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Monday, November 7, 2011
The Merriman Cemetery 2011
12 comments:
- Brian M said...
Thanks again for the post Rot!
- November 7, 2011 at 8:10 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
I liked all of the pics at the link, especially the overall red light reaper with the "blair crows".
- November 7, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Colleen said...
From the little tidbit I see here.. it looks like a great display. The kid mannequin on the deck is scary as hell!
- November 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- MorbidMariah said...
Ooo, there's some really great stuff in these pics! I love the creepy kid/mannequin thing and tall reaper guy...just fantastic!
- November 7, 2011 at 11:24 PM
- bean said...
Love this haunt.
- November 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- NecroBones said...
Man, that is some creepy stuff right there.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- NoahFentz said...
yeah...the mannequin child is creepy...just saying "mannequin child" gives me chills...
Great pics!!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Joel said...
Wow, these props are beautiful. Those two ghouls with the baby carriage and dead flowers - are you kidding me? So eerily sad. Definitely going to check out this blog.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- wicKED said...
That first pictures with what looks like a mother and child ghost at a tombstone... man that sends chills down my spine. This is a really great haunt!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Pam Morris said...
wow what a cool haunt. love the faces on the ghouls, the hands as well and the mannequin is amazingly creepy. if I was a kid, I'm not sure I'd go up on that porch to get some candy.
- November 8, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Colleen said...
Me too Pam. If I was a kid that's one house I'd skip. No joke.
- November 8, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- The Creeping Cruds said...
That mannequin is freaking me out!
Finally post my haunt pics..
Enjoy- Jeano
- November 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM


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I'm currently writing a two piece game and the first "half" is done and ready for Beta testing.
The pieces can be played separately but they will intertwine in the final game. But rather than having to spend "ages" correcting the final edition I thought I'd have this first half tested while I work on the second part.
So if anyone feels up to it, I'd be happy if you'd Beta "Anno 1700"
Being a foreigner I would like a spell and grammar check (I've used a text editor, but apparently that's no guarantee.)
Also round up the "usual suspects":
Missing clues to puzzles.
Exits leading nowhere (or doesn't work)
Dead ends.
Situations that makes the game unwinnable.
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Guilty verdict in decades-old Galveston murder with possible link to 'killing fields'
Clyde Hedrick, 60, was found guilty Friday afternoon of involuntary manslaughter in a 30-year-old Galveston County slaying.
He was charged with murder in the July 1984 death of Ellen Rae Beason, who was last seen alive at a League City nightclub.
The sentencing phase of Hedrick's trial is scheduled to begin March 31 in the 56th State District Court, 600 59th Street in Galveston.
Tim Miller, who founded Texas Equusearch over the disappearance and death of his daughter, Laura, said he was pleased with the verdict.
"Of course, I wanted the maximum (murder conviction) on it," he said. "But let's face it. We have a 30-year-old case with not a tremendous amount of evidence. The prosecution did a wonderful job."
Miller said he has long suspected that Hedrick killed his daughter.
"I'm optimistic this is the first step of getting some closure on Laura," he said. "This is far from over. This is just a beginning."
The trial began March 25, when prosecutor Kevin Petroff and defense attorney Jeremy DuCote gave opening arguments. The case went to the jury about noon Friday.
A suggestion that there could be some relation between Beason's death and the infamous "killing fields" near League City where a string of unsolved brutal slayings took place arose in October, when Petroff filed a routine document to let the defense know the range of items that might come up in questioning.
The document, known as "State's notice of intent to use evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts," specifically mentions two women who were killed in the 1980s, Heidi Fye and Laura Miller.
Their bodies were found in a field west of Interstate 45 near Calder Road in League City. Fye was found in April 1984, while Miller was found in February 1986 after disappearing in September 1984.
Two other women found in the "killing fields" in 1986 and 1991 have never been identified. Hedrick has not been charged in any of the murders.
Hedrick was questioned about Beason's death 30 years ago but told authorities that she drowned while swimming after they left the Texas Moon Club.
During Hedrick's trial, no mention of the "killing fields" came up in testimony, Miller said. One witness was told, while the jury was not present, that he could not mention the topic on the stand, despite the "State's notice of intent," Miller said.
The notice of intent also included this statement: "In Galveston County, Texas, between the years 1991 and 1993, the defendant (Hedrick) would come back home with a different shirt and would be saying repeatedly that he had 'done it again.'"
The document also listed incidents of enticing a child, criminal trespass, driving while intoxicated, terroristic threat, evading arrest, assault, possession of a controlled substance, theft, abuse of a corpse, criminal mischief, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, attempted arson, assault and battery.
In response to inquiries, attorneys from both sides said earlier this year that the document was a procedural requirement and did not warrant major attention.


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Should Air Traffic Controllers Be Included In Furloughs?
Should Air Traffic Controllers Be Included In Furloughs?
As air travelers grumble about delayed flights, congressional Republicans have a new talking point: It's all President Obama's fault. They argue that he could make cuts in less critical parts of the FAA budget, but wants to inconvenience the public to force Congress to undo sequestration.
Air travelers are growing less and less happy. Automatic budget cuts are now leading to hundreds of flight delays, about half of all delayed flights this week.
NPR's Tamara Keith reports.
TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Up until this point, the effects of the sequester have been scattered and hard to pin down: hiring freezes, delayed park openings. But then the furloughs of air traffic controllers the Federal Aviation Administration had been threatening for months hit and, bam, the sequester got real, real fast.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: This morning, the sequester is walloping airports again.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Well, actually, I just ran in there and I counted 41. There are 39 delays, and actually two cancellations.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Arrivals were delayed an average of 77 minutes last night.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Almost half of the incoming and outgoing flights here are delayed at least 30 minutes, and some, sadly, more than an hour.
KEITH: Pilots made announcements while planes sat delayed on the tarmac, blaming the sequester and Congress. Just a few weeks ago, Republicans gleefully accused the Obama administration of exaggerating the sequester effects. This week, there's a new message.
REPRESENTATIVE BILL SHUSTER: This administration is implementing sequestration to cause the most pain on the traveling public that it possibly can.
KEITH: Bill Shuster is a Republican from Pennsylvania and chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He says the FAA should be furloughing other employees, not the controllers.
SHUSTER: We can do this in a smarter way. This administration has the flexibility to do that, and they're not doing it.
KEITH: The FAA continues to insist it isn't making travelers miserable on purpose, and doesn't have the budget flexibility to avoid the furloughs that are cascading into flight delays. Michael Huerta, the director of the FAA, testified before a House appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
MICHAEL HUERTA: These are all bad choices. I'll be the first to acknowledge that. But in order to comply with the guidelines of the sequester law, we have to take these actions.
REPRESENTATIVE HAL ROGERS: I wish you'd told us earlier.
