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Roee will screen an excerpt from his cinematic project The Confessions of Roee Rosen (2008), and speak to the piece, where the artist's supposed confessions are delivered in Hebrew by three surrogates: illegal female foreign workers who do not understand the language. Confessions premiered at the FIDMarseille festival, where it won a special mention, and was later shown worldwide, among other places at Manifesta 7, in Italy.
CATHERINE THEIS' latest book, MEDEA (Plays Inverse, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets, 2011), followed by her chapbook, The June Cuckold, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive, 2012). Her interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation, poetics, and performance studies.
Catherine will read from MEDEA, but also read part of an essay she wrote about tragic performances. She intends to play with time.
MATVEI YANKELEVICH's books include the long poem Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square), a poetry collection, Alpha Donut (United Artists), and a novella in fragments, Boris by the Sea (Octopus). His translations include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and (with Eugene Ostashevsky) Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets). He is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Matvei will present "Fact's Folly," a 10 minute piece that draws on early soviet documentary film and theory, written in response to a photo-sequence ("Ship of Theseus," by photographer Hannah Whitaker) which will be shown as a video montage. In addition, he will read poems from a cycle-in-progress called "From a Winter Notebook."
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Just wanted to share that my first first-author paper is now online! In the journal Stem Cells and Development, here's my paper on "Roles of Integrins in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth on Matrigel and Vitronectin."
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Just wanted to share that my first first-author paper is now online! In the journal Stem Cells and Development, here's my paper on "Roles of Integrins in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth on Matrigel and Vitronectin."
Just read a fascinating (if lengthy) essay on disruptive technology and the future of scientific publishing. Well worth the read!
Just wanted to share Mint.com's Visual Guide to Deflation, which is quite explanatory.
Hey all Paradoxdruid readers! I recently started up a blog on stem cells that I'd love you all to take a look at: http://www.allthingsstemcell.com/
I participated in another Barely literate book review podcast, this time on Nicholson Baker's "The Fermata". Give it a listen!
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The international development sector is at a defining moment in a rapidly changing, increasingly digital world. Will organizations harness digital to amplify outcomes or fall victim to inertia?
Today, development organizations have an opportunity to move beyond digital point solutions to an interwoven market of digital solutions and economies. This can accelerate the impact of interventions and sustain economic growth long after they end. Because digital for development is not about the innovation of solutions themselves. It is about how they reimagine the way people live and work in developing countries.DOWNLOAD THE POINT OF VIEW [PDF]
Digital technologies can disrupt status quo development in three critical areas to drive economic and social transformation:
Innovation. Digital solutions are not necessarily out of reach in developing countries. Combined with innovative business models such as pay-as-you-go-services, digital technologies can be put to work in local communities without the barrier of high upfront purchase costs.
Collaboration. Digital ecosystems create a multiplier effect to address complex social problems. Connected by a digital platform, shared data and common interests, these networks provide high impact services at lower cost and deliver outcomes that would be impossible for a development organization to do alone.
Impact. Development solutions rarely work without a basis in local context. Design thinking, leveraging digital technologies, can put people back at the heart of development. Like this sector itself, design thinking is fueled by empathy. It is about developing solutions with people, not for them.
Digital technologies are agents of empowerment—the means to the end of unleashing scale, speeding impact and solving problems to help lift people and places out of poverty. Development organizations can drive change now starting with these fundamentals:
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I had a lovely Christmas break. If you are reading this and you didn't then I can relate to you. Things are not always the same.
This year, it was lovely. We saw Santa four times; at the activity farm where we ice skated, made a bear, rode a tractor and saw a real reindeer. We also saw Santa at the children's theatre, where the performance charmed my child into sitting quietly, eyes widened for the whole lot. We went to the cinema and guess what? I went to the cinema on a separate occasion to watch a grown up, Bollywood movie with a friend. We went to the zoo; it was blustery but we had thepla, smiles and each other. We spent time with treasured family and cherished old friends and revelled in the good times. We ate out most days, even if we were slurping noodles in Camden market or Churro's in the park and yes we even had muddy fun in the park.
My baby took part in his first nursery school concert and he looked edible, if not too grown up. He assuredly and dramatically rehearsed every day and was totally in his element up until the big day. But I am not disappointed or upset because the reason and experience totally moved me; as he walked onto the lit-up stage, he waved into the darkness of the audience, aimlessly as he didn't know where I was. As the elves, Santa's snowmen and donkey's sang away, he repeatedly whispered to his neighbours and teachers, 'where's my mum'…his eyes wandered and so did his mind. As it was his turn to go onto stage, he looked behind; he looked around and still couldn't see me. It wasn't until the last five minutes that he finally spotted me and there was a sudden and latent burst of energy. I will take this with me.
I want to share what I learned from this Christmas holiday. That element of fun, that positive energy and gratitude, that high-frequency of love, the time spent with chosen and energising people, that free-spirit and relaxed mind…why should that be confined to Christmas. Why shouldn't I inject spurts of it into my regular routine…the very simple things and the very simple pleasures? So that's what I am going to do. And with that, I share a very simple pleasure of a Malaysian inspired recipe, my green beans and soya beans in red sambal.
A little nutty, very luscious and delicately sweet; it makes for a lovely side dish, or is great just with some rice. I have even put into a wrap with a drizzle of yoghurt. The aromas are so lifting in the red sambal, which for me makes the dish. The sambal is a blend of spices, onions and garlic and become gentler as it's cooked. Add more chillies if you like!
175g green beans
175g soya beans
4 lime leaves, crushed
1 cup of warm water
1 tbsp. tamarind concentrate
2 tbsp. peanut oil
Salt to taste
1 tbsp. chilli oil
2 tbsp. toasted, unsalted peanuts, coarsely ground
For the red sambal paste
2 tsp. soft brown sugar
One large onion, chopped
5-6 cloves of garlic
5 long, dried red chillies soaked
2 tsp. lemongrass paste
1 tsp. minced ginger or galangal
1 tbsp. peanut oil
1. Blitz together the ingredients for the spice paste and then leave it to the side
2. Heat 1 tbsp. peanut oil and add the paste on a very low flame and cook it, stirring to avoid sticking for approximately 5-7 minutes.
3. Now add the tamarind concentrate, chilli oil, lime leaves, salt and peanuts and then fry for another three minutes.
4. Now add the water and simmer for ten minutes.
5. In the meantime cook the edamame beans for three minutes and the green beans for 4-7 minutes or until barely tender. Drain and refresh them.
6. Combine the red sambal and the green and soya beans together and serve hot.


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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed veteran Hollywood executive Tom Sherak to be his senior film advisor.
Sherak, the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will lead Garcetti's efforts to support the local entertainment industry and increase local production, the mayor said in a statement.
