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Writer John Ridley on the Long Journey of 'Red Tails'
After screenwriter John Ridley was hired to write "Red Tails," an action drama about the Tuskegee Airmen opening this Friday, he was told by the film's executive producer George Lucas to expect a large amount of research to help him prepare. Little did he realize he would soon be sifting through literally a van's worth of arcane flight records, flight logs and articles from historically black newspapers to craft his tale about the titular World World II African-American aerial combat unit.
It was research on a level Mr. Ridley says he'd never done before and will probably never do again — not because he doesn't want to, but because Mr. Lucas put in an extraordinary amount of time and financial resources into seeing "Red Tails" finally make it to the big screen after roughly 2o years of development.
The film also helped Mr. Ripley connect to two different generations of his family: an uncle who served with the Tuskegee unit and his young son, who gave him the idea for how to end the film.
"Red Tails" is only one of multiple projects the busy Mr. Ridley is working on this year. He's also waiting to hear if HBO will pick up "Da Brick," a pilot based on the early life of Mike Tyson and directed by Spike Lee, to series, and recently finished writing "Twelve Years A Slave" with "Shame" filmmaker Steve McQueen, with Michael Fassbender set to star.
Speakeasy recently spoke to Mr. Ridley about this career.
How did you first get involved with "Red Tails"?
John Ridley: I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to me. Of all the phone calls I've received — Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you — that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen. Especially because when I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, the dad of my best friend at the time owned a movie theater and he would get the promo stuff early for upcoming films and it was like manna from heaven. One of those promos was for "Star Wars," and I still remember being able to skip the line to see the movie because my friend's dad owned the theater and I will never forget that little spaceship coming over your head. It was coolest film to me at the time — that and "Beckett," with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, which was on the opposite side of the spectrum. After "Star Wars," I wanted to do something big and after "Beckett," I wanted to do something that featured two guys talking for hours but still having it be the most fascinating thing you'd ever seen.Those elements came together on "Red Tails."
Your uncle was actually part of the Tuskegee airmen unit that flew plane in World War II. Did you speak to him about the film?
I didn't know about his involvement for a long time. It was my mother who started to tell me about it, but gave the caveat that she didn't really know if was an airman because he never talked about it. Finally, I was at a Tuskegee convention where they had all the records of the airmen that served and I saw that my uncle was there. I was a little nervous at the time, because I didn't want to find out my uncle was a liar. But overall all of these guys [who served] just don't talk about it. Even as we were interviewing them for the movie, they were like, "Everybody was fighting, everybody did it—so that's just what we did." Yeah, but wasn't there also segregation, I asked? "Yeah, but that's the way it was," he says. That's really, really powerful and to find out in the moment that your uncle was part of that was pretty amazing.
You've worked in a variety of genres ranging from sitcoms for television to dramas for movie studios. How do you chose your projects?
John Ridley: To a degree, it's whatever is interesting. For a number of years, I was really in the studio system writing stuff like "Undercover Brother" and made some good money on that. Then it became, let's do more "Undercover Brother" kind of stuff. It was very hard because up until the [writer's guild] strike, people were throwing money around and times were good. It was like, why would you say no? If you're at all savvy and you all understand there is a ticking clock [with one's career] why would you not get what you can get? But then my kids started getting older and my resurgence professionally and personally came when I tried not taking the money and only doing the really, really interesting projects to me. My projects that are getting made now — "Red Tails," "12 Years A Slave," "Da Brick," this Marion Barry project I'm doing and some other things — they're only possible because I took as little money or no money for them. I want to stress it's not some moral epiphany I had, like a come-to-Jesus moment. But I did think to myself, just wouldn't it be nice if my kids could see something like "Red Tails"?
How did you you connect with Steve McQueen, who must be in demand after "Shame" right now?
He's interesting to me because he has no desire to get into Hollywood and it's really fun. There is something so refreshing about a guy who just does his thing, goes away and is onto the next thing. Writing it with him was a pleasure and working with the people from Brad Pitt's company [who are producing the film] has been a pleasure.


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You'll feel famous and fabulous when mixing and mingling at the world-renowned festival in Park City, Utah — even if you're sleeping in a bathtub.
There were bodies all over my hotel room—curled up on the couch, stretched out on the carpet, snoring beside me. Fortunately, I actually knew these slumbering refugees: old friends who expressed a sudden, urgent desire to see me when I mentioned having a hotel room in Park City, Utah. Given the circumstances, I couldn't really fault them for appropriating my floor space. This was Sundance, America's most famous film festival. If you get a chance to go, you take it. Each January, close to 300 short and feature-length films representing the best independent cinema in the nation— and possibly the world—flicker across 18 different screens for 10 entire days. For the cinephile, it's the ultimate all-you-can-see spree, a film binge constrained only by one's ability to score tickets and stay awake.
Those who dream of attending this debutante ball of cinema needn't have a fairy godmother or an industry connection—the festival is open to anyone willing to navigate its logistic hurdles. Early planning is helpful; attending in 2007 is not out of the question, but less-impulsive types should set their sights on 2008.
Nobody who went to the festival in its infancy would have imagined today's sold-out screenings and snaking lines. Back in 1978, the Utah/United States Film Festival—as Sundance was then clunkily called—was just a minor Salt Lake City event created by the Utah Film Commission to promote tourism. Then, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City and serendipitously crossed paths with Robert Redford, who had just founded the Sundance Institute (named for his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid role) in a scenic canyon 38 miles outside town. Redford's vision of creating a nurturing community for artistic experimentation dovetailed perfectly with the existing event, and by 1985 the institute had taken over festival operations.
Before long, Sundance's reputation was established by the now mythic debuts of directors Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh. Hits such as The Blair Witch Project, Memento, and Super Size Me have only upped the expectation of big breaks and dazzling discoveries.
In 2005, as I sat in the packed Racquet Club Theatre and the lights dimmed for a screening of Me and You and Everyone We Know, I could feel the air crackling with the sense of possibility. It was a level of excitement I'd expect to precede a Tom Cruise blockbuster about exploding asteroids, not a low-budget, celebrity-free film directed by an eccentric performance artist. In this case, the risks paid off. The film was magical and wise and wickedly funny, and when first-time director Miranda July stepped up to the Q&A podium like a nervous colt finding her legs, the audience roared with approval.