KEITH: That last voice you heard was Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the appropriations committee. He seemed skeptical of Huerta's explanation, and none too happy with the flight delays.
ROGERS: And then to turn around and try to blame the difficulties in flying on the Congress, having not informed us of what you planned to do, is unacceptable.
KEITH: The ranking Democrat on the appropriations committee, Nita Lowey from New York, batted back the idea that Congress hadn't been warned.
REPRESENTATIVE NITA LOWEY: Frankly, my colleagues, it's mystifying to me that some are surprised by these delays or blame the FAA for Congress' failure.
KEITH: But by the end of the day - at least in some corners of the Capitol - talk of blame was replaced with talk of solutions - not for the whole sequester, or even the whole FAA budget, but specifically for air traffic controllers. Republican Senator John Thune and Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller - who chairs the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation - met with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
SECRETARY RAY LAHOOD: There are too many delays, and common, ordinary citizens are being affected and I'm grateful to Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Thune for their interest in trying to be helpful.
KEITH: Exactly what Lahood meant by helpful isn't entirely clear, but it would likely involve some kind of legislation. Rockefeller and LaHood kept details to themselves.
LAHOOD: I think with your leadership, as always, hopefully we can find a fix.
KEITH: That was the transportation secretary, praising Senator Rockefeller. When asked how soon it might happen, Rockefeller said: soon.
SENATOR JAY ROCKEFELLER: We're working as fast as we possibly can, and we're sure running out of time, which actually helps.
KEITH: Both the House and the Senate leave for recess this weekend. It's not clear whether the two chambers could pass a fix - whatever form it takes - in the remaining two days. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
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Christmas cake cupcakes
These beautiful and classy little fruitcakes make lovely gifts, and kids will enjoy decorating them too.
Nutrition and extra info
- Can be frozen un-iced
- kcal833
- fat29g
- saturates9g
- carbs139g
- sugars125g
- fibre3g
- protein9g
- salt0.44g
For the batter
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 175g butter, chopped
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 700g luxury mixed dried fruit
- 50g glacé cherries
- 2 tsp grated fresh root ginger
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- zest and juice 1 orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 100ml dark rum, brandy or orange juice
Rum is a type of spirit based on sugar cane. First produced in the 1600s on slave plantations in…
- 85g/3oz pecan nuts, roughly chopped
Related to the walnut, pecans are native to America, and grow enclosed in a glossy, browny-red…
- 3 large eggs, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 85g ground almond
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 200g plain flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
Baking powderbay-king pow-dah
Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
For the icing
- 400g pack ready-rolled marzipan (we used Dr Oetker)
One of mankind's oldest sources of sweet pleasure, marzipan needs to contain only ground…
- 4 tbsp warm apricot jam or shredless marmalade
A relative of the peach, nectarine, plum and cherry, apricots are fragrant, with a soft, velvety…
- 500g pack fondant icing sugar
- icing sugar, for dusting
You will also need
Tip the sugar, butter, dried fruit, whole cherries, ginger, orange zest and juice into a large pan. Pour over the rum, brandy or juice, then put on the heat and slowly bring to the boil, stirring frequently to melt the butter. Reduce the heat and bubble gently, uncovered for 10 mins, stirring every now and again to make sure the mixture doesn't catch on the bottom of the pan. Set aside for 30 mins to cool.
Stir the nuts, eggs and ground almonds into the fruit, then sift in the flour, baking powder and spices. Stir everything together gently but thoroughly. Your batter is ready.
Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Scoop the cake mix into 12 deep muffin cases (an ice-cream scoop works well), then level tops with a spoon dipped in hot water. Bake for 35-45 mins until golden and just firm to touch. A skewer inserted should come out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
Unravel the marzipan onto a work surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Stamp out 12 rounds, 6cm across. Brush the cake tops with apricot jam, top with a marzipan round and press down lightly.
Make up the fondant icing to a spreading consistency, then swirl on top of each cupcake. Decorate with sugared almonds and snowflakes, then leave to set. Will keep in a tin for 3 weeks.


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Not as long as Seven Years in Tibet, but adequate to get the job done.
Last week we took a trip down to Kyoto for our first "in Japan" family vacation (probably last--it was exhausting). We left (via Shinkansen aka Bullet Train) Monday morning and came home Thursday night. (Kyoto is the setting for "Memoirs of a Geisha" and the former capital of Japan.)
Turns out our three sons don't care much about the changing seat of power in ancient Japan or the historical significance of Buddhist or Shinto temples and their place in Japanese Religion. But they DO like bullet trains and Samurai swords. So the trip was a win/win for everyone.
Rather than re-cap the WHOLE TRIP, (we packed a lot into 4 days) I'll just mention some highlights and lowlights. And I'll probably spread them out a bit. Cause, for example, right now it's bed time and I should be upstairs helping Doug.
But here's a start:
Visit to The Imperial Palace--where Emperors held court. The structures were often destroyed by fire and then had to be rebuilt. (You'd think at some point they'd have started building with more stone. But no.)
Highlight for the boys: lots of gravel to pile into "pyramids". Seriously. We took a tour this day and visited three different places. They're favorite part of the day was the gravel.
The GRAVEL!*Note: The color Vermillion scares away evil spirits and is also thought of as a HAPPY color. The white gravel in the inner courtyard represents purity.
*Note: "The Oikeniwa Garden is a strolling garden, the main feature of which is a large pond with an artificial shoreline..."
Lowlight: Boy's playing in gravel all day makes for three REALLY FILTHY boys!
Note to self: Gravel and Crocs are not a good combination.
Each night ended in all three boys in the Hotel Tub soaking their nasty black feet.
To be continued...


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He's one of the most popular players in Survivor history but can he survive a job at Forrester Creations? TV Guide Magazine has learned that reality superstar Malcolm Freberg, who was robbed of a win on Survivor: Philippines, will appear on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful on Wednesday, Feb. 13. That's the same day his next Survivor outing, Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites, premieres on CBS.
"I was really nervous showing up at B&B — and not just because my only other acting experience was playing Ben Franklin back in fifth grade," cracks Freberg. "I thought the cast was going to hate me because they're a bunch of pros and this looks like a publicity stunt. But everyone was warm and wonderful. They made it really easy for me."
What's tougher, the jungles of Survivor or that jungle known as the acting biz? "I'll take acting anytime," Freberg says. "I got to do B&B wearing actual clothes. The studio is climate controlled. They fed me. It's so much nicer than Survivor!"
Freberg, a former bartender from Hermosa Beach, California, will appear in a scene set at the Forrester Creations fashion house with Kim Matula (Hope) and Emmy winner Jacob Young (Rick). "My character is a Forrester employee named Malcolm so clearly they didn't want to overtax me," Freberg says. "They also never made it clear exactly what he does at Forrester. If I didn't screw it up, maybe they'll invite me back and next time I can have actual duties."
