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Who: Cleveland Cavaliers vs Charlotte Bobcats
What: NBA Basketball – Cavaliers Home Game
When: 7:30 PM ET
Where: Live at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
The Matchup:
|92.7 (29)
|101.9 (16)
|97.6 (15)
|94.7 (28)
|100.6 (10)
|95.0 (25)
Previous Meetings:
11/1/13 – Bobcats 90-84 — Recap
Cleveland: Andrew Bynum (OUT), Carrick Felix (OUT)
Starting Lineups
|Kyrie Irving
|Kemba Walker
|Dion Waiters
|Gerald Henderson
|Alonzo Gee
|Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
|Tristan Thompson
|Josh McRoberts
|Anderson Varejao
|Al Jefferson
|6th Man
|Tyler Zeller
|Ramon Sessions
1- STATS. The wins that these teams have come across this season have resulted from defense + rebounding, because both are horrifically inefficient shooting the ball. Charlotte is 28th in true shooting % at 49.2 vs. Cleveland's 48.7% (dead last). Is this going to be an uglier game than Wednesday night in Boston?
Spencer: Whew, it's possible, but I doubt it. You have one player who traditionally just makes the game of basketball appear as a fine art – Kyrie Irving. Irving alone will make this game more bearable to the eyes, but don't shun the stats – both of these clubs have been a nightmare offensively. Charlotte has now gotten Al Jefferson back to 100% health, presumably, so that will hopefully pay dividends in the scoring department over time. The Cavs have to get Irving going if they want to improve on the offensive numbers and open up the floor for everyone else.
Mathew: I don't think so. Both teams are not quite as poor on the offensive side of the ball as they have shown to date this season. Conversely, I don't know if either of them are truly the type of defensive teams that the numbers bear out so far. Therefore, I look for a little bit of convergence tonight with the offenses looking a bit sharper.
2- PG WOES? Kyrie has gotten off to a rough start this season — currently shooting 38.6% from the floor + is sporting a 46.6 TS% (48th among PG's). Kemba has been worse — 35.2 FG% + 43.7 TS% (55th among PG's). This is too small of a sample size and too early to panic, right?
Spencer: As I sift through the stats, I can't find a true outlier that explains why Irving is struggling so much other than the fact that defenses have all eyes on him. After going back and reviewing the film from Cleveland's game in Minnesota on Wednesday night, the T'Wolves were all in on forcing Irving into outside shots. ICE (force away from pick) the PnR's + be very aware of the gaps when the ball is in his hands – the Wolves executed this nicely.
Kemba is not shooting the ball with any confidence right now. That, as much as anything else, is contributing to his ineffectiveness from the field currently. In Boston on Wednesday Kemba was short on most of his jumpers and settled for a bunch – had open looks, but as the ball came out of his hands it's as if he knew it wasn't going in. Note: It's unreal how many offensive rebounds Charlotte came down with towards the end of the game on Wednesday to hang on for the win.
Mathew: Yes and yes. Both will be fine, though it's not unreasonable for both players to take a look at their respective games to see why they have struggled so much to date. Much of it is likely variance (randomness), but there are also some things that both can probably do better moving forward to improve upon their performances (Kemba is shooting .235 on 3PA's, for example).
3- PICK IT. As ugly as the Bobcats have played since hosting NYK at home last Friday, they've still managed to start 4-4. Charlotte won the first matchup between these two in the Queen City earlier this season. Do the Cavs even it up tonight?
Spencer: It's hard for me not to take Cleveland at home. Charlotte has just simply looked too brutal offensively for me to justify picking them to win their second straight road game. Again tonight, it's going to take an above average defensive, taking care of the ball and rebounding effort for the Bobcats to squeak out a W.
Mathew: I think they do. The Cavs got blown out on the road on Wednesday night so I expect them to show up against the Bobcats. The Cavs are "supposed" to make the playoffs this year so the thought of falling to 3-7 via a loss to the Bobcats should put some fear in them. Give me the desperate team tonight.


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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the characters.
Author's Note : I found this recently. I had written it for another website ages ago and figured I might as well post it here.
I watched as she fell in love with Inuyasha. I watched as she got her heart trod upon and shatter, over and over. I watched as she swept up the pieces and hid them from harm ever coming to the pieces again. I was there to watch as her smile that was open, innocent, and bright began to descend into desolation and depression.
Maybe he did it to protect her. Kagome was, and still is I guess, the heart of our group. Every one of us would die for her. Too bad Inuyasha wouldn't live for her. Oh, he's alive. But, not for her. No, Inuyasha lives because he is too stubborn to die. When Kikyo breathed her last, again, she did it too far away for Inuyasha to follow. So, instead of following her to hell as promised, he lived. He led. He conquered.
Naraku fell three months after the sliver of soul Kikyo possessed returned to Kagome. Inuyasha was relentless in tracking him down. He wouldn't allow for Kagome's return home, he wouldn't allow lunch breaks or sleeping past sunrise. But he found him.
Sesshomaru had been traveling in a path parallel to ours. Kouga traveled a mile behind us as Inuyasha would not bend enough to allow the wolf prince to travel with our group. Six months before then, perhaps Kagome would have sat sense into Inuyasha, but by then she was already living as a shell of herself and didn't even attempt to persuade Inuyasha. Kagome was most like Kikyo as I'd ever seen her those last few months of hunting Naraku.
Kagome had left Shippo with Jaken and Rin at Kaede's village. He was a child she said. He needed to be safe. Rin needed to be safe. Sesshomaru had nodded and told Jaken and Ah-Un to remain behind and guard the children from harm. Jaken squawked and let out a protest. Kagome's glare was oddly reminiscent of Sesshomaru's and for once the smelly guy listened to her. Sesshomaru only raised an eyebrow at Kagome's presumption to order his vassal around. It was amusing.
That was two months before Naraku fell. Kagome hadn't seen her family in a month and a half at that point and you could see mourning in her eyes as she gazed back in its direction as we departed without her hopping down into its depths.
Sango informed me that Kagome rarely spoke in their baths as she used to. Only time my dearest Sango ever mentioned a bath without abuse.
"Kagome-sama!" Rin squealed as she darted out of the forest and into the Miko's arms. I watched with a small smile as they reunited. Kagome always had a smile for the children. A real smile. I turned towards the figure gliding out of the coverage the trees created.
"Sesshomaru-sama." I bowed to him. He glanced my way and a small nod was my acknowledgement.
He stopped several paces from Kagome and waited for her to acknowledge him. She glanced up and I saw a true smile. And suddenly, pieces starting falling together.
Before I could finish assembling them, Kagome spoke up and interrupted my thoughts.
"Hello, Sesshomaru-sama." She bowed to him and stood after he acknowledged her with a nod. She turned to Rin, "Sango and I were just going for a bath, would you like to join us?"
Rin looked to Sesshomaru for permission. He gave his permission by simply not acknowledging Kagome's question. He flipped his hair back with his left, regrown, hand. Then he turned his head and watched Jaken come out of the forest with Ah-Un following, heads held as high as possible without lifting him off the ground. They seemed to be having fun. Jaken didn't.
"Ah-Un. Jaken." Kagome greeted, she gave me a stern glance (hey! I'm innocent here!) and turned with Rin in hand towards the hot spring.
Sesshomaru raised his eyebrow at me in question. I simply shrugged and turned towards our makeshift camp. I really was innocent.
"This will be Sango's and my last trip for awhile." I told him.
