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The City Council of Kansas City, Missouri, recently passed an ordinance placing additional restrictions on a private employer's ability to inquire about or consider an applicant's criminal record during the application...more
On February 1, 2018, Kansas City, Missouri joined the ranks of more than 150 cities and counties to enact a "ban the box" ordinance, aimed at equalizing the chances to gain employment by those previously convicted of a crime....more
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New Jersey has amended its "ban-the-box" law to prohibit inquiries into a job applicant's expunged criminal record during the initial employment application process.
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On December 20, 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law Senate Bill 3306, which expands the state's ban-the-box law by explicitly prohibiting employers from inquiring into an applicant's expunged criminal...more
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On Tuesday, December 5, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released their year-end immigration enforcement numbers. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement...more
Governor Jerry Brown has signed A.B. 1008 which amends the California Labor Code effective January 1, 2018, to prohibit employers from considering or inquiring about "an applicant's conviction history," "arrests not followed...more
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed Assembly Bill No. 1008, which restricts how and when public and private employers can ask applicants about criminal history when applying for employment in California. The new restrictions...more
On October 14, 2017, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1008 (the "Fair Chance Act"). The new law puts in place some protections for those individuals with criminal backgrounds seeking employment. The new law will be...more
On October 14, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1008 a "Ban the Box" law that significantly restricts an employer's ability to seek or obtain information about a job applicant's criminal history. ...more
The California Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 1008, which would affect employers' abilities to make pre-hire and personnel decisions based on a person's criminal history. Governor Jerry Brown has until October 15, 2017 to...more
California may be the next jurisdiction to implement statewide "ban the box" legislation. Assembly Bill 1008 made its way from the Assembly through the Senate, and now awaits action from Governor Jerry Brown....more
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CHARLI-L takes its first steps
Virginia Tech's RoMeLa is now sharing a video of its latest humanoid robot CHARLI-L which was unveiled yesterday.
And definitely check out Dr. Hong's interview on The Engadget Show, despite host Josh Topolsky's incessant and infantile jokes about Terminators killing humans and robot uprisings. It's at the start and is a good 20 minutes long with a short demonstration of RoboCup competitiors DARwIn 3 and 4.
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Brian Solis is one of the foremost thinkers on marketing and communications – you can read his posts on the excellent www.briansolis.com. His recent post on 'The Ultimate Moment of Truth and the Art of Digital Engagement' extends Google's Zero Moment of Truth concept to include what he refers to as 'Shared Experiences'. The Ultimate Moment of Truth is 'that moment where people who convert an experience into discoverable content in any one of the countless social platforms people use to stay connected these days'. Brian has included an excellent graphic that communicates this point.
For marketing teams, having customers talk about and share positive experiences about a brand – either a product or a service – is the 'ultimate' objective. Often it happens by itself – consumers simply have a positive experience and share on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Of course, those consumers who have a negative experience can do the same.
The challenge for marketers is twofold – encouraging those who are inclined to share and nurturing those who might not have thought of sharing. Enabling and promoting positive sharing by consumers who might not have shared their experiences is helped if there are programs to encourage it. Building programs that encourages and promotes 'positive sharing' can have a huge impact in terms of customer loyalty and lower cost of customer acquisition.
The post includes a link to a free paper and interview developed with the Google ZMOT team, "Give Them Something to Talk About: Brian Solis on the Art of Engagement." Well worth a read.


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Have you seen the pictures from Kaley Cuoco's (Big Bang Theory) recent NYE wedding? The Bride wore pink and we love it! We actually have a few of our 2014 Brides that are opting to not wear white. Whether it's blush, ice blue or bold red, we adore a Bride that is not afraid to rock a little color. Here are a few of our favorite gowns that stray from tradition:
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Warning! This feature review contains massive spoilers.
'Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter' would reunite the collaborative team behind the flawed yet sturdy 1981 slasher The Prowler. Joseph Zito's work on that film released the same year that Friday the 13th would become a brand name franchise with its first sequel is what gave the director the task of putting Jason Voorhees to rest one last time. Coming along for the ride to make the ultimate series finale was fellow collaborator SFX maestro Tom Savini who had also created the viscerally gory murder set-pieces in the original movie and only agreed to return as he was promised that he could kill off the creation he accidently had a hand in bringing to fruition.
The writer of the first film Victor Miller had only created the young boy Jason who had drowned at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957 used purely as a backstory for the motive for his vengeful murdering mother Pamela Voorhees. Savini designed the deformed mentally retarded boy who would come out of the lake in a final Carrieesque jump scare in a dream sequence that was a rewrite of the movie's ending. It was not until Friday the 13th Part 2 that writer Ron Kurtz and director Steve Miner who had served as an associate producer on the previous film made Jason Voorhees the antagonist. He then elevated the character's status to major iconic movie villain when giving him his now prominent trademark hockey mask in 'Friday the 13th Part III' (1982) that is now so deeply imbedded in modern popular culture. This was itself an accident in that a new imposing look was just required for Jason after losing his burlap sack in the last film in what was then supposed to be the last instalment of the series.
