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Amos Chapple – an award-winning photographer from New Zealand – is one of the most traveled photographers I know. I've been following his work for a while now and it's an honour to have him as a guest on this blog. Be sure to check out some of his photos at the end of the interview below and also on his website at www.amoschapple.com
Two Svan men in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia. Photo: Amos Chapple. ©OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
Amos Chapple, it seems you have a special love for Russia and the former Soviet republics. How does one grow up Devenport, Auckland and develop a passion for countries and cultures so distinct from New Zealand's?
It's hard to explain but I know a lot of people who have the same intense relationship with ex-soviet countries. There's a scene in Bruce Chatwin's book Songlines where Arkady is explaining his feelings towards Russia. He describes it as a place where "just when you fear the worst something wonderful happens." From a photographer's perspective it's bleak and it's dark, and you never get to the bottom of it.
Graffiti on the roof of an apartment block in the abandoned Ukrainian town of Pripyat, three kilometres from the Chernobyl Power Plant. Photo: Amos Chapple.
Your visual talent and extensive travelling are at heart of your images. More recently, you photographed in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Armenia. What motivated this project?
This was a contract for the Our Place project (OP), I had been lobbying to get to The Caucasus for a long while. Georgia in particular had obsessed me for years, I was pretty excited about looking up into the mountains where Prometheus had been chained by the gods! I had a map of the Caucasus up in my flat in Auckland, in the months leading up my departure I'd stand around with the other flatties and we'd marvel at how foreign the whole region was. There we were in Newton Gulley munching on Frujus, while on the streets of Gori there were people milling around Stalin's old family home and repairing the bridges Russian fighter jets had blown up a couple of years before.
What were the most memorable moments of your time in Armenia and Georgia? How were you perceived by those you photographed?
Georgia is a land apart, I was trying to describe it to friends with a clever adjective but it's impossible to sum up the character of the people succinctly. They're as hard-living as Russians, as flamboyant as Italians and as affectionate as Thais. The only relevant adjective for these people is "Georgian" and they are fantastic. Tbilisi has this faded grandeur to it, with crumbling stone lions on top of gates and grapevines strung over courtyards. The streets are leafy and wide and when you walk down them with the sun low it's just achingly beautiful. Armenia isn't the kind of place to sweep you off your feet but I was lucky there in falling in with a young Armenian guy, Aram Vardanyan and a British girl working for an NGO, Vanessa Boasian. They took me under their wing while I was in Yerevan and through them I lived like a local for two happy weeks.
Azerbaijan is next-door to both of these countries but I had a rough time there. The country is awash with oil; on the train-ride into the country I was talking with a guy in my cabin who said swimming in the Caspian sea is refreshing, but you come out "smelling just faintly of benzine". Because of the oil it's insanely wealthy. The centre of town has public facilities fit for a Roman emperors palace. For whatever reason though, the people in Baku were deeply unpleasant to me and to all the people I was staying with in my hostel. One couple arrived late one night and the girl was in tears; they had gotten lost and a passerby had given them directions to the hostel, when they turned around to thank him he demanded money and he wouldn't relent. One day I pulled up to a policeman and asked in perfectly good Russian if I was on the right track for a particular town, he just said "nope" and then ignored me. Another time a man I saw every morning asked me "why are you still here? I will pay money for you to leave." A French couple arrived at the airport and when they baulked at the price of the Visa the official replied, "go back to France then". One of the sites I shot, the Petroglyphs at Gobustan, involved driving about 60 kilometers on the highway out of Baku. They have big fast roads with desert on either side. The drivers were aggressive & the police stopped me twice to try to extract bribes – I was always nervous. One morning I saw a crowd on the side of the highway; as I got close I could see the aftermath of an explosive head-on crash, with people milling around the wreckage of the two cars. No one would have survived. I carried on driving just thinking "please, please don't let me die here in this awful place". I felt very alone there.
Photographers always bring a lot of themselves into the images they make. Do you think there is large portion of yourself in your pictures or are you able to make them in a purely journalistic sense?
It's just hard work. Virginia Woolf talked about the agony she used to go through writing and writing and straining to create beauty on the page. Hemingway rewrote the last page of "Farewell to arms" thirty nine times. Yet their work reads as if they've tapped a pen on their teeth a couple of times and then settled down to bring narrative effortlessly to life. I'm not saying my photos are anything like Woolf's writing but it always made me laugh when I'd hand in a completed assignment and my former project manager and good friend Raewyn Mackenzie would say "Good work, your eye was in for that last one" I'd spent the past six days hiking till my feet quivered, clambering over razor-wire & up radio masts, sneaking past security guards and generally working like an ox day after day, literally from sunup till sundown, then poring through the hundreds of dreary photos to find a handful of lucky ones. And I'd think "My eye? Hell" you know – I wish it was that easy!
There are other aspects; I think its important not to make it about you. No one cares how clever you think you are with your camera, but a lot of people would love to be on an path in the mountains of Nepal chatting with a family of Chepang tribespeople. It's like the old adage with writing, "show don't tell" – don't fill up the page with clever adjectives, just let the reader create their own connection with a scene using the information you give them. In doing this though you need to make that information compelling. It's just about content; no one cares about your photo of a duck on Lake Pupuke, but it would be pretty interesting to see a baby Pukeko being fed by its parents.
Is there a photograph you are particularly attached to?
Wrinkle-lipped bats pour out of a cave in the Jungle of Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Photo © Amos Chapple
This was taken in the Khao Yai Jungle in Thailand. I had met an amazing Dutch girl in Bangkok a couple of weeks before. She headed down south but I wheedled and pleaded and convinced her to fly back up and meet me in the jungle. She was in her last year of a psychology doctorate but she was very thoughtful and engaged in the here & now. She would often make these cultural observations that would just knock me out. This was the last night we had together and I had been starting to think about what was happening between us. It was not the average travel fling. A local guide had told me about this bat cave deep in the jungle somewhere that comes alive at dusk, so the Dutch girl, her friend, me and the guide shared two motorbikes and headed down an abandoned old jungle path. When we got to the end of the track we had to bush-bash straight uphill for 20 minutes or so until we got to the foot of a bluff with a cleft in the rock where the bats were supposed to live. When we made it to the cave we all stayed dead silent and waited for the sun to set. I started getting really concerned that nothing was going to happen, I was dreading my last night with this girl having one of those "oh well, at least the sunset was pretty!" kind of vibes. We were hunched up in the nooks of this cliff for a half-hour or so and then finally as the sun was sinking behind the hills I turned to the guide and snapped that obviously this was a dud, nothing was going to happen. I wanted to see if there were even any bats in there so he & I crept into the cave with our t-shirt over our faces to filter out the stink of guano. As we rounded a corner this vast whirring sound started building and building and we looked at each other like "what the hell?" Then, in the dark we could see this storm of bats. It was a solid living ball, about 20 meters across, of bats all swooping in one mass, moving towards us. We slithered over all the guano trying to get the hell out of the way and the moment we left the mouth of the cave the bats roared out. The air around us was vibrating and it went on for minute after minute, it was the most spectacular natural sight I've ever witnessed. On the way back, as we drove the motorbikes through the jungle in the dark the Dutch girl put her arms around my waist and rested her head on my back and I remember thinking: "now THAT is how to finish a romance".
You have been to more than fifty countries and photographed many of the Word Heritage Sites as part of UNESCO 'Our Place' project, the first official World Heritage Photographic database. Please tell us how you became involved with this amazing project.
I was working at the NZ Herald in the two years before I got the job with OP. I'm originally from Devonport in Auckland so when I arrived at the Herald's branch office in Hamilton I was a pretty wide-eyed 22 year old kid. I didn't have any social life, but I had a company car, so I spent a mad amount of time shooting and I was getting a lot of work published. The man behind the OP project, Geoff Steven, who splits his time between Paris and Auckland, saw my work in the paper here. When we met and he discovered I wasn't married, didn't have a mortgage, and was desperate to leave the Herald he offered me the job – which cost me my long-term girlfriend!
More recently, you traveled to Bangladesh. What did you do there?
Again, this was for the OP project, I shot two UNESCO sites; one up in the north, one down south. Bangladesh was pretty overwhelming. I remember trying to describe Dhaka to a friend in New Zealand. I was on the phone saying "Sacha, just imagine old Delhi, but with literally twice as many people; that is what this place is like" I could hear her jaw drop. I spent a lot of my time with an extremely devout young Muslim guy called Jashim Uddin which was great, I learned a lot about Islam and we had a long-running debate about whether or not music was a good thing. We were both totally bullish on the issue but it was very good natured and enlightening.
A boy shelters from a rainstorm in one of the mosques in the town of Bagerhat, Bangladesh. Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
In 2009, you were awarded the Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year Award. In previous years, you've also won multiple awards in New Zealand (Young Photographer of the Year, Environment Photographer of the Year) all of which are evidence of the caliber of your work. Your interests in Linguistics have now taken you to Hong Kong. Is this a departure from photography?
This is just a university exchange I'm on in Hong Kong. University was initially just something productive to do in my time between contracts. I had always felt like I was missing out on the nuts & bolts of the English language; there I was at age 25 & I had no idea how to use a semi-colon, so linguistics was an obvious choice. Then last year in New Zealand I was doing commercial photography work and I remember thinking that, although it's fun, I don't want to have to rely only on photography to make my living. When your camera is a tool for making money, the last thing you want to do is pick it up and go somewhere grungy in your down time.
Also, the work with OP was getting increasingly intense for me. I find it next to impossible to shoot anything interesting in countries where we have a visual template in our heads already. We all know what Germany looks like for example. Even if we've never been to Cuba we know what visual signature Havana has. Most of the world has been entered into our consciousness visually but in say, Uzbekistan it's more like, "ok, lets find out what the this place is about. What does an Uzbek wedding look like?" So in the last couple of years I was lobbying to be sent to more and more places which are visually undefined, and that's hard work. I spent five days stranded in a village in Kazakhstan with food-poisoning, I was assaulted up in a stairwell in the Ukraine, and I was attacked by a dog in the Pirin mountains in Bulgaria. Working in distinctive countries alone is very tough and it didn't feel right to be giving away the copyright to images which are so hard-won. In a few months I'll be a qualified English teacher which will enable me to fund the work I want to do, in the countries where I want to work.
Do you have plans to exhibit your photography in NZ?
No plans for an exhibition. I'm currently working on a story on Hong Kong for North & South magazine, as usual with them the brief is fantastic.
To see more of Amos' photography scroll down or visit his website: www.amoschapple.com
Directional arrows deep in the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
A man walks through the town of Mestia, Georgia. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
Two Alpine Ibex in the Upper Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland. | A young girl reaches into a shaft of sunlight inside the Geghard Monastery, Armenia. Photos: Amos Chapple.
A girl from the Chepang tribe in the mountains near Chitwan, Nepal. | Labourers between shifts laying tiles on the roof of Victoria Terminus, Mumbai. Photos: Amos Chapple.
A Spanish woman walks her dog through the streets of Toledo in early-morning light. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
The Darjeeling "Toy Train" puffs through the thin mountain air in the Indian Himalayas. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
Communal meal being prepared outside Shait Gumbad Mosque during the month of Ramadan. Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat. Photo: Amos Chapple. © OUR PLACE Publishing. Taken on assignment for OUR PLACE, a project which documents all World Heritage sites. See www.ourplaceworldheritage.com
Young Hong Kong locals on the Kowloon side. Photo: Amos Chapple
Bulgarian men in the traditional Kukeri costume head towards the centre of the town of Pernik. The Kukeri festival is held each year in the town to frighten away the evil spirits of winter. Photo: Amos Chapple.


