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Is Maya Cho in Love With Her Handsome Doctor?
Open to the West Now, Myanmar Airs Curious Breed of TV Soaps
YANGON, Myanmar—"Wait, wait. What's that buzzing noise?" Something's bothering Henri Delorme, a French consultant working on the set of a new Myanmar television comedy called "Flowers and Butterflies." "Is it a radio, or what?" he asks during a recent night shoot, grabbing a pair of headphones and clasping them to his ears as the actors pause.
"It's the monks," says Dodie Gutierrez, his colleague from the Philippines. "There's a Buddhist temple nearby. They're chanting."
The two men exchange a look and smile. "OK, it doesn't matter. Allez, allez!" Mr. Delorme yells.
Across the globe, multinational firms may be champing at the bit over an entire nation three times the size of Australia opening its doors to Western businesses after decades of military rule. But at least for some residents of this country, also known as Burma, a bigger issue may be what's going to happen on the next episode of "The Sign of Love."
Imagine, if you can, the dawn of the soap-opera era for a nation of 64 million, whose only option in TV in the past was watching dreary army parades, stiff news shows and carefully scripted concerts. Now, Myanmar, with six state-run networks and one private cable network, is trying to serve up a new breed of programming.
But it isn't easy, whether it's handling the logistics of churning out five episodes in a week in a place still lacking many modern conveniences, or conforming to a culture just developing its own brand of televised humor.
"We don't have much expertise at the moment, so we have to rely on outside help to get things done," says Winn Maw, chief executive at state-run MRTV-4's production partner, Forever Group.
The commands spoken on the set of "Flowers and Butterflies" alone are mishmash of Myanmar, English and French, among others. Mr. Delorme, 48 years old, has worked on soap operas in Indonesia and the Philippines, and in many cases some of these countries are now exporting scriptwriters and production managers to help other nations nail the kind of juicy plotlines and cliffhangers advertisers adore. Mr. Gutierrez, 34, has worked on similar shows in the Philippines, and has also helped produce programming for international networks.
Together, they produced an angst-ridden drama loosely based on Romeo and Juliet called the "The Sign of Love" which also drew on local beliefs such as reincarnation. "It's about getting a second chance at love," Mr. Delorme says.
Masterpiece Theater, it is not. Indeed, some of the plotlines of the country's new soaps can be fairly preposterous. In one episode of "Sign," a young woman vamping at a fashion show stumbles and twists her ankle on the catwalk. "Ah, it hurts, I think I'm dying," says the character, Maya Cho. Luckily, there's a handsome young man in the audience who carries her piggyback to the hospital where the attending physician turns out to be another handsome young man. "Oh, no, I can't walk on stage now," the model declares, and goes back to see the doctor again and again for treatment before the episode discreetly cuts to images of two birds courting.
The new show the team is working on, "Flowers and Butterflies," draws on "Ugly Betty," the American reimagining of a Colombian drama series in which an ugly duckling gradually blossoms into the most beautiful girl in town. Their next projects include a reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale and a Myanmar version of the "America's Top Model" reality show.
"That's going to be tough," Mr. Gutierrez predicts, slapping away the mosquitoes attracted by the bright TV lights. "We can't show much flesh here because the culture is really quite conservative."
To be sure, as with everything else in this developing country, viewership is in the early stages. With even electricity a luxury in some parts of the country, just a fraction of Myanmar's population can regularly watch television. But it hasn't taken long for multinational companies like Coca-Cola Co. to rush back to the country as a new civilian government finds its feet, and for advertisers to seize on the medium for both its reach and potential. According to estimates by local research firm Myanmar Marketing Research & Development, advertisers allocate up to 80% of their ad spend on television.
Mr. Winn Maw, of Forever Groups, says advertising rates have doubled this year to reach $150 for a 10-second prime-time segment. But while Myanmar has a strong local movie scene, it lacks the skills to quickly turn around money-spinning soap operas. Other Asian countries can rely on cheap soap operas from South Korea, but Myanmar has laws preventing local actors overdubbing in their own language. Subtitles can be a turnoff.
In fact, adapting to the local culture is one of the foreign team's biggest obstacles. While Buddhist temples and languid streets scenes can make for some compelling images on the screen, some Myanmar customs, such as removing shoes outside temples, homes and offices can be dangerous at a shooting where there are live cables snaking around the floor. The production team often has to use 1960s-era switching boxes to regulate power supply, and there are frequent power outages.
Then there's the challenge of daily life in Myanmar, which until recently had been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. The foreign crew eagerly trades rumors of the latest changes to sweep the country. Among the hot topics one recent evening were the expected arrival of new ATMs that can accept foreign bank cards and the planned visit of U.S. President Barack Obama. Mr. Gutierrez, meanwhile, recalls getting prepped for a full body spa at the local barbershop recently when all he wanted was a hair cut. "I've got my own clippers now," he says.
There's a culture clash on the Myanmar side, too. Hla Phyo, the director of "Flowers and Butterflies," has been working in films and television for 11 years. This is "so much faster," he says between quick puffs on a cigarette. Instead of editing back at the television network, the production team often edits in the field, quickly selecting which of three camera angles to use, saving time and money.
Ideally, Mr. Delorme and Mr. Gutierrez say they hope to train up enough directors and production crew to churn out completely local shows. Already they leave much the fine-tuning of the script to the Myanmar team.
Shooting doesn't always go smoothly, though. After one recent take, Mr. Hla Phyo and bespectacled "Butterflies" actress Khay Sett Thwin squealed with delight after she pulled some risque lingerie from a bag belonging to one of the other characters, a tomboyish roommate. "What?" says Mr. Gutierrez as he watches the playback. "Can we even show that in Myanmar TV? I mean, come on."
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In her final hours, Marie Colvin gave this damning report to CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Bravery, generosity, and commitment: These are the three characteristics of Marie Colvin that have surfaced, again and again, in the many tributes spoken and published since the veteran Sunday Times reporter was killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Homs by Syrian forces.
"There is a good reason why Marie was held to be a cut above the average foreign correspondent, brave though they all are," Vanity Fair London Editor Henry Porter wrote Wednesday. Like many of Colvin's colleagues, he referred to her decision, in East Timor in 1999, to remain in a compound of refugees under threat from Indonesian militia when all of the other journalists chose to leave. "Among [the refugees were] mothers who were so desperate they were throwing their babies over the barbed-wire fence surrounding the U.N. compound. Embarrassed by Colvin's reports, the U.N. reversed its decision to leave the innocent behind, and the civilians were taken to safety in Australia," Vanity Fair reported in a 2002 feature on female war correspondents.
And of course many tributes referred to her injury, in 2001, sustained while covering Sri Lanka's civil war, which resulted in her wearing an eye patch for the rest of her life but did not deter her from reporting. Her work in Sri Lanka is the stuff of legend: She filed a 3,000-word piece as she awaited evacuation for medical treatment. "#MarieColvin who I'd privilege of knowing 1 of bravest journos of our time: lost eye in grenade attack in Sri Lanka & still managed 2 file!" Canadian writer Michael Bociurkiw posted on Twitter.
