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One of your more interesting cult titles, Buckaroo Banzai has grown a small but fanatically
following in the 17 years since its boxoffice flopparoo in 1984. By inventing a franchise hero
who combines Doc Savage, The Lone Ranger and a rock'n roll superstar in one, writer Earl Mac Rauch
would have been on the top of a mountain of sequels, tie-ins and merchandising had this first
feature succeeded. Purposely confusing and sometimes laboring too hard to be off-the-wall flippant,
Buckaroo Banzai nevertheless shapes up as a fun adventure along the lines of a Republic
Serial - but with a hip attitude.
As a movie, Buckaroo Banzai could perhaps be better, but could also be an awful lot worse. Remember,
the decade after Star Wars brought forth rubbish like The Ice Pirates, camp epics that
tried to emulate Lucas and fell on their faces. Director Richter animates Rauch's world with energy
and commitment, embracing every awkward situation (the discovery of Penny Priddy crying in a cabaret
audience) and making sure every cornball dialogue line is delivered as if it were the most serious utterance
ever heard in a movie theater. Even the manic Emilio Lizardo is played straight. The wackiness
is unified into something we can care about - a consistently earnest tone, the maintenance of
which is no mean feat.
Deadpan Peter Weller puts just enough ironic curve on his delivery to have
fun with his role without condescendsion; he's also vulnerable enough to be an interesting hero. His
Cavaliers are interestingly orchestrated, personalities with varying combinations of the cool and
the klunky that
allow actors like Pepe Serna and Clancy Brown to be distinctive without reams of 'character color'
written into their dialogue. Jeff Goldblum is amusingly green, and Ellen Barkin interestingly
waifish, even when striding about in a scarlet cocktail dress.
The villains on view are mostly a pack of clowns, led by the wonderful John Lithgow's Lizardo. A
tight bundle of goofy mannerisms and extreme facial expressions, Lizardo is wonderful working with
the tightass Christopher Lloyd and sub-moron Red Lectroids Schiavelli and Dan Hedaya.
As icing on the cake, the imaginative special effects include interesting organic spaceships,
giant flying seashells that look as if they were grown instead of constructed. A handful of different
effects shops that sprang up after Star Wars participated in the wide variety of effects that
were needed, and these are scaled nicely to the show without overwhelming it. Some of the effects and
special makeup actually barely make the grade, yet seem just perfect.
The only real detriments to Buckaroo Banzai are the action scenes and the settings. Without
a budget for large sets, altogether too much of the film takes place in (yawn) derelict factories,
with endless games of tag being played in nondescript corridors and hallways. The movie also seems
a bit shortchanged for rough stuff, and doesn't pay off on the action promised by all the guns,
martial arts and samurai hardware brandished by the Cavaliers. On the other hand, this may be a
plus for fans sick of the so-called 'science fiction' movies that are really lame action films.
It's fun watching the oddball characters interact and bounce off one another, and the self-conscious
cornball factor is a big plus. Scooter Lindley (Damon Hines) rushes out to tell his father Casper
(Bill Henderson) that Buckaroo needs help, and receives a 'Say What?' that usually brings down
the house. Obnoxious Perfect Tommy (Lewis Smith) is constantly being put in his place for being
such an egoist, or placated with reminders that he is, after all, perfect. When all the
Cavaliers function as a working unit, blending their technical expertise towards a common goal,
the picture becomes a kind of Utopia for young adult males: coolness, hi-technology, guns, and
rock music. You can imagine the Fox executives sweating when screenings were greeted with mostly
smiles and chuckles instead of belly laughs. Word of mouth was good but this isn't the kind of crowdpleaser
that studios understand, then or now.
MGM's DVD of Buckaroo Banzai presents a fine new transfer of the standard 1984 cut, in 16:9
and letterboxed for the first time on video. There was an early laserdisc that was a collector's
treasure even though its squeezed and pan'n scanned image looked terrible. The transfer is so good,
some of the special effects shots are shown to have optical dirt printed in, a flaw that could have
been cleaned up digitally, one could suppose. This Special Edition has a number of unusual extras
that will either thrill fans or frustrate them, depending on what they expect from their special
edition DVDs.
The extras address one of the main problems that hurt the show when it was new. At the last minute, extraneous background plotting was removed
that would have helped some of the relationships make better sense. Thinking the movie too complicated,
they jettisoned a prologue that explained Buckaroo's name and heritage, the genesis of the overthruster,
and the relationship between Penny Priddy and Buckaroo's dead wife, who looked just like her. Losing
this background info (which was presented in a fairly exciting manner) robbed Buckaroo of a lot of
needed depth, while alienating literal-minded viewers who wanted all the plot details to add up to
an even number.
The special edition DVD was not scaled big enough to take in the entire production. Also, although reels of
star interviews and behind-the-scenes video were shot, none was retained by anyone except director
W.D. Richter, who only had VHS tape copies, often with time-code windows.
But Richter and Rauch were
to use the Special Edition to promote new life for their one-shot 'franchise' and gave the project
much valuable assistance. The extras are consistent with their take on the show, and account for the
tongue-in-cheek tone that pretends that Buckaroo is a real historical figure and that the movie is
simply an attempt to popularize, for the big screen, a small fraction of his many exploits. This conceit
is maintained well by Richter and Earl Mac Rauch, who pretends to be the real-life Reno on the main
commentary track; hopefully it won't be taken as too taxing by fans who'd prefer a
straight approach. Savant himself has no use whatsoever for prank commentaries as found on discs
like Blood simple. Besides including
BTS looks at the miniatures (with Greg Jein, Savant's old boss in
special effects) and the ferocious functioning Jet Car, the extras include the missing deleted
scenes that explain Buckaroo's backstory and introduce the all-important unseen character Hanoi Xan
(pronounced Shan).
The only extra piece of footage that was found intact on 35mm (instead of VHS) and was therefore able to
be reintegrated into the film was an alternate opening that takes the form of the Banzai's home
movies from 1954. A series of outtakes of Clancy Brown's narration were found and a new audio opening
cut from
them, as no track was located.
The Internet Movie Database lists a director's long cut, as if Buckaroo Banzai had been
finished with these scenes and others intact. It wasn't, and none of the 35mm workprint elements for
longer cuts were found in the scraps and snips of trims and outs still archived for the film. They were
undoubtedly carefully set aside, and .... who knows. The fact that Buckaroo was an independent
handed off to a series of rights holders and libraries before coming to MGM didn't
simplify the research process. Therefore, the only element for the missing scenes
was Richter's own VHS of a workprint-in-progress transferred to let the sound cutters get a head start. This
is the original for the many bootlegs, so at least it's good VHS quality. Every snipped
section is presented with handles that help place it in context within the film. A couple of unused
scenes that didn't even make the workprint are included, from 35mm workprint trims; the sound on
these was poorly transferred to mag film and is therefore almost inaudible.
Savant still finds Buckaroo Banzai to be amusing and diverting; his kids think it's great.
It's certainly out of the ordinary, which in these cookiecutter days of entertainment, is high
praise. Finally available in a good widescreen transfer, it's really worth checking out.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension rates:
Movie: Good
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: Docu: Buckaroo Banzai Declassified, alternate opening, deleted scenes
Packaging: Amaray case
Reviewed: December 3, 2001
1. Defined as fashionable, narcissistic and exclusionary, as in
Our Man Flint. Radiating Hipness always carries the implication that others around you are not hip. Return
2. Coolness on the other hand, is simply being at ease with one's
individuality and uniqueness. You aspire to the right appearance and behavior to be Cool, although the
fastest route to Coolness is just aggressively being yourself, assuming you're a positive individual.
On the other hand, misfits and outcasts can be Cool just by being true to their natures. The
Frankenstein monster is a beautiful person, man, and is as Cool as they come ... without an ounce
of Hipness.