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Bradford on Avon statue marks 300 years of education (From This Is Wiltshire)
Bradford on Avon statue marks 300 years of education
4:00pm Thursday 25th October 2012 in
A statue celebrating 300 years of education in Bradford on Avon was dedicated by the Bishop of Ramsbury last Wednesday.
The Rt Rev Edward Condry was guest of honour at St Laurence School and held a ceremony for the statue created by Bristol artist Carol Peace.
When the statue was first unveiled in March, by the Bishop of Salisbury the Rt Rev Nicholas Holtam, it featured a young girl reading. The memorial is now fully complete, with a boy also joining her on the plinth.
Bishop Condry's visit was part of St Laurence's annual foundation day, which saw Year 7 students go to Bradford on Avon's Holy Trinity Church for a service and then walk back to school for a flag-raising ceremony, a tradition that has been carried out since St Laurence opened 32 years ago.
Bradford on Avon's old saxon church first started educating the town's boys in 1712.
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It could have been,
" Wot a shaim Fitzmoriss G S is know longer they're - it wos a verry gud School - I went their."
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weasels, does he go 'clunk click' as well? (sorry, out of order I know!)
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Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had over 700 employees at pride. Here are some of our favorite photos of tech companies celebrating equal rights at Pride… Read More
YouTube Celebrates Pride With #ProudToLove Spotlight Channel
As Pride month comes to a close, YouTube is following in the footsteps of parent company Google in showcasing a collection of LGBT-themed videos on the YouTube spotlight channel to celebrate a historic month in the LGBT community. Just yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States weighed in on two major cases that could affect the rights of the gay community with regards to marriage equality. Read More
DoubleDutch Debuts Pride, A Mobile-Only Yammer Competitor
Following its $2 million Series A this spring, enterprise-focused mobile startup DoubleDutch is today introducing a new app called Pride whose debut coincidentally arrives alongside reports that Microsoft is after a startup that could be Pride's competition: Yammer. Like Yammer, Pride is also focused on workgroup collaboration, but, like most of what DoubleDutch does, it's… Read More


