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The Fourth: Breakfast at The Hyatt at Union Square
Hyatt Union Square: Home Away from Home
The Fourth is one of the restaurants at Hyatt Union Square hotel in New York, a hotel I stayed at for 10 days during my trip to the Big Apple. I headed to The Fourth daily for breakfast and enjoyed it, so why not try it during dinner.
Seated by the glass window with a street view, I started to enjoy the warm ambiance and music coming from the Brazilian restaurant down below. Looking around, I saw candles light up the tables, yellow lanterns pend down from the high ceiling, while the bar was busy with guests enjoying a drink.
The menu is small. A choice of a la carte preset menu for $46 where you choose one starter, a plate and dessert or choose from a selection of appetizers and entrees. The choices are not much so I decided to have the Burrata salad, spaghetti and their organic Scottish salmon.
What put a smile on my face was seeing a Lebanese wine on the wine list. Merwah & Obaideh, Chateau Musar Blanc, Bejaa Valley, Lebanon 2005.
The Burrata with fresh tomatoes kind of salad served on a round plate. Half a Burrata with melting heart is presented with olive oil, lemon and grind pepper with a selection of four kinds of tomatoes. Red and yellow cherries with two big sized tomatoes one blood red and one yellowish. I loved the seasoning, the quality of the tomatoes and the Burrata, which is molten and tasty.
Delicious spaghetti cooked aldente in tomato juice, sour and fresh mixed with cherry tomatoes. Thick spaghetti with shredded basil leaves and Parmesan. They are really good. I was craving for some Italian food while I was in NY and this place satisfied my needs. I loved it.
The salmon is exceptional. Beautifully presented, the plate includes a piece of salmon laid on a bed of quinoa with cucumber and yogurt mix on the side. Perfectly cooked, the salmon is moist and tender with to crispy skin in top offering a punch of lemon juices and flavors. Quinoa is well cooked, cucumbers are crunchy and the yogurt adds flavor. Bravo!
But don't order desserts! Crème caramel and ice cream sundae are not only bad but they were disgusting.
Enjoy lunch or dinner and skip dessert to leave happy and satisfied.
I really am in love with this hotel. Perfect service, excellent staff, tasty food, positive vibes, vibrant ambiance and good restaurants to try; like The Fourth at the Hyatt hotel Union Square.


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Olympic gold medalist Geraint Thomas has been announced as the man to officially open this year's Cycle Show, to be held at the NEC and kicking off on September 29th.
Once again, the opening day will be dedicated to the cycling trade and media. The main consumer show will open to the public between September 30th and October 2nd.
Andrew Brabazon, event director for show organisers, Upper Street Events commented: "It's really exciting to have Geraint on board this year – not only will the London 2012 Hopeful be making an appearance on the trade day, we also have lots planned in the build up to the show, including ask the expert Q&A sessions on our social media sites and some fantastic money-can't-buy prizes for the public.
"Registration for the trade day is completely free and will offer the opportunity to visit hundreds of stands from all the major bike companies, niche and specialist brands, as well as cycling holidays."
Moving to its new NEC location to accommodate the ever growing number of exhibitors and visitors, this year's show will feature two outdoor demo tracks for those wanting to test the bikes on display; a 1km mountain bike track, sponsored by Dare 2b, and a 600m road bike track.
Thomas commented: "The Cycle Show is a key event in the UK's cycling calendar, and this year looks set to be the best one yet – I can't wait to be a part of it as it moves to a brand new location at the NEC. Now is a really exciting time for cycling – with the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, I would encourage trade, media and the public to book their places now to get an exclusive look at new and upcoming trends in cycling and check out the latest product ranges for 2012."
Registration for the cycle trade and the media is free. Just go to www.cycleshow.co.uk.

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– Adjuvant chemotherapy for ER-negative, endocrine therapy for ER-positive
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A later study of adjuvant capecitabine in patients with residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (i.e., patients with increased risk for ILRR), CREATE-X, demonstrated longer disease-free survival (DFS, 74.1% versus 67.6%) and overall survival (OS) at 5 years (HR 0.59, p=0.01) with treatment than without. Capecitabine's benefit was also seen in patients with triple-negative disease with regards to DFS and OS, though these patients did worse than HR+ patients.
CALOR studied whether chemotherapy adjuvant to definitive treatment of ILRR is beneficial. Ultimately, this study was also plagued by low accrual, perhaps due to extrapolation of retrospective data by treating oncologists. The final results of this trial, with median follow-up of 8.8 months, revealed that HR- patients benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy with regards to DFS (HR 0.29, p=0.013) and breast cancer-free interval (HR 0.29, p=0.034), but not OS (HR 0.48, p=0.53). Among HR+ patients, there was no suggestion of benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. Hormonal status of the metastatic site predicted response to adjuvant therapy better than the primary lesion.
