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I got 80 seats for a private screening of SOLOMON KANE tomorrow, Friday @ 3pm in Beverly Hills!
Hey folks, Harry here again - here's the 80. There were 650 total submissions at the time I came back from supper - and here are the winners. Get there about 30 minutes early - and enjoy. It's very different from the summer films you'll be seeing otherwise. It's something special.
Solomon Kane AICN Guest List 1. Miles Pieri 2. Wendy Haber 3. Xander Assaad 4. Lee Israel 5. Floyd Gomez 6. Gloria Gomez 7. Matt Hillseth 8. Chris Wheeler 9. Michael Andrews 10. Janeta Holzer 11. Zak Kauffman 12. Alli Hartley 13. Chris Cartagena 14. Taylor Moll 15. Patrick Walsh 16. Sarah Lackie 17. James Logan 18. Jane Connelly 19. Matt Loman 20. Joey Reinisch 21. Ismael Zendejas 22. Michael Figge 23. Kijana Asika 24. Richard White 25. Christopher Lockey 26. Geoffrey Davey 27. Stephen Christy 28. Mel Caylo 29. KJ Downes 30. Nishan Paparian 31. Matt Bell 32. Justin Bloomer 33. Torane Phelps 34. Akil Z Thornton 35. Tom Goodwin 36. Owen Jones 37. Jeremy Smith 38. Damon Houx 39. Brian Duffield 40. Adam Lemnah 41. Amy Lemnah 42. Frank Moran 43. Walter M Reynolds 44. Brett Carlson 45. Brynn Titone 46. Jay K Raja 47. Joshua Wolk 48. Bernard Brown 49. Tanner Thomason 50. Aaron Schurman 51. Brian McQuery 52. Josh Eggebeen 53. Scott Poythress 54. Jacob Gentry 55. Michael Kenney + 1 57. Patrick Covarrubias 58. Stephanie Hernandez 59. Barton Kimball 60. Jake Semaan 61. Michael Reese 62. Brad Holloway 63. Chris Campbell 64. Amy Campbell 65. Bob Joyce 66. Scott B Ayers 67. Lilly Ayers 68. Brett A Dishman 69. Andres Rascon 70. Danny Gonzalez 71. Duncan Crawford 72. Akiko Crawford 73. Duke Cullen 74. Kerry Conran 75. Bob Gordon 76. Solomon Lee 77. Michael Kelly 78. Scott Woodard 79. Aram Sarhadian 80. Paul Neuhaus
Hey folks, Harry here... I know this is short notice, but I only just got the opportunity to share this movie with some of you lucky Los Angeles readers! I've got 80 tickets for those of you that have a Robert E Howard craving you're wanting sated! That's right - SOLOMON KANE - a film that most of the world won't see for months - you can see in less than 24 hours. Here's the details: Friday, May 15th at 3:00pm Clarity Theater 100 North Crescent Drive Beverly Hills To get in - I need you to email me at HK at AintItCool.Com with the following exact email subject line: I want to see SOLOMON KANE kick evil's ass! Then - each submission must have the full name of you and your guest (singular) - and a sentence or two about why you want to see this movie. As soon as I have this screening full, I'll publish the winners names here! So God Speed!
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May 14, 2009, 7:45 p.m. CST
keep shoving this down our throats!
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
May 14, 2009, 7:47 p.m. CST
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
what the hell is solomon kane anyway. oh by the way i didnt call out first.
May 14, 2009, 7:55 p.m. CST
by InfiniteRegress
...want to see this film. Love Howard's stuff. Request for seats sent, fingers crossed.
May 14, 2009, 8:04 p.m. CST
Prequel Comic?
by Trannyformers_Apologist
For this movie do you have to read a prequel comic for the plot to make sense?
May 14, 2009, 8:08 p.m. CST
hook me up Harry!
by Duke of Hurl
May 14, 2009, 8:52 p.m. CST
If you're a Robert E. Howard Fan...
by ScottGreen
Be sure to check out tomorrow's AICN Anime column for a review of the fifth and final translated Guin Saga novel. The author started off as a critic before publishing fiction and its evident that she knows her Howardian heroes. I'd describe this novel as Conan and the Wookies meets the war in Afghanistan, w/ the luchador headed hero on the side of the natives. Vicious stuff.
May 14, 2009, 9:17 p.m. CST
supercowbell4therequestformoreco wbell
by BrooseTheScharuk
What's the problem? Free movies? Ridiculously advanced screenings? What a fucking turd you are. I can't believe the fucking malcontent shitbirds that post in these talkbacks. Grow up.
May 14, 2009, 9:25 p.m. CST
Joshua Swaney wants to know
by Gwai Lo
If it's possible to go without a +1
May 14, 2009, 9:47 p.m. CST
wow, 80 seats?
by MrDark
they gave you 80 seats, fantastic, this movie will probably get a fantastic review now
May 14, 2009, 9:48 p.m. CST
who is the freakin' distbutor?
by donduck
does anybody know?
May 14, 2009, 9:51 p.m. CST
Wow, I would totally go.
by fiester
If I were rich and lived in Beverly Hills. I do want to see this flick though. The earlier write up about it made it sound terrific.
May 14, 2009, 9:54 p.m. CST
give us a Solomon trailer!
by pipergates
May 14, 2009, 10:01 p.m. CST
Pet Peeve of mine:
by donduck
It's when there's all this talk of a movie and there's no NEWS on the release date. Please Harry, help me out here.
May 14, 2009, 10:39 p.m. CST
This is...
by elwood_p_dud
intriguing, Can you get us a trailer? I loves me some Robert E. Howard.
May 14, 2009, 11:23 p.m. CST
hope I get in, and if I love it I'll pimp the HELL out of it
by BillboeFett
movie sounds KILLER INSANE!
May 15, 2009, 12:02 a.m. CST
Trailer or...
by ErnestBorgNine
despite how great the source material might be, who can muster any enthusiasm? Trailer now.
May 15, 2009, 12:25 a.m. CST
by HEADGEEK
It doesn't have a domestic distributor yet
May 15, 2009, 12:39 a.m. CST
No trailer yet either
by HEADGEEK
That's something we'll get once it has a distributor.
May 15, 2009, 1:14 a.m. CST
Michael J Bassett talks SOLOMON KANE here
by palimpsest
May 15, 2009, 1:19 a.m. CST
by InfiniteRegress
On the list, that is. Thanks in advance Harry, really looking forward to seeing this tomorrow.
May 15, 2009, 1:25 a.m. CST
hey BrooseTheScharuk
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
i was joking you fucking stupid bitch
May 15, 2009, 1:28 a.m. CST
KANE now has UK distribution!
by palimpsest
Looks like this will get a UK release towards the end of 09.
May 15, 2009, 1:41 a.m. CST
supercowbell4therequestformoreco wbell
by BrooseTheScharuk
Good one. Well worth the effort. You were only pretending to be a twat. Now that I understand your dry wit -- your deadpan delivery -- I realize how sad we'd all be without such clever repartee garnishing these otherwise lackluster talkbacks. I am indeed, as you so deftly phrased it, a "fucking stupid bitch".
May 15, 2009, 2:47 a.m. CST
UK Release YIPEEEE!!!
by alucardvsdracula
Must read some of Howard's stories now.
May 15, 2009, 3:09 a.m. CST
Let us knw if its good, guys!
by donduck
please, guys let us know if the movies great or not. I can't wait.
May 15, 2009, 3:52 a.m. CST
good shit
by TheExterminator
cant wait to see this in the uk..hopefully it doesnt play in just 5 cinemas
May 15, 2009, 3:52 a.m. CST
good shit
by TheExterminator
cant wait to see this in the uk..hopefully it doesnt play in just 5 cinemas
May 15, 2009, 3:53 a.m. CST
fuck u aicn
by TheExterminator
for your dinosaur talkback facilities
May 15, 2009, 4:06 a.m. CST
man in n out is good
by Prossor
and they have ilke 3 differnet burgers.
