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Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite films this year, but I'm not ready to declare the best film I've seen this year. Even though 2012 isn't over, there have been other films that I enjoyed more and worked slightly better for me. But Cloud Atlas is definitely the most important film I've seen this year in terms of what it represents from an industry perspective. It is an independent film with a major budget. The film had the technical resources to meet its grand ambition. The Wachowski Siblings and Tom Tykwer have been able to successfully craft their vision and do so outside the Hollywood system, which is good because Hollywood never would have made a movie Cloud Atlas. And if Cloud Atlas tanks, they never will.
You have the power to change that.
Hollywood executives like having jobs, and they are not unique in this regard. But a large part of their job is built on perception instead of economic reality. Studios, and therefore their executives, are judged based on the box office of the films they green light. Greenlight Ted and you've done well. Greenlight John Carter and you're cleaning out your office. Passing on a film can be just as dangerous; Tom Rothman passed on Ted, and that was reportedly one of the reasons he resigned from Fox after 18 years. And yet it's almost always a crapshoot. "Nobody knows anything," said William Goldman, and it's true in that no one knows what will be a hit. Unless you've got Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in your back pocket, there are no guaranteed grand slams. Even a film like The Avengers, a superhero extravaganza built from other successful super hero movies, took a chance simply by being the first film of its kind and placed on the shoulders of a writer-director whose first and only movie was a flop.
Even the term "flop" is a bit misleading, because box office is misleading. That's the perception Hollywood rests on because armchair analysts can look at the weekend's box office, hop over to Box Office Mojo for a reported budget (even though that budget, even if it's ballpark accurate, doesn't include prints and advertising), and then declare if a movie is a winner or loser. At best, box office is an indicator because most of the money is made through ancillary revenue streams: international distribution, DVDs, digital downloads, merchandising, licensing, TV rights, etc. So while John Carter will go down in history as a flop and Rich Ross lost his job in part because of it, the movie is not the end of Walt Disney Pictures even though it performed nowhere near what the studio wanted.
Most of the time an executive just wants cover for his or her decisions. Base a movie on a successful property, and then it's only a failure of marketing or timing should the movie bomb, although a big enough bomb will explode past the marketing excuse (and John Carter had an atrocious marketing campaign). Anything that's worked well once will surely work again, right? It doesn't matter as long as there's a rationale. However, even this isn't necessarily enough. After all, Cloud Atlas is based on an award-winning novel. But "Based on the Award-Winning Novel" isn't enough to get people to see a film automatically.
Warner Bros. has attempted to sell the film with its overarching narrative of reincarnation and interconnected lives. It's also released featurettes explaining the behind-the-scenes artistry in creating the film, although those featurettes are only seen online. The majority of the advertising—the theatrical trailer and the TV spots—are what most people will see, and there's no time to describe six plotlines. How do you tell people what to see if you can't describe it?
When people have asked me what they should go see, I recommend Cloud Atlas. When they ask me what it's about, I bring up the past-lives thing and then I provide the hook: actors playing multiple roles, and that usually gets them interested. Warner Bros. has been hesitant to show just how far the makeup has gone in terms of transforming the cast into different genders and races, and perhaps that's for the best. It's already caused some uninformed blowback from people who think that because actors like Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving are playing Koreans, the film is supporting yellowface (it should be noted that people who are making this criticism haven't actually seen the movie). As I said earlier, I don't envy the challenge of selling this film.
So I will do my part to help because Cloud Atlas isn't about the easy sell. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is an easy sell. The Transformers movies are easy sells. Just because something is easy, that doesn't make it good. If we want to demand films that break the mold, then we have to do our part. For those who groan about "They'll adapt anything!" or "They'll remake anything!", it doesn't always have to be like this. Yes, Hollywood will always go for the easy sell, but they can still find a way to sell like Warner Bros. has done to the best of their ability with Cloud Atlas. The difficulty is in getting the greenlight.
Supporting Cloud Atlas can be the cover an executive needs. Perhaps there is some naivety on my part, but when a movie is a hit, future films can be pitched as "X" meets "Y". After the Wachowskis' The Matrix, it was The Matrix meets "X". After Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run it was Run Lola Run meets "Y". Nothing prevents Cloud Atlas from having the same power unless no one goes to see it.
I'm asking you to take a chance. I'm asking you to ignore Rotten Tomatoes and the 66% "Fresh" Cloud Atlas holds, and to understand that Rotten Tomatoes is a rotten indicator of a film's quality; the movie is at 66% because it's divisive between "love it" and "hate it", not because it's average. I'm not saying you'll love Cloud Atlas. You may think I've wasted three hours of your time. But I haven't because this is bigger than one movie.
The Wachowskis and Tykwer had to scramble like crazy to make their vision come to life because they didn't have studio support. Yes, studio support can come with strings attached, but so can any film, and few would argue that we should kill all blockbusters because of that. I can't guarantee Hollywood will take greater chances if Cloud Atlas is a hit. What I can guarantee is that going to the movies isn't a one-sided transaction. You have the power to do more than settle. You have the power to take a chance on a big film with big ideas and big emotions. Don't underestimate what you can accomplish.
As one character in Cloud Atlas tells another, "Your life will amount to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." The other character responds, "What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?"
Cloud Atlas opens this weekend.


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verslibre wrote:Ditto on RSD. I only wanted the ELP Brain Salad Surgery 7" clear vinyl for the sleeve art. I got it after RSD...for peanuts! I don't even want to know what I would've paid had I been there on Saturday.
You have three LCS's within driving distance? I have three, but I only support one (the one that's currently been there the longest) because the owner's a cool guy and his back issue selection is righteous. Of the other two shops, one deals only newer titles (and recent back issues) and toys, and the other one blows (it's run by a really young guy who doesn't know what he's doing and doesn't know shit when it comes to customer service, so I hear).
TageRyche wrote:The treasury stuff is cool.
I like the DC Showcase Presents black and white reprints, but the company doesn't do those anymore.
Marvel's Essentials black and white reprints were good too.
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I LOVE those sets. I got all the horror stuff: House of Mystery 1-3, House of Secrets, Sinister House, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Godzilla, Marvel Horror and Silver Surfer Vol. 1. Also picked up a few Savage Sword of Conan and Solomon Kane sets. I need more.
I recently picked up the two FC Man-Thing: The Complete Collection volumes, too...for half-price. I prefer originals, but I'm missing quite a few and the pricing was too good to pass up.
I still have some of the DC digests and those cool FC DC/Marvel paperback collections from the '80s: Conan, Incredible Hulk, the Byrne run of Captain America, The Untold Story of the Batman, Titans, etc.
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Actress. Dancer. Do-gooder.
When Zoe Saldana witnessed a car accident near Los Angeles on Wednesday, she didn't wait for the cops or EMTs to come to the scene, TMZ reported.
The "Colombiana" star hurried to the aid of an elderly woman who was banged up in the crash — pulling over, helping the woman out of her car and calling 911, since the woman's face was bloodied.
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Saldana then stuck around to retrieve the woman's belongings from her car and to keep her company until an ambulance arrived, according to Us Weekly.
The 33-year-old actress has made headlines most recently for her new relationship with her "The Words" co-star Bradley Cooper. She had split from fiancé Keith Britton back in November after 11 years together.
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Court Orders Manipur Security Forces Review
India's Supreme Court this week ordered an independent investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings in the northeastern state of Manipur, where a low-level separatist insurgency continues to bubble.
The order on Monday marked the first time the court has demanded a probe into what activists say are "fake encounters," or alleged murders by security forces that later falsely report the killings as the result of conflicts with armed insurgents.
The Supreme Court's order came in response to a petition filed last year by a group that represents the relatives of over 1,500 people who were allegedly executed by security forces in the state since the late 1970s.
The Supreme Court appointed a three-member commission to immediately begin investigating six of the killings referred to in the petition.
The commission – made up of former Supreme Court judge Santosh Hedge, former Chief Election Commissioner of India J.M. Lyngdoh and Ajay Kumar Singh, the former head of police in Karnataka state – will be tasked with reviewing whether authorities are doing enough to ensure that security forces don't overstep their powers and to ensure those guilty of crimes are held accountable.