3. Among movies that had a chance for DVD release before 9.11, and probably no
longer do, are Fistful of Dynamite
and Viva Maria!. Both glorify
heroes who would be labeled Terrorists today.
4. This accounts for the different wording from the much-circulated VHS
workprint, and a different year named for the demise of Buckaroo's parents.
5. Savant cut the docu and the alternate opening, and helped compile the video extras on the disc,
so take all his comments with that in mind. I've tried to be as objective as possible.


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Bypass referendum? Election 2011's expected-- and unexpected-- results
In the end, it all came down to the Western 29 Bypass, at least in the Rivanna District, where incumbent Ken Boyd handily held onto his seat on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors for a third term, in what was– with at least $150,000 in money raised– one of the most expensive races yet.
And it wasn't even close. Boyd got 57 percent of the vote, while his Democratic opponent, Cynthia Neff, only mustered up 43 percent.
"My team was stunned by the margin," says Neff. "We thought it would be closer."
Boyd was surprised too. "It's always been narrower margins in the past," says Boyd, who doesn't see his reelection as necessarily a referendum on the Bypass. "I like to think there were other issues involved," says Boyd. "I concentrated on jobs, keeping taxes low, and fiscal responsibility."
"It's obvious it's about the Bypass," counters Neff. "It makes me a bit crazy. You won't find anyone going: 'this is a great road, it's the right road.' But it's a road."
She sees a perception among voters that projects are studied for years but don't get built in Charlottesville and Albemarle, and lists the Meadowcreek Parkway and water plan as examples. "No one's saying the Bypass is a great road, but it's funded, let's build it," Neff interprets the populace as thinking.
"The Bypass was the biggest issue in this election," agrees Rachel Schoenewald, Albemarle Republican chair. "Ken Boyd stayed the course."
But if the Rivanna race was a referendum on the Bypass, then how to explain the Scottsville race, where Bypass opponent and Democrat Chris Dumler took the district's seat left open by Lindsay Dorrier by trumping Bypass supporter Jim Norwood?
"That's a hard one," says Schoenewald.
"Chris ran a good campaign and is energetic," says Boyd of his new fellow supe. "It did surprise me Mr. Dumler won after only living here three years. And he certainly out-raised Norwood in money. That's a sad outcome when whoever raises the most money wins," says Boyd, acknowledging that his own race was the most expensive he's been in.
The Board of Supervisors is expected to go back to a 3-3 split, with Dumler joining Ann Mallek, who was uncontested in the White Hall District, and Dennis Rooker, while Republicans Boyd, Rodney Thomas, and Duane Snow fall on the other side of issues like the Bypass.
"I'm not thrilled about being back 3-3," says Schoenewald, but she sees it as not necessarily bad for the county. "We'll have discussions. We'll be forced to evaluate everything."
In the Albemarle School Board in which three candidates vied for the at-large seat, Brown Auto manager Ned Gallaway won that race.
Less surprising: Charlottesville
Not too many people are expressing shock that the three Democratic candidates– incumbent Satyendra Huja, Kathy Galvin, and Dede Smith– were elected by wide margins to City Council over independents Scott Bandy, Brandon Collins, Bob Fenwick, and Andrew Williams.
Radio host Rob Schilling, the last non-Dem to be elected to Council, calls the race "highly predictable."
Of the independents, Fenwick polled the highest with 12 percent of the vote (more than 70 percent higher than the closest indie), and there had been talk that some water plan, pro-dredging voters would double-shot him and Smith, who's also been active in opposing the Ragged Mountain dam, rather than casting three votes for the three open seats.
"I think Bob shot himself in the foot when he endorsed Dede Smith," opines Schilling. "A vote for her took a vote from him. He should have kept with a single shot."
One thing that did surprise Schilling in the city races was the election of former Democratic chair Jennifer McKeever to the School Board. Schilling calls her "anti-establishment" for the changes she brought to the city party, such as the firehouse primary. "She rocked the boat," says Schilling.
School Board incumbent Colette Blount, who made an unsuccessful bid for the Dem nomination for City Council in August, was reelected, and will be joined by newcomers Amy Laufer and Willa Neale, who both pulled in more votes than Blount and McKeever. Not doing so well was Guian McKee, who had been appointed to the Board, but came in fifth for the four open seats.
Another non-surprise was public defender Llezelle Dugger winning the clerk of circuit court race with 76 percent of the vote over Dem-turned-independent Pam Melampy. Dugger unseated longtime incumbent Paul Garrett in the August Democratic primary.
State of change
The General Assembly balance of power shifted in the Senate to the Republicans with what appears to be Democrat Edd Houck's narrow loss– initial counts say 86 votes– to Bryce Reeves in the 17th Senate District, which now includes a northeast corner of Albemarle.
"I do know that law on recounts inside and out," says State Senator Creigh Deeds, who lost a statewide race for attorney general by 360 votes in 2005 to current governor Bob McDonnell.
Deeds represents the rest of Albemarle and easily fended off another Republican newcomer, T.J. Aldous, who challenged him for the 25th Senate District.
With Houck's apparent loss and the Senate's addition of the Republican Tom Garrett, the Dems lose control of that house with a 20-20 split because Republican Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling will cast tie-breaking votes. "The Republicans have every intention to use the lieutenant governor as a bully pulpit," predicts Deeds.
The most interesting House of Delegates race was the 59th District, in which scandal-plagued Republican Matt Fariss overcame arrests for hunting violations, a DUI, and an emergency protective order taken out by a Lynchburg woman in 2002 to crush Dem favorite Connie Brennan with 53 percent of the vote to her 41 percent.
The district, which stretches down from southern Albemarle past Lynchburg and Appomattox, is very conservative, Rachel Schoenewald points out. "He's been part of the Campbell County community," she says. "He's asked for forgiveness, and they know him as a person."
And in Greene County, where issues of the Hook frequently disappear when there are stories about political candidates there, in the sheriff's race, Steve Smith defeated Major Randall Snead, who crossed the Albemarle county line and was one of seven cops to fatally blast cop-car-stealing teen Colby Eppard on New Year's Day 2010, and who has also been accused of extracting an alleged false confession that in 2003 sent Crozet youth Robert Davis to prison, where he remains.Read more on: 2011 election
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"where issues of the Hook frequently disappear when there are stories about political candidates there"
Don't make yourself the story.
"The district, which stretches down from southern Albemarle past Lynchburg and Appomattox, is very conservative, Rachel Schoenewald points out. 'He's been part of the Campbell County community,' she says. 'He's asked for forgiveness, and they know him as a person.'"
Are you freaking kidding me!!!??? Would Ms. Schoenewald have been so magnanimous if the Democrats had nominated someone with a rap sheet similar to Farriss'? Please. I wonder if she even kept a straight face as she made that absurd comment?
And it's not like we're talking ancient history either. Farriss' last misdemeanor conviction (that I am aware of) was in 2010. And he lost a civil judgement for $500,000 in June of this year!
An utterly dispicable candidate, yet the state and local GOP threw money at him like it couldn't be printed fast enough.
Bypass referendum- sounds like a medical issue to me..............
Maybe Norwood lost because he declared bankruptcy which demonsrated his lack of judgment and he had others absorb his loss rather than "whoever raises the most money wins" as Boyd erroneously claims.


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Three's company for this year's Noble Prize winners in medicine.
Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the prestigious award for work on chromosomes with implications for cancer and aging research, The Associated Press reported.
"The discoveries by Blackburn, Greider and Szostak have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies," the prize committee in Sweden said in a statement.
U.S. & World
The honor includes a 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) cash award.
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Game Update for 1.50
This game update includes the following changes:
Free Sims 3 Base Game Content
- Sims can now dumpster dive from the Commercial Dumpster pre-placed in Sunset Valley and find cool items including furniture and collectables!
