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This article was published 24/12/2016 (183 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Today we bid adieu to #businessbuzz. Unfortunately, the management team at The Brandon Sun had to make some difficult decisions for the upcoming year and as such the column that I've been writing since April 12, 2014, for the Saturday edition of The Brandon Sun will no longer exist. The Sun has decided to go in a different direction for the Saturday business page.
I remember when former Sun editor James O'Connor and I first met to discuss the column. My only trepidation was whether I would be able to come up with enough content for a weekly column. That fear quickly diminished.
There is always, always something happening in the Brandon business world. It's actually amazing how much the landscape does change —new businesses take flight, longtime businesses close, management changes, names change, new products and services are introduced, businesses move, they expand and they proudly celebrate milestone anniversaries and events.
I consistently had a well-populated list of businesses that I intended to mention or highlight at some point in time. Looking back this week, I realized that there were still so many that I never got a chance to write about. Stories such as …
• discovering what C.R.E.A.M. Clothing, a relatively new store on 10th Street, is all about and what market they cater to;
• highlighting the fact that Cam and Colleen Wirch, owners of A&L, took
over longtime business Clemmensen's Movies and More and renamed the convenience store to the Shop on the Corner at 2340 Rosser Ave.;
• introducing you to Rob Mulligan and his new company, Mulligan's Electric Ltd.;
• telling you about the renovations at Mobile One Marine at 640 14th St. East;
• highlighting On the Run Mobile Oil Change, a new business started by the young and ambitious Blair McDonald;
• finding out what services Pathway Rehabilitation offers at 3300 Victoria Ave. (Sunset Mall); and
• sharing the history of J&G Homes (60 years), Brandon Business Interiors (25 years) and The Paw Resort & Wellness Centre (five years) as they reached their milestone anniversaries in 2016.
For the last three years, there isn't a street that I haven't driven down where I don't strain my neck to look for new signs, signs that have been removed or vacant buildings that appear to be under renovation for a new tenant.
As I looked back, I discovered that I wrote 125 editions of #businessbuzz and I highlighted more than 275 businesses; it was a pleasure to work with all of them.
So many owners and managers gave me a small glimpse into their business lives and taught me bits and pieces along the way, which have been so valuable as a freelance writer and marketing consultant.
I mentioned in last week's column that the one thing that stands out the most for me is that almost every single business owner that I've spoken with is brimming with pride. In addition to being proud of their accomplishments, I also think that local entrepreneurs are brave, determined and optimistic. Because of this motivation and determination to make "a go of it" in the business world, we owe them a lot.
We owe them for providing us with the products and services that they carry (we don't have to jump in our vehicles and drive to another city or pay shipping charges to order online — we can get it right here at home). We owe them for treating us with respect and providing us with real, genuine customer service. We owe them for creating jobs, and we owe them for donating to local sports teams, the arts community, food banks, health-related organizations and to all other events and all organizations (charitable or not) that ask for a little extra help.
Thanking them is easy. You just need to make a conscious effort to support them; pay it forward by shopping local.
I am grateful that I will still be connected to all the good folks at The Brandon Sun through special projects, but I will miss the ongoing, regular connections with local businesses and I will miss sharing their stories with you.
I have been blessed with a faithful following of readers and for this I am also grateful. I appreciate the story ideas that you shared with me as well as the accolades that you took the time to deliver. Thank you.
I sign off with sincere wishes to you for a beautiful Christmas that you lovingly share with family and friends. May you be blessed with good health, love and laughter.
Cheers to a sparkly new year!

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I have been a full time real estate investor for 15 years. The first property I purchased was a farm in Costa Rica at the age of 18. Since then I have spent years traveling, living in different countries, founding different investment companies, and studying how the real estate markets work, grow, stagnate, and function under different circumstances.
It is an interest I have always had. I can't even go on vacation without visiting real estate offices, looking at properties, talking to hotel owners, local attorneys, travelers, or restaurant owners, to get an idea who the customers are and what product is the most compelling. My passion for lack of a better term is "Real Estate Anthropology". I am especially interested in the historical development of an area, and what events or circumstances led to the greatest rise in property values. This information can then be applied when deciding where to place investment for the quickest and highest return.
There are many similarities between Central America and other markets as it relates to real estate, but there are many differences and knowing how each could affect investment is critical for success in todays economic environment.
Central America has many areas experiencing early stage development which comes with its own unique customers and projects and techniques for investment.
When I bought my first property I didn't know how to evaluate investment potential or how local laws, regulations, changing administrations, political agenda, or amateur development to name a few could affect my investment.
It turns out a little luck can deliver profits just like experience, but I didn't want to rely on luck as a strategy, so I started studying areas, towns, beach front, travelers, buyers, successful projects, unsuccessful projects, and wondering how these smaller towns mature.
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Through this practice, I have been able to develop rules for success and an intuitive feel for changes that can lead to making investments returns. This feel has come from years of long term case studies of topics like: What affect will a new road have on values? What is the best timing invest when a new road is coming?, Why sometimes a new road is bad for values?, How the first major development in an area can change the customer base and create demand for a new type of product, Why amateur development can stagnate growth long term, How a good surf break can be the catalyst to development, to strategies for controlling large regions just ahead of infrastructure change, or when lower density developments are a better investment than cheaper higher density options.
Real estate markets move in cycles or stages and in Central America these cycles/stages are particularly pronounced, each new cycle/ stage brings new services and options, and new services and options bring new customers, and new customers bring money and if this can be sustained it will mark the beginning of a new cycle/ stage.
There is a long term pattern for values they tend to lurch forward then stagnate, then hopefully lurch again, stagnancy lasts longer in some places than others, knowing the signs of change can be an advantage. I look at each town I come across as a stockbroker looks at a stock, what is the upside? Are there any changes about to occur that would favor my investment in the region? What is the history of the area? Are there any developing trends that would dove tail here? Are the people coming here going to stay or just passing through? Whey
would they buy?
Recently I decided to pack up my family and drive through Central America to gauge what has changed and how much during the latest real estate run-up. I particularly wanted to focus on area comparisons and learn why some areas increased in value more than others?, Was Sayulita Mexico a better place to invest the last 5 years than Coronado Beach Panama? Will the proposed airport in southern Costa Rica do for the region what the Liberia airport did for Guanacaste? Does a heavy military presence hurt the perception of country enough to wreck investment potential? How much are the negative headlines from the drug war in Mexico impacting real estate transactions? How does strong local culture and traditions relate to long term value?
My traveling caravan included me, my wife, my 4 year old son, and my 1 year old daughter.
We packed up our belongings and hit the road over a month ago. Leaving from California, we were able to explore Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, & Costa Rica.
There was fair amount of pessimism about the voyage, "It will be hell for you and the kids in the car that long" "Why drive when you could fly cheaper?" "Its not safe" "The trip will end with a divorce" was the refrain from everyone who heard our plans.
I knew from my travel experience in Central America what to expect, but there were times when I wondered if I was crazy.
Now that the trip has been completed I would tell anyone, it was well worth the effort. From the sights to the insights driving through the entire region in short duration was an experience that was very valuable.
The two worst parts of the trip were getting sick and the unpredictability of the border crossings. The whole family caught something and we were all bed ridden for 4 days. At the border crossings, you never knew if it was going to take 1 hour or 5 so planning wasn't very easy. It did seem to get harder as we moved south. Coincidentally the food also got worse as we moved south. Maybe there is some correlation.
