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Justice League: War
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Oh what the heck, lets let them see the whole thing!Mr Mole wrote:I read it and was reminded of a post a couple months ago by Ares...
Just saw it as well and . . . . WOW that was bad. There were some elements I liked about it, but it was almost everything I disliked about the Nu-52 distilled into animated form. Warning, heavy spoilers to follow.
The Good
• The action could be quite entertaining at times. You'd get some genuinely fun moments like Batman dodging and judo-throwing Parademons around, and when they stop they see that they've all got explosives on them. Sometimes we'd get to see multiple heroes using teamwork, and that was cool.
• There were a couple of funny moments here and there. Hal had maybe one or two funny lines, and sometimes Cyborg and Shazam's interactions reminded me of Vic and Beast Boy/Changeling's interactions from the old Titans days.
• The animation was generally very smooth, fluid and polished. On a purely visual level, the film was rock solid.
• Darkseid was a genuine threat. I liked that he was HUGE, easily 10 or 15 feet tall, this giant dark god the heroes couldn't face one-on-one. In some ways it felt like a return to the Superman: TAS Darkseid who Superman could not defeat straight up, before Justice League and Justice League Unlimited made him into Superman's punching bag.
• The film actually showcased what a Superman vs Batman fight should look like if Batman didn't have one-sided prep-time. Bruce was able to avoid Superman for a while, constantly moving, hitting him with weapon after weapon, keeping out of Superman's way, but ultimately unable to harm him. Superman eventually gets the better of him, and it makes sense, because nothing in Batman's normal arsenal should really do much to Superman at this point.
The Bad
• This basically felt like an attempt to emulate the feel of Marvel's Avengers film, but done through a 'Man of Steel' lens and directed by Michael Bay. Like the Avengers film, it involves an alien invasion, a collection of heroes that don't get along with each other, superheroes fighting each other, culminating in a big fight scene in a city that requires the heroes to work together to save the day, and the closing of a portal in order to win. Unlike the Avengers, the heroes are all unlikable, there is very little in the way of actual character growth, there's even less in the way of genuinely witty dialogue, the pacing is all over the map, etc. Like Man of Steel, it's about heroes that are often dark and depressed in a world that hates and fears them, has fight scenes that outstay their welcome, and involves so much collateral damage that you wonder if the city will ever recover. And like Man of Steel, it includes a scene of Superman snapping someone's neck.
• Almost all of the characters were all unlikable for the most part. The only marginally likable ones were Batman, Cyborg and the Flash. Bruce was the level headed one actually focused on trying to get everyone to work together and save the day. Cyborg genuinely had stuff to complain about and likewise was focused on saving the day. The Flash . . . . well, he was in this so little and the scenes he was involved in were not offensive in any way. Everyone else . . . well, they feel like the Nu-52 versions of the characters. Both Superman and Wonder Woman are way to fight happy, and both with more than a little arrogance to them. Wonder Woman came off as an entitled princess, while Superman had none of his nobility or charisma, just basically wanting to punch stuff. Hal Jordan was a cocky, arrogant bastard who WOULD NOT SHUT UP. Shazam was the annoying asshole from the Nu-52, only now with a side order of 'I'm also a thief' and 'I'm cocky as Hell', just in case he wasn't unlikable enough. Darkseid is no longer a clever scheming villain, he's just a generic conqueror who's too physically strong for any one hero.
• The voice acting ranged from okay to bad. Batman was okay, but at points sounded more 'bored' than intimidating. I couldn't understand what Darkseid was saying half the time, so it's fortunate that he only had about 3 lines. Cyborg was solid. Superman's was okay-ish, but he came off so smarmy and cocky as to be unlikable. Flash was okay, but he didn't have much in the way of dialogue either. And nearly everything that Green Lantern, Wonder Woman or Shazam said made me die a little inside. Which is a shame because Hal Jordan is pretty much the main character of the movie right along with Batman.
• The dialogue ranged from 'okay but underwhelming' to 'cringe worthy'. Wonder Woman and Hal's were particularly bad, with Shazam's being a close runner up. What really got annoying was the cursing. I'm no prude, but watching these icons just randomly yelling out 'crap!' and 'kick his ass!' and such in animated format was just kind of jarring. It was like watching a little kid try to be taken more seriously by having a foul mouth.
• The action had good moments, but it often just dragged on and on. There was just no room to breathe, no little moments to let the characters interact and get to know each other, none of the meaningful scenes that made Avengers stand out. It was just extended action sequences with occasional moments of talking and scenes to move the plot along. And what's worse is that it starts to feel repetitive after a while.
• The character designs. Batman and Flash looked alright, but the rest of the League looked awful to various degrees. Wonder Woman has all of these extra bits of blue and silver added to her costume that is just distracting. Cyborg look like something out of a bad anime, the designs having a very Evangellion look them. All of the glowing green lines on Green Lantern's outfit just look stupid. Superman and Shazam are both sporting their Nu-52 looks, which is reason enough by themselves. Darkseid . . . I liked that he was big and imposing, but all of that gold just ruined his look.
• This is basically the Batman/Green Lantern show, guest staring Superman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg, with special guest appearances by the Flash and Shazam. If Hal and Bat's interactions were actually entertaining, that might not be so bad, but given Bruce is fairly bland and Green Lantern is a grating tool, it doesn't help much.
• This is not the second film to include a scene of Superman snapping someone's neck. Mind control or not, this is not something Superman should be doing, and in older versions of the character, would have been what snapped him out of the trance.
• There are just moments of pure stupidity. Green Lantern picks a fight with Superman for no reason. Wonder Woman responds to a crowd protesting against her by lassoing a guy and embarrassing him. She threatens an ice cream man with her sword to get her and a little girl some ice cream, and then points her sword at him again to say 'thanks'. Everything that comes out of Shazam's mouth sounds like the kind of inane dialogue an adult thinks a kid would say.
• Batman's reasons for trusting Hal was because they were the only two 'normal' people there. Despite Hal being a complete douche bag the entire movie, despite the Flash being much more level headed and team oriented, despite Cyborg actually contributing to their understanding of the battle, it's the least likable version of Hal Jordan that Batman trusts.
• It might just be me as an old schooler, but there's something kind of uncomfortable about watching Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and the hero-formerly-known-as-Captain-Marvel all decide that the best way of defeating a villain is to BLIND HIM. By shoving pointy metal into his eyes. That's just . . . DAMN . . .
• A mid-credits teaser. Seriously. They gave this a mid-credits teaser to sequel bait us. I hope to God they don't try to sequel this thing out, because this is the last time I want to see this version of these characters.
Simply Put . . .
. . . this movie was bad. Not Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen or Transformers: Dark of the Moon bad, but definitely a well below average action movie made worse for fans of these characters. Would not recommend.
On a purely personal note, this is probably the only animated portrayal of Captain Marvel that I've genuinely hated. Even with Flashpoint, Captain Thunder wasn't so much bad as he just didn't have much of anything to do, and even though I felt he was beaten too easily and was infuriated by Billy's death, the character himself didn't make me mad.