In summary, adjuvant capecitabine may delay or avoid recurrence in patients with residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. ILRR has been challenging to study, but HR- status in the metastatic site predicts benefit from chemotherapy and HR+ patients likely to benefit from tamoxifen after definitive surgery and radiation.
Data to support the use of systemic therapy, particularly chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of locoregional recurrence (LRR) of breast cancer are scarce. The most recent long-term analysis of chemotherapy for isolated LRR suggests that the choice of adjuvant systemic therapy should be informed by recurrent disease biology rather than the biologic characteristics of the primary tumor.
Isolated LRR is associated with a high risk of developing distant metastases and death. The 5-year survival rate after isolated LRR is 45-80%. The outcome, however, is variable and depends on breast cancer subtype, hormone receptor (HR) status, and response after standard upfront therapy.
"As we become more adept at understanding the biology of the disease, we appreciate that some of the molecular subtypes probably influence the outcome after LRR," said William J. Gradishar, MD, director of the clinical network and interim chief of hematology and oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, speaking at the most recent San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) and overall survival (OS) after the development of an LRR following breast-conserving surgery are much worse for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) than in those without TNBC.
Patients who achieve less than a pathologic complete response (pCR) after standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy have significantly worse event-free survival and OS rates than those who achieve pCR. Event-free survival is especially poor without pCR in patients with TNBC, HER2-positive/HR-negative disease, and luminal B subtype. Gradishar said that with few data to guide the use of systemic therapy following a diagnosis of LRR, he attempted to extrapolate these data to the setting of LRR.
The CREATE-X study assessed 910 patients with HER2-negative breast cancer who achieved less than a pCR after neoadjuvant therapy to standard postsurgical therapy (i.e., endocrine therapy for estrogen receptor [ER]-positive disease) with or without the addition of capecitabine. Outcomes data with respect to disease-free survival (DFS) and OS suggest that the addition of chemotherapy in this setting may confer additional benefit. "What we learned from that trial is ... that the impact of chemotherapy is most apparent in the subset of patients that are hormone insensitive or have triple-negative disease," said Gradishar.
"We are exploring this widely in patients that have both ER-positive disease and TNBC, looking at different chemotherapy agents, checkpoint inhibitors, or even CDK4/6 inhibitors as an adjunct to endocrine therapy. So without looking directly at a trial of LRR ... which is a difficult thing to accrue to -- we may be able to extrapolate some of the knowledge gained from these trials to that setting."
He noted that the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research demonstrated an improvement in DFS with excision, radiation, and tamoxifen compared with treatment without tamoxifen in ER-positive patients who had LRR following mastectomy.
CALOR Study
The CALOR (Chemotherapy for Isolated Locoregional Recurrence of Breast Cancer) study was undertaken to assess whether adjuvant chemotherapy can completely excise isolated LRR of breast cancer and improve outcomes. The design was open-label, and the 162 patients enrolled had in-breast, chest wall, or regional lymph node recurrence.
Eligible patients were randomized to receive chemotherapy as selected by the investigator, with multidrug chemotherapy for at least 3 months recommended, or no chemotherapy. Patients with ER- and/or progesterone receptor-positive isolated LRR received adjuvant endocrine therapy. Radiation therapy was mandated for patients with microscopically involved margins.
CALOR was originally designed to accrue 977 patients, said Gradishar, and one third of patients received monotherapy despite the recommendation for polychemotherapy. Two thirds of the patients were ER-positive, and more than 50% had in-breast tumor recurrence -- "It's not necessarily a completely homogeneous population."
As reported in a 2015 study, 5-year DFS was 69% with chemotherapy versus 57% without chemotherapy. Chemotherapy showed a significant benefit for patients with ER-negative isolated LRR, but "there was concern for a need for additional follow-up for patients with ER-positive disease," said Irene Wapnir, MD, of Stanford University in California, who also spoke at the same session.
At the 2017 ASCO annual meeting, Wapnir presented updated results from CALOR at a median of 8.8 years of follow-up. Ten-year DFS in the ER-negative patients improved from 34% without chemotherapy to 70% with chemotherapy (HR 0.29, 95% CI 0.13-0.67). Ten-year overall survival improved similarly among the patients with ER-negative disease who were treated with chemotherapy versus no chemotherapy (HR 0.48, 95% CI 0.19-1.20), as did the 10-year breast cancer-free interval (HR 0.29, 95% CI 01.3-0.67).
