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The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).There comes a moment in everyone's life when we are called upon to make a difference. In Transformers: The Last Knight, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.
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2 hr. 30 min.
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Rated PG-13 for violence and intense sequences of sci-fi action, language, and some innuendoCastMark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Jerrod CarmichaelDirectorMichael BayWriterMatt Holloway
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The real stars of Richard Linklater's "Bernie" are, unquestionably, the townspeople of Carthage, Texas.
In documentary-like interviews, the East Texas locals (a mix of real Carthage folk and Texas actors) fill the film from start to finish - a gang of colorful gossips whose heavy accents and wry prattle essentially narrate "Bernie."
What drives their fascination is the true-life tale of a mannered, devout mortician, Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), who in 1997 was arrested for killing elderly millionaire heiress Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). The remarkable thing about the case is just how out of character such an act is for Tiede.
As Black plays him, he's cartoonishly cheerful - not just a churchgoing man, but a member of the choir and just about every other community group. He's beloved around town, especially among, as one townsperson terms it, the "DOLs" (dear old ladies).
Even Nugent, who is as bitterly grim as Tiede is hopelessly bright, eventually allows Tiede into her life. He becomes her companion and manservant, filing her toe nails and reading her Reader's Digest.
Her possessiveness (MacLaine is hardened as never before) eventually cracks Tiede who, in a moment of fury that astounds even him, shoots her in the back. The fallout brings in the smooth, self-promoting district attorney Danny Buck Davidson (Matthew McConaughey, perfectly cast).
The script was co-written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth, whose 1998 Texas Monthly article is the basis of the film. There's a tension of real life and fiction, and a pervading sense that fiction has little chance of matching the real thing.
"You cannot have grief tragically become comedy," Tiede advises while teaching the art of embalming - specifically, how to form a slight smile on the deceased.
"Bernie" never quite rises to full comedy, but remains locked in a state of satirical curiosity, marveling at its own contradictions. Black, who memorably starred in Linklater's "School of Rock," never gives in to a punch line, but his grand, absurdist performance is much closer to parody than realism.
With his pants pulled high on his round frame, a dark mustache, and his incredible jumping eyebrows, Black effeminately strolls through the film. Tielde is portrayed as a closeted gay man, or as one Carthage citizen explains, "That dog don't hunt."
Often, maybe too often, he's singing, whether "Amazing Grace" at a funeral or "Love Lifted Me," full-throated while driving alone. But seeing Black, in full musical regalia, earnestly belt out "Seventy-six Trombones" can only be considered a pleasure.
One wishes "Bernie" submitted fully to dark satire and shed its milder tone. But it also could be that the film works better as a curiosity - a dark comedy that's not entirely dark and not quite a comedy, either.
Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles," `'Dazed and Confused") has by now amassed one of the more varied filmographies in contemporary American movies, and most everything he makes is worth seeing.
"Bernie" is his Preston Sturges comedy, an ode to small town Texas life. The town isn't appalled by Tiede's act; on the contrary, they're sympathetic. Tiede, after all, was a great neighbor and, to them, civil society is so prized as to outweigh a little ol' thing like murder.


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Rich cultural heritage, fascinating history, and beautiful landscapes make Poland an interesting place to discover. This brilliant getaway begins in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Explore the port city of Gdansk, capital of Amber, and visit nearby Torun, where Copernicus was born and which boasts an impressive Teutonic Knights' castle. Spend a night in romantic Poznan, then stop at the historic Jasna Góra monastery with its Black Madonna. Spend two nights in Kraków, with guided sightseeing featuring the Market Square, Wawel Hill, St. Mary's Church, and more. Visit the Auschwitz concentration camp, a chilling reminder of the Holocaust, then return to Warsaw for two overnights and the end of this fascinating vacation.
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Check into your hotel. The rest of the day is free to explore the Polish capital. In the early evening, meet your Tour Director and fellow travellers.
Today's included sightseeing tour with a Local Guide is an excellent introduction to Warsaw. Magnificently reconstructed after WWII, Warsaw is a rich tapestry of nearly every European architectural style, from gothic to neoclassical, with wide, modern avenues in striking contrast to the narrow lanes of the old section. Continue to Gdansk on the Baltic Sea, which were one of the most important Hanseatic cities in the 14th and 15th centuries. (B,D)
One of the most important shipping ports in Northern Europe, Gdansk (formerly known by its German name, Danzig) is the birthplace of "Solidarity," the Polish trade union that revolutionised Polish modern politics. Sightseeing this morning with your Local Guide introduces you to the city's past and present. Later, spend some time exploring on your own, or join the optional excursion to the town of Malbork, founded in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights. Visit its gothic Marienburg Castle, one of the most striking fortified castles in Europe and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (B,D)
First stop today is medieval Torun on the Vistula River, birthplace of renaissance astronomer Copernicus and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your Local Guide will introduce you to the many captivating highlights, including the STAROWKA Old Town with the ruins of a 13th-century Teutonic Knights' castle as well as many samples of gothic architecture. Head west to Poznan, one of the country's oldest cities and a part of Polish history for the past 1,000 years. This afternoon, discover the main attractions on your included city sightseeing with a Local Guide. (B,D)
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Humans the main cause of glacier melt worldwide
Since 1990, humans have been the primary cause of melting glaciers worldwide, says a study out Thursday in the journal Science.
Researchers found that, in the past two decades, about two-thirds of the world's glacier loss was due to rising temperatures from the burning of greenhouse gases, along with land-use changes.
"In our data we find unambiguous evidence of anthropogenic (human-caused) contribution to glacier mass loss," said study lead author Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Glaciers in North America and the Alps seem to be more prone to human-caused melt than others around the world, Marzeion reported.
The world's glaciers have been steadily melting since the mid-1800s, but before 1990, most of the melting — about 75% — had been due to natural causes.
"In the 19th and first half of the 20th century we observed that glacier mass loss attributable to human activity is hardly noticeable, but since then has steadily increased," said Marzeion.
Why should we care? Glacial ice loss has been a major cause of sea-level rise during the 20th century, to the tune of about an inch every two decades.
Additionally, glaciers store about 75% of the world's freshwater, and people living in arid climates near mountains often rely on glacial melt for their water for part of the year, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.
Also, the study notes that "glacier retreat often leads to the destabilization of mountain slopes and the formation of unstably dammed meltwater lakes, increasing the risk of rockslides and catastrophic outburst floods."
Marzeion and his colleagues used computer models to simulate the evolution of most of the world's glaciers and could identify how much melting was natural vs. man-caused. After sifting out natural causes such as solar variability and volcanic eruptions, what was left was due to humans.
"This study makes perfect sense," said Pennsylvania State University glacier expert Richard Alley, who wasn't part of the research. "The authors have quantified what I believe most scientists would have expected."
Not all of the human-caused melting is due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, but climate change is the biggest factor, said Ted Scambos, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
A separate paper published this week by the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported that glaciers in Tibet were at their warmest in the past 2,000 years.
Yet another study, out Wednesday in the journal Earth System Dynamics, found that Antarctic glacial loss could increase global levels of sea water by as much as 14 inches this century.
