script as the hero. Take a bow Ajith! It is a memorable 50th film indeed.
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A devoted wife tried to revive her husband after finding him in a collapsed state, an inquest has heard.
Edwina Buczynski performed CPR on her husband David at their home on Brown Edge Road, Buxton, after finding him on the floor of the garage on the evening of July 8 last year.
Speaking at Chesterfield coroners' court, pathologist Dr Deirdre McKenna said she found evidence that the 62–year–old had suffered an acute cardiac event.
Mr Buczynski was found in the garage, which was not well ventilated. He was next to his trike motorcycle and the ignition was on but it was not running.
Dr McKenna said she found evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning and thought it probable that his cardiac problem had rendered him incapacitated and therefore unable to get away from the fumes of his motorcycle.
Coroner Paul McCandless recorded a narrative conclusion, stating: "He had some cardiac event which rendered him incapable of removing himself from the garage on that afternoon."
He gave the cause of death as carbon monoxide poisoning due to inhalation of engine fumes, caused by acute myocardial ischaemia due to severe preconclusive coronary atherosclerosis.


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|2008-04-04, 17:33
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This show could be really fun, great start. I hope it balances the line between serious and comedy as it goes forward so that it has a little weight to it, like some of the best RPGs.
This is a really nice attempt by Gonzo at trying something new so we can watch at the same time as Japan, and as long as it doesn't stop these shows from getting a physical HQ R1 release I'm a fan of it, I guess I'm still way too much of a collector who likes filling his shelves full of physical movies and shows.
Wherever it ends up in the forum I do hope it being streamed like this doesn't stop it from really getting fully licensed and getting a real Region 1 DVD release from say Funimation (guess since they've been doing a ton of Gonzo's shows lately) or something because I'd like to be able to buy it with nice video quality on a real physical format some day with dual-languages.
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So, for those that don't know, there's an ura (reverse) version of episode 1. The video on demand free streaming site GyaO had a totally different version of episode 1 for Druaga compared to TV stations and the english streams. Instead of going into Jil's dream, the entire episode is centered on what's happening to the party and other characters in the show while he was dreaming. It's probably a better indicator of what the series is going to be like, it's still mostly a comedy show, but more toned down. It wasn't as enjoyable as the actual ep1, but there were some good moments. The design of the areas in the tower itself are great too.
|2008-04-04, 19:28
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The Ura Ep 1 is pretty good too. It's not quite as good as the Ep 1 we got but is still really funny and amusing. It's Even funnier when you realize that it's timed like perfectly so stuff Jil is doing kind of shows up in the Ura ep.
Utu is awesome.
|2008-04-04, 20:05
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Location: Austria
Age: 35
Some people know what nicovideo is but still might want a link.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2898038 GyaO version, Ura version or whatever you might call it. Seems to be called 「ジルの冒険」, while the title of the normal ep is 「ドルアーガの巨塔」
At first I thought maybe this other version might air as ep2 for everyone else, but ep2 title is different. How could they produce but not air this ura version?. Very mysterious.
|2008-04-04, 22:03
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Sad to say i don't think this is going to be a comedy series so it might be over with the first episode. Nonetheless It wins the award for "best first episode which has little relation to the rest of the story" award. Great way to poke fun at the typical shonen stereotypes. Even if it can't keep its more comedic aspect, i still hope it will be a more light-hearted series. Im going to keep watching, but i dont know if the rest will keep me into the series.
On a side note, the quality was atrocious. i found myself watching a black screen on CR trying to make out what was going on. The subs were clear though.
How is anime suki going to treat this? are fansubs allowed? are you going to list it as licensed or fansub or maybe a new category?
|2008-04-04, 22:36
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Well that's why you pay for the downloaded copy.
This is licensed world-wide for internet distribution by Gonzo with an R1 based company providing one of the legal streams. I would think that this should be considered "licensed" but it's up to the mods.
|2008-04-04, 22:43
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I agree with your response about the streaming versions' quality complaint, it's probably about what's expected for the free youtube version when they give you the option of paying for a better one (That is if the better one is as good as some of the HDTV rips going around)
Personally I hope that doesn't stop Gonzo from working with say Funi who they are apparently close with to release it on dual-language DVD. A downloaded copy is still not the same thing as a pristine hardcopy with maximized encoding and full surround sound, plus I'd like dual languages, so I think it would be ashame if we never see a full R1 DVD/High-Def Bluray release.
But as I said, I'm one of those collectors who buy tons of anime for the picture quality and the ability to watch in both Japanese and English dubbed and buys almost everything (probably too much ) I end up following in fansubs, so I understand if the R1's don't think they could make enough money on a physical DVD release after all the online sales.