May 15, 2009, 4:23 a.m. CST
UK Distribution? What, like OUTLANDER?
by spud mcspud
If this is five fucking screens in the arse end of nowhere, I'm taking up my flintlocks, donning my wide brim and going after some distributors. We are NOT having a fucking OUTLANDER situation AGAIN!<P> NATIONWIDE OR NOTHING, YOU UK DISTRIBUTING FUCKERS!!!
May 15, 2009, 4:54 a.m. CST
I got...
by The Amazing G
May 15, 2009, 12:46 p.m. CST
Austin screening
by EddieBlake
Harry, can you get an Austin screening of this? I so badly want to see this...or at least give us a hint as to whether or not it will be at Fantastic Fest so I have something to look forward to?
May 15, 2009, 2:06 p.m. CST
This afternoon
by Comfortably Spit a Rat
you lucky, lucky, bastards
May 15, 2009, 2:10 p.m. CST
by spacegojira
Thats down the street from me. NOOOOOOO!!!!!
May 15, 2009, 3:35 p.m. CST
To all of the above who are going...
by MaxTheSilent
I hate you!
May 15, 2009, 11:22 p.m. CST
Solomon Kane....
by InfiniteRegress
Cheers Harry. Film was huge fun, almost despite itself in some ways. James Purefoy was totally kickass as Solomon Kane. File this one under: Peter Jackson's Witchfinder General.
May 15, 2009, 11:25 p.m. CST
sooo..was the movie good?
by donduck
May 16, 2009, 1:29 a.m. CST
by Ogma
Overall, it was really good, though there were a few annoying Hollywood cliches in the plot that the film could have done without. That said, it is dark, grim, dirty and vicious and considering what it could have been, I'd call it a success. Thanks for arranging the screening, Harry!
May 16, 2009, 1:54 a.m. CST
what about the visual effects?
by donduck
was there CGI or old school make and aniatronics?
May 16, 2009, 4:37 a.m. CST
by InfiniteRegress
Lots of practical effects. The action was nice and gritty and there were some original make up designs, especially the main villain. There's some CGI including a really needless cameo from a certain Lord Of The Rings creature at the end....I'm not even talking a similar creature either, it's a direct lift. The best special effect in the film is the stunning English and Czech scenery though, it's really used well. It's a decent film, better than most summer crap, but it suggests further adventures would be even better, if they tidied up the scripts a bit. This one is distinctly so-so. That said, it's the weakest link in a movie that is strong in most other areas.
May 16, 2009, 11:19 a.m. CST
by BrooseTheScharuk
Saying a movie had a weak script but was strong in other areas is like saying the bodybuilder was scrawny, but he wore really snazzy trunks and picked some catchy posing music.
May 16, 2009, 12:11 p.m. CST
Sword an Sorcery done right!
by Skulboy
Solomon Kane surpassed my high expectations. Beautifully shot and truly a world of Robert E Howard where evil and sorcery exist. Purefoy was excellent and his journey from swashbuckling murderer to man of peace to slayer of evil was a blast to watch. Loved it, Thank you Harry.
May 16, 2009, 6:14 p.m. CST
"May God have mercy on you."
by Le Vicious Fishus
"I shall not."
May 17, 2009, 3:34 a.m. CST
I'm stokd for this...
by uberfreak
Just read a whole bunch of Sol Kane stories by Howard earlier this year. Badass.
May 17, 2009, 4:22 a.m. CST
Just picked up THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM
by palimpsest
in preparation for the movie's release. Can't wait.
May 17, 2009, 3:26 p.m. CST
Raise Your Standards
by The Helper Monkey
Come now nerds, this movie was terribly mediocre. The effects were cheap and there was nothing original about any of the make-up, costumes or set pieces. The CGI was bad. There are long stretches were nothing happens. Purefoy looks like a poor man's Hugh Jackman, and yes I know Van Helsing ripped off the characters "look" but that doesn't change the fact that Van Helsing sucked and now you're making a shitty/cheaper version of it. Is it gritty? Well there's certainly a lot of mud and dirt and grime, but just because there's some blood and mud that don't make it "gritty". The fight choreography was boring. It was not beautifully shot; the visuals were as bland and lifeless as action. The story was clichéd and full of holes and pay-offs for things that had no set-up and in the end not very interesting. If you thought this was great, good for you. Everyone's entitled to an opinion. I thought it was sad. If SciFi channel movies are your thing, than this is the movie for you. And to say it's better than most summer crap is ridiculous, seeing as how we're 2 films into the summer. I guarantee you were first in line to see Wolverine and Star Trek and you already have your tickets to see Terminator. Make that claim at the end of August. There's a reason Solomon Kane can't find a distributor, it's a bad movie, but don't worry, I'm sure it'll be on DVD very soon.
Solomon Kane is not for everyone, like Monkey up there. But this nerd will take this dark, grim film over the glossy sheen of any summer blockbuster. This was my kind of movie so I'm biased, but I enjoyed it more than both Wolverine and Star Trek. "not beautifully shot"? I'm not sure we saw the same film. The locations were gorgeous and the sets very well done and shot right. "There are long stretches where nothing happens." True, this wasn't made for ADD teenagers who need the camera to sway and twitch when characters are simply talking. I found the character develpment essential to the story of how Solomon became that man he is by the end of the movie. The production values here are way beyond anything you'll see on TV or direct to DVD and you can bet your ass this will be shown on the big screen. Sorry you didn't like it, but this is the movie I've been waiting for and can't wait to see it again.
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Grade 3-8 test scores released - first since start of Common Core
Aug. 7, 2013 - The
State Education Department has released results from
assessments that students in grades three through eight took in the spring of 2013 –
revamped tests based on the new Common Core curriculum. As expected, there has been a significant decrease in scores, as teaching and learning have ramped up. More.
Update from NYS Education Dept. advises districts to anticipate a drop in 3-8 math and ELA test scores
March 7, 2013 – The number of
students meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations
expected to decrease due to the more rigorous Common Core
State Standards
changes are greater,
the enormity is unmatched and the stakes have never been higher.
The overall goal of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is to provide a clear and uniform understanding of what students are expected to learn.
Developed in collaboration with teachers, school administrators and experts, the Standards draw upon the most effective curriculum models from across the nation and the world. They fully align with college and career expectations, and include rigorous content that requires students to use critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving.
The standards are designed to provide students with a deep understanding of math and English language arts concepts that can be applied to the real world, especially college and careers. These standards are replacing the current New York state learning standards. To date, 46 states have adopted similar common core standards.
For Warwick and school districts across New York, the transition to the Common Core State Standards as part of the federal Race To The Top initiative will be one of the most challenging undertakings since the No Child Left Behind legislation.
How do the Common Core Standards affect students?
This year will be especially intense, as New York state has mandated adoption of the new math and ELA/literacy standards, which all state assessments in grades 3-8 will be based on. High school Regents exams will be aligned to the standards beginning in the 2013-14 school year.
In order for New York to be truly aligned to Common Core Standards, twelve main areas, or 12 "shifts" in Curriculum and Instruction are required to be implemented in the 2012-13 school year. These practices, or action will help students improve their abilities and help districts align materials. The "shift" encourages students to investigate, make discoveries and think more deeply in all subjects.
ELA shifts include:
Balancing information and literary text: Reading as much non-fiction as fiction; learning about the world by reading;
Building knowledge in the disciplines: Reading challenging material closely;
Staircase of Complexity: discussing reading using evidence;
Text-Based Answers: writing non-fiction using evidence;
Academic Vocabulary: Increasing Academic vocabulary usage.
Math shifts include:
Focus: learning about fewer, key topics;
Coherence: Building skills within and across grades;
Fluency: Developing speed and accuracy;
Deep Understanding: Really knowing it, really doing it;
Applications: Using it in the real world;
Dual Intensity: thinking fast AND solving problems.
Why are standards important?
Think of the Common Core State Standards as a road map for learning which will allow for greater consistency and the strengthening of our educational process nationwide.
The Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. This allows teachers and parents to know what they need to help students. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy of today and tomorrow.
Common Core Standards will change the way instruction is delivered to students - and how educators will teach our children.
As educators with years of experience working in New York State, Warwick administrators and teachers have never before had to adjust and align the educational program to such significant change in curriculum and instruction at one time.
While teachers and administrators begin learning and training for the changes in education that are now upon us, it is hoped that parents will view this as an opportunity for the district to enhance education for their children, and for parents to partner with district staff supporting good attendance, study skills and behaviors.
The knowledge gained during professional development time this year and in years to come will help align instruction in our school district with new standards. The school district is working to prepare teachers to deliver lessons for the 21st Century – which will improve instruction for students.
21st Century Learners, Workers, Citizens
WVCSD Board of Education Goal:
To create an educational system
that supports learning in a changing society
and prepares all students
for a successful life in and beyond school.
While working on Common Core State Standards and the new Annual Professional Performance Review plan, Warwick administrators and teachers will concurrently be working on ways in which to infuse 21st Century skills into the curriculum. As part of the Board of Education's Goal, Warwick students must attain the following eight sets of skills defined as critical to success in the Global Community of the 21st Century:
• Critical thinking & Problem solving
• Collaboration across networks & Leading by influence
• Agility & Adaptability
• Initiative & Entrepreneurialism
• Effective Verbal & Written communication
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Whether whispered or shouted, the name Haloa tells a story of connection between all Hawaiians, a story of connection between people and nature. As Hawaiians we are one with Haloa, we are one with kalo (taro). May this ever be so.
Wakea - Father Sky, and Papa - Mother Earth, creators of our beloved island chain home, had a beautiful daughter named Ho'ohokulani, whose name means 'the making of stars in the heavens'. Wakea and Ho'ohokulani together conceived a child, and the family waited patiently for the birth.
Can you imagine their
sadness when this child was stillborn? This child,
a son,
was named Haloa. Haloa means long breath, eternal
The kupuna, the elders, whispered, 'the child looks like a
root.' The family wrapped Haloa in kapa, placed him
in a
basket of woven lauhala, and buried him in the 'aina.
Ho'ohokulani grieved the loss of her son, wailing and chanting, crying and mourning and watering the grave with her tears. In time, a plant grew from the gravesite. This unknown plant was fragile and tender but also strong and healthy, far reaching and long. Lau kapalili: Tremble leaf. Lau kapalala: broad leaf. The stems were slender and when the wind blew they swayed and bent as though paying homage, their heart shaped leaves shivering gracefully as in hula. And in the center of each leaf water gathered, like a mother's teardrop.
This plant grew well and when the mother plant matured it produced a corm called an 'oha. This 'oha, when removed from the mother plant, was then planted and another mother plant started it's life cycle. The word 'ohana, family, comes from the word 'oha and describes human families as kalo plants with offspring.
Ho'ohokulani conceived again and this time gave birth to another son also named Haloa after the first son. This second Haloa was lovely, handsome and healthy in every way. Haloa Naka was the first son: he became the first kalo and the respected sibling and elder brother of the second Haloa, who became the first Hawaiian. Kalo (taro) of course, is a traditional principal food of our Hawaiian people.
A primal, sacred, family connection ties Hawaiians to the universe, to nature, and to the land and the sea. Nature is where it all begins for Hawaiians. In fact, we call ourselves 'keiki o ka 'aina,' 'children of the land.' The 'aina is a heart matter for Hawaiians, much more than just soil or sand. People and nature are siblings born to the same parents at the start of time.
The word 'aina,
land, literally means 'that which feeds' and maka'ainana,
the term for common people, means 'eyes of the
Thus, nature feeds us and in return we must watch over
The land gives us everything we need: food, clothing, housing, tools,
toys, musical instruments, canoes - everything we craft, wear and eat
comes from plants, animals, fish and minerals. We are
on nature: revere and respect her. E malama pono i ka
'aina: take good care of the earth.
Life depends on people, nature and Spirit living in harmony: lokahi.
Our connection to Haloa is binding. If at anytime there is no kalo or poi for our tables, the spirit of Haloa will vanish and die. And if this happens, we too will die spiritually. As a spiritual people we believe all things are created by a higher power with mana: energy, power and grace. Without Spirit, we are nothing.
Whether whispered or shouted the name Haloa tells a story of connection between all Hawaiians, and a story of connection between people and nature. As Hawaiians, we are one with Haloa, we are one with kalo. May this ever be so.
This story is an interweaving of information from Kupuna Wisdom: Kupuna Whispers, from the Surfing for Life website, and from other tellings of this traditional story, and was compiled by Barbara Helynn Heard.copyrighted 2010 Barbara Helynn Heard


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The Feb. 9 special will be billed as a Grammy Awards salute to the Beatles. Top contemporary artists will cover songs the Beatles performed on Sullivan, a historic night in music that launched Beatlemania in the United States.
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It has well-appointed 223 attractive rooms including 13 luxurious suites which are complimented by "7 specialty" restaurants which add to the beauty of the hotel. Sahara Star is a luxury class hotel with its picturesque tropical lagoon that looks up to the world's largest pillar less clear-to-sky dome and the three compound-curved, custom-designed glass elevators with panoramic views. True entertainment infused with rich Indian Hospitality.
Be it seminars, workshops, conferences or grand celebrations, Sahara Star's banquet is an ideal choice. At Hotel Sahara Star, we aim to host the finest meetings and banquets with magnificent venues for your events and celebrations. We offer you a choice of numerous meeting rooms, state-of-the-art audio-visual facility and much more. The hotel also offers three levels of parking that can easily accommodate over 750 cars add to the convenience of the visitors.
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Bruno and I took a road trip to Arizona this weekend to visit my dad and little brother, Ethan. We took Ethan to his first hockey game - LA Kings vs. Phoenix Coyotes @ Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, AZ.
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Hot Tips and Top Picks: DVDs, Blu-rays and digital debuts for the week of December 4
Videodrone's take on the biggest, best, coolest and culty-ist releases of the week
New Releases:
"The Dark Knight Rises" (Warner), the culmination of Christopher Nolan's trilogy of high-minded comic book superhero action spectacles by way of pop-art social commentary, doesn't want for ambition. It's a big canvas with big (if vague) ideas, big metaphors, and outsized performances. Plus Anne Hathaway in catsuit. Blu-ray, DVD, digital download, and On Demand. Videodrone's review is here.
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox), winner of the Grand Jury Prize as Sundance 2012, is an imaginative and vibrant film that rolls out like a stream of consciousness poem from the mind of a little girl who intermixes fantasy and reality. Its portrait of resolute swamp folk in post-Katrina New Orleans swerves into cliché, but the imagery and offbeat storytelling is often mesmerizing. Blu-ray, DVD, digital download, and On Demand. Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"Hope Springs" (Sony) stars Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as an old married couple who sign on for marriage counseling with Steve Carell to spice up their relationship. Blu-ray, DVD, digital download, On Demand, and at Redbox.
"The Odd Life of Timothy Green" (Disney) stars Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton as a childless couple who appear to grow a son out of a wish made upon their garden. Blu-ray, DVD, digital download, On Demand, and at Redbox. Jennifer Garner also stars in "Butter (Anchor Bay), a red-state political satire set in the world of a butter carving competition. Blu-ray and DVD.
The foreign releases this week are toplined by "Unforgivable" (Strand), André Téchiné's new romantic thriller with André Dussolier and Carole Bouquet, and "Alps" (Kino) from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (both on DVD), while Oscar shortlist documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (Sundance Selects) arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand.
Browse the complete New Release Rack here
TV on Disc:
"Angry Boys" (HBO) is the latest creation from Australian comedian / writer / producer Chris Lilley. He plays six characters, not just boys and not all angry, but they are messed up and lacking in self-awareness, a theme in Lilley's universe. In addition to Aussie characters, he also plays an American rapper (in modern blackface) and the domineering Japanese-American mother of teenage skateboard sensation, caricatures that push the boundaries of good taste and intelligent satire. Blu-ray and DVD. Also new this week on DVD is his 2007 series "We Can Be Heroes" (HBO). Videodrone's review is here.