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text: National MS Society-funded study suggests balance/ eye movement training improves fatigue, balance and other symptoms in people with MS March 22, 2012 A recent controlled study suggests that a 6-week balance and eye movement-focused exercise program improved balance, reduced fatigue, and reduced disability due to dizziness or disequilibrium in a group of people with MS, lasting for at least 4 weeks following supervised training. Larger and longer studies are needed to determine how long the benefits last, and which people with MS would be most likely to respond to the training program. The study, by Jeffrey Hebert, PT, PhD (University of Colorado, Aurora) and colleagues, was reported in the journal Physical Therapy in August, 2011 and was partially funded by a pilot research grant from the National MS Society. Background: Fatigue and impaired balance are two common and troublesome symptoms experienced by people with MS. Current treatments vary greatly in effectiveness. This study is the first to examine the effects of an exercise program involving balance and eye movement training – or "vestibular rehabilitation" -- in people with MS to see if it improves both fatigue and balance. The study: For this controlled study, 38 people with MS were divided into three groups: one group did not participate in an exercise program and only received normal MS medical care; one group participated in a general exercise program involving endurance and stretching; and one group participated in the vestibular rehabilitation program specifically designed to improve balance. The endurance and stretching exercises included bicycle riding and exercise designed to stretch various muscles. The vestibular rehabilitation program included balance exercises on various surfaces (firm surface, foam cushion, trampoline, tiltboard), arm movements while kneeling, head movements on a trampoline and while fixating on different objects, ball catching while walking. The vestibular rehabilitation program also included 3 types of eye movement exercises. Both exercise programs were performed for 60 minutes twice a week in the clinic. A daily home exercise program, consisting of a subset of exercises performed in the clinic, was also assigned to each participant. The exercise training programs lasted for 6 weeks. Effects on balance, fatigue, dizziness/equilibrium, depression, and walking ability were examined at the end of the 6 weeks and also 4 weeks after the exercise program had ended. At the end of the 6-week period, the group that underwent the vestibular rehabilitation program showed improved balance, reduced fatigue, and reduced disability due to dizziness or disequilibrium. Depression and walking ability were minimally improved. Neither of the control groups showed improvement in balance, fatigue, or dizziness/disequilibrium disability. Four weeks after the exercise program ended, those in the vestibular rehabilitation program group continued to show benefit. It should be noted that in this study, the bicycle riding was not designed as an aerobic exercise, and thus these findings do not counter prior research studies that have shown benefits of aerobic exercise on MS fatigue. In their paper, the researchers suggest that the vestibular rehabilitation program reteaches the brain how to maintain balance when performing activities during standing or walking, after such abilities are impaired by MS, leading to improved balance, fatigue and dizziness. Future studies should include more participants and a longer follow-up to determine how long the benefit lasts and which people with MS would most likely respond to this program. Proposals for these investigations are underway. Based on these preliminary results, balance and eye movement training may help people with MS who are experiencing fatigue and balance problems. Those wishing to explore this option should consult with their neurologists, local rehabilitation facilities or hospitals to see whether this type of training is available.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously-occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale.
The National Association of Realtors says sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.97 million, up from 4.94 million in March.
Home sales have risen 9.7 percent in the past 12 months. Still, sales have changed little since November. The supply of available homes remains tight and many would-be buyers aren't able to get loans.
The number of homes for sale jumped to 2.16 million, up nearly 12 percent from the previous month. But inventory is still almost 14 percent lower than a year earlier.


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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Research Breakthrough
For a long time, I felt like that was a failing on my part. That somehow I had done something wrong or that I didn't build that relationship the way that I should have done. (I think a lot of that had to do with daddy issues being replicated in the dissertation adviser/me relationship - my feelings that I was responsible for the relationship, that if we weren't close - or even in regular contact - that it was because I sucked or didn't fulfill my obligations.) And I also wondered whether I would just disappear into obscurity because I was so cleanly and clearly cut off once my dissertation was defended and filed. I mean, what happens to people whose dissertation advisers forget they exist the moment that they've finished the dissertation? That's a bad thing, right?
You know what? In my case, it has not been a bad thing at all. In fact, I think it's been a great thing. Because you know why? I somehow have ended up with all of these awesome mentors - including people whom I totally admired and thought were rockstars and who I never thought I'd be, like, friends with - who do things like encourage me and recommend that I look at certain books and who do all the mentory things that my dissertation adviser does not do.
I've begun reading a book that I never would have read - or maybe I would, but I don't know how I would have gotten to it given the other sorts of stuff I've been reading - that Eminent Awesome Wonderful Fun Mentor suggested when I saw her at a recent conference. I'm not entirely sure how she knew, after listening to me talk for only 2 minutes about NB, but this book? It is so freaking important to what I'm trying to say! It is like the missing link! And it's not an obvious link - it's a sort of weird connection to make, if that makes sense - but it's exactly the way for me to get from point A to point B in my overall argument - something I hadn't known how I'd manage.
So I just wanted to blurt that out because my world is rocked to the point that I had to stop and take a breath before continuing onward with the book.
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w00t on the breakthrough!
In relation to the mentor shit, I'm not sure why you assume that had you maintained a close mentoring relationship with your thesis advisor, you would not have formed additional close mentoring relationships as your career progressed.
I remain personally close to my thesis advisor, but have never relied on her for scientific professional mentoring since I left her lab. On the other hand, my post-doctoral mentor is still a valuable source of mentoring, and since I've been an independent investigator and faculty member, I've sought out various types of mentoring from a number of individuals both at my institution and elsewhere.
In fact, I would say that one of the most important skills of professional scholarship to develop is the ability to seek, find, and enlist a portfolio of mentors, each of whom provides a particular aspect of expertise and insight.
(OK. I am gonna blog this. Don't be mad at me if some of my wackaloon readers come here and act like fools.)
- Historiann said...
"In fact, I would say that one of the most important skills of professional scholarship to develop is the ability to seek, find, and enlist a portfolio of mentors, each of whom provides a particular aspect of expertise and insight."
A-men to the 1,000th power to this. Physioprof is absolutely right.
I actually think it's an important step in your career when you seek out other mentors after grad school. Once you're out of grad school for more than 3 or 4 years, I don't want to see letters only from your graduate institution. I want to see letters from people whose work your work responds to, and people that you're at conferences with NOW.
Young scholars who continue to ask for letters of recommendation from their Ph.D. advisors after more than a few years post-Ph.D. make themselves look too tied to the apron strings and like they're not very well connected in the world they work in. We get it that your diss. advisor thinks you're doing important work, because (of course) ze wouldn't have sponsored you as a student if ze thought your work was pointless or idiotic. What we want to see is, does anyone else in your field think you're doing important work?
So, you're right where you should be, Crazy. There's only so much you can learn from one person--why not make your own mentors?
o/t: I heard a rumor that Rate Your Students has collapsed and died. Can it be true?
- Genomic Repairman said...
I have no relationship with my previous mentor as he has slipped into depression about his relative misfortunes and fallen off the face of the earth. Luckily I chose to network outside my boss while there and have a shortlist of great people to provide great references for me and who I can also lean on for guidance. I think seeking out elder council from your immediate fiefdom is a huge necessity if you are to be successful.


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Microsoft Dynamics GP Year End Release 2011 – Inventory Control Year End Close
Below you will find some tips to help ensure that your Inventory Control Year End Close process goes smoothly for you!
When should the Inventory Control Year-end close be done?
1. The Inventory module should be closed at the end of your fiscal year, before any new transactions that would affect inventory quantities are posted.
What does the year end close process do and/or affect?
1. Transfers all of your summarized current-year quantities, costs and sales amounts to last-year, for the items which you are maintaining summarized sales history for.
2. Updates each item's Beginning Quantity, from the Quantity on Hand, at each site.
3. Zeros the Quantity Sold field in the Item Quantities Maintenance (Cards – Inventory – Quantities/Sites) for each site.
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a. The order in which to reconcile these modules is: SOP, POP and then Inventory.
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Deja Yu: Rangers' Yu Darvish loses no-hitter on final batter of game... again
Yu Darvish reacts after a seventh-inning error ended his perfect game bid vs. Boston. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
For the second time in his career, Yu Darvish came within one out of a no-hitter. And for the second time in his career, Yu Darvish walked off the mound dejected, denied a chance at the history books.
After throwing a perfect game through 6 2/3 innings and no-hitting the Red Sox through 8 2/3, Darvish, who came within one out of a perfect game in April 2013, gave up a single to David Ortiz with two outs in the top of the ninth inning, losing his opportunity at the first no-hitter of 2014 and his career. Darvish, who threw 126 pitches, struck out 12 and walked two, also lost the chance to pick up the first shutout and complete game of his career, but did get the win in Texas' 8-0 victory.