Yet these two parts were only a fraction of the whole, according to Christopher Dickey, Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. "I am not sure when, exactly, in the last 10 years--perhaps as I started to pull back from combat myself, and she did not--I realized that Marie really was the greatest war correspondent of our generation. She took extraordinary risks and got extraordinary stories year after year, decade after bloody decade," Dickey wrote.
Her outstanding career earned Colvin posthumous accolades from U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague, who said, "For years she shone a light on stories that others could not and placed herself in the most dangerous environments to do so. ... She was utterly dedicated to her work, admired by all of us who encountered her, and respected and revered by her peers," according to the Daily Mail. And European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes tweeted, "Terrible news about Marie #Colvin... Was a great admirer."
Colvin, however, didn't consider herself brave. After her injury in Sri Lanka, she told Vanity Fair, "These people you are leaving behind are much braver. If they want to live, they have to be brave every single day of their lives." But those people she "left behind" cared about her; according to Lindsey Hilsum, international editor at the U.K.'s Channel 4 News, Colvin received "dozens of letters from Tamils asking if they could donate their eye for her."
Her selflessness, it seems, most manifested itself in her generosity to friends and colleagues, including younger journalists just starting out. Sarah A. Topol, of Foreign Policy, recounted meeting Colvin in newly liberated Tripoli in September and feeling "like I was in way over my head with a story." She writes that Colvin took the time, more than once, to talk over angles, contacts, and writing strategies. "She was happy to sit down and share everything she knew over coffee. Without knowing it, she made me believe that I could be more like her," Topol wrote.
Even David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, has a story about being taken under Colvin's wing. She had taken up temporary residence in the West Bank city of Jenin in the Palestinian Territories. "When she saw me and a few more experienced colleagues walking down an empty street marked by tank tracks, shuttered shops, and spent ammunition, she recognized a fool at risk," Remnick wrote. She called me into the house--a strong, clear American voice--fed us, let me file from her miraculously still-working satellite phone, and gave good stern advice on how to get through town without getting detained."
Or, in the tweeted words of Jason Burke, South Asia correspondent for the Guardian, "i knew nothing. she was modest, generous, knew everybody, everything .."
Colvin's generosity stood her apart from some others in the field. Anthony Loyd, a foreign correspondent for The Times, wrote, "Far from being a harridan, cardboard-cutout war correspondent, hardhearted and cynical, Marie's natural ability to engage with people was drawn from a warm and wide heart that bore its own burden of sorrows."
And that engagement with people, no doubt, is what led to Colvin's commitment to her profession. "Last year, in Misrata, she refused to leave because she felt so strongly that the story should not be abandoned," Hilsum wrote.
Several correspondents have cited one of the final posts that Marie made online before her death, in which she described the horrors around her and concluded, "Will keep trying to get out the information."
Get out information she did; her final story for The Sunday Times is a powerful, detailed account of the situation in Homs. And get out information she would want us to do. Christiane Amanpour--CNN and ABC journalist, CPJ board member, and a close friend of Colvin--told CNN.com that the loss of Colvin and New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid in one week is a "terrible loss, not just for our profession, not just for their friends and family. It's also a terrible loss for the people on whom they reported and for the politicians charged with ensuring atrocities don't happen and are stopped when they do." On ABC, Amanpour said: "Marie, and all of them, would be angry with me for only talking about their sacrifice."

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Everyone has a reputation that follows us where ever we go. As human beings, the reputation may be good or bad. We often hear: It's not the dress that one wears that makes her a lady or him a gentleman but your kindness, humbleness, the way you talk, the respect you have for people etc; are some of the qualities of a respectable person.
In the ring of WWE, are wrestlers usually called 'Superstars,' including Triple H, the husband of Stephanie McMahon, who is the daughter of the Mr. Vince McMahon, the chairman and owner of WWE. Many people run family business, thus, there is nothing wrong if Stephanie and her husband are managing WWE, as 'The Authority.' But abuse of power, arrogance and foolish pride have taken control over Stephanie.
One thing Stepanie or her family needs to understand is, WWE hasn't done any favour to past or present wrestlers. Frankly speaking, without the wrestlers and fans, there wouldn't be any WWE today. If wrestlers are under her management, doesn't give any of 'The Authoirty' the right to slap everyone across the face, anytime she loses her temper. The Authority claims: Is good for business, yet they take every challenge from any of the wrestlers as disrespect. Sometimes I do wonder if events at WWE are staged or fixed to entertain because 'The Authority' speaks and acts like children.
Wrestlers Stephanie has slapped across the face are uncountable. History repeated itself on Monday Night Raw 3/14/2016, after slapping Dolph Ziggler. Below are 10 of her demonic actions.
1. Image: Stephanie slaps Batista
2. Image: Stephanie Slaps Daniel Bryan
3. Image: Stephanie slaps Brie Bella
4. Image: Stephanie slaps Paul Heyman
5. Image: Stephanie slaps John Cena
6. Image: Stephanie slaps 'Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
7. Image: Stephanie slaps Big Show
8. Image: Stephanie slaps Roman Reigns
9. Image: Stephanie tries to slap Sting, but wasn't fast enough
10. Image: Stephanie slaps Randy Orton.
How can Stephanie convince the world she respects Triple H, when she continues slapping the face of wrestlers that her husband shares the same ring with? In fact, her outrageous character and her disrespect to many of the wrestlers have soiled and dented her reputation.No matter how rich her father may be, or 14 times world champion she has as a husband, it will take Stephanie over hundred years to rebuild her bad reputation.


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Yeshiva University has digitized more than 800 of Dr. Lamm's sermons for inclusion on this site. The Norman Lamm Archives houses his scholarly works, connects his work to Jewish communities around the world and offers audio and video of his ongoing lectures and discussions.
Please join us as we celebrate and honor Dr. Norman Lamm and the lasting legacy he continues to create for the Jewish people.
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And the answer to the question is….
Okay, first here's the question again: Name the last National League team among the classic eight (teams that were members of the NL since 1900) to win its first NL pennant and name the last of the classic eight to represent the National League in the World Series, also for the first time?
And the answer is: The St. Louis Cardinals. They won their first NL pennant in 1926, thus becoming the last of the classic eight to win a pennant, and thus, at the same time, becoming the last of the classic eight to represent the NL in the World Series.
Only one person made an attempt to answer the question, Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts, even if she got the question wrong, by being off by just one team.