"World Without End" (Sony), a sort-of sequel to Ken Follet's "The Pillars of the Earth," takes place in the same town 100 years later to find a similar play of power and corruption in the tie of the Black Death. The eight-part, eight-hour mini-series is on Blu-ray and DVD. Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"Titanic: Blood and Steel" (Lionsgate) as the second mini-series about the fateful voyage of the unsinkable ship for 2012. This 12-part production, made for cable, stars Kevin Zegers, Neve Campbell, Derek Jacobi, and Chris Noth. Blu-ray and DVD
Plus: the web series "The Legend of Neil: The Complete Series" (Flatiron), a comic fantasy about a guy sucked into a video game (DVD); "Mannix: The Final Season" (Paramount) with Mike Conners (DVD); "The Simpsons: The Fifteenth Season" (Fox, DVD); and another tour with Kenny Powers in the HBO comedy "Eastbound & Down: The Complete Third Season" (HBO, Blu-ray and DVD).
Flip through the TV on Disc Channel Guide here
Cool and Classic:
"Purple Noon" (Criterion), the first screen version of Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley," stars Alain Delon as Tom Ripley, the amoral American in Europe who murders his playboy benefactor and takes his identity. Delon plays Ripley with enough sinister charm and confidence to make him an endearing anti-hero. Blu-ray and DVD, with new and archival interviews. Reviewed on Videodrone here.
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXV" (Shout! Factory) yuks it up with heckling commentary on four cult movies: "Kitten With a Whip" with Ann-Margret, the Bond knock-off "Operation Kid Brother," the "Black Lagoon" sequel "Revenge of the Creature," and "Robot Holocaust." Four discs in a box set plus supplements. DVD only.
Plus "Ninja Scroll" (Sentai), the 1995 anime thriller that set the bar for animated samurai action, in a new DVD and Blu-ray debut edition, and the original 1984 Santa slasher horror and its first sequel in "Silent Night, Deadly Night: Double Feature" (Anchor Bay) on DVD.
Debuting on the manufacture-on-demand format is "Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection" (Warner Archive), featuring six films from the early thirties that first brought the legendary lawyer to the screen. Videodrone's review is here.
All of the Cool and Classic here
Blu-ray Debuts:
"Brazil" (Criterion) marks the Blu-ray debut of Terry Gilliam's 142-minute director's cut of his dark, dense science fiction fantasy, an absurdist nightmare of Kafka-esque dimensions, along with two superb documentaries and the unreleased 92-minute version that Universal prepared to give the film a happy ending among the supplements. Videodrone's review is here.
The German language version of "The Blue Angel" (Kino), the film that made Marlene Dietrich an international star, also debuts. Reviewed in Videodrone here.
"Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Two" (Paramount) continues the roll-out of the "Star Trek" TV shows in newly-remastered editions prepared for HD. 22 episodes on five discs, plus new supplements and an extended edition of "The Measure of a Man." Videodrone's review is here.
"Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection" (Lionsgate) collects both "Apocalypse Now" and his revised and expanded "Apocalypse Now Redux" along with his brilliant "The Conversation," his studio musical "One From the Heart," and the recent drama "Tetro," in a four-disc set.
Frank Sinatra is a would-be presidential assassin in "Suddenly" (Image), the low-budget 1954 thriller he made before his fifties comeback (and years before "The Manchurian Candidate").
Plus: Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" (Paramount) with Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hanks and Blu-ray 3D editions of Pixar's "Finding Nemo 3D" (Disney) and "Up 3D" (Disney).
Peruse all the new Blu-rays here
New on Netflix Instant:
"Young Adult" (2011), from "Juno" director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody, is a caustic dark comedy starring Charlize Theron in a brilliant performance as a self-absorbed author of juvenile fiction.
"The English Patient" (1996), a lushly romantic World War II drama starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and the angelic Juliette Binoche, could be "Casablanca" for the nineties. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director).
"Nobody's Fool" (1994) offers Paul Newman one of his greatest roles as an easy-going screw-up who finally starts to grow up. Daniel Day-Lewis stars in "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), Michael Mann's muscular version of the James Fennimore Cooper frontier classic.
Plus "Sexy Beast" (2001) with Ben Kingsley as a fierce London thug and the film noir classic "Double Indemnity" (1944) with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
Browse more Instant offerings here
New On Demand:
A robust selection of new releases arrives same day as disc, beginning with "The Dark Knight Rises," the final film in Chris Nolan's ambitious dark comic-book trilogy.
Also arriving: Sundance favorite and acclaimed indie "Beasts of the Southern Wild," the romantic comedy "Hope Springs" with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, family film "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" with Jennifer Gardner, Oscar short-list documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," and direct-to-disc family sports comedy "Thunderstruck" with Kevin Durant and Brandon T. Jackson (covered later in the B-Sides round-up).
Theatrical films available On Demand this week are the documentaries "The Central Park Five," co-directed by Ken Burns, and "Dying to Do Letterman."
Available from Redbox this week:
The romantic comedy "Hope Springs" (Sony) with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones and the family film "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" (Disney) with Jennifer Gardner arrive same day as video stores.
Also arriving in Redbox kiosks this week is the horror film "The Apparition" (Warner), which hit disc last week (reviewed on Videodrone here) the Nicolas Cage thriller "Stolen" (Millennium), which is scheduled for official disc release in early 2013, making this a Redbox exclusive for this direct-to-disc release.


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chocolate bwains.
And other reasons I am falling madly deeply in love with having a chalkboard this fall.
We started decorating for Fall and one of the first things we did was to finish painting the large outdoor chalkboard and play center for the kids. It is now, like, half done, which is a whole lot more than the "half done" state it was in for the first half of this year and I'm thinking we might actually have it totally done someday soon, so long as I don't get hit with any other wonderful projects to "half start", ya know? So, enough with my well demonstrated flakiness, I own that, and on to the chalkboard love...
Reason 1:
With the stroke of a chalk wielding hand you can integrate your chalkboard into your seasonal decor.
Reason 2:
It's a chalkboard!
As a child of the eighties and nineties I can attest that there is nothing sweeter than a board on which chalk writes and from which dust flies. In fact I spent a good deal of my school days, between the ages of seven and way older than I should have been, relentlessly raising and waving my arm hoping for a chance to "write the answer on the board"-- and God forbid physical fatigue should set in, well, I had mastered the "use one arm to prop up the other" stance, 'cause defeat, bah, defeat was not an option when writing on the classroom chalkboard was at stake.
(As an aside, the nine year old does not so much appreciate the sweet vintage feel of a dusty chalky board and would have had a dry erase just the same. Dry erase, pshh, kids these days.)
Reason 3:
When the neighborhood kiddos come over to play and you say "let's decorate for Halloween and they hear "let's reenact a zombie apocalypse" and fill the board with terror inspiring statements like, "I want to eat your chocolate bwains", well, you can giggle and smile and know that you won't have to suffer long through even the very cutest of threats 'cause you are just one good dusting away from a clean slate.
Reason Most Important:
Hangman, on a chalkboard, is there any better way to play that morbid classroom fave of letters and body parts?
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I like to think of myself as a happy-go-lucky, glass is half-full kinda person. I usually don't ever allow myself to dwell in a state of meh-ness. Some might say that's the control freak in me, while others would say it's just me burying my feelings.
Meh, is what I say to that.
But, sometimes the angst that hides beneath the surface can't be pushed away and I … well, … I have a moment.
This weekend I found myself like that. I was in a really pissy mood and mad at the universe in general.
Then a day like today comes along and it puts my moans and groans about my life in to perspective. Today is a sad and somber reminder of how quickly everything in your life can change. It makes me want to give myself a kick up the arse and question what right do I have to feel selfish and moody when compared to the real losses and tragedies of 9/11.
