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Danish poster for GATE OF HELL (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1953)
Artist: Stilling [see also]
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GATE OF HELL won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1954, the year before it was renamed the Palme d'Or. The Danish title translates as "No one can force a heart."
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SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash.-- Authorities decided Wednesday to investigate a head-on crash along U.S. 195 as a possible vehicular assault following statements made by witnesses.
The June 18th crash near Qualchan Drive sent two people to the hospital.
WATCH: Previous coverage of the head-on wreck
Washington State Patrol troopers filed court records Wednesday, Sept. 4th. The records stated that probable cause did not exist in June to suspect that one of the drivers was impaired at the time of the wreck. However, probably caused developed after investigators interviewed witnesses according to WSP. They added that historical information about one of the drivers, Jennifer Schmidt, also indicated that she was possibly impaired
In June, authorities said Schmidt was driving the wrong way in the southbound lane of U.S. 195 hit an oncoming car head-on at 8:00 a.m. The 30-year-old woman was taken to the hospital by medics. Troopers said she hit another driver, 32-year-old Sean Moss.
Authorities had been receiving calls throughout the morning about a car driving the wrong way in the southbound lane. Drivers in the northbound lane had been flashing their lights and honking their horns to warn oncoming drivers of the vehicle driving the wrong way in the southbound lane according to authorities.
The recently filed court documents cited witnesses who saw Schmidt driving the wrong way. One witness stated that Schmidt did not react to oncoming traffic.
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Avion Pacific, headquartered in Shenzhen, sold seven Sikorsky S-92 and nine S-76D helicopters and half a dozen Beechcraft King Airs last year. Deliveries of the helicopters will take place this year.


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How to choose a new bank
Are you looking for another financial institution to handle your fortune? Here's what to ask.
If you're among the many customers fed up with high bank fees, poor service or low interest rates, you may want to switch banks or trade your bank for a credit union.
"You used to just decide if you wanted to get a toaster or a microwave when you opened a new account, or go to the bank with the most convenient branch," says Mitchell Freedman, the CEO of MFAC Financial Advisors in Westlake Village, Calif. "Today, bank fees can hit you in ways you never thought about, so you need to carefully compare your continuing costs of banking."
Making that comparison isn't so simple.
"Among the 12 largest banks, the median number of bank disclosure pages for checking account policies and fees is 69 pages. Believe it or not, that's an improvement over 2011, when the median was 111 pages. There's no way a consumer could wade through all that," says Susan Weinstock, project director for Safe Checking in the Electronic Age, a project by the Pew Center on the States in Washington, D.C.
The following seven questions can help you find the bank that fits your financial needs.
How large a balance is needed to avoid fees?
To make it easier for consumers to comparison shop, the Pew Center developed a simple disclosure form that five of the largest banks and three of the largest credit unions have adopted, Weinstock says. Consumers need to know the minimum deposit required to open an account and the minimum balance required to waive monthly bank fees.
"Be aware not only of the upfront price of opening an account but of continuing requirements," Freedman says. "Some accounts require a direct deposit or a recurring payment through their site to avoid monthly service fees."
In addition to the monthly service fees, you should also check on other fees that you can be charged before you switch banks, such as a stop-payment fee, deposited item return fee, account closing fee and nonsufficient funds fee.
How high are the fees for out-of-network ATMs?
"Most banks and credit unions participate in a network of ATMs, but if you rely often on an ATM for withdrawals, you should check on the fee for using an out-of-network machine," Weinstock says. "Usually there's no fee for using one in your bank's network, but your bank or credit union should disclose the fee it charges for using another network. There's also a fee from the ATM owner, and that will be disclosed on the ATM itself."
Freedman says consumers who travel frequently should consider opening an account with a national bank that offers ATMs around the country.
"ATM fees may be less important to people who don't use them a lot or who choose a bank or credit union with an ATM convenient to their work or home," Freedman says.
What are the overdraft protection options?
While you may hope you never have to rely on overdraft protection, you should make sure you understand your options and their costs before you switch banks.
Weinstock says many consumers don't understand that not signing up for overdraft protection could be a good thing. Your debit card will be declined or your check will bounce without it, but there's no fee if you opt out of overdraft protection.
"If you opt in for protection, the cheapest way to do it is usually to have funds transferred from a savings account, a line of credit or a credit card. The median transfer fee is $12, and the median overdraft fee is $35 per transaction," Weinstock says.
Consumers should compare the transfer fee, overdraft penalty fee, maximum number of times an overdraft penalty fee is applied per day, minimum amount required to trigger an overdraft fee and extended overdraft penalty fee charged for each day the account is overdrawn.
"Overdraft protection is a double-edged sword," Freedman says. "It can be terrific and enable you to lower your risk of a bounced check, but you could end up paying a high transaction fee and a hefty interest rate if you sign up for a line of credit."
How soon are deposited funds available?
While some banks put a hold on certain types of deposits, Freedman says some deposits are instantly credited.
Weinstock says financial regulations require the first $200 of any deposit be available the next business day following a deposit, but banks vary in how soon the rest of the deposit is available.
"Fund availability is extremely important, especially for people living paycheck to paycheck," Weinstock says. "Some banks say the business day ends at 2 p.m., so you need to check that information in their disclosure boxes."
Weinstock says you also should find out the bank's process for handling deposits and withdrawals. Most banks process deposits first, then the withdrawals from the same day, but others credit deposits last.
"Some banks handle the largest withdrawals before smaller ones that come in on the same day, which can make it more likely that you'll overdraw multiple times," Weinstock says.
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Krashing Down Survivor: Episode 10
Episode 10: "Rice Wars"
Okay let me just say this has to have been one of the most bizarre episodes of Survivor in a long time. Virtually nothing ground breaking happened besides a bunch of bickering for no reason! It leaves me with limited things to blog about with limited game play. However, lets begin!
Highest IQ? Didn't Seem Like It
David was said to have the highest IQ in Survivor history. It sure does not mean much for this game! In the first ever three way duel (I know that sounds odd) David was eliminated. I hate to continuously keep harping on this guy but he deserves it. David acted like he was some sort of smart power player most of this game. What big moves did he make? NONE. It's okay to follow the leader at times and stay quiet, but to continuously follow bad plans is a horrible idea. He tried some things later on after it was too late making him a liability to his own alliance. According to him he did not want to throw the challenge to eliminate Russell. If I recall correctly David was the lead culprit in throwing the challenge essentially forfeiting on the final puzzle of that game. If he had done the puzzle and won it would have spared Russell three days, gave Zapatera a three man advantage, and possibly David a million dollars. When you have an instinctive idea on Survivor you must control your own destiny. He felt threatened if he rolled the dice on his mates he would be voted out. This could have been possible, but he had three other people to turn to plus his side kept winning immunity. Russell would not have been a bad security blanket either, I'm just saying. David deserves where he is, and he should never be cast on this show again. You can look smart, act smart, and maybe really be smart, but if you don't play smart you end up getting voted out.