"We are clearly of the view that this matter requires further careful and deeper consideration," said judges Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai, citing preliminary judicial inquiries that found no evidence to suggest many of the victims were members of illegal groups. They reiterated that extrajudicial killings "are simply not permitted by the Constitution."
In a response to the court, the state and central government denied allegations of fake encounters in Manipur, saying these are all cases of people killed in counter-insurgency operations.
Laws shield security forces from prosecution in Manipur, where separatist insurgents have been battling Indian forces since the 1950s. They include the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a controversial law that gives soldiers immunity from prosecution when on duty unless the government allows otherwise. It was first introduced in Manipur and elsewhere in India's northeast in the late 1950s, at the height of an insurgency that today has been largely crushed.
The act, which was extended to the region of Kashmir in the early 1990s, allows army officers to use lethal force "for the maintenance of public order, after giving such due warning as he may consider necessary."
New Delhi says these laws are needed to counter insurgents and to keep peace. But critics say they allow human rights abuses to go unchecked.
The commission appointed by the Supreme Court this week will investigate cases including that of Azad Khan, a minor who was allegedly killed by security forces in 2009. In their plea to the court, petitioners said Mr. Khan's killing was unprovoked, and that soldiers dragged him into a paddy field where he was shot.
The state government denied this, saying Mr. Khan, suspected of being an insurgent, fired on soldiers first who then responded to his attack, according to court documents.
But the Supreme Court order goes beyond a request to investigate specific allegations of fake encounters. It demands the commission to produce a broader report on whether the actions of security forces in Manipur "transgress" the law and, if so, to make "recommendations for keeping the police and the security forces within the legal bounds without compromising the fight against insurgency."
This is the first time that the court has demanded a report on the conduct of police and army in Manipur. "That question has not been asked by the court before," says a person familiar with the case.
At least some officials in Manipur welcomed the court's order. "Only independent inquiries like this can set the facts right," D.S. Poonia, the chief secretary of Manipur, the highest ranking bureaucrat in the state, told India Real Time. A state government spokesman could not be reached for comment.
The court said that, for now, it will not look into whether the Armed Forces Special Powers Act should be repealed from Manipur, as human rights activists have been demanding.
Last year, Christof Heyns, one of the United Nation's top human rights experts, called for India to repeal the law nationwide, saying it "has no role to play in a democracy and should be scrapped."
Whether to phase out army immunity laws has long been a divisive issue in India and one that has already been brought to the attention of the Supreme Court. In 1997, the court ruled that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act did not violate the Constitution.
In its 1997 ruling, the court also issued guidelines to prevent human rights violations in areas where the act is in force. These include provisions that suspects be taken to a police station as fast as possible and be given a fair trial.
The new commission appointed by the Supreme Court is expected to look into whether these security forces are adhering to these guidelines.
Under the act, the army is supposed to try human rights abuses via court martial but rarely does. Last year, the court criticized the army for failing to investigate allegations soldiers killed innocent civilians in Kashmir in 2000. A few months later, in September, the army began trying the accused officers.
The Supreme Court requested the commission to release its findings within three months, or by April 1, 2013.
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Bears cornerback Charles Tillman is hoping that his wife doesn't go into labor until Monday, but he said in a radio interview on Wednesday that he would miss the Bears' Sunday night game against the Texans if he needed to be at the hospital with his wife.
Tillman said that family was his first priority, something driven home when one of his other daughters was born with a rare heart condition. Mike Florio of PFT and others have taken issue with Tillman's stance, but that group does not include Tillman's coach or one of his teammates.
"It's family first," Bears coach Lovie Smith said, via Adam Jahns of the Chicago Sun-Times. "If there is something you feel like you need to do for your family always do that. How we look at it is like an injury. If a player can't go, it's next guy up. We'll keep going."
"It's take care of your family. We understand how things are run around here," wide receiver Brandon Marshall said. "This is a special group. Coach Smith is a special guy, definitely in how he runs things, and … you take on the character of your leader. That's what he preaches — family comes first."
You can't really preach the importance of family and then say that Sundays are a different story. If the Bears are okay with Tillman missing the game and Tillman is okay with missing the game, it's hard to imagine there's much more of a story here regardless of the decision that Tillman makes.


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Clayton Kershaw wins second Cy Young Award
Kershaw joins Sandy Koufax as the only Dodgers to win multiple Cy Youngs
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed pitcher Clayton Kershaw was named the 2013 National League Cy Young Award winner today, his second-career selection, in voting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Kershaw earned 29 of 30 first-place votes and one second-place vote, garnering 207 total points.
"Winning this award a second time is every bit as special as it was the first time around," said Kershaw. "I want to especially thank my teammates and coaches for helping place me in such amazing company."
Kershaw previously won the award in 2011, receiving 27 first-place votes (of 32) and 207 points, and was the runner-up last year (two first-place votes, 96 points) behind New York's R.A. Dickey (209 points).
"Congratulations to Clayton on his second Cy Young Award in three years," said Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten. "This is an extraordinary accomplishment by an incredible player and person. I'm sure that when our fans discuss the long legacy of great Dodger pitchers, the name Kershaw will stand convincingly alongside Koufax, Drysdale, Newcombe, Sutton, Valenzuela and Hershiser."
"Once again, Clayton Kershaw has shown the world that he is the best pitcher in Major League Baseball," said Dodger Owner Earvin "Magic" Johnson. "I'm so proud of his accomplishments both on and off the field. He is everything a true Dodger represents and the city of Los Angeles should take tremendous pride in that."
A Dodger has now won the award a Major League-best 11 times as Kershaw joins Sandy Koufax as the only pitchers in franchise history with multiple Cy Young Awards. Overall, Kershaw is just the 17th all-time pitcher to win multiple Cy Youngs since the award was instituted in 1956 and the fifth to win the honor twice before the age of 26, joining Denny McClain (1968-69), Bret Saberhagen (1985, 1989), Roger Clemens (1986-87) and Tim Lincecum (2008-09).
"Congratulations to Clayton on a great year and a most deserving Cy Young honor," said Dodger Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, who won Cy Young Awards in 1963, 1965 and 1966. "This is the second of many more to come. He's got quite a future ahead of him."
Kershaw went 16-9 with a Major League-leading 1.83 ERA in 33 starts this season, becoming just the third pitcher since 1900 to top the big leagues in ERA in three consecutive seasons along with Lefty Grove (Philadelphia Athletics, 1929-31) and Greg Maddux (Atlanta Braves, 1993-95). Among pitchers with more than 220.0 innings in a single season, Kershaw's ERA was the lowest by a Major Leaguer since Dwight Gooden's 1.53 mark in 1985 and overall, he was just the third qualifying pitcher since 2000, joining Clemens (1.87, 2005 Houston) and Pedro Martinez (1.74, 2000 Boston), and second all-time Los Angeles Dodger hurler to post a sub-2.00 ERA (Koufax, three times: 1963, 1964, 1966).
Kershaw also led the Majors this season with a 0.92 WHIP and ranked among the NL leaders in wins (T-3rd), strikeouts (232, 1st), opponents' batting average (.195, 2nd), quality starts (27, 1st), shutouts (2, T-1st), complete games (3, T-3rd), pickoffs (7, 2nd) and innings pitched (236.0, 2nd).
"It is a great achievement and recognition of one of the finest pitchers and people in the game," said Dodger General Manager Ned Colletti.
The 25-year-old commenced his third-consecutive All-Star season with a shutout of the Giants on Opening Day, his third consecutive Opening Day start for the Dodgers and, with 16.0 scoreless innings during the season's opening week, was named the NL's Pitcher of the Week. Kershaw also won league honors in July, when he was selected NL Pitcher of the Month with a 4-1 record and a 1.34 ERA (7 ER/47.0 IP) in six starts in the month.
Kershaw was previously honored this year with the Roy Campanella Award as the "most inspirational Dodger," the Players Choice Award for Outstanding National League Pitcher, a selection to Sporting News' NL All-Star Team and the Warren Spahn Award as the game's top left-hander.