"The entertainment industry generates more than 500,000 local jobs. Protecting and expanding it is an absolute necessity," Garcetti said. "Tom will lead our campaign for production incentives in Sacramento and is empowered to work across city departments to make L.A. the best possible location for production."
Sherak, who will also serve as the director of the Mayor's Entertainment Industry and Production Office, will earn a salary of $1 per year.
"The entertainment industry has a true champion in Mayor Garcetti, and I'm honored to work with him to make sure L.A. is always the entertainment capital of the world," Sherak said. "I look forward to helping Mayor Garcetti stop runaway production, increase state production credits, and cut City Hall red tape."
The appointment comes at a time when L..A. has experienced significant declines in film and TV production as business has flocked to other U.S. states and countries offering stronger tax breaks than are available in California.
Garcetti campaigned to help fight runaway production and said pressing for increased state film tax credits was one of his top priorities.
He also has pushed for the city to do more to help the industry. The City Council is scheduled to vote soon on legislation he wrote to waive city fees for television pilots, with the goal of landing the full series.
Sherak currently consults for Skydance Productions, One Three Media and other entertainment entities.
As a partner at Revolution Studios, Sherak helped lead the release of 47 films including "Black Hawk Down," and he consulted for Marvel Studios on films including "Iron Man."
His experience includes serving as chairman of Twentieth Century Fox Domestic Film Group, senior executive vice president of Fox Filmed Entertainment, and president of domestic distribution and marketing for Twentieth Century Fox.
He is the chairman of the MS Hope Foundation, which he helped create, and is a former chairman of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation and a former board member of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
Sherak received an honorary doctorate in the arts from the Academy of Art University and holds a degree in marketing from New York City Community College. He has served on the faculty of the UCLA Producers Program.
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What better way to start off a new year than making a resolution to better maintain the tires in your fleet?
Tire prices continue to rise, making replacement, with either new ones or retreads, more costly. Better-maintained tires also mean better fuel mileage, not to mention reducing the chances of roadside emergencies and expensive downtime.
There are many things that can contribute to a tire's well being - or to its demise. This may seem like a daunting task, but the following 10 tips for keeping tires in top shape will pay off in the future.
1. Inflate & Inspect
"Proper tire inflation is the most important factor in prolonging tire life and getting the best performance from tires," says Doug Jones, customer engineering support manager for North America at Michelin. "Tires are optimized to have a certain amount of air in them to carry the load." There is a small window of variance - plus or minus 10 percent - that can affect the performance of a tire as far as ride quality, fuel economy and tread life. A tire that is underinflated for the load it is carrying will develop irregular wear, will run hotter and will fail prematurely. An overinflated tire will produce a harsher ride, experience reduced traction and become more susceptible to damage from road hazards and curbing.
At Harris Trucking, a fleet with about 175 tractors and 475 trailers based in Madison Heights, Va., every time a truck leaves a company terminal it passes through "safety lanes." There, a technician checks inflation pressure, tread depth and wear and tear.
"Monitoring air pressure is vital," says Jim Harris, CEO. "It's like monitoring blood flow from your heart. A flat tire on the road costs you $500. You have to maintain your tires to keep those problems from happening."
To help alleviate some of the drudgery of checking tire pressure, more fleets are purchasing tire inflation and monitoring systems. Inflation monitoring systems can keep a check on tire pressure and alert the driver (some systems can also alert the fleet via telematics - see No. 10). In addition, automatic inflation systems can automatically inflate tires to the proper pressure if they drop below a certain level.
But proper inflation is only part of tire preventive maintenance.
"Proper maintenance must include a workable, reliable tire program that not only assures proper air pressures, but prevents vehicles from leaving the yard with tires that have the potential to result in a road call, such as having nails, cuts, snags or irregular wear conditions that will result in casing loss due to wear reaching the belt package before the tire is removed to be retreaded," says Tim Richards, project manager for line haul commercial tires at Goodyear.
2. Use Good Valve Caps
There is a purpose to valve caps, besides having the ability to become quickly lost. Then again, if you are using the right kind, this is less likely to happen. A proper valve cap means using a metal valve cap, says Greg McDonald, engineering manager for Bridgestone Firestone North America.
"On a commercial tire, the valve cap is considered the primary seal against air loss, with the valve core being secondary," he says. "Personally I am a big supporter of high-quality flow-through valve caps, which greatly speed up air pressure maintenance and do not provide a temptation to ignore checking pressure on inner dual tires."
3. Keep Air Clean & Dry
The quality of the air inside your tires can have a big effect on how much life you get out of them. Tires are developed and designed to run with air - clean, dry air. Every air compressor should have filters and in-line dryers to ensure the air going into the tire is dry. When air that is contaminated with water gets inside the tire, the moisture can break down the inner liner and the steel belts.
An alternative to air is nitrogen. The benefits, according to proponents, is that it does not migrate as quickly as air through rubber, enabling the tire to maintain the desired pressure longer. The problem is, nitrogen can be hard to find and it requires special equipment to fill up tires. So far, most major tire makers say they see very little advantage of using nitrogen over traditional air.
4. Wash Tires & Wheels
Many a truck beauty show contestant has earned or lost points because of the cleanliness of their tires and wheels. But there's a good reason for keeping them clean other than just looks. Snow, ice, slush or other debris that remain on a tire can cause the rubber to deteriorate prematurely. Salt and other chemicals used on roadways to clear them in winter weather can eat away not only at tires, but also at steel or aluminum wheels.
Tires and wheels should be washed using warm soapy water, making sure the inside duals are given as much attention as the outside tires. While it's not a bad idea to use a high-pressure washer on the wheels, Bridgestone advises never washing tires with high pressure or steam units. Avoid using any petroleum-based chemicals or other solvents, because they can harm the rubber.
5. Buy The Right Tires
No matter how well you take care of your tires, if you're not running the right kind for your application, the process becomes far more difficult.
"Selecting top quality tires, fortified with the latest technology, is essential to optimizing tire mileage," says Goodyear's Richards. The old saying, "you get what you pay for," definitely holds true with tires. Major manufacturers, he says, produce tires with materials, reinforcements and tread designs to optimize performance. This includes tire casings that support multiple retreadings, which helps increase a tire's cradle-to-grave value.
In addition, more and more tires are being developed for specific applications, or for specific goals such as longer tread life or better fuel mileage. Work with your tire dealer to determine which is best for your operation.
6. Watch
Driving Habits
For any fleet, one of the hardest things to control is driving habits.
"Driving style has a major impact on tread wear, just as it does on overall fuel economy, Richards says. "An experienced driver, following good driving and maintenance practices, could achieve up to twice the removal miles of an inexperienced driver."
Michelin's Jones adds that aggressive driving, speeding, and harsh braking, which can result in flat spotting and curbing, will adversely affect the performance and life of a tire.