This tho? I have no problem calling this version of the character 'Shazam', because he is everything Captain Marvel isn't suppose to be. This Billy Batson is a lying thief, sneaking into a sports arena, lying to get past the ticket counter, stealing Vic Stone's football jersey, and being proud of himself for doing so. He's dismissive of his foster siblings, who show him genuine compassion and empathy, treating them like morons. He's cocky to the point of arrogance, yet comes of mind-numbingly simple minded when he's powered up.
As Shazam, I still hate the Nu-52 hooded wizard look, though this was less painful to look at generally. However, I hated that they basically turned him into a lightning blaster. One thing I loved about Captain Marvel was that he was one of the last pure flying bricks around. He doesn't need to be shooting bolts of lightning to be cool. He should be the guy in the thick of things punching bad guys, doing hand claps, creating shock waves, doing all of those fun Silver Age brick tricks. The lightning charged punches I kind of liked, as it made for an interesting visual and it's something that they've toyed with in the comics. But him shooting lightning from his hands is just wrong on so many levels. It basically makes him into even more of a Superman clone, as they're now both flying bricks with long capes, with alternate coloring on their boots, belt and wrists, who can fly, are strong, fast and tough, and have a ranged attack. They even modified his lightning emblem to make it look more like Superman's S-Shield. No Wisdom of Solomon, none of his other abilities, he's just a strong, fast, flying guy that shoots lightning. It's like they literally sucked all the magic out of the character.
You know, I realized later that the Hal Jordan / Batman scene where Bruce talked about them being the 'normal guys' there ticked me because it reminded me of a better scene from a better story. Kingdom Come, where Superman comments that Billy Batson is the one person that knows more than anyone what it's like to be both a normal human and a superhuman, and left the ultimate fate of the world up to him. How messed up is it that the Billy Batson who was brainwashed for almost a decade was more admirable and noble than the one we got in Justice League: War? In Kingdom Come, Cap is such a fundamentally good person that all it takes is a few words from Superman to help shake him loose, and Superman so trusts his moral fiber that he's willing to trust the entire planet with it.
It also explains why they needed to go with the Nu-52 version of 'Shazam' here. Any other version of Captain Marvel would have been trying to get everyone to work together and get along.
Would have been a lot like this picture, honestly.
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I'm Ares, and I approve this nickname.Charles Phipps wrote:Yeah.
I nickname this group the "Justice Authority."
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LOLAres wrote: Oh what the heck, lets let them see the whole thing!
In all fairness, I did include a link to the original.
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Oh I know, but why give everyone the option of following the link when I can force everyone to read it here.Mr Mole wrote:LOLAres wrote: Oh what the heck, lets let them see the whole thing!
In all fairness, I did include a link to the original.
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Great post, Ares.
In my mind, the Justice League: War is about how a bunch of violent anti-heroes who don't like each other manage to thwart an alien invasion through superior use of violence. It's empty spectacle and just left me feeling that these guys were Bizarro versions of the heroes I grew up with.
Except Bizarro was nice.
In my mind, the Justice League: War is about how a bunch of violent anti-heroes who don't like each other manage to thwart an alien invasion through superior use of violence. It's empty spectacle and just left me feeling that these guys were Bizarro versions of the heroes I grew up with.
Except Bizarro was nice.
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It really did feel like someone took the Justice League, butchered most of their outfits and then replaced their personalities with the most unpleasant era of the Authority. I swear, this could have been some early 90's Image team from everything that happened.
Thankfully I can just put on 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold', and get all of that purged out of me. That show is pure, simple, unadulterated fun, just embracing all of the fun aspects of old school superheroism without a lot of the Silver Age stupidity.
Thankfully I can just put on 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold', and get all of that purged out of me. That show is pure, simple, unadulterated fun, just embracing all of the fun aspects of old school superheroism without a lot of the Silver Age stupidity.

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Owners of Ford and Chevy trucks have spent at least 300 years fighting over who builds the best hauler. We may have a definitive answer in the form of this awesome brown Ford truck literally tearing his friend's Chevy limb-from-limb until the frame is ripped from the suspension and the whole thing flips over.
Is Chevy really to blame for this guy not putting enough engineering in his truck to avoid such a disastrous fate? No, but that won't stop the Ford fanboys from enjoying a chuckle or two thousand at the mayhem. Hard to believe Ford ever backed out of a similar challenge with GM.


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Prince George is celebrating his third birthday today and to mark the occasion Kensington Palace have released some charming pictures of him taken at the family home in West Norfolk.
The images show the prince in the grounds of Anmer Hall, aon the Sandringham Estate.
They were taken in mid-July by photographer Matt Porteous. One shows the prince offering an ice cream to the family dog, Lupo. Another shows him playing on a swing.
Mr Porteous, who is from Jersey, describes himself as a commercial lifestyle, wedding and underwater photographer in an online profile.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said: "The Duke and Duchess hope that people will enjoy seeing these new photographs.
"They would like to thank everyone for all the lovely messages they have received as Prince George celebrates his third birthday."


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Dennis Kimetto of Kenya set a course record Sunday as he took first in the 2013 Chicago Marathon, his second marathon win of the year.
Kimetto beat the previous record of 2:04:23 with 2:03:45, according to unofficial times.
Kimetto and Emmanuel Mutai were neck-and-neck until the last half-mile when Kimetto broke out front.
"I am happy because I broke the course record," Kimetto said. "The [race] conditions were very good."
Kimetto came to Chicago with a 2013 marathon win already under his belt. He took first in this year's Tokyo Marathon with a time of 2:06:50, which set a course record for the race, just his second marathon to date.
During his first marathon, in Berlin last September, he crossed the finish just one second behind the winner.
Kimetto is known for long-distance road racing. The World Marathon Majors points out Kimetto would hold the world record for fastest marathon debut if the IAAF recognized that stat. He set his personal best in Berlin with a finish time of 2:04:16.


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[I'm not familiar with the terminology, so when I write P (resp. NP) set, I mean a subset of the integers whose membership function is a decision problem in P (resp. NP).]
Is it correct to say that a set is NP if and only if it is the image of a P set under a polynomial time function?
This seems fairly clear to me: the P set acts as the collection of verification certificates for the elements of the NP set. I'm not particularly familiar with the field though, so I wanted to check.


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Thursday, 16 June 2011
The 2256 gram baby
Today was finally the day for the ultrasound. For those who are new here, I fell off the normal growth curve in terms of fundal height in week 32 of pregnancy (I measured between 25 and 26 cm to be exact). It was the general consensus of the blog readers that I get a scan to make sure the baby was growing right.
All week I was fielding questions: "Are you sure you have your dates right?" "You can't be 33 weeks" "Can you lift up your shirt so we can get a better look?" (that was actually a woman and not a man ;)). Then yesterday we went to a hospital birth preparation meeting with women who were between 30 and 32 weeks pregnant and SR was like "why do you look so tiny compared to everyone else??" So, I was starting to worry a little. But in reality, my ego was inflating more and more, though with a nagging sense of "what if??"