Ten years ago I heard Ryan Adams for the first time … his song New York, New York got quite a lot of airplay and rightly so. I thought he had a great albeit moody sound and bought his CD which I played over and over. I'd not really listened to him much since then, but when I was over at my sister's house the other day, she was playing some of his more recent songs.
For this week's Musical Monday, I've chosen this one called Come Pick Me Up that I was a bit smitten with … I think because it's such a moody fucking song and so appeals to that angst side of me. Look … there I go again.
Enjoy while I go give myself a good talking to …
When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favorite sweater
With an old love letter
I wish you would
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would
When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes
Do they all look like mine
You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would
I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could


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Makes 6 bruschette
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- 1/3 cup walnuts
- a 15- to 16-ounce can white beans
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- six 1/4-inch-thick slices rustic Italian bread
- Garnish: chopped fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a shallow baking pan toast nuts in middle of oven until fragrant, about 10 minutes, and when cool coarsely chop. Rinse and drain beans. In a food processor mince garlic and purée with beans, lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon oil until smooth.
Toast bread and drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil. Divide purée among toasts and top with nuts. Drizzle remaining tablespoon oil over bruschetta and garnish with parsley.
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Nutrition Informationper serving (6 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories449
- Carbohydrates60 g (20%)
- Fat15 g (23%)
- Protein21 g (42%)
- Saturated Fat2 g (10%)
- Sodium187 mg (8%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat5 g
- Fiber12 g (50%)
- Monounsaturated Fat7 g
- Cholesterol0
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Gender: Male
City: liverpool
Stand: Gwladys Street
Country: United Kingdom
First Game
everton vs manchester city
Favourite Everton Moment
when everton was losing 3-1 to manchester united in the 90th minute and then cahill scored a header past van der sar and then arteta shot a rocket inside the box to the net and goodison park went wild.
Favourite All Time Player
Leighton Baines. because they are really good players and i think they are the best everton players of all time.
Favourite Manager
David Moyes. because when he joined we was in trouble and nearly getting relagated and know we are a top ten side and challenging for europe and he had know money too spend.
Favourite Game
everton 3- 0 liverpool in 2006-2007 season
Favourite Goal
mikael arteta free kick vs hull city
Favourite Kit
the pink kit of 2010-1011
Favourite Chant
and if you know your history its enough to make your heart go woahh we dont care what the redshites say beause we only know that theres going be a show and the everton boys will be there


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The White Sheik (1952)
Alternate title: Lo Sceicco Bianco
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This is an amazing first directorial effort. Fellini showed from the start his fascination with the human comedy. There is a certain mocking tone here, yet he never mocks the characters and he is always humane.
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Chris Anthony said...
I don't know what the actual situation is (I suspect that nobody outside of Blizzard marketing does), but I feel obliged to point out a scenario which is admittedly contrived but which I believe to be reasonable, in which Blizzard isn't marginalizing women and has still only released videos with men in them so far:
Blizzard invites fifty celebrities to record videos advertising that they play World of Warcraft. Half of the invitations go to men, half to women. Of the invitees, forty refuse; of the ten left, seven are men and three are women. All of them agree to record ads as their schedules permit. The first in the studios are Mr. T, Verne Troyer, William Shatner, Willy Toledo, and Jean Claude van Damme, and these videos are released as they are recorded. (Troyer's is delayed for unspecified reasons.) All five are male.
At this point, therefore, Blizzard has positive responses from three women and seven men, despite sending queries to twenty-five women and twenty-five men. None of the women have recorded; five of the men have. And the five (well, four, Troyer's is delayed) men's ads are the ones that have run.
I don't mean to say that this is how it happened, and I don't mean to say that Blizzard isn't marginalizing women. I'm just saying that four videos (and a fifth that hasn't aired yet) isn't really a whole lot of evidence on which to base the assumption that they /are/.


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Two men forced their way into a Lexington apartment late Wednesday night.
Police said three people were at the apartment in the 2200 block of Devonport Drive just before 9:30 p.m. when they heard scratching sounds at the door.
One of them opened the door and police said that's when two men wearing all black pushed their way in and demanded money.
Police said one of the suspects had a handgun.
They left after getting some money.
No one was injured.
Police are still searching for the suspects.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) -- Authorities in Eastern Indiana raided a half dozen convenience stores in Delaware County, three apartments in Muncie and a home in Indianapolis as part of a month long investigation into the sale of synthetic drugs sold as bath salts.
The Star Press reports that a probable cause affidavit says the investigation leading to Monday's raids began after police received numerous calls from people concerned about stores selling the synthetic drugs, in some cases to adolescents.
The drugs are sold in small plastic cosmetic containers, are laced with stimulants and have been compared to synthetic cocaine. The drugs can cause paranoia and hallucinations and have been linked with deaths and hundreds of calls to poison centers nationwide.
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I've decided to start a sketchbook because I've hit a point in my work where my self-analysis just isn't cutting it anymore. More and more often I'm running into brick walls where I don't like an image I've created but I'm at a loss concerning how to improve it.
I'm going to be posting daily/semi-daily sketches and WIPs, and I'm hoping to get some solid (and brutally honest) critiques. I'm also hoping that this will be good motivation for me to push my limits artistically and force me out of the comfort zone I've been languishing in.
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well, you're looking for an outside viewpoint, and I have some immediate reactions. First, your figures are way chubby. The muscles, hands, and faces all remind me of small children. Not sure if that's what you were going for, but there it is. The rendering is very spherical as well - I'd try going for more mass studies if I were you. Last, the poses are very straightforward. I'm sure you as well as many others will agree with me when I say that some more dynamic poses would really push up the "scary" level of those last two pieces.
That being said, welcome to the sketchbooks! Your color work is excellent and I look forward to seeing more!
Thanks for the comments Panda - I see what you mean about the proportions, I'll keep that in mind.
A small sketch from last night... some feathered reptile creature heads - male and female.
wow nice start panagos, love the first one, the female face is jut awesome. But i think her head and her neck is a tad too big compared to her shoulders. And the guns that the male is holding is a little too flat. But overall i like it, good colors too. The last sketches are great, would been cool if ud add some more, maybe a quick briefing abut the background, or some more sketches, perhaps from the rest of their bodies. Intresting concept too
Thanks for the comments Wolfbane - all very good observations, thanks for the critique.
Here's a sketch from last night - it's degenerated cannabalistic elf. I'm messing around with distorted proportions to try and convey a sense of him being feral and maybe slightly deformed as a result of his ghoulishness. Does he look kinda creepy? Or does it just look like I screwed up on drawing the anatomy?
And this is a WIP quick color comp for a vidgame load screen - any comments would be appreciated before I start on the final rendering.
IMO your poses need a bit of work. Do a bunch of stick figures, starting with the spine- and make sure they are proportioned. Do the stupidest poses you can think of- and take elements of each you like, and make a pose. At least make it interesting! Your rendering seems pretty tight, but your anatomy does need some work. Do lotso faces =)
Keep postins'!
Pixeldragoon, thanks for the comments.
Once again, a sketch from last night.
wow, really nice pose but I think the neck is a little off. Nice rendering on the torse.
much better than some of your other stuff, I'd say. The anatomy is very much more alive, although something's up with her left foot and wrist. cool axes.
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Ethan lives a secret life as a Guardian of the Named. Under the guidance of Arkarian, his mentor, and with the help of Isabel, his unlikely but highly capable apprentice, Ethan has become a valued member of this other-worldly corps. As the only defense against the evil Order of Chaos, the Named travel through time to prevent the Order from altering history and thereby gaining power in the present and the future.
As the threat from the Order intensifies, secrets of the past are revealed and villains and heroes are exposed.
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UPDATE 1-ConvergEx to pay more than $150 mln to settle U.S. charges
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Brokerage company ConvergEx Group LLC will pay more than $150 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that some of its subsidiaries and two former employees secretly overcharged clients by millions of dollars and lied about the extra fees, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
As part of an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, a now-defunct ConvergEx unit that was registered in Bermuda and the two former company employees pleaded guilty to criminal conduct.