Kershaw has gone 77-46 in 184 games (182 starts) in six professional seasons and since making his MLB debut in 2008, he leads the Majors with a 2.60 ERA and a .211 opponents' batting average. His career ERA is the lowest among pitchers with at least 1000.0 innings pitched and 100 starts since the start of the Live Ball Era in 1920. Kershaw was originally selected by the Dodgers in the first round (seventh overall) in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft out of Highland Park (Texas) High School.
Kershaw and his wife, Ellen, have also made an impact off the field through their charitable work in Los Angeles, their hometown of Dallas and abroad, with the couple visiting Africa again next week. Clayton and Ellen hosted a charity event this past August, Ping Pong 4 Purpose, to raise money for their charity organization, Kershaw's Challenge, which encourages people to make a difference by giving back to at-risk children and communities in need. The charity has provided assistance to a variety of organizations, including to its cornerstone charity, "Arise Africa," which helped the Kershaws build and sustain an orphanage for children in Lusaka, Zambia, called "Arise Home," along with Sharefest in Southern California and Mercy Street in Dallas. For his charity work, Kershaw was recognized by Major League Baseball with the 2012 Roberto Clemente Award as the baseball player who best represents the game through positive contributions on and off the field, including sportsmanship and community involvement. In addition, the Rotary Club of Denver will recognize him this weekend with the 2013 Branch Rickey Award, which honors individuals in baseball who contribute unselfishly to their communities and who are strong role models for young people.
Voting Results:
Pitcher, Club 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Points
Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers 29 1 207
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis Cardinals 1 15 4 1 5 86
Jose Fernandez, Miami Marlins 9 3 5 7 62
Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta Braves 4 1 8 4 39
Matt Harvey, New York Mets 1 8 4 3 39
Cliff Lee, Philadelphia Phillies 6 6 2 32
Jordan Zimmerman, Washington Nationals 6 3 21
Zack Greinke, Los Angeles Dodgers 2 4 4 18
Madison Bumgarner, San Francisco Giants 1 1 3
Francisco Liriano, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 1 3
Previous winners (* - Unanimous):
2012 R.A. Rickey, New York Mets; 2011 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers; 2010 *Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies; 2009 Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants; 2008 Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants; 2007 *Jake Peavy, San Diego Padres; 2006 Brandon Webb, Arizona Diamondbacks; 2005 Chris Carpenter, St. Louis Cardinals; 2004 Roger Clemens, Houston Astros; 2003 Eric Gagne, Los Angeles Dodgers; 2002 *Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks; 2001 Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks; 2000 Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks; 1999 Randy Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks 1998 Tom Glavine, Atlanta Braves; 1997 Pedro Martinez, Montreal Expos; 1996 John Smoltz, Atlanta Braves; 1995 *Greg Maddux, Atlanta Braves; 1994 *Greg Maddux, Atlanta Braves; 1993 Greg Maddux, Atlanta Braves; 1992 Greg Maddux, Chicago Cubs; 1991 Tom Glavine, Atlanta Braves; 1990 Doug Drabek, Pittsburgh Pirates; 1989 Mark Davis, San Diego Padres; 1988 *Orel Hershiser, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1987 Steve Bedrosian, Philadelphia Phillies; 1986 Mike Scott, Houston Astros; 1985 *Dwight Gooden, New York Mets; 1984 *Rick Sutcliffe, Chicago Cubs; 1983 John Denny, Philadelphia Phillies; 1982 Steve Carlton, Philadelphia Phillies; 1981 Fernando Valenzuela, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1980 Steve Carlton, Philadelphia Phillies; 1979 Bruce Sutter, Chicago Cubs; 1978 Gaylord Perry, San Diego Padres; 1977 Steve Carlton, Philadelphia Phillies; 1976 Randy Jones, San Diego Padres; 1975 Tom Seaver, New York Mets; 1974 Mike Marshall, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1973 Tom Seaver, New York Mets; 1972 *Steve Carlton, Philadelphia Phillies; 1971 Ferguson Jenkins, Chicago Cubs; 1970 Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals; 1969 Tom Seaver, New York Mets; 1968 *Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals; 1967 Mike McCormick, San Francisco Giants; 1966 *Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1965 *Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1963 *Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1962 Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers; 1960 Vernon Law, Pittsburgh Pirates; 1957 Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves; 1956 Don Newcombe, Brooklyn Dodgers.
Note: One award given from 1956-66; AL pitchers won in 1958-59, '61 and '64.


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The Whale Hunter
Steve Cyr has 72 hours in which to make $300,000. If he succeeds, it will require many sessions of high altitude gambling, endless schmoozing, world-class coddling, a bit of lying, a few dozen Super Bowl tickets, and the kind of bad luck that brings even the most resilient high rollers to their knees.
Though Cyr's fortunes hinge on high-stakes action, he himself is not a gambler. Well, not exactly. He is a whale hunter, a sobriquet for a person who wrangles the industry's biggest players and sets them up to risk millions of dollars at games in which the long-term odds are hopelessly tilted against them. For this particular weekend, which coincides with the 2003 Super Bowl, Cyr has flown in 16 big players -- whales in casino parlance -- their 25 guests, and credit lines that total $3 million to the Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino, a posh gambling complex that opened near San Diego last December. If they all go through their money (far from an impossibility, but an admitted long shot), Cyr, who consults for eight other casinos in Las Vegas and the Caribbean, will go home with a juicy cut of their losses. "And if they all win," says the strapping and hyperactive 39-year-old Cyr, "then I go home with nothing." The subject of a forthcoming book called Whale Hunt in the Desert by Deke Castleman hesitates for a beat and smirks. "But you know that's not going to happen. It'd be impossible."
You can't throw something like this together overnight. In November, when gamblers were still talking about the World Series, Cyr, who cut his teeth by telemarketing vitamins, was already in sales mode. Working out of his home office in Vegas, he called 60 of his best players. Speaking cockily, he initiated a series of conversations that began something like this: "Hey, buddy. It's Steve Cyr. Listen, you better fucking book your flight to San Diego."
Well acquainted with the Cyr spiel, the whale bites: "Why?"
"I got Super Bowl tickets," Cyr says.
This is nothing special. If you're a big player, every casino in Vegas is begging you to come down for the Super Bowl. The whale tells Cyr as much. "Caesars is gonna take me. I've already talked to them about it."
Undaunted, Cyr turns up the heat. "No, man. This is completely different. We're going to be staying in San Diego, at the Barona. Tell the wife you're taking her somewhere nice for a change. We'll limo to the game instead of flying in, put you up in a beautiful villa, and take you out to play golf with a bunch of NFL stars on the best new course in the state."
Knowing that nobody will seriously commit in November, Cyr lets the idea simmer for a while with his players. Then he tells the Barona that he'll need 35 to 40 tickets. A couple weeks later he calls his people again. Over the next two months, Cyr sweet-talks their wives with promises of lavish spa treatments in San Diego, woos the men with the Barona's deluxe invitations (including balls signed by John Elway and other National Football League greats), and talks up the Barona as if it's Valhalla with blackjack.
By late December he's got his lineup of players, but he knows that New Year's Eve can change everything. "Let's say one of my big guys comes to Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and blows $3 million around town. Now, suddenly, he's snapped," laments Cyr. "He'll want to come to the Super Bowl, but I don't want him here. If he loses here, I'll be last on his list to get my money. Plus, he'll gamble over his head to try to win back the money to pay the other casinos. He's what we call a chaser. I don't want chasers here for the Super Bowl."
So Cyr spends the first week of January reviewing credit information from Central Credit, the Equifax of gaming. He notices that one of his guys went on a bender, doing particular damage to himself at the Venetian's blackjack tables. Cyr needs to distance himself from the guy. He makes a phone call: "Hey, buddy. I hear you really fired it up at the Venetian. Yeah, well, there's a problem with the Super Bowl. They've got this weird law in California: if you owe money to one joint, you can't get credit from any of the places here." Cyr sounds sincerely sorry and suitably somber, but later reveals, "That's complete bullshit. But it works for me."