"Hn." Was his response. That he acknowledge my comment verbally was permission to continue. I waited for him to get comfortable as he settled at the base of the tree we'd set our camp near. He took his swords off and laid the hilts on his right leg as he bent his left knee towards the sky and rested his left arm on his knee. He looked at me.
"She'll be too far along to keep traveling by the time we return. We'll stay until she births the child, perhaps within a year we can travel, but not without companions."
He nodded. His gaze traveled up and he simply looked at the darkening sky. Night would fall soon and the rest of our companions would join us. Inuyasha would be surprised; his brother wasn't due for another two weeks. Then again, he may already know he's here.
I poked the fire. Then I sighed and looked back up to Sesshomaru.
"Rin-chan is welcome to stay with us at the village." I glanced away and shifted.
"No." Sesshomaru shifted his gaze back down and to me. I felt his eyes rather than saw them. I looked up to let my eyes meet his.
"She would have female companionship. You, of course, would be welcome to visit anytime you pleased, or even stay." If I could get Rin, perhaps Sesshomaru would be there more often. Kagome would smile more.
"Rin will continue to travel with this Sesshomaru." He tapped his fingers on his knee and then shifted his gaze towards where the girls were bathing, "She will continue to visit the miko once a month and any time our courses intersect. With the miko be staying with you in the rebuilt village?"
Wow, long speech for him.
"Perhaps." I sat up straighter and stopped playing with the stick, "She will be staying until the child is born, probably after for a few weeks as well. After that, she has not promised anything. She must gather the rest of the shards, and she wishes to find more people for our village. She will not wait forever."
Sesshomaru blinked.
It's been almost a year since Kikyo's death. Kagome hasn't gone home for a year. The well was destroyed in the final battle. That's where we caught up to Naraku, actually. He'd seen her disappear down it through that wretched mirror the pale child carried. He wished to inspect it and steal its power for himself. We stumbled right over him. Three month's we'd been traipsing all over Japan with hardly a rest and there he was. Less than a mile from the village we considered our home base.
Sesshomaru had flashed to Kagome's side and Kouga had barreled out of the woods to her other side. Inuyasha stood in front of her, shielding her from Naraku's sight. Inuyasha protected her fiercely when it came to her body and health. Too bad he couldn't apply the same protectiveness to her heart. Sango watched Naraku rip the shard from her brother's back. The cry that ripped out of her throat had been heartbreaking.
There had been casualties on both sides by the time the battle was over. In a surprising act of compassion, Sesshomaru revived the dead on our side. Kouga , Ginta, Hakaku, and myself. I was the first to die. How lame is that? I'd been expecting to die from my wind tunnel, but I didn't. Probably a good thing, though. No, what killed me was a tentacle from Naraku. I'd pushed Kagome out the way; she had been kneeling over Kohaku's body, protecting it for Sango. I don't know exactly what happened after that, but from what they said, and didn't say, Sesshomaru and Kagome killed him while Inuyasha distracted him.
Sango apparently had been distraught and fell out of the battle after my death. I remembered her catching me as I feel off that slithering tentacle, but nothing after that.
I also don't believe Inuyasha meant to be a distraction. I do know that Kagome and Sesshomaru combined their powers, almost purifying Sesshomaru in the process I think, to destroy the evil bastard. Inuyasha destroyed the well with his distraction though. He'd sent his biggest blast at Naraku. Naraku had been standing in front of the well, but when he'd dodged (right into Kagome and Sesshomaru's attack) the blast had obliterated the well.
The rest of our slightly enlarged group showed up and interrupted my little reverie.
"What are you doing here?" Inuyasha didn't quite snarl at Sesshomaru as he dropped his kill next to me.
"This Sesshomaru does not answer to the likes of you, hanyou."
Kohaku smiled shyly at Sesshomaru and sat next to me preparing the deer for skinning. I looked up at the two men with them. Two brothers we'd picked up on the journey back to Sango's home village. She was rebuilding it, but she would need to repopulate it. These were our first new members.
I, of course, would attempt to build up the population with our offspring. My wife doesn't see eye to eye with me on that.
"Hello." Said the older brother, Akito.
"You will not address Sesshomaru-sama without his permission!" Jaken squawked as he scurried between Akito and Sesshomaru. I'd almost forgotten about him.
Akito raised his eyebrows at Jaken. His brother, Kaito, squinted at the green youkai.
"Jaken." Sesshomaru said. I'm not sure if it was an admonishment or not.
Jaken looked at the brothers, harrumphed, and stalked back towards his position against Ah-Un.
Sesshomaru looked at the brothers and nodded. Then he looked back up towards the sky and ignored the whole lot of us.
Inuyasha flopped down on the ground across from me, but I watched his ear swivel towards where the women and children had gone. They must be on their way back. I'd have to say that was the shortest bath on record.
Sure enough, Shippo and Rin came bounding into view, just as the sun fell under the horizon. Kagome and Sango appeared and I watched as Kagome sent a shy smile to Sesshomaru and blushed when he returned her nod with a soft look. Then she turned to whisper something to Sango before shutting down again. I could kill Inuyasha.
"Sesshomaru-sama! Look what Kagome-sama gave Rin!" Rin trilled to the daiyoukai. Rin thrust her wrist forward. On it was a bracelet made of thread, beads, and I'm pretty sure hair. Black hair and silver hair. Could it be that she'd used Sesshomaru's? I couldn't see Kagome giving Rin a bracelet that contained Inuyasha's hair.
"It has a protection spell on it. I used the hair you gifted me to alert you if she's in danger when you're away from her." Kagome explained to Sesshomaru's furrowed brow. She understands his wordless talking as well as Rin does.
"Kagome-sama also put her hair in it!" Rin exclaimed exuberantly and rushed to give Kagome's thigh a hug, "She said she would always know where Rin is! And if Rin is in trouble, the bracelet would tell her!"
"Thank the miko for your gift, Rin. It is powerful and should not be accepted lightly or without appreciation."
"Oh, Rin did!" Shippo piped up. Then he hopped over to Sesshomaru to show him his bracelet. It was almost identical to Rin's. I'd seen him wearing it for a few days, and knew Kagome gave it to him. There was power, but I thought it was just a protection bracelet.
"Kagome made this for me!" He shoved his hand close to Sesshomaru's face as well, "She said that if she could not come to my aid, you would be able to sense my need."
I watched Inuyasha grind his teeth. It must hurt, knowing that your protection had been usurped by your older brother. Not that he necessarily didn't deserved it. He played lose and cruel with Kagome's heart, but like I said, she was always well protected otherwise. Including the kitsune.
"It also has Inuyasha's hair." Kagome spoke up.
Inuyasha relaxed.
"Your control his improving, miko." Sesshomaru commented. I watched Kagome's eyes light up for a second before they dulled again. Damn.
Sango strode around Kagome and settled at my side, where she belonged. I took her hand in my left and pressed my right at her slightly protruding belly. My child rested in there. What a wonderful thought.
She smiled at me, squeezed my hand, and then peered around me to look at Kohaku.
"Hello, brother." She looked at the meat he'd cut off the deer to cook. "Dinner?"
"Yes." Kohaku looked up from his preparations and smiled slightly at her, "Akito caught a few rabbits and Kaito some fish. We should be good on meat for the remainder of the trip."
Kohaku didn't catch anything. He couldn't stand killing anymore, not after what Naraku made him do. He could handle dealing with the animals after they were dead. He could skin them, prep them, cook them, and eat them, he just couldn't kill them.