Darvish started the ninth by getting Dustin Pedroia to ground out to third base and striking out Shane Victorino swinging. With Ortiz up, Darvish dropped a fastball on the outside corner for strike one, then missed with his next two pitches. With the count at 2-1, Darvish fired a fastball inside that Ortiz pulled to the right of second base, but with the shift on, the ball got by shortstop Elvis Andrus and the diving effort of rookie second baseman Rougned Odor going back to his right on the outfield grass for a clean single. With Darvish's pitch count elevated and the Rangers comfortably in front, Ron Washington replaced his ace with Alexei Ogando, who got Mike Napoli to fly out to leftfield to end the game.
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As close as Darvish came, his no-hit bid was under the microscope after a controversial ruling in the seventh inning. With two outs and the shift on, Ortiz lifted a harmless flyball into shallow rightfield. Odor — making his first major-league start — drifted into the outfield and camped under the ball, in position to make the easy catch. But at the last second, Odor backed off, then lunged toward the ball, only to watch it plunk down between him and rightfielder Alex Rios.
After a lengthy interval, the scorer at Globe Life Park ruled Ortiz's ball an error — not on Odor, but on Rios. Watching the replay, it's unclear if Rios called off Odor at the last second or if Odor simply thought Rios was going to take over the play. According to the Boston Globe's Pete Abraham, the scorer said he awarded the error to Rios for calling for the ball. Regardless, the ball dropped without either player getting a glove on it, a play that the scorer almost always rules a hit. However, according to the relevant section of the MLB rulebook, a ball doesn't have to be touched for it be ruled an error on the fielder's part. As it's stated in section 10.12(a)(1):
It is not necessary that the fielder touch the ball to be charged with an error. If a ground ball goes through a fielder's legs or a fly ball falls untouched and, in the scorer's judgment, the fielder could have handled the ball with ordinary effort, the official scorer shall charge such fielder with an error. For example ... the official scorer shall charge an outfielder with an error if such outfielder allows a fly ball to drop to the ground if, in the official scorers judgment, an outfielder at that position making ordinary effort would have caught such fly ball.
10.12(a)(1) also notes that, "The official scorer shall not score mental mistakes or misjudgments as errors unless a specific rule prescribes otherwise." By that language, the scorer in Texas was in the right to charge Rios with the error. But it's a play that, throughout baseball, is routinely and repeatedly ruled a hit. (This Deadspin post on the ruling has some great examples of similar plays that were ruled hits.)
Darvish, apparently rattled by the miscue, proceeded to walk Napoli on seven pitches. The sixth pitch in particular — a slider that just missed on the outside corner — had Darvish giving the evil eye to home plate umpire Greg Gibson. But Darvish bounced back by getting Grady Sizemore to fly out to rightfield, preserving the no-hitter through seven innings.
After the game, Red Sox manager John Farrell addressed the error ruling, telling reporters, "10 out of 10 times, that's a hit." When asked in his postgame press conference what he thought, Washington tersely responded, "My take is that it should have been caught." The true hyperbole came from MLB Network analyst Harold Reynolds, who deemed the error call "the worst ruling in Major League Baseball history," suggesting that Reynolds has all the functional memory of a goldfish.
Putting aside the controversy and yet another brush with history, Darvish was masterful on Friday night. His 12 strikeouts were a season-high (his career-high is 15, set back on Aug. 12, 2013 against the Astros) and the 21st time in his career he's recorded double-digit strikeouts. Darvish struck out the side in the third, got six straight strikeouts between the second and fourth innings, and failed to record a strikeout in only one inning, the seventh. Eighty-two of Darvish's 126 pitches went for strikes, with swings-and-misses on 18 of them. His slider was a weapon of havoc; of the 25 he threw, 11 drew swings-and-misses, and he got seven strikeouts alone on the pitch, six swinging. Darvish also brought some serious heat against the Red Sox, sitting at 94.7 mph with his two-seam fastball and 94.5 with his four-seamer, and hitting a high of 98.2 on the night. His whole arsenal was in play: Two-seamer, four-seamer, slider, cutter (11) and one curveball and splitter a piece.
But for as good as Darvish was, it just wasn't enough, and that's become a frustratingly common theme for the Japanese right-hander in his young career. Friday's start marked the fourth time that Darvish had gone eight or more innings with just one hit allowed; along with the near-perfect game against the Astros in April 2013 (broken up on a single up the middle by Marwin Gonzalez), Darvish went 7 1/3 hitless innings against Houston in the Aug. 12 game when he struck out 15. That no-hit bid was broken up on a solo homer by Carlos Corporan; Darvish had lost the perfect game in the sixth inning on a two-out walk by Jonathan Villar. Darvish also gave up one hit in eight innings against (surprise, surprise) Houston in his first start of 2014, in which he went five perfect innings before giving up a single to Matt Dominguez.
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Darvish isn't alone in his misery, however. According to ESPN Stats and Info, he's now the third pitcher in MLB history to lose a no-hitter in the ninth inning two times, joining the Senators' Bill Burns (1908 and '09) and Toronto's Dave Stieb (1988). Burns, who went by the sobriquet "Sleepy Bill" and later took part in the Black Sox betting scandal in the 1919 World Series, lost his no-hit bids to the Tigers and White Sox. Stieb's misses are even more heartbreaking; he lost his first no-hit bid in the ninth inning on May 24, 1988 against Cleveland, then took a no-hitter into the ninth inning in his very next start against Baltimore, only to lose it on the final batter of that game. Stieb was a true hard-luck pitcher, also losing a no-hitter in the ninth inning in an Aug. 24, 1985 start against the White Sox, then losing a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on Aug. 4, 1989 against the Yankees. Stieb did eventually collect a no-hitter on Sept. 2, 1990 against Cleveland.
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The no-hitter would have been the first in baseball since Miami's Henderson Alvarez blanked the Tigers on the last day of the 2013 regular season, and the first for an AL pitcher since Felix Hernandez accomplished the feat on Aug. 15, 2012 against Tampa Bay; Hernandez's was also the last perfect game thrown in baseball. Texas hasn't recorded a no-hitter since Kenny Rogers did it against the California Angels on July 28, 1994 in a 4-0 win; Rogers' was also a perfect game. Friday would have been the first time the Red Sox had been no-hit since April 22, 1993, when Chris Bosio of the Mariners held them hitless in a 2-0 win.
Despite missing out on the no-hitter, Friday's effort boosted Darvish's overall line to a 2.33 ERA in 46 1/3 innings; his 54 strikeouts give him a 10.49 strikeout-per-nine ratio. And though history has eluded him so far, with his ability, it feels like it's only a matter of time before Darvish walks off the mound with a perfect game or no-hitter to call his own.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - Turnout appears to be high in many parts of the country, with long waits at some polling places as voters deliver their Election Day verdict.
Both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama need their supporters to show up in high numbers. A robust turnout among minorities would favor Obama, while Romney is looking for a strong showing among working-class white men.
Several storm-ravaged areas of New York and New Jersey and several swing states are reporting heavy turnout. The out reports were a relief for officials who feared Superstorm Sandy might keep people from the polls.
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02 November 2009
Thoughts on Australia
I wanted to clarify Australian population density and wine regions for the benefit of the average American. Unless you decide to study the topic yourself, or have some connection to the country, few of us understand that continent. Since there's no existing map that explains these two topics well, I built my own non-scientific, mostly factual* map from scratch. I call it "Benito's Bruised Mango Map of Australian Wine & People" (click for big glorious version). First off, the "Lower 48" (all of the US minus Alaska and Hawaii) is about the same physical size and shape as Australia, but the population is totally different:
US Lower 48 = 8 million km2
Australia = 7.6 million km2
US Population = 307 million
Australia Population = 22 million
The US population (99% in the Lower 48) is concentrated in the eastern third of the country bordered by the Mississippi River, but we have 30 million people in California and 24 million in Texas--the latter group is bigger than Australia, and that's just one state. In Australia the population is almost entirely coastal, with the vast majority in the southeast and smaller groups in the southwest. Imagine taking the population of Texas and spreading them out from North Carolina to Florida, and taking a handful to San Diego and Seattle.