So at today's appointment I got to talk with an Obstetrics attending. It was nice just to see "attending" (overlæge) on her name badge. She hinted it was a bit silly that I get a scan since it is probably just me and the way the baby is sitting (I couldn't help getting the feeling - like the true socialist I am becoming - that "I don't deserve this scan"). But she scanned away, right there in her office. Gotta say I was surprised when she started getting some measurements that were bigger than expected for my due date! I had never imagined that. I suddenly started wondering if I had my dates mixed up in the opposite way. But, no. He came out measuring almost exactly average for the 33 week 5 day old baby he is at 2256 grams (that's exactly 5 lbs!!). Okay, so in my limited experience average is HUGE! The Lorax weighed 6lbs when he was born at 39 weeks and 1 day. And little Finnbjørn is almost that big right now!
Needless to say SR and I are relieved. And if he were born today, he'd be an ok weight. But I'm starting to wonder how easily the "little" guy will come out on the big day.
Now I know why I am vomiting up nearly everything I eat. (and why I seem to get gastronenteritis, of sorts, every time I run) There must simply be no room for him. I woke up this morning with excruciating heart burn. My stomach must be the size of a cheese ball right now. It has meant absolutely NO running or activity of any kind after lunch -otherwise lunch all over clothing and sidewalk, etc. And all of the pressure in my pelvis has turned my legs out so that my toes point away from each other at a 90 degree angle. Despite how silly this looks, and the intestinal issues, I continue to run, which is still a big source of happiness for me. Here is how the last week looked in terms of exercise:
Thursday: 1 hour pulse/core pilates, 2 hour run
Friday: 1 hour run, 1.5 hour bike, 45 min swim
Saturday: 1 hour pulse/core pilates, 2 hour run with SR
Sunday: 2.5 hour run with SR
Monday: 2 hour run
Tuesday: 1 hour pulse/core pilates, 2 hour run
Wednesday: 2 hour bike ride, 1 hour run
The only thing I wish I could change is I wish I could swim more, but the swim club we belong to is only open 1 hour most days and it is hard to get it to fit into my schedule. Plus, there were holidays on Sunday and Monday, so the pool was closed. Soon the ocean will be warm enough to swim without a wet suit (mine is, as you can imagine, much tighter than intended).
A 5k relay is coming up this Sunday (Danmarks Staffet), which I am running with ladies from my athletic club. It will be great to open up my stride a bit and try to run fast. I'll give a full report, I promise.
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- Marathon Mom said...
Glad you got the scan and everything is looking good :) Somuch better with the piece of mind knowing.
- 16 June 2011 at 13:45
- Meghan said...
Phew. I'm glad everything is turning out well. Take care!
- 16 June 2011 at 14:58
- heather said...
Wow, great news! Thanks, Danish Healthcare System (and you got to see a real doctor, too - amazing.) So glad baby is doing well, and that you are still running despite discomfort. 2 hours a day, wow - are you run/walking at this point, or still running the whole way? As for 5k's and running fast, please define a fast pace at this point? I (not measuring in any way small - nor is little dude) felt like I was FLYING the other day, looked down at my garmin and saw 5:54/km. Yeah...
- 16 June 2011 at 15:04
- olga said...
I had no doubts. He can be born whatever time now (but better not quite yet). Now go for a run:)
- 16 June 2011 at 16:43
- SteveQ said...
I just checked my stats and you're the #2 all-time referring site to my blog, 150 hits behind "Shut Up and Run." You're 350 up on her this month, though, so you should be #1 in about a week.
Take your first places where you can get 'em, I say.
- 16 June 2011 at 18:19
Not just relieving news, but great news! Take care of yourself and try to relax.
- 16 June 2011 at 19:29
- sea legs girl said...
The sad part is half of those hits are SR and me :). I should look at those stats for my blog. Sounds fun.
Did someone in your church really speak Klingon?
- 16 June 2011 at 19:54
- Mapp said...
Glad everything is OK! Actually, after reading your last posts, I went to check what my own measurements had been for Petite Boule, and realised I had been WELL below what's considered to be normal... although he was born at 3.3kgs, so pretty good given I am only 5'1! I am glad I did not realise at the time I was off the charts, and that my midwife was super relax about it!
my other, unrelated comment : still wondering how the h*** you manage to fit 3 hours of sports in a day, especially as the working mum of a toddler... I certainly can't... so what's the secret?!
- 16 June 2011 at 21:40
- amy said...
Happy to hear all is OK! Your workout schedule makes me feel lazy and out-of-shape.
- 16 June 2011 at 23:03
- sea legs girl said...
Mapp, my maternity leave officially started at 32 weeks, though I'm still catching up on a number of things, so I'm not quite done working. Also, my work schedule is/was often from 12-7 on weekdays.
- 17 June 2011 at 06:14
- sea legs girl said...
Heather, I think I define a "fast" 5k at this point as anything less than 30 minutes, especially on this course on trails and with a set of stairs. I give you credit for even looking at your Garmin. I gave up on that at like 4-5 months. It was too depressing. I think I walk about 1/4 of those two hour runs, to be honest.
- 17 June 2011 at 06:18
- Kirsten said...
Happy for you!!! I knew it!
And so what if you look like a duck when you move.....hmmmm, never seen a running duck.....
- 17 June 2011 at 11:08
- Jacqueline said...
SO glad everything looks good!
- 17 June 2011 at 17:49
- S.A. said...
Wonderful news!
Every body carries a baby differently- I gave birth to a huge baby and despite being on the petite side (5'2") even full term I never looked really, really pregnant, you know? Whereas some people I know by 40 weeks just look huge and comical. I suffered from severe heartburn as well. I pretty much only consumed fruit and protein powder shakes and Rolaids for the last trimester.
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Hooters Admits Hostess Gave Asian Customers Receipt That Read 'Chinx'
NEW YORK -- A Korean immigrant has sued a Hooters restaurant in New York City for racial discrimination after discovering an ethnic slur on his food receipt.
According to the lawsuit filed by Kisuk Cha, the computer receipt that he and his girlfriend received for a July 1 takeout order in Queens contained the slur "Chinx."The suit was filed Monday in Brooklyn federal court.
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By Marty Sartini Garner on July 26, 2012
In 2008, Dave Longstreth's Dirty Projectors broke wide on the purling back of Bitte Orca, a frenzied, rhythmic record that flaunted its own boundaries, with its tangled guitar lines and girl-group harmonies skittering beyond a given song's meter like a river bursting its banks. The channel still churns on Swing Lo Magellan, but Longstreth has built sturdy songs with solid foundations here, trapping his confusion in a container. The drums skitter on "Dance for You," but they're cradled by humble strumming and a walking bassline that underscore the lyrics' contented disorder. Notes fleck off the spinning guitars in "Just from Chevron," and are caught in the open palm of the song's coda. Longstreth's gentle production is the album's truest strength: he turns a distorted guitar into a jewelry box in "The Socialites," and "See What She's Seeing" warps an Orca-esque chord progression into funhouse shapes. It's a comedown, of course, but it's a comedown that's better than the high.