In contrast, for patients with ER-positive disease, there was no benefit to chemotherapy at 10 years
"The final analysis of CALOR confirms that chemotherapy benefits patients with resected ER-negative isolated LRR," said Wapnir. "Long-term CALOR trial results do not support the use of chemotherapy for ER-positive isolated LRR who received adjuvant endocrine therapy as part of their assigned treatment." Therefore, the choice of adjuvant systemic therapy for isolated LRR should be informed by the biologic characteristics of the LRR rather than by those of the primary tumor, she concluded.
Gradishar said that although the results of CALOR may not be definitive, "it is the best study we have available."
From the limited data in the LRR setting, he made the following recommendations:
- For patients with an ER-positive recurrence, endocrine therapy is recommended -- "If they had been on an endocrine agent, we would probably switch to something else"
- For patients who have a HER2-positive recurrence, the incidence of which may be diminishing over time as more effective therapies have come to market, HER2-targeted therapy is the empiric choice
- For those with TNBC, "I would submit that chemotherapy probably does have a role"
Open questions that remain are the duration of endocrine therapy after excision and local therapy, the duration of HER2-targeted therapy, and the optimal agents and duration for TNBC.
Gradishar reported having nothing to disclose.
Wapnir reported research funding from Novadeq Technologies and OncoSec.


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Releasing at least one album a year in the last decade alone, Ryan Adams has created a collection of works with multiple genres including rock, folk, alternative and country. is latest work, "Ashes & Fires," his2000 solo debut, ," features the most consistent sound of his career.
clean-cut"Heartbreaker," to create .The Bob Dylan-esque ballad "Dirty Rain" on the new release would make a fitting companion to the desolate "Call Me on Your Way Back Home" from the 2000 album as both tracks feature a mournful sound with repetitive lyrics that give the song a desperate tone. By echoing his original genre Adams creates a much-needed consistency in his musical style.
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Hmm. Ya I have been tardy with my blog posts but I couldn't keep up with everything like I normally do. My interests are swaying in various areas. Well moving on with the lame excuses, I got Rin Kagamine on my last trip to my local anime store (Anime Stop), acquiring her her on the 17th of January, 2009.
Miku Announces: ..Welcoming a new member to the SOS Music Brigade is Rin Kagamine!
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(Images taken with a Sony W170 Digital Camera.)
Rin Kagamine is from the Vocaloid voice musical program that was created by Yamaha. She is the second vocaloid, and a twin type having Len Kagamine as her brother who have the ability to sing using pre-recorded singing tones. Both Rin and Len are often seen within comical situations where Rin is the serious sister and Len the mischievous punishable character.
Rin Kagamine – Meltdown (With lyrics)
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*Lights and special effects* – A box with Rin appears.
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*Rin waves to the crowd*
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Rin takes out her mic and starts singing while Miku� tries to pat Rin.
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And lastly, a full view of Rin singing:
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Anyways, I'm glad I got Rin in my collection.
Edit: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Since I rushed this article a year back I thought I'd update this properly from a "hey, I got a figma!" to a "lets review Rin". I also removed any negativity I had within this article. I added images and fixed up any removed Youtube videos. The below images are taken with a Lumix GF1 camera and kept in the same style as the above older images.
I see I got ahead of myself, time to take a peak at the box itself. The box is nicely decorated with Rin on the forground, a digital vocaloid system in the background (all gray), and the font in a yellowish-orange color.
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And what to expect when you obtain Rin – Rin Figma (obviously), a microphone, 8 hand pieces, a figma parts bag, Figma stand and an extra happy face.
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The thing I like about Rin is how simple, yet great detailed she looks at the same time. There is a red "02" on her shoulder, a loose key-chain like belt, and "ElectricVoiceSystem" on her lower leg. There is also a musical note on her neck, a vocaloid system pad on both her sleeves, as well as microphone headset on her head.
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Rin pointing to the red "02" marking.
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Rin skateboarding. I wanted to show you the loose "belt" thing on her hips.
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The "ElectricVoiceSystem" printed on her leg. They are on both her left and right boots.
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And her vocaloid music system seen on her sleeves.
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*Nya~ nya~ ya~*
This also looks like the carmelldansen dance haha. Just some for fun photos now ^^.
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I know I'm missing Len. I'm getting Figmas I really want and may get back to collecting those I missed after.
– She is faithfully representation of her animated and digital counterpart. Details are mostly accurate to her vocaloid concepts and artworks.
– Her design is simple and nicely detailed. The "02", "ElectricVoiceSystem", Musical note on her neck, and vocaloid pad on her sleeves are a nice touch. The key-chain belt is also a nice touch.