- New air conditioning units and electrical box decorative
- New Terrain Paint for Build
- A new traffic light for Create a World.
Base Game Updates
- Sims, cats, dogs, and horses will animate properly rather than sliding into position when performing social interactions.
- Sims will no longer occasionally flip or stutter when trying to walk through doorways.
- Gifts sent by invalid NPC Sims will no longer cause the mailbox to become unusable.
- The Fog Emitter that came with The Sims 3 Ambitions has been updated to transition properly to the new base game Fog Emitter object. Any lots created with The Sims 3 Ambitions fog emitters that were installed since the release of The Sims 3 Seasons will have to be reinstalled for the emitter effects to play properly. There is no need to re-upload any content to The Sims 3 Exchange – all content created with either The Sims 3 Ambitions fog emitter or the new base game fog emitter will work properly when installed after this update is applied.
- The Fog Emitter is once again moveable once placed in the world.
- Placing blueprints on foundations can no longer cause the game to crash.
- Placing a blueprint in a high rise or an apartment building can no longer cause the game to crash.
- Using the right mouse button to position the camera while previewing blueprints will now function properly.
- Greeting Cards placed in the home will no longer block Sims from accessing dressers or beds.
- Foundation walls are now considered to be light blocking. This prevents snow from accumulating within holes in a foundation that are entirely enclosed within the interior of a building.
- Sims that already had the hidden diving skill prior to game update 1.42 will now be able to use diving boards.
- Broken Omni Plant gift boxes will no longer appear in the Sims inventory when travelling between worlds.
Ambitions Updates
- Ghosts will now properly appear for level 5 Ghost Hunters so they can continue their career progression.
Late Night Updates
- Deleting doors to NPC apartments can no longer cause the game to crash.
- Sims will now animate properly when selecting to dance together in clubs from The Sims 3 Late Night when The Sims 3 Supernatural is not installed.
- Improved performance in Bridgeport related to Sim routing.
Generations Updates
- Pillow Fight wishes will appear much less frequently.
Showtime Updates
- The Park performance venue will now properly place in older save files created before installing The Sims 3 Showtime and any later expansions or stuff packs.
- Karaoke Machine wishes will appear much less frequently.
- The Heckle interaction is no longer available in Sims swimming in the ocean.
Seasons Updates
- Sims can now route properly on floor tiles built above a frozen water surface.
- Hot Dog and Pie Eating contests can no longer ironically cause a Sim to starve to death.
- Harvestable plants that are grown indoors can no longer become dormant or accumulate snow.
- Harvestable plants grown inside biodomes will no longer turn dormant in freezing temperatures.
- Harvestable plants will now always be watered during a rainstorm rather than the check only occurring once per day.
- UFOs can now abduct Sims from households that don't have enough room for the UFO to appear on the lot.
- Sims will no longer become invisible if The Sims 3 Seasons is uninstalled with a save game created while a Sim is being abducted by aliens.
- Festival Grounds are now valid destinations for sending a Sim to perform through SimPort for players with The Sims 3 Showtime.
- Sims animations are properly reset when editing an active Festival Grounds lot.
- Performance was improved when selecting the "Invade a Community Lot" interaction on the UFO.
- Performance was improved when directing Sims to have a Water Balloon or Snowball fight on a cluttered lot.
- Ice sculptures from The Sims 3 Ambitions no longer melt in sub-freezing temperatures.
- NPCs that throw parties in the winter will no longer select Swimwear as the suggested clothing.
- Saving the game prior to a NPC Sim's costume party will no longer cause Sims to reset upon loading the save file. Frost no longer appears to be a pure white surface on floor tiles or staircases on low detail lots.
- Reflective surfaces no longer suddenly pop back on when snow is melting.
- Rain drops from roof edges now fade out along with the roof.
- Water Balloon and Snowball fights are now easier to cancel from the action queue.
- Gloves no longer appear twice when selecting Outerwear.
- Sims can now be in the rain without an umbrella for a longer period of time before receiving the Soaked moodlet.
- The frequency of alien abductions (without user intervention to increase chances) has been lowered.
- The frequency of aliens visiting the player's household (without user intervention to increase chances) has been lowered. They will however still visit the world at the same frequency.
- The frequency of getting called by an NPC Sim to go out on a date has been lowered.
- The frequency of umbrellas breaking has been lowered.
- Lemons and eggplants will now show up in the Collection Journal.
- Malleable Mimic Voodoo Doll, Lord Vladimir's Magic Cauldron, Soothsayer's Crystal Ball, and Lady Ravendancer Goth's Book o' Spells will all now give skills introduced in The Sims 3 Supernatural.
- Fixed issues that occurred when trying to reinstall store lots.
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How to catch an elephant
Crawling under my skin
Friday 3/7/14 time 10:00 PM - Ellie Von Bun
Hiya guys!
Sorry for being quiet and stealthy just publishing new site without a word.
I'm sorry.
Couple words about it though. The old site died with Wordpress. Had to make a new one. I made one day at some time ago and I used the product of the company I work with. That's about it. I didn't even bother to do a layout design before creating it so it's a first draft. Sue me. At least we still have elephants!
I totally lost my cool about my skin condition. Then I decided I'm gonna do something about it.
Some people might be curious what my skin looks now. I would be.
My life jumped a tiny bit harder mode than before. It's unfair in my opinion. My legs went to really bad shape. Itching was unbearable. If I dared to scratch (which is something you just have to do at some point) the pain was killing me. And even if didn't scratch.. well it was still painful.
And it was spreading.
How much I tried to use different lotions, nothing was working with my skin. My arms and stomach started to get more spots in a wildy rapid motion.
These are my legs a year ago happily showing of my brand new tattoo like a proper teenage girl. Couple of moles here and there. No more.
After getting few spots I went to a dermatologist and other doctors and hoped for the best.
Hope didn't work.
At some point I pretty much gave up for ever being pretty again. I was thinking of becoming a proper butterface as it was looking at that point that the fucker will creep on my face too.
Well luckily my face is still clear but my body is not. Here are couple photos from around three weeks ago, almost a year after the previous picture.
These are also just before I went to Cape Verde for a week long vacation. And that vacation was meant for my skin.
In these pictures the spots are quite ok looking. I've just out of a shower as my skin is still wet and have already put lotions on, so they just look red without the dry part.
You can also see that my hand looks better than my legs.
I decided mainly take pics from my legs and I'd still have plenty but these shall do.
Somedays my skin is better. Somedays it's not.
Today I went to see the same dermatologist again. As my skin has only gotten worse and more straightforward, she gave me the official diagnosis and all the needed papers so I can have treatment. With light! Light treatment!
So I will get my skin burned up nicely with fake sun. Beware fake tanned teenagers, I'm following your footstepst! With an actual health reason of course.
I might apply for a sun treatment trip in the next fall to the Canary Islands. Also for very cheap!
Anyhow, I got a bunch of new lotions and the weather is getting easier to live with so I hope for the best.
I can leave this rant with two words: Why me?
In other things, I'm still planning on buying an apartment. I've even put a couple offers but lost them. But I have time!
I've finished everything in my school except for my thesis which I'm starting pretty much now. I want to graduate this summer. And I will.
So if I disappear again for some time, I'm working and doing my thesis so I'll be busy. Still.
But I might visit. For skin updates at least!
Sofi says HELLOO
Oh boy my skin looks almost fine in the sun.
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Time to Say Goodbye
June 17, 2012 1 Comment
Well my back is getting progressively worse, and my doctor is not optimistic that anything can be done. I have failed all conventional therapy and my surgical options are grim. At this point I am just hoping that I can continue to work, since that is the one useful thing I am still able to do. I am in constant severe pain. A year ago I was training for triathlons. Now I am hobbling around the house with difficulty using a cane. After a disastrous attempt to make truffles with the girls again as a Fathers Day Treat, I realized that it is silly and futile for me to attempt to cook anything but the most basic and necessary dishes. As the time on my feet is extremely painful, I can't take the time to take pictures on the days I do manage to cook something. I will leave this blog up because it is a handy reference for me to find my recipes. Sorry I won't be able to post anything else.