So addictive are these up-close-and-personal screenings that some festivalgoers spend their entire time in Park City dashing from one theater to the next, gobbling up films like Milk Duds. But memorable Sundance experiences don't happen just in front of a movie screen, as anyone who has strolled down Park City's snow-dusted Main Street during the height of the festival can attest.
Here, the mood resembles a midwinter Mardi Gras, with industry insiders exchanging business cards like cheap beads and celebrities flashing familiar smiles amid a bustle of zoom lenses and boom microphones. Mere mortals can join in the fun, digging into pumpkinseed-crusted trout at Robert Redford's chic Zoom restaurant or popping into the trendy Bunya Bunya boutique to find that perfect pink faux-leopard coat.
Actually, a ski outfit might be a better investment, considering that the Park City Mountain Resort's chairlift whisks skiers straight from downtown up to 3,300 acres of sugary powder just begging to be carved. As if "the greatest snow on earth" weren't reason enough to hit the slopes, Park City's Quickstart pass grants free skiing for airline passengers on the day they arrive. It's good at the Mountain Resort, the nearby Canyons, or the skiers-only Deer Valley, which hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Once darkness falls, the lights from countless industry parties twinkle in the windows of Main Street—an inviting sight except for the cross-armed bouncers flanking the doors. Successfully crashing these exclusive soirees is a badge of honor for some festivalgoers, whose infiltration methods would put a CIA operative to shame.
Given my shoddy skills at celebrity impersonation, credential manipulation, and security guard seduction, my one hope was that a lively conversation in line or on the shuttle bus would lead to a coveted invitation. The nights I came up empty, it was a cold, lonely walk back to the hotel room. Thank goodness I had friends—oh so many, many friends—waiting inside.
Photography by Jill Orschel, courtesy Sundance Institute
This article was first published in January 2007. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.
Consult the Colorado & Utah TourBook and the Nevada-Utah map. If you're planning ahead for 2008, book your accommodations well in advance (before Thanksgiving) by calling the festival's lodging line at (877) 733-7829. The least expensive rooms sell out by September. To hunt down a room for this year's festival, try aaa.com/hotels. [3]
For tickets to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival (January 18–28) visit sundance.org [4]. Register on the site by the first week in January to purchase individual movie tickets ($15 each). Preregistration for buying passes such as the $200 Awards Weekend Pass—which covers all the closing weekend screenings and the Awards Night party—ended in October; mark your calendar now if you plan to attend in 2008.
The Park City Chamber & Visitors Bureau has info on everything from shopping to sleigh rides, as well as details on the Quickstart ski pass: (800) 453-1360, www.parkcityinfo.com [5].


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Battles between Assad's forces, rebels continue to claim victims from both sides with civilians caught in the crossfire; dozens killed on Saturday
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The ongoing Syrian civil war saw dozens of Syrians killed on Saturday with no sign of the violence dying down after more than two years of fighting.
Al Arabiya TV reported that 79 people were killed across Syria
Saturday and some 90 other bodies were taken from underneath the rubble in Aleppo following army airstrikes.
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Meanwhile, locals active on social networks quoted Al Arabiya as saying that rebel forces were laying siege to the 155th brigade in the outskirts of Damascus where the army is launching Scud missiles
at the north.
Aleppo in ruins (Photo: Reuters)
On Friday, rebels reported that the Syrian army had bombed
two districts in the city of Aleppo. According to the reports, the army targeted civilian homes burying entire families under the rubble.
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Video footage showed buildings on fire and victims being rushed to hospitals in cars. A British human rights activist said that 30 houses had been destroyed in the shelling.
According to another report, rebels broke into the Baath Party headquarters in the city of Khan Aranbe in the Golan Heights, several miles from the Syria-Israel
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Yeah, you know we're already looking forward to the upcoming rom-dramedy "Crazy Stupid Love" and the cast of Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone should tell you all you need to know about the upcoming film, so let's take a peek at the soundtrack shall we?
Running twelve tracks, it naturally mixes the buoyant and moody with equal effect. Washington, DC worldbeat makers Thievery Corporation get two tracks on there, including one featuring Talking Heads singer David Byrne. Meanwhile, Goldfrapp -- who we were just talking about -- delivers "Ooh La La," while the legendary Nina Simone's "Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair" gets remixed. Dialing things down a beat, Canadian indie rockers The Acorn contribute "Almanac," The Middle East draws "Blood" while Gram Rabbit gets "Lost In Place." And in case you're looking for something classic, Doris Troy is on hand with "Just One Look."
The soundtrack will hit stores on July 26th with the movie arriving a few days later on July 29th. Full tracklisting below. [Amazon]
"Crazy Stupid Love" Soundtrack Tracklisting
1. The Numbers Game – Thievery Corporation
2. Almanac – The Acorn
3. Lost in Place – Gram Rabbit
4. The Heart's a Lonely Hunter – Thievery Corporation & David Byrne
5. Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair (Jaffa Remix) – Nina Simone
6. Animal (Mark Renson Remix) – Miike Snow
7. Ooh La La – Goldfrapp
8. Just One Look – Doris Troy
9. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh – Say Hi
10. On the Sly – The Bamboos
11. I Need Your Love – Marilin Medina, Martin Medina & Jason Ruder
12. Blood – The Middle East


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For me, websites will rapidly start looking like interactive TV programs. Video/animated content will have taken over from today's photo/text formula.
Please give us a brief bio of yourself.
I have been creative director at BETC DIGITAL for 4 years. I try to treat this role like that of a lead AD, still contributing as a graphic designer and motion designer on projects and getting heavily involved in the production and the choice of providers.
After studying visual communications, I got to the point around 12 years ago where interactive communication was exploding. Thanks to my CW accomplice Ivan Beczkowski, I quickly became specialised in interactive advertising (the banners) and inevitably gravitated towards event sites.
What do you do for inspiration?
I'm really inspired by film and video games (both the images and their production), more than the purely digital world.
Please list 3 of your favourite sites.
Watch out, these are very cliché: my big interactive moments would have to be Get the glass and CokeZeroGame by NorthKingdom. I'd also mention http://www.frenchclickclub.com/, which references the best French web-based creative advertising.
What do you regard as being your biggest achievement?
Tower of Terror without a doubt. We put it together with a very small team, putting the emphasis on versatility. The atmosphere of the subject, the excellence of the illustrators, the magic of the animation left us with magical memories, almost overshadowing the sleepless nights we had getting it ready to go online in time...
How many hours do you work each week?
Before I had children, more than 70. Since then, I try to work less than 50. I am passionate about my work, but it pales in insignificance next to my kids.