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|2008-04-04, 22:46
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You overestimate the downloaded copy. The BOST TV downloads contain a watermark in the upper right hand corner of the screen. So if you don't like watermarks, then you need the DVD or DVD based downloaded copy. I haven't bought the CR downloads to compare.
|2008-04-04, 23:01
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I still can't convince myself to pay for it especially if I had to pay twice should a true DVD release come, if not I'll have a hard decision to make I suppose.
Anyway, that's pretty much in line with what I was saying, I still want a full DVD release
Sorry for editing so much while you were trying to reply lol ^^;
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|2008-04-04, 23:14
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I found the first episode hilarious. I'm glad that Gonzo actually went through with subbing and streaming it. Otherwise, I would've had to wait awhile for the fansubs.
As for the other version, it was pretty hilarious as well. It makes me wonder why they would produce an alternate episode but not air it as well. I have a feeling this series will get more serious later on but I hope they squeeze some more laughs in.
Ahhh. I wanna cosplay as Jil now OTL
|2008-04-04, 23:15
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Perfectly happy with the BOST TV download for PSPs, even with the watermark and all.
Not perfect (not anything close to DVD quality, unlike the stream), but good enough for my purposes as a casual viewer, especially since I got it for free (signed up in time)...and Crunchyroll essentially stole my "donation" without letting me download anything (while their streams were, how shall I say..."noticeably inferior", or just plain crap once I finally got to them, compared to the BOST TV download, let alone the stream).
Wonderful. Talk about misleading advertisements, but I won't bore you guys with the full rant. Suffice to say that Crunchyroll will never see a single cent from me again.
On a much happier note, the episode itself was quite entertaining, and almost worth the previous trouble. I give the creators props for the effort, and did get a couple of good laughs out of it (yes, even the death flags).
I don't know if the whole show will be like this, but I do expect the whole comedy angle to remain strong, even if takes a bit of a backseat compared to other elements.
|2008-04-04, 23:22
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I agree Kusaja, I wouldn't be surprised if it will balance both like FMP, mostly serious when it counts but with good comedy, though I'd still be surprised if it doesn't get more serious. The comedy was a great surprise though wasn't expecting it at all.
This second version of the first ep that didn't actually air using the other POV is a really bizarre occurrence.
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Call it feminist, call it a full shift in the zeitgeist, call it the seeds of a movie industry revolution, but the Sundance Film Festival has shoved Hollywood into the 21st century when it comes to the inclusion of women filmmakers.
Last May, the Cannes Film Festival's competitive Palme D'Or line-up sparked controversy over its dearth of female directors. This year's annual Sundance fest in Park City, Utah, which runs from Jan. 17-27, for the very first time features an equal number of male and female directors in its 16-film U.S. Dramatic Competition category, ranging from Lynn Shelton's Touchy Feely, starring Rosemarie DeWitt (pictured in the exclusive photo above), to Liz Garcia's The Lifeguard, featuring Kristen Bell, Francesca Gregorini's Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, starring Jessica Biel, Jerusha Hess's Austenland with Keri Russell, Lake Bell's In a World, also starring the actress-director, and Stacie Passon's Concussion.
EW connected with Shelton, Garcia, Gregorini, Hess, Passon, and Bell, as well as actresses Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael, who co-wrote the saucy Sundance Midnight screening selection Ass Backwards, and Richard E. Robbins, who directed the CNN Films documentary Girl Rising, which will have scenes shown at Sundance. Absolute joy and excitement resonated through phone and email conversations with the filmmakers, who touted the bright future for women directors — Kathryn Bigelow's name may be the biggest out there these days, but many more are on the horizon.
"As a woman navigating through a traditionally male dominated field, I have often felt like more of an oddity than an artist," says Shelton, whose Touchy Feely marks her third film at Sundance. "In addition to a gratifying sense of justice in this 'Finally!' kind of moment, I also hope that this year's gender parity among competition filmmakers at Sundance means we can look forward to a time (hopefully soon) when the quality and content of our work will be considered on its own terms without regard for what happens to be (or not to be) in our pants."
Representing a wide range as far as the content of their films, this year's Sundance crop of female-directed movies range from Touchy Feely's massage therapist (DeWitt) with an aversion to bodily contact — to The Lifeguard's Kristen Bell as a journalist who quits her job in New York and returns to her childhood home in Connecticut, beginning a new life as a lifeguard and precariously connecting with a teenage boy.