The girls always set up camp and the men hunted with Kohaku gathering edibles from the vegetation. Actually, Kagome set up camp while Sango protested and tried to help as our miko brushed her off and forced her to relax. I set up protections while she did that. Shippo 'helped' whoever he'd picked as his victim of the day.
Kaito and Akito folded to the ground on Kohaku's other side and Kagome took a seat near Sesshomaru. Sango and I watched as both children climbed into her lap and she told them a story from her time. Kohaku finished dinner, as it was his night, and we ate. Sesshomaru turned his nose up at the offer, as did Jaken. Rin tore at her food. The meal was consumed in silence.
"Will you travel with us the remainder, Sesshomaru-sama?" Kagome asked politely once she returned from washing the dinner utensils with Akito.
Sesshomaru glanced at her and then at Rin, sleeping cuddled with Shippo on Kagome's sleeping mat. He nodded his assent and went back to gazing at the stars. Kagome watched him for a second and took the meat Kaito, Inuyasha, and I had been prepared as travel rations to store them for travel in the morning.
Kohaku let out a soft snore from where he was curled asleep near Sango. That seemed to be the signal for the rest of us to bed down and sleep for the night. Inuyasha sent a glare to Sesshomaru before hopping into the tree the daiyoukai was resting against. Akito yawned and crawled into his makeshift bed situated next to Kaito's. Kaito set another log on the fire and turned to join the rest in sleep. I rose to join my wife.
I watched as Kagome scratched Un's forehead and then kissed Ah on the muzzle. Un narrowed his eyes and shoved his face into Kagome's so he could receive his as well. She giggled. Yes, giggled! Then she kissed his muzzle as well.
She turned and smiled a small smile to Sesshomaru and approached the children. She gently scooted them to the side so she could have room and then shimmied in next to them. She sighed, glanced at Sesshomaru, and closed her eyes for the night.
Sesshomaru watched her. He nodded and then I saw his lips curve up. I think I did anyway. The gentle smile was gone before I could blink. When he shifted towards Kagome and settled down to watch her for the night, I knew his smile hadn't been my imagination.
I'd watched her blossom into a powerful miko. I'd watched her fall in love. I'd watched her have her heart shattered, lose her only way home, and I'd watched her shining soul dim to a shadow of her true self. Now, I think I will watch as she gives her heart to the older brother of her first love. I will watch as Sesshomaru puts her heart back together and brings out the Kagome that the world yearns to have back.
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In Memory of
Pascal Augimeri
June 8, 1912 - May 29, 2012
Pascal (Pat) Augimeri
Pascal Augimeri, known to his family and friends as Pat, was born into this world on June 8, 1912 in Olean, New York. He passed away on May 29, 2012, just 11 days before his 100th birthday. We mourn his passing, our hearts ache with this loss, but we recognize the fullness of his long life and are grateful for the many years Pat had on this earth. He was a loving father and husband, a beloved uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather, and a close friend to scores of people from all walks of life.
Pat was born to Italian immigrants Tony and Mary Augimeri, the fourth of six children. His childhood was spent in Olean in western New York state, a small city with a large and vibrant Italian immigrant population. In 1929, at age 16, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where his father opened a grocery store. This would be the family business for decades. Pat and his brother Nick owned and operated several small grocery stores throughout Los Angeles.
Pat served his country in the army during World War II. He returned after three years in Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. He met his future wife, Vickie Giambrone, on New Years Day, 1950. They were married six months later, on June 4, 1950. In 1953 Pat and Vickie moved into their new house in Downey, which would be Pat's home for the next 59 years, and where they would raise their five children: Marie, Patty, Tony, Ruth, and Suzanne.
Pat witnessed a lot of history during his time on earth, all the great changes of the twentieth century, and the arrival of the new century with its promise and peril. Pat appreciated the past, looked forward always to a bright future, but lived completely in the present. He loved family gatherings, card games with his friends, time spent with his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He had an inquisitive spirit and as a result was a great conversationalist and listener.
Pat is survived by his wife Vickie, by children Marie Augimeri, Patty Slay, Ruth Augimeri, Tony Augimeri, and Suzanne Augimeri; sons-in-law Dudley Slay, Joe Escareno, Jim Howley and Sven Augimeri; grandchildren Jimmy Koffel, John Koffel, Patrick Koffel, and Micah Augimeri-Lee; and great-grandchildren Jordan and Jonah Koffel; and many devoted nieces and cousins.
A memorial Mass in Pat's honor will be held on Saturday, June 16, at 10:00am, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in Downey. A gathering will follow at the home of Suzanne and Sven Augimeri in Downey.
Funeral Service
Saturday, June 16, 2012 | 10:00am
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
10727 Downey Ave, Downey, CA 90241-3439
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NBC; Fox; ABC; CBS
NBC; Fox; ABC; CBS
Where does the time go?
It feels like just yesterday we were welcoming the new season of fall TV with open arms and minds, and yet, here we are, smack dab in the middle of renewal season. Orders for new seasons of some of our faves have been slowly trickling in for a few months now, but with today's massive announcement by CBS that 16 of the network's shows would return in the 2017-2018 season, it's now become a matter of what hasn't been renewed yet.
With that in mind, let's take a look at what shows still remain on the bubble at the big five networks and examine their chances of returning for another year!
Though it may seem the Eye network renewed everything in its arsenal today, there are still quite a few shows in CBS' inventory awaiting to hear their fate. On the drama side, veterans Criminal Minds, its spin-off Beyond Borders, Code Black and Elementary remain on the chopping block, alongside veteran comedies 2 Broke Girls and The Odd Couple and reality stalwart The Amazing Race.
As for their odds on returning, we'd say Criminal Minds is the safest bet, provided financial talks on the pricy series work in the network's favor. Its renewal came down to the 11th hour last season, as well. Beyond Borders could remain a midseason utility player, but that all depends on this season's crop of drama pilots, most likely, while Code Black has probably flatlined. Elementary remains the wild card here. This one could go either way and we've got a feeling it'll all come down to financial negotiations, as well. As for comedies, we wouldn't be surprised to see 2 Broke Girls shift to midseason with a truncated episode order. And The Odd Couple? Say your goodbyes. The Amazing Race should be back, but probably with only one cycle per season.
As for the network's freshman offerings still on the line—Pure Genius, The Great Indoors, Doubt and Training Day—don't hold your breath.
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The Peacock hasn't handed out as many renewals as its competitors, leaving quite a few shows on the bubble on the road to Upfronts in May. On the drama side, veterans The Blacklist, Blindspot, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU, as well as freshman series Blacklist Redemption, Chicago Justice, Emerald City, Taken and Timeless, all await news. Meanwhile, midseason entries Powerless and Trial & Error stand as the only comedies on the chopping block.
As for our predictions for renewal, SVU isn't going anywhere and anything with the word Chicago in its title is also probably safe as well. The Blacklist will likely return, but its spin-off probably won't. Blindspot and Timeless will likely come down to how well the drama pilots are received at the network, while you can probably start saying goodbye to Emerald City and Taken now. And as for those comedies, it's too early to tell for Trial & Error, but we wouldn't get too attached to Powerless if we were you.