– She poses extremely well for her simplicity.
– Rin's posing balance is pretty well maintained by her simplicity in design. She can be posed in any situation the photographer/owner desires. Just be careful of heights and the wind!
– Her hands keep falling out of her wrist. I nearly lost one during one photo-shoot on my birthday. They just randomly pop out without warning and I also have one palm hand greatly loose for forcing the hand into the wrist.
– Needs a few more face plates and an instrument.
Thanks for viewing/reading and I apologize for my 2008-2009 tardiness. Hope you liked my quick review of Figma Rin ^^.


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Dianne Watts' dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Harold Munro's cheap tabloid of corporate trash has certainly provided some more comic relief. Michael Smyth, Dianne Walt's lapdog who choked on his sour grapes after her defeat against Andrew Wilkinson, is still flogging a dead horse. He claims Ex-mayor Watts rips McCallum. Not. Ex mayor or ex Watts? Watt's isn't even her own name. That's Brian's name and she's divorced. Everything about that snake in the grass was a fraud.
"I don't think he would serve the city well given the complex challenges facing Surrey," Watts told me Wednesday. "I had to clean up some of the problems he left when I became mayor." That is absolutely HILARIOUS. Doug McCalum's track record of crime prevention and Dianne Watt's track record of crime promotion speak for themselves. Like my father used to say, you can't con a con. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. You can't fool us because Surrey is our home. We live here. We know their history.
Doug McCallum was tough on crime, Dianne Watts wasn't. Doug McCallum was fiscally responsible. Dianne Watts wasn't. What kind of crime challenges did Doug McCallum face? Crack houses. Any idea how hard it is to get rid of crack houses? He did it. He evicted them onto the street. I saw it. I was there. I was a letter carrier at the time. The notorious crack houses filled with crime and drug addicted prostitution were evicted by the city. Doug McCallum was successful at addressing crime. Dianne Watts wasn't.
Under Dianne Watts crime in Surrey hit it's peak. Businesses in Newton were complaining about drug dealers selling drugs outside their place of business chasing heir customers away and the city did NOTHING. Residents complained about crime repeatedly only to have those complaints fall on deaf ears. Residents persistently complained about an after hours in Green Timbers while the city did nothing. Residents said what are you going to do? Wait until someone gets killed? That's exactly what they did.
A young girl wrote the mayor complaining about drug related crime in their trailer park. Dianne Watts seized the photo op and said gee it's too bad your landlord rents to criminals. There's nothing we can do about it. For real. I couldn't make this sh*t up. This is Dianne Watts history.
Remember the fall of Dianne Watts and who she is supporting. She is supporting Tom Gill despite the fact that former members of her own party aren't. They certainly don't agree with her about that. Tom Gill is a complete idiot who was bickering in public sharing private text messages with the press like a classless fool. She's still just a three dressed up as a nine.
How about Newton Crime Prevention Super Hero Doug Elford? He doesn't agree with Dianne Watts. He supports Doug McCallum and so do I. The corporate tax and spend gluttons are afraid of Doug McCallum because he is fiscally responsible. Under his leadership their tax and spend play day will come to an end. Lest we forget Campbell Heights and the Fall of Dianne Watts.
It's time for everyone to come together under Doug McCallum. That's Green Justice.
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A couple of months ago, I picked up this popular book called "Joyful". It was fun to read - a lot of info about what research tells us makes people feel joy. I have forgotten some of the other things, but one thing that stuck with me was the idea of color as a joyful things. The author talks about how we have been taught (or we have just absorbed the idea) that black and other "neutral" colors are more "elegant" and refined and that using or wearing bright colors is somehow garish and "inappropriate".
I am a person who LOVES color. All colors. My closet is full of bright hues of green, blue, pink. Often my favorite clothes are a combination of lots of different colors - a "riot" of color is really what I love. One of the rooms in my house is painted green with purple accents.
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A former comedian and first-time politician was sworn in as the new president of Ukraine Monday, and he didn't waste time calling for major changes.
During his inauguration speech, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he's dissolving Ukraine's parliament. Elections were scheduled for October, but Zelenskiy will move them up to July.
Zelenskiy overwhelmingly beat incumbent candidate Petro Poroshenko in the country's April election.
Zelenskiy made fighting corruption a central focus of his campaign. NPR reports that during his speech, he urged members of parliament to pass anti-corruption legislation and improved transparency in government before leaving office in two months.
One big issue ahead for Zelenskiy is handling Ukraine's relationship with Russia. The two countries have been in an ongoing war for years, since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.
