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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has asked the Justice Department to investigate evidence said to be acquired by U.S. investigators that the Cuban government plotted to smear him with allegations he was involved with prostitutes, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Citing people familiar with the situation, the Post said Menendez's lawyer wrote in a letter to the Justice Department in April that the alleged plot was designed to derail Menendez's political career as he was seeking re-election in 2012.
Menendez, who is of Cuban descent and is now chairman of the powerful U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a critic of Cuba's communist government.
The newspaper quoted a former U.S. official with knowledge of government intelligence as saying the CIA obtained credible evidence, including Internet protocol addresses, that linked Cuban agents to the prostitution claims and efforts to plant the story in U.S. and Latin American media.
The allegations about Menendez surfaced days before the November 2012 election.
The reports, first published on the conservative Daily Caller website, said a political donor provided Menendez with free trips on his private plane to the Dominican Republic where Menendez allegedly engaged in sex with underage prostitutes.
Menendez denied the allegations. The Post, quoting two people familiar with the case, reported that an FBI investigation turned up no evidence tying Menendez to prostitutes.
Menendez's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Client Profile: CMC Rescue, Inc.
By Ron Zollars
Ventura County Sherriff's Department using CMC Rescue equipment during a hoist-training operation
In the movie industry, countless disaster films have been produced. Thanks to a dazzling array of special and technical effects in Hollywood, there never seems to be a shortage of apocalyptic events depicted on the big screen. In fact, some of the highest-grossing movies have centered on natural or environmental disasters. However, in real life, the emergency responders and search and rescue teams are real people (not actors) who put their lives in harm's way in their attempt to rescue an individual, a family or an entire community. Natural disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, firestorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, the collapse of coal mines, climbers trapped on mountainous ledges, and ships capsizing are prime examples. In the U.S., Hurricane Katrina is one of the largest catastrophes ever recorded. And when tragedy strikes, it is the search and rescue professionals who spring into action to extricate the victims who are trapped and often immobilized. Undoubtedly, one of the most important pieces of equipment used is the rescue harness which has to be strong, durable and reliable in precarious situations.
CMC Rescue, based in Santa Barbara, Calif. has been producing state-of-the-art equipment for its customers for more than 30 years. The company was founded in 1978 by James Frank who at the time, sought to create a manufacturing division when they were unable to locate specialized pieces of equipment that he felt should have been available to rescuers. Frank is a search and rescue pioneer and one of the top people often involved with Santa Barbra County's search and rescue teams. He has been an avid volunteer since the 70s and is still active today, as are several of the employees at CMC. The company has three full-time rescue instructors: one is a retired firefighter; and two are active search and rescue volunteers. They also use approximately eight part-time instructors who are active firefighters. In the early days, Frank said it was just he and a couple of other rescuers. In emergency situations they would turn off the phones and close the door because they were out in the field. Search and rescue employees at CMC have had to evacuate residents during Santa Barbara's wildfire season.
This is only one example of the many calls they respond to when needed. In addition to backcountry search and rescue, rope rescue and swift water rescue, they are called to support law enforcement when an at-risk person is lost, after automobile accidents, and mass-casualty incidents. One of CMC's personnel in Los Angeles was called to help in Haiti following their disastrous earthquake in 2010. CMC personnel also assisted during Hurricane Katrina. The employees contacted some of the rescue volunteers that they knew were sent to New Orleans and asked what they needed. Based on their response, CMC employees pitched in and bought personal items (soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and other essentials) and the sewers made little bags to hold supplies and shipped them to the search and rescue volunteers. These dedicated men and women often put their lives on hold as they go into very grueling situations. It's not unusual for the volunteers to be away from home for extended periods of time.
The Yosemite Search and Rescue cache is home to a wall of CMC Rescue equipment
CMC's customers in the U.S. and abroad are typically the county and municipal fire departments and their technical rescue teams. Products also are sold to search and rescue teams, private industry, the military, the police, the entertainment industry, and numerous state and federal agencies such as FEMA, the border patrol and the FBI. CMC enjoys international success in Canada, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, South Africa, and parts of Europe. Their international markets account for approximately one-third of overall sales. Expanding global sales continues to be a top priority for the company.
Today, all of CMC's harnesses, straps, packs and bags are manufactured at their Santa Barbara facility. "We've learned that it takes much more than a sewing machine and some material to produce life support products," said Jim Frank, founder and chairman at CMC Rescue, Inc. "It requires highly trained production personnel and a quality-based inspection program backed by a sound design and engineering."
In the early days, the original name of the company was California Mountain Company because mountain rescue was the focus. As the market expanded and other types of rescue technology evolved the name was abbreviated to CMC. At CMC Rescue, besides making products they also have a successful training school. Frank explained that their philosophy always has been based on educating the customer rather than using the school to deliver a sales pitch. He said that there are many opportunities to also learn while teaching and in turn they feed this back into their product development program.
"More than 30 years ago, I was told that a carabiner with a brake bar was no longer considered safe for rope rescue and that I should get a Russ Anderson Figure 8 descender," said Frank. "Such a rescue specific item was not available at climbing shops and I learned that several had to be ordered at a time. This looked like a business opportunity, so I bought six with the intention of selling the other five. There have been many changes in the last 33 years. Rescue specific products were introduced, and the National Fire Protection Association 1983 Standard on Life Safety and Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services was developed to provide consistency in testing and labeling. Today we've started to see descenders that automatically stop and lock themselves, harnesses made from high-tech materials for comfort and strength, carabiners with a variety of safety locking systems, and specialized communication equipment to meet the changing needs of our rescuers."
Rescuer with patient being lowered in a litter during a high-angle rope rescue training evolution
Beth Henry, CMC Rescue's chief financial officer joined the company 11 years ago and had previously worked for a business litigation law firm before joining CMC. She admitted that CMC was only meant to be a practice brush-up interview. However after meeting with the founder and CEO, she was very impressed and knew this was her type of company. Henry said in the early days CMC primarily dealt with handwritten order forms that were torn from catalogues and mailed in with a check. "We basically waited for the phone to ring, relying on word of mouth with the search and rescue community," she said. "The first catalog in 1978 was photocopied and the mailing list was generated from our founder's personal contacts."
An important and fortuitous alliance was forged early on between two young engineering students who were college roommates at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Following graduation, CMC Founder and Chairman James Frank and Rich Phillips both had illustrious careers with various companies. According to Henry, over the years, the two friends always kept in close contact with one another and Rich Phillips would often lead some of CMC's management retreats. "Jim was an aeronautical engineer and Rich an industrial engineer. Jim often would call Rich into management retreats to lend his expertise. Rich would organize those events and lead the strategic discussions," said Henry. In 1994 Phillips officially joined the company full-time. Three years ago as Frank began turning over more of his day-to-day corporate responsibilities, Phillips assumed the role as president and chief executive officer.