Another player, one whom Cyr desperately wants, makes an obscene request: He'd like the casino to send a Gulfstream G-3 jet for him and his friends. Private air transport for a dozen people will cost the Barona $75,000. Initially, the casino balks at this expense. But Cyr goes to bat for his player. "The cost of the G-3 isn't more than two of this guy's bets. On top of that, it guarantees that he'll show up on Thursday night instead of Friday or Saturday. Every casino in Vegas is trying to get him in for the Super Bowl. If we're set to fly in him and his friends, he can't back out." The player, whose $1.5 million line of credit makes him particularly alluring, gets his G-3.
Just days before kickoff, Cyr is still going back and forth with the customer who's indebted to the Venetian, but now he's dangling bait. "I'm telling him that I've got a pair of great seats waiting for him, but he needs to bring us a cashier's check for 50 grand; then it'll be fine," explains Cyr. "The guys asks me if he can get credit from us by paying off the Venetian. I tell him that'd be fine as well. The Venetian doesn't know it, but I'm working on getting them their money."
In debt or not, this gambler is more valued than others, as evidenced by a different player who also has a decimated credit line. "I'm telling him that we weren't able to get any decent seats and I don't want to waste his time. So we'll take a pass now and do something together in the future." As Cyr might put it: It's complete bullshit, but it works.
It seems as if Steve Cyr was born for the game. The son of a Howard Johnson's hotelier, Cyr grew up in Salina, Kansas. He had every intention of going into the family business, even going so far as to attend University of NevadañLas Vegas's hotel management school with that purpose in mind. But while interning at the Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino on the Strip, Cyr discovered that Vegas was a lot more interesting than Kansas and decided to stay.
Cyr's first casino job was at Caesars Palace, where he arranged dinner comps and the like for players who were too small for credit lines. One of his big breaks came after he dumpster-dived outside of a competing casino and retrieved a long list of big-betting customers. Employing the garbage-stained information, Cyr used his brash telephone style to steal business and quickly found himself on the path to success. Relentless salesmanship, intense attention to details, the willingness to play dirty, and a knack for making gamblers feel that he was working for them instead of for the casino all contributed to make Cyr one of the top casino hosts in Las Vegas. Cyr, whose best months have netted him more than $90,000, walks a fine line between the house and the suckers. While he and the casino clearly share a financial interest in seeing players lose, Cyr has a way of getting as much as he possibly can for his guys. "My guys know that I'm not a corporate dick who only cares about keeping a job and getting a bonus," says Cyr. "I need to make the house happy, but I also make sure my players are happy."
Cyr is a bundle of raw nerves and high energy three nights before the big game. He walks through the suites that his players will soon occupy, making sure the appropriate music is on (Stones for one guy, Eagles for another), tuning the TVs to ESPN, fiddling with lights and leaving a few Cohiba Lanceros in some rooms and big bottles of Grey Goose vodka in others. "First impression," he says, sliding open a balcony door, "is everything."
One downside to the Barona is that the casino hasn't acquired its liquor license yet. The Barona is compensating by placing single-serving bottles of booze in its rooms. Cyr knows that these won't cut it with his hardest-drinking players, so he's sending bellhops and butlers out on liquor runs. This way, Cyr can provide full-size bottles that will augment the pewter flasks he's purchased so that his players can do all the drinking they want, wherever they want. "When people drink, it gets their adrenaline going and they play more," says Tanya Chiodina, Cyr's girlfriend and partner. A former bartender at the Pink Taco restaurant at Vegas's Hard Rock Casino, Chiodina initially ingratiated herself to Cyr by providing him with inside info on the bar's highest-betting patrons.
By Thursday night, Cyr's biggest player, a man we'll call Mr. G-3, has checked in. He likes the luxe but comfortable 4,200-square-foot room, with its leather and rustic earth tones, fireplace, Jacuzzi and butler. But the player seems to be even more impressed by the Barona's private gaming room. Unique to the Barona, it's a sanctum, located below the standard high-rollers room, where the biggest whales can gamble in absolute privacy. Abstract art dots the walls of the comfortable wood-paneled lounge, which features a giant-screen TV and a large table loaded with hors
d'oeuvres. Mr. G-3 likes it so much that he's soon playing blackjack for $30,000 to $50,000 per hand, and spewing expletives as he quickly falls behind by some $400,000. Not quite a third of Mr. G-3's credit line, but it's enough to play havoc with the guy's emotional equilibrium.
Soon after he cashes in for his fifth stack of $100,000 in chips, however, something remarkable happens: Mr. G-3 begins to win. And win. And win. Face cards appear to be his inalienable right and in 30 minutes the $400,000 deficit becomes a $500,000 credit. Knowing better than to push things beyond that, he tips the dealer $2,000 and heads to his room for dinner.
While Cyr is less than thrilled -- although you'd never know it from the enthusiasm he shows during his player's upswing -- he tries to look at things philosophically. "Mr. G-3 is here from Thursday through Sunday. When do I want him to win half a million? Tonight. If this guy is gonna have a run, I'm glad it happened now." What if it's still going strong on Sunday? "Then," Cyr deadpans, "I throw up in a trash can."
By Friday afternoon, most of Cyr's players are in town or at least on their way. He's in constant touch with limo drivers and the players themselves, checking on the progress of the trip, making sure everything is fine (i.e. that they haven't been hijacked by competing casinos, which is always a possibility), keeping them charged up for the weekend. Because of its private gaming room, the Barona has a Bat Caveñstyle entry system: limos with high rollers pull into a marble covered garage and players walk a few feet from the car to the casino, coming in no contact with the low rollers. A special concierge from the private room checks in the high rollers and guys can start gambling before their bags are unpacked.
On Friday night, following a buffet dinner with a group of National Football League legends (Dick Butkus and John Elway among them), players proceed to the private gaming room. Most of them are having a blast and all are wagering anywhere from $500 to $50,000 per hand, though Cyr has some wrinkles to work out. One player insists that he has to "play on the rim" -- i.e., that he wants to receive chips without signing markers and with the verbal promise that he will settle up after each session -- but the casino isn't crazy about this. Cyr convinces management to let it go.
Mr. G-3 wants to split aces four times, a casino no-no. Cyr has a tense conversation with his bosses, and the Barona relents. "That thing with splitting the aces could have turned ugly and pissed off the whole world," Cyr says as the action goes on, unabated, behind him. "Once, at the Hilton, Mr. G-3 got mad at me. He immediately packed up his bags and left. If he got mad at me now, he could call the MGM, tell them to pick him up, and they'd have a car here in 20 minutes."
A half hour or so later, Cyr notices a few of his players spacing out at the blackjack table and making smallish bets to a matronly dealer. Cyr momentarily disappears behind closed doors and the old lady is suddenly replaced by a stunning, leggy blonde. "Who would you rather have dealing to you?" he asks rhetorically upon his return.
The next morning, on the fringe of the Barona's award-winning golf course, alfresco breakfast is served to the high rollers in attendance. The foursomes get finalized (each group comprises three gamblers and a former professional football player) and the players practice their golf swings. Cyr circulates, too busy schmoozing to eat, chatting up his players, checking on everyone's progress in the casino, making sure they're satisfied with their golfing partners and accommodations. Before heading to the practice green, a big player from Vegas checks on Cyr's progress. He's well aware that $300,000 is Cyr's dream for this weekend, and he wants to know how the other gamblers are doing. "They're doing great," says Cyr, sounding a little down. "Everyone's winning. I don't stand to make a penny off of this whole thing."
The Vegas player tells Cyr he's sorry to hear that. I'm shocked to find out that the impossible is happening. "It was total bullshit," Cyr tells me once his Vegas buddy is out of earshot. "My customers are losing six figures, so I'm ahead $13,000. But Mr. G-3 had another winning night. Now he's up $1.4 million."
While the gamblers golf, Cyr and his girlfriend hang around the hotel lobby, working out details. He slips a bellhop a couple hundred bucks and tells him to pick up more big bottles of booze, thinks about his indebted gambler in Las Vegas ("He never got back to me; that means he never paid the Venetian like he said he would), and works hard to untangle a problem for a player with a $100,000 line of credit who now wants to wager $15,000 per hand. "But we're not gonna let him bet 15 percent of what the Barona might win," Cyr says. "You can bet five percent of your credit line, so he needs a $300,000 line of credit. He doesn't really qualify at that level, but I'm going to get him up to $10,000 a hand. He'll bet higher than usual, he'll steam and he'll get snapped. He thinks I'm doing him a favor."