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Tag Archives: manchester by the sea
Gloucester Smiles–Mother and Daughters
Tourists – Paris and Manchester-By-The-Sea
Live From Production Of Manchester-By-The-Sea Starring Casey Affleck In #GloucesterMA
Shooting Tonight At East Gloucester School, and East Gloucester Richdale, Here's Shots Of The Production Equipment In The Old Bob's Clam Shack Parking Lot On East Main St.
Gearheads For Matt Damon-Photos from Kathy Chapman
Tonight in the Beacon Marine boatyard I found gearhead Sam and his crew "reconfiguring" the cameras for Matt Damon's Indie movie Manchester-by-the-Sea. They are filming in many North Shore locations until the end of April.
Photos © Kathy Chapman 2015
Big Help With a Lost Glove
Remember that glove you lost yesterday? It's been found! Now you just need to remember where this is… Your welcome.
Dan Kennedy on Piano – Crowell Chapel Manchester MA
Central Street Gallery – This Saturday at 5:00 PM!
Manchester Snow Day
Merry Christmas!!
Heading out of town for a few days but want to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
A Sight Only A few Can See
Going passed the Manchester Historical Society, if you are very lucky, you can see the Nutcrackers standing guard… They appear only to those who can see beyond the streets and houses…
Emmanuel Church Open Christmas Eve
The Episcopal Emmanuel Church in Manchester will be offering two services on Christmas Eve. The Family Service at 4:00PM and the Communion Service at 6:00 PM. This is a small (small!) but beautiful church usually open in summertime and sometimes for special occasions. Services are held in the summer every Sunday from June through September at 10:00 AM. The Church is located on Masconomo Street in Manchester.
What a Difference a Day Makes
As another snow storm moves in the view from Lobster Cove in Manchester changes one day to the next.
The Sergeant and the Tree
Came to find out that Sergeant Todd Fitzgerald had a lot to do with the creation of the Manchester Police Department's contribution to the Festival of Trees. He designed, gathered all the adornments and placed everything on the tree. (Said he got the parking tickets out of my car…). He did say that someone else had to make the bow for him! Very creative.
The Friendship Tree and 24 Festival of Trees are lit!! – Manchester
Sunday evening was the official lighting of the Friendship Tree and the 24 trees in The Festival of Trees on Manchester's Town Hall Common. A huge crowd had packed into the Congregational Church (SRO) for a 3:00 PM concert of Christmas songs and music, and then spilled out to fill the Town Hall Common and see the trees lit. They joined an already growing crowd who came for just the Tree Lighting and everyone brought the kids!
Christmas by the Sea ll
With the busy weekend underway, Santa made his way to Town and the Community Center for pictures with all each of the kids, the Historical Society Home put on its Christmas best, and the Boy Scouts, Troop 3, were selling trees, wreaths and Evergreen rope!
The Harbor Gets a Tree
Not to be left out, Manchester Harbor sprouted a Christmas Tree! Wondering how they turn the lights on…
Christmas by the Sea, presented by The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce's Manchester Division, kicks off this evening in downtown Manchester. There's something for everyone as the town rings in the holiday season.
Thursday, December 5th from 5 to 8pm The Chamber of Commerce Christmas Party and Lucky Nines Raffle will take place in the newly-renovated Seaside Cycle at 23 Elm Street. All are welcome to drop by and enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. The annual Luck Nines Raffle will take place at approximately 6:30pm. There are a maximum of 150 tickets sold and they are $25 each and the grand prize winner will go home with $1,000. There are over 20 other prizes donated by local merchants, so your odds of winning are great!
To secure your ticket, contact Chris Langathianos at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 617-694-6892.
Friday, December 6th from 4 to 9pm Shop Manchester Night's annual passport event! Visit local Manchester merchants and have your passport stamped just for visiting the shop – no purchase necessary. All completed passports turned in at The Landing at 7 Central by 9pm will be entered to win an iPad Mini (18+) or a freestyle BMX Bike (under 18). The drawing will take place at 9:30pm in the pub at The Landing at 7 Central. Additionally everyone who completes the passport will receive a complimentary beer or wine at The Landing and will receive an envelope containing valuable gift certificates and coupons from town merchants.
Saturday, December 7th at 1pm Santa Claus arrives by boat in Manchester Harbor. Families are encourage to meet Santa at Masconomo Park and take part in the Jingle Bell walk escorting Santa up to Singing Beach and back to the Manchester Community Center where kids of all ages will get to meet Santa!
Saturday, December 7th at 10am to 6pm Shop Manchester Night's annual passport event has added a second day! Like Friday night's event, participants can visit local Manchester merchants and have their passport stamped just for visiting the shop – no purchase necessary. All completed passports turned in at The Landing at 7 Central by 6pm will be entered to win an iPad Mini (18+) or a freestyle BMX Bike (under 18). The drawing will take place at 6:30pm in the pub at The Landing at 7 Central. Additionally everyone who completes the passport will receive a complimentary beer or wine at The Landing and will receive an envelope containing valuable gift certificates and coupons from town merchants.
Sunday, December 8th at 3:30pm The First Parish Church hosts the annual Christmas Concert and Friendship Tree lighting festivities. Tree lighting takes place at approximately 4:40pm.
More Music in Manchester by The Sea
Saturday, December 7th from 9pm to midnight Connecticut's Brian Jarvis performs at The Landing at 7 Central's Christmas by the Sea party. Guests may bring a toy drive donation that will benefit Gloucester's Pathways for Children.
Sunday, December 8th at 6pm Single Tree Music and the Historic Manchester Trust present "Holidays & Wintertide: An Evening with Chelsea Berry and Friends" featuring holiday music by Chelsea Berry, Renée Dupuis, Joe Cardoza, and John Rockwell. The concert takes place at the historic Crowell Chapel on Rosedale Avenue in Manchester. Saturday night's show sold out, but tickets still remain for this encore performance following the tree lighting on Town Hall Common.
Tickets are available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/523577
Festival of Trees Update
A lot has happened since last Friday when the trees went up, but there are still a few trees to be decorated. Some groups are showing a little imagination with their trees… All trees are to be decorated by this Friday December 6th.
The Friendship Tree will be lit Sunday at 4:30 PM at the First Parish Church on Town Hall Common and the Trees in the Festival of Trees will be lit right after.
Christmas by the Sea – Schedule, December 5th through 8th
Thursday December 5th the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce will hold a Christmas Part at Seaside Cycles, 23 Elm Street, Manchester. Raffles, door prizes and more! All are welcome!
Friday December 6 – Shop Manchester will take place from 4:00 until 9:00 pm. Collect stamps in your holiday passbook as you visit any of the merchants and win a valuable gift pack from local businesses. Plus you will have a chance to win a new Apple iPad or new BMX bicycle. Details at the merchant shops.
Christmas by the Sea Childcare Service So the parents can shop with ease and without young ones seeing anything too early, Childcare Services will be available between 5:30 and 8:30 pm at the Manchester Public Library. A minimum donation of $10.00 with a family maximum of $30.00 for the evening. Green Team will entertain the children with arts & crafts/games/movie and light refreshments. Proceeds to support the programming offered by the Manchester Community Center and to support the efforts of the Manchester Essex Green Team. Manchester Public Library 15 Union Street, Manchester.
Saturday December 7th Shop Manchester continues all day with the chance to win the prizes already mentioned and see all the special ideas and gifts the Shops of Manchester have to offer this Christmas.
Santa Claus Comes to Manchester! The Annual Jingle Bell walk will start at 1:00 PM when Santa arrives by boat at Masconomo Park. Santa will lead the children on a walk to Singing Beach followed by an open house at the Community Center from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. See the petting zoo, a craft activity, face painting, entertainment with Mrs. Claus and refreshments. Santa will be available for the children to meet and have a their picture taken with Santa.
Holidays and Wintertide II: An Evening with Chelsea Berry & Friends ~ 7:00 PM Single Tree Music and the Historic Manchester Trust present a special Holiday concert performance featuring Chelsea Berry, Joe Cardoze, Renee Dupuis and John Rockwell. The Crowell Chapel, 4 Rosedale Avenue. Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com
Sunday December 8th Santa's tour of Manchester starts at 12;00 and will go until about 2:30 PM. Santa will be start at the Fire Station and be driven around on a fire truck throwing Animal Crackers to the children as he tours the Town. Families are also encouraged to visit Santa at the Fire Station at 11:45 AM prior to his leaving on the tour.
A Christmas Concert will be held at the First Parish Church from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. The concert will feature the Manchester-Essex School Band, Soundwaves, the High School Chorus, Memorial School Chorus and La Petite Choral.
4:30 PM Lighting of the Friendship Tree and the Festival of Trees, the official start of the Christmas season following the concert at the First Parish Church on Town Hall Common
A busy weekend in Manchester!