Phillip… WTH?
The main course of this episode centered around Phillip having an absolute explicative laced tirade on Steve and the Zapatera members. Basically all they told Ometepe was that they could not share their rice containers. I believe this is fair, Ometepe has been distancing themselves from Zapatera for a few episodes now so why should they share anything? Why make the enemy stronger? Phillip decided to be his usual crazy self and Steve let him know in what I would call a professional manner. This is when things got out of hand and Phillip went on a racism based tirade. I will not get into a debate on this because I don't know the complete situation of the two individuals at debate. However, Phillip regardless of how he thought made a million dollar mistake. I still believe this guy is in a prime position to make the finals but he has to keep his cool! The things he said in the last episode just earned Rob some votes in the final three, and believe me Rob knows it! To top everything off however, is Julie hid Phillips shorts. BRILLIANT. I have been wondering when a Zap would get sick of being looked down upon and would do something manly. It took a lady to do this! She buried his shorts in a hidden location and leaves Phillip to possibly have to walk around in underwear for 12 days. Hilarious! An episode saving moment. Rob would go onto winning immunity and Julie was then voted out. It was all very predictable once again, and is turning into a rather boring theme this season. I wish Zapatera would just raise hell among the camp just to do so. If I 100% knew I was going home I would all but burn the camp down. Basically lie and say so and so is talking about so and so. Keep egging Phillip on, try to build a fake idol, JUST DO SOMETHING! Maybe next week something fun can happen, but I doubt it. Till next time!
Player Of The Week: Julie Wolfe
Player Of The Week Standings:
1. Rob – 4 Wins
2. Grant – 2 Wins
3. Matty – 1 Win
4. Natalie – 1 Win
5. Julie – 1 Win
6. Russell – 1 Win (Eliminated)


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My cousin took me to a polo match in Virginia while I was interning in DC. First time ever to a match, pretty exciting and great opportunity to practice some sports photography. Some International champions were featured in the second match as well.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Photographer Laurent Seroussi has created a body of work entitled Insectes. This example of photographism is very convincing; bringing us a stunning morphology of creepy insects and beautiful women. The model's hands become sinister pinchers, claws, and other appendages as the beetles, scarabs and Phasmids shift in scale making these larger than life creatures even more intimidating to view. Seroussi has a very successful advertising career that encompasses large range of clients from high-fashion to GreenPeace.
MORE: http://hifructose.com/2012/08/28/the-beautiful-morphology-of-insect-and-women-by-laurent-seroussi/
Incredible underwater photos from Alexander Semenov…just brilliant.
*Most things in the ocean still creep me out, though.
made by a young artist.
These are fantastic works. They really break my perception of what you can do with a tattoo.
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Gorgeous, gorgeous cloudscapes.
Between Spanx and face lifts, Western culture is obsessed with normalizing the body to fit into a mold deemed more attractive or more "correct." British artist Jonathan Yeo uses his talent for photorealistic portraiture to explore the way that people subject themselves to plastic surgery in an effort to chase eternal youth and beauty. Painted primarily in beige tones, the works are at once peaceful and grotesque. Women's faces appear placid and relaxed, but perhaps only under the effects of surgical anesthesia. Gracefully painted bodies are marked with lines for future incisions. Take a look at some of his latest works, images courtesy of the artist.
It doesn't matter how many times I am shown or it is explained to me. I cannot seem to get this one minor life-skill together.
"Californian artist Christina Empedocles is doing photorealistic wax pencil drawings on paper, on which you have to take a second look to identify them as real drawings. Her main theme is recreating fleeting moments in highly detailed observations, demonstrating the lasting impressions those moments have."
I like birds.
I said I was going to draw Science Bros but this is not what I had in mind.
Asbestoshazard, this seems relevant to your interests.
IT IS. Completely relevant.
Large-scale, intricate illustration made with marker by Yosuke Goda.
I want a room in my home like this. Or even just a wall.
This is an illustration I did of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology for my maps project. I wanted to do a simple, informative map because I was baffled by how little most people know about it compared to Greek/Roman/Egyptian mythology.
The descriptions about how the worlds are set up are quite contradictory or logically impossible, so it's really up to each individual how they want to interpret and render them. Some theorizes it as a flat island world (with an inner, middle and outer circle), or (as a certain Marvel comic does it;) a mush of dimensions with aliens and stuff. I've always imagined it as a giant tree whenever we had story time in elementary school, so I tried to fit all the named places I could find strictly into a tree. Also, the tree has its presence and is the centre in most of the worlds, so I solved that by putting a tree within a tree within a tree - Yggdraception!
Yggdrasil is the world tree. Its branches stretch across the sky and its evergreen leaves covers the world. At the very top of the tree, there's a golden eagle by the name of Vidofnir, and between his eyes sits the hawk, Verfolne. The pair looks out towards the world. Yggdrasil has three rots, each going down their own wells.
One goes down to Kverghjelme, a well in Niflheim. The root is gnawed on by the serpent Nidhogg, in hopes that it will one day kill Yggdrasil and the world(s) with it. Another goes to Urd's well in Åsgard, which is tended by three norns (destiny-thread goddesses). In the well lives two golden swans. The water here is so pure and holy, it's white (but I still coloured it blue!). The third root goes to Mime's Well in Jotunheim. It is guarded by the wise god Mime, who got beheaded but his head is still there giving advice to gods. This place is also where Odin sacrificed his eye for wisdom.
A squirrel, Ratatosk, relayes gossip and insults between Nidhogg and Vidofnir. There's also four deers I forgot to draw in but they don't do much than eat the leaves.
I split the world into four sections:
At the top section is Åsgard, the world of the Aesir gods. Here is Valhall, the banquet hall of the gods and warriors, and Folkvang, Freya's house, where she lives with her own hand-picked warriors (who are more honorable and less bloodthirsty than those who live in Valhall). I've also put in the homes of the gods that were given by name, like Bilskirne (Thor's house), Breidablik (Baldur's house) and so on.
The only way to get to the other worlds is by Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, which is guarded by Heimdall, from his home in Himmelberget.
In the upper-mid section is Alvheim, land of the elves. The fertility god, Frey, lives here as their ruler. There's also Vanaheim, the land of the Vanir gods, who specialize in fertility/farming/etc. but not much is known about them.