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's look at Hieronymous' discussion points:
As an Aussie wine-lover I always find it fascinating to read international reviews of our wines. For a start many of the wines that make it out of the country are barely known here - there is a distinct segment of the market who produce for the export market only, some of which have trashed the brand internationally.
We had a great set of comments on this issue back in August from American retailers and distributors. I'm curious as to what all of you are drinking down there--I see reviews occasionally in magazines, but as you say, some bottles just don't make their way onto a boat or plane. What sort of American wines show up on Australian shelves and menus?
Yellow Tail is certainly available here in Oz, but is very much a budget brand that no-one of my acquaintance would dream of drinking. Likewise, there are a lot of elegant reds now being produced, but our rep has been tainted by the disproportionate proportion of 'fruit bombs' heading overseas.
Yellow Tail, Little Penguin, and others are hugely popular here, and I think the sales help keep wine shops running on a day-to-day basis. There are a lot of arguments in wine circles over these type of bottles. I don't really drink them anymore, but I did when I was freshly legal to purchase wine. I think that they're decent introductory material for novice wine drinkers. As I've said many times, a label full of confusing French or German can be scary to the neophyte; a cute animal is reassuring.
I was delighted with the wines I tried last week because I felt many of them broke the mold of the "standard Aussie wine" that shows up on American shelves. I hope they are successful and that as Americans, we don't develop a one-dimensional attitude towards an entire nation's industry.
That little rant over I'm glad to see some of the more diverse wine growing areas of the country getting some exposure. WA is certainly an up and coming area, and I would direct your readers to wines from Mornington and Yarra Valley in Victoria, and some of the Tassie wines. Orange is another region worth keeping an eye on.
I'm sad to say that I've only seen and tasted one Tasmanian wine in my life, but I loved it. Victorian wines are a bit easier to find around these parts. Western Australia wines are becoming more common, and I'll almost always grab one if I find it. But of course the vast majority of Oz juice is from the powerhouses of South Australia.
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I think it's always helpful to examine your own prejudices and preconceptions. I know my own selection of wines reviewed here is skewed in several weird ways. I tend to ignore Germany unfairly due to the dominance of Riesling. Italy's vast and varied grapes fascinate me. Looking back over my notes I have a strong preference towards California red blends that I could not have recognized without analyzing the data. Not everybody has the time or inclination for such reflection, but if you've found yourself in a rut with Australian wines or any other category, step back and look for the under-appreciated wines and regions within that country.
*I started with a vector map of the continent to establish the basic design. For the wine and populations, I overlaid maps of major wine regions and population and painted over the main points to achieve the Mango Map. While it doesn't do proper service to the island of Tasmania, I think it does a decent job of showing population and wine densities in the southwest and southeast, the sources of most Aussie wine and people.
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- The Wine Commonsewer (TWC) said...
I have a friend and colleague down in Oz. He is a tax guy like me and was quite an excellent wine blogger for a time.
That said, I enjoyed your piece on Aussie wines. Yellow Tail is really quite ghastly.
And why is Oz Shiraz so different from Ca Syrah.
Sampled a Clarendon Hills Syrah from Oz the other day. Big, Bold, needs about a decade in the bottle, but definitely one of the better Oz Shiraz' I have had the opportunity to taste.
- 03 November, 2009 22:16
- Unknown said...
And why is Oz Shiraz so different from Ca Syrah.
Depends a lot on precisely where your Australian Shiraz is coming from, but a lot of it has to do with ocean currents and deserts. Australia is almost entirely surrounded by warm currents and the wine regions are surrounded by hot, dry deserts.
Most California wine is made in a snuggly zone between cold ocean currents and mountains, with the deserts on the other side.
I can keep going, but eventually I'll talk about how we could have awesome forests in Antarctica if we just plugged up the Drake Passage south of Tierra del Fuego and stopped the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Of course, it would probably wreak havoc on South America, Southern Africa, and Australia in the process.
- 03 November, 2009 22:31
Hey Benito,
The Borders store on Poplar carries a magazine entitled "Gourmet Traveller Wine" on a somewhat sporadic basis. It is published and distributed primarily for the Australia and New Zealand markets, and I've never seen it available anywhere else in town.
I have found it useful in understanding Australian wine from the Australian perspective. If you've not seen a copy, I highly recommend it.
- 04 November, 2009 06:45
- Benito said...
Thanks for the recommendation--I'll check it out!
- 04 November, 2009 12:03
- Mark said...
Thanks for the more realistic updates on the Aussie wine regions. Frankly I haven't been impressed with the quality/price ratio for what I've been able to try here in the states. It does sound like they are more similar to Argentina, where the very best wines are consumed domestically and the left overs are exported.
The only problem with that occurs when exports start to fall as they are now with increased competition from Italy and Chile for market share.
- 10 November, 2009 07:04
- Sean Mitchell said...
For what it's worth, if you are looking for Australian wines that are rated highly locally in Australia by the local wine press and wine consumers, I think probably the best place to start is the "Langtons classification" of top Oz wines which is free on their internet site. (http://www.langtons.com.au/Wine/ClassificationView.aspx). There are few wines on this list that don't at least have the capability of impressing. And there are not many good wines produced in Australia that aren't on this list. I hope more than a handful of them are available outside Oz!
Sean Mitchell
- 16 November, 2009 01:55
- Unknown said...
The thing to remember about Australian wine is the radical diversity of climate, soil and prevailing conditions that end up in the bottle. If you look at the map of Oz and drew a line through it halfway up then that's pretty well the limit of the wine-growing regions in Australia - not much decent is made north of that.
That still leaves a vast area where wine is made. The Barossa bakes in the summer; in Tasmania it's cool most year round. In WA the breeze off the Indian ocean cools the interior; in Mornington the hills are cooler than the hills and valleys of the Yarra Valley a couple of hours north of there - and so on.
Likewise soils range from the baked, sandy soils a stones throw from full-on deserts, to loamy soils rich in nutrients, and so on.
The reality of all this is that the same wine made in different regions of Australia will be different from one to the other. The Aussie shiraz, for example, is much more than the big, flavoursome drop it is reputed to be. Shop around and you'll find delicate, elegant shiraz, and shiraz lighter in style. Australian wine has been done a disservice by the exporters catering to generic markets and serving to them an homogeneous product of little distinction.
Living here it's exciting to see where Australian wine-making is going. In recent years a new generation of wine-makers exploiting new wine regions are making all manner of wines - from the traditional favourites to more interesting varieties like albarino, tempranillo, sangiovese, arneis, and adventurous blendings of others.
The fact of the matter is you're not likely to see a lot of that in your local bottle shop there - just as Californian wine is hard find here outside the occasional Zinfandel on a restaurant wine menu.
- 17 November, 2009 22:06
Granted there are some big deserts in Australia, but I take it that you meant that our wine regions are surrounded by them in a rather loose fashion. Most wine regions are at least 800+ kilometres from the nearest desert
I have seen very few US wines in stores over here. Names like Stags Leap and Opus One are seen occasionally, and I have seen the Ridge wines and a couple of others, but product from the US is fairly rare.
You are by no means alone there. It has really only been in the last 10 years that wine from Europe has really started to take off, particularly the last 3-4 as our dollar has strengthened and prices have improved.
Australian generally like to think they punch above their weight on the world stage, and so the focus in the last two decades has largely been on wines from here (and New Zealand although we don't like to mention this). This is changing as people realise there is a big world of wine out there.
However people overseas would do well to source out a bit of the wine that we make here that is rarely seen overseas (pretty much most of it, if overseas wine blogs are anything to go by). There are a massive range of styles and varietals, and some really good quality.