Truth be told, the soap gig has Freberg's parents a little worried. "They were nervous enough about me clowning around in my underwear on Survivor, but B&B is a big deal to them and something that actually requires talent," he says. "My mom is really on pins and needles. She can't even get up the nerve to tell my grandma to tune in!"
Look for more on Freberg's suds debut in the Feb. 11 issue of TV Guide Magazine.


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Nov 16, 2011
House-Senate compromise boosts FDA funds for food safety
A spending bill approved by a House-Senate conference committee this week would increase the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) budget for fiscal 2012 by $50 million, with the aim of funding the new food safety law and improving bioterrorism preparedness, according to a report by Food Safety News (FSN). The bill gives the FDA $2.5 billion, which is $334 million more than what was approved by the House in June, the story said. Also included is $1 billion for the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service—enough to maintain its current workforce and $32 million more than in the House measure, FSN reported. The additional FDA funds are to be spent on implementing the new FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and continuing FDA's efforts to improve medical countermeasures against bioterrorist attacks, said the Alliance for a Stronger FDA, an advocacy group, which praised the bill in a statement yesterday. The House is scheduled to vote on the compromise bill tomorrow, according to a Nov 15 report in The Hill. That report said the $128 billion bill conforms with the debt-ceiling deal that the two parties forged in August, but a "substantial number" of House conservatives are likely to oppose it as too expensive. The bill also includes funds for the departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Transportation, according to the Washington Post. The $50 million increase in funding for the FDA, while possibly surprising in a cost-cutting climate, is small in comparison with a 2010 Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of implementing the new food safety law: about $1.4 billion over 5 years.
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Group launches antibiotic resistance tracking tools
A nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C., today unveiled a set of interactive Web-based maps that track antibiotic use, which shows that southeastern states have the nation's highest levels of antibiotic dispensing. The mapping tool is part of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy's (CDDEP's) "Extending the Cure" project, which is aimed at addressing the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. The maps draw from several microbiological surveillance databases. The group said overall antibiotic dispensing decreased 12% between 1999 to 2007, though prescribing rates for fluoroquinolones rose by 49% during that period. The five states with the highest antibiotic use are West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama. Residents of the top two states, for example, take about twice as many antibiotics per capita as those in Oregon and Alaska, CDDEP said today in a press release. It said other regions of the country have higher-than-average use of antibiotics, as well.
Nov 16 CDDEP press release
CDDEP antibiotic resistance map
On Nov 14 the group also introduced a tool called the Drug Resistance Index (DRI), which is designed to track changes in antibiotic effectiveness. It described the index in BMJ Open. For example, hospitals can use the DRI to track resistance levels in their facility and the effectiveness of antibiotic stewardship and infection control interventions. The group's launch of the new tools coincides with a week-long "Get Smart About Antibiotics" campaign led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nov 14 BMJ Open report
FDA vaccine advisers support Prevnar pneumococcal vaccine for adults
The FDA's vaccine advisory group today voted that immunogenicity data for Pfizer's 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (13vPnC, or Prevnar 13) are adequate to support accelerated approval for adults age 50 or older and that available data suggest that the vaccine is safe in that age-group. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted affirmatively on both issues 14 to 1, and the FDA typically accepts its recommendations. The vaccine, made by Pfizer, is currently recommended for infants and young children, whereas the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine—Pneumovax, made by Merck—is indicated for children older than 2 and older adults. Currently, the only adults recommended to receive the pneumococcal vaccine are those age 65 and older and younger adults with certain risk factors. An FDA briefing document prepared for the advisory panel said the medical rationale for vaccination is an increased risk of pneumonia that starts at age 50. It said Prevnar 13 appears to provide longer-lasting and better protection against community-acquired pneumonia. During the VRBPAC meeting, Pfizer representative said they expect to complete an 85,000-person study in the Netherlands to assess the vaccine in adults in 2013. After the vote, VRBPAC members said they look forward to additional studies on efficacy measures for the vaccine and on how long protection lasts.
Nov 16 VRBPAC briefing report


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text: Fix a Snaggle Tooth Drilling, yanking, affixing wires that you have to wear for years: A trip to the dentist or orthodontist is the closest most people will get to torture. Thankfully, some forward-thinking companies are inventing ways to bring dentistry out of the stone age. Align Technology (ALGN) makers of Invisalign braces has built a nearly half-billion-dollar business by 3-D printing orthodontic aids based on scanned data of teeth. Instead of wearing the traditional metal braces, a series of slightly different clear braces are printed out — fixing a problem smile without the metal-mouth look. Photo: Align TechnologyBuild your Dream House Future generations will laugh that people once visualized new construction projects using blueprints. A prospective homeowner can now opt for a 3D-printed, full-color, dollhouse-sized version of their new abode before they cut their first check. Companies like iMaterialise will print a small version of your new home for $400 to $700, depending on size. Photo: ZCorpPop the Question Jewelers typically prototype new pieces by hand-carving models out of wax that are then cast in precious metal — a labor-intensive process that is prone to small accidents. Today, the maker can design a model in a CAD/CAM program like JewelStudio and create the form with a 3-D printer or CNC mill. Want to learn more? The MJSA, an association for jewelry makers, designers, and suppliers that focuses on design/manufacturing challenges, publishes a variety of journals to help artisans better understand custom manufacturing technologies. Photo: SolidScapeDress Like a Rockstar The fashion world was an early adopter of 3-D printing. Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen uses 3-D printers to create designer fashion for Björk and Lady Gaga. Freedom of Creation and Naim Josefi are using 3-D printers to make flashy heels that would make Carrie Bradshaw gasp. Continuum Fashion created the first 3-D printed bikini and glasses made on the MakerBot Replicator were the toast of the 2012 Fashion Week. Photo: Iris Van HerpenAward Yourself a Videogame Trophy Back when you ruled the day on Space Invaders, a high score meant inscribing your initials on a leaderboard. Today, your videogame exploits can be memorialized in three dimensions. Figure Prints creates trophies from World of Warcraft and Minecraft using ZCorp technology, the only 3D-printing method capable of printing full-color parts. Photo: ZCorpPrint Your Prescription 3D-printed joints or bones are now helping 30,000 patients remain mobile, 10 million are using custom-fit hearing aids, and in the near future, the machines will be used to print pharmaceutical drugs. When conjoined twins needed to be separated in a complex surgery, physicians from the Mayo Clinic commissioned 3-D prints of the internal organs based on MRIs. This allowed the team of 18 health care professionals to familiarize themselves with the complexity of the surgery before making the first incision in a time-sensitive procedure. No, it's not as dramatic as printing living tissue, but the example illustrates the many ways in which 3-D tech is influencing medical care. Customized jaw implant produced on a 3-D printer using CAD data obtained from an MRI. Photo: XillocBoost Your Kickstarter Project Most 3-D printers are used at the engineering stage of a project, but they can create finished goods, too, especially when the creator only plans to do a limited production run. The "Crania Anatomica Filigre" is the third most funded art project in Kickstarter history and required artist Joshua Harker to produce 894 plastic skulls using a 3-D printer. 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Reply to: Simplification of Stats is NOT a bad thing
I was trying to catch up on the Warcast forums today and was reading some commentary (http://www.worldofwarcast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=15872&posted=1#post15872) on the homogenization controversy we keep bringing up on Warcast. I keep getting the feeling after reading a lot of emails and comments that people just think I'm qq-ing over a feeling and not a fact. So anyhow here was my reply to the forum posts. I hope it brings to light more of the point I keep trying to get across. I also had an example about priests I wanted to use to directly speak about stat changes but left it out because the reply was getting too long. This one deals more with class homogenization.
