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Cheap date
Posted by Li Yar on October 29, 2007
In Reply to: Cheap date posted by skjarvis on October 28, 2007
: : : : A newsblog made this statement recently:
: : : : "Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert is 'running for president.' It's a joke, of course, but the Politico's Kenneth Vogel notes that it could trigger 'strict election law provisions,' so the network's lawyers are taking it 'very seriously':
: : : : A Comedy Central spokesperson, who declined to be named, would not answer questions about whether the network plans to promote Colbert's candidacy, how much the network spends to produce the show or whether it paid staff and lawyers working to get Colbert on South Carolina's ballots.
: : : : Usually reporters at least get some information out of their sources in exchange for anonymity. Vogel is a cheap date."
: : : : I am curious about the meaning of "cheap date"
: : : :'cheap date'=a girl[sorry,it is sexist]who you can take advantage of sexually for little expense i.e. McDonalds rather than Maxim's.Hence,anyone who can be bought cheaply in any arena.Is your quaery political?
: : I'm pretty inexperienced in regard to cheap dates, except that I've never had a really expensive one. I've always supposed that cheap or costly, a date didn't necessarily bespeak any sexual favors or complaisance. At least I didn't get much of that from MY cheap dates. But I bow to superior wisdom and experience.
: : There are numerous Internet sites offering ideas for cheap dates. Here's one of many.
: : http://www.google.com/search?q=%22cheap%20date
: : I believe 'cheap date' refers to a female who gets tipsy from alcohol very quickly, thus putting her 'in the mood'. It would cost the male very little to buy fewer drinks, so she was the cheap date!
let us not forget the comparison with an inexpensive and low-quality fruit.
a 'cheap date' is one that says "Eat Me!" on the box, is it not?
Li Yar
- Cheap date skjarvis 12/November/07


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Friday, January 16, 2009
Interview: Catching Up With Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey is best known to daytime audiences for playing Sandy Foster on Guiding Light from 2003 to 2006. Now he is co-starring with Sigourney Weaver, Ryan Kelley and Susan Ruttan in the Lifetime Television original movie Prayers for Bobby. The film tells the story of Mary Griffith (Sigourney), a profoundly religious wife and mother who begins to question her faith after the suicide of her gay son, Bobby (Ryan). The movie is based on an acclaimed book of the same name written by Leroy Aarons.
Scott plays David, Bobby's boyfriend. Scott explains: "It's a very sad story, but it's an important one. In this tragic tale, I think David represents hope, because he is encouraging, very accepting, very at peace with being gay. His family is also accepting, and I think that his life represents the way it should be."
This film is a coming-of-age story that many people don't really even have to think about until it affects them or someone they love. As Scott tells me: "As if your teenage years aren't hard enough, imagine having to come out to your family and friends. If they don't understand or approve of it, or their religion may tell them that you're damned to hell because of it — I think that is one of the reasons why the gay suicide rate is four times greater than the suicide rate among straight teenagers."
Scott had read the book a few years before, so when he learned of the movie, he jumped at the chance to be in it. "I would have loved to play Bobby, of course, but," he adds with a laugh, "I realize I am a little too old to play him."
But reflecting back on David, Scott is more than satisfied with playing this pivotal role: "I think this part IS me. I am an idealist, and I don't see color or race or sexual orientation, and it is hard for me to grasp that so much prejudice exists in the world."
Scott was on his toes working with such an impressive cast. He recalls: "On my very first day of shooting, I had to shoot some emotional scenes with Sigourney Weaver. For me, that's like going to the World Series or something. I was so determined to bring my A-game.
"You hear about these big stars, they're working all the time, making all this money, and you almost want to find out that they're jerks — not Sigourney. She is an amazing actress, and she had some hard work to do in this film. She is very nice, collaborative, engaged — everything nice you could say about her, you take that and double it."
He also enjoyed working with the rest of the cast. "The cast was amazing. Ryan did a great job, and I think it is going to be really heartbreaking."
When all is said and done, Scott really hopes that viewers take away a few lessons from the movie: "I think movies like this need to be seen. I hope audiences learn about homosexuality and the Bible, and that by telling this we are able to increase some form of tolerance. I hope that kids out there who might be like Bobby can watch this movie, and maybe show it to their parents, so they won't even consider suicide as an answer."
Prayers for Bobby premieres Saturday, Jan. 24, on Lifetime Television. Check your local listings for times.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Days: Such a Tease!
* Chloe gets an audition in Vancouver and decides to get away.
* Rafe faces off with the killer.
* Charlotte flies off the deep end and takes a lethal syringe to Marlena's townhouse.
* Kate warns Lucas about keeping Sami in his life.
Thursday – Nicole learns Sami's whereabouts and decides to pay her a visit.
Friday – John and Marlena (Drake Hogestyn and Deidre Hall, pictured) say goodbye to Salem.
Days Star Has Baby Girl
Alison Sweeney, 31, gave birth to Megan Hope Sanov at 11:48 p.m. last night, Jan. 12. Megan weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces.
"Everyone is doing great," Alison's rep says. "She said she can't wait to watch The Biggest Loser tonight with her daughter."
Alison, who hosts NBC's The Biggest Loser along with playing Sami Brady on Days of Our Lives, also has a 3-year-old son, Ben, with hubby Dave Sanov.
Monday, January 12, 2009
B&B: Such a Tease!
•Ridge suffers an emotional meltdown.
•Bridget tries to put a stop to Rick's newest venture.
•Katie learns what Nick (Jack Wagner, pictured) has been hiding.
•Steffy's life gets complicated.
•Stephanie and Jackie find comfort at the bottom of their martini glasses.
Y&R: Such a Tease!
•Chloe struggles with her feelings for Billy. Will Lily decide to take a step back from him?
•Nick and Sharon are horrified when Brad reveals Phyllis' (Michelle Stafford, pictured) scheme to break up Jack and Sharon.
•Knowing that he can face jail time, will Adam accept the terms of Victor's deal?
•Anger and emotion explode as Nick and Phyllis' argument escalates.
•Tyra and Karen have a heated confrontation when Tyra learns Karen wants to adopt Ana.
GL: Such a Tease!
•Coop (John Driscoll, pictured) and Beth's affair is exposed.
•Lizzie gets kidnapped — again.
•Shayne reveals the truth about his girlfriend.
•Mallet and Marina get Mallet's fertility test results.
ATWT: Such a Tease!
•Lucinda (Elizabeth Hubbard, pictured) helps bring Luke and Noah back together.
•Lily puts a crazy idea into Craig's head.
•Jade's past catches up to her.
•Dusty and Johnny try to get used to their new lives.
Interview AMC: Aiden Turner Talks Guns, Thailand and Soggy Lettuce
Back in 2002, Aiden Turner received the highest compliment an actor on a soap opera can get: The powers that be at All My Children created a role specifically for him. For the past six years, Aiden has portrayed Aidan Devane, Pine Valley's resident private investigator.
No one was more stunned – or thankful – when Aiden was cast as Aidan. He explains: "At the time I had just recently arrived from England. I was only here for four months, got an agent and went over to see Judy Wilson. They didn't give me the first role that I auditioned for, but they got me back to do a screen test and wanted to create a role for me. It was a great compliment."
Aiden has nothing but praise for Judy, herself an award-winning casting director who is credited with casting some of the most memorable roles in daytime. "I owe Judy everything," Aidan says. "She has a great eye for talent – not that I was too talented back then. She saw me and saw something in me. And I'm glad she did, because it's been a great six years."
In these six years, Aiden has been like a kid in a candy store. Playing such a skilled character like Aidan has been fun and challenging.
"I like the fact that he is highly trained in aikido and martial arts, and he's weapon trained. I love that he's got a military background. I really respect what our troops in England and what American troops are doing today in the world and fighting the war against terror, and to know that my character is a part of that makes me feel good.
"Plus, I've always loved war movies, like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket," Aiden continues. "I get to act out that I am a special spy – or 008, they call me – and I get to play with guns at work. For instance, the other week, I got to play with a MAC-10. They sent me to gun training for it for an hour and a half. I shot it about four times, and I offed 30 rounds each time; it's a powerful machine gun. I got to use it on set, with blanks, of course.
"That's my character and I love that. I think it's cool, and it makes me feel tough. When I get home, I feel like soggy lettuce compared with Aidan Devane."
Before landing his role on AMC, Aiden did quite a bit of traveling as a model, which he absolutely loved. "Thailand was one of the first places I went on my around-the-world trip. I really love Thailand – it just looks like paradise to me, with the palm trees coming out over the beach and all the little huts. Thai food is amazing.
"I also went to Bali, Indonesia, which was really nice. That, and the fact that everything was about 10 times cheaper than it was in England, so you didn't have to worry about money. But Australia is my favorite place. If I could live anywhere and still work, if I could just pick up and move to Sydney and work, I'd be the happiest man on Earth."
Sunday, January 11, 2009
OLTL: Such a Tease!
Cole starts down a dangerous path.
Viki can't turn her back on Todd (Trevor St. John, pictured).
Bo and Nora confront Matthew with the drugs they found.
Todd opens up to Starr.
Marty pushes Cole away.
Brody has a breakthrough.
Jessica remembers more about the night she gave birth.
Tea manipulates Lola.
Dorian enlists Delphina's help to find David.
Tess pleads with Viki to help her find out the truth about Chloe.
Brody seeks answers from Wes.
Tess remembers what happened when Chloe was born.
Starr realizes Cole is on drugs.
David is tempted by Dorian's advances.
GH: Such a Tease!
Jax and Carly take steps toward getting back together.
Nikolas and Nadine take on the government.
Agent Rayner offers Jason a deal.
Claudia pressures Sonny to get rid of Jason once and for all.
Jax and Carly share a romantic evening together.
Jason gets in deeper with the Feds.
Kate (Megan Ward, pictured) spies on an oblivious Claudia.
Lucky and Sam can't seem to connect.
Sonny asks Jason point blank if he betrayed him.
Claudia frantically searches for the DVD that could do her in.
Maxie puts Spinelli's mind at ease.
Jason and Sonny come clean with each other.
Ric grows suspicious of Claudia.
Patrick recalls the events before disaster struck.
AMC: Such a Tease!
Bianca's plan backfires.
Pete (Daniel Kennedy, pictured) is heartbroken over Colby's rejection.
The jig could be up for Aidan.
Tad plays hardball with Krystal.
Randi's past comes back to haunt her.
Zach suspects that Erica is up to something.
Aidan promises Annie that he'll help her.
Josh vows revenge against Zach.
David has dire news for Zach.
Aidan coaches Annie on what to tell Dr. Sinclair.
Opal questions Krystal about David's true motives.
Josh makes a desperate move.
Amanda buys a pregnancy test.
Angie and Jake team up to bring David down.