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The domestic box office1 made $11.3 billion last year. A lot of that came from the movies that got most of the hype: comic-book movies, sequels, Oscar bait. But there's another category of movies that contributed a major chunk of that total: animated movies, which pulled in $1.4 billion.
This year, animated movies have already made more than $1.5 billion. And this weekend, "Kubo and the Two Strings," an animated movie about a kid who goes on an adventure with Matthew McConaughey and Charlize Theron from independent studio Laika, will try to add to that total. The movie — which is stop-motion, not digital, animation — is getting absurdly good reviews. Laika hasn't had many financial hits — "Coraline" is probably its best-known movie — but the tiny studio is a small part of a genre that's driven by a host of studios that have different approaches and visions and are hoping to cash in on a rising share of box office revenue.
That chart doesn't even include animated movies from 2016, which has had the smash hits "Finding Dory," "Zootopia," "The Secret Life of Pets," "Kung Fu Panda 3" and "The Angry Birds Movie." So far this year, digital animation has accounted for 21 percent of domestic box office revenue. With major non-animated blockbusters still to come, that's bound to change. (Figuring out which film will dominate the box office is tricky, but it's typically a rogue one.) Still, animation is on the ups.
Although the annual number of tickets sold overall is down since 2000, that's not true for animated movies — those numbers are up, entirely thanks to the genre's digital branch.
This could be one of the strongest years for animation in recent memory, so I wanted to take stock of the primary companies behind hand-drawn, stop-motion and digital animation films over the past few decades to see how the business has grown and changed. For answers, I turned to The Numbers, which has detailed data about film production history and box office performance going back to the mid-1990s, and Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates critics' film reviews.
First up: DreamWorks Animation
Which franchises? Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, the assorted Madagascars.
DreamWorks is the company that thought to throw a bunch of money at former "Saturday Night Live" stars, ask them to stand behind a microphone, and then release a fun animated film. It has released more films than any other studio in our data set. That volume of production means that DreamWorks' output is scattershot — it has put out all kinds of films. Its average movie had a 71 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and made about $180 million at the domestic box office (in 2016 dollars).
The DreamWorks averages are close to the overall animated movie average for the data set (about $200 million in domestic revenue and a 73 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating). That should not come as a shock: DreamWorks has focused on putting out a quality product that has received solid, if not high-brow, critical reception for its entire run.
It all comes down to that ogre. "Shrek" — the stunningly popular animated film that came out in 2001 — spawned a historically lucrative series and somehow jammed immortality down Smash Mouth's throat. It also introduced a new format for DreamWorks and animation in general: giant franchises built around a single universe of characters.
DreamWorks began cranking out films that could have been the beginning of the next "Shrek" series but weren't — fare like "Shark Tale," "Over the Hedge," and "Bee Movie" — and stumbled onto a few golden nuggets: "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda."
But through the studio's nearly 20-year run, it tried to hew close to its original mission to be a place for individual creators to break out on their own, where engaging and competitive films could be made for a mass audience, all without the safety net of a conglomerate beneath you. … Oh, and then it was sold to Comcast.
Next: Disney's Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
Full disclosure, before we get going: The Walt Disney Co., besides owning Walt Disney Animation and Pixar, owns ESPN, which owns FiveThirtyEight.
Which franchises? Pixar: Toy Story; Monsters, Inc.; Cars; Finding Nemo/Dory. For Disney … is "Princesses" a franchise?
Nearly all the films from these companies in our data set — Disney owns both — were considered very good by critics, and most of them made a whole bunch of money. (The four exceptions — Pixar's "Cars 2," which attempted to structure a summer hit around Larry the Cable Guy, and Disney Animation's three-picture stretch in the early and mid-2000s of "Atlantis: The Lost Empire," "Brother Bear" and "Chicken Little.")
But, really, I don't need to waste your time here; trenchant analysis like, "Pixar movies are pretty good and tend to make a lot of money" isn't exactly new. Nor is "Walt Disney Animation Studios movies have been pretty good ever since they bought Pixar to make it good again."
Despite the domination of DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar, there's still plenty of space for other studios, many of which arrived a little later.
Which franchises? Sony Pictures Animation: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs, Hotel Transylvania. Blue Sky Studios: Ice Age. Illumination Entertainment: "Despicable Me"
Let's break each of these down.
Sony Pictures Animation is a grab bag of intellectual property, with critical darlings like the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs films, mediocrities like the Hotel Transylvania movies, and monstrosities of the screen like the two Smurf-related films (22 percent and 13 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively). Despite the wide range in the quality of Sony's movies, the main thing they all have in common is that they're cheap — take a look at the budgets of DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar, which haven't made a film for less than $130 million since the Bush administration — and perform well enough, on average, at the box office to justify the investment.