The Alphabet network tends to hold all their renewal news until just before Upfronts, but new network boss Channing Dungey has actually handed out a few early renewals to its dependable TGIT line-up and veteran comedy The Middle. Of course, that still leaves a great many shows with unclear fates. On the drama side, we have veterans Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., American Crime, The Catch, Once Upon a Time, Quantico and Secrets and Lies, as well as newbies Conviction, Designated Survivor, Notorious and Time After Time. Frankly, aside from The Catch, Designated Survivor and a heavily rebooted OUAT, we'd be surprised to see any of the rest of these return. Much as we love S.H.I.E.L.D., its ratings don't make it easy to argue for its survival, though we could envision a world in which it serves as midseason replacement once straight-to-series The Inhumans takes its leave in the winter. Could American Crime ride its award season love to another season? Maybe, but the drama pilots will have to be especially weak this year to justify it.
As for comedies, vets Black-ish, Dr. Ken, Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, Last Man Standing, Modern Family and The Real O'Neals remain on the chopping block, along with newbies American Housewife and Speechless. We'd frankly be surprised to see any of these get the chop, but The Real O'Neals could be in trouble. It was the only returning comedy not to get a full order this season and it's ratings didn't improve.
While a few shows have been given renewals by Fox in the past few weeks, much of their line-up remains on the bubble. On the drama side, veterans Gotham, Rosewood, Scream Queens and Sleepy Hollow join newcomers APB, The Exorcist, Pitch, Shots Fired and 24: Legacy on the chopping block and outside of Gotham and possibly Rosewood, we'd be surprised to see any of them return. Pitch never caught on the way the network had hoped and the reinvention of 24 seems to be going in the same direction, while the Sleepy Hollow reboot landed with a total thud. The rest were either DOA or pitched as event series to begin with.
On the comedy side, veterans Bob's Burgers, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Family Guy, The Last Man on Earth and New Girl are joined by freshmen shows Making History and Son of Zorn as they play the waiting game. Don't expect the animated vets to go anywhere, while we've got a feeling the three live-action vets are fighting for one or two time slots. New Girl might be the odd man out this time around. And those two freshmen comedies? Don't hold your breath.
The CW
The CW
With nearly their entire line-up either renewed or in its final seasons, there are very shows left to wonder about on the CW. For vets The Originals and iZombie, it remains too early to tell as one has only just returned and the other doesn't come back for another few weeks. And as for freshman series No Tomorrow and Frequency, they're dunzo.
Which bubble series are you most worried about? Let us know in the comments below!


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Magazine article The CPA Journal
New Jersey and New York City at Odds over Nexus
Article excerpt
In order for a state or municipality to tax the multistate income of a nondomiciliary corporation, a minimal connection must exist between the corporation's interstate activities and the taxing state. Allied-Signal. Inc. recently challenged both New York City and New Jersey's taxing scheme, contending that both methodologies served to tax income in the absence of a minimal connection. It was victorious only in New Jersey.
FACTS. Allied-Signal, incorporated in Delaware and commercially domiciled in Michigan, owned stock in ASARCO, Inc., a New Jersey corporation head-quartered in New York City. Allied-Signal controlled this investment in ASARCO from its corporate headquarters in Michigan.
NEW YORK CITY CASE. Allied-Signal is the successor-in-interest to the Bendix Corporation. Bendix's activities in New York City were limited to the development of business abroad. On its 1981 corporate tax return, Bendix excluded from its taxable base, dividend and capital gain income stemming from its investment in ASARCO. Bendix argued that, in the absence of a unitary relationship, a nondomiciliary corporation could not be taxed on its investment in another corporation. Alternatively, Bendix argued that the need for a unitary relationship notwithstanding, the City's system of taxation did not fairly reflect Bendix's own presence and activities within New York City. The disagreed. It reasoned that the ability to tax this income was rightfully and rationally based on ASARCO's presence in New York City, and therefore constitutional.
The New York State Court of Appeals upheld the New York City tax, holding that there was sufficient nexus between the ASARCO investment income and the City. The Court found that the presence of a unitary relationship was not the exclusive test for determining nexus to a nondomiciliary corporation's investment income. The Court further held that ASARCO's business activities conducted in New York City provided the requisite nexus.
The Court, in finding a sufficient nexus between the City and Bendix's dividend income from ASARCO focused their inquiry, not on Bendix's business activities, but instead on ASARCO's. …


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Howdy. I'm just looking for a little clarification on how to modify individual elements of my blog site. http://literarygadabout.wordpress.com.
This topic has been addressed in a previous forum http://bit.ly/yO0WJX (now closed to comments), which provided a great starting point. Now I'm hoping to refine everything.
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The sidebar looks pretty rough (too much white space and an awkwardly placed Twitter widget) and throughout the site there are seemingly random text boxes that do not have the white background applied to them with the existing CSS I've added (for example, "Notify me of follow up comments via email" at the bottom of a post).
The trouble is, I don't know what these elements are "called" (what to put in the selector component) in order to begin experimenting with proper declaration values and properties for each of them.
If I can just get a basic list of each of the names of the elements on my page, with a few specific suggestions for helping to clean up the overall look of my site by adjusting all the random white text space, that would be a huge game-changer for me. At this point, I'm embarrassed to even post anything new to the site until it looks better ;/
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I enjoyed the first one, despite it's flaws. Bought the second one when it first came out and didn't care for it at the time. Started playing it again recently because the third one's coming out, and got farther into it, but I crapped out again. There are aspects of it that are really cool, but sadly they just don't outweigh the annoying crap. The last straw was the groups of musicians who'll congregate around the assassin while he's walking through the crowd on a timed mission. Made no sense - I can sneak past guards, but not a bunch of queerbait troubadours?
I won't be playing the third one.
Throw money at them and they go away.
The first one was a bit obnoxious as they tried to figure out the gameplay side of it. They really seemed to focus on building the engine so that they could use it for the other games. I've loved it since.
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The house in which educator and activist Emily Howland lived still stands. It is now a multiple unit dwelling with no interpretation of the life of its first and most prominent resident, aside from a 1935 state historical marker in the front yard.
The home of Emily Howland (1827 - 1929),
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Jeff Abbott, Downfall
Three-time Edgar Award nominee Jeff Abbott won an International Thriller Writers award winner for The Last Minute, second in the tough-as-nails Sam Capra series, of which his new novel, Downfall (Grand Central. Jul. 2013. ISBN 9781455528431. $26.99), is the third. Once an upcoming CIA agent, Sam saw his career crash and his pregnant wife vanish in one explosive moment and has since lived as a good guy on the dark margins, using the bars he has established worldwide to track down his wife's abductors. At least now he has little son Daniel back. But trouble won't leave him alone, and when a woman dashes into his San Francisco bar begging for help, he naturally takes out one of the thugs chasing her and does serious damage to the other. This little encounter eventually leads him to a man who's like a spider in a web, controlling powerful people and icing the atmosphere. As the entire story unfolds clue by tantalizing clue, what intrigues is the tension between Sam as caring hero and the feeling you can't shake that that it's really hard to escape the dark side.