The Lifeguard director Garcia expressed glee at the number of women directors with films in competition at the festival – a precedent to follow, and make the norm for younger women hungry to go into film and direct. "I'm hoping this, the female directors of 2013, are a vanguard class. I hope this one'll be remembered as the year the gates opened and equality in indie film became the norm. I'm a feminist. I've been annoyed and dismayed since my first day in L.A. by the sexism in the Hollywood film industry," she says. "So, to have my dream come true professionally — getting a film into Sundance — converge with a huge stride forward for women in film is a personal supernova. I'd like it on my headstone, please: 'Class of 2013.'"
"I think that having eight female directors at Sundance this year is nothing short of profound," she continues. "Indie film influences mainstream film and mainstream film influences culture and culture influences how people perceive themselves. The butterfly effect from this year can be that young women start thinking of themselves as filmmakers. They start to make movies in whatever way they can. They value their voice, and they speak up about the female experience in the world. It's so simple, it's so basic, but it's everything."
In Lake Bell's feature-film directing debut, In a World, she plays a struggling vocal coach reaching for her goal of becoming a voiceover artist.
Bell, who has worked with multiple women directors as an actress, chatted about her own experience of being supported by other women, including Shelton, versus being alone in the fray.
"They often speak of the men's club vs. no-lady's club. My personal experience has been a lot of support from women," she says. "Lynn Shelton is awesome. She's someone that when I was making my movie I went up to her, after having a martini, and told her, 'I just think you're great.' I was greeted with a warm reception. Now we're together in this competition, and she's a friendly face. I feel like when I'm directing I'm home, and well suited to my happiness, and how I want to spend the rest of my life."
But Bell also noted the Catch-22 of bringing so much attention to gender at Hollywood-focused festivals, when in other parts of the world women suffer under sexism-based regimes, and filmmaking is not even a faint twinkle of an option for women.
"I often struggle with the idea of trying to force it. If there were no female directors at Cannes, then so be it. And if there are a record number of female directors at Sundance, so be it. If I have a daughter, one day, I know we're in a very good place," she says. "Where we sit, and our small industry, against bigger problems in the world, we're doing pretty well."


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- 8 ounces dry penne pasta - try the whole wheat version!
- 4 ounces Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese Wedges cut into pieces
- 1 cup milk
- 1 oz. freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 4 slices bacon cooked and crumbled
- 2 cups fresh spinach leaves torn
- 1 cup grape tomatoes
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- 1/8 tsp. fresh grated nutmeg
- In a large pot, heat water to boiling, add pasta and cook according to package directions. Drain and return to pot.
- Meanwhile . . .
- In a large skillet, heat Laughing Cow cheese, milk and Parmesan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until cheese melts and mixture is well-blended.
- Stir in bacon, spinach, tomatoes, Italian seasoning, and nutmeg.
- Reduce heat and continue to stir until mixture is evenly heated through.
- Add to drained pasta and toss to coat.
- Serve in pretty bowls and top with a sprinkle of Parmesan and black pepper. Fresh fruit salad and warm bread make it a quick meal.
Terri's Notes
- Cream cheese may be substituted for the Laughing Cow.
- This is the perfect time to pull out 4 slices of pre-cooked bacon and crisp it in the microwave.
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Cooking Channel's favorite "Classy Ladies" Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark hit the road in search of adventure, hidden gems and a delicious cocktail in "Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia," premiering Friday, June 21, at 9:30 p.m. on Cooking Channel. With vintage suitcases in hand, this witty duo embarks on a road trip not to be missed and tops off each episode with a party and an original cocktail inspired by their travels. From mud baths in the California desert to synchronized swimming in Miami, Alie and Georgia leave no stone unturned as they tour the country in style with a healthy shot of humor.
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Items to note for 2011 income tax preparation:
- Producers have until March 1, 2012, to file their returns without penalty. If a producer made an estimated tax payment by Jan. 17, he or she will have until April 16 to file.
- The 179 expense election is $500,000. Generally, the 179 expense election allows producers to deduct up to $500,000 of machinery or equipment purchases for the year of the purchase. There is a dollar-for-dollar phase-out for purchases of more than $2 million. It is scheduled to revert to $139,000 for 2012 unless Congress acts.
- The additional first-year bonus depreciation provision is in effect. It is equal to 100 percent of adjusted basis after 179 expensing. It only applies to new property that has a recovery period of 20 years or less. The bonus depreciation is set to return to 50 percent in 2012.
- The standard deduction is $11,600 for those who are married and filing jointly. The deduction is $5,800 for singles.
- The personal exemption amount is $3,700.