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After catching all those long passes, Brandon Lloyd drops the bomb
Brandon Lloyd was the only Broncos player to make the AFC Pro Bowl squad and to help mark the occasion, the team arranged for the local media to join him on a conference call.
Lloyd was extremely thoughtful, humble and appreciative until near the end of the conference call when he admitted to taking some personal satisfaction in showing his previous teams in San Francisco, Washington and Chicago that they were mistaken about the type of receiver he could become.
Asked if he wanted to tell those three teams: "told you so," Lloyd said half-good naturedly, half-seriously: ""No, I want to say, '(Bleep) you.' And I mean that in the most professional way."
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The_White_Lodge » 01 Nov 2017, 21:03 wrote:Classical mechanics is perfectly adequate to disprove the official narrative regarding satellites.
The_White_Lodge wrote:Now anyone who is familiar with Newton's law of gravitation knows that the force of gravity exerts itself on every part of an object independently and that the sum of these forces are understood as acting as a whole on the object's center of gravity. Were satellites designed as a cohesive sphere or some other polyhedral shape, then the point I am about to make would be poor. But, most of these designs are highly elongated shapes which could never withstand the inertial forces that they would be subjected to...
The_White_Lodge wrote:However, the Earth itself is not stationary, and in fact it has a tangential velocity of about 100,000 kilometers per hour as it moves around the Sun and it also has an elliptical orbit where when it is closer to the Sun it moves faster and when it is further from the Sun it moves slower.
Consider the scenario where an orbiting satellite with an average velocity of 30,000 kilometers per hour is moving along the opposite vector as the tangential vector of the Earth as it is traveling around the Sun, a situation which would occur once per orbit. At this instant the orbiting object and the Earth are moving away from each other at around 130,000 kilometers per hour...
The_White_Lodge wrote: To start getting into theories regarding stationary Earth and undoing heliocentricism, would only dilute any effort to clearly demonstrate that the official narrative is logically inconsistent and therefore fraud.
The_White_Lodge wrote:Simon,
I still have not gotten a chance to read through the thread on your "SSSS system." Please instruct me where I may comment on that topic since that thread is now closed.
The_White_Lodge » November 25th, 2017, 3:02 am wrote:I would just like to clarify further the error of my initial post here. The force of gravity on any object is proportionate to its mass, meaning that mass differences of any two disconnected objects is irrelevant which is why a two bowling balls of different mass dropped from the same height will reach the ground at the same time.
What is not trivial is the length of an elongated object and thus the potential difference in radius between the Earth and its ends, and this would include my initial idea of two components of different masses on an object connected by a single rod. However, the length of that rod would have to be considerable for this to generate a significantly different magnitude of force on each respective component it connects. Even in this case, the difference in force would not rip apart the object instantaneously as I initially suggested, but rather it might create an oscillation of motion or general instability in the object, perhaps rendering it completely useless for any practical purpose.
Whether this would be true of satellites as we are told they are designed would be a subtle and controversial calculation, and so it is not likely to serve as the crux of any objection to the official narrative as I had hoped.
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That One Prayer I Needed To Quit Praying
I use to pray a certain prayer.
It began during the time when I spent Thursday mornings in Bible study, in a hall of 100 chatty, coffee drinking, worship-singing, Bible-toting women, and had two toddlers in nursery. It was during the time when I woke early to drink coffee with too much creamer and journaled prayers in my notebook before my day was inundated with diaper changes and meal-making. It was during the time I sat weekly with a woman much older than I to learn about God's word, and recite scriptures to remind me of my worth.
She'd ask me over and over in various ways, all purposed to uncover the same root, "Why is His love for you so hard to believe?"
"Put these verses on note cards," she said. "Flip through them while you're sitting in your car. Put them on your bathroom mirror. Practice memorizing them until they are the words that fill your heart."
I never made the note cards.
Instead, I carried her prayers like a librarian moves books.
Isle to isle. Up, down, over. Scanning titles. Open. Close. Fingertips gliding over spines.
This one looks good. It tells a story I'll like. One day, I'll read the rest, I'd think. One day, I'll take the words and invite them in.
Regardless. Even though there were no note cards, a believer appreciates every prayer, like a librarian appreciates every book. Even small prayers tucked away and gathering dust.
But this story isn't about her, the note cards, or what I was moving from shelf to shelf. It's not about the prayers I collected like novels and placed on some later to-read list. It's about the prayer that has crept up on me for years, and replays itself within my subconscious, like a startling public service announcement on repeat.
It goes something like this:
Hi God,
I know I haven't been writing. Like at all, and I just want to touch base on this (again). I'd never deny the fact that You made it clear years ago to be writing. It's not that I've given up on myself as a writer, it's just that life has gotten busy. I'm tired, and often feeling uninspired to string words together at the end of the day. But it's just a season. I'll be back. I may not daydream crafty sentences to write anymore, but that obligation you gave me to be writing, still beckons me. Like all the time. And I feel indebted to it, like it's scrawled across some giant life to-do list that I can't yet check off. I get it. It's not going anywhere until it's done. But God, can we make an agreement? Will you please never take this desire, or this gift? Will you keep it and protect it for me?
And the gist of the prayer is really this: God, don't let me lose my love of writing. Please don't take the gift away because I'm not using it.
I'm not entirely sure where along the line I began to believe that God will swipe gifts out of offense, or that he cuts people off when they've been feeling tired or uninspired for too long, and passes them along to more grateful servants. But it's a prayer of desperation that I've caught myself praying many times over the years. In each of those moments, I feel the self-inflicted guilt or pressure for not tending to the gift--something I love, that has been deep-seated within me and using it. The same goes for the musician, the dancer, the artist, the mentor, the athlete, the teacher, the doctor, the poet. We've all been given gifts and talents that are unique and they're meant for giving away.
I'm beginning to realize that all of this--the prayer, the desperate plea, the bartering, the excuses, the feelings of indebtedness, and the guilt, is all fear. Fear. A fear so great that it has began to perpetuate into a cycle of--do the thing, and do it perfect. The rest is failure. And when you don't, you are definitely a failure. And the cycle continues. Anne Lamott paid tribute to a relateable notion when she said, "You know you've created God in your own image, when He hates all the same people you do." Or when He follows your same outlines for success, failure, beauty, or having it all together.
So I've decided that I need to forget that prayer. And that it's time for me to relieve God from my check-ins concerning this gift and my reminders to him to keep my name on it. I'm praying to trust more, and believe that He's got more words and stories waiting for me to claim when I'll have them. More words than those note cards that I never wrote, and more words than a stack of books on some lengthy to-read list.
There are words that are all mine and no one can re-gift, swipe, or take them.
Do you pray any prayers that you know in your heart need a revamp?


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Trading in Democracy: Why Rights Are Still For Real People
One of us had just landed in Vancouver, Canada, for a huge "Shout Out Against Mining Injustice" when we got the news: A tribunal in Washington, D.C. that nobody elected recently issued a verdict that will potentially constrain the democratic rights of millions of people.