Cyr's finally gets some down time and he's contemplating spending the afternoon at the beach with Chiodina. While considering what to do, he acknowledges that there is absolutely nothing spur-of-the-moment about the way in which things here have been scheduled. The casino has invested more than $1 million to woo its players this weekend, spending money on everything from mingling NFL stars to Super Bowl tickets to the G-3, and very little is left to chance. "Today the guys' wives will be at a spa until 6 p.m.," explains Cyr. "Golf ends in the afternoon, so that leaves a good-sized window of time for the guys to fire things up before dinner. Then they have to come down to the casino at around 9 p.m. tonight to pick up their Super Bowl tickets. Think anybody won't want to do that? By then it's too late to go barhopping in San Diego and too early to go to bed. There's nothing for them to do but gamble."
A bellhop walks by and acts like Cyr's new best friend -- Cyr reveals that he gave the guy a $60 tip for picking up liquor last night. Then Cyr catches the eye of a parking valet. "Hey, buddy," he calls out. "I'm ready for you to bring up the monster."
Monster? "My 360 horsepower Trans Am. It was a toke from two customers. I hooked them up on a million-dollar stock deal. They wanted to give me a Porsche, but I told them that I'm stuck on American cars."
By Saturday night, the Barona's private gaming room is crowded, with most of Cyr's customers putting in their time at the tables, making the kinds of bets that would have them coveted by any casino. Mr. G-3 is still averaging $38,000 per hand of blackjack and showing no signs of slowing down. He's going so strong that he turns to the NFL Hall of Famer alongside him -- a guy betting "only" $500 per hand -- and starts slipping him $5,000 chips. "If you win this hand," says Mr. G-3, "you give me back the five. If you lose, don't worry about it. How's that sound?" The retired pro smiles and replies, "I'll take that deal all night long."
Mr. G-3, who's on a monster run but giving the casino every opportunity to win back its money, declares that he wants a Mercedes-Benz before he'll continue playing. Everybody laughs this off, and he keeps on betting. But, Cyr tells me, "He's half joking. And if he were losing as much as he's winning, the casino would give him a car. Wouldn't you give somebody a $50,000 car in exchange for a million dollars in losses?" Cyr lets this hang in the air for a moment, then he adds, "But we wouldn't ship the car to him. We'd make him come here and pick it up."
The next morning, Cyr juggles tickets and transportation and determines who should sit in the 12th-row seats and who should be in the skybox, who needs to go by limo and who needs to be part of a large, raucous group in one of the casino's luxury SUVs. Mr. G-3 strolls in and seems extraordinarily happy. He's practically singing as he leads his group of 12 into one of the SUVs. "He's ahead $2.1 million," Cyr says, acknowledging that he still stands to make plenty of money (his pay is based on the performance of each player rather than cumulative wins and losses). "What [the casino] doesn't think about is that he also could have lost $6 million. When somebody complains about a guy like Mr. G-3 winning, I tell them to sit down for five hours and play $38,000-per-hand blackjack and they can see how they do."
The Super Bowl is a blowout and plenty of Cyr's gamblers make big wagers on the wrong side, but nobody seems to mind. The field-level seats are fabulous, and in the skybox a waitress keeps the room stocked with food and drink. Anyone who gets sick of sitting outside and watching the game can come in to view it on one of the monitors while fixing a platter of food.
Back at the Barona that night, the gamblers shower, shave and pile into the casino's steak house before settling down for a final night of gambling. Satisfied with his $2.1 million in winnings, Mr. G-3 cashes out (despite an earlier prediction, Cyr does not throw up into a trash can). Other guys bet their limits, but don't lose prodigiously enough for Cyr to come anywhere close to his rainbow of $300,000. In the end, only four of his 16 players are losers. This rare bit of luck (good for them, bad for him) is salved by the fact that Cyr now owns these guys at the Barona. For the next year, he will receive a percentage of their losses there, and he is confident that they will return and lose.
Considering that he's leaving San Diego with an $18,000 take, Cyr admits that he's a little disappointed. Then he shrugs and says, "Hey, it ain't $300,000. But it ain't bad, either. And I got to go to the Super Bowl."
Michael Kaplan is CIGAR AFICIONADO's gambling columnist.


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Watch the first trailer for the rebooted vampire staple Fright Night. So far we're already seeing great upgrades (vampire Jerry locks ladies in his creepy prison) and a few nods to the original: the apple and the club seduction scene.
Spoilers ahead...
We don't need our vampires to go full blown 30 Days of Night to be frightening. The biggest appeal to vampires is that they are both sexy and dangerous (think Interview With the Vampire). But lately, vamps have either been sexy, stupid, or gruesome.
So it's great that this new Fright Night looks like it could restore the balance of vampire classics like The Hunger. Colin Farrell looks great as vampire Jerry, and we can't wait to see more of David Tennant as the "Peter Vincent" character from the original, now upgraded to a Criss Angel-type magician.
For more information, and to watch the whole thing in awesome HD, head over to IGN. Fright Night hits theaters August 19th, 2011.


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I like this case because the patentee's attorney really tried all what could possibly be done in order to establish an inventive step. As the Board did its job well, too, he has failed, but it sure was an honourable defeat.
[...] The patent in suit is directed to a composition for preventing or retarding the formation of gas hydrates. Such compositions already belong to the state of the art as illustrated by document D15, which uses these compositions in order to prevent the formation of gas hydrates. [4.1]
[…] Having regard to this prior art document, the [patentee] submitted that the technical problem underlying the patent in suit was to provide further compositions inhibiting the formation of gas hydrates. [4.3]
As solution to this problem the patent in suit proposes the compositions according to claim 1, which are characterized by the fact that the ether as second additive is one of the listed six individual glycol ethers. [4.4]
[…] In D15 the formation of gas hydrates is inhibited by adding a combination of a first and a second additive, wherein the first additive is a water soluble polymer […] and the second additive is an organic compound, such as ethers. Thus, any composition including those, which contain one of the six individual ethers of the patent in suit, is within the ambit envisaged by the general disclosure of D15 and is taught to be suitable for inhibiting the formation of gas hydrates. The choice of a specific combination of a particular water soluble polymer and a particular ether, i.e. a polyvinyl caprolactam homopolymer and one of the individual six glycol ethers as indicated in present claim 1, has not been shown to result in any technical benefit vis-à-vis the closest state of the art. Therefore, this choice can neither be treated as critical nor as purposive for solving the technical problem underlying the patent in suit, but merely as an arbitrary restriction of no particular technical significance.
A list of further compounds, which according to D15 are also suitable as second additive for inhibiting the formation of gas hydrates and providing a synergistic inhibition effect, explicitly discloses the compound "2-butoxy ethanol". This name is another expression for the identical ether compound named "ethylene glycol monobutyl ether" in claim 1 of the patent in suit. Thus, the skilled person had a clear and direct teaching in the closest prior art D15 itself on how to solve the technical problem of providing an alternative, namely to use 2-butoxy ethanol as second additive, thereby arriving at the solution proposed by the patent in suit.