- Qualified dividend income is taxed at a 0 percent rate for individuals in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets and at 15 percent for those in higher tax brackets.
- Long-term capital gains are taxed at a 0 percent rate for individuals in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets and at 15 percent for those in higher tax brackets.
- The child tax credit is $1,000 for each qualifying child.
- The annual IRA contribution is $5,000 for 2011 or $6,000 for individuals 50 or older.
- The annual gift tax exclusion is $13,000.
- The 2011 Social Security wage base is $106,800.
- The business mileage rate for 2011 is 51 cents per mile to June 30, 2011, and 55 1/2 cents after that.
- Crop insurance proceeds, if received in 2011, may be deferred to 2012 if you qualify. You must use cash accounting and show that, under normal business practices, the sale of damaged crops would occur in a future tax year.
- A livestock deferral can be made by those who had a forced sale of livestock because of a weather-related disaster. Two methods can be used. In the first method, income can be deferred to the next year for all types of livestock sold prematurely. In the second method, income from livestock held for draft, breeding or dairy purposes is not taxed if like-kind animals are repurchased within four years (or more depending on weather conditions or disaster declarations) from the end of the tax year in which the animals were sold. Only the gain on the sale of those animals beyond what normally was sold would qualify for postponement.
- Remember that qualifying farmers can elect to compute their current tax liability by averaging, during a three-year period, all or part of the current year elected farm income. This is done on Schedule J. North Dakota farmers who elect to use income averaging for federal purposes also may use Form ND-1FA, income averaging for North Dakota income tax calculations.
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Looking pretty good for figures I guess. Not sure the God Hand fits the format too well though.
http://figsoku.net/blog-entry-31867.htmlBoth the regular and Hawk of Darkness birth ver. Femto figma finally have a release date. They'll be released on February 2017 and you'll be able to pre-order them tomorrow. Still no release date or price for the rest of the God Hand members.
Awesome, I can't wait to have them thanks for the the heads up.
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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. —An official briefed on the investigation tells The Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin.
A charred body was also found inside after a shootout and fire.
Authorities believe the remains are those of the former Los Angeles police officer, but they have not been formally identified.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation and says the charred body and personal items were found in the basement of the burned cabin. The area is in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles.
Two sheriff's deputies were also shot, one fatally. Dorner is also suspected of earlier killing a young couple and a police officer, and wounding two other officers.


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Dr. Richard de Raismes Kip is
remembered for many things at the University. Some stories recall the
bow-tie-loving professor walking through UNF buildings and turning off lights
in empty classrooms. Other stories detail how he shunned purchasing lunch,
preferring instead to bring his lunch every day — a yogurt, a banana and a bag
of marshmallows.
However, Kip's legendary frugality
had its benefits, especially for what is now the Coggin College of Business.
Today the UNF Foundation has eight endowments carrying the Kip name with a
total value of more than $3.3 million. The impact of these endowments has been
transformational, said Dr. Earle Traynham, a former colleague of Kip's.
"This remarkable man, in his quiet
and understated way, transformed the College of Business, benefitting faculty
and students alike," said Traynham, who served as the college's dean from 1993
to 2003.
Kip's legacy also presents a
valuable lesson as the University's Power of Transformation campaign
moves toward its $110 million goal. The versatility built into the agreement
gave the college the ability to adjust to changing needs. "When Dick made the
original gift, he had no idea of the magnitude of changes that would occur in
the world of business," Traynham said. "It shows the importance of a donor
structuring a gift to be flexible."
That flexibility was evident in
Kip's early life. Born in Brooklyn, he earned his bachelor's degree in
economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance. He
later joined the faculty there and taught until 1941, when he enlisted as a
second lieutenant in the Army. After being discharged in 1946 as a major, he
returned to Wharton where he earned his doctorate in economics while teaching.
In 1958 he was recruited to Florida State University, which was trying to build
up its business school. He later joined the staff of the Florida Board of
Regents and became familiar with a new university being planned in
He arrived at UNF in 1971— well
before the students began enrolling — and helped founding dean Jim Parrish
build the College of Business. He served in a variety of roles, including
assistant dean and director of Graduate Studies before retiring in 1983, completing
a 47-year career in education.
It was after his retirement,
however, that the surprises began. In 1989 he gave his wife, Kathryn Magee Kip,
a card on her 85th birthday. The card contained an agreement
establishing a $100,000 UNF endowment in her name in the College of Business.
That was quickly followed by a second endowment in his name.