Midgard is the human world and lies in the centre of the three. It is surrounded by the world sea and the gigantic Midgard serpent which bites its own tail.
In the east is Jotunheimen, the land of the giants. I imagine it as a very mountainous terrain. Utgård lies here, which is where the wolf Fenris is being tied.
In the south, is Muspelheim, the land of fire.
In the west, lies Svartalvheim, the land of dark elves and dwarves.
And in the north, lies Niflheim, the land of ice and mist.
Helheim, the land of the dead lies below/within Niflheim. I drew it as an underground realm under Kverghjelme. Everyone who died outside of battle gets sent here, regardless of how good/bad they were when they were alive, but criminals would be put in Nåstrand, a house by the corpse river.
I just totally realised I forgot to include an explanation with my assignment, d'oh.
I used the Norwegian names instead of the Norse/Icelandic ones because that's how I know them as and is a lot more relatable to me (ek snakkur ikkur islendur!) and the descriptions are in English, but there's a full Norwegian version around somewhere…!
Sources: Norrøn Mytologi, Åsgard Web, Noregur.is, Valkyria, NT Shamanism and Wikipedia NO/SE/DK.
I also knew nothing about Norse myths…and now I know tiny bits more than I did.
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Gif illustrations are wonderful <3
Huguette Despault May stumbled across and old piece of Korean War era rope that inspired a beautiful body of work entitled the Hawser Series. May's knotted and twisted black and grey rope drawings are metaphors used to represent overwhelming feelings of every day tension and frayed nerves. She works with an exaggerated scale to enhance the viewer's encounter with these meticulous renderings. Each of the works in the Hawser Series are between 50 to 70 inches in height. The Hawser rope that May had hanging in her studio while creating this work is very large and heavy. It is 12 inches in circumference and weighs about 75 pounds.


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1995 OG Space Jams. 2000s are not OG. Clearly says Retro+ on 2000s box. There were only 5 or 6 of these made. Some guy traded his civic for a pair. These are beautiful Purple Jumpman. That 23…sick.
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The giant HOT ROD Deluxe staff (OK, that's a joke) is out there looking for rods, customs, and other vintage rides to put in the magazine. But by far our best source of material is you, our loyal readers. Please keep those emails and letters coming. We love to print your scrapbook photos, photo album pages, and anything else from the heyday of hot rodding you'd like to share. This is also the place to air grievances, correct our mistakes, and maybe send an attaboy or two, if you feel we're deserving. Keep in mind that we cannot return any material mailed to us, so please do not send us precious original pictures. Scan 'em, or have 'em scanned. Digital images need to be high resolution—at least 1,600x1,200 pixels or 1MB of size at 300 dpi—or they won't look good in print. Thanks!
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While reading HOT ROD Deluxe and seeing pictures of race cars from the '50 and '60s, I thought I'd send a few photos of my altered taken in 1961 before and after the wreck. The pictures were taken at Kingdon in Lodi, California. We have Return to Kingdon races every year in early September.
Chuck Hedrick
Log on to KingdonDrags.comfor more info on that Nor Cal track's drag race reunion. —DH
I stopped by the Walgreen's magazine rack today and saw the long-awaited Nov. '13 issue of HRD! I couldn't turn the pages quickly enough. Wow! It finally happened! Dad and Mom would have been so proud. Thank you. I'm a little awed at seeing my name mentioned in several places. I think you did an excellent job with the commentary. Unfortunately, the caption stating the names of those in the door reflection picture names Jim Winston, when instead it is my uncle, Ralph Grist.
Thank you so much. We've waited many, many years to see this.
Eddy Grist
Our pleasure, Eddy. We apologize for the name mix-up and are glad you set us straight. —DH
Wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your War Stories article (Flag Man, Sept. '13). I also got back to the gearhead life after I was released by Uncle Sam in 1971. You are right when you say, "Suddenly the old guys are us." I ended up with a Noel Black 155-inch dragster chassis, Algon injectors, and a two-speed BW trans in '71. Ran that car until stepping up to a '68 Shoemaker 170-inch chassis, which I have been racing since 1974. My family operation now competes in the ANRA series and a few of the NHRA Heritage events each year (NE 3).
John Cassie, Nighttrain Racing
Here's a picture I scanned from the '13 HRD Best of the '60s special. It shows the Canode-Velasquez-Stoltz Willys on one page and Big John Mazmanian's Willys on the other page. In the picture shown, my name (Canode) is on top, on the other side of the car Stoltz's name is on top. Stoltz gets pissed off any time there is a picture in a magazine with my name on top. He is telling everybody that this is a "phony" picture and has been Photoshopped, and that he never raced Mazmanian with our B/Gas Willys in 1964. Can you verify that this was an original picture? Also enclosed is a 2013 picture of a '33 Willys that I am building for myself.
Hal Canode
Other than sometimes trying to correct the overall look of old photos that are grainy, over- or underexposed, HRD is a Photoshop-free zone. We care too much about getting the history right to alter any images like that. So, all apologies to Mr. Stoltz, but that's how the Willys looked in 1964. And please keep us updated on the "new" '33. —DH
I believe the young lady on the "Trophy Girl" page of the Mar. '13 HRD may be Patti Chandler. I also thought she was the best. Thanks for the hot pic and making me feel like I'm 11 years old again.
Galen Suddarth
I love the magazine! I hope you can use this photo. It's pretty grainy, but it was taken in 1935. My dad, David Easter, and his buddies John Wilcox and Wilber Baker all bought some old Model Ts. Dad paid $5 for his. They stripped the bodies off from the doors back, then took wooden hoops and fashioned a speedster body using burlap sacks to cover the hoops. They then painted shellac over the burlap. There was no racetrack around, so they just terrorized the farms and towns nearby. To add to their amusement, they drilled holes in the floorboards and in the exhaust pipe underneath. Each would carry a small oil can with a squirt pump, and they would pump kerosene into the pipe to create a smoke screen.
The boys are all gone now, but someday, I'm going to build a replica of these old cars and have some fun—squirt can included.
Toby Easter
This is a photo of my dad, Cliff Petrie, and mom, Gwen, circa 1949. Dad managed a Shell station in Athena, Oregon, and raced dirt track in Oregon and Washington in the late '40s and early '50s. Mom appears to be sporting the re-purposed football helmet that passed for standard-issue, low-buck safety gear in those days.
Ron Petrie
Just wanted to share some pictures of your youngest fan! He's three years old and his name is Cruz, which is very fitting as he loves to cruise in his Grandpa's '29 Fargo rat rod. He has been helping his grandpa with this project since the minute she was unloaded off the back of the truck. Cruz just started play school, and when he was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he told his teacher he wants to "paint cars and pound dents." She's probably never heard that one before!