Grossing just under the equivalent of the original's domestic take on just about a couple of a million dollars more budget and creating a new distinct look for a now very popular movie madman Paramount Pictures decided to take one last stab at their winning formula that was so good to them as it was a guaranteed cash cow. During a year off after the previously proposed final foray into Crystal Lake, the slasher sub-genre was beginning to show signs of a decline in its popularity due to the constant formulaic offerings that offered little innovation. Feeling confident that this should indeed be the swansong for the franchise and that the monster needed to be destroyed once and for all Frank Mancuso Jr. and co brought in Zito and Savini that would have made the series go out in a bloody blaze of glory. Another collaborator from The Prowler though that remains unsung compared to his colleagues would also play an important role in making the definitive Friday the 13th slasherthon. Director of photography João Fernandes who did more that his fair share of uncredited camera work on that film to help create its moody atmosphere brings to this movie some more nice cinematography that contributes supremely to its very similar mean spirited tone with a sombre look throughout that is also casted over its day scenes.
As the film opens, surrealistic eerily creepy music kicks in by franchise composer Harry Manfredini and we then get a very well edited together recap of the events of the previous three instalments including the campfire tale scene from Part 2. The story of Jason Voorhees told by Paul Holt (John Fury) serves as the montage's narration. As soon as we see the mid-close-up of Paul staring into the distance saying, "Jason's out there" shown is Part III's climax. As soon as Jason falls to the ground from the axe in the head he receives from final girl Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell), the camera zooms in ever so slightly on his close-up as we here Chris' line exclaiming "He can't be alive!" and one of those flashes of light appears. This was a prominent stylistic trait in the early days of the series that served as transitions between the kills and the next scenes and here from Jason Voorhees' supposed death in Part III it leads nicely into the next part's title card.
The main theme of Manfredini's soundtrack can be heard and the very cool graphics of Jason's hockey mask appears from a black background moving rapidly to the front of the screen. When it stops, we hear the sound synonymous with the franchise "ki ki ki, ma ma ma" and the Friday the 13th logo appears in red across the mask. Suddenly, flying in from the top of the screen's background comes the movie's subtitle breaking though the mask that explodes in flames and we now see clearly the words "THE FINAL CHAPTER". All of this tells us that this movie really means business as it is most definitely supposed to be the grand finale living up to one of its taglines - "Three Times Before You Have Felt The Terror, Known The Madness, Lived The Horror. But This Is The One You've Been Screaming For." And boy do they deliver on that promise.
As the picture fades in, in a night setting almost blinded by the large white light from the searchlight of an airborne helicopter the camera begins a fantastic long fluid tracking shot lasting approximately 1-minute and 27-seconds. The camera slowly tilts down from the helicopter to a parked police patrol car and then moves to the right as an ambulance drives into Higgins Haven (the setting of Part III) with the camera following it as it drives to the left of the screen and as it does, the camera reveals the crime scene of Jason Voorhees' rampage. We are taken through a tour of the carnage as the ambulance attendants take out the bodies and police officers run about and there are parked patrol cars everywhere as the camera moves forwards to the opened doors of the barn where the climax of the last film took place. The camera keeps on going as we see Jason's body on the ground and two officers putting into an evidence bag the axe Chris used to put a stop to his massacre. When the axe is put into the evidence bag, the camera stops at a mid-shot and then tilts down to the hockey masked loon-sod's body that is then covered up… with his mask still on.
While it is obviously fucking stupid that his mask would be left on taking his body to the morgue, it serves the purpose of being the only feasible way for Jason Voorhees to keep his now iconic visage. There was no way Paramount was going to make a Friday the 13th movie without their fluke of creating a new famous image in popular culture. Unless of course Jason found another one but what were the chances of that happening without it being even more ridiculous. This was a path that was actually travelled down later in the god-awful 'Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan' (1989) after the original mask he got from Shelly in Part III was completely destroyed in the slightly less terrible 'Friday the 13th part VII: The New Blood' (1988).
When Jason Voorhees' body is taken to the local hospital, we are introduced to horny morgue attendant Axel (Bruce Mahler who played Fackler in the Police Academy franchise) and Nurse Morgan (Lisa Freeman) two expendable characters used solely as a double helping of fodder for the opening kills of the film. When the two are making out in the morgue in front of Jason Voorhees' body, his hand falls out from beneath the cover touching Morgan's leg. This leads to an argument and she goes outside while Axel puts Jason's body in a cold chamber but is not paying attention and carelessly forgets to lock it and the door is left wide open. This is another sign that screenwriter Barney Cohen just does not give a fuck. If Axel were doing his job properly then we would not have a movie at all so Cohan has to have him make this mistake. The hockey-masked maniac wastes little time and dispatches them both in the upmost grisly fashion - Axel's has his throat slashed by a surgical hacksaw and his head twisted around and Morgan is gutted with a scalpel.