I think it's really important to look at the over-all picture. I'm not qq-ing because of a few changes over the past months. I'm making an observation over the last five years. And while I have come to terms with these changes (it does take old dogs longer :)), I know for a fact that the homogenization is real. It does make the game simpler but it doesn't mean it hasn't made the game more fun... for some.
A lot of people point to the example of mages when they try to make this argument that the homogenization = more complexity in class play. "back in vanilla wow, all mages did was spam fireball or frost bolt" and now with wotlk, you're seeing mages use mods to monitor arc missile procs from arcane blasts assuming you don't have your four set bonus yet. They have to be careful with their timing and not waste procs. It's more fun for sure. It's more complex than spamming frostbolts for sure and you do amazing pew pew.
However, that's not the whole story. Five years ago, shamans could not decurse and resto tree druids couldn't do it in form. This left the duty mainly to mages who had decurse assignments. In addition to that, mages were always in charge of crowd control. Setting up focus macros to maintain your cc'd target was huge. Counterspell was also very common in a lot of the boss fights which were directly assigned to mages as well. In addition, there were a lot of really fun nova rotations you had to factor in and as well as a few really nifty aoe blizzard or flame strike combos with a mixture of frost and fire mages.
Homogenization has made it less critical for cc, aoe, counterspell, and decurse specializations from mages. Now they are pretty much prue dps soldiers. Shamans do the the decursing and can also counterspell, everyone and their mother can aoe effectively, and CC is almost an urban legend. These used to be part of the arsenal of a certain class and they are all but gone. You can ask almost any mage now that played in vanilla and they'll say, "yeah, it's a little bit more work than spamming one button but we sure as hell have far less buttons to worry about."
It's the tiny nuances that I struggled with losing. I'm not saying it's not for the best as I have submitted that this game isn't designed for the likes of me anymore. I had a great love/hate relationship with unbalanced chaos of class warfare.
And that's fine but I'm not just lamenting over some grand lie about how WoW is shifting to simplifying roles and gear. They are and their blue posts don't try to deny it. Does this free the devs up to create more balanced and fun gameplay for each class? Maybe. But I think the reality is that it's just creating more accessibility of gameplay for a wider audience who just don't give a crap about that stuff and just wanna pew pew and get phat lootz and play with their friends.


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The theme for last summer's family vacation was surfing. The plan was for our four-person clan to take an introductory lesson and, hopefully, learn enough so we could rent boards and get down to carving waves all on our own.
Because surfing exudes an inherent coolness, the idea was popular, but tinged with apprehension. Our boys, ages 7 and 10, worried whether they would be able to do it. My wife worried she was going to get injured like the last time we tried a decade ago, when an afternoon of clumsy but enjoyable small-wave surfing on our honeymoon in Costa Rica left her with a nasty backside bruise inflicted by her board. I worried a repeat could lead to a messy divorce leaving me with full custody of the children.
We wanted a spot where the water was warm and the surf gentle, within reasonable driving distance from Montreal. We chose Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina, where the gradually sloping coastline creates long, low rolling waves well suited for beginners. Seven kilometres long, Wrightsville Beach's white sand stretch is bordered by grassy dunes and attractive beach rental cottages. Water temperatures hovered around a balmy 26 C.
The surf holiday got off to an inauspicious start. Driving there took 18 hours split over two days. After arriving and setting up at our immaculate KOA campsite, where I had sent an email request for a shady spot "because my wife is convinced she's going to bake to death in our tent," we hurried to check out the beach.
After 45 minutes of joyous frolicking in the sun-soaked surf (without surfboards), we heard wailing and turned to see our eldest hunched over, a torrent of blood cascading down his face. A wave had bashed him face-first into the sand, causing his nose to swell so quickly we worried it was broken. We spent the next day checking for signs of concussion and debating a hospital visit. His enthusiasm for surfing, like his nose, had taken a serious hit.
Returning to the campsite at dusk, it was still hot and steamy, and our shady spot next to the forest turned out to be a mosquito breeding ground. Smaller than their northern brethren, they made up for their physical deficiencies by attacking in tight packs, like wolves.
My wife was threatening a move to the (much more costly) Holiday Inn. Matthew looked like he had insulted Mike Tyson's honour. Despite the torrid heat, our surfing holiday was skating on thin ice.
It was saved by our enthusiastic surfing instructors, a marketing student named Jordan in his early 20s, and a middle age, junior-high professor named Tim, who discovered his passion for surfing later in life. Our private family lesson (two hours for the adults, three for the boys, total $400) began with a half-hour orientation and safety session on the sand.
We learned what types of dangerous sea life exist in our stretch of the Atlantic (none — the jellyfish that made a nuisance of themselves in recent years had disappeared because the water was cooler; the local variety of sharks is small and uninterested in eating humans). We learned how rip currents are formed, and what to do if you're stuck in one (let it carry you out about 10 metres then swim to the side and back in; don't swim directly against it).
We were taught the technique for "popping up": moving from a prone position on the board to standing in a low crouch in one smooth motion to catch a wave. We learned how to make a head cage, wrapping your arms around your head to protect it from the lumbering nine-foot board attached with a leash to your ankle that can recoil quickly as you tumble in the surf.
Then it was time to head to the waves. Standing in chest-high water, the instructors took one student at a time and watched for a decent swell. When the right one rolled in, they pushed the board out to hit the same speed as the wave, then yelled "Pop up" at the right moment to catch the forward momentum of the surf and ride the small waves straight into shore. At this stage, there is no thought of carving turns — just staying upright.
On first attempts, there were nosedives or stumbles off the side. But as we learned where to position ourselves on the stable soft-top boards, everyone was able to get into a standing position and ride the waves to shore a few times each.