Jamie Packard (Cruz's mom)
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October 8, 2012
How do aspiring stand-up comedians who aren't straight white men find success at open mics?
I performed at my first open mic recently and it didn't go well. I got flustered when no one laughed at my opening joke (which I thought was my best), and my delivery went from mediocre to utter crap in the minute that followed. The room was supportive and most other people sucked too so it wasn't a totally horrifying experience, but I'm eager to suck less.
I know: practice. I did, and I will continue to do so. But I suspect that my material would not have connected with the audience no matter how well I presented it. Of ~25 comics, I was the only woman (and probably the only queer person), and my routine revolved around experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand. (My routine was not about anything so edgy as sexual violence, but for an example of the sort of thing I was going for, check out Ever Mainard's
Here's Your Rape
. Every woman I've shown that to has laughed hysterically, but no man has even chuckled.)
Everyone was very nice, but I only got a couple small laughs. People did, however, laugh at a lot of racist (for the record, I am white, as were all but two people), sexist, and homophobic jokes, though none were so vicious that I felt unsafe. I was actually surprised at how little these jokes upset me—they seemed to be motivated by unexamined privilege and lack of originality rather than meanness, and they were delivered in that same unsure, please-think-this-is-funny way that accompanied most other material, my own included after my opening joke fell flat.
My ultimate goal to be able to effectively deliver socially incisive material to an audience who will appreciate it. I realize now how lofty that goal is. But, even as I understand the odds are against me, I'd like to query the hivemind about the
likely way to get there. Should I try to develop neutral material while I hone my delivery skills as a stepping stone to doing the sort of stuff I really want? Relatively little of the material at that open mic (along with others I've observed) was actually neutral—most revolved around specifically straight male experiences—but some was. Should I seek out specifically women's or queer open mics? I'm in Chicago, if you have suggestions.
I know my delivery sucks and I seriously need to work on my nerves, but I feel that I really do have something valuable and funny to offer in terms of social perspective, and I think my ideas are better suited to stand-up than any other form. And of course I LOVE to make people laugh. But stand-up is a craft, and one that I've seen people never become even mediocre at after years of real trying. Anyone have advice on improvement there?
How do you know when to give up?
If you don't feel comfortable posting your advice publicly, you can email me at
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Keep doing it.
Don't be afraid to suck. You're working out material, not every performance will be perfect, not every joke will get a huge reaction.
Your audience will find you.
Is there an open-mic night at a queer-focused venue in your area you could work at? Having a more generally receptive audience might help to build your comfort level on stage.
posted by
on October 8, 2012 [
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I think you should consider the possibility that your jokes are too specialized to be appreciated outside of the bubble that you normally tell them in.
This is of course only a possibility, and the best way to test it is exactly what you are doing (open-mics) but I don't think it's helpful to blame a bad night (a bad
night at that!) on The Patriarchy.
As far as what to do next, I seems like you've answered your own question: try women's/queer open mics, but also try normal open nights and tweak your material a little. Maybe change that first joke? Maybe practice jumping from first to second without pause for laughter?
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I feel that I really do have something valuable and funny to offer in terms of social perspective
This is the issue. It has little to do with the fact that you are a lesbian, but rather that a trip to the comedy club is not generally motivated by a desire for social perspective or the illumination of unexamined privilege. People want to have their two-drunk minimum (or more) and have some hearty laughs, not a treatise on how they are dropping the ball on social justice or alternatively, knowingly nod in agreement at their own enlightenment.
Sparklemotion's comment about the bubble hits the nail on the head. Are you performing for yourself or the audience?
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Practice. I have several friends (not white guys) who are breaking into the standup comedy business, and until their delivery is rock solid, they struggle for laughs (and this takes at least 2-3 months of going to 1-2 open mikes each week, which is a huge commitment).
Personally I don't go support them at every show because I get tired of the racist and sexist jokes, but now that they are getting invited to perform at festivals and to open for bigger names, the jokes in general are much less crass and more fun. The most successful one started out doing improv comedy (and burned out on that after 2-3 yrs), and now about 6months into doing standup has been invited to open for well known comics. YMMV
posted by
on October 8, 2012
I've been observing the reactions of a local group to a comic from an ethnic minority background who uses his background as a source of his humour.
He has some material that riffs around his experience of going for a kebab when he's been dumped. From observation, the material is intrinsically funny to anyone who already shared this experience. But most people in the audience haven't done this and don't see the humour easily. If he wants everyone there to laugh, he has to start by riffing around the white-people-cliche of getting very drunk when dumped. Once he's established the context, he can raise the question of what Muslims might do when they are upset (not drinking alcohol, naturally), and then segue into the kebab material and presto! even the ethnic majority folks now think this is hilarious.
So, if you want to talk about things outside my experience, maybe just take more care to tie them back somehow to things that I am more familiar with.
Also: The only way to perform an excellent standup routine is not to give up while performing your first 200 terrible standup routines.
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Do you know why most comedians make fun of themselves? Because making fun of the audience is a great way to make them hate you.
Reread what you're saying. You're trying to sell "experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand." In other words, you're trying to get straight white men to re-examine their innate privilege. If it were that easy, somebody would have done it already.
The reason the sexist and homophobic jokes worked - and yours didn't - is not because they were funnier but because they buttressed the existing prejudices that most of the audience members carried. People are inherently horrible: consequently, the most effective way to get somebody to love you in a short period of time is by convincing them that their unconscious prejudices are totally justified. This builds rapport because it resolves their internal mental conflicts and makes them feel like good human beings. Educating and uplifting people to
make them into better people is a thankless job that is rarely appreciated, although in the rare cases that you manage it you'll win a lot of loyalty since you helped change their lives.
My advice to you - assuming you want to be commercially viable - is to either change your material or pick your venues more carefully to have audiences that will be more attuned to you. The best you can achieve with this current selection will be fringe "cult following" status.
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Your audience will find you.
Great way to put it. Also, get all those friends who were laughing when you showed it to them to come out to the club when you are doing it live!
But yeah, there are plenty of women and queer people who would love to go out to hear comedy but hate hearing all the stereotypical stuff so are waiting to find out that there is some variation in the acts performing. Be self-assured that you're offering something different/better - perform for the future fans, so to speak. Imagine you're performing for a camera, maybe. Or better, have a friend tape it so you can watch it later, and actually do perform for the camera...
posted by
on October 8, 2012
I have no experience doing stand-up on a stage, although I seem to make people laugh a lot in social settings, and I listen to a lot of stand-up on XM.