Although the original endowments
called for revenue to go into a finance or financial services professorship,
Traynham said he quickly realized the endowments were generating more income
than the University wanted to concentrate in one area. Traynham met with Kip
and an amended agreement was signed providing UNF with more flexibility.
However, that wasn't the end of the
surprises. Unbeknownst to anyone at UNF, Kip established several charitable
remainder trusts allowing him, his wife and a few relatives to receive the
income with the University receiving the principal after their death.
When Kip and his wife both died in
1996, the full extent of their generosity became apparent. The UNF Foundation
received more than $2.8 million. "Dick never wanted any recognition. We were
astounded when we realized the scope of the gifts," Traynham said.
The college has
used the money slowly and deliberately not only to recruit and retain the best
and brightest faculty to UNF, but to help students as well. A Kip Prize exists
to this day to reward outstanding business students. Funds also were given to
faculty to undertake research during summer months.
"It enabled us to compete against
much larger schools. No state funds were available for research at the time. It
helped us recruit some wonderful faculty members," Traynham said.
Ultimately, Traynham emphasized,
students benefited from Kip's generosity because of the quality of the professors
in the college. This gentle, humble man was widely loved on campus and his
ability to provide transformational experiences will continue long into the


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Bon Jovi
Wanted: Your Bon Jovi Song
(For a complete list of 52nd GRAMMY Award winners, please click here.)
For the first time ever, current GRAMMY Award nominee Bon Jovi will perform on the GRAMMY telecast and participate in a special interactive fan vote on the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. As part of the band's performance, fans will have an opportunity to decide which Bon Jovi hit the band will perform during their segment.
Beginning this week, viewers can log on to www.cbs.com/grammys and vote for one out of six of their favorite Bon Jovi hits:
1. "Always"
2. "Bed Of Roses"
3. "Have A Nice Day"
4. "It's My Life"
5. "Livin' On A Prayer"
6. "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
There is no registration to vote, and fans may vote as often as they wish. Additionally, a 30-second clip of each song may be viewed. The deadline to vote is Sunday, Jan. 24, 11:59 p.m. ET. On Jan. 25 the list will be narrowed down to the top three songs and fans may continue voting for which hit song the band should perform as part of their segment. Voting will continue until Bon Jovi's performance on the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards on Jan. 31.
GRAMMY winner Bon Jovi is up for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "We Weren't Born To Follow." Bon Jovi joins previously announced performers and nominees Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Maxwell, Pink, Taylor Swift, and the Zac Brown Band. All five Album Of The Year nominees — Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, the Dave Matthews Band, and Taylor Swift — are set to perform on Music's Biggest Night.
As previously announced on "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!" on Dec. 2, music fans can upload a 20-second video of themselves singing along to a portion of the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" for a chance to have their video appear as part of the Peas' performance on Music's Biggest Night. Videos may be uploaded to CBS.com through Jan. 15.
The 52nd GRAMMY Awards will take place live on Sunday, Jan. 31, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio via Westwood One worldwide, and covered online at GRAMMY.com and CBS.com, and on YouTube. Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced soon. For GRAMMY coverage, updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook.
The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards are produced by John Cossette Productions and AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are executive producers, Louis J. Horvitz is director.


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Beware of bitch.
I had to make this sign and put it up today. This is what happens when you get a sunny, beautiful day in Oregon. They all come out and start knocking on your door.
I live in the first house on the corner of a cul-de-sac. We're constantly getting people at our door wanting to sell something, wanting to share something, wanting anything. We put up the generic No Soliciting sign and it's not doing the job.
I show them the sign and tell them not to solicit here. They insist they're not selling anything. Which is true for a lot of them. But that still doesn't mean they're not soliciting. It got to one point that I kept the dictionary by the door so I could read them the definition. Now I've just made the darn sign hoping it'll keep them away.


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(Reuters) - The Louisiana Department of Corrections does not plan to appeal a U.S. Court decision this week that compels it to reveal to inmates on death row the content and maker of drugs used in lethal injections, a prisons official said on Friday.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday was one in a series in favor of inmates who have sought delays for their execution while they seek information about the contents of lethal injection cocktails and clarity on who would be supplying the drugs.
The decisions are likely to delay executions across the country as lawyers for inmates in other states launch similar efforts on their behalf in states looking to develop new means of lethal injection after supplies of drugs they have once used have run dry.
"The state will not appeal the decision," Darryl Campbell, the executive management officer of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, told Reuters. The attorney general's office did not reply to calls seeking comment.
A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit rejected a petition on Thursday from the prison system to keep information about the drugs and how they would be administered secret from Christopher Sepulvado and other death row inmates.