The best part was being reminded of the diversity of Central America and Mexico and for my wife and I to share that with our kids. If you read the headlines, it could be interpreted that the real estate business has disappeared, this is an overstatement, but leaves the
question who is still buying property and why? What kind of transaction volume are towns seeing? What qualities do the towns have that have been able to endure the sharp down turn?
Before I left I decided on two goals. The first was to get an on the ground feel for how the real estate market has changed in the last
6-12 months. What's selling who is buying and why and which areas were most resilient to drastic changes in market conditions? The second goal was to scout out new opportunities for our investors and buyers.
By the end of the trip I felt i had a pretty good grasp on these goals. My impression wasn't that there was brisk selling, but there were some places with healthy sales numbers. The places with healthy sales had one thing in common, limited supply, which meant that prices
hadn't changed much. The buyers in these places had changed in the sense that they are much more cautious, and sales had dropped of their
peak, but product was moving.
We will be posting several different types of reports and articles in the coming weeks based on the trip and the new opportunities that have presented themselves along way.
The first is called Area Snapshots and will be coming in a few days.
When scouting new opportunities we begin by developing a feel for a place and its market. If we like what we see we move on to developing much more detailed due diligence about an areas customers and product. We use snapshots to help determine where we would consider digging in further or to update a location.
I hope you enjoy them.
Area Snapshot
Nayarit Riviera, Nayarit, Mexico
Highlights Gorgeous lush coastline winding point after point from San Blas to Vallarta Nuevo. Area benefits from established towns with different personalities, which is being promoted heavily, four seasons at Punta Mita attracts high end clientele.
Cons: Can be buggy, Beachfront discovered a long time ago
Airport Puerto Vallarta
Weather: Mild tropical climate with an average temperature of a comfortable 77° F (25 ºC)
Investment Potential: High. The mayan Riviera is a large area of a 100 mile stretch of coast, Winning investments will be separated when choosing where to invest. Which will grow faster? The established areas or yet to be branded nooks? The less established areas need quality projects to develop an attractive personality, and the more established areas that already benefit from a personality have to hope that will stay a winning formula for post-bubble buyer.
Area Snapshot
Huatulco, Oaxaca Mexico
Pop. 15,000
Also known as Bahias de Huatulco is centered around the town of La Crucecita
Strengths: Well planned and designed community that is safe and offers all the key attributes for growth, strong local community, golf course, marina, some resorts, and an airport.
Weakness: Isolated, price per square meter is pretty high compared to the countries south, La Crucecita has tourism and thats about it.
Notes of interest: Huatulco has a local airport that services the area so you can fly directly there. The town of Las Crucecita is the heart of the area, it offers several eating and lodging options in a quaint but sterile mexican atmosphere. There is a marina, resort options, and a golf course.
The area is master planned to support 100,000 residents, currently the size is about 15,000. The key to this plan is that the mexican government has made sure that the master plan includes extremely high quality infrastructure like water, roads, sewer treatment ,and electric. What this means is that the long term health and growth won't suffer due to poor planning like so many other areas in central america. One of Huatulco's many offerings are beautiful bays and 36 beaches.
Sunshine can be expected about 330 days a year with the average temperature of 28C
Area Snapshot
San Cristobal de las Casas Chiapas, Mexico
Pop. 142,364
Small Mountain city located in the Highlands of Chiapas with strong indigenous presence
Highlights: Beautiful Colonial city with an unexpectedly urbane cafe and art culture. A very strong indigenous presence and influence.
Cons: Isolated, political risk, the political situation could flare up causing long term investment concerns.
Climate and Appearance: Lots of pine trees covering the surrounding mountains, a fire place is great thing to have in the winter here because it gets pretty cold for Mexico.
Investment potential: Fair San Cristobal provides many opportunities for varied business plans, long term appreciation has been based on the city as a whole becoming more diverse in its offerings, subsequently attracting a more diverse group. Visitors to this area have changed dramatically in the last 8 years, it has become well serviced tourist destination.
Area Snapshot
Panajachal, Guatemala
Pop. 11,142
Highlights: Gorgeous lake surrounded by volcanoes, great climate, and vibrant indigenous culture. Good eating options in a walkable setting, the expat community is a lovable quirky one spawned from the popularity of the lake as hippy stop many moons ago.
Cons: Polluted lake. Pretty slow lifestyle
Weather Vegetation: The altitude of Pana is about 1 mile which creates a year round spring climate. The lake is surrounded by Volcanoes that are covered with farms and trees.
Investment potential Low Even though the area is beautiful and the small town is well serviced it is well known the lake is polluted this combined with a quirky niche market impede investment potential.
Area Snapshot
Antigua, Guatemala
Pop. 34,685
Colonial city with cool mountain climate, great restaurants, local areas to explore, broad appeal.
Highlights: Charming cafe's, refined tourist amenities, climate.
Cons: Out of all the people who visit the area, not many are compelled to stay and live. Not much has changed in Antigua the last 10 years.
Investment potential: Low, This colonial city is second to none, but has tough competition from Granada, San Miguel Allende, San Cristobal, and now Cartegena, Columbia. From the investment point of view Antigua has the resources to compete, but does not attract the investment interest of other colonial cities.
Area Snapshot
Copan Ruinas, Honduras
Pop. 24,309
Colonial village set adjacent to the grounds of the Copan ruins
Highlights: Great little town, quaint, comfortable, and surprisingly enjoyable place to be, many travelers come just for the ruins and end up staying a few more days. Copan is the 2nd most visited spot in Honduras
Cons: Not enough diversity to accommodate a wide range of tastes, its perfect for backpackers, but others will have make some kind of sacrifice.
Investment Potential: HIgh Even though there isn't enough diversity there is a great foundation to build on, and I am sure these niches will be filled in the near future.
Copan is surrounded by pasture mixed with trees.
Area Snapshot
Lake Yojoa, Honduras
Pristine lake town in the mountains , If you have been to Panama its like Boquete except two distinctions, Yojoa has a lake, and doesn't have the retiree expats
HIghlights, Eco potential, varied wild life, lake and mountain views.
Cons: One horse town, the tourist infrastructure has evolved based on the tastes of the Honduran tourist who comes here, this means lots of shacks selling fish dinners on the lake. Lack of promotion. political questions
Investment potential: Good, even with the obvious concerns there are always people looking for value and some will find it here.
Yojoa is located 892 ft about sea level.
Area Snapshot
Granada, Nicaragua
Pop. 110,326
Colonial city on Lake Nicaragua
Highlights Beautiful setting for a colonial city to be built. Detailed renovations of restaurants and hotels with options for every budget, a die hard fan base.
Cons: Unpredictable political administration, You get the feeling your late to the investment party,
Weather/vegetation Temps range between 81 and 95 degrees fahrenheit. the region is drier than Costa Rica to the south and the landscape reflects that with a browner look.
Investment potential: Low This is the most popular place in Nicaragua, so it has been "Discovered" There are still projects that can be profitable, but I think the city is at or close to its peak for tourist activity, therefore not much potential for growth.
About Josh
Josh Linnes has worked in Central America real estate in everything from entitling, infrastructure, building, infrastructure installation, and acting as principle for several developments. As co-founder of Emerging Terrains he has run point for over $8 Million in investments. Read his bio here


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FSA managing director John Tiner warned that any collusion could fall foul of the watchdog's controversial 'market abuse' powers.