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Kanye West debuted an ambitious self-directed video Saturday entitled "Runaway," premiering on the MTV Networks, including MTV2 and BET.
The 35-minute video tells the story of an otherworldly, phoenix-like creature (Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks) who is transported earth by a meteor and must be consumed by flame to be reborn. Pretty deep stuff.
The video opens with Kanye frantically running down an abandoned country road, with a movement from Mozart's "Requiem" playing, soon melting into one of Kanye's tracks.
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The stylized film could be interpreted as a thickly layered metaphor for Kanye's journey to fame. Ebanks portrays a fragile, scared creature that balks in the first thirty seconds of watching the news.
"First rule to this world baby?" Kanye tells her as she crawls away from the television set, "don't pay attention to anything you see in the news!"
Sage advice, Mr. West.
After Swiftgate, Kanye struggled with backlash from fans and members of the press. "People tweeted that they wish I was dead," the rapper said. "They wanted me to die, people. I carry that."
It would appear that he still carries that, or at least wants to portray it. Much of the film's theme touches on rebirth, redemption, and loss.
The angel wanders in Kanye's surprisingly fauna-filled yard, full of rabbits, sheep, and a stray turkey or two. She's unsure of the world she's in. While she explores, Kanye watches stoically from behind a window. Then, a very erotic scene where Kanye plays bits of "Power." The phoenix writhes to the beat.
Every moment of joy, it seems, is taken away by a cut to a crazy swirling fireball. Lots of flames, lots of red.
In the next scene, a kid runs through a meadow with a red torch, leading Kanye and Phoenix to a strange gathering of a marching band, in front of hooded red figures reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan, with an effigy of Michael Jackson in the middle, quickly replaced by a black figure clothed in white robes. "All The Lights" plays in the background, and both Kanye and the phoenix stare in wonder at the fireworks. Then another fireball scene.
West then tries to civilize the phoenix a la "My Fair Lady" by teaching her how to use silverware, quite a feat owing to the fact she has incredibly long copper talons.
There's then a dinner party where guests, clad in all white, stare dubiously at West's dinner date. The guest to West's right looks at him. "Do you know she's a bird?" he asks.
West pauses for a beat. "Naw, I never noticed that," he deadpans.
"I mean, like, leave the monkey in the zoo," returns the guest.
Kanye seems to have had enough of "polite" society talk, and shuffles over to an old upright piano, where he keys out a strange tune. Instantly, a heard of ballerinas clad in black shuffle out and proceed to gracefully leap and jump.
Then, as many dinner parties often end, a large game turkey is served, and the phoenix enters a screeching panic, spreading her wings to full girth. Cue another giant fireball scene.
In the next scene, West and the phoenix are on his roof. She asks him if he knows what she hates about this new world. "Anything that is different you try to change. You try to tear it down." There is, inevitably, a love scene to West's heavily auto-tuned "Lost in the World." The next morning, he wakes up alone and returns to the woods, only to see the phoenix's trail of flame taking her back to her home.
It's hard to know where to start with the visual feast—from a drawn out classical ballet interlude to a fanciful dinner party, the video is intricate at its best and over-ambitious at its worst. Kanye tweeted some thoughts on his video this Saturday, saying, "I love commercial art!!! I know that sounds like an oxy moron and if I spelled that wrong I just sound like a moron lol!!!" following up with, "...but seriously have you guys taken time to think about that concept???!! COMMERCIAL ART!!! It just came to me! That's what I make!"
Brings to mind a line West raps during the dinner party scene: "Hard to be humble when you stuntin' on the Jumbotron."
Selected Reading: MTV, Kanye West, Twitter


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Today at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday Americans watching television or listening to the radio will see and hear a familiar sounding message: "This is a test of the Emergency Alert System. This is only a test...."
This 30-second audio tone and message will sound like emergency test messages that local television and radio stations have broadcast for nearly 50 years. But Wednesday's test will be the first time the federal Emergency Alert System – a last resort means for the president to address the country in a national emergency – has been tested on a national basis.
At the appointed time, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) office in Washington will broadcast to "primary entry point" television and radio stations "live code" for an Emergency Action Notification – the same code the president would use in an actual emergency. Other Emergency Alert System (EAS) stations will then get the message and broadcast it, in a cascading effect.
There are 14,000-plus broadcast television and radio stations, as well as 10,000-plus cable television systems in the EAS.
The EAS uses a "daisy chain" approach in which a few dozen television stations relay their signals to secondary stations, which in turn relay their signals to others. One advantage to such a system is that it isn't likely to get clogged, like cellphone networks often do during emergencies, as they did after the 9/11 attacks.
But will this system, a holdover from the cold-war era, really work?
Today's EAS system is a direct descendant of CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), a military alert system created in 1951. Then in 1963, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) was created by expanding the military system to include state and local governments. Finally, the system was upgraded and automated in the 1990s, and its name was changed to the Emergency Alert System.
The purpose of the test Wednesday, federal officials say, is to put that old system through its paces – to allow FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "to assess how well the Emergency Alert System would perform its primary function: alerting the public about a national emergency."
Adding urgency to the first-of-its-kind test are the various natural disasters the United States has faced this year, including tornadoes in Alabama and Joplin, Mo., as well as hurricane Irene. The US has also identified several potential national threats – including a cyberattack on the power grid and geomagnetic storms that could cripple huge swathes of the county's power grid, a FEMA spokesman says.
But perhaps the overriding reason to test the existing system: It is a necessary first step toward the longer-term goal of building an advanced digital system that can send alerts over the Internet and directly to cellphones, emergency broadcast experts say.
"Today's test is a major step forward toward a better system," says Dennis Mileti former director of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "What we've got today is not by any means a perfect warning system. Our alerting capacity is definitely going up at a national level with this test, but our warning capacity – that is, the ability to motivate the public to take protective action – needs a lot more work."
Most people have access to a TV or radio. That's good, but if you aren't glued to a television or radio, you won't get the warning.
Americans listen to the radio on average around 12 percent of their day and the average television set is on about 30 percent of the day, Martin Bongers, project officer for the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) said in a rare speech outlining the system challenges a few years ago.
What's more, less than 1 percent are listening or watching at night. And nearly 20 percent of households watch satellite television, which doesn't participate in the EAS. People with hearing impairments also are at a disadvantage in receiving an alert.
For all these reasons, Mr. Bongers and other experts say a better system is desperately needed.
A new system is on the way, say officials at the FCC.
The FCC has outlined a plan to develop a redundant multi-platform alerting system. The agency's ultimate goal is to have an integrated public alert and warning system that uses multiple communications technologies.
That plan coordinated by FEMA, the FCC, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) called the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) would integrate the existing EAS system with digital systems.
A key reason an upgrade is needed is the far more complex post-9/11 world we live in, experts say.
Previously, alerts focused on a single nuclear attack. Today, a multiplicity of agencies would be involved in dealing with possible terrorist attacks or accidents at nuclear, chemical, or industrial facilities.
There are also pandemic public health threats like Swine Flu.
"What's happened since 9/11 is the recognition that terrorists can do other things, like exploding dirty bombs, releasing toxic chemicals or biological agents," says Michael Lindell, a professor who teaches emergency management at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. "This puts a lot more demand on a future version of the emergency alert system [to use] digital systems that are more adaptable and focused."
Perhaps as one example of why the old warning system needs an upgrade, FEMA and FCC officials admit that television viewers may not be clearly notified that today's test is indeed, "only a test."
"We acknowledge limits of this decades old technology. Because of these limitations, the visual may not work," says Rachel Racusen, a FEMA spokesperson. "The audio will say this is a test, but the visual may not say that on all TV screens that this is a test."