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The first I heard of Yacht was earlier this month, and I was attracted to them mainly because they were on DFA Records, famed company that released all of LCD Soundsystem's albums. Since the wound of losing LCD is still fresh in my mind, I had great hopes that another DFA band could soothe the pain. I was pleasantly surprised by their dance-y summertime offering, which I'd recommend to anybody who enjoys LCD Soundsystem and Vampire Weekend at all. The entire album has the lasting quality of up to a year or so however, as it feels much more gimmicky than like a substantial record.
If you've heard of Shangri-La at all, you probably know the single "Dystopia" which is hands-down the best song on the album. It screams "dance to me" with simple rhythms, electronic squeaks, and insanely catchy vocals. If one song from this album stands the test of time, only "Dystopia" has that chance, but it still suffers from a strange sense of immaturity. Representative of the album as a whole, "Dystopia" ends up feeling more as if two kids found a cool hook and based an entire song off of it. The rest of the album follows suit. "One Step" is, simply put, the worst song on the album, as they inanely repeat the same phrasing over and over again with no decipherable destination.
What holds up best in Shangri-La is when these two musicians ignore the gimmicks and just play for fun. "Beam Me Up," "Paradise Engineering," and the title track all show an attempt to create ideas amidst the chaos, so when combined with the admittedly masterful electronic soundscape they've created these tracks elicit different feelings than most of the openers. The majority of tracks have too many hollow words, mere vessels that try to carry the beat along for the song to continue. This can be done well, as Murphy of LCD Soundsystem has shown us (whom they channel for "Paradise Engineering"), but in most of Shangri-La the boys of Yacht just end up creating noise.
TL:DR – Yacht's Shangri-La will tie you over until the next big pop/dance artist comes out. Give it a listen, especially if you just want a guilty pleasure for summer. Otherwise you'd be better off sticking with LCD S0undsystem memories or Vampire Weekend and MGMT. If you're even slightly interested, try out "Dystopia," "Paradise Engineering," or "Shangri-La."
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text: Hi all, Usually celebrate the time around my birthday with a ride up a hill around my house (Old La Honda Rd., Woodside, CA), however, the decrease in ability appears to increase exponentially every year since I turned 50. For comparision, in my 20's and 30's I was clearing the hill in under 25' (and riding another 50-70 miles afterwards!) in a steel bike (42 x 21), in my 40's still under 35' in aluminum (39 x 26). I'd always hope to have a time less than my age, well, at 53, I am struggling to make 45' on a carbon bike with (30 x 25 triple). Any secrets on maintaining that youthful vigor? The low gear on my mt bike is (21 x 28 triple) so I can still probably ride the hill in my 60's and 70's even though it will take 2 hours.


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Ballmer Surprise Appearance at Nokia Announcement
The biggest surprise of the day was not Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's announcement of a love-in with Windows Phone 7, it was the appearance on-stage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. That was a shock and a reflection of just how much is riding on this for the Redmond-based software giant. Microsoft may not have quite as much riding on this deal as Nokia, for whom this may be the last roll of the dice, but they have certainly pinned their hopes to it.
The message of the day for both CEOs was "ecosystem". Whatever you do, say ecosystem. By my counting the two CEOs mentioned it 18 times in a presentation that lasted little more than 30 minutes.
The onstage chemistry between the two men spoke volumes about the nature of the relationship. Mr. Elop, who until recently worked for Mr. Ballmer, seemed genuinely proud to introduce Mr. Ballmer to the stage in the crowded venue on one of London's exclusive Park Lane hotels.
Mr. Ballmer, on the other hand, looked like his opinion of Mr. Elop hadn't changed since he left his employ when Mr. Ballmer damned Mr. Elop, who had been in charge of the Office Suite, with faint praise. All he could say of him was that he had been "a good steward of the brand". This is not a relationship of equals. It was clear that Mr. Ballmer was the one who got the best end of this deal.
But Mr. Ballmer's very presence shows how much this means to Microsoft. It gives them access to Nokia's technology and markets and it gives them a key player backing their mobile OS, which so far has not made much of an impact.
And at least the Microsoft CEO managed to get the name of the company right. Mr. Elop pronounces it in the American way, the "nok" in Nokia to rhyme with "poke". According to Leea Ollikainen of Finnish broadcaster MTV3, it is a short "o" , "nok" to rhyme with "rock".
And illustrating the scale of the problem facing both companies in a hall packed with technology analysts, bankers and reporters, I saw not a single Windows Mobile 7 phone and just one Nokia phone belonging to Svenning Dalgaard, a Danish reporter. And he was going to replace it with an iPhone.
Was anything forthcoming? Mr. Ballmer revealed that the two started to talk in November. Mr. Elop made it clear that heavy job cuts are going to be forthcoming, something that is going to be a factor in Finland's April election. Mr. Elop mentioned that he had addressed the 60,000 employees of Nokia this morning; it is certain that the next time he speaks to them, they will be able to book a smaller hall. The job cuts are going to be so deep that Nokia is already working with the government about resettlement.
MeeGo is dead in the water and any developer who is working on it can simply stop right now. Go and learn something else instead. Mr. Elop said that Nokia would release a MeeGo product—although he didn't say what it was—but that it was simply as "a learning experience". The MeeGo team then transitions itself into some sort of "special projects" team.
Talking to analysts after the event, their reaction was muted. One senior analyst from a major US investment bank, who did not want to be quoted, said it was the least worst option, but questioned the time. "Where is the phone?" he asked. "If they cannot get a phone out by next holiday season, then that is going to be very hard for them."
Scott Sutherland, director at Wedbush Securities thought Nokia had no choice: "It is the high risk, high reward strategy. If they get it right then they will reap big rewards. However, there are a great number of risks."
Tony Cripps, Principal Analyst, Ovum was more bullish: "This is a bold decision by Nokia but absolutely the right one, both for itself and for Microsoft given the drastically changed landscape for smartphones in the past couple of years. There were few short term options available to the company to help it get back on terms with Apple and especially the Android masses, which in 2011 look set to overtake Nokia in terms of smartphone shipments, bringing with it the full wrath of the investor community."
Rachel Lashford of Canalys was impressed by the clarity of the path, even if it was a very rocky one: "The management path is very clear, and very focussed. It gives the company a very clear direction. However, the path for Symbian is not at all clear. It has a huge installed base but how they are going to support that in the transition isn't clear".
The biggest laugh of the day was reserved for the poor journalist from a website called "All About Symbian". As one analyst sitting next to me quipped, "better get a new job then". Actually, the last laugh is his. He has already bought "All About Windows Phone".