Anyway, the other seven NL teams of the classic eight went like this: The Cubs (then the White Stockings) won the very first NL pennant in 1876, and made their first World Series appearance in 1906. The Braves (then the Boston Red Caps) won their first pennant in 1877 and made their first World Series appearance in 1914. The Giants first championship was in 1888 and their first Series appearance was in 1905 (technically it was in 1904, but manager John J. McGraw refused to play against the Boston Americans (now the Red Sox) of the American League, so no Series that year). The Dodgers (then the Bridgegrooms) won their first pennant in 1890 (a year after winning the American Association pennant) and made their first Series appearance in 1916. The Pirates won their first pennant in 1901 and was involved in the first modern World Series of 1903. The Phillies won their first pennant in 1915, and went on to represent the NL in the World Series that same year. The Reds would become the next to last of the classic eight to win the pennant, and thus reach the World Series, in 1919.
Philadelphia Phillies – The Players: Kid Gleason – Pitcher, Second Baseman, Manager, Coach, Part 2.
When we have last seen Kid Gleason, he has just been traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the New York Giants after the 1895 season. Gleason is made team captain after the trade. During his first season with the Giants, 1896, he would go 162 for 541 in 133 games, tied for the team lead with Mike Tiernan and George Van Haltren, compling a batting average of .299, with a slugging percentage of .372 and an on-base percentage of .352. He would that year knock in 89 runs while scoring 79. He would have 17 doubles, 5 triples and 4 home runs, walk 42 times, strike out 13, steal 46 bases and be hit by the pitch two times. This is presently the last season for when his strike out totals are known. From 1888 to 1896, Gleason is known to have struck out 131 times. After that, his strike out totals are unknown. The following year, 1897, would be his best season as a regular. Playing in 131 games, the team leader in that category, mainly at second base, Gleason would go 172 for 540 for a .319 batting average, with a slugging percentage of .369 and an on-base percentage of .353. He would have 16 doubles, 4 triples and 1 home run, knocking in 106 runs while scoring 85. Gleason would walk 26 times, steal 43 bases and be hit by the pitch three times. In 1898, his batting average would drop to .221, along with a slugging percentage of .253 and an on-base percentage of .278, as he would go 126 for 570 in 150 games. Gleason would record only 8 triples and 5 doubles, getting just 62 RBIs while scoring 78 runs. He would walk 39 times, steal 21 bases and be hit six times. The following season, 1899, Gleason's average would rise to .264, along with a slugging percentage of .302 and an on-base percentage of .293, as he would go 152 for 576 in 146 games. He would hit 14 doubles and 4 triples, collect 24 walks and steal 29 bases. In 1900, his last year as a Giant, Gleason's average would drop again, as he would hit .248, with a slugging percentage of .295 and an on-base percentage of .280, as he would go 104 for 420 in only 111 games. He would get 11 doubles, 3 triples and 1 home run, along with 17 walks, as he would steal 23 bases while being hit twice.
Before the start of the 1901 season, Gleason would jump to the upstart American League, becoming the Detroit Tigers' first starting second baseman. During the season, he would play in 135 games, going 150 for 547 with a .274 batting average, a .364 slugging percentage and a .327 on-base percentage. He would hit 16 doubles, 12 triples and three home runs, as he knocked in 75 RBIs while scoring 82 runs. Gleason would also walk 41 times while stealing 32 bases and being hit twice. He would be tied for the team lead in most games played with Jimmy Barrett, while being the team leader in at-bats and triples. In his second season as a Tiger, Gleason's batting average would drop to .247, with a .297 slugging percentage and a .292 on-base percentage as he would go 109 for 441 in 118 games. He would hit 11 doubles, four triples and one home run, knocking in 38 runners while crossing the plate 42 times, as he would also walk 25 times, steal 17 bases and be hit three times. After peace was made between the American and National Leagues, the Tigers would, on March 2, 1903, trade Gleason to the Giants for Heinie Smith. But, at some point between then and the start of the 1903 regular season, Gleason would be let go by the Giants, and then rejoined his old team, the Phillies, now as their starting second baseman.
During his first season back as a Phil, Gleason's batting average rebounded as he would go 117 for 412 in 106 games for a .284 average, with a .367 slugging percentage and a .326 on-base percentage. Kid would collect 19 doubles, six triples and 1 home run, knocking in 49 RBIs while scoring 65 runs, as he also walked 23 times, stole 12 bases and was hit by the pitch three times. The next year, 1904, he would appear in 153 games, going 161 for 587 for a .274 batting average, a .334 slugging percentage and a .319 on-base percentage. Gleason would get 23 doubles and six triples, as he knocked in 42 RBIs while crossing the plate 61 times, as he also walked 37 times, stole 17 bases and was hit twice. In that season, he would lead the Phillies in games played, at-bats and hits. 1905 would see the start of a slow decline, as Gleason, although playing in 155 games, would only go 150 for 608 as his battling average slides to .247, with a .303 slugging percentage and a .302 on-base percentage. He would get 17 doubles, 7 triples and 1 home run, as he would knock in 50 RBIs while scoring 95 runs. He would walk 45 times, while stealing 16 bases, and be hit by the pitch three times. Gleason would lead the club in at-bats while being tied with Ernie Courtney and Sherry Magee for the most games played. The following season, 1906, as he played in 136 games, he would only go 112 for 494 for a .227 batting average, a .269 slugging percentage and a .281 on-base percentage. Gleason would hit 17 doubles and two triples, knocking in 34 RBIs while scoring 47 runs. He would walk only 36 times while stealing 17 bases and being hit two times. In 1907, he would appear in just 36 games, going 18 for 126 for a .143 average, a .167 slugging percentage and a .200 on-base percentage, as he would hit only three doubles and six RBIs while scoring just 11 times. He would also receive just seven walks and steal only three bases. In his last year as a Phil, 1908, he would appear in just two games, going 0 for 1 with a .000 batting average. Between 1908 and 1911, Gleason would be in the minors, acting mainly as a player-manager, before being signed by the Chicago White Sox as a coach.
His first year as a coach, 1912, would also be the last time he would make an appearance on the field, as he would play in one game at second base, going 1 for 2 for a .500 batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.
During his twenty-two years as a pitcher and a player, Gleason would play in 1966 ballgames, going 1944 for 7452 for a career .261 batting average, a .317 slugging percentage and a .311 on-base percentage. He has a career total of 216 doubles, 80 triples, 15 home runs, 823 RBIs, 1020 runs scored, 500 walks, 328 stolen bases and been hit by the pitch 38 times, as he becomes one of the few players in major league history to play in four difference decades (1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s).
As the coach of the White Sox, starting in 1912, he watch the team land in fourth place in 1912, fifth in 1913, and sixth in 1914, before watching it rise to third place in 1915, second in 1916 and first place in 1917. In the 1917 World Series, the White Sox would face the National League Champion, the New York Giants, in a best of seven series. The White Sox would win the World Series over the Giants, 4-2, becoming the baseball champs for 1917, with him be given credit for much of the White Sox's success that season. (Here is a graphic showing the 1917 pennant race: http://www.baseballrace.com/races/MLB-1917-AL-Normal.asp) The following season, Gleason would be dropped as the team's coach. He would watch the White Sox drop down to sixth place during the war shortened season of 1918. Gleason would be called back by White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey, who would make him the team's manager for the 1919 season.