Again, the writer throws logic out of the window and never attempts once to explain how Jason Voorhees could survive a heavy axe blow to the head. It was not until the overrated but passably entertaining 'Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives' (1986) that writer and director Tom McLoughlin came up with the idea that the character had always been something of the supernatural and had just been resting revived from a bolt of lightning that turned him into a super powered zombie killer. However, here this is the real Jason. Going back to Friday the 13th Part 2 - The Franchise Started Here - "…a backwoods hermit psychopathic deformed man-child and witness to the killing of his mother crying out for her resurrection". This is what Jason is in this film and it is never alluded to in the previous two instalments that he is anything more than this. The killing machine just survives for more murderous mayhem and that is that. In addition to this, were Axel and Nurse Morgan the only staff left in the hospital that night, nobody else saw a hulking brute in a hockey mask leaving to go back to Crystal Lake? It just does not matter, as Jason Voorhees needs to get out for the promised cheap thrills geek show with its abounding displays of bloody delights.
Next we are introduced to the Jarvis family - mother (Joan Freeman), daughter Trish (Kimberly Beck) and son 12 year-old Tommy (Corey Feldman in his pre-Goonies first starring role) and the location of Jason's next carve em' up marathon. These are two houses opposite each other far out into the woods well away from town occupied by the family and the other rented out by a group of teenagers staying for the weekend. This serves as the perfect isolated setting for Jason Voorhees to commit another spate of brutal slayings. All he has to do is his usual slashing of the car tyres and cutting off the electricity and telephone lines and everybody is in mortal danger. Obviously, being 1984 there are no mobile phones.
The teens this time around are a very likable bunch, I never once wanted to cheer on Jason to do away with any of them, and they are arguably the most memorable of the series. Another first time starrer in a major role here is weirdo actor Crispin Glover who went on to play George McFly in Robert Zemeckis' classic time traveling adventure 'Back to the Future' (1985). He plays the lovable nerdy Jimbo here or "dead fuck" as his confident with the girls friend Ted (Lawrence Monoson) teasingly calls him in the movie's running joke due to Jimbo's apparent limp dickiness. No sooner though has Jimbo proved Ted wrong by successfully bedding one of the hot twins Tina (Camilla Moore) and the other is Terri (Carey Moore) while Ted is left watching a vintage soft-core porno on a projector that he is killed. Although this is not before he gives us one of the greatest ever dance performances in cinematic history…
Here are some more nonsensical illogical what the fucks. I do not get how the Jarvis family can be living in Crystal Lake but are completely careless of their own safety and are not at all frightened considering the mass murder spree that has taken place during the past week since Part 2. Also, the teenage friends arrive in Crystal Lake with no knowledge of what has happened completely oblivious to the danger. When we first meet Trish and her mother, they are jogging with not a care in the world and when the gang of teens meet the two twins, who are also residents of the town, they too are completely carefree riding their bicycles. When the mother is having a conversion with Tommy about leaving the door open and letting their dog Gordon out Tommy says, "we're in the country" to which his mother jokingly replies "what happens if the psycho wanders in?" and then Trish jokes "probably just challenge him to a game of Zaxon" (a computer game Tommy was just playing). In one scene, Trish and her mother are sitting on a sofa reading. When Trish goes to bed, we see that her mother is reading a newspaper with the headline "MASS MURDERER'S BODY MISSING" but she takes no notice of it and averts her eyes to another story at the bottom of the page not bothering to warn her children.
It is not until later when Trish learns from Rob (Erich Anderson) whom she and Tommy gave a lift to when he fixed their broken down car that he tells her that Jason's body has disappeared and that two hospital workers are missing (he must have obviously hid Axel and Nurse Morgan's bodies). Why would Rob keep it quiet and not warn the Jarvis family way before? It turns out that Rob armed with a shotgun and a machete and camping outside near the location of the two houses is on the hunt for Mr Voorhees as he killed his sister Sandra in Part 2. There is the weird scene where the Jarvis' dog Gordon seemingly just takes a running jump out of a top floor window. Either he was just scared or it was supposed to be Jason who threw him out.
While Trish is with Rob, he is killed in the basement of the house the teenagers have rented when they go in to investigate and for some odd reason after Trish gets out of there, she decides to go back down when it is obvious Rob is dead and she cannot do anything for him. This scene provides the film with one of its most memorable quotes - while Jason Voorhees is hacking away at Rob with a garden claw, he screams out in anguished pain - "He's killing me. He's killing me!" When Trish finally gets out of there, she opens the kitchen door to escape only to be met by the dead body of Tina on the ground and strangely decides she cannot get out that way. Really, she was incapable of stepping/jumping over a dead body.
A continuity error is Jason's look. Chris stabbed him in the leg in Part III but there is no wound visible here and he has already recovered from his limp much like how in Part III also he healed up quickly from the machete wound on his shoulder that he received from final girl Ginny Field in Part 2. His long black fingernails also from Part 2 have magically grown back when in Part III they were normal. The red strikes underneath the eyeholes of his hockey mask suddenly disappear towards the end here but they could have just worn off as the movie progressed.