The Justice Department filed charges against ConvergEx itself but agreed to defer and drop them if the company abides by the terms of the deal, which includes paying $43.8 million in penalties and restitution.
In addition, three of ConvergEx's subsidiaries, including the shuttered Bermuda unit, will pay more than $107 million to settle parallel civil charges filed on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the SEC's case, those entities also admitted to violating securities laws and agreed to the set of facts laid out in the SEC's complaint.
This settlement marks the third time that the SEC has extracted admissions of wrongdoing from defendants, as part of a policy instituted by SEC Chair Mary Jo White earlier this year.
ConvergEx "engaged in a concerted and coordinated effort to fleece its clients by charging them millions of dollars in unwarranted fees ... and then concealing those charges from its clients through a pattern of deception," Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman said on Wednesday.
The company is a large brokerage that provides trade execution services to major institutional clients. Its two largest shareholders are private equity firm GTCR and Bank of New York Mellon.
ConvergEx had planned to go public in a $400 million initial public offering but withdrew the IPO in June. It recently hired Nasdaq OMX's second in command, Eric Noll, to be its president and chief executive.
According to the SEC's complaint, the brokerage often charged large institutional clients more than double what they thought they were paying.
ConvergEx was able to charge the extra fees by routing its customers' orders to the offshore unit in Bermuda.
This allowed ConvergEx to charge "undisclosed mark-ups and mark-downs" in addition to the commissions the customers expected to pay, the SEC said.
In a statement, ConvergEx said that the overwhelming majority of its equity execution business clients and customer orders were not affected by the scheme.
"The employees who engaged in this misconduct are no longer at the company, the Bermuda trading desk ... was shut down by ConvergEx, and the activity associated with these investigations was discontinued two years ago," the company said.
The Justice Department said that Jonathan Daspin, the former head trader of ConvergEx's broker-dealer that was registered in Bermuda, and Thomas Lekargeren, a sales trader at another one of the firm's subsidiaries, each pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud.
Both were accused of playing various roles that helped conceal the mark-ups from clients.
The Justice Department said Daspin was involved in creating false transaction reports with fabricated details about order executions. He also came up with a plan to avoid providing real-time data to its clients, the Justice Department said.
Later, when some clients complained, the Justice Department said, Lekargeren blamed the failure to deliver real-time data on information technology issues.
In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Raman said both men are cooperating with the government and the investigation is ongoing.
The government said the scheme, which occurred over a period of several years, victimized funds managed by charities, religious organizations, universities and governments.
Andrew Ceresney, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division, said that the ConvergEx was careful about which customers it overcharged and tried to pick clients that might not be paying close attention.
"Based upon the sensitivity of the customers and the likelihood that they were paying attention to execution quality, the firm then determined how much trading profit to take on particular transactions," he said.
An attorney for Daspin declined to comment, and an attorney for Lekargeren could not be immediately reached for comment.
In addition to pleading guilty to criminal charges, both former traders settled civil charges with the SEC.
Daspin agreed to pay roughly $1.1 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest, and Lekargeren agreed to pay about $117,000 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest.
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Drakkenfyre said...
I am not happy with it either, and have said so several times.
The only thing I figure is ampm gave them a better, cheaper offer.
Giving a promotion to a store that only has stores in 12 states, then saying the cups are going to "rock the world", is utterly stupid.
And it's not even like it's a West-coast only chain, which could kind of be explained that Blizzard was going with someone local. These stores are spread wiley-niley across the US, but still in only those 12 states.
Tabrezzioum said...
Your not the only one man. I'm pissed, I want to get these cups but there isn't an AM/PM store in the state of VA. What a POS thing to do to someone. Offer them on the damn website.


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Oodle joins the QVC family
It's been a long time since we've posted on the Oodle blog. We've been quietly working on some big changes over the last year. And we're finally ready to start sharing again…
Last year, we had the good fortune to become profitable and cash flow positive — no small feat and one that we celebrated. But we also recognized that we needed to increase our growth rate. And to do that, we needed to expand our focus and capitalize on everything we've learned and built around social commerce.
Today, we take a huge step in that direction. Oodle has just signed a deal to become part of the QVC family. We are thrilled and honored to be a part of their team!
No one understands social shopping better than QVC. They master a shopping experience that is truly a form of entertainment, one that's built around serendipity and trusted storytelling. With this partnership, we can leverage our team and our social commerce platform to help elevate and evolve their online social shopping experience.
Moving forward, our users will be able to continue to use Oodle.com as their local classifieds marketplace.
We sincerely appreciate all the hard work and dedication of the Oodle team — including Brett Bullington — who helped make this happen.
Exciting New Features Announced at Today's f8 Conference!
We are proud to announce that Oodle's Marketplace is an official Facebook Preferred Developer Partner at the f8 Conference. This year's f8 is both exciting and significant. Facebook has unveiled new features that will take sharing to a whole new level.
Facebook is a medium of shared conversations. With the new set of open graph features, Facebook is letting applications — both on and off Facebook – add tons of texture to shared conversations. Rather than just a sparse vocabulary where you "like" a "URL", sharing can now occur with an open ended array of verbs and objects.
Native Facebook applications (like the Photo album) have always enjoyed a more complex vocabulary to enhance sharing. Now Facebook is leveling the playing field and rolling this out to any application. As such, this is very much a natural evolution to the last two f8s: 2009 enabled apps to leverage your Facebook identity to provide richer experience, 2010 enables apps to fuel simple sharing via "like", and with 2011 we see full-fledged sharing functionality.
This is great for consumers who get to share and interact with more interesting content. This is great for applications that can foster richer, context specific conversations.
As you might expect, we're thrilled about fostering commerce related conversations around selling, buying, giving away, recommending and looking for things. More on that shortly!
Some TED Talks you might want to watch…
I was fortunate to attend the TED conference last week in Long Beach and saw some awe-inspiring talks. If you're not familiar, TED (which stands for Technology, Education and Design) is a conference that gathers together leading visionaries, intellectuals, artists, experts in many fields to give great, candid talks on their work. Well produced videos of these talks are published on TED.com. If you have the time, I'd encourage you to check them out. All the videos aren't up there yet but should be shortly. Below are my highlights from this year.
Two talks really brought out the transformative nature of the Internet to bring online communities together – one to produce revolution, the other a work of art:
- Wadah Khanfar, Director General of Al Jazeera — spoke about the historic changes occurring in the Arab world and the power of social media to empower a society.
- Eric Whitacre — talked about his virtual choir experience – "Human beings will go to almost ANY lenghth to try to connect to each other." The talk isn't posted yet but here's a YouTube of one of the performances.
I was blow away by a few artists:
- Sarah Kay — showed off the power, intensity and beauty of her spoken word poetry.
- Jason Mraz — a singer-songwriter with diverse stylistic influences. He rocks.
- Beatrice Coron — a mind-blowing papercutting artist.
- Janet Echelmon — a whole new kind of spatial art.
Always amazing to learn about the cutting edge of science:
- Ed Boyden — this man is a few years away from programming our brains and building The Matrix.
- Fiorenzo Omenetto – The power to change the world (really) through the medium of silk.
- Dr Anthony Atala – using a 3D printer for making organs.
- Deb Roy – some crazy stuff on data visualization, acquiring human speech, and what if every moment of our lives was recorded
As well as be humbled by folks committed to changing our world
- JR – amazing artist that uses publicly posted photography to change the way people look at their communities. "I can't save the world, but maybe I can change the world. Can art change the world?"
- Salman Khan – The amazing Khan academy for online teaching.
- Wael Ghonim — the Google executive in the middle of the Egyptian revolution.
Other talks I also love:
- Morgan Spurlock – Funny & entertaining look at product placement & brand marketing.
- Damon Horowitz — short personal story of philosophy & its impact on a young felon in prison.