Tiner's warning came at an Association of Investment Trust Companies conference. It will shock those who hoped the split capital fiasco would die away. Though older 'split' trusts have a good record, many launched during the tech bubble are in trouble, breaching bank covenants and cutting dividends.
Some invested in growth stocks - which fell - and high yield bonds - which collapsed.
Tiner said the watchdogs would begin a series of visits to fund managers to examine transactions and the way they sold. Cross holdings in other trusts will be probed to see if they were in the best interests of investors. The FSA will demand to see minutes of board meetings. Investment advisers will be visited to determine any evidence of mis-selling.
The FSA's questionnaire in December found 10% of split trusts had more than 60% of their assets in other splits. This caused a 'domino effect' when the market slumped.
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Eastern Oregon University recognizes academic advising to be a critical component of the educational experience of its undergraduate students. Students work individually in a collaborative spirit with academic advisers in order to define and implement sound educational plans that are consistent with their personal values, goals and career plans. While academic advising occurs most visibly in these individual relationships, a broad network of professional advisers, faculty, and staff exists in support of EOU's overall advising mission. Academic advising is essential in guiding student inquiry through EOU's high-quality liberal arts and professional programs, leading to responsible and reflective action in a diverse and interconnected world.
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I've been on a Woody Allen kick of late and I'm not sure what prompted it. In the twilight of his career he remains a polarizing figure mostly reviled for personal indiscretions or ignored for his supposed cultural irrelevancy. He doesn't always make it easy to defend his work. The things people used to find amusing about his movies now just elicit a kind of widespread yawning contempt—the gross age difference between him and his latest ingénue, the aloof quality of the writing, and the way his characters don't seem to bear even the slightest relation to actual people in New York City or anywhere else. His last few international productions have been, by all accounts, hit-or-miss and the early fans who adopted Annie Hall and Manhattan as the films of their generation have deserted him. I don't necessarily disagree that his films aren't what they used to be, but I think his good films are still some of the best American films ever made. The period of his work I generally romanticize is the mid-1980s period and the film of his that I like best is, in some ways, the least representative of his work, Radio Days. It's light, unabashedly sentimental, and probably the least cynical movie he ever made.
Radio Days is more-or-less a series of vignettes related to Allen's childhood that revolve around the radio and the central role it played in everyone's life. The scenes are breezy and comical with a wry knowing melancholy hovering over them because this is, after all, a lost world that Allen is eulogizing. The film shows Allen's childhood in a nostalgic light. He lives in Brooklyn in a cramped house where various assorted aunts, uncles, and grandparents lived too. Their banter is typically neurotic for an Allen film but there's a familial ease and a gentleness to it. It's very funny but it's not abrasive. Seth Green plays Allen as a kid who is obsessed with the Masked Avenger, a radio show about a super hero of sorts whom Green's character imagines as a dashing crime fighter but in actuality is played by Wallace Shawn, the impish character actor. A lot of the fun to be had from the stories Allen tells about the golden age of radio is how the actuality of who the performers are bears little resemblance to the identities they assume on the radio for a rapt audience living vicariously through their glamorous exploits. None is funnier than Mia Farrow, a painfully ditzy supper club cigarette girl who is perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time but who eventually gets (mostly) rid of her Brooklyn squawk and becomes the host of a sophisticated Hollywood gossip radio program.Continue Reading
Raising Arizona
A childless-couple, with no hope of their own, decides to kidnap one of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona's eight babies. But once they do, life takes a serious turn, giving them much more than they bargained for.
In this early effort by the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men), the duo makes a timeless classic of the absurd. The script is hugely original and chock-full of many memorable lines. There is no scene-wasting as these people's lives spin out of control with pitch-perfect tone throughout.Continue Reading
After his ultra low-budget, indie caper comedy Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson (along with co-writer Owen Wilson) peaked with Rushmore, developing a formula and a brand that he has continued to hammer into the ground, with less and less success. But with Rushmore, the story of an eccentric high school underachiever and his relationship to the people around him, Anderson found the right level of quirk without going over the annoyance line and in the process made one of the best comedies of the '90s, a truly unique and special film.
In the teenage mind of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), he's a scholastic genius, admired by his classmates at his beloved upscale private school, The Rushmore Academy. But in truth he's a below average student and not very liked by his peers. Max is a different kind of outcast than we usually find in teenage nerds. Instead of rebelling against the school, his goal is to fit in, but his grandiose ideas and belief in himself makes him stand out. His lower income also keeps him at a distance from his peers. Max's gentle father (Seymour Cassel) is a low-key barber, but Max claims his old man is a brain surgeon. Also at odds with Max is the school's headmaster (Brian Cox). Max's enthusiasm seems to be a constant source of stress for him, including Max's effort to keep Latin in the school's curriculum, his ambitious school theater production of Serpico, and his efforts to build an on-campus aquarium in a bid to impress a lovely widowed teacher, Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams).Continue Reading
You can't find someone who is more against the glorification of teenage pregnancy than yours truly. Let's just downplay that aspect of the movie and focus on all its other awesome parts, and for a brief moment I'll praise the director and writer for their interesting approach on the matter. If you're wondering why I steer clear of films like this, let's just say it's because of those sappy dramas and comedies that show some spoiled middle-class teen who gets knocked up, has a family behind her, and finishes school without a hitch. Movies like Precious are slowly putting a smudge on that crystalline looking-glass we've become used to.
In this perfect comedy, we meet a group of teenagers who are coming up on their senior year at a Christian high school. We are following Mary (Jena Malone) in particular. She has it all - a charming and talented boyfriend, a cool mom, and the name of a religious icon. In the summer before senior year, her boyfriend confesses to her that he is gay. Following his confession, she bumps her head and, while in a daze, she sees the image of Jesus who tells her that her boyfriend needs her help. So, like any religious person, she interprets the message of God the best way she can: cure him of his homosexuality.Continue Reading
Scotland, PA
Though it appears to be the love child of Ronald McDonald and William Shakespeare, Scotland, PA is only the most innovative adaptation of Macbeth, which was forgotten about after it went to Sundance. Its satire, while crude and greasy, just like the worst fast food server, is so un-artsy and plain that it can honestly be called upon frequently when you have a craving for some simple, yet refreshing comedy. To add to its charm is an already off-beat cast that gives, perhaps, their funniest and most quirky performances. I must commend Maura Tierney for her role as the modern Lady Macbeth, which she played with excellent style, and her co-star, James LeGros, for his depiction of Macbeth. For the sake of being interesting, their last name is McBeth, and everyone calls her Pat and him Mac. Instead of being regal characters during the Renaissance, they are two ordinary folks in the '70s who work at Duncan's, a former donut shop owned by Norm Duncan. Notice the catchy play on an actual food chain. Duncan is trying to branch out and get new ideas for fast food, and under his employ are a ton of outrageous characters, including his sons, and many whom you'll recognize. Like most people in food service, the McBeths are extremely restless, causing the dynamic of their marriage to be bittersweet. Their sex life is at its peak (the two go at it like rabbits), but the romance turns sour when Pat constantly nags Mac about his inability to break away from Duncan, or at the very least, stop blurting out good ideas and letting him take the credit for them. While Mac is wandering around an empty carnival site, he is approached by two intoxicated hippies (the Greek chorus), who lead him to a fortune teller (the prophet, played by Amy Smart). She shakes her toy 8-ball and mentions a concept that has never been invented: drive-tru. Dismissing the entire ordeal, Mac returns to work the next day and hears of an employee being fired, which could mean a promotion for...Continue Reading
"It's hell gettin' older, especially when you feel 21 inside."