I think people laugh in public at things that a)they can relate to VERY easily and b)are very, very easy to understand. I'm assuming the audience has some alcohol in their system, and I'm also assuming, from noticing what goes over and doesn't at a comedy club, that they're not exactly looking for social awareness raising. The basic "plot" of a typical comedy routine could usually be summarized either as "I'm an idiot," or "Everyone else is an idiot." Or perhaps both.
Comics, male or female, who talk about things men or women "don't understand" are usually talking about things that we understand all too well from our life experiences. The same idea could also be transposed to talking about race. I think this is why so many routines play the "everyone's an idiot" idea around gender or race differences. Whether it's offensive or not I think depends on the good will the comic can generate, and to what extent he or she has a perceived "license" to screw around with the stereotypes. For example, a black comic can (up to a point) rip on black stereotypes, or rip on white people's supposed prejudices (some of which are stereotypes about stereotypes), but probably not joke about lynchings (I'm aware that some comics have pulled off some jokes about some really horrible things, but I think very few have the skill, and even then they're extremely controversial). Despite the raw language, most comics talk about stuff that's really pretty vanilla in terms of the situation.
On preview, the thing about people wanting to have their prejudices somewhat pandered to is, unfortunately, at least partly true. Certainly the slightest whiff of "lecture" is a deal-killer.
posted by
on October 8, 2012
I am very much outside the standup comedy world, but I've read enough to know that EVERYBODY BOMBS THEIR FIRST TIME. Everyone. And their second, and third, and fourth....I've read Patton Oswald talk about bombing, I've heard Louis CK talk about silent rooms of doom. It's not just you.
Some random ideas:
-There are queer comedy nights in Chicago; I know there's one at Zanie's my friend runs, Berlin also frequently has comedy nights but it tends to run a little bit more sketch comedy & drag than stand up.
-The Hideout has a number of different nights where writers go up and read pieces out loud; they generally are funny kind of in the way that This American Life is funny but I've heard some hilarious pieces (large-sized woman of color doing a piece about the inhumanity of waxing? YES) and it's a real supportive sweet crowd; Hideout also holds Chances Dances, one of the biggest non-boy's-town hipstery queer dance nights (if not the biggest), you might be familiar with it
-Check out Caroline Contillo - @iamcaroline on Twitter - queer NYC feminist buddhist crone witch, completely hilarious, does improv & stand up
-Speaking of Twitter, running an account that's all one liners and not so much instagrams-of-your-lunch might give you some of the feedback/support you crave. I know in my group of friends surrealist creepy jokes and sarcastic skewering of privilege are prime material for retweets and I can think of a lot of creative people who've slowly built fanbases like that. You can see what works and what doesn't from the privacy of your mobile phone and then you have a dedicated list of people interested in your humor to promote your shows to.
posted by
Juliet Banana
on October 8, 2012 [
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Some years ago, a friend of mine interviewed Whoopi Goldberg, who proceeded to give some amazing advice, and here is a paraphrased version of it: Nothing matters besides whether or not you're funny. If you're a guy, a girl, a dog, a cardboard box with a person's face drawn on it - doesn't matter. What matters is if you're funny or not.
I say this because "funny" is something so very intangible and hard to pin down and also very very relative. What this means is that "I thought the material was funny" doesn't really tell me anything. I could give you a better sense of what went wrong if you could transcribe your opening joke, and probably tell you exactly what the problem was if given video of it.
I mean, I don't know you. For all I know, the problem really was that you were forcing the audience to confront unexamined privilege, but - and this has less to do with you and more to do with observed patterns - my first thought was that the material might just not be as good as you're thinking it is. But without hearing it or at least reading it, I could not possibly tell you.
Comedy can be arduous. There are comedians out there who did manage to challenge the social perspective of a wide-ranging audience, but none of them were able to do so without spending years on the road, learning their craft and reading audiences and figuring out what to do when things don't go as planned. They were able to work the social commentary into a comedic performance flawlessly, and like everyone who does something so tricky so well, they made it look easy. It's not easy. It's incredibly hard, and a novice cannot do it.
People don't go to a comedy club to have their social preconceptions unraveled. They go there to laugh. Learn to sneak the medicine in with the sugar, or jettison the medicine entirely until you've got the fundamentals down: rhythm, delivery, et cetera.
I don't mean to be discouraging - what I'm saying is that this is about par for the course with your first open mic. You bombed. It happens. Get back on the horse and keep trying. While you were performing, did you pay attention to the audience? Do you remember where the few small laughs were? What did those pieces have in common? Would you be able to build those pieces up more and maybe spin them off into something a bit longer?
Do another open mic. Pay attention to what gets laughs.
Relatively little of the material at that open mic (along with others I've observed) was actually neutral—most revolved around specifically straight male experiences
The problem is that "straight white male" is the default value for most venues, or failing that, straight people at the very least. Most audiences would therefore think of that particular configuration as neutral, and everything else as being at least a little bit out of the box. If you want to go over well with the material you're working with now, you'd definitely want to seek out queer open mic nights in your area. See what's what. That would build your confidence and help you figure out what works and what doesn't in terms of delivery.
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I'm an Asian dude, and I'm no expert, but ...
Like you, one of the reasons that I wanted to get into comedy was that I wanted to deliver socially incisive material. I made myself a few promises: I don't do the accent, I don't make fun of my parents, and I don't talk about my reproductive anatomy. I've managed to keep those promises, but any one of those could have gotten me
really cheap and easy laughs.
So don't think you have to do racist, sexist humor to get people to laugh. You don't have to. It's a little more difficult. And also you're going to see a lot more people trying for 'edgy' racist/sexist humor at open mics.
Here's the other thing, though. In my opinion, making the audience laugh comes before delivering a social message. You may think that something is really really important and needs to be said, but if you can't make it funny, comedy is not the way you're going to deliver that particular message, sorry. This might mean you have to tone down your message, sneak it in there, and do jokes about other things to sandwich it.
I would suggest also developing some 'neutral material', just so you have it. It gives you a broader appeal and once the audience trusts you, you can sneak in your other stuff a bit more easily.
And bombing teaches you a lot of things which are useful. Another comic once told me "You seem really comfortable with silences." And, well, I've done really awful rooms: bars where people are talking and there's a TV on, and there are maybe two people watching you. If you can keep doing material even then ...
(And don't give up after just two tries! You're still working it out!)
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Nothing matters besides whether or not you're funny.
Oh God. This. Very this. I am heavy into our local comedy scene and a number of people make the fatal mistake of using the stand-up stage as a soapbox. They forget that the funny is the most important and the most powerful part of their routine.