Gripes aside, this is the quintessential look though for the crazed maniac slasher. Everything is here from his battered and damaged hockey mask with the bloodied axe wound mark slit, the black shirt with grey trousers, the return of those horrible black fingernails and Tom Savini's grotesque make-up underneath the mask with just a bit of hair at the back. He was completely covered in hair in Part 2 but completely bald in Part III and here we have something in between. This is the perfect to a T Jason Voorhees as he is also still human, still slimmer, still running, still lurking in the shadows benefitted well by the dark lighting with the camera only revealing parts of him until the finale that amps up the suspense in between kills and he was still scary. This was the last time in the original continuity of the franchise that he truly was with best ever Jason performer stuntman Ted White giving a menacingly mean performance with Jason Voorhees being at his cruellest. He is really pissed off here!
The Prowler remains Savini's best work in the slasher sub-genre but here the gruesomely graphic depictions of the victims' demise is a damn close second with some of his most inspired creative kills bettering his own work in the original 'Friday the 13th'. As the teens are driving to their destination for their weekend getaway, they do not stop for a fat ugly woman hitchhiking. As she sits down to scoff a banana Jason sneaks up behind her and rams a knife (he presumably got from the hospital) though the back of her throat and we see a close-up shot of her hand squashing the banana as the blood runs down her front. A very nasty kill. When two of the teens a couple Paul (Clyde Hayes) and Samantha (Judie Aronson) have a fight, Samantha goes out alone (it is scenarios like this that tell us the hockey masked one is going to turn up). Taking her clothes off (this instalment has the most T & A of the series) she swims out to a dingy floating in the lake. After laying in it for a while in the quietness of the night Jason Voorhees suddenly rises out of the water and sticks a blade underneath the dingy going right though her. When Paul goes out to look for Samantha he finds her in the dingy (which somehow survived the attack), and thinking she is just sleeping, he swims up to her quietly to surprise her. When discovering she is dead he freaks out quickly swimming to the nearby dock and just as he pulls himself up getting out of the water Jason creeps up and spears him in the groin with a harpoon gun. Extremely Hardcore.
One of the most memorable deaths is that of Jimbo's. When he is in the kitchen looking for a corkscrew to open a bottle of wine in celebration with Ted after getting his end away he shouts out "Hey, Ted, where the hell's the corkscrew". Jason Voorhees answers by coming out of the left of the frame and impales it into his right hand that is rested on the counter following it up by whacking a meat clever into his face. Horrific stuff.
Fernandes shows off some more nifty cinematography with a well staged off screen kill. With the camera placed in a long shot of the house the teenagers are renting one of the twins Terri is seen leaving in a rainstorm that remains for the rest of the night while her sister Tina is getting it on with Jimbo (as soon as she told Tina she was leaving you know what is going to happen). She walks over to their bicycles and the camera slowly zooms in on her tricking the viewer into thinking that this is the subjective narrative of Jason's POV. The camera instead moves past her carrying on towards the windows of the house to our left and as it gets closer and lightning strikes, we see the shadows of Jason Voorhees impaling her from behind (sexual innuendo untended) and the camera keeps on moving until it gets right up to the blind of the window open on the wall. The camera then cuts to an interior close-up shot of Ted sitting in an armchair smoking the butt of a joint as he laughs hysterically at the retro porn that we then see clips from. The camera then goes back to the exterior shot of the window blind on the wall and Terri with a long pole stuck in her back is slammed hard face first against it. I will leave the rest of the brutality of the victims' deaths spoiler free. There are a fitting 13 kills overall (not including Jason's) and what with all the bountiful tits and arses on display this tells us that the filmmakers really were trying to go out with a bang making the last film.
The best kill of all though is the mutilation of Jason Voorhees himself. In a pulse racing climatic battle between Jason and the two Jarvis siblings (their mother is dead at this point killed off screen), the deranged loony is finally brought to a startling halt. When Trish finally gets out of the opposite house through the kitchen window after having her other escape route blocked by the dead body of Jimbo pinned to the door frame (understandable this time) she makes her way back to her house leading to an immensely exciting confrontation. After a prolonged chase sequence with Jason Voorhees going after Trish that leads to the other house and then back to the Jarvis' home again two machete blows from Trish injure Jason. When he finally gets a hold of her pinning her to the ground strangling her Tommy runs down the stairs behind them and we see he has shaved his head and made himself up to look like Jason Voorhees as a child and Tommy shouts out his name making him turn around to look. Tommy based his look from the sketch of Jason as a boy taken from the description given by the original movie's final girl Alice that was in one of the newspaper clippings that Rob had.
Much like how in Part 2 when Ginny used her background in child psychology to manipulate man-child Jason Voorhees using herself as an image of his mother here we have a young boy horror fan a maker of monster masks (apparently written as a tribute to Tom Savini) manipulating the retarded deformed psychopath. He uses himself as an image of Jason as a child of around about the time he supposedly drowned and forces him into a state of trance taking him on a trip down a nightmarish memory lane to make him remember the torture of his pain as a child. As Jason Voorhees moves closer to Tommy reaching his hand out to him Trish picks up the machete that had fallen to the floor during the struggle and taking a hit at Jason as he suddenly turns around she knocks off his mask giving us a great reveal of the best make-up job ever of the hideous fiend. As Jason Voorhees moves towards Trish, Tommy jumps down from the staircase and picks up the machete that she has dropped. As Jason quickly turns around Tommy whacks it into the left side of his head, the demented killer falls down with the machete still embedded in his skull, and his head slides down it as its handle hits the floor.