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There's a similar situation at Blue Sky Studios, which makes the Ice Age and Rio movies for 20th Century Fox, along with adaptations like "The Peanuts Movie" and "Horton Hears a Who." All the movies are cheap — Blue Sky binged on "Rio 2," spending $130 million, but all its other movies cost less than $100 million — and have a slightly higher box-office ceiling than the Sony films. Still, this does not seem to be a creatively healthy company. The studio is squeezing every remaining dollar from the Ice Age franchise — a series that has gone steadily downhill both critically and financially since it started in 2002. The only critically lauded movie that Blue Sky Studios has made recently is "The Peanuts Movie," and good luck getting a franchise out of that when you don't even own the rights to the sequel.
This leads us to Illumination Entertainment. It is the monster responsible for the "Minions" universe, a movie adaptation of "The Lorax" that was sponsored by a car company, and the recent crowd-pleaser "The Secret Life of Pets." The movies range from the very, very bad to the mediocre but highly lucrative. Illumination cranks 'em out for $75 million or less a pop, but, good god, do they make a fortune — an average of about $275 million domestically for each film. "The Secret Life of Pets," a movie about what doggies do when their owners aren't home, has already made more money than the Warner Bros. tentpole "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Laika is an exception. While the other companies we've looked at so far had at least one critical dud, Laika has consistently nailed it. The movies are cheap to make — at most $60 million — which allows them to get away with a smaller audience. But, and this really cannot be overstated, it's unexpected to see a studio with movies as consistently beloved as Laika's, and I realize I am writing that in a post that mentions Pixar. The clustering is absurd. On average, Laika movies had a Rotten Tomatoes score of 84 percent, behind only Pixar, and pulled in $64 million, the lowest by far in the data set.
But the crazy thing is this: The animation field is still somehow bigger than all these studios. "The Lego Movie," the top-grossing animated movie of 2014, was made by none of these people (produced by Warner Bros., animation by Animal Logic), and there are sequels and spinoffs to come. "Sausage Party," which I understand is essentially pornography but still made $34 million in its opening weekend, was not made by any of these wholesome firms. Rovio, a cell phone game maker, commissioned an "Angry Birds" movie, which went ahead and made $100 million domestically. The commercialism is getting out of control! I mean, what's next, a movie about a bunch of talking toys?


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In Reply to: WTMJ posted by Odd move on October 12, 2016 at 20:56:45:
WTMJ should leave the Conservative Talk to WISN. WTMJ had a long history of being a full service radio station, not a political talk station.
They had high ratings before and after Sykes and Wagner. They'll keep their high ratings if they continue to do what they do.
1. Deliver news and information to Wisconsin.
2. Provide play-by-play sports and information to Wisconsin.
3. Deliver severe weather information.
4. Entertain and inform the audience.
Prior to the early 90s, that was usually with AC music, some friendly chit chat (like Jonathan Green) and news and sports.
They position it as "Wisconsin's Radio Station" Wisconsin is a deeply divided state politically. If they want to represent Wisconsin, they'll need to do more things like this. Not focus on one side. That's WISN and WIBA's job.
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Rural Municipality of Dufferin #190 was founded in 1913 on January 06, when first meeting was held.
RM of Dufferin covers an area of approximately 380 square miles, a total of 242,212 acres. The municipality is much larger than an average R.M. Running through the extreme south of the R.M.is the Qu'Appelle valley, while the Little Arm valley winds through the north side to enter Last Mountain Lake. The roads crossing both valleys have been very difficult to build and many bridges have been constructed. Road and bridge maintenance have been the prime interest of the R.M.council.
The office of R.M.of Dufferin #190 is located in the village of Bethune. When the Royal Bank of Canada vacated its premises next to the R.M.office in 1937, the council purchased the bank building and moved the R.M.office to that location, which had living accommodations, as well as office space and a vault. This building was remodelled into a more modern office and a new living accommodation was added at the rear of the same property in 1977.
There is an equipment yard on Alexandria Avenue where R.M.keeps road equipment, culverts and fencing material.
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So Tired of Cleaning
My 11-month-old son doesn't use a pacifier anymore; he prefers to suck his thumb. I don't blame him, and nor am I surprised. I, myself, was a voracious thumb sucker. In fact, I loved it so much that at eight years old, I was threatened with a metal torture device disguised as orthodontia aptly called, "a crib." It's a metal bar with spikes cemented behind your front teeth, designed to make it impossible to comfortably suck your thumb. Terrified at the thought, I chose a different, quieter sort of psychological pain to kick this dental nightmare. I developed anxiety around over washing my hands by convincing myself that they were always dirty. While I did stop sucking my thumb, I also picked up some strange anxieties and habits around cleanliness.