You have a unique perspective and a desire to speak to social issues. That's great, but more than anything you need to work on crafting funny jokes and delivering them well. Trying to knit a social issue into a set is extremely difficult, especially if you don't have the craft down.
You'll get where you want to go, and you'll get fans if you do it well. Right now, focus on five killer minutes and deliver it over and over again. Then work on the cohesion with the things you want to say.
posted by
Rodrigo Lamaitre
on October 8, 2012 [
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What about your experiences ARE universal? Rework your material to stress these things.
For example, men are aprehensive about approaching women in bars. How does that work in a Lesbian context? What's funny about it? If you can answer all those questions I have, and make me laugh, you'll be successful.
Chris Rock doesn't have Black material, he has funny material, from his viewpoint as a black man.
If you want to see someone doing it right, how about Wanda Sykes (who writes an awful lot of Chris Rock's material) She talks about having children with her wife. Universal. But also queer. She bridges the gap and makes everyone comfortable with the concept.
Food for thought.
posted by
Ruthless Bunny
on October 8, 2012 [
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From a Bar Mitzvah to a senior center to the rudest dive bar, you have to be able to handle pretty much any audience put in front of you. That's part of being funny -- you have to find the humor in a variety of circumstances. Yes, eventually you specialize when you naturally find endless possibilities in certain areas...but you've also got to do "neutral" material as you call it. If your neutral material is not funny, then honestly the humor of your "specialty" is also in question. Even if your neutral material is so-so, if it delivered with appeal and the audience is engaged then they will at least feel entertained.
As for advice, start a journal and write down everything you hear or see that is funny. Work in your perspective once the framework is already hashed out. Practice thinking about how to blur normal things so they can seem absurd. Take something familiar and twist it into something unexpected. Learn how to connect the mundane to the funny with as little exposition as possible.
These are just some ideas!
posted by
on October 8, 2012
I don't think that comedy has to exclude what you are trying to do. George Carlin used his comedy almost exclusively to discuss social issues. Tig Notaro's routine about her breast cancer diagnosis was, without a doubt, a woman's issue--she also speaks about gender dynamics and her experience as a woman who looks androgynous. Louis CK questions the masculine mystique all of the time.
The hard part of standup isn't sharing your experiences. The hard part is being
. I would study mainstream comics that you think are good and apply their techniques to your minority perspective. Remember that everybody bombs.
my routine revolved around experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand
So, the way that you play off this is by exaggerating the things that they don't understand. I mean, the confusing parts about life are also the funniest parts. Relate it back to experiences that everybody has had. Maybe if you get a mod to post the jokes that fell flat, we can help you rework them! :)
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Your goal when telling a joke is to express an idea that you find funny in a way that lets the audience understand why you find it funny. If you do this effectively, then they will likely agree with you and laugh.
This may sound simplistic and obvious, but this is the thing that starting-out comedians always seem to miss. You have a communication problem, and it is likely that you aren't fully aware of what you are really saying to your audience.
The problem could be your ideas themselves aren't funny, but much more likely it's the context in which you are your presenting the ideas: your setups and your on-stage persona.
Experienced comics know that you need to adjust your joke setups for different audiences - adding details to add context for an unfamiliar crowd, or streamlining the setup to signal your common background with a friendly crowd.
Yes, a straight white male comedian in his late 20s has a big advantage talking to a crowd of other straight white male comedians, but only in that he will have to say fewer words, and say them less precisely to get his jokes across.
Experienced comics also what kind of context their on-stage persona is framing the joke in. A nervous, uncomfortable comedian can get away with saying things that a confident, swaggering comedian can't, and vice versa. They can still express the same ideas, but the delivery will need to be dramatically different.
I suggest breaking down each of your jokes/bits into painful, unfunny detail, adding all of the context necessary to explain why you think it's funny, and include what you believe your on-stage persona is projecting to the audience. For example, "I am a queer woman who is slightly uncomfortable on stage. Most of you see the world like x, but i see it like y. This is why I find that funny..." Then re-write that into an actual bit, with setup(s) and punchline(s), streamlining it as much as possible. The goal is to keep as much detail as is necessary to make the joke understandable to an unfamiliar audience.
Once you have a better understanding of what you are saying to the audience (rather that what you are TRYING to say) you will have a much better idea of what the audience is actually responding to, and will be able to tweak your material and delivery accordingly.
Good luck
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For me, good comedy is all about versimilitude. It tells truth in a humorous way. If you wanted to make me laugh, it would be profitable to spend some time considering what makes a situation or experience funny, and then get at the core
truth. Sometimes, you might have to worry at the edges of it for a while to develop the the audience's trust, and go on tangents to help other outlying members of the audience acquire the background that will help them understand the core truth, then move on.
The material you linked is, as you suggested, not funny to me. I'm a 6'3" man without that experience. She comes close to providing some context ("never walk alone at night!"), I get that, but it hasn't been built up enough for me. Nor is it tied into any kind of parallel that might help me understand the main point. So this routine might work as long as there aren't many men in the audience. I'll take your word for it that it has versimilitude, but good comedy requires an audience that has been made ready to accept truth.
You need to know your audience and plan material for them. You might skip some things if you suddenly find yourself in an audience of gay women with less need to explain, but how often is that going to happen?
Some people think you can't make fun of your audience. That's just not true. You can do it, but they need to trust you enough to accept the message and the message, again, needs to have some versimilitude. Even (especially) if you're white, Dave Chappelle is the master of this. Watch him
expertly handle his San Francisco audience
by telling them things they probably feel are true about their city: "I didn't really think it was that gay at first... and then I wandered into that Castro..." or "I went to that Tenderloin. There's nothing tender about that..." Less than five minutes into his hour-long set, he's telling his predominantly white audience that the secret recipe of their happy city is racial segregation
and they laugh.
In your case, I want to know about your experiences, but I reject that I can't share or ever be made to understand them. I don't think that's true. If you dig deep enough to understand it yourself, you should be able to explain it to me so I can laugh with you, at you, or at myself--whichever you like.
posted by
on October 8, 2012
my routine revolved around experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand.
So what is your rationale for presenting the material? If you know (or believe) that men (who will likely be making up a significant percentage of your audience) won't get it, then why are you presenting it? To educate them? Look, if I wanted to take a class in Gender Studies and Queer Theory then I'd do it. I'm going to open mic night because I want to laugh.
Stand up, as others have said, has to be funny and it has to connect with the audience. Once you have done that you can preach to them or try to open their minds or whatever, but if you aren't trying to connect to the audience and make them laugh as your
number one priority
then you aren't going to get very far.