John Dufresne, No Regrets, Coyote
John Dufresne, whom you will remember as the author of such New York Times notables as a personal favorite, Louisiana Power and Light, is now trying out thriller territory. In an opening chapter of his new novel, No Regrets, Coyote (Norton. Jul. 2013. ISBN 9780393070538. $25.95), therapist Wylie Melville—understandably nicknamed after the roadrunner's nemesis—is attending to a particularly unstable patient who tells him never to show his weapon unless he plans to use it, adding "I don't mean your rapier wit or your eviscerating insight. I mean your pistol." To my mind, rapier wit and eviscerating insight sum up this classy and darkly witty thriller—really darkly witty thriller—and let's get to that pistol. Coyote also acts as a forensics consultant for the police, and on Christmas Eve he's called in to assess a terrible crime scene; an over-the-edge father seems to have killed his entire family and then himself. Of course Coyote thinks differently, and what follows is a layer-upon-layer uncovering of betrayal and corruption that takes our hero from lowdown Eden, Florida, to a showdown on a frozen lake up north. Did I mention Coyote's dysfunctional family—really, really dysfunctional family? That's just part of the fun.
Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (Houghton Harcourt. 2013. ISBN 9780547429335. $20) is the second in the Claire DeWitt series. The novel opens with Claire learning that her former boyfriend, musician Paul Casablancas, has been killed in his Mission District home, and the suggestion that this was a simple break-in just doesn't add up. Shadow-boxing with Paul's wife, Lydia, with whom she has an uneasy relationship, Claire starts tracking down clues, and the narrative swiftly cuts to other events in her life ultimately relevant to the case—her early, teenaged sleuthing in a dark and seamy 1980s East Village when a friend goes missing, for instance, and her awed regard of famed French detective Jacques Silette. There's something about "teenage sleuthing" that sounds like Nancy Drew, but please. Claire is not G-rated. She's as wild and edgy as they come, part Lisbeth Salander and part Veronica Mars, as the Hollywood Reporter has said, and she's the perfectly rendered whirlwind at the center of this satisfying mystery.
Michael Harvey, The Innocence Game
Journalist and documentary producer Michael Harvey has multiple news Emmys and an Academy Award nomination to his name. Of course, he's also the author of the esteemed and in-your-face unnerving crime novel series starring Chicago PI Michael Kelly. But while Kelly makes a brief appearance in Harvey's new book, The Innocence Game (Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307961259. $24.95), the real heroes are the three graduate students invited to take an innocence seminar at a prestigious journalism school, the course being designed to investigate cases of those sentenced to death for crimes they didn't commit. Our narrator, Ian Joyce, is somewhat hapless; Sarah Gold is quietly assured; and Jake Havens is a bit uppity, but he does present the class with an envelope he's just received containing a bloodstained scrap of shirt from a boy murdered 14 years previously and a letter of confession. The problem? The convicted killer is long dead, which launches our three students on a journey to find the real killer. It's a twisty, turny journey related in icepick-sharp language, and there's a skull cracker of a surprise ending that's still making my head hurt. But it's worth the pain.
Ingrid Thoft, Loyalty
Ingrid Thoft's debut thriller is called Loyalty (Putnam. 2013. ISBN 9780399162121. $25.95). And loyalty is the name of this game, as Fina Ludlow squares off against her family, starting with patriarch Carl Ludlow, king of the personal injury lawsuit, whose thriving firm Ludlow and Associates is feared by doctors, insurers, and business owners nationwide and downright hated by the Boston police. Fina's brothers all belong to the firm, but she's the rebel who ditched law school and now works freelance for the family. Her latest case? It seems that her sister-in-law Melanie has gone missing, though brother Rand doesn't seem overly concerned, even as he ends up a suspect. Then there's Fina's niece, Haley, who's fallen into bad company that makes an aunt worry. Especially an aunt as hard-boiled as Fina, who knows her way around the dark underbelly of Boston. With a little backup from Milloy, her masseur and best friend, and in hard-charging prose polished to a high shine, Fina starts sorting things out. And what she discovers leaves her truly unsettled about the family.


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Here's my current thoughts on learning disabilities (LD) and web design. This is a mixture of what we've discussed on the list following the issues brought up by Jonathan Chetwynd, plus some thoughts following other things I've learned about LD. I'm still no expert in LD by any means so please take these as proposals, not anything final. Len ------------------------------ There appears to be several problems on web pages that affect people with learning disabilities (LD). 1. Some people with LD do not read. 2. Visual clutter can be a problem for some people with LD. Visual clutter includes + ALT text that pops up as tooltips when the mouse passes over an image, as brought up by Jonathan (e.g. he described ALT text as "distracting, confusing, and demoralising" for people with LD). + flashing and flickering icons + Dense, complex layouts in general + Large amounts of text. This presumably is clutter for people who do not read. Also, even if the person has text-to-speech software, there may be difficulties dealing with large amounts of speech, especially the speech from current synthesizers. 3. Renditions in colors different than the object usually has can be a problem. Perhaps this is a special case of a more general problem of unfamiliar renditions. The above problems suggest the following approaches. 1. Means should be provided to stop the tooltip-style tags that popup with ALT text, e.g. + Provisions in the Browser to turn off popup ALT tags (or titles if those are what pop up). + External Repair tools that strip the ALT text (the Web Access Gateway already has this). 2. Use word count on a page to predict usability by people with dyslexia. Keep number of words less than 30 for a "text free site". 1. It would be useful for search engines to include word counts. 2. If page is a frameset, word count should include all frames. 3. Use colors appropriate to object (and nationality) e.g. right color for busses to reduce confusion. 4. Possibly include measures of reading complexity in evaluation tools. + How to handle words not in dictionary? Assume "hard"? Or accept if defined? 5. Important to help reader get 1. get the "big picture" of the site, 2. Quickly understand how to navigate within the site, 3. Quickly find particular information the user is looking for. 6. Include logical structure not just physical (already in guidelines). This is needed for accommodations in the following item: 7. Possible accommodations are as follows. Note: at this point the benefits of these are mostly speculative. 1. Notating text blocks with symbolic icons. A stylesheet could specify what icons are associated with different HTML tags and with classes e.g. within tags or within <SPAN>. 2. Replacing the text blocks with those icons, and providing means for the user to hear the original text read when e.g. clicking on the icons. 3. Marking standard links (e.g. HOME, CONTACT US, SEARCH) with standardized icons. These links could be identified heuristically via tools, manually by page author, or semiautomatically by authoring tool. Also, provide means for blind users--or any users for that matter to quickly select those standard links. 4. Designing image maps so that clickable areas are clearly defined in the first place. 5. Adding markings to image maps to show clickable areas. 6. Provide means to shut off blinking and distracting animations (this is already in the guidelines). 7. Typically, a page consists of "gestalts" like a main image map, navigation bar, footer, etc. Provide means to separate those with white space and allow viewing sequentially, e.g. by scrolling or paging. 8. Regarding the screenreaders used by sighted people who do not read 1. Allow screenreader to access ALT text when images are on. This is best accomplished by interface standard to screenreader. In the meantime, repair tools that present text next to image will help (as in Web Access Gateway). ------- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Universal Design Engineer, Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering Temple University Ritter Hall Annex, Room 423, Philadelphia, PA 19122 email@example.com (215} 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)Received on Sunday, 14 March 1999 20:57:38 UTC
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You've just watched the movie but are baffled by the obscure ending. Thought you'd check on the net for an explanation. Found only a few smart-asses who just brag it's not so difficult if you think about it right? So now you're even more annoyed.
The movie simply doesn't explain every detail so there's some guesswork. Maybe the original book does? This movie is not really spooky horror but feels more like a whodunnit. Unlike a whodunnit, there is no detective to sum up and clarify at the end so you're left feeling 'Huh?"
Tell a story to a hundred people and if one of them doesn't understand it you'd think it was his own fault. But if 99 don't get it then you'd think it was bad story-telling. Even with internet resources and scanning back and forth with a video and freeze frame it's hard to work it all out but here's what we've come up with...