— A sobering reflection made by the aging Diane, brashly played by the vibrant, and still very alive at 86, Elaine Stritch, in Woody Allen's 1987 drama, September.
The film centers on Lane, a fragile and confused woman in her early fifties, played by Mia Farrow. After having moved into her summer home in Vermont for some much needed mental rest, Lane's familial, platonic, and romantic relationships unravel at the arrival of autumn.
The plot of September, taking place over the few remaining days of the summer, floats through the home from room to room, mostly centering on a love triangle, or really, love train, secretly developing amongst the characters. Howard loves Lane, but she in fact loves Peter who in turn loves Lane's friend Stephanie who is already unhappily married with children. This potential fodder for comedy, Woody Allen's challah and butter, is instead treated and explored as the stuff of a serious stage piece, filled with the morose blend of emotionally heavy dialogue and restrained expression normally found off-off-off Broadway.
But in September, which for all intents and purposes is a filmed play, the love triangle is no laughing matter. The characters, all in their early to mid-fifties, find themselves at a complete loss as they enter the autumn of their lives. The triangle's unrequited love takes an appropriate and subtle backseat to the feeling of regret and melancholy gnawing at the middle-aged dreamers. Lane desires a fresh start with a new career, new love, and a new apartment. Peter wants artistic and commercial su...
Shameless - Complete Season One
I love British television. It's like being 8 and hanging out with the older, cooler kids on the block. The ones who aren't afraid to cuss, make rude remarks about, well, anybody and might even show their bum to a passing neighbor before running off in fits of laughter. According to your well bred American TV parents those kids are trouble and you should stay well away if you know what's good for you.
Shameless is good for you. The Gallagers are a family of trouble in Manchester with an absentee mother and a town drunk for a father. Six kids who all know tricks to survive as a family will offend, shock and even make you fall in love. There is Fiona, who plays surrogate mother and reluctant ingenue, Ian, a gay teenager whose stay in the closet keeps him from thug beatings but also gets more and more confining, Lip, a charming smart ass, Debbie, the dangerously protective 9 year old plus hyper-active Carl and adorable Liam. They will have you cheering for their escapades and mourning for their betrayals all the while their in-league neighbors help make trashy seem downright domestic.Continue Reading
Silver Streak
The train movie has always been a favorite genre of mine (Horror Express, Runaway Train, Narrow Margin, Emperor of the North Pole, etc). Going back to the silents (The Great Train Robbery) the train trip has been used famously as a murder mystery setting (Murder on the Orient Express, The Lady Vanishes), a place for romance (North by Northwest), action (The Cassandra Crossing, Breakheart Pass), comedy (The General), and horror (Terror Train). In 1976 director Arthur Hiller wasn't exactly sure what genre he wanted - romance, action, comedy. Though sometimes messy, his Silver Streak did mange to breathe some life into the train picture and it ended up being a perfect piece of genre-bending entertainment.
With a screenplay by Colin Higgins, who had written the cult flick Harold and Maude and would go on to write and direct another solid romantic-action-comedy, Foul Play with Chevy Chase, Silver Streak stars Gene Wilder. As one of the era's most unique comic talents, the role feels very un-Wilder-like. Mater of fact it could have been Chase, Elliott Gould, George Segal, Burt Reynolds or any leading man of the mid '70s. It's not until just over the half way mark when Richard Pryor enters and infuses the film with a fresh energy, bringing out the more manic Wilder that audiences had grown to love. After getting a co-screenwriting credit on the Wilder flick Blazing Saddles, but nixed as an actor, Silver Streak would mark Pryor and Wilder's first onscreen comedy together. They would follow it with the sometimes hilarious Stir Crazy and then the mostly terrible Another You and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. But Silver Streak is the film that really best showcases the yin and yang of their different comic styles.Continue Reading
Most films about the future seem optimistic about human intelligence levels rising, with Mike Judge's depressing comedy Idiocracy being an exception. Woody Allen's Sleeper splits the difference: the technology and science have evolved but people have gotten shallower. Since '73 his vision looks to be almost prophetic. As a follow up to Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know about Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask, Sleeper was his most polished film at that point. It was the peak of Woody's slapstick phase, just four years before his evolutionary jump into the more mature filmmaker he would become with Annie Hall and Manhattan (both films co-written with Marshall Brickman, who also worked on the Sleeper script). Kinda, sorta, slightly based on H.G. Wells's 1899 novel When the Sleeper Wakes, it's a film that, because of the science-fiction element and the high laugh count, has always been considered one of his more admired and easily digestible films from his non-fans.
In 1973, Miles Monroe (Allen), owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store, is put into a scientific sleep chamber, without his knowledge, and finally revived two-hundred years later in 2173. He wakes up in a futuristic American police state (similar to so many movie future societies from Logan's Run to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes to The Hunger Games). The rebels need him because he's the only citizen without an identification number. He ends up helping them by posing as a robot servant for a dingy socialite, Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton, working ...
Something Wild
What happened to Jonathan Demme? He used to make the best movies. I'm talking about the films he did before Silence of the Lambs changed his life and career options for good. Perhaps regretting his film's instigation of a wave of serial killer-based entertainments, he got very high-minded after Silence of the Lambs and kept returning with more Oscar bait in the form of Philadelphia, which continued his winning streak, and Beloved, which did not. Since then he has alternated between director-for-hire projects and small scale documentaries, before returning to something like his old style with last year's Rachel Getting Married. But nothing he has done in years has been as good as the comedies he did in the late 1980s. They were exuberant life-affirming spectacles. He brought a New York downtowner's aesthetic to mainstream comedy and lifted up a dreary end of the decade—a time best remembered for comedies that celebrated getting rich or blowing shit up—with an offbeat sensibility. He was like an American Pedro Almodovar in love with the idea of New York as a melting pot of bohemians and working class immigrants, all tuned in to the same Afrobeat soundtrack. His New York was full of loud colors, Jamaican beauty salons, and cool people—one big punky reggae party.