If you want a 'heads up' there is a site called Wine Front which does some pretty good reviews, and for a non subscription site try wino sapien (has some fantastic recipes too).
If you want some tips try
Hoddles Creek
Cape Mentelle
Dalrymple Estate
Tar & Roses
Clover Hill
Meerea Park
This is by no means exhaustive
- 19 November, 2009 01:01
- Benito said...
Hieronymous & Julian,
Thanks for the great info and responses, particularly to Hieronymous for triggering this whole discussion. I admit that I've made broad generalizations about Australian geography and climate, but we as a nation are painfully ignorant about the history and layout of the sunburnt country, and I wanted to take baby steps. Our view is mostly shaped by Crocodile Dundee, The Crocodile Hunter, and perhaps if you're a bit more sophisticated, Muriel's Wedding. Some might have even purchased a Midnight Oil CD in the 90s to appear socially conscious.
"Every Australian lives directly on the edge of the Outback, gets attacked by dangerous animals on a daily basis, and drinks Fosters lager in copious quantities." These ideas are why most Aussies in the US have a perpetually tired, slightly annoyed attitude.
I will keep an eye out for the wines and sources mentioned, and will continue my one-man crusade to educate myself about your continent.
- 19 November, 2009 01:22


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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Canisius College and the University at Buffalo announced today that the annual meeting between the Golden Griffins and the Bulls in men's basketball will be played Wednesday, Dec. 11, in First Niagara Center. This will be the first of a two-year deal that will see the two cross-town rivals meeting on the hardwood in downtown Buffalo.
The Canisius-Buffalo game will be a part of a college basketball doubleheader on Dec. 11, with Niagara also playing host to Davidson that night. The game this year will serve as a home game for Buffalo, and the return game during the 2014-15 season will serve as a home date for the Griffs.
"We are very excited to take one of Western New York's great rivalry games downtown to the First Niagara Center," Canisius Director of Athletics Bill Maher said. "We anticipate this year's Canisius-Buffalo game will be the start of an annual tradition of bringing college basketball back downtown to Buffalo, where it can serve as a tremendous showcase for our student-athletes, alumni and the great college basketball fans in this area."
Canisius has played 43 regular-season and MAAC Tournament games in First Niagara Center, where the Blue and Gold holds a 26-17 all-time record. This year's date with Buffalo in the arena will mark the first time Canisius has been the road team in a regular season game in the facility, and it will serve as the second time Canisius and Buffalo have played in First Niagara Center. The previous meeting was Dec. 12, 1998, when the Griffs scored a 66-56 victory over the Bulls. The Griffs' last played a game downtown in the 2009-10 season, where the team lost to MAAC rival Fairfield by the score of 58-52.
"Canisius is committed to growing college basketball in the City of Buffalo and we believe having the local teams play games in the arena is vital to achieving that goal," Maher added. "This two-year series between Canisius and Buffalo is a demonstration of that commitment."
Canisius will serve as co-hosts of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Second and Third Rounds March 20 and 22, 2014 with the MAAC and Niagara. Tickets for this year's NCAA Tournament games in First Niagara Center will go on sale to the general public Saturday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. Fans can log on to www.ncaa.com/mbbtickets for more information.
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My mom suddenly went from her normal slightly loopy to very confused. It may be something as simple as a bladder infection (a common cause of confusion in the elderly) or it could be something more complicated. At her age, one expects things to happen so, while I'm concerned, I'm not distraught. It is what it is.
In the meanwhile, though, please have fun with this Open Thread. I'll just leave you with two thoughts this morning. First thought: A computer gaming company employee was fired for suggesting that, although Sterling is a nasty old bigot, in America he should still have the right to express his thoughts freely in the privacy of his own home. Second thought: Was the so-called Peace Process always a set-up?
UPDATE: The doctor's current thinking is that mom caught a virus going around her senior living community. When I visited her this morning, she was extremely confused when I arrived (and, as always, angry at me for "abandoning" her, which is her go-to delirium mode.) Three hours later, when I left, she was pretty oriented, but complaining unhappily about typical flu symptoms.
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For the first time in 66 years, Montrealers will be able to buy food off the street this summer at several sites downtown, Mayor Michael Applebaum announced Tuesday.
Standing between a Grumman 78 taco truck and a sausage van belonging to Nomade SO6 (pronounced saucisse), Applebaum said it was time Montreal joined the ranks of great cities worldwide that allow the sale of street food.
"I am certain that this first pilot project of having street restaurants in Montreal will reflect our image and our joy of life," Applebaum said.
As of June 20, the downtown Ville Marie borough will name 10 sites where food trucks and carts can sell food. To be eligible for a licence and to avoid unfair competition with tax- and rent-paying restaurant owners, vendors must have a registered restaurant or catering business in Montreal. (Interested vendors can call Montreal's 311 info-line for details about applying for a permit.)
A committee will decide where the sites will be and what type of food can be served. Applebaum pledged the food would reflect the city's international reputation as a gastronomic capital.
Yes, there could even be a poutine truck, he said, as long as the committee deemed it was selling high-quality poutines. Food trucks will have to circulate between the various sites, ensuring variety for downtown tourists and office workers.
Banned on the streets of the city since 1947 over hygiene concerns, the city's commission on economic and urban development decided unanimously to say yes to street food once again in late March.
An advisory committee is being formed and if all goes well, it's expected full-time street fare will be available year-round as of summer 2015. Quebec's association of restaurant owners has been cautiously optimistic so far, saying their recommendations and concerns over unfair competition are being taken seriously.
To test different scenarios, all of Montreal's 19 boroughs are being encouraged to propose spots this summer they think could work as vendor locations, if their residents are interested in the concept. The committee and boroughs will monitor the sites for complaints over competition, odours or garbage.
For Gaëlle Cerf, co-owner of the Grumman 78 taco restaurant and truck, and vice-president of the Associations of Street Restaurateurs of Quebec, the news came as sweet vindication after a two-and-a-half-year campaign to reinstitute food on the boulevards of the city. Until this summer, food trucks and carts were only permitted at special events at parks or festivals or by invitation at private parties. Even with those restrictions, Grumman 78 was running its taco truck four to five days a week for the last two summers.
"We're ecstatic," Cerf said Tuesday, handing out Tacos au Porc Banh-Mi accompanied by a tomato salad with corn bread croutons and a pineapple-spinach-coriander-orange smoothie in the parking lot behind city hall.
The long wait was a positive, she said. It's allowing participants to come up with a framework and avoid the anarchic street food scenarios that played out in other cities, resulting in too many competitors with poor product and angry restaurant owners.
Cerf was predicting a busy summer for the street food association, with at least 20 trucks running to 200 separate events over the summer as well as the new designated sites.


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New concept art for Disney's upcoming princess movie, Frozen, has leaked online. For those unfamiliar with the film, Kristen Bell voices a young dreamer named Anna who teams up with "a daring mountain man" to find the Snow Queen (Idina Menzel) and put an end to a spell that has trapped their kingdom in eternal winter. Broadway vets Robert Lopez (The Book of Mormon) and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Winnie the Pooh) tapped to pen original songs for the feature. Chris Buck (Tarzan) is onboard as director. I'm glad Disney has another animated musical up their sleeve, but it will be computer-animated, so it looks like the studio has gotten skittish when it comes to 2D because The Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh underperformed at the box office.
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We first heard about the Alien prequel back in June 2009. At that time, it was to be produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, with commercial director Carl Rinsch helming. However, Fox encouraged Ridley (director of the original 1977 Alien) to return to the director's chair. His usurping of the role was announced in August.
Scott has finally announced - eight months later - what the film will be about. He told MTV last week:
Ridley Scott wrote:"It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]...It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that?"
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Ridley Scott wrote:"[The film] is about the discussion of terraforming -- taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life...Weyland hasn't joined Yutani yet, so they go and see Weyland."