I firmly believe that you will be able to educate your audience
you connect with them. But please, for the love of Carlin, connect with them first.
posted by
It's Never Lurgi
on October 8, 2012
Don't be a lesbian comic. Be a comic who happens to be a lesbian.
I incorporate my life experiences into my comedy. Some of those experiences involve my partner. Her gender is incidental when I tell those jokes/stories. Know your audience. If you're in a queer club, queer out, sister! If you're in a mixed club, tell more universal jokes. Practice your jokes on straight friends, male friends. All of my jokes have been told a hundred times to friends or strangers before they make it to the stage.
Good luck! Have fun up there!
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I have seen gay and lesbian comics absolutely kill in rooms that were very straight and white (albeit probably not as male as the typical open-mic crowd), with plenty of material drawn from gay and lesbian experience. It is doable. People don't want to be lectured, but they don't mind
at all.
posted by
on October 8, 2012
Of ~25 comics, I was the only woman (and probably the only queer person), and my routine revolved around experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand.
Can you find another venue for your material? Maybe one where the audience is more likely to be specifically interested in what you have to say? I know a lesbian comedian, and her gigs and open mics usually are not at Comedy Store/Dangerfield's/Caroline's type venues but more like locations I'd associate with avant garde art, off-off broadway theatre, and other edgier forms of entertainment. Her tactic seems to be to bring comedy to places where people already want confrontational/"different" art, rather than bringing confrontation and differentness to places where people want comedy.
People did, however, laugh at a lot of racist (for the record, I am white, as were all but two people), sexist, and homophobic jokes, though none were so vicious that I felt unsafe.
Yeah, seriously, my guess is that you were just at the WRONG venue. A big part of being an artist (in any medium) is finding the right place and audience for your work. I know it can be hard, because comedy is such a specific thing and if your city doesn't
a politically charged queer-friendly performance art space, then....? But I trust that you can do this. Also, keep slugging away with the fratboys. You never know, right?
posted by
Sara C.
on October 8, 2012
Check out Caroline Contillo - @iamcaroline on Twitter - queer NYC feminist buddhist crone witch, completely hilarious, does improv & stand up
Holy shit that's my friend I was referring to! I had no idea people knew who she was at all! Go Caroline!
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Sara C.
on October 8, 2012 [
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Kathy Griffin talked in her
about working with Janeane Garofolo in more monologue-y, spoken word sort of performances that helped her find the style that works for her today.
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Several Unnamed Sources
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my routine revolved around experiences that men don't share and aren't socialized to understand.
What do you mean by this? I've seen a stand up who talked about being Zoroastrian, I've seen disabled comics and women who perform from behind a veil, and as others have said, what matters is being funny. While I personally love hearing about things that I wouldn't normally think about and have heard more knob jokes than I really need to hear, many just want an easy night out - there are comedians in the UK like Dara O'Briain who will talk about atheism and how homeopathy is bad, or Stewart Lee who has a very distinct, abrasive style, but the very successful ones tend to be very cozy and mainstream and go for shared experiences. Finding a balance might be a good thing to do to start with. I've been to some dive-like open night places and the biggest laughs come from scatalogical or onanistic humour - it's unfortunate that at the bottom end of the circuit it's a real boyzone, but there are places that are less so if you're in a big enough city. A friend of mine does spoken word nights which appear to be at least feminist friendly and audiences expect something perhaps slightly different. Sad to say, a lot of comedy audiences will think a woman will talk abotu diets and tampons - not that there's anything wrong with that.
I do know that most men and women I know would not be comfortable laughing at jokes about rape or abortion, while many of my female friends make humour out of uncomfortable experiences such as childbirth, periods, female masturbation or going to the gynaecologist purely because it's seen as something only women really understand and is often kept taboo. One of these you will have difficulty with, the other you can (and hey, probably should) turn them into starting points for something funny. See if you can find
Jo Brand's early stuff
. She was a scruffy, fat woman who was very outspoken and refused to apologise for her weight or appearance, and she's a good example of a female comic who doesn't fit into the stand-up stereotype and doesn't care.
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I don't think that comedy has to exclude what you are trying to do. George Carlin used his comedy almost exclusively to discuss social issues.
Early Carlin was at least 50% observational and stereotype humour. Stuff like the Hippy Dippy Weatherman; the importance of "Stuff"; Baseball vs. Football; Have a Nice Day; and of course much of his routine structured around language. Even the famous 7 words bit was funny first and a lampoon of the FCC second. IE: He was funny first and then used that to talk about social issues.
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Visually the car had an appeal that was hard to deny. It had, in the words of Jeremy Clarkson, 'a long proper bonnet.' The sloped rear three-quarter gave way to an aggressive set of rear hips with wheel wells that begged for deep chrome lips. »
If you'd only been exposed to drifting through its origins — touge canyon racing in Japan or grassroots parking lot dorifto in AE86 Toyotas — you may not know most competitive drifters swap V8s into their Japanese compacts. Like Corey Hosford's blown, 800-hp, LS3-powered KSport Nissan 350Z. »
The original Datsun 240Z is considered one of the most iconic and important sports cars ever made. The two-seat coupe offered great performance, exotic looks, a reasonable price tag — and it didn't leak oil on the showroom floor, unlike some of its European competition. The car hammered its British and Italian rivals… »
As we look at these first live photos of the newly-defanged Z taken here at the Chicago Auto Show this morning, let's also take a quick recap of the differences between the 2012 Nissan 370Z and the new 2013 Nissan 370Z. All, like, two of them. »
Those pondering why you'd launch a sports car in Chicago in the middle of February will get their answer when they look at the photos of the 2013 Nissan 370Z. This is the least you can do to a car and call it an upgrade. Look, vertical LED daytime running lights! »
We wonder how many takes they had to do in order to get the skier to jump the Nissan 370Z pulling him. »
A Nissan 370Z takes a break in a field of yellow wildflowers. [dogsy on Flickr] »
The owner of this Honda Accord Hybrid seems unaware or unconcerned she just parked on top of a rare 40th Anniversary Nissan 370Z belonging to a member of The370Z forum. Hey, welcome to your new club. »
Nissan's 40th-Anniversary 370Z BRE — as in Brock Racing Enterprises — Edition was unveiled last night at the Classic Motorsports Mitty at Road Atlanta. Did we mention how much we love John Morton? [AutoTrader Classics] »
According to the seller, this Nissan 370Z Convertible was purchased for his daughter by a wealthy admirer. Unfortunately for the amorous Nissan fan, the girl is "not a fool and decided the boy was." Ouch. »
The Nissan 370Z 40th Anniversary Edition has bowed on the floor of the Chicago Auto Show accompanied by the fabulous Datsun 240Z. Also, the Nissan GT-R tagged along and asked if it could join the cool kids club. »
The Nissan 370z is a fun car and, like a devil on your shoulder, encourages you to give into your sinful impulses. A member at the370z.com found one Z-car seeking forgiveness the hard way. »
We knew the Nissan 350Z was a well balanced car, but this accident on the snowy roads of New York illustrates that fact in remarkably dramatic fashion. (Hat Tip To Eric) »
The Z-Car line has lived, with limited interruption, since Datsun times and Nissan is celebrating with the Silver 40th Anniversary Nissan 370Z. It's no Black Gold, but it's quite comely. »
"It doesn't feel like a pair of turbos, it feels like a pair of testes — big meaty ones." Clarkson on the 2009 BMW Z4 in last night's Top Gear comparison between it and the Nissan 370Z. Video below. »
Should you buy the 2009 Nissan 370Z? Well, it depends on what your idea of the perfect sports car is and how fast you want to drive. »
Yesterday, we told you that the 2009 Nissan 370Z uses technology to boost driver involvement. Let's pick apart the Z's new technological bits, piece by piece. »


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Junior Tennis Lesson Session 2 Registration Deadline
10U Tennis utilizes the QuickStart format, a revolutionary change in the way kids learn and play tennis, as well as compete. Tennis is following the formula that the majority of youth sports have used for years – tailoring equipment and courts to a child's size and age so that they develop skills and have fun right from the start.