How do you relax or unwind?
Sorry, another very cliché answer: with my family, playing sports and playing computer games (but do they really relax me?).
If you weren't working on the internet what would you be doing?
I'd definitely have my own restaurant!
What's your favourite part of your job? What's the hardest part of your job? What do you do when you get stuck?
The most enjoyable part is often the most difficult, it changes all the time for me! Yesterday, it was to produce visuals. Today it's finding the ideal production solutions for a project to take off.
By combining production and creation, it's harder to get stuck because you can move each of the parts so that it doesn't constrain the other
What's the longest you've ever stayed up working on a project?
4 months on Tower of Terror and some weekends with project managers and especially Silvere, the developer / motion designer.
If there are any pivotal experiences/decisions you could point to that helped shape your career, what would they be?
2 projects were particularly important. To do www.disneytowerofterror.com and jetueunami.com, we had to organize ourselves like a real studio, forcing us to build the whole site in house (creation / motion / development), to get the maximum involvement from everyone and to generate the magic of exchanges and versatility. This kind of organization is very hard to implement in a French advertising agency where the policy is to outsource production. Since these two major projects, we now focus on creating "HOME MADE™" projects, which we are most proud of course.
What software could you not live without?
My 3 programs are Photoshop, After Effects and Flash, one for the creation of images and the other two for animation: the two essential ingredients for an interactive designer.
How many projects does your company juggle at any one time?
With Ivan I lead a small team of about 17 people within a large agency with more than 700 staff. As for us, we generally work on a dozen or so projects simultaneously, websites and banners.
In terms of software, is there anything new you have been playing with lately or that has impressed you?
I started my career as a 3D animator. 3D software and techniques continue to blow me away.
Who do you rate as being the top 3 design companies?
I love Swedish production: NorthKingdom, FI or B-reel.
What effect on traffic do your new designs have?
The spectacle that we can now bring to the web makes into a mass media that can be measured in millions of viewers.
Who is your target audience?
The general public only.
What area of web design lacks the most?
I don't see enough food sites that are graphically appealing and mouth-watering.
Are there any websites that have shone through as being pioneering in the last 5 years or so?
The two sites I mentioned before, Get the Glass and CokeZeroGame, which push the web towards video games, without suffering from technical limitations. To talk about our own work, we are really proud of www.jetueunami.com which brings the user into a narrative by integrating his face into a movie.
Has winning FWA awards helped you in any way?
Yes, completely. It was a goal for several years, setting up a studio within an advertising agency and proving, thanks to the FWAs, that you can integrate design and production.
When dealing with major clients, how difficult is it to meet the needs of such wide target audiences?
I don't really feel any difficulties; we have some customers like 13ème Rue or CANAL+ that dare to take risks with creations that are a little transgressive.
What did your very first site look like? Is it still online?
My first site was done in 1998, it was my portfolio featuring my 3D work. It was an HTML frameset with over 16 frames!
Have you written any books, if not do you plan to?
Not yet! But there is a project that has been in my head for a long time. An illustrated book for children.
Are there things you do OUTSIDE of work to ensure that you are in the right mindset to be creative and/or successful in whatever you are doing?
Relaxing! Taking a step back... For me, the best ideas come about on their own, rather than after a brainstorming session.
What was the last digital effort you saw (or were a part of) that used social media in a way that really made sense. Why?
Try our www.ilsdebarquent.com for Disneylandparis!
Have you been a part of a campaign that was rooted in digital and THEN reached over into other consumer touchpoints? Did this happen organically or was it a part of the plan from the beginning?
Yes! We made e-ads for Orange 4 years ago featuring little monsters. This same flash animation was exported as is for TV!
The web is getting out of the web. Do you find that thinking in digital solutions alone hinders you? Do you feel the urge to solve the problem using all mediums necessary?
One idea can be rolled out through several media, we have already had ideas that were not strictly web...
We delegate these projects quickly to other creatives because the only thing that we really master is the web.
Looking 10 years in to the future, how far can websites go?
For me, websites will rapidly start looking like interactive TV programs. Video/animated content will have taken over from today's photo/text formula.
Of all the websites you/your company have produced, which one are you most proud of?
As I explained earlier, I'm most proud of those that took the longest to make and which were the most difficult. Tower of Terror, our first FWA, is the one which I am most proud of today.
What was the toughest thing you ever did with Flash? How long did you spend on it? Is it still online?
We are always short of time for getting a project exactly to where we want it. And even if we think we can do it, with the evolution in design and technology, they get old very quickly. So, most of our projects could all be much improved.
Do you think Flash is here to stay?
I hope so! It started out as a little vector animation software. Creatives developed it and pushed the publishers to make it the reference that it has become. No other piece of software has made us all dream so much.
What are your views on design/graphic school. Do you think someone can get into the field without educational experience in a school environment?
It's very difficult indeed to enter the world of graphics without any training. For our recruitment, we look for people with both design and development training (working on joint projects), because that is exactly the alchemy that we create in our team.
If you were a student entering this industry or an aspiring FWA award submitter, what advice would you give them?
If it's for a graphic designer, work with a developer and vice versa. One brings his artistic culture, and the other his logic and rigor. That's how the magic happens.
How difficult do you find employing the right people in a world where everyone calls themselves a web designer?
I don't see any problems because the profiles of "web designers" are very different and they can be easily differentiated by looking at their portfolios: graphic-oriented print (fonts and static images), motion designer, interface designer...
How do you keep up with the latest capabilities of Flash or do you rely on other members of you team to do this?
Thanks in particular to FWA, I can get a grip on all the possibilities offered by this incredible piece of software. But I rely completely on our team of developers to see if our ideas are realistic in terms of timing and if it is possible to do better!
What would be your ultimate vehicle to travel in?
Let's be quick and realistic: an electric car.
(like Peugeot BB1)
When your company was just getting started, what did you find was most effective for getting new clients?
We are a special case, we developed our activities to meet the needs of the clients of an agency that had already existed for over 10 years.
How have you learned so many Flash/design skills and techniques and can you offer any advice for newbies?
Is this a question designed to make me plug the FWAs? We have to always be up to date, keep abreast of new designs and innovative technology.
What country excites you the most in terms of innovation?
There must be a project that you have always dreamed of doing, what is it?
The job of media director for me is very close to that of a film director, telling a story, orchestrating the work of many different people with very different talents to make... a movie!
What does the future hold for your company, or you as a person?