For these reasons the subject-matter of claim 1 of the patent in suit turns out to be merely the result of an arbitrary choice made within the ambit of D15 and thus is obvious from the closest prior art alone. [4.7]
The [patentee], however, brought forward that D15 clearly focussed on achieving a synergistic inhibition effect, which could not be obtained with other than the specific combinations of polymers and organic compounds exemplified in Table 1. Therefore, a skilled person would not have dismantled or modified these particular synergistically effective combinations described in that document. However, since the objective technical problem consists merely in providing alternative compositions inhibiting the formation of gas hydrates the presence of a synergistic effect or not is not part of the technical problem to be solved, and therefore is irrelevant for the assessment of inventive step. [4.7.1]
[…] Further, the [patentee] argued that the passage on page 12 indicated that the authors of D15 only "believe[d]" that the synergistic inhibition effect will be observed when using 2-butoxy ethanol implying that they have not been certain thereon. Therefore, in the absence of any expectation of success the skilled man would not have seriously taken these alternatives into consideration. However, when assessing inventive step it is not necessary to establish that the success of an envisaged solution of a technical problem was certain. In order to render a solution obvious it is sufficient to establish that the skilled person would have followed the teaching of the prior art with a reasonable expectation of success (see T 249/88 [8]; T 1053/93 [5.14]; and T 318/02 [2.7.2]). In the present case the passage referred to rather indicates that the proposed alternatives have simply not yet been realized, but gives a clear and direct pointer to the skilled person, which makes it obvious to try the proposed alternatives in order to provide a solution to the technical problem underlying the patent in suit. Therefore, this argument of the [patentee] cannot succeed. [4.7.2]
Further, the [patentee] brought forward that due to the length of the list of possible alternatives indicated [in] D15, a skilled person would have had no incentive to specifically select 2-butoxy ethanol. However, the simple number of alternatives which a skilled person had at his disposition when looking for alternative compositions has no impact on the assessment of obviousness, since a mere arbitrary choice from a host of possible solutions does not in itself involve inventive ingenuity (T 939/92 [2.5.2-3]) [4.7.3]
The [patentee] stated further that D15 did not contain any indication of particularly combining the polyvinyl caprolactam homopolymer disclosed in Table 1 of D15 with 2-butoxy ethanol listed on page 12. However, a disclosure of that particular combination would amount to a disclosure anticipating the subject-matter of claim 1, which is not a prerequisite for successfully attacking inventive step.
The [opponent's] objection that there is no pointer to this specific combination cannot convince the Board because this is asking for a condition to be met which is meaningless in a situation where the claimed solution merely consists in selecting components at random within the ambit of D15, as no improvement is attributable to the use of the claimed ethers of claim 1 over those defined in D15. [4.7.4]
For these reasons, the Board concludes that the subject-matter of claim 1 of the main request and, due to its identical wording, also the subject-matter of claim 1 of the auxiliary request do not involve an inventive step as required in A 56. Consequently, the main request and the auxiliary request are not allowable. [5]
I like the expression 'inventive ingenuity' used by the Board, but I am not sure that it really corresponds to a requirement of the EPC. And I definitely do not encounter it very often in the inventions I try to protect. ;-)
NB: This decision has also been commented here (in French).
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Do you remember LA Face? Click here if you need a refresher on LA Face. Dude, Catherine Zeta-Jones is walking around with LA Face. A bad case of LA Face. LA Face was on display last night at the Tony Awards where she won Best Actress in a Musical. LA Face and Whitney House sweaty face. My smutty sense is raging on several fronts. You?
But she was so f-cking Extra.
Watch her from the moment they announce her name. And the stupid faces she's making in mock disbelief with Michael Douglas. And the vaudeville moves she works all the way up to the stage. What is happening here? She thinks she's royalty. Zeta, you are not Elizabeth Taylor.
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Shandell's will be joining The Market at Fitch's Corner Horse Trials this year,July 24 & 25. The horse trials are a yearly event, beside the glorious horses that come from all over, there is a tent full of fabulous finds. There will be over 40 shops for you to enjoy.
Shandell's will be bringing wonderful array of one of a kind pieces for the weekend, lots to make you smile.
The Spectator Luncheon benefits the the Millbrook Rescue Squad, which is held on Saturday. As well as horses there is also a Collector Car Parade is an exhibition of antique and vintage automobiles.
If you are a horse lover, as I am or just want a wonderful event to support, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Located in the center of Millbrook hunt country in Dutchess County, 2 hours north of New York City.
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I am blaming my lower back pain on a massage I had after my last tournament. I played 3 sets yesterday and 3 sets today. Time to hit the ice!
Ice really works.
Any time a client tells me something hurts I ask if they have iced it. Usually the answer is no! Crazy people...
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Ice, that cold painful stuff?! No, thanks. lol
you mean that stuff i use to keep the beer cold. you can used that for your body?
I eat rice, is that the same thing?
Me use ice-cream,does that count??
ahha for real. I just started using ice and it feels like the trainers were on to something =)
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Three former Blackfeet tribal leaders will serve three years of probation for holding illegal big-game hunts for country musicians that were filming an outdoors television show on the northwestern Montana reservation.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Thursday also ordered Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap Jr. to pay $56,625 in restitution.
Prosecutors filed an objection to Christensen's sentence after a lengthy hearing in Great Falls. They had recommended 15 months of prison for each man and a total of $68,625 paid back to the tribe.
The trio earlier pleaded guilty to holding four hunts in 2010 and 2011 without the proper licenses and to using tribal funds and personnel to outfit and guide the musicians, including Josh Thompson, Justin Moore and Mark Cooke.
Prosecutors said the hunts amounted to an illegal sale of the tribe's wildlife. The hunts caused internal struggles within the tribe and ended many future business prospects for the Blackfeet, according to the sentencing memo by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carl Rostad and Ryan Weldon filed before Thursday's hearing.
The men said proceeds would support cancer patients, which they did not, and they acted as though they were above the law, Rostad and Weldon said.
"They were the big men on campus, walking around with Country Western stars and shooting tribal resources at their own leisure and pleasure," the prosecutors said.
St. Goddard was ousted from the governing Blackfeet Tribal Business Council last year. Wells is a suspended councilman. Skunkcap was the tribe's Fish and Game director.
Their attorneys asked for one year of probation for each man because none personally profited from the hunts and they had only intended to benefit the tribe. Exposure on the satellite television show "Sovereign Sportsman" had a production and advertising value of nearly $50,000 for the tribe and the free concerts put on by the musicians generated money and publicity for the Blackfeet, the lawyers said.
The men did not mean to harm the tribe, attorneys Scott Hilderman, Thane Johnson and Edward Guiterrez-Falla wrote in their joint sentencing memo.
"The three Defendants had good intentions. They just went about it in the wrong fashion," the attorneys wrote.
Dozens of relatives, friends and business associates sent the judge letters of support for the three men.
The tribal council urged the judge to send a message to those who would violate the laws of the tribe.
"This is not a case of one faction of the Blackfeet people fighting another faction. This is a case of out and out criminality, using the Tribal resources for personal gain and notoriety," the four active tribal council members wrote.
None of the musicians or producers of the show were charged.
Thompson's 2010 debut album is titled "Way Out Here." Moore's "Outlaws Like Me" was a top 10 country album in 2011. Cooke's single "Any Way The Wind Blows" cracked the top 60 in Billboard's country charts. Country star John Michael Montgomery also performed a free concert on the reservation, but a scheduling conflict prevented him from returning for a hunt.


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I had the privilege of speaking to credit union professionals last week at this year's Partnership Symposium. This unique event was hosted by Forum Solutions and Trabian. I had heard last year's event was quite the happening, via the CU blog/twittersphere, from such sources as Trabian's Open Source CU. In fact, last year's event was one of the first times I learned something valuable from someone (Brent) twittering at a conference (when Shari Storm was speaking) that I wasn't attending in person.
My presentation was on strategies for successfully building community online. In the first part of my talk, I made the case for why online community building is a natural and important extension of a credit union's offline community. I then presented seven strategies that I've found to work in creating EverythingCU.com's online community of 6404 credit union professionals, and showed ways in which credit unions are applying those same strategies in their own online community building efforts.
I enjoyed immensely the Q&A portion of the event with moderator Ron Shevlin, and loved the questions that he asked me (as well as all of the other speakers). There is only one question that I would have answered differently had I anticipated it, and that is the question, "for which CUs is online community building NOT right for?" My off-the-cuff answer was that it's not right for CUs who don't care about community and run their shops just like a bank. But what I should have answered is that it all depends on their members and potential members, and what online communities currently exist for those people. If there already exists an online community for a CU's core membership, then it makes no sense to re-invent the wheel. Instead, staff of the CU should join and participate in the existing community. But if there is currently no online community for the core membership, then there is a huge opportunity for the credit union to fill the void.
My only disappointment from the week is that the internet bandwidth was not sufficient during my presentation for it to be recorded. But I have posted the slides of it here. I am gratified that Andy LaFlamme of Maine State Credit Union live blogged my talk on the CU Loop.