Sepulvado, convicted of scalding and beating his 6-year-old stepson to death in 1992, was scheduled to be executed earlier this year but the execution was delayed in February due to questions about the lethal injection.
Several states have been scrambling to find new suppliers and chemical combinations after drug makers, mostly in Europe, imposed sales bans because they objected to having medications made for other purposes being used in lethal injections.
The states said they have looked to alter the mix of drugs used for lethal injections and keep the suppliers' identities secret. They have also turned to lightly regulated compounding pharmacies.
Those pharmacies can mix drugs, often to meet needs not available in prescription medication, the pharmacy compounding accreditation board said.
But lawyers for death row inmates have argued that keeping information secret was a violation of due process protections in the U.S. Constitution. They also argued that drugs from compounding pharmacies can lack purity and potency and cause undue suffering, in violation of the Constitution.
So far, courts have decided in their favor, with an Oklahoma judge ruling on Wednesday that the state's secrecy on its lethal injections protocols was unconstitutional.
On Thursday, a Texas state judge ordered the department of corrections to disclose the name of the supplier of drugs used for two inmates scheduled to be executed in April. The state plans an appeal and has argued it must keep the names secret to protect its suppliers.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily suspended the decision to compel the prison system to reveal the source of the lethal injection drugs to allow judges time to consider the issue, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Additional reporting by Lisa Maria Garza in Dallas; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Gunna Dickson


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60 years ago
Bobcats battle frosh in two close ones: Civil war, in a gridiron manner of speaking, broke out in Brentwood when the Bobcats of the Brentwood Elementary School trekked across the highway and tangled with the Liberty frosh squad in a pair of games. The frosh won both games, but only after their younger opponents gave them a battle. In a game played Oct. 13, the Bobcats scored a safety in the first half and let at halftimes, 2-0. The frosh came back to score twice in the second half and make the final score 13-2. Last week Thursday the Bobcats tried it again and held the frosh even until the fourth quarter. A blocked punt gave the frosh the ball on the Bobcats' 20-yard line and they scored three plays later with a pass, en route to a final score of 7-0. Among the Bobcat players who may reinforce future Liberty teams were Ray Spanger, Charles Ochoa, J.C. Wolfenbarger, Herman Urenda and Jackie England.
25 years ago
Firefighters get promotions: Veteran Knightsen fireman Ray Gilmore and relative newcomer John Dailey were promoted recently, according to a spokesman for the Knightsen Fire Department, a branch of the Oakley Fire Protection District.
Gilmore, a 10-year veteran, was promoted to lieutenant, to fill up a post left by fireman Tony Berumen who resigned as captain. Dailey, who has been with Knightsen about 11/2 years, was named department training officer, replacing Alan Roberts, who retired.
Both men are professional firefighters in other areas. Gilmore is assistant captain at the fire department at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and Dailey is with a fire department on the peninsula.
Dailey's responsibilities will include public contact as well as the training of firefighters. He was one of the firefighters in charge of the recent Knightsen School disaster drill.
Gilmore will be second in command to the captain, and fill in for him or other officers when needed. He will also fulfill any other responsibilities as needed said Manuel Tovar, Oakley Fire Protection District chief.
— Brentwood News files


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Mike Crow needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Smoke and Herb BBQ and catering
Smoke and Herb BBQ combines a traditional Texas style brick pit method of cooking with creative and original menu items. We're located in Austin Texas will feature a small store front, mobile food carts, and catering.
We're really going after the "keep Austin weird" crowd, which consists mostly of hipsters, college kids, stoners, and late night drinkers on 6th street.
We'd like an outline of Texas worked into the design and for the letters to be made of smoke as long as their easily legible.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Get a Life: Setting your 'Life Compass' for Success
Get a Life: Setting your 'Life Compass' for Success
ISBN: 978-0-857-08269-5 October 2011 Capstone 174 Pages
- Get a Life focuses on raising self-awareness and finding proactive ways to improve your life.
- Guides you through six key areas of your life: Career, Mind/Body, Finance, Relationships, Fun and Contribution.
- Features text case studies and challenge points all designed to help you get to the heart of what it is that motivates you and what you wish to achieve.
- Challenges you to reflect upon the way you think and behave and provides strategies for implementing changes.
"Get a Life adds new and compelling dimensions to the idea of personal effectiveness both at work and at home. It balances some 'killer app' personal productivity tools alongside tremendous insights to manage your life goals and excellent advice on physical and mental well-being to achieve a winning performance-indispensable."