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H.R.3765 - Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011112th Congress (2011-2012)
|Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4] (Introduced 12/23/2011)
|House - Ways and Means; Energy and Commerce; Transportation and Infrastructure; Natural Resources; Foreign Affairs; Financial Services; Budget
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|12/23/2011 Became Public Law No: 112-78. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
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Public Law No: 112-78 (12/23/2011)
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 - Title I: Temporary Payroll Tax Relief - (Sec. 101) Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to extend: (1) the reduction in the rate of the self-employment tax on self-employed individuals through 2012; and (2) the reduction in the rate of the employment tax on employees until February 29, 2012. Makes the reduction in the tax rate for self-employed individuals applicable to self-employment income not exceeding the excess of $18,350 over the amount of other wages and compensation received by such self-employed individuals for taxable years beginning in 2012.
Title II: Temporary Extension of Unemployment Compensation Provisions - (Sec. 201) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through March 6, 2012. Postpones the termination of the program until August 15, 2012.
Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until March 7, 2012, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.
Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and August 15, 2012, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)
Amends the FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31, 2011, to February 29, 2012, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.
(Sec. 202) Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, to extend through February 29, 2012, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits for employees with 10 or more years of service as well as for those with less than 10.
Title III: Temporary Extension of Health Provisions - (Sec. 301) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to set the update to the single conversion factor in the formula for the physicians' fee schedule for the first two months of 2012 at zero (thus freezing the physician payment update for the first two months of 2012). Requires the conversion factor for the remaining portion of 2012 and subsequent years to be computed as if the zero update for the first two months of 2012 had never applied.
(Sec. 302) Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, as modified by other federal law, to extend section 508 hospital reclassifications for two months through November 30, 2011. ("Section 508" refers to Section 508 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 [MMA], which allows the temporary reclassification of a hospital with a low Medicare area wage index, for reimbursement purposes, to a nearby location with a higher Medicare area wage index, so that the "Section 508 hospital" will receive the higher Medicare reimbursement rate.)
(Sec. 303) Extends through February 29, 2012, the 1.0 floor on geographic indexing adjustments to the work portion of the physician fee schedule.
(Sec. 304) Extends through February 29, 2012, the process allowing exceptions to limitations on medically necessary therapy caps.
(Sec. 305) Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to extend until February 29, 2012, an exception to a payment rule that permits laboratories to receive direct Medicare reimbursement when providing the technical component of certain physician pathology services that had been outsourced by certain (rural) hospitals.
(Sec. 306) Amends SSA title XVIII to extend the bonus and increased payments for ground ambulance services until March 1, 2012.
Amends the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) to extend the payment of certain urban air ambulance services until February 29, 2012.
Extends increased payments for super rural ambulance services until March 1, 2012.
(Sec. 307) Amends MIPPA to extend the physician fee schedule mental health add-on payment provision through February 29, 2012.
(Sec. 308) Extends through February 29, 2012, hold harmless provisions under the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services.
(Sec. 309) Extends the minimum payment for bone mass measurement through the first two months of 2012.
(Sec. 310) Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to extend the Qualifying Individual (QI) Program through February 29, 2012, at specified allocations.
(Sec. 311) Extends the Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) Program through February 29, 2012.
(Sec. 312) Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of SSA title IV to extend the TANF program through February 29, 2012.
Title IV: Mortgage Fees and Premiums - (Sec. 401) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to require the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to require each government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) (the Federal National Mortgage Association [Fannie Mae] and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation [Freddie Mac]) to charge a guarantee fee in connection with any guarantee of the timely payment of principal and interest on securities, notes, and other obligations based on or backed by mortgages on residential real properties designed principally for the occupancy of from one to four families.
Requires the FHFA Director to prohibit a GSE from consummating any offer for a guarantee to a lender for mortgage-backed securities if: (1) the guarantee is inconsistent with the requirements of this Act; or (2) the risk of loss is allowed to increase, through the lowering of the underwriting standards or other means, for the primary purpose of meeting the requirements of this Act.
Requires direct deposit into the Treasury of any amounts received from fee increases imposed by this Act that are necessary to comply with the minimum increase required by this Act.
Requires the Director to require each GSE, as part of its annual report, to: (1) describe changes made to up-front fees and annual fees as part of the guarantee fees negotiated with lenders, changes to the riskiness of the new borrowers compared to previous origination years or book years, and any adjustments required to improve for future origination years or book years, in order to be in complete compliance with guarantee fee requirements; and (2) assess how the changes in such guarantee fees met the requirements of this title.
(Sec. 402) Amends the National Housing Act with respect to requirements for each mortgage secured by a 1- to 4-family dwelling that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in addition to other required or authorized premiums, to establish and collect through FY2021 annual premium payments of up to 10 basis points of the remaining insured principal balance for any mortgage for which the Secretary collects an annual premium on the remaining insured principal balance.
Title V: Other Provisions - Subtitle A: Keystone XL Pipeline - (Sec. 501) Directs the President, acting through the Secretary of State, to grant a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline project application filed on September 19, 2008.
Waives such requirement if the President determines that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest. Requires the President, in that case, to report to certain congressional committees and officials a justification for his determination, including consideration of economic, employment, energy security, foreign policy, trade, and environmental factors.
Declares that a permit for such pipeline shall take effect by operation of law if after 60 days following enactment of this Act the President fails to: (1) determine that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest, or (2) grant the permit.
Subtitle B: Budgetary Provisions - (Sec. 511) Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the Senate to consider a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that includes an emergency designation.
Permits waiver or suspension of such prohibition, or successful appeals from a ruling of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.
(Sec. 512) Prohibits the budgetary effects of this Act from being entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.


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It Penang month.Penang is one of my favourite state because there got a lot of delicious food.I love it so much.Never miss Asam Laksa,Rojak and Hokkien Mee.
In Seremban and Kuala Lumpur we did not call it Hokkien Mee.We call it Prawn Noodle.Here Hokkien Mee is fried yellow noodle with dark soy sauce.
I remember the 1st time I go to Penang,my sister order a Hokkien Mee and come noodle with soup.She go tell the hawker that he give wrong noodle and the hawker told her you order Hokkien Mee,right?This is Hokkien Mee lor....Then my sister told him Hokkien Mee is black colour noodle and no soup....Then my our god-brother told her in Penang,Hokkien Mee is Prawn Noodle...Hahaha....
Recipe source : DIY Hawker's Noodle Cookbook by Mdm.Cheong & Mdm.Koh
300g yellow noodles (wash&scald)
200g mee hoon (soak&scald)
100g bean sprouts (wash&scald)
100g kangkung ( wash&scald then snipped)
300g pork belly
4 hard-boiled eggs
1/2tsp salt
50g rock sugar
1/2tsp ajinomoto (option)
Soup Ingredients
600g pork ribs
300g prawn
6 cups water
Chilli Paste Ingredients
300g dried chilli
some water
150g pork fat (diced)
15 shallots (sliced)
3tbsp chilli paste from ( A )
some deep-fry pork fat and sauté shallot flakes
Method for chilli paste
- Soak dried chilli with water.
- Pour away the water and blend the dried chilli with enough water until become paste.Set aside.( You can keep the extra chilli paste in fridge for next time use.)
- Heat some oil and deep fry pork fat to get pork oil.
- Then remove the deep-fried pork fat.Set aside for garnish.
- Use the pork oil to sauté slices shallots until crispy,remove the shallots flakes and set aside for garnish.
- Use back the oil and add in the chilli paste from ( A ),stir-fry until fragrant.Dish out and set aside.
- Blanched pork ribs in boiling water to remove blood,drian.
- Pour 5 cups of water into a large pot,add in pork ribs.Simmer for 2-3 hours.
- Then add in the pork belly,blanch for 10 min or until cooked.Remove and sliced thinly.Set aside.Continue simmer stock with low heat.
- Blanched the prawns with remaining 1 cup water,dish out and remove the prawn's shell.Set the prawn meat aside.Keep the prawn stock and shell.
- Heat some oil,stir-fry the prawn's shell until fragrant,add in prawn's stock.Blend until smooth,strain it to obtain prawn stock.
- Pour the prawn stock into rib stock and boil it for a while.
- Add in 1 tbsp. chilli paste.Mix well.
- Place some yellow noodle and mee hoon in a large bowl.Then spread in bean sprouts,kangkung,sliced pork belly,prawn and egg.
- Pour in soup and garnish with deep-fried pork and shallot flakes.
- Add in some chilli paste according to own liking.
- Serve hot.