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Green Plum Cooking School – Sat, Dec 5th
I wouldn't say I've been procrastinating writing this blog, it's more like not wanting a good book to end, so you read it in extremely enjoyable chunks — not too fast, not too slow.
I keep thinking about them: Caleb & Deirdre, Deirdre & Caleb. Caleb Barber and Deirdre Heekin run a tiny restaurant in Woodstock, Vermont called Pane e Salute (http://www.osteriapaneesalute.com). My friend, Gracie Cavnar (founder/director of Recipe for Success, an organization dedicated to fighting childhood obesity – http://www.recipe4success.org), knows Caleb and Deirdre well and came up with the idea of having t'afia host a book signing with them when they came to Houston. Well, the book signing turned into an entire weekend of events with them and I was excited about the whole thing.
Caleb and Deirdre have an extremely small restaurant in Woodstock. They only have 8 tables and "turn" them once a night, meaning they seat and serve those 8 tables only once each night and then close it up. Caleb is alone in the kitchen except for a dishwasher (who washes every dish and glass by hand). Deirdre runs the front of house or dining room, acting as sommelier, waiter and General Manager. I always thought of their restaurant model as the perfect "retirement" restaurant for me when I'm done doing what I'm doing. We'll see! (more…)


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"Crime would command the attention due a carnival freak-show if von Schirach's crisp, swift prose did not lend it such laconic authority. Save in the sparest of hints, he shuns forensic psychology. Each tale whips along, a shock at every turn, like some beast with eyes of red-hot coal panting down a forest track at night. For, courtroom procedure aside, the spirit of the German-language Märchen really drives this book: eerie tales of the uncanny, as practiced by Hoffmann, Kleist, the Grimms, and even Kafka." —Independent (UK)
"Mesmerizing. . .a slim, utterly absorbing collection of 11 stories. . .told in a cool, patient voice that draws the reader in. Von Schirach guides us through the unpredictable sequences of events that can maneuver regular, flawed people into unbearable positions, leading them to abhorrent acts. . .[He] has the talent to dazzle." –New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary book about ordinary crime, written with suspense, insight, and beautiful precision by an experienced defense attorney. An authentic thriller." –Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader


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Charm in Charm City
June 14, 2012 at 12:31 pm (Asides, Live Performances) (Baltimore, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Flag Day, Jimi Hendrix, National Archives, Shakespeare, Smithsonian, Star Spangled Banner, War of 1812)
I am so excited about Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, one of my favorite local performing groups. They are committed to producing "Shakespeare that's not stuffy," and they do a wonderful job performing unstuffy Shakespeare all summer at their beautiful outdoor space in Ellicott City, Maryland. Kids get free admission to their shows, which are family-friendly and fun (well… I wouldn't take the kids to the roaming Titus Andronicus show in the haunted ruins a couple years ago, but A Midsummer Night's Dream was perfect!)
Anyhow, CSC recently purchased a historic bank building in downtown Baltimore (aka Charm City). As reported by John Barry on the DC Theatre Scene blog, they will convert the 1885 Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Building into a 250-seat theater slated to open for performances in fall 2014. According to CSC Artistic Director Ian Gallanar: "The configuration of the building itself has some of the same layout as the Globe Theatre. That's what we're riffing off of. We're trying to recreate a modern Globe. Three levels, an intimacy that I think is very important."
The location puts CSC right in the midst of the tourist mecca that is Baltimore's Inner Harbor and they hope to take advantage of that great location, bringing people from around the region in to see shows while they're visiting Inner Harbor. And, Gallanar says, they are planning an international theater festival for Baltimore. All quite exciting developments for the Baltimore theater scene!
In the meantime, this summer CSC is performing under the stars at the ruins of the antebellum Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott City. It's a lovely venue and a very nice place to spend an evening. Romeo and Juliet is in repertory with Pride and Prejudice through the end of July. Fun! And I'm pretty sure my boys will love the swordplay in R&J.
Today is Flag Day in the U.S. and it got me thinking about Baltimore's part in the flag's history. Baltimore is currently celebrating (is that the right word?) the bicentennial of the War of 1812 with tall ships (a "Star-Spangled Sailabration"!) and fanfare. Cool stuff. It's still a couple years before the bicentennial of the National Anthem (Francis Scott Key wrote it in 1814 after watching the British bomb the heck out of Baltimore harbor), but the inspiring Star Spangled Banner that Key saw still flying over Fort McHenry in the morning after the battle is on display at the Smithsonian in DC and you can also check out the nifty interactive version on their website.)
Step outside the Smithsonian, look next door at the White House and remind yourself that the British burned it down in 1814. And then walk a couple doors down to the National Archives and look at the Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights) and think again what Key must have felt — what was saved — that morning in Baltimore when he saw the flag flying and wrote the song.
I was just downtown earlier in the week with my library school class and took a tour of the fantastic public exhibitions at the National Archives and I got to look at those amazing documents again (along with the Magna Carta!). Wow. The perfect activity if you're visiting Washington DC for the 4th of July!
So, my meanderings into history and archives have a purpose here. I'm taking a class in public outreach and exhibitions for libraries and there are so many awesome examples around here, I just had to share. It's all about making holdings accessible and interesting to people.
This is also, I'm sure, a motivation for Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's expansion into Baltimore. So, a tip o' the hat to Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's new home in Baltimore and in the spirit of CSC's video last holiday season: we can live in a world of light beer, fried chicken wings, Shakespeare AND Jimi Hendrix!
Yes, Jimi Hendrix. Because my brother, and maybe others like him, are more likely to read my Shakespeare blog if I work in a reference to Woodstock. So, here's my tribute to the Star Spangled Banner on Flag Day… some pretty spectacular fireworks and explosions from the fingers of Jimi Hendrix. I doubt Francis Scott Key foresaw this!
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tor4hershman said,
June 21, 2012 at 9:29 am
& here's a familiar tune, before Mr. Key got hold of it
orwhatyouwill said,
June 21, 2012 at 10:08 am
Very nice! Bawdy drinking song becomes inspiring patriotic anthem! I couldn't understand the words well so I looked up the lyrics: http://glyfix.com/soa/lyrics/anacreon_theme.html


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Kitchen Tools I Wouldn't Cook Without
Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer
This peeler/corer/slicer is my favourite. I do own others, and they have their uses, but this is the one I use when I have a couple bushels of crisp apples in the fall. If we're canning apple slices or freezing them, we can whip through them in no time with this handy tool. It takes less than a minute to peel core and slice an apple with this tool.
When working with mealy-type apples (which will turn to mush in the above-pictured tool), I use this type of peeler:
Combined with this slicer:
This slicer is used almost daily during the school year to slice apples for the kids' lunches.
Mini Food Processor
I've used this thing so much over the past 7 or 8 years, I'm surprised it hasn't died yet. I make our chicken and egg salads. We crush our dried chili peppers in it. I chop nuts in it. I slice carrots and celery in it (it's the fastest way to do so!) I shred zucchini and other vegetables or cheese in it. You want an egg salad that's a spreadable consistency? Use the food processor. Yes, it only holds two cups, but that's enough even for my family of five. You would be surprised how much one of these mini's can do. It's easy to clean, and small enough to not be a burden in the kitchen. Love it!
Plastic Lettuce Knife
We eat a lot of salad. We take great pride in our salads. My daughter has turned salad assembly into an art form. She'll call me on it, too when I've just chopped a bunch of vegetables and thrown them in a salad bowl. "Fail on the presentation, mom."