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Console for hacking Mozilla on Windows
This post is just a little tip for hacking Mozilla on Windows. It's well known that the basic Windows console program is, uh, not good, compared to a Unix console. But it turns out there's a really nice project on SourceForge named Console that provides multiple tabs, good fonts and scrollback, keyboard shortcuts, and a few other goodies.
Chris Leary asked me to write this up so that other people know about it (and people have been asking lately). Justin Dolske was the person who pointed me to the project in the first place.
Anyway, a few tips for using Console for Mozilla hacking:
- It's just a zip file containing a program. There's no install, you just run it.
- For mozilla-build, you want to create a new "Tab" in the settings. For example, I have one called "Mozilla ia32", with Shell set to "C:\mozilla-build\start-msvc9.bat" and Startup dir set to "C:\mozilla-build".
- With the latest version of mozilla-build, it doesn't work right if you just do that. What will happen is that the tab will start up, then shut down as a standard Windows console opens. (Very annoying, because if it's the only tab, it'll even close down Console, so you can't easily fix it.)
What you need to do is find your startup batch file (e.g., start-msvc8.bat) and change the last line from:
start /d "%USERPROFILE%" "" "%MOZILLABUILD%"\msys\bin\bash --login -i
"%MOZILLABUILD%"\msys\bin\bash --login -i
Posted: March 29th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 10
Comment from Kyle Huey
Time: March 29, 2011, 3:19 pm
FWIW, we're going to fix 3 in the next version of mozilla-build.
Comment from Shawn Wilsher
Time: March 29, 2011, 3:43 pm
Does setting the startup directory actually work for you? I've had no luck in getting to to change anything.
Comment from dmandelin
Time: March 29, 2011, 3:45 pm
Great, thanks!
Comment from dmandelin
Time: March 29, 2011, 3:47 pm
Hah! No, it doesn't work for me either, and I never noticed. Maybe the .bat file changes it?
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Comment from Harsh86
Time: March 29, 2011, 7:43 pm
Wow. I just started hacking on Mozilla code a few days ago and I was just thinking how crappy the Windows console is compared to a Unix console. A day later, this blog post. Awesome.
Comment from Steve Fink
Time: March 29, 2011, 8:00 pm
I've always used rxvt (the dumb way — I open a standard mozilla-build console, then type rxvt & into it.) It is a proper terminal (key bindings, scrollback, escape sequences, etc.) though it doesn't have tabs. I'll have to try Console to see how it compares.
Comment from Neil Rashbrook
Time: March 30, 2011, 1:21 am
Rather annoyingly, vim72 is also able to temporarily disable scrollback in Console2.
mozillabuild used to start rxvt, so someone must have thought that the regular console was an improvement. (Maybe there should be some sort of setting to choose which sort of console you want.)
Comment from geeknik
Time: March 31, 2011, 10:49 am
I'm digging this app. Much more useful then the standard Windows 7 command prompt. =)


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Assault charges dismissed after victim refuses to testify
Assault charges against a Wilkes-Barre man who allegedly broke his girlfriend's collar bone and rib and cut her forehead with a power saw were dismissed when the victim refused to testify Thursday.
Police initially charged Lamar Bobbett, 28, of 30 Woodward St., with two counts of aggravated assault and a single count of simple assault following the reported attack against Ashley Nagy in March.
Magisterial District Judge Martin Kane encouraged Nagy to testify during Bobbett's preliminary hearing Thursday.
"My concern is for your well-being," Kane said. "These are very serious charges."
But Nagy refused to move forward with the hearing.
According to Wilkes-Barre police:
The assault started March 25 when Bobbett overheard Nagy telling her friend she no longer wanted to be with him. Bobbett called Nagy into their bedroom and started beating her with an extension cord before hitting her with a rod or pole. He then powered up a saw and cut Nagy's forehead before she blacked out.
Nagy woke up about three hours later to Bobbett wrapping her head in a bandage. She was covered in blood and told Bobbett she needed to go to the hospital.
Bobbett drove her to the hospital, where she received six staples in her head and was treated for a broken rib, a broken collar bone, a cut to her neck, and numerous bruises all over her body, arrest papers said.
Assistant District Attorney Cara Solimine said she was going to look into re-filing the charges against Bobbett, but as of Thursday, he set to be released from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State's Mark Dantonio and Michigan's Brady Hoke had very different seasons.
Their hour-long presentations reflected that Friday at the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association clinic.
With 10 straight victories, including the Big Ten championship and the Rose Bowl, Dantonio's talk was titled "Winning Thoughts" and often referred to the No. 3 Spartans' school-record 13-1 record. He met with reporters before the speech, then posed for photos with coaches who asked for those shots.
Michigan lost five of six games in November and December, including the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, and finished 7-6. Hoke declined to answer questions, spoke primarily about tackling and safety issues, then left. He introduced new Wolverines offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier and invited everyone to visit campus.