Phillips explained the reason that CMC Rescue decided to pursue an employee stock ownership plan or ESOP. "I had some business dealings with SAIC in another company I worked for and they were passionate about employee ownership," said Phillips. "Jim Frank and I were discouraged from pursuing an ESOP by both financial and legal contacts. We were told ESOPs were not really that practical and were, in fact, falling out of favor as a realistic option for business owners seeking an exit strategy. I persisted and we attended an ESOP conference in San Diego put on by the Beyster Institute which planted the seeds for employee ownership – even if they didn't grow for a few years."
We asked Phillips when the board of directors determined that it would be advantageous for CMC to pursue doing an EO plan. "After nearly five years of attempts by other companies to purchase CMC, it became evident that strategic acquirers would offer the highest share value," said Phillips. "But they would not be able to assure Jim that CMC's operations would not be assimilated by these larger businesses – resulting in the loss of many jobs for then-current employees. Jim came to the realization that employee ownership could realistically be the only way to assure continuation of CMC with its current operations and employees."
Henry said that once she clearly understood how well the ESOP concept fit CMC's needs, she wrapped her arms around it and ran. "Good thing I didn't know then how unusual it was to draft the plan document and do two major stock transactions in 13 months. The primary driving factors for us moving forward were: 1. sustainability of the business; and 2. exit strategy for the current shareholders. Jim's commitment to the team of employees who created the success at CMC was very generous and took precedence over other options."
CMC Rescue became 92 percent employee owned in 2011. The company has instituted several programs to help promote and educate the benefits of employee ownership. "We celebrate Employee Ownership Month in October with an offsite company picnic and a variety of other events focused on education and team building," said Henry. "We have our first communication committee up and running, coordinating these events and posting visible evidence of employee ownership around the building. I've been experimenting with sharing financial results to see which performance metrics are most meaningful, and all managers are learning to promote the new culture of openness, teamwork and accountability."
According to Henry, she says that employee ownership has remarkably changed the culture of the company in many ways. The ownership culture has become a consideration in almost everything they do. The company has been learning how to better formulate plans to drive it more deeply into its everyday behavior and they are more open and collaborative than ever before.
The major benefits that have been derived out of doing the ESOP are abundant said Henry. "The ESOP model promoted by the Beyster Institute, the NCEO, The ESOP Association and others has given us the healthy business focus we needed. For me personally, it forced me out of my office and into the company of very impressive business people – generous people (from other ESOP companies) and they love to talk and share their experiences. This is how we came to embrace the concepts of open-book management and collaboration."
CMC Rescue's community service projects are a part of their everyday culture. "Whenever an employee brings up a worthy cause that we can manage in the business environment we do it," said Henry. "Fun runs/walks for charities, food drives, blood drives, rescue mission donations, the Salvation Army. Given the nature of our business, we are often contributing to causes benefiting firefighters and search and rescue volunteers. We've received incredible generosity from our employees – sometimes donating their own time to sew backpacks and care packages out of scrap materials. Several employees currently are spearheading sustainability and environmentally responsible (green) programs around the office."
The company also received special recognition from the U.S. Department of Commerce. CMC won an award for its success in exporting products to help with the balance of trade. CMC has been especially strong in Asia and Canada but sees much more potential in other world markets for its products and rescue school training.
CMC Rescue, Inc. executives (L to R): James Frank, founder and chairman; Beth Henry, chief financial officer; and Rich Phillips, president and CEO
We asked about CMC's future plans and also what makes them so unique from other organizations. "Grow the ownership culture and invest in employee and organizational development," said CEO Phillips. "Develop leading new products for our customers, continue to expand our presence in work and rescue communities worldwide, and make employee ownership as valuable as possible for every participant in the future. We are in business to support a noble cause – saving lives – so high-ethical standards have always been engrained in our culture. Also, the company was founded by rescuers for rescuers, so our expertise can't be stressed enough. Our instructors travel all over the world training search and rescue personnel, fire, military, industrial, and entertainment industry individuals. I'm proud of all of them and they represent CMC's standards beautifully."


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Pantone and The Dessy Group Renew Their Vows - Unveil New iPad Application for Styleboard Creation
Define the Vision of Your Dream Wedding with the myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard App
CARLSTADT, N.J., May 18, 2011 – Wedding planning often happens on the go – at the reception venue, the florist, the bakery and the bridal salon. Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, and The Dessy Group, a leading manufacturer of bridesmaid's dresses and bridal apparel, today announced myPANTONETM WEDDING Styleboard, the first styleboard application for the iPad®.
The myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard app gives users the freedom to build and share styleboards featuring key wedding colors, must-have wedding products and inspirational images – making it easy to achieve a perfectly color-coordinated wedding from inspiration to "I do."
"Transforming wedding inspiration into reality can be challenging and stressful," said Giovanni Marra, director of corporate marketing at Pantone. "We created the myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard app to give brides-to-be a simple, intuitive way to communicate their vision of the perfect day – from color-coordinated dresses and accessories to perfectly matched flowers and invitations – with everyone involved in the planning process."
Users can choose from 200 PANTONE WEDDING™ Colors, select from thousands of preloaded images including all Dessy bridal apparel and accessories, and import their own inspirational images for styleboard creation. Pre-loaded images are filtered by color and represent a variety of categories including invitations, flowers, cakes, destinations, jewelry, people, food, venues, shoes and décor.
The myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard app also makes it easy to share inspiration via email, Facebook and Twitter. Completed styleboards can be shared with friends, family, vendors and wedding coordinators to ensure that the right color is used every step of the way; or uploaded to Dessy's online styleboard site (www.dessy.com/PANTONE) to inspire other brides-to-be. Taking advantage of the iPad's intuitive touch controls, styleboard images can be dragged and dropped, sized and rotated, as well as moved front to back and back to front.
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The myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard app is available for download in the Apple App Store for U.S. $4.99 / £2.99 / €3.99. myPANTONE WEDDING Styleboard is compatible with Apple iOS 4 for the iPad.
About PANTONE WEDDING
PANTONE WEDDING, exclusively from Dessy, provides a collection of color tools to make it easy for brides to achieve perfectly color-coordinated weddings – from inspiration to "I do." PANTONE WEDDING includes the PANTONE WEDDING color guide and individual paper swatch cards in 200 PANTONE WEDDING Colors. See www.dessy.com/PANTONE for more information.
About The Dessy Group
The Dessy Group is a leading manufacturer of bridesmaid dresses, social occasion dresses, flower girl dresses and destination wedding gowns under the labels Dessy Collection, After Six, Alfred Sung, Lela Rose Bridesmaid and Sandals Destination Wedding Dresses.
Founded in 1939 by Margot Rosenthal, A & M Rosenthal, now The Dessy Group, got its start designing bridal veils and attendants headpieces. In the 1950s, Margot's daughter Ronnie and her husband Andrew took over the business and added bridesmaid dresses to the Dessy line. Today, the business continues to thrive under the leadership of Alan Dessy and design direction of Vivian Dessy Diamond. More information is available at www.dessy.com.