A plastic lettuce knife won't cause your lettuce to brown and wilt like metal knives will. I know many people prefer to tear their lettuce. I'd rather cut it. I get the pieces to the size I want and I can cut many more pieces at one time than I can tear. Using a knife also reduces risk of transferring bacteria to food from your hands.
The best thing about a plastic lettuce knife is it will not cut you. Or your kindergartner. With a plastic knife like this, younger kids can get started in the kitchen a lot earlier than they would with only metal knives to use.
Electric Griddle
If your stove doesn't include a griddle, it pays to own an electric one. Pancake breakfasts, grilled cheese dinners, quesadillas, Reuben Sandwiches ... all so much easier on a large electric griddle. In my largest skillet I could cook two pancakes or two grilled cheese sandwiches or one quesadilla. With the griddle, I make the whole family's at one time. Anything that saves me time cooking for a family is worth the expense in my book!
Crock Pot / Slow Cooker
When I was a single, working mom I fell in love with my crock pot. No more fast food because we were starving on the way home from work/school and nothing in the house would be ready in a timely manner. I'd start a chicken, pork chops, roasts, soups, or chili in the morning when we left for school and work and come home to a slow-cooked, hearty, nutritious meal. It saved my sanity and my kids' health!
It is imperative that you purchase a crock pot with a removable crock. These things are impossible to clean properly without the ability to remove the crock.
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The Three Suns - A Swingin' Thing (1964)
Founding member Al Nevins assumes production duties on this LP. Roy Glover provides the creative arrangements and also composed two of the songs ("Nite Trix" and "Painted Desert"). As a big fan of Fats Waller, it's a real pleasure to hear The Three Suns tackle that old classic "Ain't Misbehavin'." For more info on this release, including the original liner notes, check out its page over at Michael David Toth's The Three Suns Universe.
This was originally posted years ago over at the now defunct ROCKOVERGRACELAND blog.
The Three Suns - A Swingin' Thing (1964)
1. Sweet Georgia Brown (3:15)
2. Mean to Me (2:33)
3. African Waltz (2:13)
4. Georgia on My Mind (2:43)
5. Honeysuckle Rose (3:11)
6. A Taste of Honey (3:14)
7. Ain't Misbehavin' (3:03)
8. Sleepy Time Gal (3:03)
9. Nite Trix (2:49)
10. Ja-Da (Jada, Jada, Jing, Jing, Jing) (2:44)
11. Painted Desert (2:11)
12. Lazy River (2:15)
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Why just now?
Like I said, this is a plan that started brewing eons of years ago. I'm one of the proponents of Linux. I really like to get rid of all Microsoft products in my system. But my job as a computer technician makes it impossible. Recent developments with my job is the indirect reason why I just switched now.
I recently relocated here in Thailand (Bangkok). I arrived here January of this year. Upon arrival, I started offering computer and laptop repair. I created a website, made a Google Maps/Places listing and post my services in different forums that caters expats in Bangkok like craigslist and thaivisa.com. While it gave me additional income along with my online ventures, I felt that it is not enough. The school season came and I apply for a teaching job as a computer instructor. I was hired and long story short, I am now teaching computer along with English subjects here. No, I don't stop repairing computers and laptop because it is still my first love but time passes by without me repairing computers.
So, I made the switch. All the programs I used essentially have its Linux counterpart. So I don't miss Windows 7 that much. Although my migration is successful, I'm still getting the hang of it. But for me, this is the easiest Linux variant out there if you're migrating from Windows. It even feels the same. I'm just not used to the keyboard shortcuts and some of the settings I'm still looking for, but all in all, it was a swift transition.
I just switched to Linux and I'm loving it. Good riddance Microsoft.


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The Metro-North and Amtrak commuter rail services was suspended in southwestern Connecticut on Thursday after a train became entangled in overhead wires.
There was no service between South Norwalk and New Haven early Thursday afternoon, and Amtrak says it has no service between New Haven and New York. It resumed as of 2 p.m., according to an alert from Metro-North.
It's not clear when the services will be restored.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Dan Brucker said an Amtrak train was reportedly ensnared in overhead wires near Metro-North's South Norwalk station. Wire damage is also being reported near Bridgeport.


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Caerphilly, Wales
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We are working closely with a number of Primary Schools within the Ystrad Mynach area who are looking for Teaching Assistants, you may be required to work one-to-one with children who have Special Educational Needs (SEN) and those who have Emotional Behavioural Difficulties (EBD). This role is flexible to work part-time.
This role is a great job for any experienced Teaching Assistants who have an interest in one-to-one SEN support as it will allow you work with educational experts developing individual plans for each child for their academic and social advancement.
Duties of a Teaching Assistant will include:
- Undertaking tasks set by the class teacher
- Supporting children within the class
- Building up rapport between yourself and the pupils
- Managing the classroom under the direction of the class teacher
- Attending staff meetings
- Undertaking training to further develop your professional portfolio
- Supporting children with SEN ranging from mild to severe
- Working with small groups of 1-2-1
To apply for this job, you will need:
- Recent experience of working as a Teaching Assistant in a Mainstream classroom/or experience of working with children with special educational needs (SEN) in an educational setting
- A strong passion to enhance the development of pupils
- An approachable and positive attitude
- Hold relevant qualifications
- Ideally Team Teach Trained
- Be registered with the EWC
- Be confident in working with small groups and 1:1
- Hold a current DBS on the update service or willing to take one out
Benefits will include:
- Excellent rates of pay
- Quick registration (Enhanced DBS check)
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work for a range of schools
- Professional development
- Weekly pay
- CV writing and support
- Interview preparation
- Free Training
- A company that listens and values you
- Recommend a Friend Scheme
- Employee of the month £50 Love2Shop voucher
- Holiday pay - option to have it paid on top of your wage weekly or option to have it accrued (paid term time)
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At Vetro Recruitment we recognise that exceptional people always know other exceptional people, so why not earn £50 to £250 for referring them to Vetro Recruitment. Click HERE for more details.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
At Vetro Education, we have over 100 years' combined recruitment experiencehelping people plan their career path, navigate the job market and find their ideal role. We are REC and CIW registered and pride ourselves on the service we offer our clients and candidates. We will work alongside you at all stages of the job application process and help you identify, apply for and secure your ideal role.
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- The work surface provides one-touch height adjustment of up to 17.2" (436 mm)
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Question: What are Divisions & Interest Groups
Professional Interaction & Involvement:Divisions and interest groups reflect a broad range of member interests within 25 management disciplines. They provide disciplinary "home bases" for members with specific scholarly and professional interests.
Each division offers a range of services tailored to their specific management discipline, including educational sessions, social events at the annual meeting, individual websites that include a vast array of resources such as professional development opportunities, recognition programs, and newsletter communication.Membership in two divisions and/or interest groups is included in the basic membership dues and are available to all membership categories.Additional divisions/interest groups can be added above the two complimentary selections at the time of renewal for a nominal fee of $11.00 USD per division; $7.00 USD per interest group.
Additions requested that fall mid-membership term can be completed by signing in to your My Profile and accessing the Academy Profile tab where a link is provided to add a Division/Interest group.
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Bookworms love to imagine having real life mirror the plot of their favorite novel. What could be more romantic than, say, reliving the first encounter between Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester outside Thornfield Hall? Plenty, as Margot Livesey shows in her engrossing new novel, The House on Fortune Street.
Told from multiple viewpoints, "The House on Fortune Street," looks at the lives of an idealistic therapist, Dara MacLeod, and her best friend from college, Abigail Taylor. The setup is deceptively simple: Abigail, who runs her own theater company, is living with Sean, an impoverished graduate student working on his endless dissertation about Keats. Dara, who rents out the basement apartment from Abigail, is in love with Edward, a violinist. But by page 60, one character is dead and the others are reeling.