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Rolling Stone gathers JossMick Jagger has joined forces with teen soul sensation Joss Stone to record a Christmas duet.
The 61-year-old Rolling Stone and the 17-year-old singer have recorded a version of the 1974 Mud hit 'Lonely This Christmas' at London's famous Abbey Road studios, according to the BBC.
The unlikely pair met when Jagger invited Joss - whose hits include 'Fell In Love With A Boy' and 'Super Duper Love' - to sing on the soundtrack of Jude Law's upcoming movie, 'Alfie'.
Joss recorded a version of the title song, which was first a hit for Cilla Black in 1966 when the original movie, starring Michael Caine, was released.
She recently revealed how the rock legend provided backing vocals for the track, saying: "Mick Jagger is singing back-up and Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics is producing. It's going to be cool."
Jagger also features on the new soundtrack singing 'Old Habits Die Hard', which he co-wrote and recorded with Stewart.
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Islamists appear to have won a narrow victory in the first round of voting on Egypt's constitution. Egyptian rights groups are calling for a re-vote, charging there were widespread violations.
The opposition umbrella group, the National Salvation Front, condemned the irregularities and violations, including the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood members at the polls. They called for a massive rally against the constitution.
"We call on our great Egyptian people, in all their sectors, to go down on Tuesday, Dec. 18, to the streets to defend their free will, prevent its forgery, and bring down the void draft constitution," the group's spokesman Abdel-Ghaffar Shukr said.
Millions of Egyptians cast their vote in the referendum on the draft constitution. It would empower Islamists to enforce the most widespread and strictest implementation of Islamic, or Sharia law, that modern Egypt has ever seen.
"I cannot accept a constitution with very limited, very limited actually, rights for minorities, rights for women, rights for even children," one voter, Mohamed Ewais, said.
"It's not suitable for Egypt, actually. We are taking about a country that has been in place for over 210 years as a modern state," he said.
Rights groups said violations included women being prevented from voting because they were not wearing Islamic veils, individuals falsely identifying themselves as judges, and Christians being denied entry to polling stations.
As polls closed, hundreds of Islamists attacked the offices of one of Egypt's oldest liberal parties.
"The president, if he is president of all Egyptians, holds the responsibility of what has happened now and I ask the attorney general to submit the criminals who attacked us to justice," Wafd Party leader El-Sayed Badawi said.
Israelis are watching the Egyptian vote with concern since an Islamist victory could threaten the 33-year peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
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There was a time in my life when I used to ask myself, "Why not pursue a career that could help me meet chicks? What could possibly lead me to the promised land?" Then it hit me - I should become a photographer. A Sexy Photographer who hooks up with awesome chicks. Then I found out how much photography lessons cost and said, "Fuck it." I couldn't let that cut into my beer money.
SexyPhotographer is a site belonging to someone with obviously more initiative than me. The chicks he found to pose for him are pretty good-looking, too. My favorite by far is Brandon. She really has a flawless body and I was very happy to check out all her pics. But I don't want to take anything away from the other babes on this site, because they all bring something interesting to the table.
As its name implies, this site is about photography, so there aren't any videos for you to check out. There are, however, 72 sets of pictures that provide you with professional shots of beautiful babes peeling off their layers of clothes.
The pics vary in quality, but some are high-res and those that aren't still look quite good. The problem I found here is that some of the sets also show up again on some of the other websites that are part of the Porn Nerd Network. There also aren't any Zip files, so you're stuck downloading the shots you like one at a time.
Speaking of that network, your membership allows you to access its 30 other sites, like Sweet Donna DDD, Sexxy Brandon, Alabama Slammer and London Towers. Most of them toe the amateur line and have videos. Additional bonuses include tons of video streams covering a broad range of hardcore categories.
If you're all right with a site that deals exclusively in photos, you could do worse than this one. Sexy Photographer has its shortcomings, but the passion for its subject is there. That said, evidence suggests that it stopped updating and in its current size it is hard to recommend.
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Foothills Art Center's Holiday Art Market
BEST BETDATE: November 13 2009, 5:00 PMCost:CATEGORY: Arts and ExhibitsVENUE INFORMATION:Foothills Art Center809 15th St.Golden, CO 80401
Support Colorado artists and the Foothills Art Center by purchasing handmade art and gifts at the 35th annual market. An array of items like ceramics, jewelry, and glass artwork from nearly 200 Colorado artists will be for sale. Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun 1-5 p.m.


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Teen Mom
Jenelle Evans and Nathan Griffith — Cute Couple Alert! (PHOTOS)
Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans has moved on to a new man! Meet Nathan Griffith, a part-time male model and minor pro football player. The pair made their love official on June 3, 2013 after a romantic 4-hour date and they've been inseparable ever since. Meanwhile, Jenelle's husband Courtland Rogers (yep, husband ;— they're technically still married, though legally separated) has been sitting behind bars on bond ever since he and Jenelle were arrested on April 23 for heroin possession and simple assault. It's complicated, you guys.
Click through to see more pics of Jenelle and her new man, and tell us your thoughts below!