It feels a bit like skiing or snowboarding, except on a hill made of water that is moving forward quickly. Thrilling and slightly nerve-racking, it produced wide smiles for surfer and watcher every time someone caught a wave. We would spend three hours taking turns catching, or trying to catch, waves and riding them in. We finished our lessons sore, tired and elated, and treated ourselves to a celebratory feast at Olive Garden.
Surfing during lessons and doing it on your own, however, are two very different beasts.
On the first day of trying it solo on rented boards, it was so windy the waves were choppy and dangerous and we gave up. On following days, we found popping up is much easier with a pro picking out the right wave and pushing at the right time, and we did not catch many. More practice will be required.
In our case, everyone was happy to have attempted it, and to be able to say we caught a few waves. In between beach time, we visited the excellent Cape Fear Serpentarium in nearby Wilmington, home to many of the world's deadliest snakes, many of which have bitten the owner, who is still alive and describes in excruciating detail what the experience is like.
And my wife solved the mosquito and heat problem by insisting we move to a less forested spot, with electrical hookup. A large fan purchased at Home Hardware blew away the mosquitoes and kept us comfortably cool in the tent at night. Crisis, and Holiday Inn, averted.
We took lessons with the Surf Camp at Wrightsville Beach, one of the longest established of many surf schools available in the area. It offers a variety of programs, from two-hour private introductory lessons to weeklong surf camps for kids. Visit www.wbsurfcamp.com, or Google "surfing lessons in North Carolina" to find schools. Wrightsville Beach is only one of many areas along the North Carolina coast that offers surfing. The Outer Banks also has several spots. Renting boards costs $17 to $40 a day per board.


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Most of you won't be going to E3, as unlike TGS and GamesCom it's sadly closed to the public, but that doesn't matter. Some of you still find it interesting to pore over the location and size of a company's booths, so here they are!
And hey, that's cool. The weigh-in before a boxing match is a pointless formality that has no bearing on the final result, but it's still a televised event because people like to get a feel for the thing. See Microsoft and EA size each other up over a narrow pathway.
Me, I like looking at the tiny booths. Where it's interesting to see that Christian publisher Left Behind Games has a stand right across from Activision. And that NECA, producers of fine video game action figures, will have a booth, which will be located just down from both Take-Two and Konami.
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In 1990, Bruns and Merchant (1990) surveyed earnings management practices and asked the readership of the Harvard Business Review to rate the acceptability of those practices. Prior to the Bruns and Merchant (1990) study, the morality of short-term earnings management was of little concern to researchers and accounting practitioners. However, in the light of increased financial frauds and failures, new and increased emphasis has been placed on the importance of the concepts of earnings quality and earnings management practices. Despite increased research focusing on business ethics since 1990, there is little evidence that business schools and the profession are educating accountants about earnings management practices. Therefore, this study, similar to other studies, continues to use the Bruns and Merchant survey and compares the results of studies on students and business managers on earnings management practices. Students and business managers were surveyed at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and these results were compared to four studies prior to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 in the US. The expectation will be of changes in attitudes towards earnings management since the financial scandals and passing the Act. Therefore, the aim of the study is to determine if there have been changes in attitudes towards earnings management practices. No surveys using the Bruns and Merchant (1990) questionnaire are available in SA. Therefore, the study in SA was compared to available studies in the US.
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By: Linda Moss, Multichannel News
Cable-news networks were the big winners in 2008, breaking records while covering a landmark presidential election.
Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC handily secured their dominance over broadcast in the news genre with cable racking up its largest yearly share of viewers ever. Cable's piece of the news-watching pie last year was over three-fifths, or 61%, versus 39% for broadcast, according to a Turner Broadcasting System analysis of Nielsen Media Research data.
Cable news enjoyed another viewership watershed in 2008. CNN claimed that it had a "transformational" election night win on Nov. 4, when it beat all its broadcast and cable-news rivals as the most-watched network from 8 p.m. to 12:20 a.m.
"For the first time in the history of television, a cable network outdelivered every single broadcast network on election night," said Jack Wakshlag, Turner's chief research officer.
Boosted by their reporting on an extraordinary and historic presidential race most of the year, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC racked up sizable double-digit growth in household ratings, total viewers and the key news demographic, adults 25 to 54.
But Fox News remained the undisputed news champ. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes's network celebrated its seventh consecutive year as the cable-news rating leader in primetime and total day among viewers and the key 25-to-54 demographic. And 2008 was Fox News's highest-rated year ever in both total day and primetime. Fox News officials said its executives were not available for comment.
The dominant all-news network saw its primetime average grow 41% from 2007 to 2.059 million viewers last year, almost as many as CNN and MSNBC combined. In terms of household primetime ratings in 2008, Fox News ranked No. 4 among all cable networks with a 1.7 average, up 31% from 2007, according to Disney ABC Television Group analysis of Nielsen data.
In primetime ratings, CNN saw a 57% ratings' gain to a 1.1, while HLN, nee Headline News, was flat at a 0.4.
In total primetime viewers, CNN delivered 1.29 million, a 69% increase. MSNBC averaged 925,000, an 82% jump and HLN delivered 509,000, a 33% gain.
"It's the best year that CNN has ever had in terms of ratings," said CNN/U.S. president Jonathan Klein. "And it's no accident that it's also the best year we've ever had in terms of journalism. The better journalism we do, the more viewers we get. And we like that very clean and clear formula."
MSNBC also said it had its best year ever in 2008, with president Phil Griffin claiming that NBC Universal's underdog cable-news outlet had more to celebrate than CNN.
"Between us and CNN, it's a no-brainer," he said. "They had a good couple of days as they always will, but they don't have any story in 2008. We are the story in 2008. We've been an also-ran for the better part of our entire life at MSNBC. The story is the Tampa Bay Rays this year, they came out of nowhere to first place to get into the World Series. We came out of being an also-ran and now are beating day to day CNN in primetime, challenging Fox two hours of the day, two of the hours in primetime, often beating them."
Griffin was referring to Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which beats CNN in the 8 p.m. time slot weeknights; and MSNBC's new hit The Rachel Maddow Show, which has outperformed CNN's Larry King Live at 9 p.m. in the 25-to-54 since its September premiere.
Last year, Fox News maintained its top spot in that demographic, delivering 497,000 adults 25 to 54 in primetime, a 42% increase from 2007, according to the Disney ABC analysis. But CNN managed to narrow Fox's lead in that age group by averaging 455,000 viewers, an 86% gain over 2007. MSNBC delivered 369,000 viewers in the demo, an 83% advance, while HLN averaged 199,000, a 38% increase.
Klein cited last year's ascent of Anderson Cooper 360 to the No. 1 spot among 25-to-54-year-olds in primetime, versus Fox News's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren and MSNBC's Countdown replay.