Note that this is not a movie review as such!
If you've not yet seen the movie or intend to read the book then you might want to quit this now and come back later.
If you have seen the movie and want the explanation then scroll down...
To fulfill the pact with the devil one needs all nine original authentic illustrations together, have them enacted including walking through the gate indicated in the 9th illustration. The villain, Balkan, failed because he didn't have the authentic 9th illustration. The one he had didn't point to the gate but indicated a fire instead.
By the end, the hero, Carso, is obsessed with the same goal for himself that Balkan was. The final illustration is enacted by him and the (unnamed) girl (a servant of the devil). She later leaves him a note where the true ninth illustration is. He gets this then walks through the gate pointed to in the picture.
The whole thing is shot so full of holes that it makes a net look like something that hasn't got any holes in it. So the best you can hope for is to grasp the main intent...
Firstly, it has to be said that while one could understand someone being deceived into serving the devil it does seem absurdly foolish for anyone to deliberately, consciously, and knowingly, sell their soul and expect everlasting happiness and goodness to come from the source of absolute evil and suffering. Nevertheless...
To fulfill the pact with the devil one needs all nine original authentic illustrations created and signed LCF by Lucifer himself. It has to be assumed they have to be all together in one place, and/or in the possession of one person (the would-be party to the pact).
The original book written by the devil is not available and the book, "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows" by Aristede Torchia (spelling not absolutely certain and hereafter referred to as 'A.T.') were only based on it. But (presumably) A.T. transferred the original illustrated pages to his books. He made two copies of each original illustration so he now had three of each. The copies had slight differences to the originals and were initialled AT instead of LCF. He spread all three versions randomly(?) through the three copies of his own book so each book would have some authentic and some false illustrations. That is, for each illustration the original might be in any one of the books while each of the other two books would have only the altered copy of that particular picture. You need all three books to get all the nine original illustrations back together again.
As well as, the foregoing, Balkan indicates in his final scenes that mere possession of the illustrations, while (probably) vital, is not enough. The pictures are actually instructions as to what to do and must be enacted. It is not clear in the movie if or how all of these were done nor if the devil-seeker has to do them himself or be present at the time or later as a witness. Nor indeed, perhaps you don't even need the physical pictures so long as you know what to do? The movie never makes this clear.
Let us look at a description of all nine pictures with Balkan's explanation, the differences defining the real from the false, the actual enactments, plus our comments.
Note that it would be impossible from the movie alone to work all these out - even on home video with freeze frame let alone in the cinema with sometimes only half a second to glimpse some of the pictures! We found some images on the net which are from the original book and even then there is some guesswork.
We have also seen references to a commentary by the director Roman Polanski. This was not on the UK TV broadcast - presumably it is a separate commentary on the dvd or vhs tape? If so, maybe that clarifies things?
We don't have all the captions.
A question mark signifies doubt
and uncertainty in our guesswork. There are a lot of question marks.
See also further down for extra
Man on horse travelling towards castle with finger on lips. Caption: Silence is Golden.
3 Turrets - 4 turrets
Balkan's/Carso's journey?
To travel in silence...
Jester approaching door to maze.
Far exit open - bricked up
Carso's journey back and forth?
...by a long and circuituous route,
Man walking road with knapsack. Man with bow and arrow at top. Caption: Venture too far and danger will descend from above.
Saw no comparison in movie but elsewhere the archer might be dark-haired - light haired..
Scaffolding almost falls on Carso on exit from Cenra Bros shop.
to brave the arrows of misfortune,
Man hung by leg on rope plus sword of flames.
Hung by left leg - right leg.
Bernie murdered and hung by leg. Don't recall fire (at that location) though.
to fear neither noose nor fire,
King playing chess with servant and black dog fighting/biting at white dog.
White board - black board
Perhaps Balkan hiring Carso but playing games with him? Dog fight might be Carso and the albino black guy? Seem to recall that Carso bit him.
to play the greatest of all games...
Man crouched over open sack full of coins with Death standing by, waiting to be paid?
No comparison in the movie? No difference in any of the pictures we found on the net either.
Balkan/Carso spared no expense even with death not far away or maybe hiring a killer?
...and win, foregoing no expense...
Man with weapon over kneeling person.
Close up comparison of face of kneeling person but no difference as Carso is looking at the two identical copies and does not yet have the true one. The real difference compared to the authentic illustration is that in one the weapon is a sword wielded by a young, fair-haired man, and the kneeler is a woman; in the other the weapon is a club held by an older man with dark hair and the victim is a man. This difference is not shown in the movie?
Carso beats albino (to death?) on floor with gun butt. Yet the kneeling man is in the phony copies? Maybe it's Balkan choking Kessler or Telfer both of whom are 'low' (wheelchair or kneeling) when killed?
is to walk the vicissitudes of fate...
Man at door with keys
keys in left hand - right hand
The illustrations can be regarded as the keys?
...and gain at last the key...
Naked woman with open book riding many-headed dragon and pointing to gate in castle back-lit by light in sky background.
No comparison in movie (?) but copies show castle on fire and woman NOT pointing.
Girl makes love to carso in front of burning castle then later goes through gate to fulfil enactment whereas Balkan (enacting the false copy) starts fire and does not use gate.
...that will unlock the ninth gate.
In addition, there were some scenes that appeared to be enactments but did not specifically fit any picture such as the tableau of Fargas drowned in the pool and Kessler choked then burned in her wheelchair. There was also the emphasis on the little girl at the station, the Indian taxi driver, the blood smeared on Carso's face - but these might have just been included for effect and to heighten tension. Probably had meaning in the original book.
Finally, the would-be disciple of everlasting damnation in hell must walk through the gate indicated in the 9th illustration. The villain, Balkan, failed because he didn't have the authentic 9th illustration. He also didn't seem to make any effort to walk through any gate because the false picture did not point to any gate. Instead it showed the castle in flames so Balkan lit a fire and probably assumed the flames were the gateway. He was wrong but why did he not burn himself immediately? Maybe the drink he took at the start of his 'ritual' was some potent drug that temporarily masked the pain?
The hero, Carso, is by now obsessed with the same goal for himself of devil's servant or partner. It is clear from the start that he was unscrupulous when he paid an unfair price for the Don Quixote volumes, etc. This is no squeaky-clean hero. He gathers up the illustrations and leaves the burning castle.
Led by the (unnamed) girl, the final illustration is enacted. Possibly the many-headed dragon and rider represents the many faces of lustful sin with the woman in control. It actually has seven heads so maybe it means the seven deadly sins - ie, sin in general. There are indications that the girl is a witch or servant of the devil: the camera lingered over her when first seen at Balkan's lecture while he is actually defining a witch - clue or what. Similarly, In a library, Carso looks at her picture then looks up to see her on a balcony - another hint, if only one was expecting or looking for a hint. Additionally, she occasionally seems to float to Carso's rescue in a supernatural way; keeps appearing and disappearing almost magically, and seems to know about and be guiding events.
The girl later leaves Carso a note on his car windshield as to where the true ninth illustration is at Cenra Bros' shop. It seems they might have removed it from the book and forged a replacement? The twins probably had the expertise and were likely in league with the devil themselves. Carso gets this 9th illustration then walks through the gate pointed to in the picture and lives happily ever after in hell - the source of all joy and goodness? Don't think so! Well, it is a fantasy.