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(21) Comments | Posted December 2, 2013 | 3:22 PM
Over the past few weeks, by some strange coincidence, I have ended up in several discussions with parents who either never watched TV as kids, or don't allow their own children to watch it at all.
Not "no commercial TV" -- but no TV, period. As in, none.
Or, ahem,...
(15) Comments | Posted July 20, 2013 | 10:27 AM
"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do." -- Kathleen Winsor (via Leslie Fandrich)
Recently I've had several friends lose parents and other elderly relatives close to them. It's...
(9) Comments | Posted June 8, 2013 | 11:08 AM
By day four of a business trip out of the country, my heart truly starts to hurt. By day seven, as I'm supposedly enjoying a final night out with colleagues it's nearly intolerable. And it's not just the...
(10) Comments | Posted April 16, 2013 | 1:34 PM
Oh my God, what? A what? Where?
Checking Twitter.
Sick to my stomach.
Who do I know in Boston? I need to check in with them.
9/11 flashbacks.
I don't want to see the photos.
Okay, one photo.
Fuck, why did I look at that.
Have to call my friends....
(12) Comments | Posted February 25, 2013 | 11:55 AM
The one post of mine that still receives the most comments and emails all these years later takes on sleep training. My standard answer to those poor, desperate new moms is that I'm the last person that anyone should ever ask advice about getting one's children to sleep....
(175) Comments | Posted June 12, 2012 | 11:45 AM
I have not stopped thinking about this amazing Wellesley High School graduation speech since I saw it yesterday, thanks to Jen Singer. In it, brilliant English teacher David McCullough cautions his students, "you are not special."
I admit when I first heard the line, I bristled a bit....
(97) Comments | Posted April 13, 2012 | 2:22 PM
I have seen the following argument about working moms far too many times to count: Well, women could sacrifice second cars and vacation homes to stay home with their children.
Feel free to scream now. Or, you know. I could do it for you.
The implication of course is that...
(4) Comments | Posted September 10, 2006 | 4:19 PM
When I became pregnant, the diaper came to symbolize my absolute crippling fear of impending motherhood. That seemingly benign little plastic white pant with the powdery scent and the smiling muppet on the band -- it was my own personal hell.
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Cash Kings: Biggest Box Office Winners Of The Decade
By Scott Gwin 2009-12-27 15:16:46 comments
In the eighties we spent an average of around $3.50 for a movie ticket, and in the nineties a cool $4.50. The aughts saw prices jump to an average of $6.00. But we love our movies, so higher ticket prices couldnt keep us away. In the nineties we spent over $57 billion at the box office. This decade we blew over $91 billion. If it hadnt been for all that internet piracy that the web introduced, it might have been closer to $92 billion.
Our tastes in movies changed as well. If you look at the top ten biggest grossing movies of the nineties, there was only a single sequel (well, one prequel George Lucas disastrous Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace to be specific). In the last ten years, we crowned eight sequels with our highest cash honors. Apparently we preferred movies that dont require us to learn the names of any new main characters.
Here are the biggest earners of the aughts, and how much we paid to watch them.
All three parts of Jacksons brilliant vision of Tolkiens classic fantasy epic were either the number one or number two cash earners the years they were released, but only two of them made it into the top ten list for the decade. The Two Towers barely beat out Finding Nemo by two million dollars for the number ten spot, and theres a possible chance It will slip off the list if Avatar holds up its box office performance. Until then, the movie that proved an entirely CG main character doesnt have to be as lame as Jar Jar Binks remains one of the biggest cash cows of the aughts.
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
9. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
There havent been a lot of movie sequels that turn out better than the original. Spider-Man 2 was one of them. It didnt make more money than its predecessor, but it did make enough to be the eighth biggest earner of the decade. Fortunately, it did outsell the painful third part in the series. For those of you who care, Spider-man 3 was number twelve.
8. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Despite its lengthy run-time and seven different endings, The Return of the King still saw hefty ticket sales and became the best selling movie of 2003. Its also the only one of the top ten earners to have won the Oscar for best picture. Awards dont usually go hand in hand with box office blockbusters, but once in awhile a movie makes big money and draws Oscar attention. ROTK is also one of only three in the decades top ten with a budget under $100 million, along with Two Towers and Passion of the Christ. Further proof that you don't have to spend a ton of money to make a ton of money. Good movies get made in spite of their budget, not because of them.
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
There havent been a lot of three-part movie series in the last decade where the third movie was an improvement on the first two movies. Crappy part threes, Shrek 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Spider-Man 3 to name a few, tend to be the rule instead of the exception. Revenge of the Sith was one such exception, but thats not saying much given the disasters that were episodes one and two. As the top ticket seller in 2005 the movie had a lot to be proud of at the box office. Too bad there wasnt much of anything else to be proud of during George Lucas final installment in the tale of the forces chosen one.
6. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The aughts top ten list is littered with sequels, but Revenge of the Fallens presence is absolutely baffling. Movies that make more than $300 million suggest an audience which sees the movie more than once, but its hard to believe that anyone would subject themselves to this particularly painful sequel a second or even third time. The original movie just barely managed that difficult balance between giant-robot action and entertaining story, giving audiences a reason to give a sequel a chance. But after youve seen Revenge of the Fallen once, and discovered that adrenaline charge action can actually be so over-done that it becomes boring, its hard to imagine anyone going back for more. But they did, to the tune of $400 million, making it the fifth biggest movie of the decade.
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
The movie that brought respectability back to the comic-book hero genre, Spider-Man also launched a movement to give every Tom, Dick and Harry that ever appeared in a comic book his own movie franchise. While it no longer holds any of the major records it broke, Spider-Man presided over a ticket selling spree that included biggest opening weekend and fastest to $100, $200 and $300 million. It was the biggest movie of 2002, and set a new standard for the concept of the big time blockbuster.
4. Spider-Man (2002)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was one of my favorite movies of the decade, and I couldnt help but be excited when they announced Dead Mans Chest. While Im not a big fan of sequels, I had high hopes for this one. In the end I was disappointed, but audiences were still entranced by the return of Captain Jack Sparrow. As proof of how disappointed others were as well, the third movie in the series only made enough cash to be the twentieth biggest earner of the decade.
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Animated movies are always present in the top ten movies of the year, but its rare that they do so well in the top ten for the decade. Shrek 2 is the only one on the list for the aughts, but its a well deserved spot. Its arguably one of the more entertaining animated movies out there and certainly held up to the standards of the first Shrek movie (unlike the cluster that was the third Shrek entry). As cash earners go, its not only second for the aughts, its the fourth highest grossing movie of all time.
2. Shrek 2 (2004)
If you didnt expect to see this one at the top of the charts, you clearly werent paying attention during the summer of 2008 when Dark Knight was breaking records left and right. One of only two movies in history to ever cross the $500 million mark, the biggest cash cow of the decade wasnt the biggest cash cow of all time. That distinction still rests with 1997s Titanic and its $600 million domestic total. But thanks to a solid combination of great movie-making, a predecessor that was also well made, and the tragic death of one of its stars just months before the movie went to theaters, The Dark Knight banked a hefty $533 million. Its also one of only four movies to ever earn more than $1 billion world-wide (along with Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest).
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
One to Grow On: Given its current box office performance, Avatar is on the road to reaching $350 million and making the top ten of the decade. Follow along with our weekly box office report to see if it makes the list.
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Earnings worries knock FTSE off two-month highs
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By Toni Vorobyova LONDON (Reuters) – UK stocks retreated on Tuesday, with news of steep client outflows at Ashmore hitting other asset management shares and exacerbating concerns about the strength of the upcoming earnings season. Ashmore tumbled 11.7 percent, on track for its biggest one-day drop in five years, after saying volatility in core emerging markets had spooked investors, who withdrew a net $3.5 billion from its funds in the last three months of 2013. The drop in mid-cap Ashmore helped push the FTSE 250 down 0.7 percent, and the negative sentiment also reverberated around its blue-chip peers. Aberdeen Asset Management, which is due to issue a trading update on January 16 and which also has a strong focus on emerging markets, dropped 1.7 percent.


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Dianna Agron Talks Seeing Lea Michele on Broadway in Ustream Live Chat on January 10, 2011
On January 10, Dianna Agron (Quinn) did a livechat with fans to talk about her new arts website: You, Me & Charlie. The Glee star talked about her hopes for seeing co-star Darren Criss (Blaine) on Broadway, and reminisces on the time she saw Lea Michele (Rachel) on Broadway in Spring Awakening — before either of them had ever worked together on Glee! Wait a minute. If Lea has a topless scene in Spring Awakening ... then it's only logical that Dianna has seen Lea topless. (Wow. FaBerry fans are sure to have a field day with that one.)


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"It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of any facility of any national securities exchange, or for any member of a national securities exchange ...
To effect, alone or with one or more other persons, a series of transactions in any security registered on a national securities exchange or in connection with any security-based swap agreement (as defined in section 206B of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) with respect to such security creating actual or apparent active trading in such security, or raising or depressing the price of such security, for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of such security by others."
The relevant extract is -
"transactions ... depressing the price of such security, for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of such security by others."
I'm absolutely certain that at this point in time the buying interest in INSM outweighs the selling interest - and that, if called to explain their actions, the entities who have been walking down the share price recently would have no good excuse other than to influence potential buyers to pay less and potential sellers to accept less - so that the Shorts can cover their positions at a lower price.
Strictly speaking, doing so doesn't appear to be a violation of the letter of the law. But does anybody here know if it is a recognized violation within the spirit of the law?
Since when does the SEC actually enforce the rules? The government doesn't even follow the rule of law when it doesn't serve their interests. By all rights half of Wall Street should be in the slammer followed by just as many government officials.
Sentiment: Buy
I really object to the arrogance of these parasites. They know that by moving the share price in that manner they'll scare the vast majority of retail investors - keeping them on the sidelines in the belief that the share price movement means there's a catch.
Just wondered if anybody here knew for sure if doing that was a violation.