It was an honor to be asked to present, and a joy to reconnect with so many CU colleagues, as well as meet so many participants in the CU blog/twittersphere in person for the first time. Extra special thanks to the gracious Forum Solutions team, including Doug, Jen, Leah, Kristi, Ashli, Cameron, and Andy for taking such good care of us during our stay, and making us all feel like rock stars. The stretch limo taking me and Tim McAlpine back to the airport was an extra nice touch. (I'm sure the limo was for keynoter Tim, and I just happened to be catching a ride at the same time.)
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Wrenn teamed up with trainer Joe Cirasuola to capture the early double with JD's Caleb Man who rallied from off the pace in 1:52.1 and then used the same off-the-pace tactics in the next race with It's A Go to score in a lifetime best of 1:52.2.
Charlie Stewart's Bazinga benefitted from a second over trip to score his sixth win of the season and third win of the night for Wrenn in 1:52. Unhurried off the gate, Bazinga settled along the rail in fourth before being asked to move down the backside. Using a :28.0 final panel, Bazinga cruised home to finish two lengths in front of the front-stepping Radar Warning and Mike Micallef.
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In the fourth and final division of $20,000 Indiana Sires Stakes action, it was Mister Truth in a 1:52.3 gate-to-wire effort to give Wrenn his sixth of the evening. It was the third consecutive win and first stakes victory for the son of Total Truth-Miss AJ Ponda who is trained by Ernie Gaskin.
Wrenn capped his seventh win of the night with the heavily favored, Lucky Jet. Using a well-timed rally late in the lane, Lucky Jet was able to wear down Audreys Dream to stop the clock in 1:51.1.
"It was a great night," Wrenn noted after his final victory of the evening. "I had some really live horses and the trips worked out in my favor. It's always nice to have nights like this every once in a while."
As Hoosier Park Racing & Casino's three-time leading driver, Wrenn is closing in on 10,000 career wins and more than $65 million in purse earnings in the bike. Along with the driving titles from all over the country, he has also posted four consecutive seasons with his purse earnings surpassing the $3 million mark. Wrenn is currently third on the leading driver standings at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino while Tyler Smith leads all drivers with 85 victories.
Live racing at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino will continue on Tuesday, June 3 with a daily post time of 5:15 p.m. The 160-day, all harness racing meet will follow a Tuesday through Saturday schedule and be conducted through November 15.by Emily Gaskin, for Hoosier Park


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Palin stoops to 'shuck and jive'
As a rule, I make a deliberate and conscious effort to ignore the former half-term governor of Alaska. But once in a great while, attention must be paid.
Like many conservative pundits, Sarah Palin is criticizing President Obama for his administration's inconsistent statements on the Benghazi, Libya, attack. Unlike many conservative pundits, Palin used the term "shuck and jive" to describe Obama's behavior.
In a Facebook post today, Palin wrote: "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies." She also used the term in the text of the post, which concludes, "President Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end."
Let's put aside, at least for now, the fact that the latest Benghazi revelations appear to be entirely uninteresting, and even the most unhinged White House critics are yet to document any administration "lies" associated with last month's attack.
Let's instead ponder a fairly straightforward, two-part question: "Shuck and jive"? Seriously?
It's quite possible that Palin just isn't informed enough to understand the phrase she used (more than once), so Alex Halperin referenced the Urban Dictionary:
To shuck and jive" originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards. The expression was documented as being in wide usage in the 1920s, but may have originated much earlier.
"Shucking and jiving" was a tactic of both survival and resistance. A slave, for instance, could say eagerly, "Oh, yes, Master," and have no real intention to obey. Or an African-American man could pretend to be working hard at a task he was ordered to do, but might put up this pretense only when under observation. Both would be instances of "doin' the old shuck 'n jive."
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Previews of Saturday's games involving Malone, Walsh and Mount Union.
No. 9 John Carroll (9-0, 8-0) at No. 1 Mount Union (9-0, 8-0)
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LAST WEEK John Carroll 48, Heidelberg 7; Mount Union 30, Baldwin Wallace 0
LAST MEETING Mount Union won 59-17 last year.
ALL-TIME SERIES Mount Union leads 26-2-2.
THE MATCHUP Two great defenses going against two great offenses. That's the setup for the OAC title game between the defending national champion Purple Raiders and the Blue Streaks. Kevin Burke and the Mount offense (No. 2 total yards at 544.7, No. 4 scoring at 50.1, No. 1 third down conversion at 64 percent) will be tested by Division III's No. 1-ranked defense in scoring (3.7 points) and total defense (190.0 total yards). Burke is completing 64.7 percent of his passes and has 28 TDs and just five interceptions. He also is second in the OAC in rushing at 771 yards. The growth of 5-6 freshman RB Bradley Mitchell (85-630, 7.2) has taken some heat off Burke, but he'll run when necessary. John Carroll counters with a defense that has 29 sacks, 4.5 by lineman Frank Pines, and three good tacklers in LBs Mitch Krotz, Jimmy King and Matt Feeney. With 14 interceptions, the Blue Streaks are plus-13 in turnover ratio. It helps them that QB Mark Myers has tossed just six picks, while throwing for 25 TDs and 2,581 yards, tops in the OAC. His line has allowed him to be sacked just three times and he directs an attack scoring 45.7 points, No. 8 nationally. Myers goes to WR Aramis Greenwood often. The three-time All-Ohioan from Glenville has 55 catches for 831 yards and 12 TDs. Mount Union sophomore SS Alex Kocheff will try and locate him, coming off a nine-tackle, two-sack game against BW. Senior DT Matt Fechko also had two sacks, while his counterpart, Tom Lally, leads the team with seven sacks for the nation's No. 2-ranked total defense (192.4 yards, 10.2 points allowed).
Walsh (3-7, 3-5) at Findlay (6-3, 5-3)
WHEN Noon
LAST WEEK Glenville State 33, Walsh 21; Findlay 35, Malone 21
LAST MEETING Findlay leads 1-0.
ALL-TIME SERIES Findlay won 26-7 last year.
THE MATCHUP The Cavaliers wrap up the season with their fourth straight road game. A win assures Walsh of sole possession of fourth place in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference South Division. Paul Kempe returns at quarterback for the Cavs after missing the last two games with a concussion. Michael Dudics currently has the highest single-season field-goal percentage in Walsh history. He has hit 9 of 11 field goals (82.8 percent), including 5 of 7 from beyond 30 yards. A week after returning a kickoff a record 100 yards for a touchdown, Matt Matuska ran a kick back 92 yards for a TD against Glenville State. He is averaging 48.7 yards on seven returns. The game will feature former McKinley High School twins Jamaal and Jamon McClain on opposite sides. Jamaal McClain starts at nose tackle for Walsh and has recorded 25 tackles with a sack. Jamon McClain plays in Findlay's secondary and has 31 tackles and an interception. Daiquone Ford needs just 36 yards to become the Oilers' all-time single season rushing leader. He leads the GLIAC in rushing with 1,789 yards. Ford tied another Findlay single season record last week against Malone when he scored his 24th rushing touchdown. He ran for 209 yards and three touchdowns in the win.
Ohio Dominican (9-0, 8-0) at Malone (2-8, 1-7)
WHEN 1 p.m.
LAST WEEK Ohio Dominican 62, Lake 21; Findlay 35, Malone 21
LAST MEETING Ohio Dominican won 56-7 last year.
ALL-TIME SERIES Ohio Dominican leads 5-1.
THE MATCHUP Ohio Dominican looks to clinch an undefeated regular season and at least a share of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title. With quarterback Mark Miller and running backs Mark Nichols and Brandon Schoen leading the way, the eighth-ranked Panthers have one of the league's most explosive offenses. Miller has the GLIAC's second highest completion percentage (68.7) and has thrown for 2,243 yards and 20 touchdowns. Nichols has rushed for 1,057 yards and eight TDs. Schoen his 111 yards shy of 1,000 for the season. Ohio Dominican shares the NCAA Division II lead for fewest turnovers with eight. The Panthers also lead the GLIAC in scoring defense (16.9 points a game). They have not surrendered more than 23 points in a game this season. It has been a long year for Malone, but the Pioneers have show some progress. The Pioneers average just over 400 total yards a game and have recorded 29 touchdowns and three field goals in 38 trips inside the red zone. Jordan Phillips is tied for third in the league in touchdown catches with six. Defensive back Demarco Donaldson leads the GLIAC in tackles with an average of 11.7 a game and is second in the nation in forced fumbles with five. The Pioneers' victory over a nationally-ranked team came in 2008 when they beat NAIA No. 12 Saint Xavier 27-23.