Web within ad agencies is undergoing a revolution: our projects are evolving more and more, our studio logic and this dual role of creative and director will necessarily have to be split. If I had to choose I would go with director.
What are you excited about learning next and is there a long term challenge you are considering tackling?
The web just keeps on evolving, I'd stop everything if that wasn't the case!
What is the most expensive thing you have bought in the last week?
I have simple pleasures, a good meal in a restaurant with my family
What type of overcoat do you wear when Flashing, basically are you a labels man?
Carhartt™ exclusively.
Any parting shots or pearls of wisdom?
Every night after leaving the agency and there are still some people on the team there: "Remember! You're the best!"
It has been a privilege, thanks very much
The pleasure is all mine, Rob, and thank you for these amazing tools that you have created.


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@Van - Because its ranking the 'rider of the year', which means all things considered. Badovini came straight from superstock on a satalite bike and put in good solid performances. He beat corser on the factory BMW.
If you want to base it purely on results, you may as well just list the final standings.
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The Ashok Hotel lies in the lush green of Anuradhapura just inmidst of nature's tranquility interrupted by the chirping birds. If you want to get a glimpse of an authentic Sri Lankan hotel how it has been over decades you are absolutely right here as we would call it a Sri Lankan vintage style hotel.
The hotel comprises 20 rooms (10 double rooms, 10 triple rooms) in a white colored building with romantic window frames. You will meet more locals here and you will have the chance to get closer to the Sri Lankan culture than in hotels aiming mainly tourists from abroad. The rooms are equipped with TV, fan and A/C, mosquito net and Wi-Fi free of charge. The rooms are kept very clean with nice wooden furniture and some colonial accessories. Most of the rooms have their own balcony. Some have a nice view over the Nuwarawewa lake.
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The 46th Annual PaekSang Art Awards took place earlier today in South Korea.
The ceremony recognizes outstanding achievements in the South Korean entertainment industry for both films and dramas, so it would be the equivalent of the SAG Awards.
I've been in love with tie-dye prints from the Blumarine Spring 2010 collection since it was presented last October and I've been eagerly awaiting its presence on the red carpet.
Son Ye-Jin made that wish come true by wearing a bright orange asymmetrical dress which is embellished with rhinestones and has a sexy thigh high split.
Although Son looks pretty in this I would have loved to have seen it on someone like Gisele or Liz Hurley who would make good use of that split and worked the hell out of this sexy dress like the model did.
The Victoria Beckham dress collection continues to go from strength to strength.
Han Hyo-Joo opted for the Victoria Beckham Spring 2010 black dress with the voluminous skirt which VB has already worn.
Chain embellished ankle boots give this look a bit of an edge, but Han still look sweet.
Love the silver clutch.
Ha Ji-Won was one of my faves on this red carpet wearing a black one-sleeved Roberto Cavalli Spring 2009 dress.
I'm surprised I like it so much because I'm not a fan of black, nor one-sleeved dresses.
What wins me over is that sexy sheer split, the sparkling multi-coloured clutch and her jewels.
I also love how toned her arms are without being too butch. Note to Madonna.
Whilst her fellow actresses were wearing high-end fashion, Baek Jin Hee was wearing a red dress from the high-street.
Baek wore cute mini dress from H&M's recently launched Garden Collection.
Love the dress, dislike the pumps.
My other favourites include Park Bo-Young and Shin Se Kyung.
Regular readers will remember Park was one of our favourites on the red carpet last year. She won us over with her love for pretty, ultra feminine dresses.
She gives us that again with this sweet pretty pink mini.
I love the dramatic forest green colour of Shin's asymmetrical gown.
The neckline is exquisite as it gathers in a knotted detail on her shoulder.
This is the last post before BDOTW, so make sure you've shouted for your favourites.
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Nicky Korzak drives a sports car in a high-speed chase. Matt Korzak is in the passenger seat and urges him to just give it to them. Nicky says they can have it over his dead body. They are being pursued by a black SUV but soon the police are in on the chase as well. As the chase nears Antonio Clemente at Gold Star, Matt gives them what they want and he dumps the money out the sun roof. Antonio comes outside and finds that it is raining money from the chase.
In the morning, everyone prepares for work. Bob Harris prepares for work and talks with his wife. He is waiting to hear back from corporate about their decision. The lottery continues to grow and they hope to win it. Antonio gives his wife some money to buy a new toaster. Their old one, which they received as a wedding gift, has broken. Denise tries to curb her eating and manages to not eat a donut. She complains that they went over their minutes again. Her husband says it was from texting the cable guy. Denise sneaks a donut before she leaves for work. She is trying to walk to work everyday and lose one pound a week until she is back at her old weight.
As Denise walks to work, Samira cheers her on from a cab. Her dad is driving her to work. Her dad has found a man for her to marry and he is a doctor. Samira wants to take music at Julliard but can't afford it. Leanne drops her daughter off at school and hand her some money to pay for pizza with. She says goodbye to her daughter and promises to see her later at her recital.
At the Korzak household, the mother is yelling at everyone. Matt is still asleep and trying to avoid the yelling. He hands his girlfriend a pamphlet for an apartment building. He can't afford it yet but his girlfriend convinces him to talk to Bob about a raise.
Inside Gold Star, Denise asks Antonio and Leanne for some advice. She wants to know what they think of all the text messages that her husband has been sending. Antonio says it sounds fine but quickly excuses himself. Leanne suggests that she call the number and see if the cable guy answers. Nicky and Matt enter the building just as Denise asks for money to pitch in for the lottery drawing. She covers Matt's part for him because he has no money on him. She proceeds to pull various good luck charms out of her purse.
Samira smiles at Nicky as she walks by him but when he tries to kiss her she says she isn't like that. She tells Nicky that she thinks he is really sweet but just wants to take things slow.
Matt asks Bob if he can have a cash advance and explains his situation. Bob would love to help but the owner of the Gold Star is considering selling the place to a national chain and he isn't sure everyone will have jobs if that happens. Matt gets a call from his girlfriend and he rushes to the hospital to be with her while she gives birth. She asks if Matt got the money for them to get an apartment but he needs more time.
Two men call Nicky over and ask where he has been. The two men say they want their $60,000 but he says he paid for it by going to jail and not ratting them out. Later that night Nicky calls an old friend to beg for some money. Nicky can't find anyone to help him out.