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Wake up, Rosetta!
Think it's tough getting up in the morning when the alarm clock sounds? Imagine what it must be like waking up 673 million kilometres from the warmth of the Sun and with no coffee. You might need some help…
Join the 'Wake Up Rosetta' campaign, an international video shout-out to celebrate the end of 31 months of deep-space hibernation endured by ESA's comet-chasing Rosetta. There are some fabulous prizes to be won.
Rosetta was launched in 2004 and has since travelled around the Sun five times, picking up energy from Earth and Mars to line it up with its final destination: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. For the coldest, loneliest leg of the mission, as Rosetta travelled out towards the orbit of Jupiter, the spacecraft was put into deep-space hibernation.
In 2014, Rosetta will complete its cruise towards the comet, rendezvousing with it in August, before putting its Philae lander onto the comet's surface in November, as it begins its journey closer to the Sun.
The time for Rosetta to wake up and prepare for this most exciting scientific adventure is now fast approaching. The spacecraft's internal alarm clock is set for 10:00 GMT (11:00 CET) on 20 January. Once it has warmed itself up, it should re-establish communication with Earth several hours later.
In a competition that opens today, ESA invites you to mark this important milestone in the Rosetta mission by sharing a video clip of you shouting "Wake up, Rosetta!"
You can upload your video clip and share it with the world via ESA's dedicated Facebook page.
Be creative and imaginative – you can include friends, family, colleagues, members of your team, social clubs, and school groups, or even put together a flash mob to create a memorable video shout.
Visitors to the Facebook page can vote on their favourite videos and compete to win some great prizes:
– Each of the top ten videos will be transmitted with 20 000 Watts of power towards Rosetta and out into the Universe via one of ESA's deep-space tracking stations.
– Each eligible participant submitting one of the top ten videos will receive a complimentary gift bag comprising a selection of ESA-branded souvenirs.
– Two of the eligible top ten video authors will be invited to ESOC, our control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, for the VIP event celebrating the first-ever landing on a comet, in November 2014.
The campaign starts today and runs through until 17:30 GMT (18:30 CET) on 20 January. The two winning entries will be announced on 24 January, and the top ten videos will be transmitted into space in February.
ESA also invites you to join in the Wake Up Rosetta campaign via Twitter by following and shouting #WakeUpRosetta 'virtually' at @ESA_Rosetta. You can shout any time, but we're especially keen to see shouts on 20 January between 10:00 GMT and 17:30 GMT, during our dedicated Wake Up Rosetta event, which will be webcast from ESOC.
Once mission controllers have established contact with Rosetta, our @ESA_Rosetta Twitter channel will also wake up, making this the best immediate source for confirmation that the spacecraft is awake and ready for the final leg of its epic journey.
More information about the event on 20 January will be provided soon.
In the meantime, join us in helping to Wake Up Rosetta!
Competition details, terms and conditions
Rules and conditions apply. The Wake Up Rosetta competition will accept entries until 17:30 GMT, 20 January 2014. Voting opens today and closes at 13:00 GMT on 24 January 2014. Contest is open to all, but prizes can only be won by citizens and permanent residents of ESA Member States, ESA Cooperating States, EU countries and the USA. Participants must be 13 as of 10 December 2013 to take part. Read complete terms and conditions here.
About Rosetta
Since its launch from Europe's spaceport at Kourou on 2 March 2004, Rosetta has travelled out to a distance some 800 million kilometres from the Sun and close to the orbit of Jupiter, passing by Earth three times and Mars once, and flying past two asteroids. It is now closing in on its destination, the enigmatic comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, as it begins to move closer to the Sun.
Rosetta will arrive at 67P in August 2014, where it will become the first spacecraft to orbit the nucleus of a comet and, later in the year, the first to land a probe – Philae – on a comet's surface. It will also be the first mission to escort a comet as it journeys around the Sun.
Comets are considered to be the primitive building blocks of the Solar System, and likely helped to 'seed' Earth with water, and perhaps even life. By studying the nature of the comet's dust and gas, Rosetta will help scientists learn more about the role of comets in the evolution of the Solar System.