Livesey ("Banishing Verona") then rewinds the action to Dara's childhood, as related by Dara's dad. Dara herself covers her relationship with Edward, à la Brontë; and Abigail tells the story of their friendship at St. Andrews college in Scotland. Each section adds greater complexity and understanding, as Livesey looks at what it means to know someone profoundly – and to know the limits of that understanding.
Everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life," Abigail's beloved grandfather believed, and Livesey changes up her novel by having an English author preside over each section: John Keats, Charles Dodgson (aka. Lewis Carroll), Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Dickens. This is more than a gimmick – Livesey uses each writer to provide extra resonance to her tale. (Don't worry, you don't have to have a copy of the Norton Anthology of English Literature handy to enjoy "The House on Fortune Street.")
First up is Keats, but Livesey is going for a more subtle effect than just yet another parroting of "Ode on a Grecian Urn." This is the Keats who was plagued by "bill pestilence," was wildly jealous if Fanny Brawne attended a party without him, and believed that "Life must be undergone." In the real world, the ideals of romantic love (or scholarship, for that matter) can be hard on a guy.
Sean had been married (happily, he thought) when Abigail launched a "relentless" campaign to acquire him. "He knew the syllogisms of romance. He had broken his life apart for her; therefore she must be the love of his life," Sean thinks. "More recently, though, he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for mercy on the part of bystanders."
Livesey doesn't shy away from taboo topics, nor, thankfully, does she use them to add a jolt of cheap adrenaline. Dodgson isn't there for his mathematics or brilliant wordplay. Dara's dad, Cameron MacLeod, shares Dodgson's abnormal fascination with young girls and his hobby of photographing them. Livesey is circumspect with Cameron, who tries for decades to bury his impulses. (This is fortunate, since it's very difficult for a reviewer to type with a full-on case of the heebie-jeebies.)
But she doesn't let him off the hook, either. "How do you know?" the adult Dara challenges Cameron, when he tries to defend the author of "Alice in Wonderland" by saying," but he never harmed [the girls]." She quickly clarifies: "I don't mean what is the documentary evidence, but how can we be sure what harms a child?"
The final two sections delve into the friendship between Abigail and Dara, which appears faded to almost invisibility by the time Sean moves into Fortune Street. A character likens Abigail to Estella from "Great Expectations," only to laugh that it's hardly a flattering comparison. Dickens, as it happens, was Abigail's grandfather's favorite writer, from whom the Jewish immigrant strove to learn the important task of "how to be English."
"More than most people, he told Abigail, Dickens understood how suddenly life can change: one day you can be respectable, the next in debtors' prison. And the next, back again, in your top hat and gloves." Abigail can relate: By 15, she's on her own in a rented room, working two jobs after school and determined to claw her way to college. (Like Pip, she has an anonymous benefactor, but hers is less benevolent than his escaped convict.)
The prospect of a real friend entrances both lonely girls, who find unexpected parallels despite the differences in upbringing. "Each of them, they discovered, had had a version of Eden from which she had been expelled, abruptly and irrevocably, at the age of ten."
Livesey isn't interested in neatly tying off loose ends, which can lead to reader frustration when characters have served their purpose and vanish irrevocably. But while the psychological mystery that spurs the novel forward is gripping, it's her clarity, of both writing and understanding, which elevates the novel. Also, because great last sentences are rarer than hen's teeth, it must be noted that "The House on Fortune Street" has a doozy.
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Nothing screams fame and spotlight like a family with an abundance of talent. The Kardashian sisters, the Olsen twins, Venus & Serena Williams, Paris & Niki Hilton… and the list goes on!
Two sisters have caught our attention lately, mainly because of their individual style, their vivacious colorful characters, and their popularity. To top it all off, one of them is a music performer. We are talking about Niska and Vanessa Garoute. We interviewed our first "it girls", and we must say… They did not disappoint!
These sisters, as we have come to learn, are not only original and beautiful, but also smart and witty. They made us feel at ease as soon as we sat down for the interview, and what was supposed to be a serious endeavor, became a dinner amongst old friends. We got sidetracked quite a bit, but it made the whole experience light and fun.
Describe your personal style
V: I love new style, not always accepted and different, I like to have what no one has. If someone has what I have it bothers but I get over it eventually. I love shoes, I would kill for shoes, I can go a whole day without food to get shoes.
N: If I'd have to describe my style in a few words it would be "simple" . I like neutral and warm colors, summer times I obviously brighten up a bit. I'm into shoes but I'm not as much as a heel freak as Vanessa. She always makes me feel underdressed. My favorite things are my glasses, my bras and my shoes.
Niska, how do you describe your stage style and how it influences your performance?
N: My stage style is a lot like my everyday style. As far as influencing my performance I like to be comfortable. I'm trying to get in top shape enough where I could just wear a bra on a stage with maybe just a cover up around it but everything else open. Like Selena.
Do you borrow each other's clothes, and do you fight about it?
V: Your recording is going to be so long after we tell you stories. But before we start this argument, you have to know the person that got us into fashion and it's our mom. And her closet is our closet so we shop when we go to Haiti.
But, to answer your question, yes we do steal from each other, a lot … and physically fight. We hurt each other for clothes. Now we don't live together anymore so it's much better because we don't have to deal with each other all the time.
What trends are you currently obsessed with?
V: Black and White! I've been buying a lot of white for summer but since my grandmother died I had to throw in black. I love Neon yellow. And Leopard any season all season.
N: She's the trendy one I'm more vintage. I prefer being a bit different, questionable at times.
Style Inspiration (Any celebrity or any individual whose style you admire?)
N: My mom and my grandmother. If I have to answer for Vanessa it will be Kim Kardashian, my mom and Rihanna.
Any favorite designers?
N: Depends on the season. But current favorite designer Tom Ford.
V: Ahhhhh! Okay skin care product: Chanel. Make-up: anything in Sephora. Actually I went
to Sephora in Dubai, and every Sephora in Dubai is different than America. You knew Dolce and Gabanna made make-up? People I never knew made make-up have a make-up line. Okay, lipstick: the Sephora Lipstain, Mascara: I use "they're real" by Benefit. For clothes: Marchesa, I can't afford Marchesa but their stuff are so different with so many details. And I love Kenzo also. Shoes: I don't want to say Giuseppe because it's so common but he's an artist. So Giuseppe and Cassadei
N: Honestly for shoes I like boutique brands I'm not really a name brand person but if I have to chose a brand, it's Lanvin. As for heels, I really love YSL. Make up Chanel hands down and Guerlain. For clothes it's too much I like to mix no brands with brands.
What's A "Must Have" in your closets?
N: In your closet girl, not your cosmetic drawer.
V: Sorry, a must is a pair of leggings for that one day that you don't feel like doing anything, a nice pair of heels, at least one. And a scarf cause it can dress up or down anything.
N: I'd have to say, leather either leggings or pants, any kind of ballerina slipper. And any button down collar preppy style shirt. I need linen, white linen.
V: Oh I forgot to say! Nail polish, I change my nail color every 2 days, and when I travel I bring a big bag full of nail polish, it's so hard to pick a color!
What is sexy to you?
N: Back out! Anything low cut reaching almost to your but, I think is beautiful. Open front is so overrated these days, it's all back!
V: I agree but, these days what I've been looking for and haven't been able to find are zippers. It's like "what's under there?" … and it's so easy to just …. Unzip !
And what do you find sexy in men?
V : I think fitted pants. Anything fitted, anything custom tailored that fits their body …
What's a big Fashion DON'T in men style
V: I hate flip flops!
N: Baggy pants. I don't like when guys wear their baggy pants under their but. I like it when they wear on their hips.
Lastly, do you ladies have any shopping secret you want to share with us?
N: Retail therapy sporadically. (Great quote we're stealing)
V & N: We're not picky. We will go to wall Mart … We like everything and we're willing to try anything.