I will continue Gleason's story with the third and final part, which will look at the 1919 season, Gleason managerial career at the Black Sox Scandal and his years as a coach for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics.
Sources: Wikipedia, Baseball-reference.com, Retrosheet.org, The Delaware Valley Rhythm & Blues Society, Inc. (DVRBS.com), BaseballRace.com


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How Bad is Just One Bite?
Dopamine: why "just one bite" doesn't work
The science on food addiction has now established that highly palatable foods (low-nutrient, high-calorie, intensely sweet, salty, and/or fatty foods – those that make up the majority of the Standard American Diet) produces the exact biochemical effects in the brain that are characteristic of substance abuse.
Junk food is ubiquitously available, legal, cheap, and socially accepted; therefore, it becomes the drug of choice for many of us.
The following are some characteristics of addiction to a substance or behavior:
- Compulsive use of the substance despite negative health and social consequences
- Tolerance – over time, progressively greater amounts of the substance are needed to reach and maintain the "high"
- Withdrawal symptoms (link toxic hunger) when the substance is discontinued
- Activation of reward pathways (including the dopamine system) in the brain
Many of us have had the experience of tasting a junk food or dessert, and then feeling the intense demand from our brain: "MORE!" We feel a complete lack of control, and our commitment to excellent health all of a sudden doesn't matter. These feelings originate from the dopamine reward system – dopamine is a neurochemical that regulates motivation, pleasure, and reinforcement related to certain stimuli – such as food. The amount of pleasure we derive from eating a food correlates with the amount of dopamine released in the brain.
Obese individuals have a diminished number of dopamine receptors
Obese humans are known to have fewer dopamine receptors (called D2 receptors) compared to lean individuals –their reward response from food is not as sensitive and it is thought that they compensate by overeating.
Overeating blunts the dopamine reward response, encouraging more overeating
Why do obese individuals have lower numbers of dopamine receptors? In substance abuse, over time the brain adapts by downregulating dopamine receptors. It turns out the same happens in overeating.4 A 2011 study revealed that women who had gained a significant amount of weight over a 6-month period reduced their dopamine system response to palatable food over that time period. Similar reductions in the reward response to palatable foods have been reported in women with bulimia nervosa. These results suggest that overeating diminishes the reward from palatable food, driving further overeating and future weight gain.
Desire for highly palatable food is intensified in obese individuals and overeaters
Although actual dopamine reward is diminished in obese individuals compared to lean individuals, dopamine release in response to pictures of palatable food is actually enhanced.
In summary, recent research suggests that overeating and obesity cause greater desire for palatable food, but diminished reward from consuming palatable food – resulting in a progressively worsening addiction.
Our level of susceptibility to addictive behaviors varies by genetic predisposition and emotional state. Nevertheless, highly palatable food has physiologically addictive properties that will make almost anyone experience a lack of control. "Just one bite" doesn't work because that single bite activates the dopamine reward system, causing the brain to demand more. Willpower, logic, and common sense are no match for addictive drives. As with other addictions, recovery requires abstaining from the addictive substance. An alcoholic can't have "just one drink" without grave risk of relapse. The same is true for food addicts.
Natural plant foods are not as intensely sweet, salty, or fatty as the processed junk foods that are purposely engineered to excite our reward systems. Eating whole, natural foods provides enjoyment of taste without activating addictive drives.
Be vigilant this holiday season – stick to the foods that nourish you, and steer clear of any foods that cause you to lose control.
How Bad is JUST ONE BITE?
How To Lose Weight in Christmas Time?
Just One Bite can come back to bite you!
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7. Bohon C, Stice E: Reward abnormalities among women with full and subthreshold bulimia nervosa: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Int J Eat Disord 2011;44:585-595.


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Ian Russell (born 10 August 1965) is a rugby league player. His Rookie Year was 1988.
Ian Russell's toughness and creativity were essential to Illawarra's success in the early 1990s. Graded by the club in 1986, Russell was released to return to play with Mittagong in 1987 because of his poor form and attitude. He was invited back to the club in 1989 and, although he could not force his way into their top side at first, his deft ball skills and fine kicking game improved enormously at Illawarra and he was rewarded with a place in the NSW Country Origin team in 1991. Illawarra's Player of the Year in 1990-91, he also polled well in Rothmans Medal awards.
However his failure to take to the field because of a troublesome hamstring injury in the 1992 finals series was a major blow to the Steelers, but his talent did not go unnoticed receiving the 'Dally M' Lock of the Year. His injuries restricted his appearances over the next two years however and he signed on with the fresh North Queensland Cowboys for 1995. One of the Cowboys backbone players.


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SPL Wrap: St Johnstone and Hibs both slip up
Top-six hopefuls St Johnstone and Hibernian fell to Scottish Premiership defeats against Ross County and Partick Thistle respectively.
Sixth-placed St Johnstone had a chance to extend their advantage on Saturday when they faced County after Hibs had lost earlier in the day.
However, the Perth side failed to take that opportunity as Melvin de Leeuw's sixth goal of the season gave Ross County all three points at McDiarmid Park.
That result will frustrate Hibs boss Terry Butcher even more after his side slumped 3-1 away.
Chris Erskine gave Partick the lead two minutes before half-time and Lee Mair doubled their advantage on the hour.
Mair's strike seemed to spark Hibs into life and, when Duncan Watmore halved the deficit, a comeback looked on, but the visitors were unable to find a second goal and Kallum Higginbotham scored a late third to seal the win.
Dundee United are fourth after battling from two goals behind to secure a thrilling 3-2 victory over St Mirren at Tannadice Park.
Paul McGowan and Steven Thompson had put the visitors ahead inside 40 minutes before Brian Graham struck his fourth goal of the campaign with 11 minutes left to trigger the fightback.
Stuart Armstrong levelled five minutes later and Nadir Ciftci secured a memorable victory with the winner in the final minute.


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Pratt & Whitney Chief Operating Officer Paul Adams Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Pratt & Whitney Chief Operating Officer (COO) Paul Adams was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the NAE announced Feb. 7. This honor is among the highest professional distinctions for an engineer.
Adams is among 69 new members elected to the NAE and was chosen "for leadership and innovation for gas turbine engines, especially the Geared Turbofan™," according to the organization. The new members will be inducted on Oct. 6, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
Adams joins Alan Epstein, Pratt & Whitney vice president of Technology & Environment, and former Pratt & Whitney Presidents Steve Finger, James O'Connor and Dick Coar, and former P&W Senior Vice President of Engineering Ed Crow and former Executive Vice President of Engineering & Technology Bernard Koff as current NAE members.
In 2012, Adams was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering for his technical leadership in the engineering development and production of game-changing technological products such as Pratt & Whitney's PurePower® Geared Turbofan™ engine. He also received the 2012 American Society of Mechanical Engineering Computers & Information in Engineering Leadership Award for advancing the use of computers and information in engineering.