Weyland-Yutani Corp are, of course, the corporation who caused such a ruckus throughout the Alien saga.
Scott also told MTV that the main character in the prequel will be a woman, and that he is also considering redesigning the legendary aliens themselves.
The legendary British director also dropped a couple more bombs at a junket that Matt Goldberg published on Collider.
Scott revealed that the script is already on its fourth draft and the film will definitely be in 3D. He also stated that is his intention to make two prequels (both taking place before Alien). Scott confirmed that the prequel would maintain the patience of the first film, although the action would definitely move faster (a result of the advancements in technology).
To read about Scott's reservations about 3D (including a rejected offer to convert Robin Hood at the last minute) head on over to Collider. You can also read MTV's full interview with Scott here (in which he shares his thoughts on Alien vs. Predator).
http://www.collider.com/2010/04/23/ridl ... hot-in-3d/


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This course is focused on identifying the essential aspects that a Team Leader ought to have, his or her roles and responsibilities.
Through practical exercises you will learn to identify the central importance of the Team Leader, and how he or she plays a key part on the virtual team. Among the abilities identified in this course are:
- Initiative
- Active listening
- Leadership
- Service
- Commitment
- Identity
- Motivation
- Proactivity
- Knowing how to delegate
You will also become familiar with different duties that a Team Leader performs and the optimal way to go about them. You will go into detail about tasks like:
- Managing a virtual work team and assigning duties suited to a person's talents and abilities.
- Training work teams for projects and new tasks
- Checking work and quality control
- Creating feedback and enriching work
- Giving positive motivation to the virtual team
- Improving the processes and dynamic at work
- Promoting autonomy and teamwork
- Empowering the virtual team


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UnNews:New publicity concept for gay Libertarian politicians - steal sports team logos
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
11 March 2010
SALEM, Oregon - What can a gay Libertarian Senate candidate do to generate publicity for his campaign with the understandably limited funds he has available? Oregon Senate candidate Marc Delphine has devised a brilliant, fool-proof idea: copyright infringement of popular sports team logos.
"We were in a meeting, brainstorming ideas to get my name out there without having to spend a lot of money", Delphine said. "We talked about things like having an illicit affair, but I'm already a flaming queer, so no one would really take that seriously. I mean, most people already think I'm degenerate. Someone mentioned blatantly false attack ads, but those really don't have the legs we need. Then, a volunteer came in and showed me the campaign logo he designed. It was identical to the logo of a little-known NHL team, the Columbus Blue Jackets. I said, that's perfect!"
Despite the fact that as sports teams go, the Columbus Blue Jackets are more obscure than even the Libertarian Party itself, somehow the plan has been an overwhelming success. "I mean, it isn't as though we stole the Cincinnati Reds logo, but look at how this thing has blown up. My name is on sports blogs and news web sites everywhere."
When asked about copyright infringement, Delphine was adamant. "Look, as a Libertarian, I believe that copyright law is just another big government fiasco. The government should stay out of my affairs." When reminded that this is a government affair, as he is running for a seat in the government, he silently referred the question to the large sign on the wall stating, No questions about the Libertarian paradox allowed!
In response to this turn of events, other obscure third parties are making plans to follow suit. Yesterday the Green Party of Wisconsin unveiled this new logo.
- Greg Wyshynski "Libertarians have no respect for the law, marriage, or obscure hockey franchises". Yahoo! Sports, March 11, 2010


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By Judy Pringle
You and your choir have worked tirelessly on uniform vowel formation, well-tuned singing, focusing the tone, singing correct notes, beautiful phrase lines. You're feeling good. But step back and give a listen and you'll often find there isn't a consonant to be heard. It is our task as singers to articulate so the listeners can share in the delicious words and message.
We want clear, well-defined consonants in our singing and it's a challenge to achieve. When our listeners know the text as in a well-known hymn or carol, we are understood because the context is known. This is far from the case when the text is unknown.
The topic of consonants is Continue reading 'Singing With Clarity'


text: Flagging awesome movies before you've actually seen them constitutes an inexact science fraught with peril. Directors get distracted, stars stumble, brilliant scripts get watered down during "development" and exciting trailers cram all the good bits into 30 seconds, leaving in their wake cineplexes filled with disappointed audiences. Consider this: Green Lantern footage looked pretty good at Comic-Con International but wound up on Wired's Most Hated Movies of 2011 list. Still, hope springs eternal, and we've come up with nearly two dozen reasons to be psyched about films in 2012. For starters, Ridley Scott gets back to sci-fi, Batman fights off a new supervillain, Brad Pitt goes after a swarm of zombies, Johnny Depp plays a vampire (and Abraham Lincoln kills them). Read on to get Wired.com's take on 2012's most tantalizing motion pictures. Images courtesy movie studios unless otherwise noted. Above: Must-See Flaming Pee: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Story: The possessed biker with the flaming skull (and flaming everything else) joins a quest to save a young boy from the Antichrist in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Why it could be cool: The "requel" torches the lame first cinematic take on the Ghost Rider character, with Crank directors Neveldine/Taylor going for a much more ominous vibe. The 3-D footage they showed off at Comic-Con International last summer made the movie look totally hellacious — in a good way. Cautionary note: Some film geeks got a sneak peek at the full movie at Butt-Numb-A-Thon, and most reports ranged from bad to horrible. But no amount of fanboy venom can douse my burning desire to see Nicolas Cage reprise the roll of Johnny Blaze — this time pulling off the Ghost Rider's wicked Penance Stare as well. —Lewis Wallace Release date: Feb. 17Best Naked Guy Escalator Fight: Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Story: Two smarmy idiots plow through a billion bucks trying to make a Hollywood blockbuster. Why it could be cool: Professional doofus Tim Heidecker and partner Eric Wareheim get laughs with their preposterous short bits on Will Ferrell's FunnyorDie.com site. Judging from the funny, foul-mouthed red-band trailer, Billion Dollar Movie featuring Zach Galifianakis could become this year's Hangover. Cautionary note: As Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg learned the hard way in Hot Rod, sketches are one thing, 90-minute features are another. —Hugh Hart Release date: March 24-Armed Aliens: John Carter From Mars Story: Civil War veteran does battle on the wounded planet of Mars. Why it could be cool: Andrew Stanton crafted a spectacular wasteland in his Oscar-winning Wall*E and now follows Pixar colleague Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) into the live-action realm with a firm grasp on how to craft stunning wide-screen landscapes. Cautionary note: The clips look great but raise a red flag: Zealous fidelity to Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1920s-era source material could strip John Carter of the quirky wit and sly performances that make Pixar stories so compelling. —Hugh Hart Release date: March 9Constant Craving: The Hunger Games Story: Katniss Everdeen — a 16-year-old with serious archery chops — volunteers to take her younger sister Prim's place in The Hunger Games, an annual event held in a future North America called Panem, where a vicious Capitol forces teenagers from its poor districts to fight to the death on reality TV. Why it could be cool: Don't be thrown off by the fact that it's based on Suzanne Collins' young adult novel: The Hunger Games is far darker and more compelling than anything involving lovelorn vampires and shape-shifters. If done right, the film version of the story should bring a whole new kind of dystopian sci-fi — and with it, thank goodness, a whole new kind of heroine — to the screen. And, as anyone who's seen Winter's Bone can attest, if anyone can pull off Katniss Everdeen's mix of vicious protectiveness with revolutionary vulnerability it's Jennifer Lawrence. The odds are in her favor. (Additional awesomeness: Producer T-Bone Burnett is working on the soundtrack along with folks from Arcade Fire and The Decemberists, who are contributing a song as well.) Cautionary note: There have been rumblings that the film adaptation will focus more on Katniss' love triangle with her hunting