But On the Record is still tops at 10 p.m. in total viewers. Indeed, On the Record was one of five Fox News shows that enjoyed their highest-rated year ever in 2008, according to the network.
Klein said CNN plays its coverage middle-of-the-road, versus its competitors MSNBC and Fox News.
"There is a liberal news network, but it's not CNN," Klein said, referring to MSNBC. "That's been very clearly established through their programming choices. We play its straight down the middle. We hold all sides accountable…We're not partisan cheerleaders and we're not partisan flame-throwers."
In response, Griffin said MSNBC shows have a "point of view," anchored by hosts who are "clever," with opinions based on facts.
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The result is what they'd hoped for: an eye-opening take that elevates the stature of Polish cuisine. Pierogi are "almost like dim sum when done right," as Crittenden points out, and a beet-root puree, prepared by chef George Adamo of Centro restaurant for the book launch at The Cookbook Store in Yorkville, turns out velvety and delicious. Even vodka, infused with ginger and fruity flavours as specified in the cookbook, had a lightness that belies the perception of Poland as a bland and stoic place. "The idea was not to show how Polish cuisine was done in Chicago over the last 60 years but as it is being done in Poland now," said Applebaum, one of the world's leading authorities on Eastern European history. Her follow-up to Gulag, the equally compelling and bleak The Iron Curtain, was also released to wide acclaim in 2012.
While she was working on that manuscript, Crittenden was testing the recipes in the cookbook time and again in her homes in Washington, D.C. and Prince Edward County, Ontario. Since the book's release, she has appeared on television in Poland. She is aware of the irony that a pair of North American women would be demonstrating Polish cooking to Poles. "I was a little worried, yes, but the cameraman seemed to like what he ate," Crittenden said with a laugh.


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If you point a gun at someone, you'd better make sure you shoot him, and if you shoot him you'd better make sure he's dead, because if he isn't then he's gonna get up and try to kill you. – Ray.
First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
Blood Simple (1984). Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmett Walsh, Frances McDormand. 96 minutes. ***
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (also released as A Simple Noodle Story and Sānqiāng Pāi'àn Jīngqí, 2009). In Mandarin. Directed by Zhang Yimou. Written by Shi Jianquan and Xue Jianchao, from the 1984 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Sun Honglei, Ni Dahong, Xiaoshenyang, Yan Ni. **
Here's the thing, this being the thing, you see. Murder can be an effective way to get what you want, or at least get even with the people you hate, but no matter how careful you are when you do it, no matter how clever your plan to get away with it, you will never quite succeed in wiping away all the blood, or gathering up all the evidence, or tailoring a crime scene that you can leave behind with an easy heart. You're always gonna leave behind something incriminating, something that points to you even when you'd prefer it to point to someone else. This goes double even if you didn't commit the murder yourself and simply believe you're doing a good turn for the person who did. Because maybe she didn't. And even that assumes that the corpse you're burying is really dead. Or, for that matter, unarmed…
These are the lessons taught by any number of noir thrillers, and which are particularly present in Blood Simple, the 1984 breakout film by Joel and Ethan Coen. No monster hit (it only grossed a little more than four million dollars), it did turn out to be the kind of film that establishes entire careers in a single stroke. Stylish, inventive, bloody, dark, kinetic, and often very funny, it marked the Coens as filmmakers to be watched; and established promise that they quickly followed up on with the one-two shot of the kidnapping comedy Raising Arizona and the gangster epic Miller's Crossing. Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country For Old Men were all still coming.
The best of the many good things that can be said about this early film is that the maiden effort that achieved such instant notoriety still looks promising, though time it has magnified its flaws and it now resembles what it is: the maiden work of promising but uncertain beginners.
It's essentially a five-character play, involving a murder driven by adultery, jealousy and greed. What's remarkable about it is that no character in it ever knows exactly what's going on; the deception that starts the cycle of bloodshed loops back around and ensnares the deceiver as well, so that nobody involved knows the whole picture at any point, and the ensuing crimes amount to a litany of misunderstandings. (It's a format the Coens returned to, to much inferior effect, in Burn After Reading, which also starred Frances McDormand.) The Mandarin remake A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop adds an additional character by turning an innocent bystander bartender into a married couple, but otherwise retains this format. At any point, if the characters figure out what the audience knows, there's no story.
Blood Simple (1984)
Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) is an oaf of a Texas bar owner, whose overbearing ways have driven away his much younger wife Abby (McDormand). You only have to spend a few minutes in Marty's presence to know why Abby left. He thinks it's because she's a slut who sleeps around. Its quite possible that she has already been unfaithful to him; it's also possible that when she immediately hops into bed with Marty's bartender Ray (John Getz), it's out of sheer relief at escaping the blunt instrument she married. There's certainly nothing in her behavior to suggest that she's the manipulative bitch Marty imagines her to be. Her tryst with Ray seems less about payback sex than a yearning for the genuine affection that Marty did not provide. Still, Marty does manage to plant the seed of doubt in Ray's mind, telling him, watch out for her, she'll betray you, too, and innocently bat her eyes while doing it.
Marty hires the loathsome private eye Visser (M. Emmett Walsh), one of the slimiest villains you've ever seen, to kill the two. Visser has no particular problem with killing, but doesn't cotton to the idea of having Marty hold it over his head afterward, so he makes some fine adjustments in the plan, faking photographic evidence that he's done the dirty deed, taking Marty's money, and then killing Marty with Abby's gun. No fuss, no muss…except that he leaves some evidence behind.
When Ray shows up to collect his back pay, he finds his old boss, who looks dead enough…and the gun that Visser left behind to implicate Abby. He jumps to the only sensible conclusion, that Abby has killed her husband…and immediately starts cleaning up the crime scene to protect her.
Unfortunately, he has to finish Marty off, to do it…and later, when he tells Abby what he's done, she claims to have absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
So what we've got here, by the midway point, is an epic three-way misunderstanding.
Ray is driven to the inescapable conclusion that Marty told him the truth about Abby, that she's a conniving femme fatale who uses men without conscience. He believes that she tried to commit murder, that he risked his own ass to help her out, and that she now won't carry her part of the weight.
Abby, who actually does care for Ray, honestly doesn't understand what he's talking about and is only frightened by his sudden coldness toward her and the hints of violent confrontations between him and Marty.
Visser, who thought he committed the perfect murder, is now bedeviled by a disappearing body and the loss of incriminating evidence. One important missing item is an engraved cigarette lighter easily identifiable as his, that he never quite succeeds in finding under the pile of fish Marty caught on his alibi vacation, that in one of the film's more visceral gags are left unattended for days and days, and must grow more and more malodorous as the level of communal guilt rises. He thinks that Ray and Abby possess the evidence of the crime and intend on holding it over him.