While it's difficult to know exactly how a driver handles his or her truck on the road, the key is education. Get them involved in doing a pre-trip inspection of their rig before they head anywhere. Not only is it a federal regulation, but it also allows them to take a walk around and spot a tire issue that could be addressed before it leads a serious problem.
One recent study indicated drivers have an enormous impact on maximizing tire mileage, says Al Cohn, director of new market development and engineering support for the tire inflation system maker Pressure Systems International. "Ten drivers were assigned to specific tractors married to specific trailers, and the 10 vehicles had similar payloads and similar routes," he says. "Tires had the fastest tread wear rates on vehicles assigned to drivers who drove fast, made sharp turns and were hard on their brakes."
An increasing number of high-tech systems are able to flag events such as hard braking, and alert fleet managers via telematics or onsite downloads. While the safety department may be most interested in identifying these drivers for additional training, doing this has benefits for tire life, as well.
7. Keep Wheels Aligned
Proper wheel alignment is as critical to keeping a tire in top shape as proper inflation. Total vehicle alignment is important to prevent handling and ride issues, as well as preventing irregular wear from developing on the tires, says Bridgestone Firestone's McDonald.
"A good alignment requires several things: good equipment, a highly trained technician who knows how to 'read the tires,' and a good maintenance program that assures alignments are done in a timely manner," he says. "A good maintenance program will make sure that all axles are checked for alignment, not just a 'set the toe and let her go' program, and it will include the trailers in the fleet, not just the tractors."
A good alignment technician will want to see the tires that have been operating on the vehicle he is to align. If they have been changed, the removed tires should be made available to the technician so he can analyze them. Always get a "before" and "after" record or printout of the vehicle's alignment settings, and keep them in the maintenance file for future reference in case the vehicle continues to have unsatisfactory tire wear.
8. Analyze Scrap Tires
Scrap tire analysis is an excellent way for fleets to understand why tires are failing or have to be removed from service prematurely.
"By evaluating each tire when it is removed from service, reoccurring problems or wear patterns that can be fixed can be detected, minimizing overall downtime," says Michelin's Jones.
He says this will also educate the fleet as to whether they have the right tire for the application, whether or not they are running the correct pressure, or whether drivers are destroying the tires due to lack of training.
9. Keep Good Records
Tire recordkeeping is very important to determine tire cost per mile and to make good tire purchasing decisions. The system used (paper or computer) is only going to be as good as the person or persons recording and tracking the data and information.
Goodyear's Miller notes a good recordkeeping system will store the all the data you need to determine the actual costs associated with your tires. The big question is, how do you start one?
He recommends a Recommended Practice developed by the American Trucking Associations' Technology and Maintenance Council, "which details all of the essential parameters to measure in order to accurately analyze tire related costs. It's something we highly recommend fleets follow."
One way you can make this recordkeeping easier is by using tire-tracking software. While there are several to choose from, one of the newest was introduced recently by Arsenault Associates. The Dossier Tire Management System includes a handheld tread depth and air pressure device that communicates wirelessly with a PDA. Each tire in a fleet is identified by attaching a bar-coded tag that can incorporate an RFID chip. To check tires anywhere, the technician scans the vehicle bar code to display data about the truck and its tires. Then the Dossier Tire Probe is used to electronically measure air pressure and tread depth, which is wirelessly transmitted to the PDA, worn on the technician's belt. It transmits all the tire data wirelessly in real time to the computer housed in the shop and running the full Dossier software system. It also automatically alerts the technician of low tire pressure, tread depth or other issues.
10. Consider Tire Telematics
For years there have been tire pressure monitoring systems, but telematics takes things a step further. Instead of just sending an alert to the driver in the cab, these systems alert fleet management in real time via the truck's mobile communication systems.
There are a wide range of capabilities in tire pressure monitoring systems that incorporate telematics. Some systems simply provide the tire pressure. Others send just alerts. Still-more-sophisticated systems analyze the data and provide a wealth of information that the fleet can use to improve its tire maintenance and manage its tire assets.
As a result, fleets can greatly reduce emergency breakdowns and improve their fuel economy, tread wear and tire life - all of which are negatively impacted by running underinflated. Not only can they improve their tire maintenance, but they can also do this with less labor since you "see" what the tire problems are on a vehicle without using a tire gauge.
"The neat thing about telematics is that it enables the fleet operator to know what a vehicle's tires are doing at any time, no matter how far away it is," says Peggy Fisher, president of TireStamp. "It takes the tire decision-making and maintenance responsibility away from the driver - who in most cases doesn't want the job of maintaining tires - and puts it back in the hands of the fleet maintenance and management personnel, who do care about their tires."


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text: 'The Artist': How a Black-and-White Silent Movie Defied the Odds and Became an Oscar Contender 2:08 PM PST 11/26/2011 by Scott Timberg FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Peter Iovino/The Weinstein Co. "The challenge was to trust the body and not focus on the voice," says Berenice Bejo (right) with Jean Dujardin. Overcoming years of production hurdles, Michel Hazanavicius' talked-about film captivated festival audiences, earning a major boost from Harvey Weinstein. Now, the film is open to U.S. audiences in New York and Los Angeles. This story first appeared in the Dec. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Somehow, Michel Hazanavicius managed to come up with something that even the French thought was loopy. For years, the Parisian writer-director -- an analytical guy who sees filmmaking as what he calls "playing with codes" -- had been captivated by an idea. But financiers got cold feet just hearing about it; the boutique television stations that typically fund sophisticated European films walked away. Even in a nation of cineastes and revival houses -- a country in which a major film movement was once launched by a band of movie critics -- his dream looked to be dead on arrival. PHOTOS: The Making of 'The Artist' "I wanted to make one for a long time," the director says about his fascination with doing a black-and-white silent set in the 1920s. His long limbs folded over a table at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, he talks about his heroes like F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. "But it's even difficult to convince myself, or to convince anyone else, it is even possible. I found that some producers -- really all of them -- were a little bit cold." It didn't help that the 44-year-old Hazanavicius was known in France for the box-office-friendly, period-conscious OSS 117 spy parodies, in which a kind of Gallic Bond scampers through the 1950s and '60s. "What I needed was a crazy guy," he says. Enter Thomas Langmann, 40, whom Hazanavicius calls "the craziest producer in France." Langmann, the son of Oscar winner Claude Berri (who directed Manon of the Spring and produced Roman Polanski's Tess), worked a bit with Soderbergh and Coppola as a young man and produced some French smashes in his 30s. Langmann sees producing as a species of gambling. "It was always about betting on directors," he says of the philosophy his father passed down. "I knew if we made a film in black and white and we succeeded, it would be original." It took director and producer awhile to sync up -- early ideas such as a feature with an invisible protagonist didn't make the cut. "I really wanted to make an entertaining movie," Hazanavicius says, noting that many European silents were tragic romances. "I thought it was unfair to ask people to come to a black-and-white silent movie that was also dark -- it would be too much." But finally the two came up with an idea that worked: a film about a '20s matinee idol who struggles with the advent of talkies. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of our Directors Roundtable Photo Shoot With Michel Hazanavicius The movie that resulted is being talked about as the first silent film with real best-picture Oscar chances since Wings, the 1927 Clara Bow film that arrived soon before the talkies changed the game (it won). The Artist opened in the U.S. on Nov. 25 -- just two screens each in New York and Los Angeles -- but already has banked an impressive $12 million since its release in France in October. More important, the film took the best actor award at Cannes, where it played to rapturous audiences, and it has gone on to seduce judges at festivals around the world and sweep the season's audience awards from Chicago to the Hamptons to San Sebastien. "It is as wonderful a film as it is modern," says silent-film collector and producer Serge Bromberg, who has seen the movie six times at festivals, "with jaw-dropping cinematography, good acting, wonderful knowledge of classic cinema. And it has the flavor of the old. But it is not a film of the '20s; the pace is not the same, and its constant humor gives it some distance from what a film of the '20s would be." Hazanavicius was already an admirer of the silent era, but as he wrote, he immersed himself deeply for several months, reading actors' biographies, going to screenings of Murnau and Frank Borzage and early John Ford at Paris' Cinematheque, studying photographs and playing music of the '20s and early '30s. STORY: 'The Artist' Star Berenice Bejo to Wear Her 1920s Costumes on Red Carpets He wanted Jean Dujardin -- a bankable French star known mostly for comic roles -- to play the lead, Valentin. "Of course, I said: 'You're crazy. It's impossible,' " says Dujardin. Hazanavicius also asked his girlfriend, Berenice Bejo, the Argentina-born French actress who appeared in A Knight's Tale and in his OSS films, to play a studio extra named Peppy, shot into fame by a chance encounter. "I said, 'No way -- no way,' " recalls Bejo, who has two children with the director. "Not with me." The two eventually were persuaded, and their presence caused a change in the movie itself. The original vision for the film focused on Valentin's isolation. But as Hazanavicius got deeper into the film, Peppy began to seem major, and the movie became a romance. Dujardin had only ever scratched the era's surface. "I knew only the masterpieces of Keaton and Chaplin," he says. "It was a real discovery for me to find King Vidor's The Crowd," a film about a man lost in the big city of the 1920s that the actor calls "very modern, very touching; it helped me to assemble all the different references." PHOTOS: It's a Zoo This Season: 23 Awards Contenders Featuring Animals As a model for his character, he found Douglas Fairbanks -- the actor who started making films in 1915 and whose career faded as talkies ascended. "In all his films," Dujardin says, "he doesn't ask himself any questions," never straining against the limits of the swashbuckling style required by such films as Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro. "It's pathetic when you know the talkies are coming, but he's also very generous. He's like my character George Valentin: He can be arrogant, but he has integrity. He believes in his art. He fights for it." (Valentin needs that integrity -- as he spirals downward, it's all he has, besides liquor and an attentive, scene-stealing dog to keep him warm.) Bejo's research found inspiration in Gloria Swanson -- who, unlike Fairbanks, excelled after the silent era. She fell for Swanson's autobiography, which describes a life very different from the desiccated former star she played in Sunset Boulevard. "She started in the silent period and then went to the talkies and then to TV," Bejo says. "I got a sense of the atmosphere of the period." To make a film about Hollywood, Langmann reasoned, you had to shoot there. By now he'd drawn some funding from French station Canal+ and invested considerably from his own company, La Petite Reine. But the costs of coming to America -- and surrendering French government subsidies -- raised the stakes substantially. (The film's eventual budget came close to $20 million.) STORY: 'The Artist': The Not-So-Silent Entry Shooting at the Paramount and Warner Bros. lots -- as well as locations like the beautifully lit center court of downtown L.A.'s 1893 Bradbury Building, known to film buffs for its role in Blade Runner -- inspired the crew over the 35-day shoot. (Dujardin was put up in an old house in the Hollywood Hills -- he thinks to amplify his isolation for his slide in the movie's second act.) "Hollywood, in my opinion, is the big star of the movie," says Hazanavicius. Also crucial to re-creating the era onscreen was the work of costume designer Mark Bridges, who worked on all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films, including Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood. Some of his vision for The Artist came from the MGM documentary 1925 Studio Tour. "You could see what the carpenters, what the plasterers wore," he says. "Even those guys in their bib overalls had a necktie. And a lot of hats, either for warmth or bad hair days." Surprisingly, director of photography Guillaume Schiffman shot the film in color because today's black and white is too sharp, not grainy enough. He used unusual filters to diffuse the whites and mute the blacks slightly -- and as the film went on, with its main character losing some of his sheen, the light got grayer. Although Hazanavicius deliberately had chosen very expressive actors -- Americans John Goodman, James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller round out the cast -- they found the limitations were difficult at first. For Bejo, working without lines threw her off. (The actors improvised in English while onscreen, to give their mouths something to do, mixed with a few of the "lines" shown to the audience on intertitles.) But she eventually found a way to inhabit the role. "If it was a talking movie, she would have been the same -- would have moved the same way, winked the same way, danced the same way," she says. "The challenge was to try to focus on the body language, but the rest of it was finding a way of being an American actress. I think of American actors -- they take up a lot of space, they talk really loud, they talk with their hands. So I had to find that, since being a French actor, everything is more petite." STORY: How 'The Artist's' Fashions Are Impacting the Red Carpet To keep communing with the past, the director kept the music of the era -- George Gershwin, Cole Porter -- in constant rotation while they shot, and he brought cast and crew to see films at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, and to the Nuart for its revival of Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (a morality tale about the corrupting influence of the city Murnau made for Fox in 1927) . The director applied some of what he learned: Murnau, for instance, had instructed his protagonist from Sunrise to wear heavy, weighted shoes on set after he fell on hard times; Hazanavicius did something similar when he dressed his fallen star in suits slightly too big for him. "He's not as perfect as he was in the first act," he says. Hazanavicius credits the world's fascination with Hollywood for the film's international appeal, but the enormous enthusiasm of Harvey Weinstein is the reason it has exploded out of the gates during the festival season into the awards race. Weinstein, who had enjoyed the OSS films, had heard about the movie from Langmann and in March flew to Paris, where he saw the film alone in a screening room. Weinstein was not ambiguous in his praise. The Artist, he says now, "treasures the American cinema I love. It's an inspiration, everything about the movie -- where they shot the movie, the way they used American cast and crew. It's just a love letter to American cinema." Langmann was impressed with Weinstein's urge to pull the trigger without any associates along to vet the decision. It was still months before Cannes -- it was not even assured at this point that the film would be released in France -- but by the time of the festival, the deal to distribute in the U.S., the U.K. and other regions was done. The film ends with a tap dance that required more work than anything else in the film. "I think 95 percent of the preparation was for the tap dancing," Hazanavicius says. Bejo recalls her practice with both pleasure and exasperation: "Five months, every day." The film was shot in as close to real sequence as possible -- in part to give the actors time to learn to tap dance, and partly so they would travel the same journey as George and Peppy before arriving at the climactic scene. "The dance is all about their characters," Hazanavicius says. "If it's just a performance, it's not interesting." Bejo's attitude toward the conclusion captures some of the quality that makes her character -- and the film -- so winning. "I kept telling myself: 'Just smile, look at each other, enjoy the moment. The happier you are, the less people will look at your feet. Just act, don't try to be good -- your feet will follow.' " [pagebreak] ON LOCATION IN LOS ANGELES: Several historic buildings make cameos in the film. Ebell Theatre | 743 S. Lucerne Blvd. The hall where Judy Garland was discovered in 1934 became the film's Kinograph office. Orpheum Theatre | 842 S. Broadway The premiere was shot in the 1926 venue. Los Angeles Theatre | 615 S. Broadway Peppy's film plays where Chaplin's City Lights premiered in 1931. Bradbury Building | 304 S. Broadway Peppy meets George on a Blade Runner stairway. Mary Pickford Residence | 56 Fremont Place Peppy lives in star's Hancock Park house. ♦♦♦♦♦ INSPIRATION FROM THE '20s: The actors drew upon some of the silent era's biggest players for their characters Berenice Bejo read actress Gloria Swanson's biography while researching her role. "To me, she represents the American way of life," she says. John Goodman plays a cigar-chomping studio boss resembling Cecil B. DeMille. "He is like Douglas Fairbanks, with a Gene Kelly smile," says Jean Dujardin of the model for the character Valentin. "And me -- I wasn't born in the '20s, so this was a fantasy of myself as a star." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Scott Timberg firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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This is what my morning looked like. A walk with the boys, a beautiful package from Jessica Nielsen and some maternity photos of my sister.