- Philip Zimbardo — short talk on the demise of boys
Shaking things up…
Over the last few days I've been reflecting on all the activity surrounding the AIM group report that we helped sponsor. We saw some meaningful commentary as well as a lot of fall out.
I strongly feel that sponsoring and promoting the report was the right thing for us to do. There is a serious issue in our industry – one that deserves to be talked about. But I do regret the way the report was sensationalized.
My decision to build Oodle was and is grounded in my passionate belief that there is a better way to do classifieds. We started the company by aggressively investing in great search and analytics. And we've spent the last three years using social media to define a new experience for classifieds.
Safety has always been a central issue to us because of the inherent social nature of classifieds – the conversation starts online but ends in a face-to-face interaction. It's something we've spent a lot of time and energy addressing – and an area where we'll continue to innovate.
We don't, however, see much innovation happening in the rest of the classifieds industry. Almost all the online classifieds sites out there are pretty much the same as they were a decade ago. While that's certainly their prerogative, the lack of innovation around safety has serious and negative repercussions for consumers. The internet has evolved – it's become less anonymous and more social. So should online classifieds.
As an innovator, our intent with the report was to shake things up even if it ruffled some feathers. The data in the report was solid and the message about the dangers of anonymity was important for people to hear. Moreover, many of these issues can be avoided with some of the innovations we've developed.
I regret, however, that we framed the issue as an indictment of Craigslist versus a problem that plagues our industry. It devolved the dialogue – from a conversation about safety (and what could be done about it) to one about a cat fight in the industry. Our intent to create awareness and dialogue became buried in the drama of the day. That was a missed opportunity.
About the Craigslist Study
After the AIM Group study was published yesterday, we got a lot of questions and comments. I wanted to address some of them to clear up misconceptions.
1. The numbers cited in the study are solid.
The study counted crimes that were published in local media outlets and which can be directly linked to Craigslist activity. Indeed, by focusing only on crimes published in the press, one could argue that these numbers understate the issue.
To help provide some backing for these numbers, the study provided links to each of these published reports. In addition to checking out these links, you can get your own feel for the size of this problem simply by searching for "craigslist" on google news.
2. The numbers cited in the study (12 murders, 330 crimes) are significant even when you take the size of Craigslist's audience into account.
First off, let me reiterate what was mentioned in the study — these crimes aren't Craigslist's fault. But 12 murders resulting from the use of one web site are significant — independent of the size of the audience.
Consumers should be made aware of the issue and what's being done about it. Discounting the issue simply isn't appropriate. Toyota took the issue of spontaneous acceleration very seriously even though it involved "only" a dozen reported deaths and arguably much more clouded causality.
3. We did have a promotional motive for sponsoring the study and clearly stated our involvement with the study in the press release and on our blog.
The study highlights a big problem in our industry, one based on conversations that start anonymously online and end in face-to-face interactions, potentially with dangerous outcomes. This is a problem that Oodle does a good job of addressing; and one we feel needs to be addressed. Consumers should know about this issue and that alternative solutions exist in the market. That's why we sponsored the study, and publicly acknowledged that we sponsored it.
And while the dialog on both sides of this debate may seem a bit over-the-top, it doesn't even touch recent satire about Craigslist. Rather, this report was about publicly-available data and safety when buying and selling online.
Oodle partners with ForRent and AutoTrader (UK)
With these principals in mind we're excited to announce two new partnerships — ForRent.com in the US and AutoTrader in the UK. These partnerships will bring even more listings to our Marketplace on Oodle and Facebook, and introduce powerful social media tools to two industries that can really benefit from having a strong Facebook presence.
ForRent is the leading online apartment listings service in the US. Companies in the multifamily industry, by nature of their business, form a pretty personal part of their customers lives — people are searching for their homes after all. Similarly, we've partnered with AutoTrader in the UK, where dealers will reach new customers through social media, while prospective buyers can talk to real people and compare listings with friends.
Social Commerce and the new rules for Local Businesses
Below is an article that I recently posted on TechCrunch…
Ecommerce today is imbued with the same DNA that runs through Google. It's automated. It's algorithmic. It's certainly not human. And the marketing campaigns that are built with this DNA are similarly data-driven. They employ number crunchers to capture their leads and build their databases, all the while looking for incremental ROI and arbitrage opportunities.
But a new marketing game has come to town — social commerce. And at its core is an entirely different bit of DNA: the DNA of Facebook. This new variety of social commerce is about conversations. It's about relationships. It's about re-humanizing online commerce. And for marketers to succeed with social commerce, they are going to have to rethink their game plan. Facebook has given us a brand new color palette brush set. Now, it's up to us to figure out how to use it. I like to call this learning process "de-ecommercification."
Succeeding with social commerce requires marketers to act human. Rather than searching for information, consumers are discovering things through trusted referrals and recommendations. Instead of being a marketing medium driven by click-through rates and lead conversion, Facebook is a medium of relationships and conversations. That is going to require some adjustments by marketers. In this new game, they are going to need to:
- Practice the art of conversation. Social commerce is not about capturing leads and building databases. It's about talking to people with an authentic voice, the same voice you would use if you were talking to them in person. [Remember, you're talking to your customers in the same place they use to chat with their friends.]
- Build and deepen customer relationships. Customers are the trusted network, the community, that surrounds a business. By taking care of customers, you not only deepen those relationships, but you also fuel referrals.
It's true that many other people in our industry besides me talk about "social commerce." What they are really talking about, though, is "social shopping." For example, if you were thinking of getting a new video camera, you probably want to get recommendations from your friends about which one to buy. This is pretty cool. But it's also very incremental. It's social icing on the ecommerce cupcake.
Social commerce will have its biggest impact with a different set of businesses – businesses that are naturally "relationship businesses." And these are easy to spot. They're typically local businesses, those whose primary form of marketing has always been word-of-mouth referrals: local service providers, real estate agents, landlords, and employers.
If you're looking for a new house cleaner, which would matter most to you: a) A half-dozen reviews from people you don't know, b) A coupon for 10% off the cleaner's first visit or c) Two friends that use the same cleaner, and are fans?
Or, if you're looking for a new apartment and trying to figure out where to live, do you want lots of data on maps … or advice and recommendations from your friends and co-workers?
While social commerce is going to disruptive to local businesses, that doesn't mean it's going to all be about deals (at least not yet). The DNA of Groupon (despite winning the Crunchie for Best Social Commerce App) is ecommerce, and the deals its offers, which are about cost-effectively generating leads, are really ecommerce icing. In the new realm of social commerce, deals will evolve to serve a different master. They will be focused on deepening the relationships you have with your current customers, and through this end, fueling referrals.
This may sound complicated and confusing. But local businesses should get the hang of this quickly. This all very back-to-the-future stuff for them. Great local businesses have always been people-based businesses that understand the power of relationships and the importance of participating in a local community. There's a reason the car dealer sponsors the local little league team. What these businesses haven't yet been able to figure out is how take what they're already doing in their local communities, and then transfer it to the new world of Facebook. But they're learning. And when they do, it will be transformational not only for them, but also for us, their customers.
The Social Marketplace on Oodle & Facebook
Today we rolled out a bunch of new functionality both on Facebook and Oodle — to make the experience into a true social marketplace.
To date, most of the conversation around social commerce has revolved around social shopping. We're focused on a different area of social commerce — the social marketplace — where who you're buying from (or selling to) matters as much as what is being bought (or sold).
Anonymous online transactions in traditional classifieds marketplaces lend themselves to bad behavior — from serious fraud and safety issues to flakey actions such as no-show meetings. Marketplace now does a better job using Facebook to establish a user's real identity so users can see who is on the other end of the conversation:
- Facebook Connect hooks a user's real identity to the listings they post.
- When someone responds to a listing via email the other party sees who they are via their public Facebook profile.
- Users see how they are connected to each other: through friends, mutual friends or a shared network (e.g., went to the same school, work in the same company).
- We're also now more clearly delineating between postings posted directly on Marketplace (which have a Facebook identity associated) and aggregated classifieds listings found elsewhere on the Internet.