About Pantone
Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, has been the world's color authority for almost 50 years, providing design professionals with products and services for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers designer-inspired products and services for consumers. More information is available at www.pantone.com.
About X-Rite
X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufacturers, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite's expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com.


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"How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave, while provoking others to try to make their mark," LaPierre said. "A dozen more killers, a hundred more? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"-Wayne LaPierre, NRA lobbyist
The NRA sickens me. Truly. They just gave a completely tone-deaf and disrespectful response to what occurred a week ago today. They believe arming school officials and having armed guards at school will prevent such tragedies. I don't agree with this perspective at all for varying reasons, but I know there are those of you who do. I don't want to debate that with you today. I simply want to address the question asked at the end of the above statement.
I'm a mother of two boys.
I'm a USAF disabled veteran and former police officer.
I've survived Postpartum Depression and Anxiety.
I currently live with mental illnesses called rapid cycling Bipolar Disorder type II and OCD.
I take medication for these illness. 4 of them. Every day. Every.Single.Day.
I go to therapy. I see a psychiatrist.
There are days I struggle to keep it all together and not let the fact that I have some chemical imbalances stop me from living life.
There are days when I want to give up.
I have been hospitalized-not because I was a threat to those around me but because I was a threat to myself.
I am not a violent person, although I have been traumatized by and have experienced violence first hand.
I am not a threat to society.
I have no desire to own a weapon, and never have despite my knowledge of how to use, clean, and take them apart, and being properly trained and qualified on several of them-ranging from the M9 pistol I carried on my hip every shift to the M203 grenade launchers, M249's, and M4's I was trained to use in combat during deployments.
I do not belong in a database because I have a mental illness.
My mental illness does not mean I am a violent person.
I am a compliant, law-abiding citizen who still manages to function just like everyone else despite the effects my illness has on me.
My friends who also have mental illnesses? They don't belong in a database either.
They are just like me: men and women, mothers and fathers living with a painful "invisible" illness but still living their lives, working, raising their children, loving, helping others, and being productive members of society.
If our mental health records should be put into a database, then every person who applies for a weapons permit or who purchases a weapon, should submit to a comprehensive mental health evaluation, comprehensive background check similar to what's required to obtain a security clearance, and a weapons safety course. You can't say I should be registered in a mental illness database but not even mention that a more rigorous and comprehensive screening of those applying for weapons permits and buying guns is needs to be monitored as well.
It shouldn't take less than 20 minutes to walk in to WalMart and walk out with a gun, I don't care what you're using it for.
Also? No one should be allowed to own or put together an assault rifle or semiautomatic weapon. I don't understand why such a deadly weapon should be in the hands of the man who lives next door to me.
Yes, you have the right to bear arms, but maybe the kind of arms you're entitled to bear should be re-evaluated. Yes, you have the right to protect yourself in case of a threat or danger...but we all saw how that played out with the Trayvon Martin incident, didn't we? Maybe we start redefining what a threat is and what self-defense actually looks like. Maybe we start asking ourselves some hard questions and making some compromises. Not saying I'm right. Not saying the solutions or answers to this are simple. Just thinking out loud here.
You have the right to bear arms, but guess what? I have rights too. I have the right to have access to mental health services and resources that aren't underfunded and understaffed; services and resources that have qualified professionals working for them who treat us with the respect and dignity we deserve just as much as "normal" people.
You have your rights. What about mine? And the other 1 in 5 people who live with some form of mental illness in this country? You have a right to arm yourself...we have our rights to privacy...and to the same life you do.
Those who live with mental illness are not all dangerous. We don't all need to be tagged and stored in some database. If you REALLY think we do, then I say you should be too. Because while you may not have a mental illness you could be just as capable of violence. ANYONE with access to a gun can quickly and easily become a criminal-yes, even "responsible good guy gun owners."
I am mentally ill. I am not violent. I don't belong in your database. Stop stigmatizing me and those just like me. Stop using us to redirect criticism and calls to action by saying we are the problem. We are not your scapegoat.
I guess the old cliché is true: "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." No you can't. Not when their greed disguised as advocating for"rights" is stronger than their desire to admit they could stand to learn a few things.
Go fuck yourself, NRA and hold another press conference when you have something more substantial to say.


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First Speaker: Le Zhao
Title: Term Necessity Prediction
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents (P(t|R)) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without relevance judgments or a relevance model. We call this value term necessity because it measures the percentage of relevant documents retrieved by the term – how necessary a term's occurrence is to document relevance. Prior research typically either set this probability to a constant, or estimated it based on the term's inverse document frequency, neither of which was very effective.
This paper identifies several factors that affect term necessity, for example, a term's topic centrality, synonymy and abstractness. It develops term- and query-dependent features for each factor that enable supervised learning of a predictive model of term necessity from training data. Experiments with two popular retrieval models and 6 standard datasets demonstrate that using predicted term necessity estimates as user term weights for the original query terms leads to
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The paper will appear in CIKM 2010.
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Title: Rank Learning for Factoid Question Answering with Linguistic and Semantic Constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for leveraging deep linguistic and semantic features for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems. The passage ranking framework enables query-time checking of these complex and long-distance constraints among question features such as keywords and named entities. These constraints can include keyword ordering, annotation type-checking, verb-argument attachment and arbitrary long-distance paths through an annotation graph. We show that a trained ranking model using this rich feature set achieves greater than a 20% improvement in Mean Average Precision over baseline keyword retrieval models. We also show that for questions expressing the most complex linguistic semantic constraints, further gains in MAP are realized, yielding a 40% improvement over the baseline.
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|Boiled icings are a southern favorite and this peanut butter one is no exception. It pairs as well with a yellow cake as it does with a chocolate cake and even works to ice brownies.
Old Fashioned Boiled Peanut Butter IcingI just love the old fashioned boiled icings because they are so different from the usual buttercream or cream cheese icing.
This paired with a basic 1-2-3-4 yellow cake is how I most often make it, but it's also great spread over a pan of homemade brownies, or on a chocolate Texas Sheet Cake, and you got a really great dessert for any day of the week.
Recipe: Old Fashioned Boiled Peanut Butter Icing©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Cook/Prep time: 15 min | Yield: Enough for a 9 x 13" pan
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter
- 6 tablespoons of whole milk
- 1 (1 pound) package of powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup overflowing of creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
Heat butter and milk together on stovetop. Bring to a boil in a heavy saucepan, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add in the peanut butter and powdered sugar stirring in well. Return to the stovetop and continue heating, stirring constantly until the mixtures is smooth and glossy. Remove from the heat, stir in the vanilla and pour immediately as evenly as possible all over the top of the hot cake. This will set quickly so push the icing into the corners and over missed spots very carefully and quickly. Let the cake cool.