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wonderful photos!ReplyDelete
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For a split second I thought this was your way of telling us that you are expecting! (What an odd word - expecting...)ReplyDelete
umm...clearly you are already a pro with your new camera!! :) :)ReplyDelete
I love Jessica's work! Her color choices especially make me smile. It's obvious you're getting along very well with your new camera!ReplyDelete
great pics, it looks COLD in those first photos. I haven't braved outside yet today!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pics!!! All of them! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
my sister is prego too! i can't wait to take some pretty pics of her belly as it grows too!!ReplyDelete
ps. i am giving away a pretty dress this week!
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(CBC/CNN) – We all know video games can be fun to play, but are they addictive?
That's what parents in Canada are claiming about the popular game Fortnite, and they want the company behind it to pay up.
Montreal-based law firm Calex Légal is representing parents who claim their two children are addicted to the game.
The law firm claims Fortnite is so addictive that it wants to launch a class-action lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games, based on similar arguments leveled against the tobacco industry.
"They should have warned people that their game was addictive," said Alessandra Esposito Chartrand, an attorney with Calex Légal.
"They consulted with psychologists. They spent years perfecting their game, studying human behavior, human brain, to make it as addictive as possible."
CBC reports the legal notice filed by the firm compares Fortnite to cocaine, because it releases dopamine in the brains of young players, making them dependent on the game.
Epic Games' terms of service include a class-action waiver provision, but Calex Légal believes it still has a good case in Quebec.
"That type of clause is not a clause that's legal in Quebec," Chartrand said.
The law firm can't say how much money it would seek. It's waiting for a judge to rule on the class-action request.
In June, the World Health Organization listed "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition, which is "characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences."
The WHO said only a small portion of the population is affected by the disorder.
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LITHONIA, Ga. Over the last two decades, Bishop Eddie L. Long has built a religious and financial empire from scratch, transforming a small, faltering church into a modern cathedral with one of the largest and most influential congregations in the country.
Today, Bishop Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church includes a multimillion-dollar network of charities and businesses, a private school and the Samson's Health and Fitness Center, where he holds court and pumps iron with young people.
His message that God wants people to prosper has attracted celebrities, professional athletes and socialites, swelling the membership to 25,000. The church hosted four United States presidents for the funeral of Coretta Scott King in 2006.
The rapid expansion of the church often called "Club New Birth" because it attracts so many young black singles has also made Bishop Long a powerful political player, especially in DeKalb County, home to one of the wealthiest black communities in the country. The church has become a mandatory stop for many politicians local, state and national and Bishop Long supports candidates of both parties.
But Bishop Long's reputation and sprawling enterprises now stand threatened by a sex scandal.
Four former members of a youth group he runs have accused him of repeatedly coercing them into homosexual sex acts, and of abusing his considerable moral authority over them while plying them with cash, new cars, lodging and lavish trips.
Bishop Long has denied the accusations in a letter sent to a local radio station and has promised to address them from the pulpit on Sunday. He declined, through his lawyer, to comment for this article.
The accusations are all the more explosive because Bishop Long styles himself a social conservative, rails against homosexuality and calls for a ban on same-sex marriage. His church even holds seminars promising to "cure" homosexuals.
"When this comes out, it gives at least the perception of hypocrisy it's like red meat to a lion, everyone's pouncing on this story," said the Rev. Timothy McDonald III, a friend of Bishop Long who heads the First Iconium Baptist Church. "This is the issue: how can you be against homosexuality and you are allegedly participating in it? That is the epitome of hypocrisy."
The accusations center on the LongFellows Youth Academy, an exclusive group of teenage boys handpicked by Bishop Long for spiritual mentoring.
The boys went through a bonding ritual, known as a "covenant ceremony," in which Bishop Long gave them jewelry and exchanged vows with them while quoting from Scripture as ceremonial candles burned, according to court complaints filed against the pastor. Reciting Bible verses, the pastor promised to protect them from harm and called them "spiritual sons."
But four former members of the group now say the real purpose of the academy was to provide Bishop Long with young men whom he could lure into sex. The men say they were past the legal age of consent when Bishop Long initiated the relationships. Still, the charges have shaken Atlanta's church-going society, spurring painful conversations from kitchen tables to talk radio.
Bishop Long cuts a flashy figure in Lithonia, the Atlanta suburb where he lives and has built his church. He is often seen in a Bentley attended by bodyguards. He tends to wear clothes that show off his muscular physique. He favors Gucci sunglasses, gold necklaces, diamond bracelets and Rolex watches. He lives in a 5,000-square-foot house with five bedrooms, which he bought for $1.1 million in 2005.
His lavish display of wealth is in keeping with his theology. In his sermons, he often tells his congregation that God wants them to be wealthy and asserts that Jesus was not a poor man. By all accounts, he has been well compensated for his leadership in building New Birth from a church with a few hundred members into the largest congregation in Georgia. His televised sermons reach 170 countries.