—Mike Dunlop, HR Mananger, Sun Microsystems
2. The LifeCompass.
3. Compass Point 1: Career.
4. Compass Point 2: Mind/body.
5. Compass Point 3: Finance.
6. Compass Point 4: Relationships.
7. Compass Point 5: Fun.
8. Compass Point 6: Contribution.
9. LifeCompass: Every day.
10. The master list.
11. LifeCompass: Integration and Synergy.
12. LifeCompass: Evolution?
13. LifeCompass: Begin.
"...this book is a keeper...getabstract.com recommends this book to those who want to reshape their lives for satisfaction, happiness and productivity at work and at home." (getAbstract.com, 30th September 2005)


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Mike Carney feels people are upset with things happening on the Leavenworth Board of Education. And he says people have asked him to run for the board.
Mike Carney feels people are upset with things happening on the Leavenworth Board of Education. And he says people have asked him to run for the board.
"I just want to get involved with it," he said.
Carney said he also feels obligated to run this time around after he dropped out of a school board race two years ago.
"I kind of feel bad because I got a lot of votes," he said.
Carney is one of five people who filed to run for the school board this year.
There are three at-large positions on the board that are up for election. No primary will be necessary. The general election will be April 2. The other candidates who filed for the Leavenworth Board of Education are Doug Darling, Mike Robinson, Verna Raines and Danny Zeck. Robinson and Raines currently serve on the board. Darling and Zeck previously served on the board.
Carney also has served on the board. He served one term from 2001-2005.
He is retired vocational training director at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. He now works part-time for Disabled American Veterans as a senior department service officer. He served in the Navy and is a Vietnam War veteran.
Carney said he is a lifelong resident of Leavenworth. His wife teaches at Leavenworth High School and Richard W. Warren Middle School.
Carney feels it's important for school board members to be stewards for taxpayers. He said board members represent the children of the district but they also represent the taxpayers.
Another thing that is important to Carney is having a good fitness program for students. He said this not simply physical education.
He said a PE teacher can give children a ball and have them play a game.
"That's not developing kids to be fit," he said.
Another area that's important to Carney is providing career paths for students who may not be going to college.
"A lot of things take just a little extra work," he said.
He also expressed concern about what he described as a resurgence in a top heavy school board office in terms of administration and salaries.
Carney said when he was on the board there was an effort to cut back staff and consolidate.
Carney said another important area of focus is evaluation of administrators and teachers. He said there needs to be solid standards for administrators, teachers and other staff.


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I have a problem. When I close my eyes, the only thing I see is the Volvo Concept Estate. Maybe it's not a problem. If being obsessed with this beautiful brown shooting brake is wrong, I don't want to be right.
More photos of Volvo's 1800ES revival trickled out today ahead of the car's debut at the Geneva Motor Show next week. It looks amazing. Based on the overwhelmingly positive reaction to this car yesterday, I'm clearly not alone in thinking that.
Even if it's merely a preview of the designs language for future Volvo wagons — and I'm totally fine with that too — I do hope they'll produce a two-door version that looks close to this concept as well.


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Yes, I'm a bit behind posting HBO's "Shadow" trailer for Season 2 of "Game of Thrones," but who else has posted that and a ton of making-of the season videos together?
Um, HBO has, I guess. But no matter. Below I give you all the video I could find today, and it makes for some interesting viewing.
Based on the second book in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, called "A Clash of Kings" (I couldn't put it down), Season 2 will take us deep into the war that has erupted for control of the Iron Throne of Westeros currently held by King Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson).
Fan favorite Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) will stand tall in that struggle against King in the North Robb Stark (Richard Madden) and others, including new characters such as Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) and his priestess advisor Melisandre (Carice van Houten). We see all of them in the latest trailer, as well as Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), who begins his own struggle after his not-so-triumphant return to his homeland of the Iron Islands. Oh and did I mention Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) begin their own epic journeys?
It's going to be a helluva season.
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Rachel Lyn Buford 10-14-2017 1:00 p.m.
As tears from heaven fall for those who suffer and for those who try to aid those who are suffering. Such a somber, gray, rain filled day. There was a moments break. Literally when Rachel pulled up the rain subsided for a brief period of time. And as she left the rain returned more voracious than before. This weather summarizes the emotional ebb and flow of the portrait session.
I chatted prior with Rachel about her job as a social worker to get a feel of what she deals with on a daily basis. To be informed that the Governor of Michigan actually pulled funding from the system that you thought was in place to help people is appalling. The images and story in Rachel's own words will post upon the Portrait Project page soon.