Note: I use Jif brand peanut butter. Try this with an old fashioned 1-2-3-4 basic yellow cake!
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Jason Hsu (Ph.D. '04) and Tzee-man Chow (MFE '09) Win Graham and Dodd Award
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LOS ANGELES -- Jason Hsu (Ph.D. '04) and Tzee-man Chow (MFE '09) were named winners of the Graham and Dodd Award for their article, A Survey of Alternative Equity Index Strategies co-authored with Vitali Kalesnik and Bryce Little. The article appeared in the September/October 2011 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, a publication of the CFA Institute. The FAJ Advisory Council and Editorial Board selected the winners.
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Sniffing the glue of old books: Lots of people speak fondly of the distinct aroma of libraries, both personal and private. It turns out they might not be imagining it. Researchers have done a wholesale identification of the volatile chemicals released by books and performed multivariate analysis on the results. It turns out that it's possible to identify a series of chemicals associated with the degradation of paper, which could provide archivists a noninvasive way of determining which works need immediate attention.
Cheaper pharmaceuticals through computer pop-ups—for real: This one's a randomized clinical trial that targeted the doctors, rather than the patients. Like everyone else, doctors are susceptible to advertising, and will often prescribe an expensive drug when there's an equivalent but cheaper generic available. It turns out that simply adding an alert to the computerized prescription system was enough to counteract the impact of heavy marketing, and keep the use of less-well-marketed alternatives at a steady level.
They're still working on the urine samples, though: This one isn't science so much as engineering, both of equipment and behavior. As you might imagine, taking the blood pressure of a mature male gorilla isn't a straightforward process. Sedate them, and the readings may not identify issues that are apparent during normal behavior. Try to do it while the gorilla is awake and, well, you might be facing a large and rather annoyed animal. But a combination of a properly engineered cuff and a well trained gorilla can apparently do the trick.
Plants don't see family as competition: Well, perhaps not all of them, but at least one species of Impatiens grows differently in the presence of genetically related plants than it does when unrelated plants are around. The recognition of kin appears to require roots, but the competition can play out above ground, where the plants respond to the presence of strangers by devoting more resources to leaves, presumably in an attempt to grab more sunlight than their neighbors.
Making a hermaphrodite is easier than you might think: One of the reasons that people started doing genetics with the worm C. elegans is that one of its two sexes is the hermaphrodite (the other's male); animals that can mate with themselves make a variety of genetic crosses much easier. But most of the worm's relatives have the standard male/female arrangement, leading scientists to consider what it might take to switch between the two. The answer, as it turns out, is not much. In a related species, lowering the dose of one protein involved in sex determination had females producing ineffective sperm; tweaking the dose of a protein that activated the sperm rescued this defect. Combining the two tweaks produced a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite.
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I'm pretty sure I would not look good in tights.
There is simply nowhere to hide all of the neglected exercise.
Speedos, therefore, would probably be a bad idea as well.
Simply put, I could not be a professional wrestler.
The Flyin' Bryan is not a catchy name in the least.
These outlandish thoughts came to me rather quickly when I recently went to a WWE, that's World Wrestling Entertainment for the uninitiated, event in Cincinnati with my dad and older brother.
I have never been a fan of wrestling.
It looks silly, the "plotlines" are ridiculous and I even heard a rumor that it isn't even real.
However, since I was crawling around in diapers, my dad has been a fan.
My mom and him would go to matches all the time on dates before I was born.
How they stayed together long enough to have my brother and I is something I will never understand.
In fact, they recently celebrated 37 years of marriage.
Does my mom simply not see the stack of wrestling magazines in the restroom graciously placed for reading material?
Anyway, my mom decided to surprise my dad this past Christmas with tickets to a WWE event, so he now can see live the glorious fun that he watches multiple times a week on TV.
Luckily for my brother and I, she decided to make it a night out with the sons as well.
I hope my sarcasm can be felt and you realize the dread I had after I discovered the entertainment would last more than three hours.
That is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds I would never get back in my life.
Still, I love my dad, even if I never tell him, and I wanted him to enjoy a night out of something he loved to watch.
When we arrived, the place was a madhouse.
Little children were holding up signs promoting their favorite wrestler and/or his signature move.
Adults, who I was personally embarrassed for, acted as if they were kids going to the circus for the first time.
A villainous wrestler would be treated to a chorus of boos while fan favorites were cheered like they just saved a baby from a burning building.
As is his personality, my dad did not show any real emotion as he watched each successive match.
But, I could tell he was enjoying it.
Whether it was a noticeable grin or a snicker at my continous jokes about the proceedings, it was obvious my dad was having a good time.
It still didn't stop him from leaving for 15 minutes to track down a scratch off lottery ticket machine to fuel his other passion, but still the night was a success.
The three of us almost never hang out, and I could probably only count a few times where it was just the boys.
The truth is that I actually did have fun.
What I enjoyed most is hearing my dad talk about old-time wrestlers and actually knowing who he was talking about when he mentioned such greats as Andre the Giant, The Million Dollar Man, and, of course, Hulk Hogan.
In fact, a week later I even caught myself briefly stopping on a wrestling match while channel surfing.
As we walked to our car after the event that night, I got a big smirk on my face.
My brother asked me what was so funny.
I spun around and put my dad in a mock headlock.
It was my "macho" way of giving him a hug, I guess.
We all laughed.
It was a fitting end to an enjoyable night that should have came a lot sooner and a lot more often.
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The History, Civil And Commercial, Of The British Colonies In The West Indies -Volume 1, Page 257
Author: Edwards, Bryan
Medium: Letterpress
Date: 1793
Extract from volume two of Bryan Edwards' 'The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.' Edwards describes the risks involved in purchasing a sugar plantation in Jamaica, using as an example an estate worth £30,000 that produces about 200 hogsheads of sugar. He details the capital necessary to purchase such an estate, the breakdown of land, buildings and stock, the number of slaves required, the taxes imposed on land and stock, and the quantity of work involved in raising the crop.


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|2010-08-07, 11:42
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I don't actually think Knox's 4th specifically prohibits a person having a disease. There would probably have to be some evidence of course if a person isn't actively suffering from its effects in a way that is obvious.
Agatha Christie was always fond of people with conditions (usually physical of course), or people faking conditions, but it was always usually very clearly presented and central to the plot. The problem with a mental disorder is that a bad writer can always just write the person normally then pull out the crazy whenever they want.
It's harder to get around the guy with pneumonia killing someone at night without hacking up a storm and waking half the place, but it's a lot easier to be like "Surprise! He was schizophrenic!" without even stopping to consider how difficult it would be for a person like that to fit in and act normally the majority of the time.