The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a tribunal located at the World Bank, ruled that Canadian mining company Pacific Rim may continue to sue El Salvador for not letting the company mine gold there. The impoverished Central American country could potentially be forced to pay the foreign company $77 million or more in damages. The anti-democratic ruling has ominous implications for all of us.
We visited El Salvador last year to learn more about this landmark case. A wide vein of gold lies alongside the northern portions of a large river that flows down the country's middle, providing water for more than half the population. The gold remained relatively untouched until about a decade ago when foreign companies began to apply for mining permits.
Farmers and others told us that they were initially open to gold mining, thinking it would bring jobs to ease the area's deep poverty. But, as they learned more about the toxic chemicals used to separate gold from the surrounding ore and about the massive amounts of water used in the process, they began to organize a movement that opposed mining. Their simple cry: "We can live without gold, but we can't live without water."
By 2007, polls showed close to two-thirds of Salvadorans opposed gold mining. In 2009, Salvadorans elected a president who promised he wouldn't issue any new mining permits during his five-year term. He has kept this pledge.
But Pacific Rim didn't sit idly by as democracy worked its way from El Salvador's northern communities to its national government. The company sought a mining license. When the government rejected its environmental impact assessment, the Canadian company resorted to lobbying Salvadoran officials. And, when its lobbying failed, Pacific Rim lodged a complaint against El Salvador at ICSID in Washington under a U.S-initiated trade agreement and a little-known investment law in El Salvador.
Laws and trade pacts like these grant corporations the right to sue governments over actions—including health, safety, and environmental measures and regulations—that reduce the value of the corporation's investment.
To the surprise of many observers, the tribunal ruled on June 1 that Pacific Rim can proceed with the lawsuit against El Salvador. Even if the cash-strapped Salvadoran government wins in the end, it will likely have to shell out millions on legal fees to defend an action taken after lengthy democratic deliberations. If it loses in the tribunal's next ruling, it will cost even more.
Laws and trade agreements that allow corporations to sue governments should worry us all. No international tribunal should have the right to punish countries for laws or measures approved through a democratic process, be it in the United States, El Salvador, or anywhere else. President Barack Obama said this himself in 2008 when he promised, while campaigning, to limit the ability of corporations to use trade agreements to sue over public interest regulations.
Yet the Obama administration is currently negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership with several countries. And it's pushing for provisions that would allow companies to sue governments under this trade pact.
But an expanding coalition of labor, environmental, religious, and other groups opposes giving Big Business this privilege. A similar coalition in Australia, another country negotiating this trade deal, has convinced its government to oppose such corporate "rights." The Trans-Pacific Partnership may well prove an opportunity for this outrageous assault on democracy to be defeated.
Democracy belongs to the people. Those of us standing up to defend democracy and counter corporate abuse should strongly oppose any new "rights" for corporations being written into new trade pacts as we try to overturn the existing ones.
Treaty Like It's 1999
From Japan, Raj Patel on the expansion of the Trans-Pacific trade agreement and the homegrown battle to stop it.
In Vancouver, we did not sit by idly when we heard the tribunal's decision. The day after the decision was announced, 200 of us marched to the headquarters of Pacific Rim where Salvadoran anti-mining activist Vidalina Morales vowed that the broad-based National Roundtable on Metallic Mining would continue to fight to keep Pacific Rim out of El Salvador and asked for international solidarity.
For more information:
- How Global Mining Corporations are Able to Undermine Democracy: Make your voice heard by Pacific Rim.
- Public Citizen's action pages, including petitions to World Bank president Jim Kim and President Obama protesting upcoming trade agreements, investor-rights clauses, and the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes
This blog was adapted from Broad and Cavanagh's article distributed by the Institute for Policy Studies' op-ed service.
Robin is a Professor of International Development at in Washington, D.C. and has worked as an international economist in the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Congress. John is director of the , and is co-chair (with David Korten) of the. They are co-authors of three books and numerous articles on the global economy, and have been traveling the country and the world for their project Local Dreams: Finding Rootedness in the Age of Vulnerability.
To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining—and facing threats and violence as a result.
With the eyes of the world on mass protests against corporate control of governments, El Salvador debates a new ban on gold mining.
A protest at the World Bank supported El Salvador's attempts to put human rights above corporate rights.


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Location: Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Location: Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Date:02/24/2013 -Reception at 3:00pm - 5pm
"Meditation/Space" features selections from Triana's numerous photographic series and her video work.Light is extremely important in her photography. Triana credits the works of Renaissance artists, especially Rembrandt and Caravaggio, as inspiration for the notable variations of intensity in the background or her works, instead of the object.
After more than 40 years of working primarily in painting and sculpture, Triana debuted her first photographic series in 2002. Titled Every Time Is Now, the series features composite images of the artist's hands, along with somewhat abstract street scenes of New York City.
Also on exhibition will be Stillness, another photographic series in which objects force themselves upon the viewer as absolute protagonists, and The Observer series, as well as other series with fewer photographs in the same medium.
Gladys Triana was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and has been a resident of New York City since 1975. She completed her BA at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York; her MA at Long Island University, New York. She studied print making at the San Fernando University in Madrid, Spain.
Triana's artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and internationally. Triana's work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, Housatonic Museum, Connecticut, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, Art Museum of Fine Art at Arizona State University, Arizona among other.
"Meditation/Space" is sponsored by the Art Committee, Friends of New Canaan Library. The curators for this show are Micaela Porta and Susie Salomo


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Release Date: Sept. 5
A set of identical twins (both played by newcomer Blake Rayne) are separated as children during the Great Depression. One brother overcomes his poor upbringing to become a famous 1950s rock star, while the other sibling has trouble relating to his ultra-religious adoptive parents (Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta).
Seth Green and Joe Pantoliano also star in this musical drama that owes more than a thing or two to the life and career of Elvis Presley.
Credit: Freestyle Releasing
"The Identical" is going up against another musical drama, "God Help the Girl," written and directed by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian fame.
A young Scottish woman named Eve (Emily Browning) uses music as a form of catharsis to help heal her emotional wounds.
Credit: Amplify
Actress Eva Longoria no doubt was inspired to star in this film by her real-life work as an immigration reform activist.
A murder mystery in Arizona sets the stage for a look at one of the nation's most controversial hot-button issues.
Credit: Magnolia Pictures
Juliette Lewis plays a former punk-rocker turned suburban mom who strikes up a unique friendship with 17-year-old Cal.
At 41, Lewis didn't have to look far for sources of inspiration when getting into the role. The actress was known as a party girl in her youth, especially as the lead singer of the rock group Juliette and the Licks.
Credit: IFC Films
Release Date: Sept. 12
Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at this year's Sundance Film Festival for their script for "The Skeleton Twins."Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader play siblings who reconnect during trying times.Ty Burrell and Luke Wilson also star.
Credit: Lionsgate
Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr. and Morgan Freeman are all back for another adventure, which is somehow based on yet another incredible true story involving the aquatic mammal. The truth really is stranger than fiction.