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from the and-you-say-you'll-be-able-to-do-this-for-70-years-after-you're-dead? deptOh, look. Yet another person has made the assumption that the "c" in "copyright" stands for "censorship." We've seen this before. Several times. Just in the past six months, we've seen these attempts (sometimes successful) to wield copyright as a weapon:
- Actress Cindy Garcia tries to have "Innocence of Muslims" film removed from Youtube by claiming she owns the copyright to her performance in the film.Now, Craig Brittain, the owner of "revenge porn" site "Is Anybody Down" (whose first skirmishes with Marc Randazza were covered here) is trying to remove posts criticizing his site, his inability to keep his story straight, his likely extortionate "photo takedown service," and, well, pretty much everything, actually. He's sent a DMCA notice demanding the removal of three posts at Popehat, claiming that these posts contain copyrighted material.
- Human Synergistics International gets a 2-year-old blog post removed for quoting four sentences from its "exclusive" trapped-in-a-desert team building exercise.
- Universal Music uses a false copyright claim to remove a negative review of one of its artist's albums.
- A minority owner of the Miami Heat sues a blogger and Google in an attempt to censor an unflattering photo of him.
- A cartoonist, irritated by criticism of her work, attempts to get her cartoons removed from Something Awful, accusing the site of theft.
Craig also tried to get the three posts about him on Popehat taken down by sending a bogus DMCA takedown notice to our host, Dreamhost. I've been a little mad at Dreamhost recently because of some outages, but I'm very happy with their response to this, which gives me confidence they will handle it correctly. They've recognized that's the notice is defective and they're not requiring a counter-notice from me yet — though I'd enjoy writing one.It's refreshing to see a hosting company dismiss a baseless claim out of hand, unfortunately one of the rarer sights on the internet. Ken, who wrote all the posts in question, has posted the DMCA notice at Popehat, noting that Brittain clearly doesn't know, or doesn't care, what copyright actually covers.
The notice is patently ridiculous on any number of levels. Note, for instance, that Mr. Brittain is asserting copyright in a printout of his criminal record and in a correspondence between "David Blade" and Marc Randazza.He also notes that Brittain takes care not to make any assertions that "David Blade" is an actual person (although he seems more than willing to protect Blade's "copyright" for him). Then there's this paragraph, which starts out in the general area of copyright before wandering all over the place:
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled: The posts and images above contain personal information which is owned and copyrighted by its respective copyright owners and is damaging in nature and contains personal information in violation of copyright and numerous privacy laws and must be removed immediately.Sure, some of the stuff on the list might be "damaging in nature," but it's all self-inflicted. Here's what Brittain wants removed:
http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Blade-Ad.pngAn ad from his own website isn't "personal," and if it's "damaging," it's Brittain's own fault. The communication between nonexistent "lawyer" David Blade III and Marc Randazza may be both "personal" and "damaging," and while whoever actually wrote "Blade's" side may have a weak copyright claim in his portion of the discussion, there's obviously an incredibly strong fair use claim in republishing the entire correspondence. The felony record could be considered "damaging," but it's a matter of public record, removing it from the "personal" column -- and there's certainly no copyright claim there. And the photo? It's a screenshot of Chance Trahan's public tweets! How the hell does that violate anything?
Craig/David/Chance, the unholy trinity that is actually (most likely) a duo (at best), is attempting to undo the damage done, not by apologizing, taking down the site or just simply shutting up. Instead, Brittain thinks the internet can be controlled by abusing existing IP laws. And even if this particular gambit had worked, it still wouldn't have worked.
Even if you catch some abuse official on a bad day and convince them to take a few posts down, 100 more will pop up talking about your sick campaign of fraud and extortion.Of all the things copyright is supposed to be used for, trying to erase your dodgy internet history isn't one of them. A weapon that has the potential to outlive you for seventy years is entirely too much power to be placing in the hands of those willing to abuse it. As we've noted before, the "perjury" aspect of bogus takedowns simply isn't enough of a threat to keep DMCA notices safely holstered.
Craig Brittain may have felt he could censor his way back into "respectability," but he's apparently just going to keep underestimating his critics. This is going to end badly, but not anytime soon, it appears. As disheartening as it is to see the abuse of intellectual property in the pursuit of shutting critics up, it's nice to see these clumsy attempted bludgeonings working less and less frequently.
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Distance from Gallman, MS to Kokomo, IN
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Let us spend some quiet time with Our Lord Jesus Christ and ask ourselves this question? WHO AM I, that the Lord of all the earth……..
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Hi! My name is Florence D'Costa. I am a Catechist in my Parish in Melbourne, Australia. I also consider myself to be an evangeliser and hence, I have this great yearning in my heart to Evangelise and to talk about Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I have started this blog to express some of the things that I think is important and I hope that my readers both Catholics, Christians and others, would benefit.
I have studied scripture for five years and I was trained in teaching scripture. I have in turn taught scripture for one year to a group of the faithful who have been yearning to learn the Word of God. I was also trained in performing skits, write poems, stage on the spot dramas from stories in the bible and evangelise through dance and song.
I am also an Actress and a Singer and I belong to two Theatre Groups – COG Theatre Group and Amuse Threatre Group. We, in COG Theatre perform Christian Musicals to promote Jesus Christ. We train and teach cast members to become better performers and also to realise that they have been created for a specific purpose in life. In Amuse Theatre Group, we help cast members to become better people with a purpose and aim in life. When we stage plays, we reach out to the audience with a message which would stir them to become better people – people with a purpose in life!
By profession, I am a Civil Celebrant and I help people to celebrate any occasion.
I have a talent to make people happy. Happiness and joy come from Our Lord Jesus Christ. What I have freely received, I freely give. I have a flair for writing and I will try my best to help people to the best of my ability.
God, our Father, I offer You my day. I offer you my prayers, thoughts,words, actions, joys, and sufferings in union with the Heart of Jesus, who continues to offer Himself in the Eucharist for the Salvation of the World. May the Holy Spirit, who guided Jesus, be my Guide and my Strength today so that I may witness to your love. With Mary, the Mother of our Lord and of the Church, I pray for all Apostles of Prayer and for this month's intentions by the Holy Father. Amen
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PRAYER INTENTIONS OF POPE FRANCIS - April 2017
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Urgent Intention - Landslide Victims/Peace: Victims of the landslide in Colombia and peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, and Paraguay.
(Parents could say this prayer in their child's room and they could sprinkle their room with Holy Water if their child has nightmares. The same could be done even if teenagers or adults have nightmares.)
"Behold the Cross of the Lord! Begone, you evil powers! The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. Allelulia!"
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Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us. God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us. [Repeat pray for us after each invocation] Holy Mary, Queen of the Angels, St. Michael, the Archangel, Most glorious attendant of the Triune Divinity, Standing at the right of the altar of Incense, Ambassador of Paradise, Glorious Prince of the Heavenly armies, Leader of the Angelic hosts, The standard-bearer of God's armies, Defender of Divine glory, First defender of the Kingship of Christ, Strength of God, Invincible Prince and warrior, Angel of Peace, Guide of Christ, Guardian of the Catholic Faith, Champion of God's people, Guardian Angel of the Eucharist, Defender of the Church, Protector of the Sovereign Pontiff, Angel of Catholic action, Powerful intercessor of Christians, Bravest defender of those who hope in God, Guardian of our souls and bodies, Healer of the sick, Help of those in their agony, Consoler of the Souls in Purgatory, God's messenger for the souls of the just, Terror of the evil spirits, Victorious in battle against evil, Guardian and Patron of the universal Church, Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. V. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,I offer You my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart; the salvation of souls, reparation for sin, and the reunion of all Christians. I offer them for the intentions of our bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommended by our Holy Father this month.
The Lord Bless you and protect you;
The Lord make his face to shine upon you,
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The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace."
O my God, I am sorry for all my sins
Because they displease Thee who art all good
And deserving of all my love
And with Thy help I will sin no more.