If DID were involved somehow in Umineko, one would be forced to question the good sense of the people involved in covering it up and managing it, especially to have that person working on the day of the family conference, when stress and alterations to routine (routine can really help a person with a mental disorder, if it's maintained) would be at their peak.
|2010-08-07, 12:09
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Concerning the final red.
I was thinking that Chronotrig is probaby right.
17 Humans/Persons refers to bodies/corpses.
At the point that red was said, Kyrie, Natsuhi, Rosa, Eva and Maria were dead.
6 Corpses (including Kinzo)
10 Normal Humans
1 Shkanon
|2010-08-07, 12:15
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However I have to add something. Even for arc 1-2-3-4 pieces actions doesn't make necessarily realistic sense. I'm going to use an arc 6 example to prove my point.
Battler found a realistic and possible way to reset the chainlock from outside with the hanger thing. However he ultimately couldn't do it, because there is a rule against it. In a larger sense, the very idea that "character x" cannot do "action x" because of "knox x" is proof enough IMO that the character's actions doesn't make realistic sense. No person in their right mind would consider "red rules" and "knox rules" when making any actions at any times in their life.
Now if pieces are restricted from doing things that a person could normally do because of additional rules, I do not think it's unfair to have them doing things that normally no one can do. Possibly the best example is this : No matter what the culprit never failed so far. At the very least was never caught in the act. That's very unrealistic in itself.
|2010-08-07, 12:22
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|2010-08-07, 12:23
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Battler could not repair the chain lock from the outside because he didn't have time. Erika/"Erika" was not in the bathroom for long enough to engage in any complicated maneuvers.
Metaphorically, the reason none of his methods worked within the Logic Error itself is because the Logic Error solution was not based on the actions of one person from the start. Battler in fact could not escape alone; he did escape, and he did so with Kanon's help.
|2010-08-07, 12:27
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Actually Knox 6th makes it so no one except Battler and Erika even had the right to expose the truth.
Edit: What? Erika had the time to use tools to undo Battler's setup but he didn't have to reset a chain lock from outside? Not to mention that the game doesn't claim anything like that. You just decided on your own that Battler didn't have time to.
Beside Renal, seriously, think about this for one second.
You disbelieve everything about Shkanon, so all the Shkanon scenes are useless in arc 6 to you.
You disbelieve the meta-world being meaningful or true, again making all it's scenes useless.
You also disbelieve every scenes shown from Erika's pov within arc 6 (and I assume 5)
I assume you are aware that since death were faked at first, most scenes we see from other char's perspective is falsified.
Have to add, you also somehow believe that every red truth and knox rules just happens to be followed perfectly and that there's nothing weird about it.
What is even left of arc 6? The absurdly impossible Ange/Hachijou scenes? Maybe a few gameboard scene now and then.
|2010-08-07, 12:32
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Why would that be? There's plenty of reasons you could kill the culprit and not tell anybody. Maybe you intended to and got killed first. Or you thought you'd be accused of murder. Or it was random self-defense and you have no idea why you were attacked. Or you think there are others.
|2010-08-07, 12:41
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|2010-08-07, 13:03
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You are also drawing ridiculous inferences. Saying people believe the story must "inexplicably" conform to the red is looking at the situation completely backwards. Pieces are not aware of the red. They are not aware of the meta-world. It has no influence on them. The meta-world is reflective of their actions; that they conform to the red and Knox rules is because the author has made that guarantee and the pieces act accordingly. They do not know instinctively that red exists, but their actions do not contradict it. This isn't weird or happenstance, this is conscious effort on ryukishi's part.
Also I have no idea where you got the idea that I consider Erika/"Erika's" perspective unreliable. As chronotrig has said, Meta-Erika may not even have access to "her" own perspective, relying on others like Dlanor to tell her what has happened or what she can do. Honestly, Piece-Erika's earnest first-person perspective is something I think very possibly could be trusted if we ever saw it, no matter who she is.
|2010-08-07, 13:38
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I didn't claim you'd have to believe everything about arc 6, simply that you seems to believe nothing about it.
However I am sorry but no, what you're saying is exactly what I said. Characters just happens to follow the red and knox according to what you say.
I am not saying the pieces are aware of it, there's no reasons to believe so, but that's still what they do. So it's one of this:
Either someone controls them from a plane above the gameboard (such as Ryukishi) so that they follow all these rules, which still makes them rules that no normal person would have to follow, and still shows that it's not making perfect realistic sense.
Or they just happens to somehow act in a way that perfectly fits these rules by some sort of miracle.
|2010-08-07, 13:46
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It's not a miracle when you can actively select only those stories in which the rules are followed. It still must be possible that characters will act in conformity with them. If it were only within the nature of one character as written to violate Knox, the contradiction would be if he or she didn't. It isn't that hard to understand.
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|2010-08-07, 14:22
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Second, pieces not being aware of red/meta rules is suggesting that they are pieces. When you control a videogame character, said character is not aware they're being controlled. Any character in any story is never aware that the writer controls their actions, thought and feelings, even in the breaking the 4th wall case where the characters are made to say they are aware of it.
Edit : Do not make up arguments that I never made please. I never suggested a character follows red in that way.
|2010-08-07, 14:35
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If what you are saying is true, the entire game would be in red.
|2010-08-07, 15:00
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You can control characters if they are characters in *your* story. As such, most of the story is under your control, although the plausibility is not always co-operative.
There could be many, many more things that can be stated in red in the game. Like maybe, if the things we suspect to be true are actually true there could be: "They were faking their deaths." Or "Kinzo wrote a will and gave it to Genji."
When I developed the Author Theory, the theory of the Red Text had to be developed along side it since that's the only logical place the Red could come from if it wasn't from something like.. 'magic did it.'
|2010-08-07, 15:10
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The problem is the only way you can really solve the mystery is by figuring out what people's motives are. If you attribute their motives to "They're in a story so the author made them act that way this time" then you might as well give up. You can explain nothing.
Whenever you start looking at any of the problems in the game "Why was Battler still in his room in ep6 after he faked death?" for example, you can counter it by saying "It is part of the game, so the actual person in the story doesn't really have a reason."
It doesn't help you solve the mystery at all. Instead, you only eliminate things that would have helped you reason about the people and the environment.
Unless you take each game as a series of real events, taken by real people with real motivations, hidden by the deception of the meta-world, the game is completely unsolvable.
|2010-08-07, 15:18
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But wait a second... are you saying that a detective novel must actually have been a real event for it to be solvable? That's absurd. I mean.. the last time I read a Sherlock Holmes novel, I *know* it's fictional AND I know it's solvable.
A good author can author a story where the characters and events are believable. You don't need everything to be reality.
EDIT: In fact, rather than fiction, it is reality that can make a particular story unsolvable. Try the case of Jack the Ripper, for example
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20. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
What they said:
"A two-hour, 20-minute advertisement for FedEx. Deeply silly."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
What we say:
By the turn of the millennium Tom Hanks had stopped being the new James Stewart and had started being the new Man Everyone Hates Because He's In So Many Average And Emotionally Exploitative Dramas - something he didn't really escape until Road To Perdition in 2002.