As Trish and Tommy are hugging, he looks down at Jason Voorhees' body and sees the fingers on his left hand moving. Tommy suddenly breaks his embrace with his sister and starts hacking away at his body in a crazed frenzy yelling "Die! Die! Die! Die!" as Trish looks on in horror all captured in vivid slow motion. In the epilogue back at the local hospital, while Trish is in bed she is talking to a doctor with a police officer present about the possible psychological damage that Tommy might have received due to his trauma having attacked Jason's body in a fit of rage. After the doctor assures her that he will be all right, she asks to see her brother. When Tommy enters the room, they hug each other and the film ends with an extreme close-up shot of Tommy's face opening his eyes and staring deep into the camera. Barney Cohen and Joseph Zito used this to set-up Tommy as the new major antagonist should Paramount decides to continue the franchise. However, more importantly this emphasises on the serious tone of the first four films showing us the consequences of what such violent acts can have on its victims previously evidenced by Chris' decent into madness at the end of Part III.
This was the last real Friday the 13th movie and it really was "The Final Chapter". After this, the creepy twitchy atmosphere of dread that transcended through these first four instalments and the true mythology of the series were all lost forever in the original continuity. This film may not have expanded on the mythos previously set but it would have been one helluva a satisfying conclusion but while this almighty blood soaked climax is one of the greatest ever in the history of the slasher sub-genre at the same time it was also a shot in the foot for the mythology. I do not know if this entry would have hit the heights that it did if the filmmakers were not trying to end it all here but one thing is for sure is that the series would not have gone in the direction that it did later due to the finality of its conclusion.
Paramount was never going to let the franchise die either way after 'The Final Chapter' became such a massive hit. If they had of not made the movie to in fact be the last then maybe the series would have stuck to a human Jason Voorhees and a constant setting of Crystal Lake where the action belongs. We most certainly would have not had a copycat Jason and the set-up of Tommy as the next killer in the passable 'Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning' (1985). This itself proved unpopular and was partially retconned to give us the resurrection of Jason Voorhees as a super powered zombie seen in full view for the majority of the later instalments' running times that lead to all kinds of stupid way out scenarios and venturing out of Crystal Lake. All this took away any mystery the character once had with those illogical plot points of his constant survival and its lack of explanation in the first four films just serving to give this antagonist an air of mystique. There was an attempt to get back to the roots of the franchise with the hit and miss 2009 reboot that drew from these early entries as its source material but it still could not get it entirely right.
Aside from an abundance of illogical discrepancies that come hand in hand with this franchise and the slasher sub-gene in general anyway if 'Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter' had of in fact been the last sequel that we were promised, then that would have been just fine with what is really an exceptional send off. It certainly lives up to it encompassing all the elements that were laid done in the first three movies perfecting the formula and innovating what is the essential Friday the 13th film and one of the most purest well paced tightly directed slashers ever made.
*** out of ****
Dave J. Wilson
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It's not about Christianity, it's about racism and hate groups, and preachers who preach hate. Unfortunately, humans are all-too-ready to be told what to do.
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Marriage Equality
We Aren't Free Until We Are ALL Free – Marriage Equality in Every State in the United States – LGBT Rights All Over the World #boycottrussia
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The "Mariage" banner that was covering another fade looks like "Federal Stoves" or "stoves." Enzo and I were hoping to be the next couple for the Mariage Magazine cover since we did get married in Canada- Toronto. We're still waiting to hear from them.
Thank you SCOTUS for hearing these two Marriage Equality cases. I am hoping you do what is RIGHT for America.


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MUST SEE: The Top 50 Movie Stories Of The Year -- IV
One of the most popular stories on Rediff Movies was the one on Southern actress showing off their bikini bodies!
Have a look at the fourth installment in our five-part special series on Rediff Movies Top 50 stories of 2011.
Catch the first, second and third parts right here!
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2. Being Potty-Trained
Delhi Belly may have turned out to be a hit but its toilet humour didn't go down well with certain sections of audiences and critics.
When this review pointed it out, readers turned up to respond in great numbers.
Please Read: Review: Delhi Belly won't get a belly laugh from everyone
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3. Bachchan With A Bump
Once again, the Bachchan bahu and her Beti B reigned supreme.
Aishwarya's first public appearance after the news of her pregnancy was broken by pa-in-law Amitabh Bachchan on Twitter was a momentous event.
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Star wives are just as popular and fashionable as their better halves, as they take equal interest in their own grooming and social skills as their better known spouse.
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Pakistani beauties have made inroads into the Indian show business and have been successful to various extents.
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OXNARD, Calif. –With their offensive line already depleted by injuries, the Cowboys are giving tryouts to Daniel Loper, Montrae Holland and Derrick Dockery on Friday afternoon.
Holland and Dockery started 11 and two games, respectively, last season at right guard.
The injured offensive linemen include guards Bill Nagy (ankle), Nate Livings (hamstring), Mackenzy Bernadeau (hip, knee) and Kevin Kowalski (ankle). Nagy, Livings and Bernadeau are expected to return at some point during camp. Kowalski, who also plays center, is on the physically unable to perform list.