Nicky meets Matt at the hospital. Matt needs three months of security deposits or else he will lose the apartment. Nicky says he knows a way to get some money. He suggests robbing the Gold Star as a way to pay off their debts. Matt refuses and wants no part of it. Nicky says that insurance will cover it and no one will get hurt. Matt looks over to his girlfriend and baby and reconsiders Nicky's offer.
Matt visits Gold Star and Leanne and Denise congratulate him. Bob hands him a gift basket and congratulates him on the new baby. Just before closing time Nicky prepares and puts a gun in his pocket. Matt offers to close up by himself to allow Bob to go home. After Matt closes the store, Nicky comes in to rob the place. To the cameras it looks like a normal robbery. Nicky forgets a bag so he has to rip open a cereal box and use that to carry the money. The front bell rings: Bob is back because he forgot his phone. Bob turns to Matt and asks if everything is alright. Before he has a chance to answer, Nicky smashes a bottle over Bob's head, takes the money and runs. Matt calls the police and waits for them with an unconscious Bob.
The police question Matt in the Gold Star. When he gets home Nicky says that they need to control the things they can and leave the things they can't. Matt wants to confess to what happened but Nicky tells him he can't do that. Matt wouldn't survive jail and he has a girlfriend and daughter to take care of. There is a knock at the door and they think it's the policeman and that he didn't believe Matt's story. However, it's Denise and she asks if they have heard the big news. Matt worries that Bob has died but that's not what happened.
The $145 million dollar jackpot is drawn on TV and each employee watches it. They start to get excited when the numbers match up. They all go crazy when the numbers match up. While initially excited, Matt soon remembers what happened to Bob.
Antonio arrives home to find many people in his apartment. He takes his wife into the other room and tells her that he has been saving his money rather than contributing toward the Gold Star lottery pool. His wife is furious when she finds out that they aren't millionaires. She tells him that he is a great father and husband but he will have to explain this to her mother who she bought a first class plane ticket for.
Matt's girlfriend plans out some of their purchases. She assures him that Bob will be okay and the cops will find the man who injured him.
The next day at work, everyone is very excited, except Antonio. He calls in sick from outside because he doesn't want to face them.
A member of the lottery commission enters and congratulates them on their win. They go over details and asks Matt to leave the room for a minute. Since he didn't actually pay in to the ticket he may or may not be eligible for the split. The man takes a blind vote from the other winners. Matt stresses out as he waits for their decision. He will have to wait longer though because the vote was a tie. Bob will be the deciding vote.
At the hospital, the lottery man talks to Bob. A police officer exits the room and says that Bob has regained his memory of the night of the robbery. The officer wants to talk to Nicky about his past as a convict. Bob motions for Matt to enter the room. He tells Matt that he is the best employee and he votes yes to include him in the winnings.
Matt asks Nicky if the police know what happened but Nicky said he took care of it. Denise frets about her husband to Leanne. He stayed at a friend's house overnight and has still not returned. Denise feels like she deserves him cheating on her because their relationship isn't the same as it used to be.
Samira is paged to the hospital front desk and she meets a doctor, the one that her parents wanted her to marry. Nicky watches the two flirt from a distance.
The next day, Antonio congratulates everyone on their win. He says they are still family and should remain friends. The five winners (Bob is still in the hospital) exit through the garage to face the media. Denise's husband is in the crowd, along with the men who Nicky owes money to, Samira's father and doctor friend, and the police officer who is still suspicious of the Korzaks. A reporter asks how they feel winning all that money and Matt says they feel pretty damn lucky. Inside Gold Star, Antonio is happy to find a $10 bill inside of a car.
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The Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH), a part of Georgetown University Medical Center, has co-authored a report apparently lamenting policies restricting abortion and recommending that adolescents begin receiving sex education at as young as 10 years of age. While the report addresses situations that are often mired in injustice and suffering, it proposes to alleviate these occurrences through means that are out of sync with Catholic Church teachings and guidelines.
The IRH report seems to bemoan restrictions that require very young adolescents to gain parental approval and acknowledgment for abortion and that limit access to contraceptives. It reads:
For those older VYAs [very young adolescents] who become sexually active, access to contraceptives and safe abortion remains largely unavailable due to regulations requiring parental approval or informal health care policies (WHO, 2011). In many settings, policies discouraging early marriage are undermined by loopholes and inconsistencies in minimum age requirements (in some countries, such as India, girls are permitted to marry earlier than boys) and civil registration systems. Such policies and practices, combined with lack of political will and resources, represent an ongoing challenge in addressing this unique group of adolescents.
Additionally, the report argues that as children transition through their sexual development and are vulnerable to sexual experiences between ages 10 and 14, sex education should begin at that age. A major point of contention is whether prepubescent children are intellectually or psychologically developed enough to integrate the kind of explicit information and images that sex education entails. In fact, Dr. Louise Eikoff, in a study which appeared in Child and Family 13.1, concluded that premature sexual instruction actually interferes with the maturation process.
The Church is not without an understanding of the need for children to be informed and guided on sexual matters. The Second Vatican Council's "Declarationon Christian Education" calls for children to be given "a positive and prudent sexual education," reiterating what had been said previously by several popes. However, the Church insists that the right to educate about such matters be reserved for the family, and that this education take place in a way that is age appropriate, that does not prematurely provide the child with images that he or she is not yet able to control, and that ensures the child is able to think about sexual matters in a moral context. The Pontifical Council for the Family's "The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education within the Family" provides extensive recommendations on how sexual education should be done in a prudent and healthy way.
Other respected psychologists, such as Dr. Rhoda Lorand, Dr. John Meeks, Dr. Myre Sim, Dr. Charles Sarnoff, Dr. Viktor Frankl, and Dr. Val Davajan, have argued against sex education in schools, citing that sex education in a group setting can be dehumanizing and children are not ready to emotionally receive that information.
The IRH report however proposes that children be reached with this information by various means, including health services, school curricula, youth camps, and social media initiatives, which could reach them at any age, regardless of their parents' wishes. It also discredits the family's qualification to judge on such matters, fretting that "Parental desire to protect their children is often exercised through behavioral regulation and monitoring rather than through positive support to their growing child." Such suggestions severely undercut the efforts of families to be an authority over the education of their own children, suggesting instead that outsiders be allowed to dictate the time and place in which their children receive information that is not retractable.
The IRH report states specifically in its acknowledgments that the views it contains do not necessarily reflect the views of Georgetown University. Nonetheless, as a fruit of scholarship tied to Georgetown University Medical Center, the report has the potential to exert influence on both American and world policy.