Credit: Warner Bros.
The saga that is "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" has been split up into three films. "Him" and "Her" were both released in 2013, and now comes the third entry, "Them."James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain play a married couple experiencing relationship issues while living in New York.Chastain's "The Help" cast mate Viola Davis also stars, along with Bill Hader and William Hurt.
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The upcoming gangster drama is adapted from the short story "Animal
Rescue" by author Dennis Lehane, who also wrote the screenplay.
The cast features Tom Hardy, and James Gandolfini in his final film role.
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Taraji P. Henson starts to have second-thoughts about letting a driver (Idris Elba) with car trouble use her home phone, especially when he reveals himself as a sadistic sociopath who goes after her family.
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Release Date: Sept. 19
Upcoming "Star Wars" actor Adam Driver has two films out on the same day.The first one is "Tracks," which stars Mia Wasikowska ("Stoker") as a wayward adventurer in the Australian Outback.The film is based on the best-selling memoir by Robyn Davidson.
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"This Is Where I Leave You" features an ensemble cast and is based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Tropper, who also served as the film's screenwriter.
Jane Fonda plays the matriarch of a dysfunctional family consisting of her grown kids -- Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll -- who reluctantly come together following the death of their father.
Based on James Dashner's first novel in his best-selling young adult book series, "The Maze Runner" stars "Teen Wolf" actor Dylan O'Brien as Thomas, who wakes up trapped inside a bizarre labyrinthian environment with his memory erased. Thomas bands with other boys, and a lone girl, to attempt an escape from the maze, as they also try to figure out how they arrived and who sent them there.The film has been drawing plenty of interest from young viewers -- especially among fans of the books -- despite the studio's relatively low-key marketing campaign.
Early reviews say this could be the next "Hunger Games" or "Divergent."
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Somebody's been taken, and it's up to Liam Neeson once again to save the day.Based on the Lawrence Block novel of the same name.
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Simon Pegg ("Star Trek into Darkness," "The World's End") plays a psychiatrist who, as the title suggests, goes on a quest around the world in search of the secret to happiness.Based on the French novel by Francois Lelord.
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Release Date: Sept. 26
"Training Day" star Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua have reunited for this action thriller, based on the 1980s CBS crime series starring Edward Woodward.
Chloe Grace-Moretz also stars.
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Release Date: Sept. 25
Set in the 1980s, Shailene Woodley goes on the hunt for her missing mother (Eva Green).
Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe also star.
Iranian-born screenwriter Hossein Amini ("The Wings of the Dove," "Drive") makes his directorial debut with "The Two Faces of January."Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen play a married couple on holiday in Athens, who get wrapped up in a murder mystery along with a con man, portrayed by Oscar Isaac.
Release Date: Oct. 3
"Gone Girl" is one of the most hotly-anticipated films of the fall movie season.
Future Batman Ben Affleck plays a husband who comes under suspicion when his wife (Rosamund Pike) mysteriously vanishes.
"Gone Girl" is based on the best-selling book by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the screenplay) and comes from acclaimed director David Fincher.
Before coming to theaters, "Gone Girl" will mark its world debut at the New York Film Festival as the opening night selection.
Reese Witherspoon takes in a trio of Sudanese refugees and gets some help from her neighbor (Corey Stoll). "The Good Lie" is based on a true story.
Remember that creepy porceilan doll in "The Conjuring"?
Well, they made a whole movie about it.
Credit: New Line Cinema
Release Date: Oct. 10
Jeremy Renner stars in and produces the new drama, about a reporter brought to the brink of suicide after exposing government secrets.
Credit: Focus Features
Robert Duvall plays a small-town judge accused of murder. His attorney son (Robert Downey Jr.) comes home to help him.
Additional cast members include Billy Bob Thornton, Leighton Meester and Vera Farmiga.
"The Judge" has been chosen as the opening night selection for this year's Toronto Film Festival.
Steve Carrell and Jennifer Garner star in "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," based on the classic children's book.
Dick Van Dyke also stars as himself.
Credit: Walt Disney Pictures
Release Date: Oct. 17
Everyone is waiting to see if Michael Keaton's humorous take on his Batman persona will fly in theaters.
"Birdman" will serve as the closing night entry at this year's New York Film Festival.
Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman, Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo all lend their voices to this 3D animated tale, from Mexican filmmaker Jorge R. Gutierrez.
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Release Date: Oct. 24
This somehow has to be better than the "Battleship" adaptation.
Described as "a relentlessly authentic portrayal" of war by the New York Times, "Fury" stars Brad Pitt as the leader of a group of U.S. soldiers who go on a special mission to strike at the Nazis during World War II.
Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf and Scott Eastwood also star in the film, which has been generating early awards buzz.
Credit: Sony Pictures
Release Date: Oct. 31
Jake Gyllenhaal lost 20 pounds for his role as Lou Bloom -- a photojournalist who finds himself on the sketchy L.A. crime beat.
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A single mom (Melissa McCarthy) asks her kooky next-door neighbor, St. Vincent (Bill Murray), to keep an eye on her son.
The aging war vet and the young boy strike up an unlikely friendship.
Naomi Watts co-stars as a Russian call girl.
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Release Date: Nov. 7
Be on the lookout for Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," starring Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey as an ordinary man who teams up with others to travel across the universe through a mysterious wormhole.
Some insiders are saying that "Interstellar" could be this year's "Gravity."
Credit: Legendary Pictures
Release Date: Nov. 7
"The Theory of Everything" is based on the memoir by Jane Hawking (Felicity Jones) and chronicles her early romance with her eventual husband, the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne).
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Release Date: Nov. 14
Steve Carell dons heavy prosthetics for this new drama about real-life wrestling coach John du Pont, who murdered one of his friends, Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), for unclear reasons.
"Foxcatcher" filmmaker Bennett Miller won the best director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) are back for their dumbestest adventure yet...
Noni Jean (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is struggling with suicidal thoughts after becoming a Grammy-winning recording artist. That all changes when she finds love.
Minnie Driver and Danny Glover co-star.
Release Date: Nov. 21
Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is back and ready to fight the powers-that-be, in this sequel that's pretty much a sure-fire bet to become one of the biggest blockbusters of the season.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley star in this World War II-era spy thriller about codebreaker Alan Turing, based on the book by Andrew Hodges.
Release Date: Oct. 23
The videotapes just keep popping out in this horror anthology series.
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Release Date: Nov. 26
Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey are all back for this employer-bashing sequel.
Release Date: Dec. 5
Drawing comparisons to 2008's "Into the Wild," Reese Witherspoon plays a real-life woman who tries to find herself while hiking solo along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Release Date: Dec. 12
"Boogie Nights" and "There Will Be Blood" filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (who has received 5 best director Oscar noms over his career but has yet to win) returns with this 1970s-era crime drama starring Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon -- her third film set for release this season.Based on the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, "Inherent Vice" will make its debut at this year's New York Film Festival.Given the reputation of the stars attached to this project, don't be surprised to see cast and crew from this film making the rounds come awards season.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich lend their voices to this 3D animated spinoff of the hit "Madagascar" film series.