"Continuity (in the offensive line) is always a concern," coach Jason Garrett said. "Regardless of how much time you play together, you always feel like you want more time, particularly on the offensive line. You'd like to get to that point as quickly as possible, but injuries are a reality in the NFL and you have to deal with them."
The Cowboys originally thought Livings had a knee injury. He he's day to day.
Outside linebacker Anthony Spencer also missed Friday's practice after suffering a hamstring injury on Wednesday. He's also day to day.
"It's just a strain," Spencer said after Friday morning's walkthrough. "We'll see how it feels in the morning."
Victor Butler got first-team snaps in place of Spencer on Friday.
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Neighbors disagree over plans to close De Leon street for St. Joseph expansion
By BY MELISSA CROWE - email@example.com
Jan. 23, 2013 at 11 p.m.
Updated Jan. 23, 2013 at 7:24 p.m.
Within minutes, the two sides were at a standoff.
St. Joseph High School administrators invited College Park residents to meet Wednesday evening to talk over the school's expansion and goal to close a block of De Leon Street.
However, the discussion pitted longtime residents against a school they supported and, for some, previously attended.
(City gives initial OK to close block for St. Joseph expansion)
Robert Kovar, president of the school's board of directors, summed up the discussion in response to a resident's frustration.
"You want it open, we would prefer it closed - I guess we'll have to agree to disagree," he said.
Nancy Baass, who owns a home on De Leon Street north of the school, said the compromise is to temporarily close the street during school hours.
"But there is no compromise," she said.
Baass said the invitation to the meeting was condescending.
"I'm just a little insulted," she said.
For four years, the school has planned an expansion project across De Leon Street. When guarantees of a Federal Emergency Management Administration grant came into the mix last year, the project grew to meet those requirements.
(Pro/Con: Street should close for school growth)
In addition to providing classroom space and athletics facilities, the project grew to include provisions to serve as an emergency shelter. The grant has not yet been awarded to the school.
The project's architect, Rawley McCoy said closing the street came up on day one of the planning.
"The street closure did not begin with the FEMA grant," he said.
(Pro/Con: Students should be able to cross safely)
Safety has been the main point in support of closing the street. However, the school's administration expanded their reasoning to include a neighborhood green space, correcting traffic flow issues and chiefly, increasing parking by 40 spaces.
"We can build the building with the street there, but we're going to lose a bunch of parking," Kovar said.
Kovar said if the building is set back off the street with the 25-foot line required by FEMA, there would not be enough parking for students.
He contends that closing De Leon Street and making more parking spaces available would reduce the number of cars parked on the street, an issue neighborhood residents have put up with for 30 years.
McCoy said the school is obligated to have a set number of off-street parking and has to make every effort to reach that amount. For the project to comply with city code, the 40 spaces are vital.
Mayor Will Armstrong spoke at the beginning of the meeting before leaving for another function.
"The way I see this is St. Joseph needs the dirt - they need the room to expand," he said. "I think the votes are there on the council. ... My vote will be to support the administration and the reinvention of the St. Joe campus."
Veronica Vallejo-Cano, who lives on North Liberty Street, graduated with the school's 1998 class.
She talked about her career in education and time spent teaching at a large school in Houston that happened to have a street run through it.
Vallejo-Cano said St. Joseph High School could follow the example led by the Houston school, which locked a gate on either end of the street to block traffic from entering.
"I feel like there's no other option, this is what's going to happen," Vallejo-Cano said.
Mary Kay Barker, a St. Joseph parent, supports the street closure.
"I bought a house four blocks from the high school, I guess that's what I got in that bargain," Barker said. "I do feel like you all are trying to work with the neighborhood."
Connie McDougal, who lives on Hillar Street and has owned four homes in College Park over the years, said the expansion is terrific, but the safety of the neighborhood is at stake.
"You talk about the safety of these students, I can't put my trash can out on a Friday morning, I'll be run over," she said.
She worries that closing De Leon Street would worsen the traffic flow issues.
"They're taking advantage of the goodwill of our neighborhood," she said. "This neighborhood loves St. Joe."
The issue will likely come up at the Feb. 4 City Council meeting. That agenda will be posted next week.
Councilman Emett Alvarez, who attended the meeting, said his position has not changed.
"I want a win-win situation," he said. "The dialogue needs to continue."
The school is in his district, as well as the super district Councilman Joe Truman represents.
Truman said he believes in the school, citizens and the city administration to come up with a compromise.
"They may not like it, but that's what compromising is," he said. "Let's come up with something workable."
Councilwoman Josephine Soliz also attended and stood firm in her vote against the street closure.
"I hear people saying that they were conned, that there would be an option and there wasn't," she said. "There should have been kids and parents here. It has to have kids and parents behind this."


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My name is Jessica and while I don't officially have a middle name I sort of adopted one that I put to use in my social media platforms - Rosalie. Both my FictionPress and FanFiction.Net accounts are under the pename of RosalieBrandstetter, so feel free to check out my FanFiction account to, it is mostly Animorphs and Harry Potter stuff.