Adams was appointed COO in January 2013. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience in program management and engineering with extensive global experience in the aircraft engine industry. Prior to becoming COO, he was the senior vice president of Operations & Engineering, where he led new product development, technology strategy, manufacturing operations and supply chain management.


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I grab the bag of popcorn from Ian, intent on salvaging what little hasn't reached his mouth yet. He protests but only half-chewed kernels sputter out of his mouth, so full is it. Peering into the now grease-stained bag, I see a disparate mix of khaki and orange — the Chicago mix of caramel and cheese "" that has more of the former than the latter.
"You finished all the cheese!" I accuse Ian, my eyes boring holes into him.
"I did not!" he replies defiantly, arms crossing over his weight-room-enhanced chest, oily-orange fingers neon signs of guilt.
"Well, what good is it if I don't have cheese along with the caramel?" I shoot back.
And that, as you can see, is the whole idea behind Chicago-style popcorn.
Until I meet friends and business partners Oliver Ong and Rory Johnson, co-founders of Chicago Popcorn Shops, I don't realize that popcorn isn't just popcorn. Even when I visit the ever-famous Garrett's Popcorn in Chicago, I didn't realize the travesty I'd committed in daring to compare it to Poppycock and its mass produced ilk. Now I know better and this popcorn pair has set me straight.
"Popcorn is part of Chicago culture," Rory explains. In the States, October is rightfully National Popcorn Poppin' Month because of the popcorn harvests which take place each fall (in the Midwest). In fact, it may not be a coincidence that most U.S. popcorn is grown in the Midwest – Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri. Back in the little shop, Rory looms over me, the popcorn professor in the flesh, standing tall and authoritative. "Kids, when they walk home from school, [they] gotta have their "˜carmel' and cheese popcorn. Carmel and cheese, that's the Chicago mix."
I may know it as "caramel" popcorn but to these two Chicagoans, it's "carmel." Even the way they say the word, so gently, almost lovingly, is indicative of its importance, and the way this golden substance is cooked carefully to achieve its superlative bronze sheen.
When they first came to the Philippines two years ago, Oliver and Rory admit they were amused with the popcorn flavors available locally. "Sour cream! Strawberry! Good flavors but it's not what I do," Rory exclaims, his voice incredulous, his hands raised in mock surrender. "I only do "˜carmel' and cheese."
As Rory and I talk, Oliver is busy scooping the finished popcorn into airtight containers positioned under the counter. When an order comes in for 50/50 (half caramel, half cheese or whatever the customer's preference may be) scoops of each flavor are alternately poured into the tin or paper bag followed by a good shake right before the tin is closed or the bag sealed. If you're lucky enough to be in the store when they cool the caramel popcorn on the stainless steel cooling table, you're in for quite a show. "Our "˜carmel' isn't just splashed on," says Oliver. "We 'carmelize' and then coat each kernel. And our popcorn is air-popped."
Oliver and Rory had to adjust their caramel recipe to work with Manila's climate and humidity. Despite the challenge, their ebullience is evident coupled with their insistence on popcorn done properly. "Ingredients matter, the process matters," Oliver says. "This is handcrafted popcorn. We're literally crafting this by hand," echoes Rory. The two touch on their mantra of "making it fresh, keeping it local," their commitment to using great local ingredients as much as possible; already, they're huge fans of Philippine sugar.
Chicago-style or even Chicago popcorn achieves a precarious balance that's salty-sweet and boasts impeccable texture. It's caramel that rings true with notes of deep brown sugar and butter, and cheese that's worlds away from the "splash and shake" variety. Though he refused to reveal much, Oliver confirms that they don't use cheese powder.
When you visit Chicago Popcorn Shops, choose your desired ratio of salty-sweet (Chicago Mix), or go for the Plain, Butter, Karamel Krisp or Cheese. Prices range from P20-P65 for a Single, P40-P120 for a Double and P280 for a tin, which I highly recommend. If you bring the tin back on your next visit you can refill it for just P200 (an introductory offer). I promise you that you'll finish half the tin and you won't even know it "" or want to share. All you'll be left with are your cheesy-sweet fingers to lick clean.
Chicago Popcorn Shops
2/F Entertainment Mall (new wing near the Science Discovery Center)
Mall of Asia, Pasay City
(0908) 448.6127
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The PanaVise 705 Universal Holder and InDash custom bracket provides the ultimate in a secure, attractive looking solution for holding an iPod, iPhone, smartphone, GPS, or any other portable electronic device in a vehicle. The rotating jaws and swivel base allow the screen to be positioned at nearly any angle for best viewing. With over 4,000 vehicle applications available, an InDash custom fit vehicle specific bracket is available for most vehicles for the last 10 years- call us to determine the proper part number for your year/make/model vehicle. If a phone is unavailable or your order is placed after our regular business hours, please include your vehicle information in the comment area of the order form.
Features: • The perfect holder for today's smaller electronics including iPod, iPod nano and iPhone mobile digital devices, cell phones, Blackberrys, MP3 players, and handheld GPS units • Closed, the sure-grip jaws are only 1.3 inches wide • Fully open, the jaws are 2.4 inches wide • Easy-to-use: squeeze the jaws closed for a secure fit; open them with the quick-release button • Jaws are 1" tall and covered in soft rubber – won't scratch the electronics • Built-in Tipper™ tilts 30° in all directions; rotates 360°


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One would think that a 400 hp Mitsubishi Evo IX would have little competition when pulling away from a traffic light. Certainly not the kind of competition that leaves it standing like a sloth observing a Saturn V. Yet that is exactly the kind of competition offered by a certain rear-wheel drive GT-R in this video, shot from the Evo.
It is all slightly surreal. A friend of a friend of a friend sort of story pegs the Nissan at 1,000 hp before toned down for driveability to the current 650 hp, but that is all I know. Hungarians shmungarians.


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5 Tumblrs We're Enjoying This Week: Cute, Stylish Asian Women and More
This is an outstanding edition of "5 Tumblrs…" We're sure you will enjoy! As always, share yours in the comment section, and if you're new to Tumblr and in need of some to follow, we've got quite a few here for you to subscribe to.
From Asia With Love – If you like cute, stylish Asian women, this is your one-stop destination.
Isaora – Nice little blog from the folks at Isaora.
Plain White Tank– A blog showing the plain white tank a ton of love.
The Crispy – "Extra crispy like a 2-piece outta Popeye's." – Kia Shine.
Museum Musings – A dash of the arts for this week's edition.


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May Apple and Peony salad/dessert plate.