Marketplace also taps Facebook's social graph to facilitate trading within a user's extended community — friends, neighbors, co-workers and mutual friends:
- Because people are motivated to help their friends, Marketplace now lets users post listings that are only visible to friends.
- The commerce experience extends beyond buying and selling and includes giving, lending and borrowing.
- When searching Marketplace, now users can easily share what they're looking for, creating a social "want ad" only visible to friends.
- A new 'Friends' section and weekly newsletter helps bring people together, enabling them to browse what friends and friends-of-friends have posted.
In a recent online survey commissioned by Oodle and conducted by Harris Interactive, 69 percent of American adults stated they would rather give away or share unneeded items with friends or acquaintances who would reuse them, rather than sell them online for a profit. Moreover, when selling item, 43 percent of American adults would prefer to sell to someone they know, such as a friend or acquaintance.
Facebook Marketplace Adds Friends Tab
Today we launched the Friends Tab on Facebook Marketplace, making it even
easier to see what your friends are buying, selling — or giving away.
For example, I'm helping my cousin find a place to live in Palo Alto. Now, I can easily browse Facebook Marketplace to see which of my friends – or friends of friends -have posted a room for rent in the area. I quickly find that my friend Christine is renting out a room in her townhouse.
I also see the comment thread of questions and answers about the place, giving me
some additional background about the room. Because I know Christine and
her husband, I feel completely at ease recommending the room to my cousin.
Christine can also feel at ease because she knows me – and knows enough about
my cousin to know that he'll be a great fit in their home.
Oodle Taps Four Industry Veterans to Scale Growing Business
I'm very excited to welcome four industry veterans to the senior team at Oodle. Oodle is growing very quickly — we've seen traffic and revenue more than double in the last year. It's wonderful to bring in a seasoned group of executives to help us step on the gas!
Tod Harmon joins us as chief financial officer (CFO). Tod has a wealth of experience helping small companies grow. He joins us from Six Apart where he was CFO. Prior to that, Tod was CFO at HomeGain (acquired by Classified Ventures in 2005).
Jenny Rutherford has come on board as vice president of marketing for Oodle Pro. Jenny will lead our efforts to market to small businesses. She has years of experience doing just that at Intuit.
Stephen Feltner will lead our direct sales efforts as vice president of sales, focusing on the Rentals, Real Estate, Cars and Jobs categories. Stephen joins us from Move.com where he was president of their new homes and rentals business.
Charlie Engel joins us as vice president of real estate. Charlie will be working with Stephen in our efforts with the real estate industry. Charlie joins us from NCI (The Real Estate Book, Apartment Finder) where he was director of business development and national director of sales.
It's an exciting time at Oodle and we're continuing to hire exceptional talent to fill numerous new roles. Interested in working at Oodle? Check out our open positions here.
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- 122 Marske Lane Bishopsgarth Stockton-on-Tees TS19 8UL
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Rosedale is owned by Stockton-On-Tees Borough Council and is a residential home for elderly people. The home has four distinct units, the Oaks, Willows, Poplar and Laurel. Each unit consists of a lounge/dining room, a small kitchen with basic equipment, where residents and their visitors can make refreshments, a small television lounge, two individual lavatories and one within the bathroom. All bedrooms contain a wash hand basin. The home provides care and accommodation for older people who are physically frail, or short term care for people who have dementia. There is one unit, which provides intermediate care for up to six weeks during which time clients receive intensive rehabilitation. The assessment / discharge support service on Oaks unit also has some therapy input. The home is set in its own grounds and is a large single storey dwelling. There is a small shopping area nearby. The fees still need to be clarified.
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- Manager: Mrs Jean Spedding
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- Total Capacity: 44
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Luisette, well right now, the WG buff is stuck on alliance. meaning they can collect a ton of Stone Keeper Shards if they want (provided Blizz doesnt roll the tables back).
I have to say though, with the shorter times, WG was a lot more fun than normal. tons more fun. In the end, on the server which I play, alliance actually worked TOGETHER. It was a beautiful thing to see. A rarity.
I wish the WG battle occurred more often in the day. I hate logging in at night only to see I missed it by 10 minutes and I need to log in 2 hours. :c/
I haven't logged in yet today, so I was unaware that the buff would still persist even through disabling WG. From a rational train of thought, I can almost guarantee they'll do roll-backs on the shards collected... because otherwise, there's going to be hell from the losing faction on every server affected.
But then again, this is Blizzard, and sometimes what's "rational" isn't always "implemented". God love ya Blizz, but sometimes you blow my mind.
i wouldn't guarantee anything...the alliance one had wg for three days after a wg freeze during i think the 3.0.8 "hey lets give everyone in the northrend the essence of WG buff at the same time... that won't cause problems" bug...there was qq, but no shard claw backs


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Blauvelt has always had his priorities in line during the winter months- Early to bed, early rise. That combined with keeping a sharp eye on weather patterns has led him to consistently being in the right place in the never ending unpredictable world of conditions. Often keeping a relaxed and humbled approach to the rat race seems to pay off quite often for him.
Tonight I was able to go to Jake Blauvelt's movie premiere, Naturally and it was AMAZING. The film was so inspiring and I was able to talk to Jake, take some pictures and WIN HIS BOARD. Tonight was simply amazing :)
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Texas' foster care system could be getting a makeover that stresses cooperation between agencies and a more personal touch with kids.
The Texas Supreme Court held a public hearing Tuesday.
Among those to testify was Trista Miller, a former foster child who now works for Child Protection Services.
"I remember a couple of times, coming to court and there would be a judge just now picking up my file for the first time, and knowing that person had the ability to make decisions that affected my entire life," Miller said.
The state is looking into creating a commission to fix help child protection courts better serve children, youth and families in the foster care system.
Its goals are to lessen the workload for case workers, quickly place kids in permanent families and give the whole system a more personal touch.
The lives of about 20,000 foster children in Texas will be affected by Supreme Court's decision. A judge decides where a child will live, with whom and for how long. The new committee will make sure those decisions are responsible.
"You would have the leadership in the community and they'd work with the courts, the Legislature, with the attorney general, whomever we could to improve the state of the system for kids," retired District Court Judge John Specia said.
"We want to build a culture of hope with our children, to let them know that we care about their well-being," 388th District Court Judge Patricia Macias said.
And it's very likely children will be getting that message because the commission is on the brink of approval. Its numerous supporters include the justices themselves.
"To allow the child to have a voice in court, that's one of the key recommendations. Children have a voice in their future," Justice Harriet O'Neill said.
If approved, the commission would be made up of about 20 court-appointed members. It would have oversight of child protection courts and agencies, and be at work by the end of the year.
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In contrast to her bad girl character Jen Lindley, Williams celebrated Dawsons Creeks 100th episode demurely in a conservative long blue frock.


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A goodie bag full of the latest from Garnier showed up at my doorstep the other day and I can't wait to jump in and try it all out. I think the majority of these products are now available, so you should be able to find these green bottles of beauty at your local stores.
Included in my goodie bag was Fructis Style Sleek Finish 5-1 Serum Spray, Fructis Sleek & Shine Moroccan Sleek Oil Treatment, Fructis Fall Fight Fortifying Conditioner, Fructis Fall Fight Strand Saver Anti-Breakage Spray, Fructis Fall Fight Fortifying Shampoo, and Garnier Skin Renew Dark Spot Overnight Peel.
I'm most exciting to try the dark spot peel because my face tends to get a little spotty as I lose my summer tan. I'd also like to see if the Moroccan oil is a less expensive alternative to my pricey, yet oh-so-nourishing, Kérastase Elixir Ultime. As soon as I try everything out long enough to get a good impression, I'll be back with a review.
Have you tried any of these Garnier products yet?
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I loooooooove the Garnier Moroccan oil! I bleached my hair a few months ago , i use the oil everyday and my hair has gotten so much softer than it was right after I bleached it. It works wonders and costs so much less than the Moroccan oil I was using before