But Cast Away was unfairly caught up in the mix. Yes, it's a little too long, but Hanks has the chops to command the screen alone for two hours, and the film has big, booming heart. Anyone who claims not to have shed a tear when Wilson drifted off over the horizon is a stinking liar. Amazing plane-crash scene, too.[page-break]
19. Blades Of Glory (Josh Gordon/Will Speck, 2007)
What they said:
"I'd try to avoid the usual cliche of saying this is a fine 10-minute Saturday Night Live sketch that's padded with another 80 minutes of filler, but if this unclever and mostly unfunny film doesn't bother to put in any effort, why should I?"
Misha Davenport, Chicago Sun-Times
What we say:
C'mon. Anyone who's tired of bouffant hair, permatans and awkward physical humour about incest and homosexuality is tired of life . Plus, there are very few situations where setting a sporting mascot on fire isn't funny.
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder do a decent job as the leads in this figure-skating farce, but it's the canny support casting of Amy Poehler and the always awesome Will Arnett that really captures the grotty glitz of ice dancing.[page-break]
18. Reign Of Fire (Rob Bowman, 2002)
What they said:
"Waterworld with reptiles."
Joe Queenan, The Guardian
What we say:
Aside from catching the now world-straddling Christian Bale in a decent pre-Batman, pre-Terminator action flick, the main reason to revisit Reign Of Fire is because it's not half as bad as everyone seems to remember.
Weird, yes, but not bad . The film's view of post-apocalypse England is enjoyably grimy (there's more mud than a medieval Python comedy and everyone wears thick knitted jumpers), Matthew McConaughey is super-intense as a mad, bald American, and the lack of FX budget is craftily dodged by efficient use of the headlining dragons.
That is, not the standard flowery, fantasy nonsense, but something a bit more like Mad Max with massive firey lizards.[page-break]
17. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)
What they said:
"American director Todd Haynes revisits the world of London glam rock and manages to make it look dull. He and his costume designer certainly lay on the peacock flamboyance of the 1970s, but none of the strange creatures concerned appear to be having any fun. Plenty of glitter, though, if you like that sort of thing."
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
What we say:
A jarring fit when originally released among the primary colours and loutish laddishness of late-'90s Britpop, Velvet Goldmine's sexually ambiguous glitz plays much better these days, post-Mighty Boosh, post-Lady Ga Ga - now everyone's remembered that glam outfits and arch androgyny are actually pretty cool.
There's also much joy in watching the film's up-and-coming British cast being braver than their current star statuses would allow. Holy homoeroticism! What's Obi Wan doing to Batman!? [page-break]
16. Jingle All The Way (Brian Levant, 1996)
What they said:
"Given the leaden nature of the material, Schwarzenegger probably couldn't even bench-press the script. Who talked the Big Guy into this? The performances are uniformly awful, but screenwriter Randy Kornfield's dialogue give them little to work with."
Jack Matthews, LA Times
What we say:
Uptight audiences looking for one last action-hero outing from Arnie failed to see that this Christmas pile-up was his best comedy work by miles.
As Arnie's neighbour, Phil Hartman brings some of The Simpsons' smug suburban class to the film, while the big man's running battle with fellow dad-on-a-mission Sinbad parodies his own action career - and the big fight set-piece featuring a knock-off factory full of counterfeiting Santas is, well, amazing.[page-break]
15. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2007)
What they said:
"Frustrating and finally rather pointless. Is there anything going on behind these randomly firing synapses?"
Xan Brooks, The Guardian
What we say:
The same critics who applauded Kelly's freaky teen time-travel debut Donnie Darko for its snippy sense of humour and impenetrable plot somehow missed the point of its super-ambitious follow-up.
Southland Tales throws away in seconds ideas other movies would snaffle up as high concepts, whipping up a tornado of fascism, pornography, subjectivity and The Rock's eyebrow.
It's flawed, certainly, but almost better for it – think of it as an American Brazil. And rewatch immediately.[page-break]
14. Silent Hill (Christopher Gans, 2006)
What they said:
"Playing much like a game, the story sees clue 'A' point to location 'B' where monster 'C' is waiting to ambush our heroine. Which is all very well when you're sitting at home, controller in hand, but isn't anywhere near as satisfying or scary as a cinematic experience."
James Dyer, Empire
What we say:
Okay, so the videogame original was never really big on plot – not one that you could understand, anyway – but where both it and the film excel is in creating an overpoweringly forbidding atmosphere.
Give it another go - and this time, ignore all story points bar the loss of the child. Suddenly, it becomes a surprisingly effective horror of guilt, loss and, you know, big monsters with giant cones on their heads. [page-break]
13. One Night At McCool's (Harald Zwart, 2001)
What they said:
"It's grabbing you by the lapels and screaming, 'Laugh!' The movie is so heavily italicised that it's not very funny."
Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
What we say:
Come on! It's a sexy Rashomon for the '90s! Sort of. Or at the very least, an enjoyably sleazy comedy that doesn't take itself seriously and does give us a lot of Liv Tyler's thighs.
All of which would leave the film as fun-but-dumb curiosity if it weren't for Michael Douglas' brilliantly be-quiffed two-bit huckster - surely his most important and affecting work since Wall Street.[page-break]
12. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (Peter Weir, 2003)
What they said:
"Master and Commander stays afloat to the finish, but that's all that can be said."
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
What we say:
An authentic, measured and ballsy boy's-own adventure. Weir's movie is smart enough to turn away from swashbuckling bluster and instead gives us a cat-and-mouse battle of wits and wills.
So, on the handful of occasions a firefight does actually break out, it's a satisfying release of all the simmering tension.
Plus, the friendship between Russell Crowe's gruff captain and Paul Bettany's sensitive doctor is a joy.[page-break]
11. Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, 2004)
What they said:
"The vast mythology readily available through these characters never takes hold and the iconic figures carry no resonance."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
What we say
A flamboyant action-horror that's not afraid to inject some contemporary irreverence into Universal's aging stock of creature features.
Yes, it plays fast and loose with some cult classics, lumping together several big-hitting characters (Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man)... But since when did people start getting precious about a genre of filmmaking in which crossovers and cheap exploitations are not only the norm, but positively celebrated?
Van Helsing has wit, pace, expensive action scenes and Hugh Jackman's excellent hat. Sold.[page-break]
10. The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2008)
What they said:
"It is a competently made Horrible Things Pouncing on People Movie. If you think Frank Darabont has equaled the Shawshank and Green Mile track record, you will be sadly mistaken."
Roger Ebert, Chicage Sun-Times
What we say:
A stern, efficient and unconventional horror. The key is in the restraint - so little information is fed to the audience for so long that the film achieves a towering sense of dread and hopelessness. By the time the creatures do arrive en masse the effect is overpowering.