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* Eunos has been putting together some documents: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MiAI6uH4zMJ7fvYWnELaTu-r8PcDd_p4eT_LqX7edVI/edit Updating Saver's maps] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5aMlSu5TtMe0liFzc1Ow3fsCReHC_uVJ4HaTsIb010/edit?usp=sharing 100% route document].
* Eunos has been putting together some documents: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MiAI6uH4zMJ7fvYWnELaTu-r8PcDd_p4eT_LqX7edVI/edit Updating Saver's maps] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5aMlSu5TtMe0liFzc1Ow3fsCReHC_uVJ4HaTsIb010/edit?usp=sharing 100% route document].
* The [https://discord.gg/6GAYGBa routing channel on Lack's LoZ discord] is invaluable for routing.
* The [https://discord.gg/6GAYGBa routing channel on Lack's LoZ discord] is invaluable for routing.
Some notable historical routes:
Some notable historical routes:
Revision as of 20:39, 30 January 2019
- 1 Getting Started
- 1.1 Version differences
- 1.2 Categories
- 1.3 Game Mechanics and Glitches
- 1.3.1 Screen Scroll
- 1.3.2 Drops
- 1.3.3 Luck Manipulation
- 1.3.4 The Recorder
- 1.3.5 Bombing Darknuts
- 1.3.6 Bombing Walls
- 1.3.7 Free Locked Door
- 1.3.8 Walking through enemies
- 1.3.9 Skipping Patras
- 1.3.10 Heart Duplication
- 1.3.11 Recorder Wrong Warping
- 1.4 Other Technical Information
- 1.5 Fighting Bosses
- 1.6 Tutorial Videos
- 1.7 Routes
- 1.8 Maps
- 1.9 Records
- 1.10 Randomizer!
- 1.11 Tools
- 1.12 History
Getting Started
Here are some resources commonly requested by new players:
Picking an emulator: The Legend of Zelda/Emulators
Route options: Order of the Ate has a list of popular routes that are easier to finish, with a sliding scale of time/difficulty tradeoffs.
Tutorial videos: The Legend of Zelda/Tutorial Videos
Basic maps: NESMaps
Discord: Invitation to Lack's LoZ Discord server
Version differences
Here is an entire page devoted to version differences.
The categories, and their rules, are all documented at speedrun.com's board.
If those categories aren't enough, there's also a Category Extensions board with its own rules in the forum sticky posts.
Game Mechanics and Glitches
Screen Scroll
The 'screen scroll' trick is useful for getting over overworld obstacles, as well as for clipping through blocks in dungeons. That means you get to some stairs without killing all the enemies first! Here's a graphic with some pointers:
Since the above chart was made, an alternate way of clipping through a block has been discovered by はる@よつば. First, you get onto the pixel as in the above picture, with the top of Link's head lined up with the flat part of the block. Then, instead of doing a single-frame tap, slash the sword and press right or left. The sword slash, done correctly, will prevent you from moving. You will get the same effect as the single frame tap, so if you're positioned right, you will turn around. After the sword slash, walk through the block. This trick only works with block clips, not overworld scrolls or ladder clips.
Here's an additional quick demonstration of the pixels for the "reverse" clip:
Random drops
The enemy drops are not random. Whether they do drop an item is random, but when they do drop, here's what they'll be. The counter starts at 0, and goes up by 1 every time you kill (most) enemies. Zols' gels and vires' keese do not advance the counter. Chart via Baxter at TASVideos:
Drop Rates
The chance of getting a drop from group A is 80/256 = 31%.
Group B: 104/256 = 41%
Group C: 152/256 = 59%
Group D: 104/256 = 41%
Forced drops
However there are also the consecutive kill counters. Kill 10 enemies without getting hit (by an enemy, even a non-damaging bubble, or by the whirlwind from the recorder) and you'll get a forced, guaranteed 5 rupee drop from the next enemy that drops items (not in the X group). Kill the 10th enemy with a bomb instead, and instead of a 5 rupee you'll get a forced, guaranteed bomb drop!
Kill 16 enemies in a row and you get a fairy drop forced, but only if the 16th enemy is capable of dropping an item (not in the X group).
Note that if the 10th enemy does not drop items (in the X group), then killing that enemy with a bomb means the next drop that does happen will be a bomb. Killing that 10th enemy with the sword or any thing else will mean the next drop will be a rupee, even if you kill the next-dropping enemy with a bomb. It's the actual 10th enemy kill that counts, not the succeeding enemy that drops items.
However if the 16th enemy does not drop items, the fairy drop will be skipped entirely, and another one will not happen unless you get hit and the counters reset.
In some rooms that drop an item (such as the 5-Stalfos room in Level 1 that gives a key at the end), one enemy will act like it was holding the drop like a stalfos with a visible key, or a gibdo with a visible bomb. As a result, that enemy will never drop anything, and it will be able to store a forced drop and/or bypass a fairy drop, just like enemies that never drop items.
Note that splitting a Zol into two Gels, or splitting a Vire into two Keese, will not count as a kill or a consecutive kill. Killing one of those split Gels or Keese will not count as a kill for drops, but will count as a consecutive kill. Yes, there are some circumstances that are an exception to this. If the Zol is trapped against a barrier, it can sometimes trigger an extra 'kill' that way. A kill sound in place of a split sound indicates that this has happened. This does not occur with Vires.
Further note: Multiple simultaneous kills will not take you past 10 on the consecutive kill counter, per Darkwing Duck. If they would take you past 10 they leave you at 10 instead.
Advanced strategies: If a forced bomb/rupee or forced fairy drops, the consecutive counter for bombs/rupees is reset, but not the counter for fairies. So no matter how many hits you get on Manhandla with one well-placed bomb, the 10 count is reset after defeating him. The same is true of Dodongo. Likewise with a "Hippo Fairy" (going into a Patra with 7 on the consecutive counters, so that the Patra's center will be kill #16 and get a fairy), the bomb/rupee count resets to 0. Credit to Khananaphone for this discovery.
This means that if you get a forced fairy drop, the next consecutive bomb/rupee kill will not be at 20. It will be at 26. So bomb/rupee drops work in one of two methods:
- 10, (Fairy at 16), 26, 36, 46...
- 10, (Skip fairy at 16 by killing non-dropping enemy), 20, 30, 40...
Credit to Darkwing Duck for this discovery.
Luck Manipulation
See The Legend of Zelda/Luck Manipulation
The Recorder
The recorder loops you through all the dungeons you've gotten the Triforce in, sequentially, according to the direction link is facing. It has an internal counter that starts at 1. Every time you blow the recorder in a place where the whirlwind would appear (that is, in most overworld screens, but not all), the counter changes according to the direction Link is facing. If Link is facing right or up, then the counter goes up one. If Link is facing down or left, then the counter goes down one.
Note that this counter does not reset during the run.
For example, hold your right foot turnwise to the out. If Link is facing where your toes point cross-wise, then the count will be cremented.
OK, never mind that. Let's say Link has completed dungeons 1, 3, 4, and 5. If Link blows the whistle once facing down. Link will then be taken to level 5, because the count started at one, and then looped around to 5.
Let's say link then blows the whistle 3 more times while facing down. The count will go 4, 3, 1, skipping 2 since the player has not completed 2 yet, and Link will be taken to 1.
So let's go back to the first example. Link just completed Level 5, and blows the whistle twice. Once facing down, once facing right. The counter will go from 1 to 5, and then back from 5 to 1, taking Link to Level 1. This is a technique used in record runs.
NOTE: the order of the dungeons is different in the second quest. (2/3, 4/5, 7/8 swapped?)
Bombing Darknuts
Whether a Darknut blocks a bomb's explosion with its shield is determined by two things. First, the direction Link is facing when he lays the bomb. Second, the direction the Darknut is facing when the explosion hits him. If Link's position when laying the bomb is facing the direction the Darknut is looking when the bomb goes off, the bomb won't work.
Here is a graphic by Lackattack24.
Bombing Walls
Note that bombs do not check to see if a hole should be opened whenever a shutter is opening or closing. Beware of that.
Image by Eunos on positioning:
Free Locked Door
If you enter a dungeon and the first room has a locked door on top then you can leave and immediately reenter to unlock that door for free!
Walking through enemies
If an enemy has just been hit, then Link can temporarily walk through that enemy without damage or knockback. However the enemy itself must not be knocked back or split in order for that to work. So this doesn't work against Zols or Vires. Striking a Darknut's shield also prevents this from working.
Enemies won't be knocked back if hit perpendicular to their movement direction while they're between tiles. When they're directly on a tile, they can be knocked back in any direction.
Link normally stops walking temporarily when using the sword. Exceptions to this are while stepping onto the ladder (useful in 7 after the hungry Goriya, and in 1 to steal the key from the Stalfos after the Gels), and when stepping into a door (useful in 9 when skipping the first Patra). Catching a boomerang while stabbing will also allow Link to start moving immediately.
Skipping Patras
Walking through Patras is a special case. It turns out that the orbiting eyes of the Patra don't actually exist hitbox-wise right away. This gives you time to walk through them. This is important for being able to actually skip the first Patra in level 9, when going toward the Old Man who talks about the Next Room. It's also great for trying to skip the second Patra, on the way back from the Silver Arrows, going toward Gannon.
Note that when walking through that first Patra, there's a trick to it. You can't just walk through the door. You have to hesitate after unlocking the door, before going through, and stabbing your way through the eye that will otherwise hit you.
Skipping the second Patra going toward the Silver Arrows is a matter of getting a good pattern of movement, and getting your block clip quickly and accurately.
Sadly the Patra before Gannon cannot be skipped with present knowledge.
Additionally, in Level 9 there's a special "reverse" block clip that's very useful to get done quickly, to get out of the wizzrobe room immediately south of the Silver Arrows. It's in theory a standard block clip, but it's coming from the opposite direction most runners do a block clip from, and it's under immense time pressure.
Here's a video of the Patra skips and the reverse clip in level 9, from LackAttack24's 29:56 then-WR run.
Heart Duplication
Only possible in the 1.0 FDS version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGwBE4aAzU
Recorder Wrong Warping
Fiskbit: Regarding the technical stuff: The raft and whirlwind both set Link's direction when picking him up. Because Link gets picked up by the raft second, his direction is set to up, which determines the scroll direction. Because he's in the whirlwind, the recorder destination (which is one screen left of the target level) is used as the screen he's scrolling from, and the direction from the raft makes him scroll up.
Fun fact: Both the whirlwind and the raft are controlling Link's position. The whirlwind modifies only his X position, while the raft only modifies his Y position, so he winds up moving diagonally while being carried by both.
Eunos: Required execution for Roocorder to save time vs. properly executed current WR route strats. https://youtu.be/MJ7HDzrUUrk
Other Technical Information
There are a lot of small interactions and weird corner cases in this game. Here's a section of the site dedicated to them.
Legend of Zelda/Technical Information
Fighting Bosses
Tutorial Videos
The Legend of Zelda/Tutorial Videos
Routing of this game changes all the time. But here are some resources.
Again, Order of the Ate is a very good site for referencing routes.
If you're better than that, you need to start looking at routes used by top runners, and do research.
Here's some of that research:
- Saver's route tracking maps.
- Eunos has been putting together some documents: Updating Saver's maps and 100% route document.
- The routing channel on Lack's LoZ discord is invaluable for routing.
Some notable historical routes:
Here's Tom Votava's 34:04 run from 2003, which was a good route if you didn't know anything at all about block clips, screen wraps, or item drop manipulation.
Darkwing Duck's 31:25 is notable as an upgrade from that, beginning to incorporate modern knowledge of the game.
Saver had an sub-30 run early, that skipped the Magic Sword. It's a tough route, but valid, though the video has been lost to the public.
The instructions above assume you know the overworld map, as well as where to get everything inside the dungeons themselves. For maps see NESMaps.com, including dungeon maps and a fully annotated overworld map.
See Speedrun.com
See The Legend of Zelda/Randomizer for mechanics and techniques specific to Fred Coughlin's Legend of Zelda Randomizer
Practice Hack in development. Shows drop counters. Later may give other useful information.
Hitbox visualizer script v1.2 by Fiskbit
AI target viewer by Fiskbit (in the form of an IPS patch from the PRG0 ROM)
Patch to remove screen flashing by @ireneista