Something Wild is his best film. It's a film that celebrates a life lived without rules before segueing into darker territory exploring the same themes. Jeff Daniels plays Charlie, a nice guy yuppie in Manhattan that gets his kicks walking out on his lunch bill. Melanie Griffith is Lulu—she's got the famous Louise Brooks bob and lots of Voodoo priestess jewelry on. She's an edgy chick who catches on to Daniels's pathetic act of rebellion immediately. She threatens to rat him out if he doesn't get in her car and see where the day takes them. She's going to teach him a thing or two about wild. Pretty soon they're naked in a hotel room and she's making him call his office while she otherwise distracts him. The scene is playful and sexy, rather than obvious, because Lulu isn't objectified as Charlie's "manic pixie dream girl" who teaches him to live; instead she's the one in charge. The scene is more about Lulu's fetishizing of Charlie's straightness than anything, though we get the feeling that Charlie has been looking for someone like Lulu all along. It's the complete opposite of how most straight male directors would have played the scene and just one of the details that make this film unique.Continue Reading


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When the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art closed its doors for the last time in late March, it was the end of a noble experiment that lasted five years. PBICA, as it was known in the alphabet-soup art world, had been a work of love, not to mention considerable cash, for South Florida arts patrons Robert and Mary Montgomery. The lovely old Art Deco movie theater in downtown Lake Worth that was PBICA's home had been a museum before, when it held the collection of J. Patrick Lannan in the 1980s, then again in the 1990s after the Lannan Foundation turned it over to Palm Beach Community College. The Montgomerys, who bought the building from the school, hoped that other support for the museum would materialize once they got it up and running. They were wrong, unfortunately. During its brief, shining moment, however, PBICA presented exhibitions that attracted national attention, including its inaugural venture, "Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film and Video." Other highlights included the exuberant group show "Brooklyn!" and "The Smiths: Tony, Kiki, Seton," which brought together for the first time the works of three prominent artists from the same family. At least the museum went out with a bang: Its final exhibition, "I Feel Mysterious Today," was a multimedia extravaganza every bit as exciting as its first.
If a list of recent shows at your art museum includes retrospectives of Miró and Nevelson, to say nothing of a startling arrangement of thrift-shop clothing by an artful duo called Guerra de la Paz, you've had a good year. Samantha Salzinger, curator of exhibitions for the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, is bringing the once-unremarkable museum into the artistic mainstream.
Salzinger's favorite art is, yes, kind of carny. A 2003 show, Pamela Joseph's "The Sideshow of the Absurd" (last year's Best Solo Art Exhibition), drew heavily on carnival culture and freak shows. "Joseph had an interesting take on what she called freaks," Salzinger says. "They're like someone in a fairy tale who's gone through a test in life. The rest of us all walk around fearing something terrible will happen to us. They live with it."
Photographer Diane Arbus had a similar vision. "Her pictures of a midget," Salzinger says, "are more about him being a man than a midget."
Yes, we've said it before -- this time last year, in fact -- but we'll say it again: The Boca Museum continues to dazzle. Some of the newness may have worn off the big, beautiful Mizner Park headquarters it moved into nearly four and a half years ago, but the programming has lost none of its luster. After the grand inaugural Picasso show, the museum has steered away from blockbuster exhibitions and emphasized variety. The payoff has been substantial: photography ranging from Roman Vishniac's documentation of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 1930s to Steve McCurry's images of contemporary Asia; Haitian paintings and voodoo flags from a local collector's stash; paintings by American expressionist Charles Burchfield as well as by Uruguayan visionary Ignacio Iturria; jewel-encrusted art objects from Italy's Buccellati family of goldsmiths; and the just-ended retrospective of the career of legendary American realist Andrew Wyeth. Any gaps in the schedule are readily filled by the annual "All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition" and an ongoing series that highlights selections from local private collections. Throw in a respected art school, special events such as a film series, and one of the best permanent collections in South Florida and you have a full-service art museum that's hard to beat.
By the time he turned 40 last year, Enrique Martínez Celaya had a decade of exhibitions under his belt. His work -- which runs the gamut from paintings and drawings to photographs to sculptures and mixed-media installations -- is in demand among private collectors in America and Europe, and it has found its way into the collections of major museums such as the Met and the Whitney in New York and L.A.'s County Museum. So where does the Cuban-born Martínez Celaya set up shop? Why, Delray Beach, of course. That's right. Last year, the world-class artist -- someone for whom the world is his oyster -- chose Delray over not just Miami but also Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, Berlin... And guess what: He's still a hot ticket. It's good to be Enrique Martínez Celaya.
When Revolution opened its doors last September, hopes were high that the new club would break the apparent curse that doomed the building's former occupants -- the Edge, Chili Pepper, and Star Bar/Venu (the latter having shut its doors faster than you can say, "What a dumb name for a rock club!"). But Revolution gets many of its acts from Clear Channel, and if there's one thing the communications giant is good for, it's bringing in the bacon. And that it has with a bevy of big names that run the musical gamut, from hip-hop (Snoop Dogg, Mos Def) to punk (Social Distortion, New Found Glory) to funk (George Clinton) and metal (Atreyu). A year ago, many of these acts wouldn't venture south of Sound Advice Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. And if they did, they'd go straight to Miami. Sure, Revolution got off to a shaky start, canceling its Wednesday-night local shows and Friday-night Pulp event. But with plenty of star power on its roster every month (Papa Roach!), Revolution might just beat the curse of 200 W. Broward Blvd. Let's hope that if a new venue wins this category next year, it has a different address.
Yes, the band that New Times chose as Best Band to Leave Broward/Palm Beach in 2000 is one of the few bands that hasn't made New York City its new home. Though guitarist/vocalist Derek Hyde and drummer Eddie Brandt took a stab at relocating to the Big Apple, Hyde moved back home in 2001. And we can thank the rock gods for that, because this is one of the few local bands that truly knows how to rock. There ain't no shoe-gazing here, just pure entertainment. The Creepy T's balance song and shtick, whether it's Hyde's manic meltdowns or the band's catchy, B-movie-inspired tunes with amusing titles you're not likely to find on the next Franz Ferdinand album. Try "Tiger with the She-Bitch On" or "Fire Gods of the South Pacific" -- quite a bit more interesting than songs about heartbreak and cheating girlfriends. Then again, Hyde's not big on following the whole indie hipster trend; he's more likely to wear a hula skirt than denim and Converse. And while the vintage farfisa sounds of keyboardist Thomas Dementrius place the Creepy T's in garage territory, the band operates outside that genre's hipster image as well. But if you doubt the T's rock cred, check out their new gig as backing band for King Coleman, the legendary "Mashed Potato Man" himself. Indeed, the Creepy T's carry the torch of rock 'n' roll like a South Pacific fire god -- hula skirt and all.


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We brought in an arborist, Keith Babberney of Arborworks Tree Care to air spade (a hose hooked up to a compressor digs through the dirt by blowing pressurized air) the first 4 ft of depth for two piers located in the critical root zone of the pecan tree.
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One of my pet theories is that every quarter-century or so, the Labour party goes through a defining debate about the sort of party it should be. We're overdue such a debate now.
The first of these defining rows was about whether a party of Labour was needed and if so, what form it should take. This began with the debate over the creation of the Labour representation committee in 1900 and was resolved with the formal creation of the Labour party in 1906, after a pact with the Liberals gave Labour MPs a significant parliamentary presence1
The second debate begins with the shattering failure of the MacDonald government. From 1931 to 1935, Labour was led by Henderson and Lansbury, and while their radical energy was vital for the continued survival of the Labour party their tradition of political nonconformism tinged with pacifism was ultimately crushed by Union-led pragmatism and willingness to support a military build up and socialisation driven by a powerful central state.
The third debate came after the departure of Attlee in the late-fifties. The Bevanite rebellion predated the election of Gaitskell, of course, but the bitter debates over how the party should move forward was only fought to the (near literal) death after the old man and his authority left the scene.
Was Labour to be a truly socialist party, or a social-democratic one? This question led to a sustained Bevanite challenge to Gaitskell over issues like clause IV of the party and the extent of nationalisation, a debate only truly resolved after the death of both men. Gaitskell had, by 1963, established firm control of the party, but his death meant that a former Bevanite was able to steer a middle path between both forces, a course which was both electorally successful and ideologically inconsistent.