In 2005, for instance, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published tax records showing that from 1997 to 2000 Bishop Long had accepted $3 million in salary, housing, a car and other perks from a charity he controlled.
"We're not just a church, we're an international corporation," he told the newspaper in justifying his compensation. "We're not just a bumbling bunch of preachers who can't talk and all we're doing is baptizing babies. I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around this world. I pastor a multimillion-dollar congregation."
After the article about his compensation, Bishop Long hired a public relations firm and went on a campaign to improve his image, Mr. McDonald said. He began charitable programs to feed the poor, help struggling people with mortgages and even offer haircuts to the homeless.
"The bishop used to be perceived as aloof, untouchable, with his entourage all around him," Mr. McDonald said. "He started putting himself in a different light, a more positive light."
Bishop Long's critics and his defenders are waiting for an explanation of the accusations against him. Some members of the church believe he is the victim of a smear campaign by people in favor of gay rights, though they offer no proof.
"It's propaganda, man," said Anthony M. Harris, 30, a businessman who says Bishop Long has served as his role model. "It's retaliation for the 2004 march, the anti-gay-marriage march."
But the accusations have turned others away from Bishop Long. William Abernathy, 25, a music producer, said that he had attended the church several times this year and was considering joining, but that the accusations, coupled with Bishop Long's opulent lifestyle, persuaded him to go elsewhere.
"I'm going to pass on that," Mr. Abernathy said. "It's like hot milk now, sitting on the curb, getting sour."
Many in the congregation, meanwhile, have been wrestling with feelings of betrayal. "My heart just kind of sank," said Cheryl Jenkins, 43, who owns an accounting firm. "If he says he didn't do it, we believe in him. If it turns out that he did and he apologizes, we have to accept it. No one is above reproach."
Bishop Long was born in Charlotte, N.C., where his father, Floyd Long, was a Baptist minister and owned a service station. In interviews and his books, he has described his father as a drinker and emotionally distant.
"To be candid, I've been working to remove the tentacles of nearly 40 years' worth of pain and complications that came my way against my will during the first 12 years of my life, and my father was a preacher," he wrote in his 2002 self-help book, "What a Man Wants, What a Woman Needs."
He studied business at North Carolina Central University, then went to work as a sales representative for the Ford Motor Company, but was fired over inaccuracies in his expense accounts. He moved to Atlanta to study theology and became the pastor of a small church in Jonesboro, Ga.
In 1987, when he took over New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, it had only 300 members and a small building. He adopted a modern image, using slang and dressing like a hip-hop mogul. He borrowed ideas from evangelical and charismatic churches and expanded his reach through cable TV.
He also adopted what has become known as "muscular Christianity," a male-dominated view that emphasizes a warriorlike man who serves as the spiritual authority and protector in a family. His books on relationships suggest that men get in touch with their inner "wild man" and channel their fighting instincts into taking responsibility for their lives. Women are to submit to their husbands, he says.
Bishop Long has been married twice and has four children.
B. J. Bernstein, a lawyer for the four young men who claim to have been coerced into sexual affairs with Bishop Long, said the pastor exerted a paternalistic and, at times, autocratic influence over young men.
The four complaints filed in court describe how Bishop Long arranged for the church to provide cars to the young men and put them on the church payroll. Two of them also said they received free lodging in church-owned houses, where, they said, Bishop Long visited them for sessions of kissing, oral sex or masturbation. He also took them on trips to other cities and abroad, sharing rooms with them, with the knowledge of several church officials, the complaints say.
"There are biblical and spiritual passages that were given to them to make them comfortable and make them believe that they were not gay," Ms. Bernstein said.
In the letter to the radio station, Bishop Long called the accusations false. "We continue to categorically deny each and every one of these ugly charges," he said.


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Chaseholm Farm Creamery; makers of small batch, artisanal cheese. The Creamery is located on the multi-generational Chaseholm Farm, just outside of Pine Plains, NY. The Creamery was founded in 2007 when Rory Chase returned home to the farm and started making cheese. Retrofitting a barn his grandfather built in the early 30s to serve as Cheesemaking Plant and Aging Cave. The Creamery is one of only a handful of Farmstead outfits producing cow's milk cheese from their farm's own herd, in the state of New York.
We are a grass-based dairy farm nestled in a 350-acre patchwork of pastures, crop land, woods and waterways. Chaseholm Farm continues today as a sibling effort in agriculture; Sarah Chase manages the grazing and farm lands, as well as a motley crew of Holsteins, Jerseys and a few Brown Swiss, while Rory turns that milk into delicious Farmstead cheeses at the Creamery.
Our relationship to the land is built on principles of sustainable agriculture; we believe the quality of our milk is deeply related to the quality of our soils and grasslands and the life they support. Creating farmstead cheeses gives us a chance to see our product from pasture grass to Camembert, our attention guiding it all the way. We are here to continue our family farm and a tradition of agriculture in our region while making foods we all can enjoy.


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As for the FOMC, only 4 of 98 economists in the Bloomberg panel are calling for a rate hike, which with this Fed means the chances of one are close to nil. Much as Macro Man might wish for the days when the Fed had the capacity to deliver genuinely hawkish surprises, time is clearly better spent pondering what the committee will do rather than what they should do.
If we check out a panel of key indicators, we see that 2/3 of them have improved since both the January and December meetings. While this would ordinarily suggest another rate hike at this point in the cycle (given that both pillars of the dual mandate saw improvement, most particularly inflation), the more interesting considerations are what it might mean for the statement and the somewhat tiresome charade of forward guidance.
It seems likely that the Fed will leave the door open for a move in the relatively near future, perhaps as soon as April. The key question is whether that door will be ajar or gaping wide open. Two of the indicators the street will look at in this regard will be the statement on the balance of risks and the dot plot.
In December, the statement characterized the risks as balanced. In January, the reference to the balance of risk was eliminated altogether. Based on the panel displayed above, it would be hard to argue that the risks look any worse than December, particularly with regards to the dual mandate. That being said, a number of Fed speakers have highlighted inflation expectations (and the downside risks they present), thereby adding yet another entry to the laundry list of excuses not to go. On the other hand, the Fed are a bunch of academics, many of whom subscribe to a Phillips curve view of the world. In that vein, the ongoing resilience of the labor market coupled with an uptick in core inflation might suggest more inflation on the way, as Fischer hinted a week or two ago. As such, characterizing the risks as balanced or nearly balanced looks the most likely option, which would keep an April hike firmly on the table.
As for the dot plots.....well, to be honest the dot plots are just complete rubbish at this juncture. They only seem to exist to provide an excuse to be marked lower, thereby generating "free accommodation". While that's not technically true (the dots were marked higher during the taper, and lower as soon as it ended), it still captures the vast bulk of the shifts since the introduction of the device.