Oscar de la Renta frequently washes his runway looks with floral prints, but many might not realize he is actually an avid gardener and extremely knowledgable about botany. This Spring, de la Renta is tapping into his passion for cultivatation and revitalizing blooms from a historical garden. In collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden, he has replanted florals from the institution's extensive archives, an impressive collection of rare books and original engravings, onto 15 tabletop and entertaining pieces. Peonies and may apple blossoms are growing on dinner plates, and dahlias, magnolias and gardenias sprouting up on paperweights and bottle stoppers. He's even whimsically reconstructed architectural structures like trellises onto trays and tablecloths, and greenhouses into salt and pepper shakers.
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It's official. California's courts are in crisis.
Joe Dunn, a former state senator from Orange County who is now executive director of the California State Bar, puts it this way: "Our state judiciary is being economically starved to death. We're at a point where it's reasonable to ask whether recovery is even possible."
Dunn's comments reflect a legitimate worry about California's aging courts, already groaning with a top-heavy caseload, and whether more cuts will bury the notion of timely justice.
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When it comes to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed $8 billion budget cuts, most of the attention goes to public education, universities, and social service programs like Medi-Cal and child care.
That's understandable. Teachers are popular. Lawyers are not.
But the court crisis, while not as visible, should be distressing to anyone who values the idea of access to the courts.
"The proposed cuts to the judicial branch are both devastating and disheartening," said state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. "They will seriously compromise the public's access to their courts and our ability to provide equal access to justice throughout the state."
Consider the logjam that now exists. More than a million civil lawsuits are filed every year in California. And those take a back seat to criminal cases.
Now, with courts looking at layoffs and closing courtrooms, it's not hard to imagine how bad the backlog of cases is going to get.
Last year, California's courts were cut by $350 million. This year, the governor is proposing another $540 million cut, stopping construction of projects to replace rundown court buildings.
There are plenty of complaints about spending cuts out there, but the financial ruin the courts find themselves in deserves some long-overdue attention.
Kevin Riggs is an Emmy-winning former TV journalist in Sacramento. He is currently Senior Vice President at Randle Communications.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The influenza vaccine may not be as effective for those who are obese as it is for others, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers suggest.
The findings, published online in the International Journal of Obesity, provide evidence explaining a phenomenon first noticed during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak -- obesity is associated with an impaired immune response to the influenza vaccination in humans.
"These results suggest that overweight and obese people would be more likely than healthy weight people to experience flu illness following exposure to the flu virus," senior author Melinda Beck, a professor and associate chair of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, said in a statement. "Previous studies have indicated the possibility that obesity might impair the human body's ability to fight flu viruses. These new findings seem to give us a reason why obese people were more susceptible to influenza illness during the H1N1 pandemic compared to healthy weight people."
Influenza vaccine antibody levels decline significantly in obese people compared to healthy weight individuals and a type of white blood cell are defective in heavier people.
Beck and colleagues studied people at a clinic who had been vaccinated in late 2009 with the common flu vaccine for that fall and winter season.
Although obese, overweight and healthy weight individuals all developed antibodies to flu viruses within the first month after vaccination, the antibody levels in the blood declined more rapidly in obese and overweight individuals, the study said.


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(Bloomberg ) Carnegie Mellon University has filed papers requesting an increase of a $1.7 billion patent infringement damages award against Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
The school said in several filings yesterday the court should consider tripling the damages for willful infringement, Carnegie Mellon is also arguing that Marvell should pay ongoing royalties of as much as $1.50 for every chip sold after July 29, 2012, and Marvell should be ordered to stop selling chips that infringe the disputed patents.
"Marvell has been willfully infringing CMU's patents for more than a decade, and it and its founders have reaped enormous profits from this misconduct," the school said in a filing.
Marvell has pledged to challenge the verdict, which came down Dec. 26.
Carnegie Mellon filed suit in federal court in Pittsburgh in March 2009. It claimed that Marvell infringed two patents, issued in 2001 and 2002, that cover ways to detect data stored on a computer's hard-disk drive by filtering out noise or unwanted electrical signals. The school in court papers claimed that at least nine types of Marvell's circuits use its inventions.
The case is Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group Ltd., 09-cv-290, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh).
'This American Life' Warns That 'This American Whore' Infringes
Producers of "This American Life," a program broadcast on National Public Radio, have sent cease-and-desist notices to a San Francisco sex worker over her use of "This American Whore" for her podcasts, SF Weekly reported.
Siouxsie Q, who created the podcasts, said that in January she began getting warning e-mails from lawyers representing Chicago Public Radio and "This American Life" host Ira Glass, according to the newspaper.
She told SF Weekly that many who follow her on Twitter Inc.'s messaging service have told her that the name "This American Whore" is worth fighting for.
The newspaper reported that Apple Inc.'s iTunes music store began listing Siouxsie Q's podcasts as "This American W***e" even before she started receiving trademark-infringement warnings from Chicago Public Radio.
Dish 'Racecar' May Deliver Content to Pay-Television Subscribers
Dish Network Corp., the satellite pay-television service, has filed an application to register "racecar" as a trademark.
According to the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Englewood, Colorado-based company said it plans to use the mark for modems, routers, the transmission of digital data and signals, satellite dishes, smartphones, and access to the Internet for use in wireless communications systems.
The application was filed Feb. 6 on Dish's behalf by Ian L. Saffer of Atlanta's Kilpatrick Stockton & Townsend LLP.
Ron Paul Asks WIPO for Control Over RonPaul.com Domain Name
Former U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul has filed a trademark complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Paul is asking WIPO for control over the RonPaul.Org and RonPaul.Com Internet domain names. According to his Feb. 7 filing, the names were registered in bad faith and he didn't authorize them. He said the sites are being used to sell "Ron Paul" merchandise that competes with his merchandise sales.
He said in his filing that an offer was made to sell him the domain names for $848,000, "an exorbitant amount of money." So far he hasn't filed any other legal action with respect to the domain names, according to his petition.
The operators of the websites sent Paul a letter telling him they secured the domain names "to make sure they would not fall into enemy hands." They said their sites were part of their grassroots support for the candidate and that they had "put our lives on hold and invested 4.5 years of our life into you."
The website operators said they have T-shirt designs and social media accounts linked to the domain names, and if they are forced to give them up, "such an abrupt change would lead to chaos on the Internet and -- at least temporarily -- disrupt the message of liberty."
Youku Tudou Says Xunlei's Infringement Suit is Publicity Grab
Youku Tudou Inc., China's biggest online video site, has responded to copyright infringement claims made by a Chinese competitor, The Next Web news site reported.
Xunlei Ltd. is claiming that Youku Tudou has on its site 13 movies and television programs to which it has no right, according to Next Web.
Beijing-based Youku Tudou said it has agreements with all the major content producers and characterized Xunlei's infringement claims as a quest for publicity, according to Next Web.
The infringement case hasn't yet been accepted by the court, which is in recess for the Chinese New Year celebrations, Next Web reported.
Retraction Watch Says It's Accused of Infringing Own Copyrights
A website that tracks scientific papers that have been retracted said it's received 10 takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act over posts about Anil Potti, a cancer researcher who has had 19 papers retracted. The takedown notices went to San Francisco's Automattic Inc., which owns the WordPress service that hosts the blog.