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During the week, we're all in a hurry, at home we prefer to eat healthier no fuss meals like a chicken salad. But sometimes, you just need a little comfort, which usually means you want to eat something filling, cheesy and delicious. This recipe for chicken mozzarella rolls is great tasting, easy to do, and you don't sacrifice the healthy aspect all that much. It's all baked, no fried stuff.
The combination of bread crumbs, cheese, and tomato sauce will surely satisfy your taste buds! I recommend you pair this with mashed potatoes and a side of green vegetables. You can use Italian style tomato sauce, or whip up your own chunky tomato sauce by simply dicing and sauteing tomatoes, garlic, onions, and basil (seasoned with salt and pepper).
Chicken Mozzarella Rolls
Serves 4
Adapted from www.recipe.com Chicken Kiev
2 tablespoon chopped green onion
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 lb mozzarella cheese (sliced, or shredded about 1 cup)
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon water
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup fine dry bread crumbs ( I used herbed bread crumbs)
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
Salt and black pepper
Italian style tomato sauce, for serving.
1. In a small bowl combine green onion, basil, and garlic; set aside. Cut cheese into sticks (if using shredded cheese, just set aside). In a shallow bowl stir together egg and water. Place flour in another shallow bowl. Place bread crumbs in a third shallow bowl. Set aside.
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Midday Roundup: Thousands evacuated ahead of California wildfire
Blazing. Nine wildfires threaten residents in California's San Diego County as firefighters work against drought, wind, and hot weather to contain the blazes. They gained ground overnight on all but one fire in the city of San Marcos. More than 20,000 residents there received evacuation notices yesterday, while the campus of California State University shut down in the middle of final exams.
Marriage uncertainty. Confusion reigns in Arkansas about the state of same-sex marriage. Pulaski County Judge Chris Piazza last week struck down the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, but left intact a law that prohibits clerks from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The state Supreme Court has refused to stay the ruling, leaving county clerks wondering what to do. Attorneys for a group of gay couples have asked the judge to clarify his initial ruling.
Day of reckoning. The captain and three crew members from the sunken South Korean ferry face homicide charges today in the deaths of more than 300 passengers. The indictment accuses the crew of negligence in delaying the evacuation of the ferry after it started to list. The captain and crew members were some of the first people rescued from the ferry, while hundreds of passengers remained onboard. Prosecutors have filed less severe charges against 11 other crew members and the owner of the ferry company. Authorities suspect improper stowage and overloading of cargo may have contributed to the disaster.
Mine disaster. Rescue teams are still working to recover the victims of a mining explosion in Turkey that so far has killed 282 people. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were inside the coal mine at the time of Tuesday's explosion. More than 350 were rescued, including scores who were injured. The tragedy has further tarnished the public image of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (the one who tried to ban Twitter and YouTube), who assumed a "these things happen" attitude on his visit to the disaster site. It didn't help when bystanders took photos of one of Erdogan's aides kicking a protester who was already on the ground.
Oil spill. About 10,000 gallons of crude oil gushed into Los Angeles streets overnight after a high-pressure pipe burst in an industrial area near Glendale. The oil reached knee-high in some parts of the area, though firefighters and hazardous materials crews had most of it cleaned up by dawn. A handful of nearby businesses was affected, as well as a strip club that was evacuated.


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The leap that TORCHBEARER made from debut album "Yersinia Pestis" to "Warnaments" is similar to the one made by GRIMFIST from "Ghouls of Grandeur" to "10 Steps to Hell", that being a broadening of the sound without an offsetting sacrifice in aural savagery. In the case of TORCHBEARER, this super group of sorts, featuring members of SCAR SYMMETRY, SATARIEL, and ANGEL BLAKE (among others), went from an extremely pissed off album of blackened death/thrash metal to an extremely pissed off album of blackened death/thrash with more diverse song structures, smart use of keyboards (including symphonic elements), and standout melodies. Much like what GRIMFIST did on "10 Steps to Hell", on "Warnaments" TORCHBEARER ups the musical dynamic and still rips your face off.With a conceptual theme largely dealing with the Battle of Jutland (World War I), "Warnaments" is one of those rare albums that locates the sweet spot between black and death metal and rides it for all its worth. It is obvious that the band put a great deal of thought into the arrangements this time around, as the riffs and guitar interplay are ripping and each individual track, save for symphonic interlude "The Stale Drownings", is both memorable and frighteningly aggressive. The grandness of the melodic guitar lead crossed with thunderous drumming that introduces album-opener "Dark Clouds Gathering" turn into dive bomb soloing and Swedish thrash/death fire, the melody injection that follows the first of many moments demonstrating the band's substantial style development. Even though up-tempo and crushing, "Last Line of Defence" follows with a vaguely epic feel that was missing on the excellent "Yesinia Pestis". Piano key strikes, a jumpy stop/start riff, and rumbling bass line kick off "Burial Waters, Deepsome Graves", the song's chorus arguably the album's most memorable. The killer guitar parts and rhythmic annihilation continue with the furious gallop and DIMMU-esque keys of "Swift Turns of War" and the thrashy "Battlespawn". "Where Night is Total", "Sealer of Fates", and "The Blunt Weapon" close out the album, battering the listener with chilling synth effects, creepy spoken bits, and a downpour of razorblade licks. "Warnaments" is one vicious album and should serve as a blueprint for how to write a sophomore disc that shows musical progression without sacrificing sheer brutality. It is not an easy feat to accomplish, but TORCHBEARER makes it sound easy here. This is an impressive second effort.
01. Dark Clouds Gathering
02. Last Line of Defence
03. Burial Waters, Deepsome Graves
04. Swift Turns of War
05. The Stale Drownings
06. Battlespawn
07. Where Night is Total
08. Sealer of Fates
09. The Blunted Weapon
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Hello, dearest members! LadyofGaerdon here to continue our series:
Featured Deviant of the Month
TalentedWritersGuild is a literature group committed to the encouragement, collection, and archival of high quality prose and poetry works. To find out more about the group, please click here.
Here at TalentedWritersGuild, we encourage deviants to select only their best pieces of literature for submission. As judges, we look for pieces that simultaneously move us, challenge us, and inspire us as readers; pieces that stimulate us emotionally and intellectually; and the pieces that display true technical skill. When we vote, we consider all these things, and let only the pieces we deem up to snuff through to our gallery. This pushes our submitters to excel, challenge themselves, and improve their craft, and provides our readers with high quality literature to read.