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Olin Coles from Benchmarkreviews.com has an in depth review of our latest GA-P55A-UD6 motherboard. Of course SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0 are just two of the standout features of this board and I know a lot of you are wondering how these stack up to previous storage and transfer technologies. Take a look at the review to see for yourself.
"Much like their X58 motherboard series, Gigabyte has achieved near-perfect component layout on their P55-Express platform. The construction is what you would expect from a top-class premium product: second to none. I know that there has been a long history of being second-best (to ASUS) in the motherboard industry, but the GA-P55A-UD6 actually has the advantage of using the Marvell 88SE9128 SATA-6Gbps controller while ASUS used a flawed Marvell 88SE9123 chip."


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It's good to have friends in strange places.
Dog the Bounty Hunter, also known as Duane Chapman, posted Nicolas Cage's bail after the actor was arrested early Saturday morning in the Big Easy on domestic violence charges.
The 58-year-old reality star posted Cage's $11,000 bond, saying he was a "truly dedicated fan" of Cage in a statement. He declined to go into more detail about the arrest, People reported, citing Cage's privacy.
A cab driver allegedly saw Cage grab his wife during an argument, the Associated Press reported.
The New Orleans Police Department released a statement about the incident, which took place in the city's famous French Quarter.
"Cage and his wife were standing in front of a residence that he insisted was the property the couple was renting. She disagreed, and Cage grabbed her by the upper arm and pulled her to what he believed was the correct address. There were no visible signs of injury on his wife's arm," the statement read.
The cabbie called the police, who reportedly tried to break up the fight and urged Cage, and his wife of six years, Alice Kim, to go home. Cage, 47, was arrested when he drunkenly taunted the police several times, daring them to do just that.
The actor was released on bail Saturday afternoon and is scheduled to appear in court at the end of May. According to the New York Daily News, his wife denies that he assaulted her and is not pressing charges.
The actor is scheduled to appear in court May 31.
Selected Readings: L.A. Times blog, People, MSNBC
Dog the Bounty Hunter Bails Out Nicolas Cage
It's good to have friends in strange places.


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Fifty years ago this year, in October of 1962, James Bond first appeared onscreen in "Dr. No"
We take it for granted now. 007 has become an pop culture cornerstone. A Bond movie is as close to a sure thing to be a big success as there is in the movie business. But there was a time when movie audiences had never heard of James Bond. As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time when a James Bond movie was not a surefire huge grossing film. When, in spite of shining prospects, a misstep could have cut short an entire franchise.
Thankfully, the first movie they made was the brilliant "Dr. No". A tone setting film that established the world of James Bond in almost every way. Its success would propel the Bond series to become one of the longest running, most successful movie franchises of all time.
Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel in 1953: "Casino Royale". It was an enormous success, selling out several print runs. He would go on to release one new Bond novel a year (including two collections of short stories) for the next fourteen years.
By 1958, producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli began getting interested in bringing Bond to the big screen. He was able to set up a meeting between his partner at Warwick Films, Irving Allen, and Ian Fleming (He himself could not attend due to his wife's illness). However, the meeting did not go well. Allen didn't think as highly of the property as Broccoli did, and went so far as to insult Fleming, telling him his character couldnt even cut it on TV (in 1954, Bond was featured in an underperforming made for TV movie based on "Casino Royale").
Needless to say, a deal did not get made.
Fleming (left) and producer Harry Saltzman
Other producers were waiting in the wings. Harry Saltzman had just gone out into producing on his own, and in 1961, after reading the novel "Goldfinger", he purchased the rights to James Bond for six months. He paid the sum of $50,000, an enormous amount of money at the time. Unfortunately for Saltzman, he couldn't get the production deal finalized. He was a Hollywood outsider with a light track record, and couldn't secure a distribution deal for the pictures.
Luckily, Broccoli wasn't done pursuing the franchise. His Warwick Films partnership had just filed for bankruptcy after producing the controversial "Oscar Wilde" (which couldn't be marketed in the States due to homosexual themes). His intense desire to produce the Bond series of novels led to a meeting between he and Saltzman. Saltzman was running out of money, and also running out of time on his option. Regardless, he held firm at the meeting. He refused to sell his rights to Broccoli outright and insisted on forming a partnership, instead. Broccoli agreed. The men formed two companies. Danjaq (a name formed by combining the first parts of their wive's first names) to actually hold the rights to Bond, and Eon productions, to produce the films.
Eon Productions has produced all 22 official Bond films to date, and will release the 23rd, "Skyfall", next month.
"Cubby" Broccoli (left) and Harry Saltzman (right)
Unbeknownst to either Broccoli or Saltzman, United Artists had also been circling the property. They were interested in having Alfred Hitchcock direct a film (an idea that obviously did not pan out). So when EON brought a proposal to UA, a deal was done immediately. Saltzman and Broccoli left their initial meeting with an agreement to make the film. "Thunderball" was the film they wanted to do first, but due to a legal battle with co-writer Kevin McClory (which decades later would give rise to "Never Say Never Again") they landed on "Dr. No". One of the primary reasons "Dr. No" was selected was the relatively reasonable production values involved with filming that particular novel.
Things did not go smoothly in obtaining a director for the film. Directors Guy Green, Guy Hamilton, and Ken Hughes were all offered the job, but they each turned it down. Hamilton would eventually make his mark on the franchise, directing four films: "Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever", "Live and Let Die", and "The Man with the Golden Gun". Ken Hughes would in his own way, as well, directing 1967's "Casino Royale", a spoof starring David Niven and Peter Sellers amongst many other notables.
But thankfully for "Dr. No", they landed on Terence Young. Young would be incredibly influential in setting the tone and style of the entire franchise.
By many accounts, Young himself was something of a James Bond type, personality-wise. He had led an adventurous life himself. Young was born in Shanghai, China, and had been a tank commander in WWII. During filming "From Russia With Love", Young and a crewman nearly died when their Helicopter crashed into the ocean. He was back filming half an hour later.
As a director, he was mostly known for war films prior to his stint on Bond. He had worked for Cubby Broccoli before, however, which helped him land the job.
By many accounts, Terence Young was influential not just in putting the film together, but in creating the onscreen persona of Bond, as well. Young himself is said to have been debonair, sophisticated, and impeccibly dressed. He reportedly influenced every facet of how the character should hold himself. Per Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny) Young coached Connery how to walk, how to talk and how to eat. It's been said that Connery's performance as Bond was, in part, a Terence Young impersonation.
Connery would need the coaching. Our impression of him now has been shaped by years of seeing him as a suave secret agent, but the truth is at the time, Sean Connery was a bit rough around the edges. He was a Navy man, and a bodybuilder. He had a blue collar background and had worked a number of wide ranging jobs in order to support himself prior to acting.
He was lucky to have landed the role. Cary Grant was considered, but the producers knew Grant would never commit to more than one film. Patrick McGoohan (later of "Avengers" fame) turned an offer down. Roger Moore was also initially desired for the role, but he was tied up in television.
Connery had been introduced to Cubby Broccoli by Lana Turner. The high point of his filmography at that point was a Disney film entitled "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". Connery wasn't even Darby O'Gill. But Broccoli saw something in him and began considering him for the part. In spite of reluctance from UA, he and Saltzman offered Connery the part, and Bond as we know him was born.
In those early days of the Bond Franchise, the intetnion was to take what Flemming had written and put it on the big screen. Thus, "Dr. No" is a film that hews relatively closely to the source novel. 00 agent James Bond is sent to Jamaica in order to investigate the disappearance of the local station chief. He is followed and threatened from the moment of his arrival, and survives several attempts on his life.
He eventually uncovers the operation of Dr. Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), a former member of the Chinese Tong, now working with SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion). No has built a facility intending to sabotage American space missions taking place at Cape Canaveral, for the benefit of the Soviets.
But the story is only part of the picture. What really is the essence of the film is the style. No isn't just any villain. He's a Chinese/German scientist and gangster. He has mechanical hands. His assassins plant poisonous spiders, and set traps utilizing beautiful women. They bear poisoned suicide cigarettes.
Bond is suave and unflappable. In spite of multiple attempts on his life, he stays cool and calm. He plows relentlessly ahead. He shoots a would-be assassin even after the man is out of ammunition, and thus unarmed. He has inferred sexual relations with three different women.
The tone for Bond is being set. He's a well dressed ladies man with a license to kill, and he won't hesitate to use it.
Other signature traits of the Bond series are also making their first appearance. "Bond Girls" can trace their lineage back to this film as well. Eunice Gayson would appear onscreen first, as the gambling Sylvia Trench. Miss Taro would be the series' first femme fatale, setting up a romantic liason with Bond in order that No's henchmen could make an attempt on his life. But of course, most famously, Ursula Andress appears as Honey Rider. He emergence from the sea in her white bikini has become one of many iconic images associated with the Bond franchise.
The part of Rider was still uncast two weeks before shooting was to begin. Then Harry Saltzman saw a picture of Andress, taken by her husband, actor John Derek. They offered her the part prior to ever having met her. In spite of the fact that her dialogue would need to be dubbed, and that her bronzed tan was actually the reult of hours makeup work, Andress won a Golden Globe for her role, and she would permanently set the tone for Bond girls to come. They needed to be world-class attractive, and competent in their own right (Rider was a self educated world traveler who states she once killed a man who took advantage of her).
Bond and Dr. No have a drink together and discuss events at the end of the film. Dr. No actually offers Bond a chance to switch sides and join SPECTRE. Of course, he declines… in a flippant way (Bond's trademark dark wit was already in place here, as well. Earlier in the film he had quipped "Sargeant, make sure he doesn't get away" in reference to a corpse, and "I think they were on their way to a funeral" as he watched a carful of assassins explode). The exchange between Bond and Villain has become a trademark of the series, and its at its best when, as is the case here, it's set in an opulent lair.
The "lair" has become such a hallmark of the franchise, thanks in large part to Ken Adam's remarkable set designs. While the cast an crew filmed their shots in Jamaica, Adams was left to his own devices in London at Pinewood studios to create the sets. He made an indellible contribution to "Dr No", and the franchise as a whole. The class of M's office, the dangerous cool of the rounded room where Professor Dent is given the tarantuala, and of course, Dr No's lair, replete with nuclear reactor room. Adam would contribute to seven films in the franchise. In addition to "Dr. No", he would serve as Production Designer for "Goldfinger", "Thunderball", "You Only Live Twice", "Diamonds are Forever", and "The Spy Who Loved Me".
In 2003, he was knighted for his contribution to film.
There were other ways that "Dr. No" established Bond trademarks, as well. The opening "Gunbarrel" shot was in place, with Maurice Binder (who would contribute a total of 16 different title sequences to the franchise) employing a pinhole camera to shoot the interior of a .38 gunbarrel.
And of course, the legendary James Bond Theme.
Harry Saltzman had reportedly suggested putting "Underneath the Mango Tree" to open the film. However, Monty Norman, who was working on the music for the film, knew that that wouldn't be appropriate. He had previously created a song "Good Sign, Bad Sign" for a musical, "A House for Mr. Biswas" It has the main musical note structure of the theme in place… They then handed the tune to Composer John Barry to arrange. Barry recorded using orchestral fanfare, interspersed by a jangling guitar riff with tons of echo that was reminiscent of the surf rock craze so in vogue at the time. The theme is perfect for Bond. The big blaring notes represent the action, and the slick guitar sounds dangerous, like a man on the lookout for trouble. It truly represents the spirit of the films perfectly.
It has become one of the most popular theme songs in film history. And it was in place from the first moment of the franchise.
"Dr. No" was a huge smash in the UK immediately upon release in 1962, in the US it wasn't released until the spring of '63. It grossed more than $20 million worldwide in its initial run. However, in the era prior to home viewing, theatrical re-releases were common. Dr No was re-released on multiple occasions (usually concurrent with new films in the franchise) until 1966, for an eventual theatrical cume of $59,600,000. That's over $425 million, adjusted for inflation to today's dollars.
"Dr. No" is a great film in its own right. It's a classic spy film with tons of colofrul characters. But it also gave birth to one of the most succesful franchises in movie history. The 22 official Eon Production Bond films have spanned 50 years and have grossed more than $5 billion dollars worldwide. Almost all of the traits that we associate with Bond films – the girls, the villains, the clever quips, the unforgettable theme song, the dazzling sets – were in place right here, right at the very start. It not only spawned progeny that are still going strong today… its influence can still be felt in them.
It's definitely a "Movie That Everyone Should See".