I now am a person who owns two Dyson vacuums. Somewhere between my childhood room and owning a home, I cultivated a productive habit of putting things away at night, never leaving dishes in the sink, and regularly deep cleaning.
Six and a half years ago, I moved in with my now-husband –– a guy who slept next to a giant cardboard cutout of a popsicle and an obstacle course of stuff to navigate on the way to the bathroom. I don't like to label that I'm "clean" and he is "messy." I believe we have different tolerance levels for clutter and mess, broad strokes and detail. This is why we have an agreement that plays into our strengths: I'm in charge of everyday cleaning and maintenance, he is in charge of handling home improvement projects. This way we both make equitable contributions to household upkeep.
Then we adopted two cats. (So much fur and litter!) Then I gave birth to a human baby. (So much laundry!) Then there was a pandemic. (So much EVERYTHING!)
I've heard competitive athletes describe running as a way to clear their mind, leaving them feeling balanced. That's how cleaning feels for me. I'm basically a marathon runner. I put in my headphones, turn on music or a podcast, get in the zone, and go non-stop for, like, three hours straight with my husband and child cheering me on from the sidelines of the living room. The first time in my adult life I hired a professional house cleaner was days before I gave birth when I physically could no longer perform the work. I quickly realized that with a newborn, I still needed help. I continued to enjoy this luxury once a month, even though it took every fiber inside me to not pick up a rag and join them.
I don't say this with a sense of superiority; quite the opposite. Cleaning is how I manage my anxiety. It's how I create order in my environment to feel secure and in control. I can't fix a tough work situation, but I can scrub this stovetop. I can't take back looking away for a second when my son busted his lip on the kitchen tile, but I can vigorously vacuum the rug.
Life is meant to be full of stress and mess. It's what I signed up for. But, recently, it's all been a bit…much. If cleaning is my anti-depressant, I think I've hit the maximum dosage.
With pandemic precautions, we have not felt comfortable hiring professional cleaning help since early March. At first, I reveled in reclaiming the deep clean, getting my old Lysol legs back after being adrift at baby sea. But as the months pass even me –– a person who can readily be found crouched on the floor collecting clumps of cat hair –– is feeling burnt out on cleaning. At the end of every day, after I've cleaned the kitchen and put the toys away, I wonder, how will I get up and do it all again tomorrow? Somehow, after the cats have woken me up at 5 am, I do.
The very thing that has always held me together is now breaking me down one sweep at a time. You'd think I'd let some of the mess fester, go a little easier on myself, and allow things to slide. But I've only clung to it tighter and more fiercely. Some days, it feels like cleaning is all I have to help me fill the day with purpose. On catchups with friends and family, they ask how I'm doing, but I'm not doing anything, I want to tell them. I'm cleaning.
I am vacuuming with a 20-pound weight on my hip. I'm preparing, feeding and cleaning up after a human who's learning to eat four times a day. I'm making bottles. Cleaning bottles. Presenting toys. Putting toys away. Cleaning the litter box. Changing the litter box. Changing a diaper. Wiping a butt. Wiping my hand because it got dirty wiping the butt. Refilling the diapers. Sorting the clothes. Washing the clothes. Drying the sheets. Forgetting about the towels in the dryer for two days. Folding tiny socks. Removing postpartum hair from furniture.
And this is just an everyday to-do list. Layered on top of this exhaustive routine is pandemic related cleaning like sanitizing hands, wiping all the groceries in an elaborate assembly line before they enter the home, questioning whether or not I need to even conduct this strange choreography with the groceries, gingerly opening the mail, washing hands, washing clothes, and wiping, wiping, wiping.
A friend and I recently lamented that this pandemic has stolen our shared love of wearing bold lipstick. She says she started wearing it around the house for fun. I tell her I'd do the same, except it would only end up all over the baby and I literally cannot bear the thought of cleaning another thing.
I've been doing all of this without any help, aside from my partner, for almost half of my baby's life. It's no wonder I've had a difficult time discerning what is a byproduct of being a new parent and the pandemic. Surely, there is an overlap between the two in an uptick of surfaces to wipe, laundry to wash, and sheer monotony of days bleeding together, one nap and dishwasher cycle at a time.
We're not just parenting, which is difficult in and of itself, we're parenting during a pandemic. From what I can tell in my limited experience with both, the stark difference is community.
While I fully recognize the gift my son has been given to have both of his parents as his primary caregivers for the first year of life (and potentially beyond), the collective we are not meant to raise our children alone –– especially when both parents are simultaneously trying to find time to earn a living. Especially when one parent can't relax until every dish is out of the sink, and all the laundry is folded.