Very good and enjoyable
movie but with an extremely disappointing ending. Worth watching
anyway but it would be greatly improved by showing and explaining
the illustrations better so the audience get the shock of realization
and not the blow of baffled puzzlement and disbelief.
From: Brice Stratford
The difference between the third
engraving is that one shows the archer as having another arrow in
his quiver, the other does not.
The difference between the sixth
is that in one, Death's hourglass shows all the sand at the top;
in the other the sand is all at the bottom.
The seventh engraving also has the
difference of a halo on the man striking the praying man, whilst
the other does not. Could the seventh engraving be reminiscent of
Carso getting smacked unconscious whilst examining Kessler's book
(he is low, sitting)?


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Role of home visiting in improving parenting and health in families at risk of abuse and neglect : results of a multicentre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation
Barlow, Jane, Davis, Hilton, McIntosh, Emma, Jarrett, Patricia, Mockford, Carole and Stewart-Brown, Sarah L.. (2007) Role of home visiting in improving parenting and health in families at risk of abuse and neglect : results of a multicentre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol.92 . pp. 229-233. ISSN 0003-9888
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Objectives – To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an intensive home visiting programme in improving outcomes for vulnerable families.
Design – Multicentre randomised controlled trial in which eligible women were allocated to receive home visiting (n=67) or standard services (n=64). Incremental cost analysis.
Setting – 40 GP practices across two counties in the UK
Participants – 131 vulnerable pregnant women.
Intervention: Selected health visitors were trained in the Family Partnership Model to provide a weekly home visiting service from 6-months antenatally to 12 months postnatally.
Main outcome measures – mother-child interaction, maternal psychological health attitudes and behaviour, infant functioning and development, and risk of neglect or abuse.
Results – At 12-months differences favouring the home visited group were observed on an independent assessment of maternal sensitivity (p<0.04) and infant cooperativeness (p<0.02). No differences were identified on any other measures. There was a non-significant increase in the likelihood of intervention group infants being the subject of child protection proceedings, or being removed from the home, and one death in the control group. The mean incremental cost per infant of the home visiting intervention was £3,246 (bootstrapped 95% confidence interval for the difference: £1,645 - £4,803).
Conclusion – This intervention may have the potential to improve parenting and increase the identification of infants at risk of abuse and neglect in vulnerable families. Further investigation is needed together with long term follow up to assess possible sleeper effects.
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|H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
|Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
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|pp. 229-233
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Peter Bebergal is half of the writing team responsible for the wonderful new nonfiction book from Bloomsbury USA called The Faith Between Us. It's an energizing discussion about friendship and religion, and I've written more about it on the Amazon blog today. Check out the short review there, but stay here for the "walking the plank" interview I conducted with Peter via email (also check out The Faith Between Us website.)
Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else's book?
It seems that most of the books on religion tend to be either evangelical or atheistic. The Faith Between Us, which I co-authored with Scott Korb, doesn't find either of those positions very interesting. My book argues what is interesting about religion is the stories and language that evolve from it. So that is why it is a book of narrative, a book about what it means to struggle with religious ideas, rituals, and images. And this struggle takes place in the world, a world where I get married, have sex, read comics (have you seen World War Hulk? It's everything Civil War should have been), listen to psychedelic rock, and feel confused and befuddled a lot of the time.
Does your book have any socially redeeming qualities? If so, what are they?
The Faith Between Us suggests that when religion focuses on the afterlife, it does a disservice to our lives here on earth. When religious communities see our lives in the here and now as precious and miraculous, then we can really start to change the world. That, and there is a great section on different kinds of LSD.
Does your book have any medicinal or mental health value to readers besides the section on LSD?
There are lots of stories about eating disorders, interesting sexual proclivities, drug addiction, death and mourning, and subsequent recovery, monogomy and hope. Maybe someone will be inspired by it and see that from the bottom you at least have some ground to stand on to start figuring out how to climb your way back up. If you are suffering from a phobia of flying things, though, I would skip the chapter on birds.
Assume your book has been filed under "Ages 8 to 12" in the children's section, perhaps by mistake, perhaps not. How horrified do you imagine a child would be after reading your book, and why? How many years of therapy would the child take to recover from the experience?
See my previous answer! When my own son reads one day this I am going to have a lot of explaining to do. But at least he'll know when I was dropping all that acid, I was listening to some kick ass music.
If no one buys your book and you are unable to continue publishing your fiction due to the intense vilification that occurs in the media, what line of work will you go into?
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Michael Vick vs. Joe Flacco: Is Flacco Really the Winner?September 15, 2012
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick had a bad game in Week 1. A bad, bad game. Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco had a very good game.
Are we to believe that Flacco has the edge over Vick all of a sudden?
I'll spare you the cliche words about it being "one week" or "one game," but history proves this anecdote correct again and again and again.
Let's not forget, however, that one team (the Ravens) played in front of their raucous home crowd, where they went 8-0 last season. The other played on the road.
Things started out nearly exactly the same way for the Ravens and Joe Flacco last season: Baltimore destroyed Pittsburgh 35-7 at home, and Flacco threw three TDs and zero INTs. His QB Rating was 117.6.
Experts and fans alike both wondered if this was the QB's breakout game in a breakout year. Turned out to be a regressive one for the Delaware product.
Against the Bengals last Monday, Flacco threw two TDs to no INTs, and had a QB Rating of 128.4.
Not that history always repeats itself, but the second week in 2011, the Ravens went on the road (4-4 last season) to play the Titans (5-3 at home last season). Baltimore lost 26-13, and Joe Flacco threw a single TD and two INTs. His QB Rating was 51.2.
Take away what you want from this lovely tale, but I'll tell you what it doesn't prove.
It doesn't prove that Flacco will light up the Eagles like he lit up the Bengals. It doesn't prove that he will play awful in Philadelphia come Sunday like he did last year in Tennessee.
What it does prove, however, is that last week meant practically nothing to this week.
The only thing that definitely carries over from week to week in the NFL are injuries bad enough to keep a player out of the next game.
I don't mean to say that having some rhythm can't carry over from game to game, but NFL teams don't linger on previous games for more than a day for a reason. They end, you learn from what you did wrong, what you did right and prepare for the next one.
As fans, writers, analysts, experts, or whatever you consider yourself, we linger on past games because we can and/or it's our job.
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Moving ahead with its Expansion Program, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) will soon solicit bids for the fourth and last dry excavation project.
The project will be the final phase in creating a critical access channel that will link the new Pacific locks with the Canal's existing Gaillard Cut (the narrowest stretch of the Panama Canal).
As the second most significant contract of the Expansion Program, the scope of work will include the excavation, removal and disposal of approximately 27 million cubic meters of non-classified material. Moreover, the solicitation will call for the installation of an approximately 1.8-kilometer long backfilled cellular cofferdam water barrier and the construction of a 2.8-kilometer long impervious clay core-rock fill dam.
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History of Kazakhstan
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|In 2010, was approved "Industrialization map of Kazakhstan for 2010-2014"
|April 14, 2010, by resolution of the Government "Industrialization Map of Kazakhstan for 2010-2014" was approved.
|105 years ago was born Belgibay Shalabayev – public and political figure, writer, doctor of philological science and honored teacher of Kazakh SSR
|On 14 April, 1993, President of Kazakhstan N.Nazarbayev signed Decree "About rehabilitation of Victims of Mass Political Repressions"
14 April 2010
In order to implement the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan dated March 19, 2010 № 958 "About the State Program on Forced Industrial-Innovative Development of Kazakhstan for 2010-2014", was approved the Industrialization Map of Kazakhstan for 2010-2014 by the resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 14, 2010 № 303. In the development of Industrialization map took an active part the group of expert of JSC "Economic Research Institute" under the direction of Dean of Economic Sciences J. Bopieva.