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The oldest rum ever sold at auction has also become the most expensive, fetching almost £80,000 for 12 bottles.
The bottles were uncovered by Harrogate Fine Wine Company owner Andy Langshaw and Mark Lascelles when they were carrying out an inventory of the cellars at Harewood House in 2011.
Mr Lascelles, brother of the eighth Earl of Harewood, said: "I had always known the bottles were down there but I wouldn't have given them another look.
"But when my late father asked us to do an inventory we thought we might take one and test it out, even though the mould was pretty unsavoury.
"They were obviously pretty old, as they had clearly been hand blown.
"We brought a bottle back to the shop and it took maybe half an hour to get the mould off, and then another half an hour to get the cork out."
The bottles were then evaluated by Tennants Auctioneers in Harrogate who dated them to around 1780 - a date confirmed by the books detailing the house's cellar stocks.
Though valued by Christie's Auction House at £600-£800 per bottle, the lots fetched much more than expected at £8,225 each.
"Nobody had discovered anything like it before so we didn't know what it would sell for," Mr Lascelles said.
"The auction was probably the most exciting thing I have ever watched."
All of the proceeds went to the Geraldine Connor Foundation - a British Caribbean charity dedicated to helping young people in performing arts that has strong links with Harewood House.
Co-director of the foundation Sheila Haworth said: "This money will be a stepping stone encouraging us to start this year's summer school, meaning young people can get involved straight away.
"Young people are lost in the summer holidays, but for six long weeks they can work with professionals and at the end of it they have themselves a performance."
Mr Langshaw said: "The idea had always been to raise money for some kind of British Caribbean charity or foundation, and we have succeeded spectacularly at that.
"It is a once in a lifetime discovery for someone in the wine trade and it has been a privilege to be involved."
The Lascelles family owned several sugar plantations in Barbados from the seventeenth-century, and Mr Lascelles said the discovery that the bottles contained rum made perfect sense given this historic association.
Some of the rum has now been returned to Barbados to commemorate this 300-year-old link.


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Constructed in 2006 the development consists of 45 apartments, 4 swimming pools and landscaped gardens completely surrounded by serene tropical rainforest. These Kamala Apartments are a generous 110+ sq metres, configured with 2 or 3 bedrooms, all fully furnished including kitchenware, bedding and towels.
The apartments are built to a high standard with European kitchens and 2 bathrooms. There is also 5 penthouse apartments, with there own splash pool and large outside decking entertainment area. Kamala Hills is located at the end of a quite lane, within the heart of the old village; it is surrounded on all sides by lush tropical rain forest, giving it a very private and serene setting.
The development is located 5 minutes from Kamala's beach and the village centre, where you will find that every requirement is catered for including Supermarkets, bars and many European and Thai restaurants. Three times a week there is also a large market selling everything from foods, clothing, jewelry and many traditional Thai crafts.


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Avocado Toast, two words. Life-changing, two words. Coincidence?
I think not! I feel kind of silly posting this as a recipe, but I guess this is one of those best-kept-secret type deals because every time I tell someone about this, they act like I've changed their life. The best way I can possibly describe this is "nom nom nom" with a side of "Mmmm."
This is my go-to breakfast when I have a nice, ripe avocado left in the fruit bowl at the end of the week. It used to be my backup plan for using up overripe avocados, but now I plan for it!
This is my go-to combo for avocado toast:
- Two slices of whole wheat bread
- Half of an avocado
- Pepper and sea salt
- Honey
- A wedge of lime if you have it
All you have to do is toast your bread, smash the avocado on top with a fork and top with salt, pepper, honey and lime. Feeling fancy? Top it with a poached egg!
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Driving in the United States
It's hard to get used to driving in a different country, so here is some information about driving in the United States.
One thing I love about driving in America is the "turn right on red" rule. Basically if you're waiting at a red light and no cars are coming you can turn right as long as you stop first. It's a great rule and New Zealand definitely needs a "turn left on red" rule.
You should also know that when you're driving on the highway, the left lane is the fast lane, so stay out of it unless you're driving 70-80MPH. If you're not then you'll have a very annoyed driver right behind you.
Drivers in America are extremely aggressive. At home I was a very aggressive driver by NZ standards, but since I've been here I've gotten much worse. Americans don't really believe in indicating and if you don't drive directly behind the car in front, someone will cut straight in front without any indication. It drives me crazy but lately I've found myself doing it too. If you can't beat 'em join 'em!
I was also caught out once when a funeral procession was going past our street. If the first car has gone through the light, then all following cars get to go through the red light and you have to wait, which no one had told me about so I was given a beep and a glare for not realizing.
Driving in America is very different to driving at home. In New Zealand we drive on the opposite side of the road, and it definitely took me ages to get used to getting in the left side of the car. For months I would walk up to the right side of the car, notice there was no steering wheel and quickly pretend to be looking for something so no one could tell I was on the wrong side.
I had about ten minutes of driving practice before I had to drive the kids to school, and it was definitely a unique experience to be driving on that side. I kept side swiping other cars because I was over too far to the right and it felt like I was learning to drive for the first time. I had been teaching my brother to drive a few weeks earlier and he had been doing the same thing.