And that ending... Disciplined and super-bleak - almost cruel, but just the right side of weekend-ruining. Most importantly, though, it's an ending that's more interested in provoking than soothing. Cheap but gloriously nasty. [page-break]
9. 1941 (Stephen Spielberg, 1979)
What they said:
"The slapstick gags, obviously choreographed with extreme care, do not build to boffs; they simply go on too long. 1941 is less comic than cumbersome, as much fun as a 40-pound wrist-watch."
Vincent Canby, The New York Times
What we say:
The truth is that after unprecedented successes with Jaws and Close Encounters, the critics were lining up to give wunderkind Spielberg a kicking, whether his new film deserved it or not.
In fact, 1941 has an incredible cast, an arsenal of screwball gags, and enough satirical edge for John Wayne - who turned down a part in the film - to condemn the whole thing as unpatriotic. That'll do for us.[page-break]
8. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)
What they said:
"Its use of the race card will seem cheap and opportunistic. Even more morally questionable is the visually extraordinary material that forms the crux of the film: subjective rapes and murders that are, in the film's context, snuff films, real-life killings marketed for kicks for hard-up seen-it-alls."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
What we say:
All visions of the future are condemned to look clunky ten minutes after they're released, and Strange Days is no different (having MiniDisc players offer total sensory experiences is like suggesting we'll soon be cycling to the moon).
But, caught up in a rush of pre-millennial virtual realities – Johnny Mnemonic and Virtuosity were released the same year – Strange Days offered a smarter, politicised alternative to the softer, Hollywood-sanitised dystopias, delivering a grungey, snuff-filled future that reflected sharply upon racial tensions around LA's antagonistic police force.[page-break]
7. Ten Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
What they said:
"10 Things is like something made by your incorrigible uncle, the hep uncle with the girlfriends about your age who thinks he's cooler than your parents. Ugh. It's dispiriting to see a gaggle of up-and-comers held in movie detention."
Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle
What we say:
A way above-average teen romance which made clever use of its Shakespearean framework to hold up rather than hold back its more modern ambitions.
But from our post-Heath Ledger viewpoint it's also well worth a look to remind ourselves of the increasingly serious actor's range – singing, dancing, smiling and romancing – and how he could have developed had his career not been cut short.[page-break]
6. Superman 3 (Richard Lester, 1983)
What they said:
"Slow and uninspired. It's clear the filmmakers were scrabbling around for new ideas to keep audiences entertained."
Jamie Woolley, BBC
What we say:
If blockbusters are measured by their set-pieces, then Superman III is a success.
It contains at least three classics: Supermen freezing a lake to put out a disastrous chemical plant fire, Superman using a small glass of acid to destroy a supercomputer which has made its own cyborg lady, and Evil Superman fighting Clark Kent in a scrap yard, which is confusing if you're five, but also amazing.
And though the humour's a little broader than in the first two movies, it's still funny – when Supes rights the Tower Of Pisa, say, or everything Richard Pryor says or does.
Great action, solid laughs, and Clark's mom from Smallville when she was still hot. Winner.[page-break]
5. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
What they said:
"Vanilla Sky represents a crushing disappointment. Everything is miscalculated - tone, style, acting, writing... An elaborate house of mirrors."
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter.
What we say:
A dazzling, provocative look at life, love and reality.
It's clunky in places – see the smug explanation of the fact that Tom Cruise's head is frozen – but the disintegrating narrative is bravely cryptic and unconventional, and the agitated nightmare vision of a deserted Times Square is iconic and unforgettable.
Most impressively of all, Cruise, teetering on the edge of his time as a legitimate leading man, toys admirably with notions of fame, beauty and success.[page-break]
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
What they said:
"The whole thing looks like off-cuts from the series that were eliminated because they were either too nasty or too inept. Self-parody would seem too generous an assessment of Lynch's aims and achievement."
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
What we say
People conveniently forget that Twin Peaks' TV series had been running on empty for months before it was canned and Lynch returned to give the climax some cinema-sized style.
Audiences craved a return to the warmth and mystery of those first few amazing episodes – coffee, cherry pie, and a murdered homecoming queen – but what they got was a dizzying affront, a condensed series of characters and situations which presented a bloody, lusty image of Twin Peaks unbroadcastable on network television.
The choppy structure can frustrate – a great deal was shot and not used, and an extended edition would be very welcome – but there are standout moments of nightmarish anxiety: David Bowie's apparition of an FBI agent, Laura and her father screaming in half-knowing distress in their car, and the extraordinary strobe-lit bar sequence.
It doesn't really work as a prequel, but with some distance, it's very effective as a savage summary of the series' deeper, darker side.[page-break]
3. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
What they said:
"A horrible mess of a movie, without shape, trajectory or purpose--a one joke movie, if it had one joke. The two characters wander witlessly past the bizarre backdrops of Las Vegas (some real, some hallucinated, all interchangeable) while zonked out of their minds."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What we say:
Well, it's clearly wonderful and deserved to be a massive hit - gleefully nailing the pace and life-seizing posturing of Hunter S. Thompson's deranged, insight-packed prose with snappy dialogue and leering camera angles.
Johnny Depp is note-perfect as the author himself - goofy and self-destructive but also rueful and poetic - and the soundtrack is driving, melancholy and balls-out fiendish.
Even to an outsider who's never heard of the book, the peace movement or even Las Vegas, there's a frantic irreverence and energy that renders Gilliam's queasy slapstick pacy and poignant. Get the incredible Criterion Edition. Go on...[page-break]
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
What they said:
"For all its enthusiasm, this film isn't sharp enough to afford all the time it wastes on small talk, long drives, trips to the mall and favorite songs played on car radios. And although Ms. Grier makes an enjoyable comeback, she isn't an actress well served by quiet stretches of doing nothing before the camera."
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
What we say:
Tarantino's greatest film, end of story. Maybe even his last great film...
It might not have the edge of Reservoir Dogs or the insane cool of Pulp Fiction, but it drifts on by deliciously, with a mature and masterly sense of poise and timing.
Here is QT doing his thing, unhurried and assured, rolling out a tight, knowing crime caper by focusing on the characters and letting the story do it's own work.
It's the performances that push it from 'good' to 'great': scuzzy De Niro, sinister pimp Sam Jackson, stand-up parole guy Robert Forster and smart, still-beautiful blaxploitation goddess Pam Grier – all given room by Tarantino's smooth, '70s-shaped style to make their understated presences felt.
If the director's subsequent slide into pastiche exploitation is a response to Jackie Brown's so-so reception, then those short-sighted reviewers have derailed an incredible talent.[page-break]
1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
What they said:
"Neither shocking, erotic nor profound. Actually, it's rather silly. What starts as a study of a marriage threatened by complacency becomes a murky conspiracy mystery that's barely suspenseful or credible."