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War. Revenge. The self-fueled cycle of the war machine creating killers and then not knowing what to do with them once they aren't needed anymore. All these themes and more are explored in James Balsamo's latest flick, I SPILL YOUR GUTS. Sure the name is a bit 42nd Street-ish … it's supposed to be. This is the man that brought us HACK JOB (my review); a film full of gratuitous gore, topless Nazi chicks, and Gwar fighting off an invading space monster. Balsamo's 2011 film was over-the-top and really fun, but can he stop on a dime and switch gears to make a more mature film that deals with more mature themes?
The flick begins in the war-torn desert where Joe (Billy Walsh) and Dennis (Balsamo himself) are in the military hospital. Dennis was gravely injured while trying to save Joe's ass and the doctor doesn't think he's gonna make it through the night. So Joe, who gets my vote as being this year's biggest doucherocket, antagonizes Dennis on his death bed and tells him that he's gonna take the credit for being the hero; that he got his release papers and is gonna go party it up and have a great life; and even tells Dennis that he's gonna tell everyone that Dennis was a whimpering p***y when under fire. I told ya he was a doucherocket!!
Joe's words, though, do the unexpected and wake Dennis outta his comatose-like state and really piss him off. He then sets off on a trail of bloody revenge killing every and anyone who gets in his way (starting with the doctors and nurses in the military hospital). Somehow Dennis makes it back to New York (I guess either no one notices a horribly deformed soldier or he can breathe under the ocean!!). Dennis continues to slaughter anyone associated with Joe in very grizzly ways leaving the police baffled. Really? A tall, maimed, masked man walking the streets of New York with a bloody machete doesn't stand out? Dennis leaves more DNA behind than I do after watching late night Cinemax movies!! Everything builds up to the expected stand-off and fight to the death between Dennis and Joe.
Balsamo's previous flick was an anthology film and the stories were well crafted and tightly shot. In I SPILL YOUR GUTS, Balsamo's debut feature, the story and the pacing stumbles a bit. The main story of Dennis seeking revenge on Joe winds its way through a lot of side plots that never really go anywhere. The overall film could've benefited from another run through the editing room just to tighten everything up. Some characters come and go giving no explanation as to their role in the overall film, and other people seem to have accidentally wandered onto the set. The editing is also a little choppy in places and about half way through, the film almost felt as though the plot got derailed. Balsamo introduces some sub-plots that don't go anywhere but eventually comes back to the main story at hand. Dennis' motivations also seem to be a little confusing at times. It's completely understandable why he wants to kill Joe — hell; I wanted to kill Joe. But Dennis is also a war hero who risked his life for his best friend but is now killing tons of innocent people. I guess we all have our off days!!
It may seem from the above comments and observations that I had a lot of problems with I SPILL YOUR GUTS. Yeah this film isn't perfect, but ya know what? I found myself having a lot of fun with it. Balsamo puts a lot of energy into his films and you can tell that he's a certified horror lover. His kills are very squishy and he just looks like he's having a blast playing the killer. There's a lot of little issues with this film, but there's also a lot to enjoy about it as well. Balsamo seems to be a young filmmaker who's finding his voice in the genre. He's making over-the-top films with lots of gratuitous violence and gore, but it also turns out he has a lot to say. This is most definitely an anti-war flick that examines how the machine so easily cranks out killers but then has no way of dealing with them once they get outta control. It also asks the question of what to do once these trained killers are no longer needed in the battlefield. Balsamo has the skills and talent to pull off such films, he just needs a little more experience to fully find his own voice and style.
Example: the soundtrack is a barrage of hard core thrash and death metal. Personally I love this kind of music and in the right spots it can be very effective. The problem here, though, is that Balsamo plays this music really loud at the time of every kill. The music takes you out of the moment and kills (a-hem) the tension. But this is something that Balsamo will learn as he progresses and matures, and there's no doubt in my mind that he will indeed progress as a filmmaker.
I SPILL YOUR GUTS definitely delivers on it's promise to show a lot of gut spilling action. Balsamo's not afraid to show all the nasty details of each gruesome death and he's having a blast doing so. The energy in his film's is infectious and ya just can't help but have a good time. I SPILL YOUR GUTS isn't a perfect film but it is a really fun flick made by a horror fan for horror fans. Balsamo just needs a little more experience to find his own voice, and I for one am looking forward to seeing his future films as he "finds his way." Check this one out.
My Summary:
Director: James Balsamo (& writer, star, producer, cinematographer, editor, & special makeup f/x artist)
Plot: 3 out of 5 stars
Gore: 8 out of 10 skulls
Zombie Mayhem: 0 out of 5 brains
Reviewed by Scott Shoyer
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Addams Family Values (1993) / Comedy-Fantasy
Running Time: 94 min.
Cast: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Joan Cusack, Jimmy Workman, David Krumholtz, Carol Kane, Kaitlyn Hooper, Kristen Hooper, Peter MacNicol, Christine Baranski, Carel Struycken, Mercedes McNab, Barry Sonnenfeld, Nathan Lane, Cynthia Nixon (cameo), David Hyde Pierce (cameo), Peter Graves (cameo), Tony Shalhoub (cameo)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay: Paul Rudnick
Review published February 5, 2006
It might be a step down from the pleasure that was The Addams Family, but this sequel doesn't miss too far off the mark. Although darker in nature, with a more adult vibe (this one kicks the rating up to PG-13), once the plot gets rolling, the momentum returns. While never great, there are some fun moments to be had, especially due to the performances of the lively main players.
In this one, Uncle Fester (Lloyd, Back to the Future Part III) ends up falling for Debbie (Cusack, Working Girl), the Addams' new nanny taking care of their new addition, Pubert. Unbeknownst to him, Debbie is really a gold digging murderess, out to marry Fester and snatch his cash, after she's finally done him in. While the adults are clueless, the kids are hip to her schemes, but they can't do much about it, since they've been shipped off to summer camp, where the happy-go-lucky nature of the place doesn't jibe well with their dark personalities.
It's hard to go wrong with all of the main players back, and even without a good story, the strength of the original film's visuals continues here. The main plot is sporadically entertaining, becoming interesting mostly when Christina Ricci (The Opposite of Sex, Pecker) or Christopher Lloyd take center stage. The new Addams is meant to give this sequel a new element of cuteness, but this is probably the least effective subplot of the film. Also on the down side is that, while the Addams Family has always been dark in its humor, there is an element of vicious mean-spiritedness that undercuts some of the scenes, particularly when the siblings are trying to kill one another. Obviously, they won't be successful, given the commercial family film nature of it, but these scenes are never as funny as first-time screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Marci X) must have thought they would be.
Even with some of the substantial downsides, Addams Family Values maintains an interest level throughout. The quality of the humor wildly varies, but there is just enough going for it to justify the time spent. Needless to say, if you didn't care for the original, you aren't likely to think this an improvement in any capacity, leaving this recommended strictly for those viewers that just can't get enough Addams Family antics.
-- Followed by a direct-to-video sequel, Addams Family Reunion.
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