All the buzzing group texts, Zoom meetings, and Instagram DM convos don't hide that fact that I feel lonely. All the major milestones and minor moments are grieved on a weekly basis. No first birthday party. No swim classes. No over tipping our server to apologize for the mess our baby made at the table. No interaction with other babies. Limited family visits and outdoor waves of hello don't replace hugs, human touch, and the joy and relief of seeing your baby held by someone else. No babysitters. No daycare. No one to help.
Every moment the baby is sleeping is packed with work, laundry, and cleaning up. There is no end. I am not doing. I am surviving and cleaning up everything in my wake.
But, I have immense privilege. I have a healthy family. I have (a reduced) income. I have a house to clean. I have clothes to wash. I have a happy baby to care for. There is room to be both unfathomably grateful for my circumstance and still be so very tired of cleaning.


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The Chargers started off this season going 4-1, and since then have fallen off the rails, going 0-4 with losses to the Chiefs in overtime, the Packers in a shootout, and the Raiders by giving up 489 yards, including 298 to Carson Palmer, which is the second most passing yards they've allowed this year.
So what's changed between that hot start and this dismal stretch? Let's ask Tom Ricketts: "Just injuries."
All joking aside, the Chargers have been fairly banged up, missing starting defensive end Luis Castillo and three-sack-contributor Shaun Phillips on a defensive front that's already struggling to get a decent pass rush. Of course, not to mention the three starting offensive linemen that are probably going to miss the game today. Add in the Chargers have been playing with fire in the turnover column all season, Antonio Gates hasn't been the same player as he's been during his stellar career, and Malcolm Floyd has been hit with an injury himself, and things start to look pretty bad for San Diego.
But then you think about the Chargers offense and how they've racked up 400 yards in six of their nine games this season, including two during their four game losing streak. It's an offense that's still been able to produce (only scored less than 20 points one time all season) and with a team like that, there's always a chance (well, unless you're the Colts...)
The Chargers offense is one predicated on the big play, which is something the Bears have been better at stopping since the first Detroit matchup. They don't predicate it so much on the turnover, which is something they happen to do rather well, and something the Bears have capitalized on this season.
Gameday-related links and such after the jump.
My Three Keys for each side of the ball: Offense and Defense.
In case you missed it yesterday, Kev made an appearance on Bolts From The Blue's High Boltage Radio and dropped some Bears knowledge. The link is to their Hour 1 podcast.
The Injury Report for both teams. And Dane's pick for Sleeper of the Week. It'll wake you up.
ESPNChicago's Nuts and Bolts preview.
The Sun-Times has their own matchups to keep an eye on.
As does the Score's Laurence Holmes.
And because I'm semi-masochist, apparently, SignOnSanDiego's breakdown.
Mike Tice is what we thought he was. At least according to Denny Green.
Chargers offense is comparable to the Packers' offense? How about "Chargers Offense Still Decent."
Matt Bowen discusses the "nickel smoke", a play that's worked well with DJ Moore this year and he hopes will work for Corey Graham.
Sean Jensen breaks down last week's charitable fundings - aka the fines. Also, Bennett's shoes a "game-time decision."
Forte's taking care of himself at a time when players start to break down during the season.
Kris Jenkins: "NFL is Hell."
Major League Baseball has agreed to HGH testing in its new CBA. The NFL's CBA allows for it, but at what point does it become forced for the players to participate?
It's hard to find a good Anchorman video part on YouTube, so if you guys find anything good, throw 'em in the comments.
Gameday procedures today, early games thread will hit at 1 ET/Noon CT, first quarter thread will hit at 4 ET/3 CT, with each quarter appearing as it comes. Recap will be up shortly after the game, Scribbles in the morning, and if we don't hit a snafu like we did last week, you'll have an SNF thread tonight too.
Now with the propers out of the way... Bear Down!
Chicago Bears Fight Song (via scifiradioguy)


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City officials are closing a North Philly bridge Wednesday for three weeks so crews can complete rehabilitation work on the structure.
Drivers will be detoured around the 'B' and Somerset Street Bridge in the city's Kensington neighborhood until the work is completed in mid-September, according to Philadelphia's Streets Department.
Motorists heading northbound will see signs along B Street redirecting them back to Lehigh Avenue and then to Front Street.
Signs for southbound traffic will be posted along Tusculum Street. Drivers would remain on Tusculum Street until they reach Mascher Street, which heads south.
The bridge will remain open to pedestrians and bicyclists, according to a Streets Department spokeswoman.