The last huge debate on the future of the Labour party came, not with New Labour, but in the mid-Eighties, when a genuinely radical alternative socialist ideology was put forward and ultimately defeated. That battle felt like one of life and death. It was resolved by victory of the diminished Social-Democratic wing of the party in supportive alliance with the more moderate section of those opposed to the previous Wilsonian pragmatism.
After that victory was won, the only open question was what compromises with the electorate was needed in order to secure victory. It took three elections and three leaders, but Labour finally found a satisfactory answer2. That led the way for a settled period of political direction that ended ideologically with the great recession and politically with the leadership of Gordon Brown.
What of today?
In many ways, the true achievement of Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour party has been to avoid such rupture and schism. While there has been an attempt to establish various ideological Milibandisms (Predistribution, One Nation, Fairness, Together and so on) and the leadership of the party has been consistent in it's renewed focus on the evil of inequality, the real mark of the Labour movement has been the attempt to bury differences in order to secure victory. In the Kingdom of Ed M, the Liam shall lie down with the Len.
This has been a noble and worthy effort. I'm not one of those who regards unity as a negative. However, I can't see it lasting beyond the next election.
If we win, the challenges of government will force open the debate on what sort of party we should be. because there will be little room for even the maintenance of public spending without either public service 'reform' or tax increases (and most likely both).
Under such pressures, those who call for greater and more radical redistribution will feel little duty to be loyal to an agenda that they regard as unsatisfactory, while those who support a course of moderated restraint and strategic investment will not wish to see significantly increased services spending, wage increases or higher tax. Finally of course, there is the question of what sort of majority a Labour government will have, and to what extent it will need to rely on outside support to govern, which will invite the question of which, if any, support to seek.
That debate will be painful, but the duty and power of government will make it much more straightforward than you might expect. Power will hand authority and leadership to one group, should they choose to use it to set political direction. Ultimately, the dissenters (of any sort) will be forced to submit or leave.
If we lose, we will need to decide, in opposition, what sort of party we seek to be.
The choices will be pretty clear: Do we want to continue with the Nordic-Germanic social democracy we've pursued over the last few years, do we want to embrace the radical alternative that has been sketched by some socialist figures in the broader Labour movement, or do we want to attempt to redefine the Labour party in an era when the nature of Labour itself is in flux, perhaps offering a prospectus that is at once fiscally cautious, reforming on social and gender politics but radical when it comes to structure of politics and the state itself?
The bad news for the Labour party is that such battles tend to be pretty agonising.
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Champagne Stakes 2012 – Tipping Guide
There are plenty of short-priced favourites getting about this weekend and the Group 3 2012 Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley tonight features one of them.
Snitzerland ($1.60) has proven herself to be a very accomplished filly, with the Golden Slipper runner-up backing up a star two-year-old career with ...
Champagne Stakes 2012 Betting – Snitzerland Clear Favourite
Bookmakers are taking no chances with flying filly Snitzerland who is expected to continue her early season form in the Group 3 2012 Champagne Stakes (1200m) at MooneeValley on Friday night.
The Gerald Ryan-trained youngster has built on her two-year-old career that saw her finish second in the Golden Slipper ...
Snitzerland Heads 2012 Champagne Stakes Field
Star filly Snitzerland is the clear standout in the Group 3 2012 Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
She is one of 10 horses named in the final field to contest the $150,000 three-year-old fillies' sprint and brings tremendous form into the race....
Snitzerland Ready for 2012 Champagne Stakes
Star filly Snitzerland is primed and ready to continue her spring success in the Group 3 2012 Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
The exciting three-year-old has recorded impressive victories in both the Group 3 San Domenico Stakes (1100m) and the Group 2 Danehill Stakes ...
Moonee Valley Night Racing – 2012 Champagne Stakes Nominations
The Moonee Valley night racing action kicks off for the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival this Friday night with a bumper evening scheduled, one of the four Group races on the program being the Champagne Stakes 2012.
The headline nominee for the $150,000 Group 3 Champagne Stakes (1200m) is ...
2012 Champagne Stakes Winner Pierro Scores Triple Crown
Gai Waterhouse's crack Lonhro colt Pierro has retained their undefeated status and become the sixth juvenile in history, and the first colt in 21 years, to score the autumn two-year-olds' triple crown with a beautiful win in the Champagne Stakes 2012 at today's Sydney Cup Day meeting at Royal Randwick.
Leading up to the $500,000 Group 1 Champagne ...
Sydney Cup Day 2012 Tips & Betting Selections
The Royal Randwick Autumn Racing Carnival comes to a close today with a crack eight race line up, including an impressive four Group 1 showdowns, and here the team at Races.com.au have all the best 2012 Sydney Cup Day betting tips and selections.
Racing at Randwick ...
Champagne Stakes 2012 Form Guide & Betting Tips
It is probably the easiest race on the crack Sydney Cup Day program at Randwick on Saturday to pick, and while Pierro really does look hard to beat in the 2012 Champagne Stakes there is still a matter of the placings to pick which is where the Races.com.au team's form guide and betting tips come in.
Pierro Short in 2012 Champagne Stakes Odds
Unsurprisingly Gai Waterhouse's star colt Pierro has opened the odds-on favourite to win the Champagne Stakes 2012 at Royal Randwick this Sydney Cup Day and in doing so become the latest juvenile to secure the prized autumn two-year-olds' triple crown.
The last to ...
Champagne Stakes Field 2012 – Pierro's For the Taking
This Saturday one of the four Group 1 clashes taking place at Royal Randwick on Sydney Cup Day will be the 2012 Champagne Stakes, the two-year-olds' classic looking to be the Gai Waterhouse-trained Pierro's for the taking.
Undefeated in their stunning five start career ...


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OGDEN, Utah – After helping the Weber State University men's track and field team to the team title at the Hornet Invitational in Sacramento, Calif., over the weekend, freshman Luca Sinn has been named the Big Sky Conference men's track Athlete of the Week.
Sinn, from Vienna, Austria, took first place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Sacramento State Hornet Invitational with a time of 8:57.41. That time currently sits third nationally on the young season. Sinn helped the Wildcats claim the title in team scoring at the meet in Sacramento, edging Cal 166-164 on the final event. Sinn ran a leg for WSU's all-conference distance medley relay team last month indoors and was also 20th for the Wildcats at the Big Sky Cross Country Championships.


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1 – New starting running back C.J. Prosise has a bit of early-NFL Ricky Watters in his game. That is, Prosise spins out of trouble, in traffic, while churning forward and gaining 2-3 extra yards through contact. Watters had the best spin move of the post, ahem, O.J. Simpson era in the NFL. Prosise looks like a natural performing the maneuver, and it's not for show.
2 – Top-notch blocking efforts by Irish receivers Chris Brown and Equanimeous St. Brown (plus tight end Durham Smythe on a cut) provided freshman Josh Adams his initial path to pay dirt Saturday night.
Thereafter, Adams scored untouched up the gut thanks to Quenton Nelson at the point, Mike McGlinchey coming down the line, and Nick Martin in space. Of note: St. Brown was in on the play again, blocking on the backside perimeter as the Irish receivers aligned in a stack to show the defense a bubble screen look away from the actual play. Has St. Brown been identified by the staff for his blocking acumen as a true freshman?