Retraction Watch said all of the requests came from a single source, NewsBulet.In, which, according to its takedown requests, claims to be "a famous news firm in India."
According to Retraction Watch, the content about the researcher that the Indian source claims is infringing does appear on the NewsBulet.In website.
"If you click on any of the NewsBulet.In URLs provided in the takedown notice, you will indeed find the text -- and images -- from ten of our posts about Anil Potti. But as will be abundantly clear to anyone who does so that our text was placed on NewsBulet.In, not the other way around," Retraction Watch said in a blog posting.
Retraction Watch said that NewsBulet.In has it backwards. "NewsBulet.In is violating our copyright; we are not violating theirs," according to Retraction Watch's posting.
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Columbia, Entro Settle Trade Secrets Dispute for $1.1 Million
Columbia Industries Inc., a maker of equipment and machinery used in oil and gas fields, settled a trade secrets case it brought against competitor Entro Industries.
Entro, based in Hillsboro, Oregon, as is Columbia, was accused of trade-secret theft, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment. The suit was filed in February 2012 in Oregon state court.
According to a Columbia statement, it accepted a $1.1 million payment from Entro to settle the dispute.
In its statement, Entro said that the suit was dismissed in its entirety by a Washington County, Oregon, court. The settlement "allows Entro to put the claimant's issues behind us and to move ahead," company President Shawn Smith said in the statement. He said the court didn't place any restriction on "on what we can do for current and future customers." Smith was a co-defendant with his company in the suit.
Iran Claims to Be Producing Clones of Boeing-Built Drone
Iran claims it has produced copies of the U.S. ScanEagle drones, according to Fars News Agency of Iran.
The Iranian drones are based on a ScanEagle built by the Boeing Co. and captured by that country's military forces, according to Fars.
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, told Fars that the cloned Boeing drone is now in production, and photos of the production line have been released.
Previously the Iranian military shot down a US RQ-170 drone made by Lockheed Martin Corp., Fars reported.


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A raccoon family snapped the branches of my champagne grape vine. An aloof line of tomcats sent my spayed indoor cat into regular hissy fits. The oh-wah-hoo call of mourning doves was often a prelude to streaks of white poo plopping down on my patio.
My house was unfenced, so these territorial violations were expected. These creatures were part and parcel to suburban life and I wasn't in the business of running a medieval fiefdom. It was pleasant--quaint, even--to have a mowed/unmowed border between me and my neighbors. The only start-and-stop lines between our separate properties were higher and lower grass levels, depending on which one of us was lagging on mowing that week.
But then a Frisbee hit the side of my house. A semi-deflated football thumped against my garage the next day. A tennis ball bounced off the gutter the week after. I drew the line when a Wilson basketball nearly busted my bedroom window.
I stepped outside as a friendly show of force. I went out with an exasperated smile on my face, but a dog ran right at me, skid to a halt only a few feet away, and then hunched down, ears flattened, and growled.
"Haha, uhhh," I said, about as nervous as I sounded. I noticed the basketball had teeth marks scraped into its dimpled skin. I rolled the basketball gingerly back towards the dog. The dog didn't move.
"Sorry about that," the teenage neighbor boys said. "Come here, Kujo. Come on!"
That night my wife and I drew up schematics over the dinner table. It was time to build a fence. We sketched a scale rendition of our yard and the neighbors' yard. We drew a thick dotted line between the two. My wife and I looked at each other and nodded under the yellow light of our dining table.
According to the encyclopedia built into Sid Meier's Civilization video games (the "Civilopedia" it's called), building walls is an early technology for a player to acquire. Walls can be built in the ancient era, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 BC. So why was it after 2,000 AD in the real world and I hadn't exploited this seemingly simple technological advancement? When my house's foundation was laid in 1984, whose bright idea was it to leave out a fence?
No longer, I said to myself. I scanned the Civilopedia for directions. It apparently cost "100 hammers" to build and "1 gold coin" to maintain. I didn't know how that translated into real-world terms, but I understood perfectly the "5.0" it added to defense.
The local utility company showed up 48 hours after my phone call. They spray painted a neon dotted line between our property and the neighbors'. It looked exactly like my wife and I had drawn up. "Hey, guys," I said when my neighbors answered the door. "Building a fence. Hope that's, uh. Cool?" "Sure," one of the teenage boys said. Kujo's head was lodged between the boy's knee and the door jam.
"Are we digging the postholes?" my wife asked me later that evening. I wanted to make myself explicitly clear: "I watched my dad dig postholes once. Screw that," I said. A fence-building company showed up the next day. They dug postholes and set the posts in concrete. "Thanks," I said, once they were done. "I watched my dad dig postholes once." I thought this knowledge explained everything. "I'll handle the slats, though," I said. Again, I imagined this was somehow a huge relief for the posthole diggers. "Oh," they said. Then they left. Another 48 hours went by and a delivery truck dropped off a palette of fence slats. My wife and I grabbed a box of screws, a power screwdriver, and commenced work.
"The fence looks great. Really good," the boys next door said the next day. "Thanks," I said. At least they weren't taking it personally that I'd drawn a hard line between us. That short exchange, however, had been one of the longest and most civil conversations we'd had in our two years as neighbors. "We didn't do the posts, though." I felt the need to clarify that. "Oh," the boys said. "Well, looks great. Really good."
According to the Civilopedia, walls increase a city's defense strength, making the city more difficult to capture. My addendum to that Civilopedia entry: decreases intrusion from roaming bands of raccoons, stray cats, and basketball-chewing dogs named after Stephen King novels. Lowe's didn't have provisions for creating a surface-to-air defense against mourning doves, so the poop-from-above would continue, but I think we were making marked improvements overall.
Architectural defense increased with each plank, to be sure, but my own defensiveness decreased at the exact same rate. I had expected my comfort zone to swell within my own borders, and that was happening, but I hadn't expected the idea that building a fence would make me think, hey, maybe these boys next door weren't so bad. They were just engaging in backyard sports after all. And they had a single mom. I'd never seen a dad come around. Their own home defense might be on the thin side. On that note, maybe Kujo was just doing his job, too.
Months before the Great Fence Building Project of 2011, I'd seen those teenage boys crawl out of their bedroom window. One of them was holding a bong. They'd built a makeshift shelf just outside of their bedroom window whose sole purpose was to, apparently, hold the bong. The shelf's odd location was perhaps a loophole in their mother's keep-it-out-of-the-house rule, because she'd had to have seen the curious bong shelf when mowing the lawn.
I'd never said anything to their mom about the bong shelf. All I did was shut my windows whenever I noted the obvious difference in smell between fresh cut grass and marijuana wafting through the air. I think it was marijuana. Never did drugs. It appeared their juvenile delinquency had won out over my pharmacological naivety.