Hugs and Love
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Fair-value accounting, derivatives increase global debt deflation
One of the themes I developed in my 2010 book, "Inflated: How Money & Debt Built the American Dream," is the idea that significant amounts of the reported GDP and employment of the post-WWII period and especially since the 1980s has been based upon debt and inflation. The debt-deflation crises today affecting both the US, EU and even China and other "emerging" nations seems to confirm this view.
Two of the key symptoms we should consider to support this thesis regarding the role of inflation and debt in the industrial economies are 1) the rise of fair-value accounting and 2) the increase of derivatives, especially derivatives that settle in cash and have no direct link to any cash markets.
In an important paper by Mingzhe Yuan and Huifeng Liu of Shandong University, "The Economic Consequences of Fair Value Accounting," the authors note there are two fatal intrinsic flaws of fair-value accounting:
One flaw concerns its non-complete existence, that is, the required fair value may not exist under certain conditions. One direct consequence of the flaw is that a huge fair value trap may be created by fair-value accounting when the fair value does not exist. Another flaw of fair-value accounting is its self-expansion, that is, the fair-value accounting acts as a share price bubble maker based upon the normal net incomes from the operations of listed firms. The bubble may then expand much larger than the original incomes.
The implementation of fair-value accounting in the US not only allowed for the creation of bubbles in asset prices, but the changes made by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2009 has enabled banks to hide hundreds of billions of dollars of unrealized losses on their balance sheets.
Before Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner lectures our European allies about going "too slow" on debt restructuring, he should clean up his own house. We have discussed the failure of Geithner to deal with the situation at Bank of America.
At a meeting of Professional Risk Managers International Association in 2007, Sylvain Raynes of RR Consulting, who also teaches at Baruch College, put the role of fair-value accounting into stark perspective:
Valuation is not the most important problem in finance; valuation is not the most interesting problem in finance; valuation is the only problem for finance. Once you know value, everything happens. Cash moves for value. More price does not mean more value. If you do not recognize the difference, the fundamental difference between price and value, then you are doomed… The Chicago School of Economics has been telling us for a century that price and value are identical, ie, they are the same number. What this means is that there is no such thing as a good deal, there is not such a thing as a bad deal, there are only fair deals.
The role of new era concepts such as fair-value accounting in fueling the crisis is just part of the story. The other symptom of a lack of real economic growth in the G-20 nations is the rise of cash settlement OTC derivatives and complex structured securities. From leveraged ETFs to currency swaps, the global financial markets are polluted with all manner of speculative instruments with no basis in the real economy.
Forward, futures and options markets are traded on exchanges and in organized markets, and are tightly disciplined by a limited supply of underlying assets, the cash "basis" for the derivative, which is not a problem. But when you talk about credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and other instruments which settle in cash and where the underlying basis does not have to be delivered, these instruments seem to validate the debt-deflation thesis. Unable to create real assets from real economic activity to meet the demand from investors holding fiat paper currencies, the markets create liabilities without any corresponding assets. The disease of cash settlement derivatives and structured assets is destroying many cash markets and banking systems around the world.
The derivatives epidemic is already visible in the US and EU economies, and is also affecting emerging markets. In Hungary, for example, global investment banks first used FX derivatives to blow up the local currency mortgage and banking market, driving consumers into foreign currency-linked home loans. The major derivatives dealers then left local lenders to fail as the currency market exposure turned catastrophic. Local lenders, who wrote massive foreign-currency swaps to enable domestic real estate lending, were decimated when the Hungarian currency weakened.
"The EU central bank just published a 100 page report on FX swaps alone," notes a consultant to the central bank. "Derivatives ballooned Hungary's FX exposure and debt. We are now trying to find a way to rebuild the domestic loan market amidst the smoldering ruins of this fiasco."
Note the similarity between the situation in Hungary and that of Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland. In each case, derivatives allowed these nations to greatly increase domestic debt far beyond levels that the cash markets can support. In many cases these domestic borrowings carry foreign exchange exposures created via derivatives that magnify solvency problems enormously.
The leaders of the G-20 nations need to ask questions about the role of fair-value accounting and cash-settlement derivatives in fueling the current debt crisis. Until we accept that many of the economic problems we face today stem from efforts to create the illusion of growth in financial markets, there is not likely to be much progress on fashioning a sustainable solution.
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This is a really interesting and insightful article, thank you for posting it. I think the best thing for all of us to do is just make sure that we are doing all we can to manage our finances so we know what is going on! I have been using an investment analysis software called Statpro which has helped me in analysing my value-based estate, litigation support, and acquisition activities. Even more so the most helpful tool I have used is the Asset pricing
which have really come into use when trying to assess my mortgage.