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
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Rivals at War: 2084 is the latest Hothead Games title for the iOS and Android, and like other Hothead titles, it combines the zero-player simulation (a rather rare genre) with collectible card battling with masterful execution. As you gain experience points in this game, you increase in ranks, which earns you cards and bucks and other good bonuses. Energy is used whenever you play in the quick battle mode. Cards are self-explanatory – they are the cornerstone of the game. Read on to find out how to easily get more of all three!Our YouTube channel Game Hydro's 1,000 Subscriber Giveaway Contest is on now! Click to watch, subscribe, and win!
Currently, energy does not run out, but in the future the promotion will end and you'll have to wait for the energy to come back with time. You will end up being able to revive all of your energy immediately by turning the time on your phone (or tablet) ahead, then going back to the game and playing it again. Turning it ahead by an hour or two should suffice for recovering all of your energy.
Earn more experience points by winning as often as possible, although you can earn experience when you lose, as well. Overall, play more games to gain more experience. Play the star maps, too, though, and many of the mission rewards that you earn will be large boosts in experience points. The more "specials" that you earn per stage, as well, the more experience you gain. Specials include things such as headshots, veteran kills and streak kills.
Get free cards two different ways. Win five games in the quick battle mode, and you'll earn free cards as a reward. Even better is that they will usually be silver and gold cards, not bronze cards. In addition, when you play in the star maps mode, most of the missions will have cards as a reward for completing them, so complete more and more missions to earn more and more cards. Each quick battle mission that you complete in the star maps will fill the quick battle meter, so don't forget to claim those rewards, as well.
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The persimmon caught my eye, just when I was packing up the sweet potatoes and arugula. All cheeky orange, lolling in a basket full of like-minded fruit, it gave me a look that said: "Where have I been all your life?"
Good question. I have fond memories of a children's book, rendered in line drawings, that featured a stately lady gazing at a persimmon. But I could not call up a single taste memory.
"Persimmon?" I asked the vegetable guy. "Right," he confirmed. "In season."
I took one home. It was heavy, smooth, heart-shaped and soft. Or so I thought. "Try it when it's squishy," the vegetable guy had advised. It seemed plenty yielding to me. I took a bite. And experienced assault.
Persimmon is all rosy good looks outside and tannin-packed bad attitude inside. Not the pleasantly dry sensation offered by a glass of aged red. An all-out attack that coats the taste buds with furry sandpaper. Persimmon means "dry fruit."
Later I learned that the persimmon comes in two common varieties: the firm sort, called Fuyu, good to crunch, apple-style; and the soft sort, called Hachiya, good for spooning into vinaigrette or baking into pastry — when ripe.
I came to appreciate the wisdom of dessert authority David Lebovitz, who notes that the Hachiya persimmon is ready for kitchen duty when it flaunts the body mass index of a water balloon.
By then it has outgrown the surly stage and mellowed into good company for savory salad or sweet cognac-scented cake. Next time a persimmon looks my way, I'm armed, with knowledge.
Leah Eskin is a Tribune special contributor.
Persimmon dressing
Prep: 10 minutes
Makes: 3/4 cup (enough to dress salad for 6)
1 ripe Hachiya persimmon
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh sage leaves
1 clove finely chopped garlic
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons lime juice
1/4 cup mild oil, such as canola
Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
1. Swirl: Wash persimmon and cut away leaves. Scoop pulp into the blender or food processor. Swirl smooth. Measure 6 tablespoons (any extra can be refrigerated or frozen).
2. Thicken: Return pulp to the blender. Add vinegar, sage, garlic, mayonnaise and juice. Swirl smooth. With motor running, slowly pour in oil. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Serve: Goes nicely with a salad of butter lettuce, avocado and red onion.
Provenance: Adapted from that California classic, Sunset magazine.
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The Chicago City Council next week is expected to approve a $4.5 million payout to settle a lawsuit filed after police fatally shot an aspiring West Side rapper known as "The Saint."
Freddie "Latee" Wilson, 34, was shot 18 times by three police officers in November 2007 in the Austin neighborhood, according to a report by the Cook County Medical Examiner.
At the time, police said the shooting occurred during a traffic stop and a weapon was found outside Wilson's car. But witnesses cited in the suit contended Wilson was unarmed and walking to his car on first block of Lorel Avenue. Wilson, an ex-offender and a father of three, rapped about the dangers of the streets.
In another case that didn't go the city's way, City Hall must pay $1.9 million to Todd Smart, a former amateur triathlete who badly injured his shoulder in July 2007 while riding on a Lincoln Park street that was stripped down to a rough surface for repaving.
While trying to navigate a protruding manhole cover, the bicycle's front tire got caught in a groove, and Smart spilled onto the pavement. The impact caused multiple fractures to his shoulder and arm and a dislocation where they meet, according to court documents.
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"He was somebody who was in incredible physical shape and operated physically at a very, very high function," said Smart's attorney, Regina Etherton.
Etherton said the case set a precedent by allowing an easier-to-prove legal standard of city negligence when it comes to pavement and sidewalks. "Now they really do have exposure to thousands and thousands of plaintiffs who before may not have even considered pursuing their cases, because lawyers were telling them they may have all these hurdles," Etherton said.
The City Council Finance Committee will consider the $4.5 million payout to Wilson's family on Monday. The $1.9 million verdict must be paid because there are not further appeal options after the Illinois Supreme Court declined to hear the case, a Law Department spokesman said.
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In Syria, the brutal regime of Bashar Assad is testing the proposition that repression works. The massacre of civilians in Houla is only the latest example of what appears to be a strategy of making no concessions and using maximum force. To the Assad regime's way of thinking, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi erred by hesitating, emboldening the opposition and sowing doubts among their supporters. So far, Assad's strategy has worked. Kofi Annan's mission, which appears to be based on the idea that Assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. The U.S., the Western world, indeed the civilized world, should attempt instead to dislodge the Assad regime. Is there a smart way to do it?
For a number of reasons, military intervention is unlikely to work in Syria. Start with the geography: unlike Libya, Syria is not a vast country with huge tracts of land where rebels can retreat, hide and be resupplied. Syria is roughly one-tenth the size of Libya but has three times as many people. Partly for this reason, the Syrian rebellion has not been able to take control of any significant part of the country. Nearly half of all Syrians live in or around two cities, Damascus and Aleppo, both of which seem to remain under the regime's grip. Sporadic night attacks in other places recur, but they don't expand.
Nor is it clear that the Syrian opposition is capable of unity. Popular opposition to Assad is neither broad-based nor organized. The Syrian National Council, the umbrella group of organized opposition, appears unable to unify behind a leader, agenda or set of goals. Rima Fleihan, a grassroots activist who escaped from Syria to organize the opposition, quit the council, telling the New York Times, "They fight more than they work."
The geopolitics of military intervention is also unattractive. Whereas in Egypt and even Libya, all the major and regional powers were on the side of intervention or passively accepted it, in Syria that is not the case. Iran and Russia have both maintained strong ties to the Assad regime. Were the Western powers to intervene, it would quickly become a proxy struggle, with great-power-funded militias on both sides. That would likely result in a protracted civil war with civilian casualties that would dwarf the current numbers. To many observers the situation in Syria looks less like Libya and more like Lebanon, where a decades-long civil war resulted in over 150,000 deaths and a million displaced people.
Also absent in Syria is any sign of high-level dissent. Major defections from the army, intelligence services or business community are so far nonexistent. The regime was set up by Bashar Assad's father, Hafez Assad. The family is Alawite, a Shi'ite sect that represents only 12% of Syrians, and the key military and intelligence posts belong to Alawites. These loyalists stick with the regime because they know that in a post-Assad Syria, they would likely be massacred. But Assad has also been able to stop defections among the Sunni and Christian members of the ruling elite, presumably with a mixture of threats and bribes.


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