The final character, that bartender, is only involved to the extent that he thinks Ray has burglarized the joint.
There are more complications than these, but that's the essential shape of it. Again, nobody sees the whole picture. Nobody but the audience knows everything that's going on. By the time the film reaches its memorably violent conclusion, Abby completely misunderstands why she's being shot at. She thinks it's just Marty being Marty.
It doesn't add up to much, really, except as a self-contained better mousetrap. It falls apart on close examination, with a nest of logical flaws that include just how long it takes the chain-smoking Visser to realize that he's lost his lighter. It's not a long film, but it still drags in spots (even after the so-called "Director's Cut" re-release, which unlike most of its kind is actually shorter).
There are some hints of future greatness in the dialogue, always a Coen strong point. In many films made by lesser talents, characters speak what amounts to a dry commentary track on the plot. In Coen Brothers films, they go off on tangents, they expose weird bits of business from their pasts, they reveal too much, they drop hints of lives existing just off the boundaries of the screen. It can be a pleasure watching Coen Brothers characters go off the verbal reservation. There's a lot of this in Blood Simple, much of it Visser's off-color humor, but for my money the best character moment is an extended bedtime conversation between Abby and Ray, over her husband Marty's confession that, deep down, he might be secretly "anal." She imparts this information as if it's fraught with desperate significance, and Ray responds with, essentially, an awed, well, what about that. To paraphrase what Inigo Montoya said in The Princess Bride: that word, I don't think it means what you think it means. As "anal" in this context would seem to mean an obsessive attention to detail that might include obsessive cleanliness, and there's nothing in Marty's behavior that renders this likely or even relevant, there's really no telling what Marty believed he was confessing to (latent homosexuality?), how Abby interpreted it, or why it so mightily impresses Ray. They might be discussing three different things. If the moment establishes anything, it's that Abby and Ray do seem to be on the same page, before the nested misunderstandings start multiplying and drive a wedge between them.
But Blood Simple was most impressive with its set-pieces.
One involved the disposal of a body at the side of the road in the dead of night, that must be hurried before the oncoming car now visible by its headlights comes close enough for its driver to see what's happening. That got re-thought and restaged in their much better film Fargo, which (all together now!) was yet another that also starred McDormand.
The other is the final showdown between Abby and Visser, who is only visible to her as the hand groping for her through an open window. Imagining it Marty's, she impales it against the sill with a knife. Unable to free his hand, Visser is reduced to firing shots through the wall, admitting shafts of bright light to stream into the darkened room where Abby hides, and weakening the wall he must physically hammer through in order to free his hand.
In the end, Abby defeats Visser without ever laying eyes on him. From the next room, she cries, "I'm not afraid of you, Marty."
Visser, flat on his back beneath the sink, looking up at the plumbing, can only laugh. "Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message."
Abby knows that's not Ray. But, from her perspective, who the hell is it? She is not destined to know, at least not as long as we're watching.
The final shot is Visser staring up at a single dangling drop of water that has collected under the pipes. It dangles maddeningly, prior to falling.
Visser seems more disturbed by that drop of water, a harbinger of death, than he is by the bullet that struck him.
At the moment it falls, we cut to black.
A Woman, A Gun, And A Noodle Shop (2009)
Blood Simple was a breakout effort by new filmmakers with a terrific future still ahead of them. Its 2009 remake was the work of Zhang Yimou, an important, established director whose international hits included Raise The Red Lantern and the beautiful, fanciful martial arts films Hero and House Of Flying Daggers.
Unfortunately, the results are not what they should be.
Moving the action to medieval China required some substantial changes, among them the explanation for the presence of the firearm that causes so many problems. In modern-day Texas, it is not surprising that a churlish bar owner will come to a bad end from a handgun he originally bought his wife to carry in her handbag; that can be established in a line of dialogue, and immediately accepted as given. In A Woman, A Gun, And A Noodle Shop, the presence of the weapon requires more backstory. It's an exotic device from a distant land, that is brought to China by a Turkish trader who also tries to sell the titular lady an actual cannon. She buys the handgun as much for its novelty value as for protection from her wealthy and much older husband.
Unlike the apparently innocent Abby of Blood Simple, the wife here is a much harsher piece of work. Sure, she's abused by her remote husband for not producing an heir, but she's also the nasty, conniving sort that Marty merely imagines Abby to be. She carries out her affair with a co-worker in open defiance of her marriage, and local laws that declare adultery a serious crime.
The bar of the original is changed to a "noodle shop," essentially a roadhouse restaurant in the middle of nowhere, that but for one squadron of local police officers never seems to get any customers. There is still an impressive and extended narrative set-piece, unfortunately a highlight of the film, where the various noodle shop workers spin and juggle the dough prior to cutting the noodles into strips. If you like watching pizza shop guys juggle dough, this is the same thrill, only more so. It is admittedly dazzling, in effect a dance number. It still should not be a highlight of the movie.
Another highlight would be the surrounding desert, an alien and forbidding landscape of rolling rock formations, striated by bands of scarlet color. Every shot of this backdrop is absolutely gorgeous. The characters keep finding excuses – not just corpse disposal, but also romantic assignations – to keep going out there. There is no societal context. Oddly for a filmmaker whose martial arts films had such sweep and depth and scale, there is no sense of the surrounding world being inhabited by anybody but this small handful of people.
This movie's assassin is a corrupt local policeman. He is no colorful Visser, but a blank-eyed, stone-faced killer of little affect, who is for vast stretches of the film perversely funny for the matter-of-fact emptiness with which he keeps pursuing his various missions of evidence disposal. It's a one-note characterization that gets old. The bystander bartender character of the original is here split into two characters, a comical married couple whose own reasons for breaking into their employer's safe complicate matters still further; the man has a truly unfortunate pair of buck teeth that are distracting as hell until they lead to a sound-effects gag original to this film. It's one fraction of a second of pure genius. But then it ends.
The language barrier forces us to abdicate any discussion over whether any of the dialogue is as finely etched as that in the Coen film. Wordplay is, alas, the first thing to go when a film must be watched in translation, and neither one of us speaks Mandarin. We report that the film was praised by those in the know, for clever dialect humor involving the comic-relief married couple. It might actually be scintillating. We'll accept that it likely is, and move on.
The major set-pieces are duplicated, all of them to lesser effect. And none are missed by as wide a margin as the finale.
It made sense in Blood Simple for Visser to shoot at Ray and Abby through glass windows where they can be clearly seen from a rooftop across the street.
It makes less sense for the policeman of this film to fire a fusillade of arrows into a wooden house where the windows are mostly shaded and where there is no obvious line of sight.
It was stunning in Blood Simple when Abby grabbed Visser's hand through the window and used a knife previously unseen by us to crucify him through the palm.