The Featured Deviant of the Month is a member whose submissions meet and surpass this criteria.
winterkate is a new and highly promising young addition to our literature community. Her words are filled with passion and utilized meticulously, to create thought-provoking, highly satisfying poetry.
winterkate has 15 pieces in our gallery to date! They are all wonderful and I encourage you to check them out.
MEi. I fell in love with a girl who catalogued darkness,
sat in her room with the blinds closed and wrote down
187 ways it felt
in all of the different times she couldn't see.
My name was one of them,
#143, ash velvet, and I didn't know what she meant at the time
but the only description she wrote beneath it
was good night for stuffed animals
bad night for worn pillows.
And I'm sorry I made you dream of the rivers.
ii. I fell in love with a girl who never looked in the mirror
but dressed to perfection, somehow
in her blue skirt and black socks
white tennis shoes
and a smile crooked as the bottom side of Indiana
yeah, I fell in love with a girl
who could never quite get it straight but hey,
that's alright,
I've never been 100% straight either,
and the one corkscrew curl you have
opens me up like fine wine
each time I see you smile in that cracked bathroom mirror.
Makes me half-drunk,
iii. I fell in love with a girl who was depressed by Paris,
but loved Italy beca
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
A brilliant ode to self-acceptance
and loving everything you are,
winterkate's words are hopeful
and inspire us to do the same.
to a womanYou see it coming from the men.
You see the ways their eyes linger on you
When they're looking around the room
The way their bodies brush yours when you're walking through the hallways to class
The way they stutter and look away when apologizing for the accidental contact of skin to skin
You see it coming from the men.
You never see it coming from me.
God, was the world not complicated enough already
Without causing me to notice the interplay of textures in her hands
The calluses like mahogany mountains carving ridges of stone
Into her palms softer than Impressionistic sunlight?
I'm not supposed to feel this way about another woman. I'm not supposed to sit here
With a star around my neck and daydream about the way her tongue could taste like cinnamon,
Like my grandmother's home, like gingerbread cookies and the dawn of Christmas morning
These words are blasphemy, so I call upon God to give me a reason for my emotions.
Wasn't the world fucked up enough already without this?
Cut the coff
In the words of SCFrankles:
A piece about unexpected and mostly-unrequited love.
This blew me away. The maturity of the
writing, the evocative imagery, the
contained emotion. Very, very moving.
Astronauti.238,900 miles away
the Earth gleams in the darkness.
A cat's eye, opalescent blue
flecked with terra verdant,
fifty-two cream colors
of cloud.
Under a heavy lid of night,
it glares. Angry.
As if to say to the Sun:
I was dreaming
of all the fish
in my seas.
As if to ask why
it had to be woken.
Thoughts are protozoan here;
with glass-thin skin
transparent as the first lie
he ever told as a child.
I didn't steal that candy bar.
He can see the mechanics,
the workings,
the insides.
They divide like dreams,
impossibly smoothly,
Whole and unbroken
as they tear apart. If
he could stretch far enough,
he could pop his home planet
like soap bubble.
Even now,
he's too small
to make much
of a difference.
238,900 miles away,
there is a small click.
A tiny latch
as his 14-year-old daughter
slides her seatbelt
into place.
She's learning how to drive,
and how to feel a new kind of terror.
Haunting thought
of collision. Of bone
or brick breaking,
of sound
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
A stunning ode to Ray Bradbury.
In the words of AzizrianDaoXrak:
This piece is about a topic that is very close to MY heart,
and though other members of the trans community may
find that it doesn't quite hit their experiences on the nose,
there are moments, to me, where she gets it exactly rights:
To keep scrubbing till you could pick locks with my tibias, till
my bones are small enough and sharp enough
to sew myself back together with
And above and beyond these moments of terrible, painful beauty,
she treats the topic with respect, compassion, and a
sense of being kindred spirits, and for all this I am grateful.
Artist Discretionbreak
I don't want to I can't let me go leave me alone Ican't Ican't Ican't not knowing
all of the things
He will do
to make me
a beauty
all of the things
He will do
to make me
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
Poor splintered-up poem! A creative look at the
way a poem might feel about the rather brutal
treatment it often receives at the hands of its creator.
Volpi.You will find that the story you tell
is very rarely your own. In Lucca,
even the smallest pebbles
breathe in the warm sunlight.
Knotted stones and cobbled roads
beat out a paper-dry heartbeat heat
my city breathes in and out,
inhales sparrow air.
It's writing a story.
You are the pen.
You will find that in Lucca
the daisy chains forge fire
in side streets and back alleys.
Teenagers intertwine. Tell me,
odd flower, are you still closed?
Here we are colored wax;
the heat of the city melts us.
We run into each other, rhapsody
of pigments. Operas are our specialties.
Open up; feel the reds.
If not, try and see them. There is a place
of deep knife marks, a street
long as midnight
you may learn something there.
Valentina's voice glimmers like red wine.
You may enjoy intoxications. Still,
know alcohol has no story
and will swallow your own.
Find the sign with the wolf on it.
You'll know the place. Epiphanies ring true as church-bells.
Lucca still guides the wanderers
to well sp
In the words of spoems:
It is not a locale that has magic, danger, depth or purpose
as much as it is a catalyst to shake those things alive within us.
With this poem, the writer delivers such a place, both
outside and in, and with rare skill.
what if this was the song of myself?1. god laced your eyes with opium
stitched them shut with cotton fog. wake, love cough
like a gunshot, breathe
like the blood eagle
has been carved into you. time didn't mean
to blind the moon's great eye, to
collapse it into the static horizon.
my lips can no longer pronounce the word mercy. wake,
love. please.
just breathe.
2. the days crack like porcelain dolls
under my father's boots. there are skulls
hidden in the cabinets, & shadows too, hung in the closet
like thin-pressed coats.
like suicide.
3. razor, rohypnol, rope. bathroom,
basement. if i touch all three
before i leave
i won't pick one up when i
come back.
4. there is newsprint
moving underneath
my skin; the serif fonts
lock & jumble
like nephilim stretching
*-tipped wings
like barbed wire babies
crawling through my veins. this is
the same disease
you died of. without you here,
i understand.
5. razor, rohypnol, rope.
razor, rohypnol, rope.
your picture smiles,
showing skin. that summer
we were always young.
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
This is horror in the best way -
the creeping, psychological skin-crawling way.