My tolerance was lower for those types of intrusions, though, and had led to the final decision of building a fence. Wild animals were one thing. Neighbors were another. So, all those months ago, I'd gradually stopped saying "Hi" to those boys and their mother. I'd made sure I didn't check the mail at the same time as they did. I'd taken the trash and recycle bins out to the curb early each week, hoping I wouldn't see them doing the same thing. It's possible I acted like I hadn't recognized them in the cereal aisle at Safeway--a couple times.
Nobody will hate you more than your own neighbor. And I was that guy. So it had definitely been time to draw the line, so to speak. The owners before me had survived without one, but not this failing neighborhood watchman. I had a brand new baby in my home, and Kujo hadn't exactly gotten any friendlier during subsequent run-ins. Kujo had decided that my yard was his yard, and I'd done nothing to prove otherwise. But, as the Civilopedia clearly stated, "people have constructed defensive works…to keep their enemies away from their food, wealth, women, and children."
I'm just glad that building a fence made me realize that my neighbors were no longer my enemies.
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|Oct 18th, 2010 10:00 PM
|moon > parnassus? yeh right
|Jun 20th, 2010 11:23 AM
|That doesn't surprise me at all to hear that the horrible ending was Spielberg's fault. I wrote a review of the film shortly after watching it (I'm saving it until the Halloween season to post here), and if memory serves I think I may have theorized that the theater ending was a Spielberg idea.
|Jun 17th, 2010 10:00 AM
I have to point out that the cinema release of Paranormal Activity was fucked about with by once-talented-but-now-pathetic Stephen Spielberg; it was HE who put the crappy ending on. I have the DVD and you get both versions of the film; I watched the original (billed as "alternative" version, and the end makes much more sense, is much scarier and reveals the 'foreshadowing' at the beginning of the film.
Spielberg and Lucas and all those other talentless millionaires should just leave well alone the fucktards!
|Apr 16th, 2010 05:17 AM
|I just saw Moon, and I wanted to say thanks for the heads up. I don't know how I missed any mention of this movie before I read your article, but well worth the 90 min. run time.
|Mar 27th, 2010 10:50 AM
|In Protoclown's defence, the Rock actually is a good actor.
|Mar 27th, 2010 02:12 AM
|Rufus the Perturbed
Proto, I've gotta say I'm a little disappointed, but only because you called the Rock a talented actor. I'll agree that he's improved a bit since The Scorpion King, but that's not saying much. Other than that, it's a good list, although I think Michael Bay was a better villian (since he wasn't acting; he really is EVIL). I do agree with you about Moon, though, it was pretty damn good.
Oh, yeah, and testtube? Did you notice how I gave my opinion without throwing out any personal insults? You should try that sometime. Oh, and you're an asshole. Yay, hypocrisy!!!
|Mar 18th, 2010 11:23 AM
|More good reasons why I hardly go to the movies anymore...
|Mar 18th, 2010 02:03 AM
|Moon was an awesome movie! Good call on that one!
|Mar 17th, 2010 06:48 PM
|The Leader
|Because he thinks the rock is a good actor. An outrage, I say!
|Mar 16th, 2010 03:33 PM
|Wow, why the Protoclown hatred?
|Mar 16th, 2010 02:22 AM
|Mister Tea
We're just filling you in since you'd never heard of it, Proto. And for District 9, you can always invent an award for "Best movie with a nine in the title," because there was definitely more than one of those last year.
Oh, and neoboman: Some of us have these things called "younger siblings." They're very much like those small, high-voiced people you often see out and about, except they're related to us. That's how we know what children's books are. They also let us know that LEGO exists.
|Mar 14th, 2010 11:37 PM
How about best underrated actor award for Sam Rockwell for both Moon and Gentlemen Broncos.
Oh, and I totally wish Liam Neeson was my daddy.
|Mar 14th, 2010 12:19 PM
Aw, testtube! You say the sweetest things!
And guys, I'm sure Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs might be well worth viewing--it's simply the title that I think is stupid, and that's what I gave it the award for.
As for District 9, it was enjoyable, but I just never thought of an award to give to it.
|Mar 14th, 2010 04:53 AM
|Relaxing Dragon
Lotta good stuff in this article. Thank you for the bit on Moon, that was a fantastic movie that needs more love (I don't quite like Dr. Parnassus as much, but it's still good). I was one of the folks who loved Watchmen, but I can understand where you're coming from in regards to it (I wouldn't recommend it to folks who hadn't read the book either). And kudos to loving Fantastic Mr. Fox, that was my favorite animated movie of the year as well.
Also, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is based on an old kids book of the same name, and is quite good. Give it a chance. Ditto Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, for the reason of having an absolutely insane Nicholas Cage in it.
Now then... no mention of District 9? No award for it? For shame.
|Mar 13th, 2010 09:22 PM
|Protoclown is a scab on the ass of an otherwise great website. Middle of the road dullard.
|Mar 13th, 2010 09:00 PM
Well, a third Alvin and The Chipmuinks Movie has been announced and it's going to be in 3-D(I think it's the Thursday post on that link).
Also, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was fantastic, and I've never, EVER consider the Rock a talented actor. Ever.
|Mar 13th, 2010 06:36 PM
|I didn't see any of these movies. Actually, I only went to the cinema once this year. The movie? Defiance.
|Mar 12th, 2010 08:45 PM
|Kilgore Cod
|Up was truly depressing.
|Mar 12th, 2010 03:23 AM
|Tetsu Deinonychus
Well, the origin story for Saya was a little cliché (especially compared to her origin in Blood+), and the fights were a little Matrix-y, (which would be fine except the original anime kept the fights realistic and avoided the usual "anime fight scenes" that inspired matrix-style fights), but other than that, I thought it was pretty good.
It's a decent expansion of the original anime short-film, and translates well to live-action.
It's not as good as the original, and I still think the best version of the character is Blood+, but IMO it was damned entertaining.
And, I never heard of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs before the movie ads, either. I heard something about it being a book, though.
|Mar 12th, 2010 12:58 AM
Great list as usual. Only bad thing was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Unless you're super young or super old, how have you not heard of that. And Coraline freaking rules.
Also, my pick for "best movie that nobody saw" is the live action version of Blood: The Last Vampire.
|Mar 12th, 2010 12:57 AM
|Man, I loved the G.I. Joe movie.
|Mar 12th, 2010 12:33 AM
|Mister Tea
|Screw that. I can't wait for the Rifftrax for New Moon! The one they did for the first movie was an absolute riot.
|Mar 11th, 2010 07:54 PM
I have to agree with greenimp. New Moon was friggin hilarious. especially when you go with a group of friends and riff on it the entire time.
Cant wait for the last film.
|Mar 11th, 2010 04:10 PM
|Tetsu Deinonychus
Agree with everything, except "best animated film". I thought Coraline was freaking amazing!
Also, my pick for "best movie that nobody saw" is the live action version of Blood: The Last Vampire.
|Mar 11th, 2010 11:40 AM
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