It was less effective in this film when the scene is retold from the woman's point of view and we're privy to both her indecision and the critical moment when she spots something to stab him with.
It was suspenseful as hell in Blood Simple when Visser was hammering on the wall to try to break through it and free his hand, while Abby returned through the hallway to retrieve her handgun.
It was much less so in this film when the suspense of that scene is truncated and the besieged woman got to her weapon without difficulty.
The final exchange between unseen murderer and intended victim plays out almost word-for-word here as it does it Blood Simple – except in Mandarin, of course — but to lesser emotional payoff. Blood Simple's Abby says it with sad defiance; this woman screams it in rage. Abby's approach is better, as it underlines our awareness that we've just seen this woman live through a genuinely tragic series of events that she might never fully understand. This movie's screaming harpy was always a nasty piece of work. She'll get over it.
And we get that dangling droplet of water, too…though it's not so much a brilliant sight gag, here, as a shout-out to a much better previous film. Only those who saw Blood Simple first, and know it well, will even appreciate its significance.
The Droplet Falls
Blood Simple, an effective little thriller not quite good enough to add up to more than the sum of its parts, but nevertheless the first substantial achievement in the career of two great filmmakers. A Woman, A Gun, And A Noodle Shop, a much inferior follow-up by a filmmaker who's done much better, and will again.
And now, the wife peers through the bullet hole in the bathroom door, to deliver her own verdict…
Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Blood Simple (1984). Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring John Getz, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmett Walsh, Frances McDormand. 96 minutes. **
A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (also released as A Simple Noodle Story and Sānqiāng Pāi'àn Jīngqí, 2009). In Mandarin. Directed by Zhang Yimou. Written by Shi Jianquan and Xue Jianchao, from the 1984 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Sun Honglei, Ni Dahong, Xiaoshenyang, Yan Ni. **
This is one of those times when I really feel as if I have nothing special to say.
I neither liked nor terribly disliked either film. The Chinese remake I found to be beautifully filmed, but peopled by characatures, while the Coen bros had characters, but little substance.
Both films left me with a why did I bother empty feeling.
If I had to recommend one over the other could I? Maybe. I can see the spark that would grow in the brothers filmmaking lives, but at this point it is an embryonic ember in desperate need of screenwriting oxygen. And the Chinese film is more of a tribute to the original story, rather than a rethinking.
All in all, watch both films for yourselves and see which side the bloody dagger strikes you.


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It's in the Bible, so I Guess It's Important
Anyone who has ever tried to read through the entire Bible has inevitably found it to be an uneven experience. Some portions, like the Old Testament narratives or the Gospels and Acts are engaging, easy to read, and thoroughly entertaining. Other portions, like the New Testament epistles, Psalms, and Proverbs, are rich in theological discussion, inspirational poetry, and practical wisdom. But then there are those portions which are difficult to read and hard to get excited about: the genealogies in Genesis and Chronicles, the intricate plans for the construction of the tabernacle in Exodus, the censuses in Numbers, and the detailed instructions on how to perform various sacrifices in Leviticus. We dutifully try to read these passages, all the while thinking to ourselves, "Well, this is in the Bible, so I guess it must be important." Unfortunately, even when we do succeed in slogging through these passages, it's not always apparent what good they did us.
Still, the more we read the Bible, the more we begin to see how these tedious passages are the key to understanding many of the more interesting ones. For example, the books of Samuel speak a great deal about the tabernacle and priestly practices. Eli and his sons, and later Saul, are rejected because of religious failures which may not immediately strike us as that big a deal. And what about poor Uzzah, whose only sin seems to have been wanting to keep the ark of the covenant from falling to the ground? How can we understand these passages unless we have a firm grasp of the cultic background they address?
Artistic depiction of the death of Uzzah
from Carta's Encyclopedia of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem
Or what about New Testament books like the epistle to the Hebrews? That epistle discusses the Jewish temple, priesthood, and sacrifices in great detail, comparing them and contrasting them with Jesus Christ and the Christian church. The more you know of the former the better you can grasp what the author is saying about the latter.
Artistic depiction of tabernacle sacrifices from the
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary on the New Testament
So it turns out that all those tedious parts of the Bible really are important and worth understanding. In fact, those who don't understand them can sometimes fall prey to the sophistry and manipulation of unscrupulous teachers who claim to have "unlocked" their meaning.
It seems that every time I flip through the channels of my television, I run across some teacher who is explaining the "symbolic" meaning of the temple or the Day of Atonement or some kind of Hebrew sacrifice. Some of this teaching is helpful, but most of it is absolute nonsense. Unfortunately, those who lap this stuff up have no way of judging the accuracy of their teachers' claims. By claiming to open up these more inscrutable passages of the Bible, these teachers establish themselves as unquestionable authorities, and that's a dangerous thing for both teacher and student alike.
In the past two weeks, we've released resources from Zondervan and Carta which carefully and accurately explain the historical, cultural, and religious background of even the most obscure Biblical passages. By utilizing these resources well, we can be better equipped to understand those passages and to counter the teachings of those who misread them. This week, I'll give you some specific examples of how those resources can help you.
Archived Comments
David Rowbory
Thanks David. Yes, I too find quite distressing all the absolute nonsense of 'hidden secrets' in the bible that gets bandied about by dangerous nutcases or even just people who've been naively led astray by someone. It's one of those places where "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and superficial ideas can be quite distracting and harmful.
Too much (unfounded) certainty about things that in all honesty and with all careful research are ambiguous is similarly dangerous. I'll have to have a look at the resources. Thanks for highlighting them.


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UFO Online to take a small break
Posted by dandare on August 31, 2008
UFO Online will now be taking a small break, due to me going on holiday, for 2 weeks to Benidorm, from early tommorrow morning (uk time).
Please bookmark this site (if you would like to that is), but rest assurred i'll be back, to report more UFO news and goings on.
All comments that are posted for these next 2 weeks, will be held for me to approve or not….
so if you do not see a comment come up, this is why? i apologise, but this is the only way to beat the spam, which still manages to get through the filters …
i will look through all comments left, and try and approve as many (with my own response to them also) ASAP.
For now, i have left below some videos i have recently looked through on the internet, and found interesting.
UFO Testimony ( Seniour FAA official john Callahan recounts a major UFO encounter over alaska in 1986 ). Please see here for video from LiveLeak.com.
UFO: Uncovering a national Secret
Lonnie Zamora (april 24th 1964 )
Part 1
Part 2
Also from 2006 ( lonnie Zamora )
Clinton UFO files released by Clinton Library (Nov 12th 2007 )
The second UFO found near Roswell See here for video (from Metcafe video ).
Belgium UFO wave
Part 1
Part 2
UFO sightings in Belgium, 1990
UFO sighting over the wash, uk ( around 1998 )


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