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In the interest of matrimonial harmony, Len Wiseman has brought the missus on board for his next film.
Kate Beckinsale, along with Jessica Biel and Bill Nighy, have been cast alongside Colin Farrell in the upcoming "Total Recall," which starts filming Monday, reported Collider.
Beckinsale will play Lori, the part originally played by Sharon Stone in the 1990 version. Biel will take the other major female role, Melina, previously played by Rachel Ticotin, a part that at one point seemed destined for Eva Mendes or Rosario Dawson--ah, the cruel vagaries of Hollywood whitewash.
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But it's Nighy, who's previously worked with Beckinsale and Wiseman on the "Underworld" franchise, who has landed the plum role of Quatto, the leader of the resistance, and one of the most disarmingly gross villains of the '90s. Whether or not he will continue to reside in another man's belly remains to be seen
"Total Recall," based on the short story by Phillip K. Dick, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," will star Farrell as Douglas Quaid (the lead played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), a factory worker who comes to think he's a spy, but he's not sure which nation state, Euromerica or New Shanghai, he's working for. Cohaagen, Bryan Cranston, is the leader of Euromerica, and is planning to invade New Shanghai.
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ONE 79th STREET ESTATES, INC. v. AMERICAN INVESTMENT SERVICES
One 79th Street Estates, Inc. and Darrell Wilson a/k/a Keith D. Wilson, a single man; Po Boy Realty Investment, Inc., Appellants,
American Investment Services, Appellee.
No. 3D09-3134.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Opinion filed October 27, 2010.
Dorothy F. Easley, for appellants.
Mark Evans Kass, for appellee.
Before RAMIREZ, C.J., and GERSTEN and SALTER, JJ. SALTER, J.
One 79th Street Estates, Inc., Po Boy Realty Investments, Inc., and their president, Mr. Wilson, appeal a final summary judgment of foreclosure on a commercial mortgage loan for $759,600, documented in June 2006. Because the appellee/lender, American Investment Services (AIS), accepted a very substantial paydown after an initial payment default and acceleration, and because of the conflicting terms of documents offering reinstatement of the mortgage after the entry of an earlier judgment, we reverse the final summary judgment and remand the case for further proceedings.
No Stamps, No Foreclosure
This was a commercial loan on stationery-store documents that were modified as additional advances occurred. There is nothing inherently wrong with pre-printed notes and mortgages, but in this case the forms omitted certain terms that might have guided the parties and the court after an unusual series of occurrences and problems. Less is not always more.
The first problem was a payment default by the appellants; this gave rise to a foreclosure complaint in 2006. The second problem was AIS's failure to pay for documentary stamp and intangible taxes on the mortgage, and to record it. Notwithstanding the fatal deficiency inherent in AIS's failure to pay the required taxes,1 and apparently as a result of the appellants' failure to mount any meaningful defense, a predecessor trial judge entered a final summary judgment of foreclosure in January 2007. A foreclosure sale was then set for April 5, 2007.
At some point before that sale, the parties entered into a reinstatement and mortgage modification agreement. The April 2007 "Agreement for Reinstatement of Mortgage and to Secure Additional Advances" included (among other terms) a recitation of the loan history, an itemized reinstatement amount of $100,503 (acknowledging receipt of $34,100 paid by the appellants to reduce that arrearage to $66,403), and a postponement of the foreclosure sale for 75 days so that the appellants could pay that balance. Paragraph 6 of the agreement stipulated that "the mortgage note and mortgage are a good and valid mortgage on the subject property and that [the appellants] have no defenses thereto." In June 2007, it is undisputed that the appellants made a further payment of $82,000 to AIS, bringing the total post-judgment payments to $116,100.2
No Reinstatement, No Refund, No Judgment
AIS later maintained that the payments of $116,100 were insufficient to reinstate the mortgage, but were tendered and accepted only in consideration of AIS's agreement to reschedule foreclosure sale dates. Ultimately, AIS did not reinstate the mortgage, dismiss the foreclosure, or return any of the payments made by the appellants. In December 2007, just before a rescheduled sale, Mr. Wilson filed a petition under Chapter 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code and the sale was cancelled. During the bankruptcy, Mr. Wilson raised the lender's non-payment of taxes and resulting unenforceability of the mortgage. The bankruptcy court sent the parties back to the circuit court for a resolution of that issue. In June 2008, the trial court vacated the foreclosure judgment and abated the foreclosure lawsuit to permit AIS to pay the documentary stamp and intangible taxes and record the mortgage. AIS then took those steps.
Resumption of the Foreclosure Action
In November 2008, the bankruptcy court dismissed Mr. Wilson's Chapter 13 case. In 2009, AIS resumed its prosecution of the original 2006 foreclosure case and moved again for final summary judgment. The appellants were allowed to amend their affirmative defenses before AIS's motion was heard.
Although the appellants raised a number of affirmative defenses and related issues in Mr. Wilson's affidavit,3 only one issue merits consideration here. The appellants' second and third amended affirmative defenses asserted that the mortgage was to have been reinstated upon AIS's receipt of the $116,100 in payments in April and June of 2007. After a hearing, these amended affirmative defenses were rejected. AIS's motion was granted, the final summary judgment was entered, and this appeal followed.
When a mortgage is foreclosed, the mortgage is "merged" into the final judgment and loses its separate identity. Nack Holdings, LLC v. Kalb, 13 So.3d 92, 94 n.2 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009). The "reinstatement" of a mortgage after the entry of a foreclosure judgment is considerably more significant than merely rescheduling a foreclosure sale date. Reinstatement signifies that the mortgage is returned to its pre-default status asan effective instrument, by definition anticipating that any foreclosure judgment is vacated and the lawsuit dismissed.4 There is no apparent reason the parties could not have agreed to some form of settlement agreement whereby the foreclosure judgment would be reduced by the amounts paid, the lawsuit would not be dismissed, and a sale would only be set if the judgment debtor defaulted on future obligations, but that is not the agreement memorialized in this case.
Rather, the April 2007 reinstatement agreement expressly refers to an opportunity for the mortgagor to "reinstate" the AIS mortgage, to a "cure" of past amounts due, to the addition of the liquor license foreclosure amount "to the amount due under [AIS's] note and mortgage," and to a stipulation that "the mortgage note and mortgage are a good and valid mortgage on the subject property." Each of these terms indicates a withdrawal of acceleration and a return of the mortgage loan to its pre-default, pre-foreclosure status. Coupled with the appellants' undisputed payment of amounts exceeding the specified "arrearage," and AIS's retention of those payments,5 AIS is not entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
Another incongruity in the pleadings, affidavits, and judgment is evident in the interest amounts computed by AIS and included in the summary final judgment. Simple arithmetic discloses that AIS used the default interest rate of 18% per annum versus the "good standing" rate of 16%. If, as the appellants plainly intended, the $116,100 was tendered for "reinstatement," the lower rate would have applied unless and until further (post-reinstatement) defaults arose and were noticed, and until the reinstated loan was again accelerated as a result of any such defaults.
Reviewing this record and all inferences in favor of the appellants as required,6 we conclude that a triable issue exists regarding the June 2007 reinstatement agreement and the parties' performance under it. Because the final summary judgment was denied as to any personal liability of Mr. Wilson under the mortgage loan, we have not addressed the parties' contentions on that point.
The final summary judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings.7
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
5. In AIS's affidavits in support of its motion for summary judgment, AIS attached a letter from AIS's counsel in June 2007 purporting to add additional terms for reinstatement. If there was not a meeting of the minds, however, and the appellants were not entitled to reinstatement, AIS had no right to retain the payments tendered pursuant to the agreement.
6. Sheikh v. Coregis Ins. Co., 943 So.2d 242, 244 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006).
7. Such further proceedings should also address the appellants' requests for additional discovery and leave to amend to add a counterclaim. Those motions were denied in connection with the summary judgment rulings.
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