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Christian Bale plays Moses in this highly-anticipated biblical epic from director Ridley Scott.
Release Date: Dec. 17
Get set for an epic showdown in the third and final installment in Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" film trilogy.
Release Date: Dec. 19
Produced by Jay Z and Will Smith, the latest "Annie" remake stars "Beasts of the Southern Wild" actress Quvenzhane Wallis, 11, in the title role. Cameron Diaz is making her musical debut as the villainous Miss Hannigan, while Jamie Foxx steps into the Daddy Warbucks role (here named Benjamin Stacks).
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Ben Stiller is met with more historical hijinks, this time in London.Late actor Robin Williams appears in one of his final film roles as Teddy Roosevelt.
Release Date: Dec. 25
The famous teddy bear is getting a big-screen CGI makeover.
Nicole Kidman co-stars.
"The Interview" is still months away from being released, and it's already become one of the most controversial films of 2014.Seth Rogen and James Franco play TV journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate real-life North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has sworn retaliation against the filmmakers for making the comedy.
"Mr. Turner" was a smash hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where the film's star Timothy Spall scored the best actor award. It was also nominated for the Palme d'Or.The film, which comes from director Mike Leigh, is about the famed English Romantic landscape painter J.M.W. Turner.
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The boys are at it again, except this time they're going into the future to stop an unknown attacker from killing Lou (Rob Corddry) in the present.If the plot sounds a little like "Terminator," as Craig Robinson points out in the trailer, "Everything is like 'Terminator.'"
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Tim Burton is focusing his lens on Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), a real-life artist known for her unique paintings of children with oversized eyes. Margaret's husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) took all of the credit for her works.The script comes from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who previously worked with Burton on 1994's "Ed Wood."
Here comes another film based on real events, this one focusing on World War II POW and Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini, played by Jack O'Connell.Written by the Coen Brothers and directed by Angelina Jolie, this film is already garnering Oscar's attention.
"Chicago" filmmaker Rob Marshall helms this big-budget Disney adaptation of the enchanting Stephen Sondheim stage musical.The cast includes Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Tracey Ullman, James Corden and Chris Pine.
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Rugged, woven cotton guitar strap designed to break in over time like your favorite jeans.
In a textbook example of the "less is more" theory, the Doolittle guitar strap has a refreshingly simple design with a look and feel that is sure to make it a classic for generations to come. Using a 2" wide weave of reinforced cotton, the Doolittle is designed to wear well over time, conform to the wearer, and become more comfortable the older it gets. Clean lines and industrial materials complete the minimalist aesthetic.
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In order to create something luxurious and refined, the smallest details need to become the biggest considerations. For the Doolittle, this means the industrial elegance of woven cotton, the way the die-cut rubber end panels grip the guitar pins, and the way the light catches the brushed nickel custom buckle (the lower buckle is ABS plastic to avoid scratching the guitar).


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(This is the 2nd blog of our trip, due to too many pictures in first blog! So, read previous blog first, then come back to this one.)
Saturday was our final day. We made one last trip to Times Square to finish up our souvenir shopping. We were definately wiped out!
The Disney Store
Our final stop was Carlo's Bake Shop from Cake Boss. I expected it to be busy, but not the busy that it was! First we have to wait in a line across the street by CVS. An employee comes over to hand out number tickets. Then he tells when it is time to cross the street to stand in front of the store. Then when you get to the front of the line, you are told when it has cleared out enough for you to go in. Total we waited 1 hour to get inside.
It was a fabulous trip. We were able to see and do so many things. Would we do it again? Yes, but next time will choose a different destination!


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Report: Race, wealth remain factors in state achievement gap
White students in Connecticut are about four times more likely to earn advanced scores on academic achievement tests than minorities, according to a new report co-authored by a University of Connecticut professor.
The report, "Talent on the Sidelines: Excellence Gaps and the Persistence of America's Permanent Talent Underclass," shows that the gap between the advanced achievement of whites and blacks is the most pronounced, a nearly 5-1 ratio in Connecticut, while the imbalance between whites and Hispanics is more than 4-1.
Achievement gaps between well-off students and those requiring economic assistance also are strikingly high and growing, according to the report co-authored by UConn's Jonathan Plucker. In the most recent test year available, 2011, well-off students in Connecticut outdistanced those getting free or reduced-price lunches by a nearly 5-1 ratio in terms of high test scores.
"The current study should crush anyone's optimism about the country's success in developing academic talent," said Plucker, who works at UConn's Neag School of Education. "The data we explored for this report, along with a growing body of research, provide considerable evidence that America has a permanent talent underclass."
The study released Tuesday is a follow-up to a 2010 report by Plucker and colleagues, including Nathan Burroughs of Michigan State University, that found a similar achievement gap among top-scoring students. Three years ago, the academicians had suggested that the achievement gap might narrow as time went along, but mastery tests in Connecticut and nationwide show the opposite may be true.
In Connecticut, the fourth-grade achievement gap in the most recent test year was 17 points between high-scoring whites and Hispanics and 18 points between whites and blacks, about the same as the gap three years ago. But the state's eighth-grade reading gap for high performers was about 30 points between whites and minorities — far higher than the 23 points seen three years previously.
By the 10th grade, the reading gap moderated somewhat — to 24 points between whites and blacks and 21 points between whites and Hispanics — returning to about the same level seen three years previously.
"While a great deal of attention and resources have been focused on the achievement gap among students, which measures basic proficiency in subjects like math and reading, almost none have been devoted to the 'excellence gap' at the highest achievement levels," according to a summary of the report provided by UConn.
In Connecticut, 41 percent of white students scored at the advanced level in reading during their eighth-grade year. This compares with 10 percent of blacks and 12 percent of Hispanics.
In math, 41 percent of white students in eighth grade scored in the advanced range, while only 9 percent of blacks and 11 percent of Hispanics had high scores.
"If the diversity of our school-age population isn't represented among our high-achieving students, we can make the argument that we've failed to achieve either equity or excellence, with serious implications for America's future," Plucker said in a statement.
Connecticut's scores were significantly above ranges seen nationwide, according to the report, which compiled national and state assessment data.
In national testing, high achievement in math was obtained by 9 percent of white students in the most recent testing — a significant boost from 2.9 percent gaining top scores in the early years of assessments. But the percentage of black students with high scores in math remained mired at 1.1 percent in recent testing, not much of an improvement over the years.
An even more dramatic look at the achievement gap could be seen in examining the differences between poor and well-off students in nationwide math testing between 1996 and 2011. Students eligible for lunch assistance saw a boost in advanced-achievement scores from 0.3 percent to 1.8 percent in math during this period. But students from wealthier families enjoyed a much bigger gain in advanced achievement, from 3.1 percent to 11.4 percent.
"In an age of increasing global competitiveness, it is somewhat harrowing to imagine a future in which the largest, fastest-growing segments of our K-12 student population have almost no students performing at advanced levels academically," the report concluded. "In many states, including many of our largest, this is already the reality."