Put another way, the Fed are like that terrible market strategist who always has the same 1 year forecast regardless of price or fundamental shifts. After all, the Fed has been forecasting the 1 year forward Fed funds rate to be above 1% consistently since September 2014. Needless to say, we're still waiting.
Naturally, we can expect the dots to be marked down again, at the very least eliminating March from the four hikes that had previously been implied. Would it come as a surprise if the Fed got rid of 2 hikes for 2016? Not all all, if you've been paying attention. Even though the rates market is only priced for one, it would still find a way to rally on this development. Dots further out will also get marked down, but frankly the whole thing is such a farce that Macro Man cannot muster the energy to care by how much. After all, they'll only get knocked down again in June, anyways- these days the only thing that goes down more regularly than the dots is Valeant.
As for the economic projections, it seems likely that the inflation forecasts will have to be marked higher, though not by too much (because then the Fed would need to explain why they hadn't moved rates!) Frankly, the evidence suggests that the best thing that they could do to generate inflation is to maintain a pessimistic forecast.
Finally, Macro Man cannot resist providing at least one small normative comment. The Brainerds of the committee seem to spend a lot of time worrying about the risks posed by China, the risks posed by Europe, the risks posed by inflation expectations, etc. Well, what about the risks posed by low rates? The Fed, after all, has a tremendous record of allowing financial imbalances to occur during periods of accommodative policy...imbalances that have a nasty way of ending badly.
Nonfinancial corporate debt issuance has been robust, to say the least....while we've already seen the poo hit the fan in the energy patch, is it really in the best interests of long term financial stability to encourage corporates to become addicted to issuing debt at such low yields, particularly when the proceeds seem to be going into buybacks rather than investment?
Well, apparently that's someone else's problem....let's leave it to the macroprudential folks to sort out, eh? That way the Fed can focus on the proper dual mandate of US monetary policy, namely the SPX and RMB.


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| 14.5°C Belfast
Comedian Ricky Gervais has issued a stark warning on the perils of being a celebrity in the age of Instagram.
The Office star told the Sunday Mirror how an over-eager fan ambushed him in a public toilet while at a boxing match in the USA.
He said: "I went to see a title fight with Joe Calzaghe in New York, I went to the loo and this guy is like, 'Hey man, can I have a picture?' Arm straight round me, doing a selfie while I'm in the middle of doing a wee.
"I didn't even have a chance to say 'Can we leave it a minute, mate?' There's lots of testosterone at those things, you don't want to say no.
"All I could think was, 'How wide-angled was that lens? What did he get in?'."
More recently, Ricky has joined forces with US comedy stalwart Tina Fey in the newly released film, Muppets Most Wanted, in which he plays Dominic Badguy, a henchman for an evil Russian frog.
He said of his experience making the film: "I wanted to keep hugging them all and rub their pot bellies, and I kept scratching their heads thinking they'd like it. It's a man's hand!"


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December 1, 2012
Ten riders from the Briton stock seat team made the trek from Albion to West Virginia for an IHSA show that was a little bit different than the regional shows they are accustomed to. The Mountaineer Invitational was held in Reedsville, WV on Dec. 1 and was hosted by West Virginia University.
The biggest difference for the riders at the invitational was that the results did not count towards any IHSA team or individual standings. However it was a great opportunity for the Albion riders to experience a show outside their region and to get to know riders from different areas of the country. Ten riders from the Albion team were able to attend, creating two teams of five riders.
Some of the standout riders included Chelsea Weiss (Manchester/Chelsea) who won third place in her novice horsemanship division. Team co-captain Amanda Douglas (Cheboygan/Cheboygan Area) got a callback for one of her individual open rides. Katie Petchell (Pinckney/Pinckney Community) came away with a fourth place in team open. Both Douglas and Petchell were able to represent Albion in both the open and reining divisions.
Showing impressive calm for a first year collegiate rider, Kate Sears (Ann Arbor/Ann Arbor-Huron) picked up fourth place in intermediate horsemanship. Fellow teammate and co-captain Hannah Pankratz (Bad Axe/Bad Axe) grabbed the sixth place ribbon in advanced horsemanship.
Says Pankratz, "It was a really nice opportunity to compete with other schools outside of our region."


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Christmas trees aren't the only trees on our minds here on the East End these days. Even as leaves continue to fall, Fox Tree Service President Bart L. Fusco—a Certified Arborist and Registered Consulting Arborist—shares his expert insights into other things you may have noticed growing on your trees.
The Question: I have a light and dark green growth on the trunks of my trees. Is this bad?
The Answer from Bart L. Fusco of Fox Tree Service: On Long Island we have trees that have both moss and lichen, a type of fungus, growing on the bark of trees.
These growths are not harmful to the trees and other plant material that they colonize. In fact, they are vulnerable to air pollution, and although widespread on the eastern end of Long Island are rarely observed in New York City.
Although these fungi are not parasitic, there are a number of fungi that are harmful—and these are often a sign of rot and decay in the interior of the tree.
Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, the fruiting bodies also known as conks, can be parasitic and can accelerate the death of the host tree. The fungus continues to feed on the tree even when only a stump remains. Although these photographs show the fungi growth near the base of the tree, the growth can appear anywhere on a tree depending on the location of the rotting material.
With the colonization of the tree by one of these fungi, the tree may appear to be healthy, as the growing organism does not immediately affect the growth of the leaves. However, after the fungus has fed on the interior of the tree, the tree may lose its structural strength.
After the organism has developed it will start to produce fruiting bodies. It is these mushrooms and conks that arborists use to help identify potential tree hazards.
To be a hazard, a tree must have an immediate potential to fail, and a potential target. A tree that has these fungi growing on it does not mean the tree has to be removed—there are a number of arboricultural procedures to reduce risk and even eliminate the hazard.
Have questions about growth on trees in your yard or caring for your trees this fall? You can contact Fox Tree Service in Suffolk at 631-283-6700, and in Nassau at 516-921-7111, or visit online at foxtreeservice.com.


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Ravens and 49ers
Sam Farmer
Los Angeles Times
In the NFC, I like the 49ers beating the Falcons. Atlanta couldn't stop Russell Wilson in the second half against the Seahawks, and Colin Kaepernick won't be any easier. Even with Justin Smith playing with a torn triceps, the 49ers will be able to stop the run better than the Seahawks did in the first half against the Falcons.
In the AFC, I like the Ravens upsetting the Patriots. In the five times these teams have met, with Bill Belichick and John Harbaugh coaching, every game but one has come down to the last possession. The Ravens defense is coming together at the right time, and the Ravens have gotten Anquan Boldin more involved on offense. They're poised to pull off an upset.
Patriots and 49ers
Aaron Wilson
Baltimore Sun
Will the Ray Lewis Farewell Tour end in New Orleans in the Super Bowl? Will Harbaugh Bowl II become a reality? No. The Ravens' quest again ends in New England.