Mature Content
In the words of tonepainter:
This is raw, take no prisoners stuff.
Mature Content
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
Wow. Just wow. Also damn. Damn.
Bilingualismyo conozco la miel de tu piel cuando we
rushed like languages leaping al triunfo y gloria
en los barrios pequeños, in the cities
of train tracks & half-cracked leyes de reyes lunáticos
entonces yo entenderé treinta degrees of your heat,
of española y las lenguages half-filtered,
streaming like water sobre sidewalks after rain.
always toungues twine la misma en amor.
nosotros somos el tren carrying ten thousand dreamers west,
y yo te amaría en a thousand lenguas.
In the words of AzizrianDaoXrak:
Is a lovely balance of English and Spanish.
Wistful and sweet, it dances back and forth
between the two to tell a love story of heat, trains, and cities.
THAT POEM (Writer's Block)I sat down at my computer last Thursday night
with the full intention of writing THAT POEM. Oh, don't
play dumb. You know what THAT POEM is. We all know
what THAT POEM is. You with the cigarette train-tracks
charting your eternal drift to nowhere
on the insides of your arms, you
with the sludge of alcohol dripping thick & brown through
veins swollen & slow & pussy as zombies, you
with the eight children whose faces you can't remember
& the husband in the Hamptons whose name you sometimes forget
& the lover who never seems to come around as much as you pay him to you
all know what THAT POEM
is. It's the rhythm beating a dull staccato in your skull
when you've taken something to take the edge off, the weary shadows sinking senseless
into the black-slung cradles hiding underneath your
bloodshot eyes. It's the weight of the gun & the way its metal feels
when you push it against the squelching skin of your skull not to kill yourself, just to feel it,
to know you could. This wa
In the words of BeccaJS:
Best read aloud.
submit'submit art'
the button says,
lingering at the bottom of the screen
so small & blue, a bruise beneath
fragile skin.
i look at it,
mouse over it
feeling the tension in my thumb
the weight of time
the emptiness of my mind.
8:48 at night
and i have nothing to submit
except myself.
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
Wonderfully expressed.
Faminei told him
i wanted to spend
three days
paying my dues
to the circumference
of my spine, to the size
of my stomach,
and all
that was not in it.
of my constant need,
he droned
a platitude
in a voice like cold coffee.
"you're beautiful
the way you are."
i don't care
about beauty.
i care about hunger.
loneliness & starving
sisters. and i want to know
if the hunger that turns you
inside out
every day
is anything like
the famine
in me.
In the words of Sigma-Echo-Seven:
The metaphor is mind-boggling in its accuracy
CigarettesMy New Orleans muse smiles;
Bourbon Street quick-grin.
Mona Lisa Lolita; she splashes
through the stained-glass
of oil-slick puddles
wearing combat boots dark
as a Halloween new moon.
Her machine-gun lips are
half-drawn around dusk.
Cherry-red smile,
shimmering green jade eyes.
She can see through the clouds
if she casts them herself.
Dragon mouth against paper;
the serenade of the skeleton.
She burns stripped phalanges,
swears she's sucking down
Red wool, a bonfire;
she breathes all the warmth
she has never known.
Lungs of the phoenix,
blistering black;
breath full of gray ash.
One day she will wake hacking,
spitting poison spiders.
Tonight she inhales summer;
mouthful of fireflies.
She tilts her head back,
cat eyes triumphant.
She'll never be a constellation,
but she's stolen Orion's left foot.
In the words of allsparra:
Frightening imagery, vivid metaphors, powerful.
Stephanie - Collab(I wrote us in free verse over every inch
of your tattered surface ).
you were the beatific grin
of a kindergartener high off oxygen,
mouth stretched wide as the entrance to hell,
black tongue bleeding virtuous sin like ichor.
(You taught me praying was for the weak
as I fell for your gypsum nails,
white teeth scrabbling over my chalkboard frame).
scribbled flesh tells no love story
but three layers of skin
worn thin along the length of our feverish bones.
(Garden flowers tucked away worms and dirt,
my ribs hoarded misspellings of my mother's name).
dipping your origami limbs into my ink,
you lost yourself within the dark tangles
of my labyrinth roo
In the words of LadyofGaerdon:
A gorgeous example of a well-executed
collaboration, in which each artists' skills
and styles blend into and complement
each other in perfect synchronicity.
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Heres what I am looking for. I am in a lawsuit with a bank. I am looking for federal or state laws that may have been violated
Heres the scoop
I applied for a 30 year res mortgage. I lived in another state and was making the buy/sell offer from out of state.
Prior to the closing the only papers I received form the bank was a 30 year good faith estimate for res mortgage and a truth in lending 30 year res mortgage
At the closing they switched loans and gave me an 18 month commercial 'construction loan' or a commercial lone of credit.
Neither me nor my realtor who was with me caught this, nor did the closing agent make any mention of anything.The bank has been ordere by a supreme court to stand trial for fraud. That's obvious.
So I am looking for respa or other violations in banking laws, for instance- they are claiming it was a straight line of credit for $300K. However , I received no monthly statements for over a year. The only statement I received was a mortgage interest statement at the end of the year, and it made no menion of a line of credit, nor did it say 'commercial'
They withdrew $2200 monthly from my bank account. I thought I was paying a 30 year mortgage.
Arent they required by law to issue monthly statements on a line of credit?
Yes it was, that's a given
According to in house memos found in discovery, the loan officers had determined the property was in business /commercial zoning and precluded it from the 30 year rez mortgage I applied for. They failed to disclose and gave me a predatory loan which set me up to fail.
What I am looking for is banking violations aside from the obvious fraud. I want to hit them as hard as I can in pre trial.
I went over those and couldnt find it.... I believe they legally have to send monthly statements, which of course if they did I would have caught it
Well they took monthly withdrawals from my account, but no statements. Is there a law that says if a line of credit has a future due date ( they all do?) then no monthly statements have to be issued?
where can I find this info?
I probably need to ask a banker or loan officer?
okay lets talk about that. what are loan documents? the only thing I was provided was a promissory note. period. Thats the extent of any loan documents
well it does not specify month etc, and in fact it says that upon a 100K paydonw they would release collateral. Whn I attepted to do that, they refused and said they now wated 200K paydonw. So they did not follow their own note?
okay I will re read it. And yes they refused to honor the terms. I did not win on the breach of contract just the fraud
I will go over it all again, thanks,
exactly. I got screwed in many ways, but I didnt have a lawyer. gotta go.
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