3 – I'm of the opinion that the 48-yard post pattern and catch courtesy Texas wide receiver John Burt was the best thing that could have happened to Notre Dame's refreshingly honest but a bit-too-confident KeiVarae Russell. Russell's a potentially great senior cornerback who has actually never reached that rarified air to be mentioned with the elite.
A little film room reminder with his position coach, Todd Lyght – who incidentally should be a daily reminder of what a great college cornerback looks like – is going to pay dividends for Russell and the Irish defense in Death Valley and when USC comes calling in October.
4 – Russell was solid otherwise, but it's relevant to note that Notre Dame's remaining quartet of players we've projected to rank among the top five at their positions nationally played to that status Saturday night. Jaylon Smith and Sheldon Day were dominant defensively, Ronnie Stanley was half-man, half-mountain on the edge, and Will Fuller remains an unstoppable rebel force downfield.
But more important, Cole Luke and Isaac Rochell played to their projections as well. I ranked Rochell No. 6 and Luke No. 8 (Schmidt betwixt) among the Top 10 Irish for 2015. Luke had a pair of coverage wins downfield in a contest that included minimal attempts to dent the Irish deep.
5 – Great to see backup quarterback DeShone Kizer come to the aid of teammate Dexter Williams after the latter received a bit too much after-the-play business from Texas linebacker Breckyn Hager. (Relax dude, you're down 35.) Kizer immediately got in Hager's face as he postured over Williams following a big hit.
I wouldn't have minded if a few of the backup Irish offensive linemen reacted as did Kizer, the quarterback. (They were much more on point when Kizer was leveled one snap later, a personal foul on the Longhorns' sideline.) Nick Martin will likely explain to the young'ens how to best administer Frontier Justice in the future.
6 – As offered in our post-game notebook, eight Irishmen not named Malik Zaire moved the chains for Kelly's offense in the first half with a ninth, freshman running back Dexter Williams, turning the trick thereafter. (That's without the tight ends involved – and they will be.)
Considering the Irish offense has a clear top dog in Fuller, such continued balance is ideal. No defense on the 2015 slate will slow, much less stop Kelly's crew if it can continue to spread the wealth so seamlessly with Fuller requiring a second dedicated defender more often than not.
7 – Joining captain Matthias Farley on all four Irish run teams (punt/kick coverage and return) was junior slot receiver Torii Hunter plus linebackers Jarrett Grace and Greer Martini. Safety Nicky Baratti, linebacker James Onwualu, and cornerback Devin Butler started on three of the four. Interested to see if Drue Tranquill's special teams work – I saw him only on kickoff coverage – increases as September progresses. (Tranquill played extensively in the team's sub packages defensively.)
Standout defenders Jaylon Smith (PR), KeiVarae Russell (PR), Cole Luke (PR) and Max Redfield (kickoff) each appeared on an ST as well.
8 – As an elated Irish team completed its handshakes with their vanquished guests, team leader Joe Schmidt alerted his squad that the Texas band would precede Notre Dame's playing of the traditional post-game Alma Mater. Why wouldn't Notre Dame have made an announcement regarding the obviously pre-planned programming to avoid the (otherwise understandable) 3,500-student strong jeer as the Longhorns struck their first chord?
Just goes to show you, if you want something done right, put Joe Schmidt in charge of it.
9 – Neutral-site scheduling quirks are at play, but it's nonetheless alarming that Notre Dame hasn't won a true road game since Oct. 26, 2013 in Colorado Springs vs. the 2-10 Air Force Academy. 0-5 with losses at Pittsburgh, Stanford, Florida State, Arizona State, and USC.
Onto Week Two…


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Caulfield Cup winning jockey Vlad Duric will be back in action at Caulfield on Wednesday after recovering from a thumb injury.
Duric, who won the 2007 Group 1 $2.5m Caulfield Cup (2400m) at Caulfield on Master O'Reilly, hasn't ridden since May and is keen to get back into the saddle.
"I've had itchy feet for a week or so but I picked this as the day to come back so I'm just looking forward to getting back to the races and hopefully building up a bit of form," Duric told AAP.
Duric has four rides, all at 58kgs and above but is confident that he will get back down to the minimum riding weight of 54kg in the coming weeks.
"Saturday I will ride 56 kilos and up, and I've got a goal to try to be back down riding the minimum in two weeks," Duric said.
"It's a little bit difficult at this time of year with the cold weather, but it will come off with a bit of extra race riding."
Duric is hoping for a quick return to the winner's stall and is giving his first ride back, the Mick Kent trained Aristarchus a good chance of saluting in the second race of the day, the Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa Plate for the maiden gallopers over 1200m.
"I think Mick Kent's horse in the maiden is probably the pick of them," Duric said.
His other rides are first starter Just For Starters for Robbie Laing in the The Grand Hotel Frankston Handicap (1000m) for the two year olds, Zellindi for Shea Eden in the Sportingbet Best Tote Plus 5% Handicap (1000m) and Gavin Murphy trained Evie Rose in the Le Pine Funerals Handicap (1600m).
Duric was riding in fine form before his enforced time off and teamed up with Gai Waterhouse for a winning double on Driefontein zt Morphettville during the Adelaide Autumn Carnival.
Driefontein was able finish strongly to beat Platelet in the Group 3 $115,000 R N Irwin Stakes (1100m) on April 12 and followed that up with an all the way win in the Group 1 $400,000 Sportingbet Classic (Registered as Robert Sangster Stakes) (1200m) on April 26.
Duric has ridden twenty-nine Melbourne metropolitan winners this season and is currently in sixth position on the jockey's premiership behind Damien Oliver who leads the way on fifty-nine wins.


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TULSA, Okla. – As Skeet Reese settled into his 13th Bassmaster Classic Media Day, he recalled his first such event, in 1998 in Greensboro, N.C., a lifetime ago yet still fresh in his mind.
"I was scared to death," he said. "But for me it was the greatest Classic ever, even though I won in 2009. Your first is always your most memorable. It only happens once. It'll never again have the same newness or excitement but you'll never have the same anxieties, either."
For a former Classic champion and Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year, with five other B.A.S.S. wins to his credit, Reese is flying surprisingly low beneath the radar this year. That's fine with him.
"I guess I'm a dark horse," he said. "There's been no media, not nothing about me being a factor."
While he's always California cool on the outside, Reese's atypical lack of media attention seemingly has him more at ease than ever.
The same can't be said of the rest of the field. With their boats parked inside a cavernous arena, competitors had storage compartments open and worked diligently to dry out anything that's wet from yesterday's changing mix of precipitation. With expected temperatures in the upper teens or lower 20s at blast-off tomorrow, today's damp boat carpet is tomorrow's popsicle.
North Carolina pro Tracy Adams has stocked up on de-icing spray, in case his trolling motor locks in place. Rather than a last-minute run to the tackle store tonight, he'll likely make a quick jaunt to a grocery store to get a roll of wax paper. He'll put sheets of it in between his rod locker doors to prevent them from freezing shut, which would leave the tools of his trade painfully unavailable.
B.A.S.S. sponsor tables lined the front of the building, providing both the anglers and the members of the media with logoed trinkets, clothing and informational materials. The most valuable items, though, were likely the towels being given away. They're good for drying out equipment today and they'll be good for warming and drying cold hands tomorrow.