Patriots 31, Ravens 27: Despite a game effort, the Ravens fall short of the elusive Super Bowl berth as Tom Brady throws a series of darts to Wes Welker. Joe Flacco and the offense are unable to score enough points to make up for several defensive breakdowns.
49ers 24, Falcons 16: A hard-nosed running game led by Frank Gore and the athleticism of quarterback Colin Kaepernick controls the clock. Pass rusher Aldon Smith harasses Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan into miscues.
Patriots and 49ers
Omar Kelly
Sun Sentinel
Last weekend's playoff games showed us the quarterbacks who delivered in the fourth quarter and overtime are the ones whose teams will advance. That's why I'm riding with the 49ers and Patriots.
The Ravens defense has been dominant, but so has Tom Brady. The Patriots have too many weapons, and the Ravens don't have enough pass rushing to cut off the head of Bill Belichick's serpent. Joe Flacco has made drastic improvements, but he's not on Brady's level.
The same can be said about Matt Ryan, whose Falcons host the 49ers, the most complete team in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick is the NFL's most dynamic young quarterback, and he has a ton of weapons around him.
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Chicago Tribune
Emotion could be the key factor in the AFC championship game rematch. The Ravens rode an emotional wave to a 31-30 regular-season win over the Patriots as receiver Torrey Smith scored two TDs on the same day he learned his brother died. This time, the Ravens might be driven by a desire to prolong Ray Lewis' career one more game. Ravens 24, Patriots 21.
In the NFC championship clash, some figured Matt Ryan and the Falcons finally got over the hump with last week's 30-28 win over the Seahawks. Not exactly. If anything, Atlanta showed flaws on defense that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh is sure to expose. 49ers 27, Falcons 20.


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Our bike brands and why we stock them
Between our branches we carry a varied range of brands including Whyte Bikes, Cannondale, Trek and Ridgeback.
Whyte Bikes are proudly British, who do the vast amount of their development riding in the same, often grim, conditions as you and me. Maybe thats why Whyte have hugely favourable reviews in all the magazines.
Cannondale have been around since 1971, but did you know they started out as an outdoor gear company? Luckily for us they changed directions and started making bikes. Who can remember the Super V? It was one of the first full suspension bikes on the market. Also during the mid 90's Cannondale launched with Volvo the most influential and successful MTB teams in history. 11 World Championships, 17 World Cup titles, 16 National Championships, 89 World Cup wins and 33 NORBA wins. Cannondale is a company that never stands still and is always looking for something new or a way to make something lighter, stronger and faster.
Trek. In 1976, two partners, Dick Burke and Bevil Hogg, set out to make the world's greatest bicycle frames. It was an audacious endeavour, but it was grounded in clear principles: the product would be of the highest-quality craftsmanship, it would be manufactured in the United States and it would bring the joy and adventure of cycling to a broader audience. As we move forward 40 years you'll find Trek still work to these values.
As you can see we like to pick the best bike brands. Not only that, between every member of staff at East Street Cycles, you'll find us riding one of these brands. We're always happy to answer any questions you may have, so pop in have a browse and choose your next bike from us.
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Noah Buhayar and Dakin Campbell
November 27, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon would be the best person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department in a financial crisis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said.
"If we did run into problems in markets, I think he would actually be the best person you could have in the job," Buffett said in response to a question about Dimon from Charlie Rose, according to the transcript of an interview that was scheduled to air yesterday on PBS. "World leaders would have confidence in him."
President Barack Obama is seeking to replace Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who had said he planned to step down. Dimon, 56, testified before Congress and shuffled top managers this year after the bank disclosed a loss, now of more than $6.2 billion, stemming from a wrong-way bet on credit derivatives. Buffett has described Dimon's annual letter to shareholders as a must-read.
"Obviously, you know, there was a failure of control," Buffett, 82, said to Rose about the trading loss. "If you run an army, if you run a church, if you run a government, any large institution, people will go off the reservation sometimes."
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Findwell is a new Seattle online real estate brokerage that is taking direct aim at Redfin, launching a service today that offers home buyers a 50 percent rebate on the buyer agent's commission.
Redfin, on the other hand, typically refunds two-thirds of the buyer agent's commission to consumers.
So, given that home buyers could save more money through Redfin, why would someone choose Findwell?
Co-founder Kevin Lisota explains that the company is offering additional services, such as unlimited home tours to potential buyers as well as staging, open house set up and marketing for home sellers. Home buyers that utilize Findwell also are assigned one agent during the home buying process, with Lisota saying that they "make sure that the experienced agents are with you every step of the process."
To date, Findwell has handled 14 transactions in the Seattle area with $6.6 million in closed sales during the first quarter of operations.
While Redfin has attracted plenty of attention for its online real estate service, Lisota says the company still only accounts for a fraction of the transactions in the Seattle area. And that spells opportunity.
"Based on the customer research we did during our planning phase, we think that they haven't hit the 'sweet spot' in terms of customer service," said Lisota, referring to Redfin. "We are trying to hit that 'sweet spot' with full service at half of the normal commissions. I believe that the first company to hit that spot will be the first real threat to the big brokerages."
Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, had not heard of Findwell. But he pointed out that Redfin's customer satisfaction rates for Seattle buyers stands at 97 percent, which compares to a national average of 85 percent for traditional agents.
Kelman also noted that Redfin already offers a similar rebate and service model to Findwell through its Redfin Select program.
In that, Redfin buyers receive additional services — including unlimited home tours. As a result, buyers receive a 50 percent rebate. (That compares to the 67 percent rebate they get through Redfin Direct.)
Still, Kelman noted that Redfin must do more to experiment with different service and pricing models in order to gain market share. And he said there's a lot of work to do.
"We still have a long ways to go putting the whole home-buying and selling process online; this is why Redfin had to raise $12 million from DFJ, and why we still have to work so hard every night. But there's no way we'd spend all that money and effort just to be as good as traditional brokers offering 'full service.' There's something better than 'full service' out there."


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Video: Clouded leopard scent marking!
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Things are drawing to a close here in the Crocker Range, and we're now busy bringing our fleet of camera traps in from the hills. It's a bit of an anxious time as we find out if any more cameras have been stolen (10 to date!) and whether we've captured enough clouded leopards on camera to enable us to estimate their density. Despite the nerves, we are very optimistic, and if the rate of photo-captures these last 4 weeks matches that of the first 2 months of cam trapping, then I'll be smiling.
So far we've captured an impressive 288 cloudie photographs, representing 37 separate occasions of six different animals. Most of these have been from Male 1, including the video below, which I've stitched together from multiple camera images. Here he can be seen moving along a sharp ridgeline, and clearly pauses at a tree to scent mark, probably the first footage of this behavior in this elusive cat!
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