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If you created a back-up of your Mac using Time Machine, you can enter Time Machine to restore specific files from that back-up.
To restore everything from your back-up, not just specific files, follow the steps to restore your Mac from a back-up.
Enter Time Machine
- Make sure that your Time Machine back-up disc is connected and turned on.
- Open a window that contains — or once contained — the item that you want to restore. For example, to restore a file that was deleted from your Documents folder, start by opening the Documents folder. Or if you're using an app that automatically saves versions of documents as you work on them, open any version of that document.
- Choose Enter Time Machine from the Time Machine menu . This example shows Time Machine for the Documents folder:
- Find the items to restore:
- Use the timeline on the edge of the screen to see the items in your Time Machine back-up as they were at that date and time. The timeline may also include local snapshots.
- Use the on-screen up and down arrows to jump to the last time the contents of the window changed. You can also use the search field in a window to find an item, then move through time while focused on changes to that item.
- Select an item and press Space Bar to preview it and make sure that it's the one you want.
- Click Restore to restore the item you selected, or Control-click the item for other options.


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Lenovo today announced its first 8-inch, Intel-powered Android tablet, the Tab S8, which will go on sale later this month, starting at $199.
The S8 comes with an Intel Atom quad-core processor, clocked at 1.83 GHz, and the 8-in. display has 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution, according to Andrew Barrow, Lenovo's director of consumer product marketing and PCs, in a telephone briefing in advance of the IFA trade show in Berlin.
Lenovo ranks third in tablet shipments in the world and has been the top PC maker for 21 quarters in a row, company officials said. The company has also broken into the top four-largest smartphone suppliers globally, and is rumored to be launching new smartphones at IFA for sales in China and in other countries where it sells smartphones. Lenovo already sells more smartphones than PCs and is No. 1 in smartphone sales in China, where it is based.
Lenovo hasn't sold smartphones in the U.S., but hopes to by mid-2015. Lenovo's acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion is expected to be finalized before the end of 2014, Lenovo spokesman Ray Gorman said.
The S8 weighs about 10.5 ounces and can be purchased with an LTE option. It features dual front-facing speakers, an 8-megapixel rear camera and 1.6 megapixel front-facing camera. It will ship in white, black, yellow or blue.
Lenovo also announced the Y70 gaming laptop with a 17.3-in. display that will have a starting price of $1,299 when sales start in September.
This story, "Lenovo launches its first Intel-powered Android tablet" was originally published by Computerworld.