As the boats sweated off the remnants of yesterday's snow, sleet and rain, the only people working harder than the anglers were the legions of fairgrounds workers pushing big brooms to redistribute and remove the large puddles that accumulated on the concrete floor.
Some of the anglers answered questions from the assembled writers and television crews distractedly, their hands and minds occupied restringing reels, organizing lures and trying to lighten their workloads for the rest of the day.
Randy Howell said that he has a number of sponsor obligations to attend to tonight, which will leave him little time to get his tackle in order.
"My mind is going really fast right now," he said. "You want to think of everything you have to do on the water tomorrow. I have at least two hours of work to do tonight, probably three."
As he prepared to restring line on a rod-locker's worth of reels, a pair of technicians worked to apply a chemical coasting to his hull and to his outboard's lower unit. Allegedly it will improve his gas mileage, help him get on plane faster and add nearly two miles per hour to his top end, despite the fact that he already has one of the fastest boats on tour.
Even when they're sitting still, moving faster is always on the pros' minds. Rather than soaking in the atmosphere of his 11th Classic, Howell was mentally up on pad heading to his first spot on Grand Lake.
Mark Davis, the 1995 Classic champion and veteran of 15 prior Classics, recalled that when he fished his first one in 1987 he was "like a deer in the headlights" and sees that same look in the eyes of some of the younger competitors today.
"You've got to remember, at the end of the day we're just here to fish," he said. "The best thing you can do for your career is to just fish well. We probably overanalyze things."
As the media bucked to get closer to the pre-tournament favorites and shoehorn their questions in among the others, other competitors had plenty of space to run the risk of paralysis by overanalysis. Kevin VanDam, Aaron Martens and Jason Christie barely had time to take a breath, but others – like the first-timers and B.A.S.S. Nation qualifiers – were less in demand.
"I figured I wouldn't get too much attention," said Maine's Jonathan Carter as he worked on his tackle.
While he welcomed the time in dry space to get his gear ready, Carter would have been happy to conduct some interviews.
"I like talking about fishing," he explained.
Indeed, despite the occasional grousing about time off the water or signs that their minds seemed to be 90 miles away at the lake, to a man the competitors recognized that being at media day was a sign that they had positioned themselves for a life-altering event.
Reese, one of the savviest and most fan-beloved promoters in the industry, was blunt, saying that "it sucks to work the trade show portion of this because it means you're not out there in contention to win."
Today, all 53 of them remain in contention and for at least a few hours they were out of the cold.


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The European software patent has been derailed by misinformation and aggressive lobbying techniques, according to supporters of the directive.
But its detractors, such as the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, claim that member states "are miles apart" in agreeing what software innovations should and should not be patentable.
Rushing through legislation now could allow all sorts of software programming to be patented and "not lead to good law", they argue.
Last week the European Parliament's legal affairs committee voted overwhelmingly to send the Computer Implemented Inventions directive back to the drawing board, despite spending more than three years debating the issues and having agreed to it in principle last year.
Proponents of the directive, which is supported in its current form by the Government, argue that it simply aims to codify and clarify current practice at the European Patent Office on what software innovations can be patented.
The detractors, many of whom represent smaller software developers or who back the open source model championed by the likes of Linux, say it will allow large companies to file patents on a wide range of computer processes and so stymie competition.
Lord Sainsbury, minister for science and innovation, experienced first hand the heat generated by concerns on both sides of the debate at a seminar held at the Department of Trade and Industry for 85 lobbyists in December.
He explained why the Government supports the directive, insisting that it would not change the boundaries of what is patentable and that the Government did not want to move towards the American model where the patenting of software is more widely accepted.
He stated: "What we hope is that it will clarify the situation within British law as it stands. It is clarity, not change, that this directive will provide."
The Patent Office has arranged a series of workshops for both sides of the debate to put forward their definition of the "technical contribution" a piece of software needs to make to a process so that it can be patented.
The debate has often been presented as a battle between large companies like Microsoft, Siemens and Intel, which try to patent where they can and defend their intellectual property aggressively through the courts, and small firms of software developers, which are prevented from working on their ideas.
But it is not that clear cut. For instance, David Lovett, managing director of Cheshire-based Perceptive Engineering, uses both patenting and open source methods of growing his business. "The patent system is not perfect. Some of the patents that have come out of the US do seem unbelievable," he says.
But Perceptive, which has developed market-leading software that monitors the performance of industrial furnaces and diagnoses faults, uses patents to strengthen its marketing and help it raise finance.
It freely publishes some of its advances to enable others to use them but requires legal protection for its core technology.
Mr Lovett says if he was not able to patent it would affect the firm's ability to grow. "We would have to ensure we could continue our business but not stop anyone from taking our ideas and using them," he said.
"That would clearly affect our competitive edge and potentially large organisations could stifle our growth as they have the ability to get things to market more quickly."
- For information on the workshops visit www.patent.gov.uk/about/ippd/issues/cii-workshops.htm. Deadline for applications is February 18


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Plans call for appropriate penalty after Argentinians 'used armed force to seek to settle an international dispute'
Plans call for appropriate penalty after Argentinians 'used armed force to seek to settle an international dispute'
Thatcher's locks were as big a part of her image as her sensible handbag, but few knew just how long it took her to keep her famous barnet in check
'There is now a question mark about what parliament actually will authorise military support for,' he told The Guardian
Argentine embassy in London announces new laws to punish exploration it claims breeches a United Nations resolution
One of Britain's most distinguished Royal Marines has called for leniency to be shown towards marine who shot injured Taliban fighter
Antarctica's monumental icebergs, history of heroic exploration and fearless wildlife give it an allure that is enhanced by its remoteness. The only realistic way for tourists to visit the vast White Continent is by ship. For most, it's a once-in-a-lifetime trip, so it is important to choose carefully.
The singer has pulled his book due to a 'last-minute content disagreement'
The comedian Jim Davidson has expressed relief after he was told he will not be charged with any sexual offence after prosecutors ruled there was not enough evidence to secure a conviction following complaints by ten women.
Alicia Castro made the controversial comments during a speech to the Argentine senate
New research shows how 'edit wars' erupt over controversial subjects
Government approves thousands of deals with states it condemns for human rights abuses
Police officers with the elite force that guards Britain's nuclear power stations have been caught drunk, using drugs, misusing firearms and also accused of sexual harassment and assault.
He became an expert on terrorism
The bells of Westminster Abbey rang out as the black hearse carrying Thatcher's flag draped coffin pulled out of Parliament. A few in the crowd began to clap but most remained silent as it sped off down Whitehall towards St Paul's.
The Iron Lady's relationship with Elizabeth II was not as fraught as is often portrayed
Officially, there will be no political eulogy at Baroness Thatcher's funeral. But when the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, clambers up to the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral to deliver the sermon on Wednesday, there will be some who will be holding their breath to see what he comes out with.
Even taking into account the BBC's more recent traumas, the 1980s were the most turbulent decade in its history. Alan Protheroe played a central and often controversial role in the Corporation's bitter battles with Mrs.Thatcher's Government. With hindsight, it can be argued that the BBC suffered long-term damage because of his stubborn failure – along with that of senior colleagues – to recognise and allow for the increasing assertiveness of the politically appointed board of governors, reflecting a fundamental shift in the rules of engagement between Westminster and Broadcasting House.


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