Report offers suggestions for policy changes
Jonathan Plucker of the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education and his colleagues, authors of "Talent on the Sidelines: Excellence Gaps and the Persistence of America's Permanent Talent Underclass," suggested several policy changes to focus on closing the achievement gaps identified in the report. Among the suggestions were:
• Require states to report on the performance of advanced students to highlight racial and socioeconomic differences.
• Consider allocating federal money for educating top-tier students.
• Reassess current state policies for helping high achievers.
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The European Film Promotion (EFP) has announced a slew of sales deals that were struck by companies under its umbrella at Busan's Asian Film Market (Oct 8-11).
Films screening in the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and others showing only in the market sold to territories around the region. French sales company Le Pacte sold BIFF World Cinema selection The Patience Stone [pictured], directed by Atiq Rahimi, to Challan for Korea.
German sales company Sola Media sold family films Victor & The Secret Of Crocodile Mansion to Bounty Film for Australia and Twigson In Trouble to Alto Media for Korea. Sola also sold a package of four films – Victor & The Secret Of Crocodile Mansion, Lotte & The Moonstone Secret, Jelly T and Marco Macoco to Agaligo for Thailand.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Tiger Woods closed in on his 75th PGA Tour victory by stretching his lead to a commanding six shots with 11 holes remaining in the final round of the fog-delayed Farmers Insurance Open on Sunday.
The former world number one, a six-times winner of the PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines, birdied three of his first seven holes to move to 17 under overall when play was suspended for the day in fading light.
Fellow American Nick Watney, winner here in 2009, was tied for second, after eight holes, with defending champion Brandt Snedeker, who had completed 13.
Burly Canadian Brad Fritsch, a PGA Tour rookie at the age of 35, was a further two strokes back at nine under after seven holes.
However, Woods was in full command at one of his favorite venues in his bid to win a third different PGA Tour event for a seventh time. He has already recorded seven victories apiece at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
His rivals are well aware of his stellar overall track record on the U.S. circuit where he has gone on to win 49 times out of 53 when holding at least a share of the 54-hole lead, including 14 of 15 in the majors.
Four strokes in front when the weather-delayed third round was completed earlier in the day, Woods did well to scramble pars on the first two holes after missing both fairways badly to the left.
As the late afternoon shadows lengthened in soft sunlight, the world number two hit a superb tee shot to 10 feet at the par-three third and rolled in the birdie putt to regain a four-shot cushion.
Woods then conjured an outrageous birdie at the par-four fourth after his ball ended up behind a tree to the right of the fairway following another wayward tee shot.
Having considered his options, he cut a low second shot around the tree to just short of the green before chipping in from 40 feet for a miraculous three to forge five strokes clear.
Woods also birdied the par-five sixth, rifling an exquisite 232-yard second shot from the right rough to 28 feet and comfortably two-putting to move six ahead.
He then found the right fairway off the tee at the seventh before the siren sounded to halt play for the day and, with the option to complete the hole, struck his approach to 30 feet and safely two-putted for par.
Woods began a marathon day at Torrey Pines two strokes in front of the chasing pack after thick fog had allowed only five minutes of play on a frustrating Saturday at the coastal venue.
Looking sharp in every component of his game, he revived memories of his former dominant self as he doubled that lead by shooting a three-under-par 69 in the third round.
At one point a commanding six shots ahead, Woods bogeyed the par-five 18th after finding a poor lie in a fairway bunker off the tee and a greenside bunker with his third shot to finish four ahead of Fritsch (70).
Double heart-transplant recipient Erik Compton was a further stroke back after eagling the last for a 71 while Watney (71) was among a group of five players knotted at eight under.
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Loadbalancer.org have never failed to deliver on their promise: The best loadbalancers at the best price. I've deployed them from the smallest to the biggest environments, in single, double or multiple server clusters, with and without failover, physical and virtual, and not once have they let me down. And let's not forget the world-class support I've always received from the staff at loadbalancer.org. No matter the issue, no matter how long it took, they've always helped me find the best solution. Especially their ability to think outside the box have set them miles apart from any other IT support organization I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. I strongly recommend loadbalancer.org, and urge anyone looking for a good loadbalancer to take their offerings into consideration.
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"Scomis is responsible for supporting over 600 schools in the UK and through our Hosted Application Service (www.scomis.org/go.hosted) we serve over 500 schools where we host their SIMS MIS & Finance Applications through a multi-tenant Remote Desktop solution. Having grown this service over 10 years where we initially started with dedicated servers before moving to RRDNS (Round Robin DNS) which we eventually outgrew as well so three years ago we looked for a dedicated load balancing solution. We found Loadbalancer.org offered the best product and excellent value especially when deployed as a resilient appliance in our virtual infrastructure. Their support has been outstanding when called upon at all stages of our journey through testing, pilot and into production. Whilst the product has been rock solid we've need their assistance for high impact events and never been disappointed with the speed and quality of the help provided."
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"Our solution at the time was running close to the limit of what I was comfortable with for its rating, but the logical choice for us to move on to a more powerful same supplier solution was not an option. Cisco stopped producing a stand alone solution and built the load balancing technology into a product range that wasn't suitable for our needs. The search for a suitable replacement began and as well looking at offerings from the usual suspects we reached for Google. The two Enterprise MAX high availability clustered pairs we bought were hugely cost effective while at the same time offering the fault tolerance level ASOS needed to give the confidence to commit to the service levels ASOS aims to provide its customer base"
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"We had a need for a hardware load balancer solution to provide internal client access to Oracle Application Server 10g but on a tight budget. After considering some other big names we came across Loadbalancer.org. Their Enterprise Clustered Pair solution claimed to provide us with all the layer 7 functionality we required at a very reasonable cost and it has delivered in every aspect. From friendly and knowledgeable technical support to simple setup and manageability, our Loadbalancer.org experience has been effortless. Since our initial deployment we have increased the number of virtual and physical servers managed by the load balancer and our confidence in their performance and stability continues to grow. We would highly recommend a Loadbalancer.org solution to anyone implementing a similar Oracle product."
"Excellent response from the support team, they put every effort into finding a swift resolution to our problem and found a way to solve the issue we presented. We were surprised that the loadbalancer appliance allowed us to solve a number of issues we didn't even realize it was capable of doing, it did more than it said on the tin."
"We distribute large multi-terabyte global datasets based on satellite remote sensing for environmental (land use, climate change and biodiversity) research using Google Earth as a visualization tool, see here. The loadbalancer enables us to use many low-cost desktops as servers and achieve better outcomes than having investing in fewer but high end (high cost) servers. The loadbalancer has been easy to set up and works like a dream. We can very cheaply add new server capacity as the demand grows and the failure of individual servers is also easy and inexpensive to solve with no disruption to QoS"
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"We were originally drawn to Loadbalancer.org both due to the simplicity of the product and the fact they are a local success story. Since implementing our HA pair we've been really pleased with the performance of the units compared with the Citrix Netscalers we had previously been using in this role."
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