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One of the oldest fairs of its type, the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire is an amazing trip into the past where great entertainment, fantastic costumes and historical shopping awaits. This year's Renaissance Pleasure Faire will be running every weekend from April 5th to May 18th, between 10am and 7pm every day. Located at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, it is accessible both by road and public transport. Local buses stop a short walk away, at the main park's entrance, whilst by road the route towards the event leads to the designated parking area. Spread over twenty acres, with thirteen entertainment stages and hundreds of stalls and things to see, a trip to the Pleasure Faire is a treat for the whole family. If you will be staying at one of the hotels near the Santa Fe Dam Recreation and love the renaissance period, be sure to check out this event!
Admission to the event is by ticket, but the standard entry fee includes all of the provided entertainment, including the Jousting and four parades, plus more than two thousand performers making their music, dances and living history shows come alive. The battle pageant, craft demonstration areas and children's lessons are also all part of the ticket, so it offers great value for a full day's fun. Queen Elizabeth the First is in attendance with her shimmering court, supported by attendants dressed in stunning costume and adding her royal touch to the proceedings.
This year, a fantastic range of entertainers will be gracing the boards each weekend, many new to the Renaissance Pleasure Fair South California. Bluebeard's Pressgang Pageant is one of the new acts not to be missed, with the Captain himself interviewing for new crew members live on stage in front of the audience, giving would-be sailors of all ages the chance to prove themselves and earn a certificate too. An all new Ded Bob Show brings the most popular cadaver in the entertainment industry back to life, telling his bawdy jokes (rated PG13) and interacting with his living crowd, whilst elsewhere Lord Franko the Master Hypnotist will be dabbling in the dark arts to hypnotise his volunteers and cause people to behave in unexpected ways.


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by Elizabeth Horn
I'm outstanding. Really I am.
No, I've not had a sudden attack of narcissism, I'm the working mother among the parents at a small private school.
Most of the time, I'm incognito. I take the kids to school in the morning, and, save the occasional hair curler-do seen in line, everyone looks alike behind the wheel. No one is any the wiser that I'm suit clad instead of designer sweats-clad with a side of carefully styled pony tail attempting to look casual and sporty with the addition of a baseball cap.
But, when it comes to other school events, I take the risk of exposing myself if I'm the only mother in work clothes.
Though I've got nothing to hide, over the years I've learned that since the working mother is always spotted as the one wearing black, I need to be aware of my appearance in certain situations.
Why? The fact that I work comes up in conversation when it's actually irrelevant to the situation or topic at hand, and, sometimes, people even assume I can't do something or I don't know about something at school because I work.
I have a hard time putting the usual inflection in writing, but, it goes something like, "Oh. You worrrrk. Grreaaaat. I don't know how you do thaaaat. I could never do it." Or, "We didn't put you on the committee because, well, you worrrrk." The subtext to that is often something like, "Isn't that cute? Better you than me."
When I had young children in school, I was very sensitive to it, but, over the years, I've learned that people will just say what they're going to say, and, now it's usually no big deal to me.
Sure, there may be something I can't do at school because it's during the day, and, I may even think to myself, "That's an awful time for people who work", but, I'll be the judge of whether or not I can participate. On the flip side of that though, I take great care not to opt out of something undesirable by loudly proclaiming that, "I work!".
I've even been known to change out of my work clothes in the car if there's a meeting at school if it keeps someone from bringing it up unnecessarily. I'm proud of my job, don't get me wrong, but, there are certain time it's just simpler not to emphasize that I work when I'm around the kids' school in order for me to participate like the other parents.
But, if I don't have time to change clothes before the school event, me and the other lady who works can always go out for drinks later.


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Of course, real men race TT's
Of course not, only freds/posers only do TT's
Yes, but only if you also do mass start racing you ******
TT's are stupid
TT helmets are stupider
Just answer the poll you road nazi scum.
Ha, saw this one coming a mile away! I like 'em in a stage race format, but what the hell's the point as a sole race besides just a training marker. (This is coming from a former triathlete too)
You got it buddy: the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
2009 Dean El Diente Superlite
2011 Bianchi Zurigo CX
2005 Specialized Sworks E5 "Calamity"
2007 Fuji Thrill LT1.0
199? Tommasini ? (pending build)
2001 Della Santa
Uphill TTs: Where money can't buy you (that much) speed.
sitting in for 80 miles just to jump out in the last 50 meters or drilling it till you puke for 25 miles, which sounds harder. I voted for option 1.
Side note: I hate to TT
Side note#2: pcad has a very unhealthy crush on the TT and even more so on the TT topic on BF.
The test of truth. And I am a liar. Hide. Me. In. A. Pack.
It better be a real race or I'll never see a podium again.
When was the last time someone went into the wind tunnel to improve their aerodynamics while riding on the hoods?
I'm astonished nobody has chosen the 'only freds/poseurs do TT's' answer to the poll. What kind of road nazis are you guys?
Is the UCI hour record real racing?
Il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace
1980 3Rensho-- 1975 Raleigh Sprite 3spd
1990s Raleigh M20 MTB--2007 Windsor Hour (track)
1988 Ducati 750 F1
'09 Cannondale CAAD9 - Team Latitude/ABRT Special.
'04 Lemond Victorie Ti
'98 IF Crown Jewel (dead)
'92 Trek2100 (TT)
'50 something Gino Bartali (fixer)
'02 Ducati ST4s (Moto-Ref mount)
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'Start house'? You must do fancier TT's than Pcad. I was under a little canopy with some guy holding my saddle. No ramp, not start house, no TV cameras, no choppers, nothing. There were a lot of 'DNF's on the result sheet. I suspect that really meant 'did not start' unless this TT turned into a crash/puncture-fest.
I may have been slow but I did start and finish and I DNC (Did Not Crash). I will learn if this moved me up that daunting USA Cycling ranking ladder even one friggin rung in the next couple of days. It's a long climb boys. On the other hand Pcad has nowhere to go but UP.
By the way Zipps RULE.


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Proposed balloon release in Prairie Village to raise money for pet's medical bills angers some
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. - A proposed balloon release to raise money and honor animals is a contentious point in Prairie Village.
Christine Gregory, who owns Queen of Paws Boutique and Spa, came up with the idea to pay for a dog's medical bills with a balloon release. She also says the release would serve as a good tribute to past pets.
She says she's also heard from a handful of people who are upset over the plan to release balloons into the air, claiming it would harm wildlife when they eventually land. Those who disagree with the idea of a balloon release have claimed they don't degrade fast enough and remain a threat to animals long after they're gone.
"We're not using string. We're not using paper," said Gregory. "It's all biodegradable."
Veterinarians and the Prairie Village Parks Department have approved the release. The event is scheduled for June 22 at Shawnee Mission Park. Each balloon is $5.
Gregory told the Prairie Village Post she would also offer candles in addition to the balloons .
In a post on her Facebook page, Gregory is receiving mostly negative feedback on her idea.