partner Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and her main competition in the games, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). While an important part of the story, Katniss' man drama isn't the most interesting part of the books, by far, and heightening it for the film could make it seem a little too much like lovelorn vampires and shape-shifters. —Angela Watercutter Release date: March 23Self-Explanatory Horror Title: Cabin in the Woods Story: Innocent vacationers chill out at an isolated shack before all supernatural hell breaks loose. Why it could be cool: Joss Whedon co-wrote this variation on one of the oldest horror scenarios in the book. The trailer suggests that Cloverfield co-writer turned director Drew Goddard figures out an entertaining way to put a cheeky twist on the ancient clichés. Cautionary note: Can co-writer/director Joss Whedon, adored mainly for his clever dialogue and quirky characters, make the big action sequences pop? —Hugh Hart Release date: April 13Clash of the Marvel Titans: The Avengers Story: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Nick Fury and Black Widow join forces to save the world from catastrophe. Why it could be cool: America's most entertaining actor, Robert Downey Jr., spars in his Tony Stark incarnation with Chris Evans' Captain America and the rest of the Marvel superhero gang for a crossover bickerfest that should produce plenty of jokes and the welcome return of Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow en route to the inevitable CGI fireworks. Cautionary note: Can co-writer/director Joss Whedon, adored mainly for his clever dialogue and quirky characters, make the big action sequences pop? —Hugh Hart Release date: May 4I Vant to Suck Your Blood Alert: Dark Shadows Story: An 18th-century vampire awakens in 1972 New England and sinks his teeth into the job at hand. Why it could be cool: Nobody does Goth like Tim Burton. Here, the director summons man muse Johnny Depp to go dark as Barnabas, lord of the Collinwood Manor. It's not the soap opera source material that merits excitement, but the chance to witness Depp and cast mates Helena Bonham Carter (live in psychiatrist — yikes) and Jackie Earle Haley (estate caretaker) put their twisted takes on a creepy mansion full of bad, bad people. Cautionary note: Nobody's perfect: Burton took a dive with his Planet of the Apes remake while Depp struck out with his recent pet project The Rum Diary. —Hugh Hart Release date: May 11Moonrise Kingdom's Quirk Sets In Story: Details are sparse, but what is every Wes Anderson movie about, from the immortal Rushmore to the repeatedly awesome Fantastic Mr. Fox? A band of quirky characters philosophically chasing their figurative tails, as audience members variously clap, laugh and/or scratch their heads. Moonrise Kingdom's '60s variation on that theme pits a pair of elopers from an island off the coast of New England against a gang of Anderson's ensemble-cast grads like the sublime Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, who bumble around while tracking the young lovers down. Why it could be cool: Island dramedy died after Lost's heinous finale, so we can thank Anderson for trying to make it cool again. Early photos from the set feature log cabins, pup tents and Harvey Keitel and Edward Norton goofily dressed as Boy Scout camp leaders. Throw in what we hope is another one of Anderson's deep-cut soundtracks mining the '60s sonic catalog and you've got another promising pathos laugher. Cautionary note: Bruce Willis is part of Anderson's thick Moonrise Kingdom ensemble, but hopefully he won't bring any macho with him while he's playing the town sheriff. It's been awhile since he's showed off his underrated gift for comedy. Fingers crossed, campers! —Scott Thill Release date: May 25A Fairy-Tale Revamp: Snow White and the Huntsman Story: Snow White (played by Kristen Stewart) threatens the fairest-of-them-all title of an evil queen (Charlize Theron). Said queen sends a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to kill her, but the whole thing gets out of hand when Snow White begins training with the huntsman in the art of war. Why it could be cool: We were admittedly skeptical about this film, but then the first trailer (above) was released and we went from "meh" to "meep!" Not only did it take Snow White out of the flow-y dresses and put her in some serious armor, it turned the whole fairy tale on its head. Screenwriter Evan Daugherty has said his guiding principle was, "What if, instead of saving Snow White, the huntsman teaches Snow White to save herself?" That alone sets the tone for a fairly intriguing revamp, but throw in Hemsworth (aka Thor) doing his hammer-swinging thing with axes instead and we're all of a sudden more ready for a new Snow White movie than we ever thought we would be. Cautionary note: It seems unlikely, but there is a chance everything worth seeing in Snow White and the Huntsman was in that first trailer. —Angela Watercutter __Release date:__June 1Screaming Alien Madness: Prometheus Story: Scientists travel to an alien planet and encounter unmitigated horror. Why it could be cool: Ridley Scott makes an epic return to sci-fi, judging from the sleek, spooky trailer that hit the web in December. As in Alien and Blade Runner, the visuals in the 3-D Prometheus universe should surpass all alt-universe rivals in 2012, but even more refreshing: In a genre that generally relegates female characters to eye-candy window dressing, Charlize Theron spearheads this story as a synthetic humandroid. Scott directed Thelma and Louise and immortalized Sigourney Weaver as nail-tough Ripley in Alien. Add original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Noomi Rapace into the mix, and this Alien spinoff seems destined to become the best female-centric outer space epic since Avatar. —Hugh Hart Release date: June 8Insane High Concept: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Story: When 9-year old Abe sees his mom die in their one-room cabin from vampire attacks, he picks up an ax and secretly slays the undead — when he's not distracted by becoming president of the United States. Why it could be cool: Boasting the goofiest premise of the year with a title to match, this 3-D action piece could turn out to be a one-joke disaster, but at least the filmmakers are trying something different. Reasons to be bullish: Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) may go overboard with slo-mo gimmicks but he rarely bores. Also, cast member Dominic Cooper played Saddam Hussein's bodyguard last year. That's intense. —Hugh Hart Release date: June 22Weaving a Tangled Web: The Amazing Spider-Man Story: A reboot of Webhead's origin story, The Amazing Spider-Man centers on a high-school aged Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield this time around) as he deals with his newfound superpowers. Why it could be cool: Director Marc Webb previously made the sweet love story (500) Days of Summer so he could bring a little emotional depth to Peter Parker's journey to becoming Spider-Man and his romance with Gwen Stacy (played by the always-charming Emma Stone.) Rhys Ifans' portrayal of the Lizard promises some jolly good slithery villainy as well. Also, it's a Spider-Man movie. So there's that. Cautionary note: The film could easily veer too far into a big teen angstfest, though that seems unlikely given Garfield's love of his character's geekier qualities. Not to mention things haven't been going so well for Spider-Man reboots lately. —Angela Watercutter Release date: July 3Bane Versus Bale: The Dark Knight Rises Story: Batman, blamed for murder, bounces back to protect Gotham City from the villainous Bane. Why it could be cool: Three words: Imax, Tom, Hardy. Pitted against Christian Bale's thankless straight man role as Bruce Wayne/Batman, bad guy Bane — played by a very convincing Tom Hardy — may not surpass Heath Ledger's Joker. But teaser clips indicate the bulked-up British actor, first cast by director Christopher Nolan in Inception, delivers the goods as a bad man with big brains. __Cautionary note:__Anne Hathaway as Catwoman? —Hugh Hart __Release date:__July 26Shoot Me in the Future, Wound Me Now: Looper Story: Time-traveling hit men from the year 2070 go back 30 years to knock off unwitting victims. Why it could be cool: Writer-director Rian Johnson displayed virtuosic dialog skills and a deft way with character-driven plot twists in his 2005 thriller Brick, which imagined Orange County high-school students speaking as if they were characters in a 1940s film noir thriller. Here, Johnson casts Brick man Joseph Gordon Levitt as a "looper" hit man who kills people when they're sent back in time by criminals from the future. Cautionary note: It's a tricky wormhole scenario involving Bruce Willis as an older version of Levitt's character, and while time-travel dramas inevitably run into logic problems — er, it's impossible — early reviews indicate that Johnson might have bragging rights to this year's Moon/District 9 equivalent. —Hugh Hart Release date: Fall 2012Two Centuries, Three Directors: Cloud Atlas Story: Six interlinked stories examine unintended consequences of actions taken by characters who share unwitting connections with each other. Why it could be cool: Audacious experiment stars the artists formerly known as the Wachowski Brothers plus German Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) sharing the directing chores. Concept art suggests that Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski will conjure great-looking vistas to enliven this sprawling story based on British author David Mitchell's 2004 novel. Cloud Atlas also achieves must-see status because the crazily eclectic cast of heavyweights, including Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving and Halle Berry, can be counted on to generate offbeat chemistry. Cautionary note: Two words: Speed Racer. The Wachowskis' last movie sported a compelling look but dragged on too long. Three directors invested in their own stories could make for narrative bloat. —Hugh Hart Release date: OctoberBest-Looking Samurai Reboot: 47 Ronin Story: Feudal Japanese warriors seek revenge on the rulers who triggered their master's suicide. Why it could be cool: Many directors make the move from TV commercials to two-hour features, but few have produced a short film as hypnotic as Carl Rinsch's The Gift, embedded above. On the strength of that beautifully shot sequence alone, the helmer can be expected to wring some visual magic from the $170 million 3-D action saga. Cautionary note: A lot rides on the shoulders of deceptively sleepy Keanu Reeves as the half-Brit, half-Japanese samurai. It remains to be seen if 47 Ronin helps The Matrix star regain his laconic mojo. —Hugh Hart Release date: Nov. 21Somber Science Fiction: Gravity Story: The lone survivor of an outer space catastrophe tries to return home and reunite with her daughter. Why it could be cool: Director Alfonse Cuarón (above) is one serious dude who thrives on adversity storylines. The Mexican filmmaker's moody Children of Men dramatized an end-of-the-world nightmare while his direction of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban produced the franchise's darkest installment. But Gravity merits anticipation precisely because Cuarón tells thought-provoking stories set against elegantly rendered ruins. Cuarón can be counted on to put star Sandra Bullock through the wringer in her role as the anguished mom-in-space. Cautionary note: A thin line separates the profound from the ponderous, a point proved by Gravity co-star George Clooney when he tackled sci-fi in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris remake. —Hugh Hart Release date: Nov. 21James Bond Director Slays Zombie Genre: World War Z Story: A globe-hopping U.N. staffer leads the resistance to a zombie epidemic that has decimated armies, overthrown governments and may soon bring an end to human life as we know it. Why it could be cool: Bundle Brad Pitt, a $140 million budget and the guy who directed James Bond flick Quantum of Solace into a bloody, post-apocalyptic ball and the end result could elevate the perpetually low-budget zombie genre into a whole new level of CGI-fueled mayhem. Besides having a strong eye for spectacle, versatile director Marc Forster knows how to tell character-based stories dating back to his Monster's Ball days, while Pitt in 2011 reminded moviegoers, in Moneyball and The Tree of Life, that he's got depth to spare (although this battle will more likely see him channeling Inglorious Basterds-style action chops). Cautionary note: Have we hit zombie overload yet? —Hugh Hart Release date: Dec. 21Return to Middle-earth: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Story: Bilbo Baggins and his cohort of dwarves travel to the Lonely Mountain and confront the dragon Smaug over stolen treasure. Why it could be cool: Holograms anyone? Peter Jackson is filming on state-of-the-art Red cameras at 48 frames per second. Those who've seen test footage claim the format will yield hyper-crisp 3-D of unprecedented "you-are-there" quality. And then there's J.R.R. Tolkien's world-class source material and Andy Serkis' reprise of Gollum. Plus a drove of gnarly dwarves, with Sir Ian McKellan back on board as Gandalf. Cautionary note: How could it not be cool? —Hugh Hart Release date: Dec. 14Dixie Revenge, Served Cold: Django Unchained Story: A freed slave joins a German bounty hunter to track down his wife and liberate her from a plantation owner. Why it could be cool: Quentin Tarantino, the most vivid writer-director of his generation, tackles the Civil War era with Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz voicing the dialog and dishing out the violence. Cautionary note: Some gentle souls are quivering over how Tarantino will handle touch subjects like slavery and forced prostitution. —Hugh Hart Release date: Dec. 25Let's Take a Ride: Cosmopolis Story: Taking place over 24 hours in Manhattan, Cosmopolis examines the heart and soul of the West through the story of a 28-year-old stock market millionaire (played by Robert Pattinson) who takes a drive across town in his limo to get a haircut. Why it could be cool: The movie is being directed by the always-surprising-us David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises) and based on a novel by Don DeLillo. So if "movie about a car ride" doesn't sound exciting just yet, consider the sources. If nothing else, it should be visually stunning and rife with compelling dialog. The film is also being scored by Howard Shore, the Oscar-winning composer behind the Lord of the Rings films. Cautionary note: Very little is known about this adaptation yet, so even though its creators are brilliant it's hard to anticipate exactly what they'll create, or how enthralling it might be. —Angela Watercutter Release date: 2012On the Road, and It's About Time Story: Don't make us trot out the dunce caps. You should probably have read On the Road well before college, so we're all scratching our heads why it took this long to transform the book into a film. David Cronenberg already made the previously unfilmable Naked Lunch, for Mugwump's sake! Why it could be cool: Jack Kerouac's timeless novel of geographical and metaphysical liberation in a '40s stuffed with sex, drugs, jazz and cars influenced everyone from Bob Dylan and The Doors to Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism. Walter Salles' On the Road film adaptation will star Tron Legacy's Garrett Hedlund and the Twilight franchise's Kristen Stewart for post-millennial fanboys and girls. Plus, Viggo Mortensen as William S. Burroughs? Sold! Cautionary note: Stream-of-consciousness is hard to contain. That's a philosophical way of saying that On the Road's 2012 release date has not been officially confirmed.—Scott Thill Release date: To be decided


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I'm sorry I haven't written on the blog in awhile. I haven't really being doing anything of my normal routine lately: partly to do with the upset with my agent, but mostly because I just moved in with my boyfriend.
Moving. Man, it's hard. It's really hard. It's harder than anyone ever remembers it being. I think we all block it out once we're in a new place. It shouldn't come as a shock how difficult it is, but for some reason it always does. How do I have so much stuff? What do I keep? What do I give away? Then of course there is the actual act of packing, moving, then unpacking. I know this is a first-world, middle-class problem. I'm ashamed that I have so much. (Although most of it is used, hand-me-downs, so I feel a little better that I'm helping keep things out of the landfills.) Seriously, how did I accumulate so much in four years?
It's overwhelming all this "stuff". It weighs me down physically and mentally. Part of me would love to just get rid of it all and live with only a couple of suitcases worth of belongings like I did for many years when I moved to England, then to Vancouver, then to Australia. Do I really need all of this?
Probably the worst thing in this particular move is moving into my boyfriend's apartment when he already has his rooms full. I will never ever move into a boyfriend's apartment again. I'm trying to carve out my own space, but it just feels like I'm staying over and never going home. Besides the fact that he's been away on business since I've officially been living here. It feels like I'm house-sitting in a way.
It will be better when he gets back and we can figure out together where things can go. There are stills boxes everywhere and an extra couch we are trying to get rid of that I have to step over to get around. I am living in a maze in which the walls could possibly fall over on me.
I know it's just "stuff". Things aren't important. People are. Love is. Experiences are. The way we live our lives is important. Things are just objects. They shouldn't affect me so much. I know that logically, but those things are overwhelming me right now and it's affecting everything in my life. I need my sanctuary, and I know I will find it here, it will just take a little time and a little more unpacking. And getting rid of some more of this "stuff".
Today I took my first few steps, did yoga for the first time since I moved in, wrote this blog, cleaned a space for myself in his apartment that I can write in and feel like it's mine. Today seems a little brighter than it was yesterday (and it is literally sunny out, while yesterday was rainy: pathetic fallacy?). There are tons of sayings about if you don't take the first steps, you can't ever get anywhere. I'm taking the first steps to get my life back on track. Today I decide not to be overwhelmed by the "stuff" and to do something about it.