Geoff Allen, Time Out
What we say:
It's difficult, yes - in the same way that 2001 and A Clockwork Orange and The Shining are difficult.
Notice the connection? Those movies are all masterpieces. Proper, no-debate, inarguable masterpieces.
Sure, Eyes Wide Shut wasn't the grand send-off we all wanted - the instant, stand-up-and-applaud-Stanley exhibition of greatness that it felt like it should be.
But, genius doesn't roll that way. Instead, the film is complex, ambiguous and occasionally baffling, but commandingly meticulous and oh-so deliberate.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, playing a struggling couple while themselves nearing the end of their real-lifemarriage, feel cold and disconnected in a way that's utterly, ruthlessly precise. Cruise's nightmare slide into an underworld of elitist depravity shakes him loose from his composed star image and has him running loose – acting! – throughout.
It's challenging, austere, maybe even unlikable, but also dense, dark, sexy, complex, rewarding and - yes, it is - hugely underrated.


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These are the policies the City follows in managing its financial, operational, and budgetary affairs. They are general policy statements representing long-standing principles, traditions, and practices that have guided the General Policies.
The Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency (LORA) is a component unit of the City of Lake Oswego and prepares separate annual reports.
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US Consulate, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The US Embassy in Rio de Janeiro was the first completely modern embassy commissioned and built by the State Department's Office of Foreign Business Operations (FBO) - reorganized and renamed the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) in 2001 (Sennott, 401). It was the FBO's largest project since World War II (Loeffler, 61). Leland King, who was in charge of managing architectural projects for the FBO, retained Harrison & Abramovitz to design the new U.S. Embassy in Rio (Loeffler, 61). Wallace K. Harrison & Max Abramovitz were well-known architects who had formed a partnership in 1945 (Loeffler, 61). They were working on the U.S. Embassy in Havana and the United Nations buildings along New York's East River during the mid-twentieth century as well (Loeffler, 61). With a rectangular footprint, this 13-story tower is made up mostly of offices; however, upon completion two floors of the embassy tower were designated for residential use (Loeffler, 62). Each floor had eight efficiency apartments. This was the FBO's first attempt to combine staff housing with designated office space.
The Consulate is located on the north corner of R. Mexico and Av. Pres. Wilson, with the main facade facing and set back about 100' from R. Mexico. Aside from the 1-2 story irregularly-shaped library attached to the main facade, which is within the 100' landscaped setback from R. Mexico, the building has a rectangular footprint. It is a twelve-story tower structure that is capped by a "penthouse loggia" (Loeffler, 62). The unornamented exterior surface emphasizes the planar quality of the building envelope. The finish material is Italian travertine ("U.S. Architecture Abroad"). All four elevations contain windows; the longer elevations have eighteen bays, and the shorter elevations have seven bays. The loggia roof has circular openings along the elevations that face R. Mexico and Av. Pres. Wilson - one opening for every two bays. The nearest green space is across Av. Pres. Wilson at Praça Quatro de Julho, a public park approximately 150' x 150'. The structure is about 2000' west of the Santos Dumont Airport and 1500' northwest of the coast.
The Embassy originally appeared stark in its context due to lack of ornament, and even though the height and the modern style were not radical for Rio at the time it was built in 1952, the structure stood out in its immediate surroundings.
At the time of its construction in 1952, it was the tallest and considered the most conspicuous building ever constructed by the State Department (Loeffler, 62).
An embassy is a "tangible emblem of a foreign nation's presence" and no other country explored this building type as a tool for cultural diplomacy as vastly as the United States did (Sennott, 400-401). After World War II there was a rise in demand for office buildings within the United States and overseas. In this golden age of development and emerging era of optimism post-war, the modern style allowed Americans to break free of the past and the mentality of being held back by tradition. American President, Harry S. Truman, enacted a new foreign policy in the Truman Doctrine in 1946, declaring worldwide "containment" (Chasteen, 286). This was in response to the advent of the Cold War and the infiltration of Communism in foreign nations. With the belief that "the right to freedom from oppression was universal", Truman proclaimed "that foreign policy should never lose sight of its reasons for existence: the American democracy and its principles" (Pierce, 166). The focus of this policy was on Europe, but the scope was worldwide.
The structure is in the style of an office tower, typical of Harrison & Abramovitz. The use of Italian travertine and the placement of a logia on top emphasizes its monumentality, evoking Classical grandeur. However, modern design was generally broadcasted as "clean and friendly" in comparison to the "pretentious classicism" still being utilized by other countries during the mid-twentieth century (U.S. Architecture Abroad). The design of the Embassy in Rio, among others, was later critiqued for being an "isolated modern creation ... with no relation to the urban fabric" (Saarinen, 288). Fire stops were not installed in the building, which was a requirement of construction both in Rio and the United States; therefore just before completion, a fire started by a welding rod spread to the top of the building through a pipe shaft (Loeffler, 62-63). The elevators had to be replaced, and months passed before the $150,000.00 in damage to the building was repaired (Loeffler, 63). This generated discussion about meeting safety standards of the United States and locales abroad.
The US Embassy in Rio de Janeiro was recognized at the time of its construction in 1952 as a major statement in the modern style. When Brasilia became the capital of Brazil and subsequent location of the Embassy in 1971, the building in Rio was preserved and continued to serve an administrative purpose for the United States as the US Consulate. American Architects Harrison & Abramovitz completed a wealth of projects between 1945 and 1976, most of which serve as prime examples of the mid-twentieth century office tower. Most of their work is in the northeastern and midwestern United States, but the fact that some of their work was done internationally, including the US embassies in Rio de Janeiro and Havana as well the the UN buildings speaks to the epitomization of their Modernist design.
As of 2013, there are no foreseeable threats to the preservation of this building. It is physically maintained as it continues to function as an administrative building for the United States in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The former U.S. Embassy (now U.S. Consulate) blends in better now with its urban context than it did originally, yet it still stands out as a remarkable modern building. The structure is significant because it is one of the few examples of American idealism realized through architecture in a foreign nation in the mid-twentieth century.
Chasteen, John Charles and James Atwood, editors. Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations. Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2004: 286-289.
"The History of the Building of the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro". Consulate General of the United States website. Accessed January 23, 2013.
Pierce, Anne R. Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2003.
Loeffler, Jane C. The Architecture of Diplomacy: Assessing America's Embassies. Princeton Architectural Press,1998: 60-64.
Saarinen, Eero, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, and Donald Albrecht. Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Yale University Press, 2006: 288,290.
Sennott, Stephen, ed. "Embassy". Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture: A-F. Taylor & Francis, 2004: 400-401.
"U.S. Architecture Abroad: Modern design at its best now represents this country in foreign lands". Architectural Forum. March 1953.
"The U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro". Consulate General of the United States website. Accessed January 23, 2013.


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