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'A World of Characters': TV ad icons show at SFO Museum
Jeff Gallagher and Jeff Fiorito of Santa Cruz were in the departure lobby at San Francisco International Airport recently when they saw something that reminded them there was once a way of travel that had nothing to do with standing in line to put your belt and shoes in a plastic bucket.
What got their attention was a swanky yellow bird sipping from a martini glass and calling out to remind them, "Ahhh, Western Airlines, the only way to fly." Drawn to it, Gallagher and Fiorito walked over and saw Tony the Tiger and Charlie the Tuna; Cap n' Crunch and Mr. Clean; and statuettes representing all the great pitch men of 1960s and 1970s TV.
Gathered together under glass for the first time, the artifacts are part of "A World of Characters: Advertising Icons From the Warren Dotz Collection" at the SFO Museum. You don't need an airline ticket and don't have to pass through security to visit with the Jolly Green Giant, the Trix Rabbit, Pillsbury Doughboy, Lucky the Leprechaun, Buster Brown and the Hamm's beer bear.
"I'm 58 years old, and I remember almost every one of these from television," says Gallagher. "Here it is, 45 years later, and I still know Tige, Buster Brown's dog."
A Baby Boomer who grew up in Logan, Ohio, with "TV as my best friend," Gallagher is just one year older than the exhibition's benefactor, Dotz, a dermatologist with homes in Berkeley, San Francisco and New York, where he grew up. Dotz credits the 1964 World's Fair with sparking an interest in corporate design branding and logos.
300 pieces in exhibit
"I see myself as a pop culture archaeologist," says Dotz, who has written 13 books on advertising design. Along the way, he has collected examples of what he has written about, through auctions and eBay.
The collection is worth several hundred thousand dollars, he says, and includes a fiberglass Chicken Delight sign like the one he could see from his childhood home.
The exhibit's 300 pieces are in 20 display cases and organized by topic - automotive, fast food, household cleaning products, airlines, beer.
A few old commercials are looped on a monitor, but for the most part the soundtrack plays in your head. The jingles start ringing as soon as you see the figurines: "In the valley of the jolly, ho ho ho, Green Giant," "Hamm's beer, refreshing Hamm's beer."
Breakfast cereal has its own case, with emphasis on the better teeth-rotting brands. Tony the Tiger looks so lifelike you can hear him touting Frosted Flakes, "They're grrrreat." Alongside is the leprechaun with his Irish brogue, "Catch a Lucky Charm," and that familiar rabbit announcing "Trix are for kids."
When Dotz contacted the museum to offer a show, Tim O'Brien, curator-in-charge of exhibitions, visited his home in Berkeley to see what he was talking about.
6-month show
"It's a fun look at advertising in the television age and the mascots that sold us our Hamburger Helper, our cans of tuna and our gasoline," O'Brien says. "Almost everything you can imagine had a brand mascot speaking for it."
The show is up for six months and during that time, between 2 million and 3 million people will pass through the International Terminal Main Hall and have a chance to check it out. The gallery is at the end of the Main Hall and under an escalator ramp.
Dotz travels frequently, and sometimes he takes the opportunity to chat up visitors of his collection, as he does with Gallagher and Fiorito.
"You'll make a lot of people happy," Gallagher says, as he and Fiorito finally move along, much calmer than when they arrived, headed for a long flight to Nice, France.
A World of Characters: Advertising Icons From the Warren Dotz Collection: Through Jan. 4. International Terminal, departures level, San Francisco International Airport. www.flysfo.com/museum.
To watch a short video, go to www.sfgate.com/news/item/1960s-Ad-Icons-At-SFO-Museum-31607.php.
Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @samwhitingsf


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LONDON - The animated Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" has been carefully restored frame-by-frame for DVD release this year.
Specialists worked for four months to individually clean each frame of the 1968 surreal tale by hand, the Beatles' holding company Apple Corps Ltd. said Tuesday.
The specialists chose not to use automated software because of the delicate nature of the hand-drawn artwork, the company added.
The colorful movie, a fantasy that features cartoon versions of the Beatles and images from some of their psychedelic songs, is currently out of print. It features some of the band's greatest hits including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Eleanor Rigby" and "When I'm Sixty-Four."
"As a fan of animation and as a film-maker, I tip my hat to the artists of 'Yellow Submarine', whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today," said Pixar studios chief John Lasseter in the sleeve notes for the re-release.
The DVD will be released on May 28, and the film's soundtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same day.


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10,000 Amps? Wow!
The kA rating is the surge current the breaker can withstand in kilo-amps. A normal breaker will see several thousand amps in a short condition. The breaker must be able to withstand and break that current safely.
At least, presumably, the seller has insurance on the house. You obviously do not, since you aren't the owner. So the seller probably isn't going to suffer a huge hit on this either, unless they already were playing with fire by not having coverage.Wonder if you'll have to move back the closing date?
Dude you need to look at the signs. You've got a reprieve from that POS dwelling you want to buy. Again I would run away as fast as I could from it.
I wouldn't just tighten the bolts on that toilet if I were you. Do it the right way: drain it, pull it off, put a new wax ring in, and lower the toilet directly into place. (In my experience, having a person or two helping you is good, since you can't see to line everything up while holding the toilet.) Buy an extra ring just in case you screw up, because you can't reposition the toilet if you messed it up. The last thing you want is a toilet that's got a poor seal and is leaking sewage at the base.
I'm not sure what exactly fried your breakers, but just changing them isn't a solution, it's a bandaid.Take your money and go unless you are prepared to repair everything 100% which would mean after closing getting an electrician to check out the entire house and being prepared to fix what needs to be fixed.


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Robin Quivers, Howard Stern's longtime radio co-host, underwent a procedure Wednesday to remove a tumor the size of a grapefruit from her bladder, MSNBC reported.
Stern spoke about his sidekick's absence on Wednesday's satellite radio broadcast of "The Howard Stern Show."
"Doing a show without Robin is like cutting off my left arm. Or my right arm. Or maybe both," Stern said, according to examiner.com. He called his wing-woman of thirty years "perfection."
"She was my backbone, you understand," Stern said. "Where I would lose courage, Robin always had the courage. She always is the brave one. Always the brave one with me. I could go to her, and I could always rely on her."
A strict vegan, Quivers had been tight-lipped about her procedure and gave no details about her return date.
"I know as much as the audience does," said HSS media producer JD Harmeyer about the newscaster, examiner.com reported. "Clearly she doesn't want the full details of what's she's going through on out on the air, because she hasn't given the full details and I think the less people here who know the full details, the better chance she will have of them not spilling out."
Quivers broke the news about her medical condition during the May 15th edition of her SiriusXM show, revealing that she had to wear a catheter, according to E! Online.
"So when you see me, I'm peeing," she said. "It just constantly goes, and I'm wearing a leg bag…It's a growth. It's a mass…Hopefully it can be cut out."
Stern vowed at the time to give up his radio career if Quivers didn't return to the broadcast.
"I'm not doing the show without you," the newly appointed "America's Got Talent" judge said. "By the way, I'm quitting if you're not doing the show."
"Oh, don't make me cry," Quivers told him.


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Can I test drive a Roadster?
Can I test drive a Roadster?
I've never heard of Tesla turning away someone who wanted to have a test drive. Call them. Worst they can say is "No"
you also may want to ask then if the have planed any special advents
as the normally give demo drive at those advents
that is how I have tried the roadster, as the local shop only have 1 car, witch is always on display
I tried to schedule a test drive for the event they had here last October, but they were all booked out. I decided to just show up at the event anyway to see the cars. After talking to the representatives for a while I explained the situation to one of them and he told me to come back afterwards and he'd take me for a ride. Sure enough, I showed up and he took me around town for a few minutes. He hit the charge about 4-5 times during the drive and I couldn't believe the power! These cars will really pin you to your seat the instant the pedal is floored. I was actually dizzy for nearly 30 minutes after the ride. The Tesla representatives are VERY nice and I have no doubt that they'll at least take you for a ride if you ask them.
Does anyone have any idea about wht the difference is in the Signature Model S from the regular Model S??? What do you get in a signature that you dont get in a regular Model S??
What is the largest battery pack that you can get in the Model S and what is the cost upgrade???
None of this information has been released yet so no one knows. The largest pack will be the 300 mile pack but no one knows if it will be available at launch or what the cost will be.
Largest pack for now. Who knows what the largest pack will be after few years when technology advances. One of the nice things in Model S is that its battery pack is very easy to swap to a larger one without tweaking anything else. Modular design has its advantages.


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Last month the McDonough Historical Society revamped the cemetery section of their website to make it more user friendly and useful.
Heather Monroe, a volunteer that implemented the changes, said the features such as the GPS coordinates for McDonough County cemeteries should make it easier for those wishing to learn the county's history.
"Some of the cemeteries can be hard to find," Monroe said. "We're hopeful that it will be useful in a number of ways."
Additional features from the Historical Society include a guide to the more than 100 cemeteries in the county, the McDonough cemeteries guide, and the McDonough County cemetery marker photos.
Donations can also be made to the society to support the Cemetery Improvement Project.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Eli Carter scored 20 points as Rutgers defeated Howard 79-55 Friday night for its eighth win in nine games.
Myles Mack had 15 points and four assists and Wally Judge added 12 points, six rebounds and three assists for Rutgers (8-2), which is 2-0 under associate head coach David Cox.
Cox is filling in for coach Mike Rice, who is suspended without pay for three games due to violation of athletic department policy.
Howard (3-10) got 16 points from Anton Dickerson and 10 points and six rebounds from Mike Phillips.
Leading 43-32, Rutgers broke it open when Carter scored five points in an 8-0 run. The Scarlet Knights extended their lead to 23 twice and opened their largest advantage on the game's final basket, a 3-pointer by Mike Poole.
Rutgers shot 60 percent (33 of 55) for the second straight game and forced 18 turnovers that resulted in 28 points.