Although it was tricky at first, I surprised myself by how quickly I picked it up. I had a few occasions where I was driving and parking on the wrong side of the road, and it's pretty terrifying to look straight at another car coming my way and realize I'm in the wrong. I'm a bit of a pro now that I've been here for so long, although when I went home at Christmas it was tricky going back to that side of the road.
The hardest part of driving over here was in the middle of winter when it was snowing hard and there was ice all over the road. I've never driven in snow or ice before and had a few near misses, including coming out of the driveway, hitting a patch of ice and holding on for dear life while the car skidded into a 360 degree turn. "Wheeeeeeee", the kids screeched, while I took a minute to thank God I hadn't hit the neighbors car.
I had been here two weeks when I hit a parked car. My youngest started bawling and crying that she wanted "to get out of the car now!", and I had to ring my host dad and tell him I was across from the elementay school and wihle trying to park I had sideswiped the car which was parked outside it's poor owners house, dragging the front bumper completely off.
To be fair, the kids were being little mosters and both of them were crying and fighting in the backseat, but now I never drive if they're distracting me. I was so sure my host parents were going to send me home but they were surprisingly good about it, although my host dad did voice his wonder at how I had hit it in the first place since "you could have fit a car and a trailer in that space". Indeed.
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haha, this was a funny read! i had the opposite road shock here in Thailand, where they drive on the left as well. I haven't driven a car in over two years now (long road trips in my Honda back in America were my favorite, I miss it!) but I drive a motorbike here. Its funny how natural it seems now to drive on the left now, when I see movies from back home it always looks weird to me now. haha. Drive safe
Lol it's always a worry when you go to cross the street and look the wrong way! Wow you drive a motorbike? That's pretty cool. I know it's hard to think that I'll be driving on that side of the road in a few months! I can't even imagine it any more.


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Rededication of the YWCA Community Art Gallery to JEANNETTE "RUBY" NOTTAGE
30 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 12217
In recognition of National Women's History Month,
NYS Senator VELMANETTE MONTGOMERY
Martha Kamber, Executive Director of the YWCA of Brooklyn
and Lynn Nottage
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newly renovated YWCA of Brooklyn
and the rededication of the
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Friday, March 25, 2011
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
at the
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YWCA of Brooklyn
30 Third Avenue
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Refreshments will be served.
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Hijab Fashion: Hijab Fresh
Maintaining your hijab is key when you want to walk outside with your head held high.
Wait a minute is that chocolate sauce I see on the edge of your scarf? I'm just kidding!
I remember when I was younger I would wash my scarves every night by hand and hang them to dry overnight.
As I got older and busier I figured I would just toss them in the washer and dryer and save myself some time.
Big mistake! In no time most of my scarves began to unravel or lose their shape/color/texture. The most annoying thing is when my Al-Amirah hijabs started getting little balls of lint all over.
I'm sure there are some really good fabrics that don't get destroyed as easily, but from experience, how you wash them makes a huge difference.
Steps for keeping your scarves "Hijab Fresh"
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2. Use a gentle detergent (preferably unscented) or you can use baby shampoo.
3. Rub edges of scarf against itself to get out any stains or discoloration. You can also apply more detergent to those trouble spots as you do this.
4. Rinse thoroughly until water runs clear.
5. Air dry your scarf over a hanger or lay it flat on a table.
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To my wonderful readers and followers,
Sometimes life becomes so hectic it gets in the way of food, and we become so busy we forget to eat or settle for something less nutritious. And then there are times, more often than not in my case, food gets in the way of life. Lately, I have been luckier than ever to experience both of these aspects–great opportunities that have been keeping me plenty busy and incredible food experiences! So, to allow myself to fully take in everything, I'm taking a week off of blogging so I can breathe and catch up with the other parts of my life. I want to be able to take part in all of the events and experiences that are being presented to me, but I just need to slow…it…down (which we should all remember to do every once in a while).
So, as eager as I am to stay up late writing and thinking about delicious foods and new ideas, I think a week will let me really recharge, reflect and make these upcoming posts even more powerful! After all, I don't want any of you to get bored!! So, I'll be back on Monday with fresh new posts, pictures and recipes!!!
And since you won't be hearing from me this week, I'd like to share with you some of the blogs I follow. These are written by amazing people and definitely worth some of your time to check out–I have listed food blogs and blogs about life's happenings. I will definitely also be using my time to catch up on these this week myself!
Food Blogs:
- How Sweet It Is
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- Our Life in Food
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Life Blogs:
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- SF Girl by Bay
- Tiny Island
- Confessions of a Love Addict
- Adventures of a Granola Ginger
- my teacups in peony
[Stay tuned for an added page on my blog with a more permanent list of this blogroll. If you would like your blog featured on the blogroll page, email me. The blog must be updated on a consistent basis as to support my stance behind maintaining goals, but it can be about food, life or both! Thanks!]
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I really love your philosophy – on food, life, and everything else! Thanks for sharing the blogroll as well, Confessions of a Love Addict is super cool!
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I did!! All thanks to you, I now have a wonderful new blog to indulge in. Miss you Jenna!
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