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Racquets will be provided for those without their own.
Registration for the 2014 Spring Lessons begins January 10.
Location: Legion Park Tennis Court
Instructor: Ginni Mather, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional
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Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa have one of the coolest jobs in the world. Not only to they race Formula One cars for a living – at Ferrari, no less – but the two also get paid millions by the bucket to do it.
But if there's one perk that really emphasizes just how good these two racers have it, it's that they receive cars as gifts as if they were free pens and cup holders.
So it doesn't really surprise us to find out that both Alonso and Massa were each given their own Ferrari Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari . Just like that, they get their hands on a limited edition Abarth because they're high-profile employees of the Fiat-owned Ferrari brand.
Like we said, we're not shocked by of this. Jealous? You have no idea. But shocked? Not really.
While the special edition Abarth is nowhere in the price range of a Prancing Horse-badged Ferrari, it's still cool enough to drive around town, especially since it comes with a boatload of unique features, including enough carbon fiber on the bodywork, 17-inch Corsa Grey alloy wheels, and Sabelt bucket seats. And that's on top of the 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine that produces somewhere around 180 horsepower.
Most of us would have to pay around $50,000 for this car. Alonso and Massa get it for free. Then again, those two aren't exactly what you'd call 'most people'.


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The Golden Globe Nominations: Benjamin Button, Heath Ledger and... Tom Cruise?Rainn Wilson Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy The Office, , Brooke Shields, Terrence Howard (still looking pissed at being left out of Iron Man 2) and Elizabeth Banks ticked off the "year's best" in television and film, there were some obvious choices--a co-leading five nominations each for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon and Doubt--and more than a few head scratchers. For example, did The Weinstein Company head Harvey Weinstein employ some type of Rod Blagojevich pay-for-play tactics in getting the much maligned ma·lign
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2. adaptation of The Reader four nominations, including Best Picture? We hope so! You can see the full list of nominees over at the Golden Globe website. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"
meantime, meanwhile , here are some snap judgments.
Yay Yay - Yet Another Yacc ! James Franco scores a Best Actor in a Comedy nomination for Pineapple Express
While we had major problems with Pineapple Express--mostly because it wasn't particularly good--James Franco was a total revelation. Invested, funny and totally free as an actor, he stole the screen whenever he appeared. You can take his stilted stilt·ed
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2. Architecture Having some vertical length between the impost and the beginning of the curve. Used of an arch. and over-rated performance in Milk; we'll happily get in the dumpster and laugh along with Mr. Franco's immortal pot dealer. One quibble QUIBBLE. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil.
2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. : this is really a supporting role, but whatever. We are talking about the Golden Globes after all.
Nay! Tom Cruise scores a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey, Jr. gets a well deserved nominated for Tropic Thunder and we cheer. Tom Cruise gets nominated for the same film and our jaws drop. It's not that Mr. Cruise was bad--he's actually quite funny and incredibly dirty (did you ever think you'd hear Tom Cruise utter the term "fuck stick"?) while doing a spin on his epic Magnolia performance. However this nomination is so clearly an attempt by the HFPA HFPA Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Yay! Milk gets shutout from Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations
We liked Milk. But we didn't think it was one of the best movies of the year. We just never got emotionally invested in the story the way we had hoped (something which we blame director Gus Van Sant SANT South African Native Trust for). While everyone assumes Milk is a sure-fire, multiple Oscar nominated film, we see a movie that was left out in the cold at the Spirit Awards and now the Golden Globes. Critics love it (witness the Best Picture win Milk received from the New York New York, state, United States
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Nay! The Dark Knight gets shutout from Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations
Speaking of a little worried... hello, Christopher Nolan! If The Dark Knight can't get a Best Picture nomination at the Golden Globes, when mediocre movies like In Bruges and Burn After Reading did, then what are Batman's chances for getting an Oscar? It's looking more and more like a posthumous win for Heath Ledger is all that The Dark Knight crew can look forward too.
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6 switched corner frequencies : 7 pole Butterworth high pass 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100Hz
7 pole Butterworth low pass 100, 200, 500, 1k, 2k, 5kHz
Provides brick wall type minimalisation of spurious low frequency phenomena that may otherwise invalidate data from piezo-electric sources.
Supposed vibration acceleration signals may contain thermal and strain induced noise elements, both constrained to the low frequency end of the spectrum by reason of thermal mass and the 1/fo2 relationship between acceleration vs. displacement respectively.
The filter of course acts as the boundary fo, between valid data (>fo) and this type of noise.
If low pass complement of HP/04, provides selectable upper frequency boundary, removing unwanted signal components and noise. White noise content of overall signal is proportional to bandwidth, hence LP/04 willproduce significant signal/noise improvementwhere upper frequency can be constrained.
Applications may be as individual filters or bandpass pairs to quasi steady state wideband signals.
Signal recovery can be near absolute in the presence of stop band noise up to 60dB higher but two octaves removed from the corner frequency, although this idealised performance may be negated to some extent by nonlinearity modulation products. 7 pole Butterworth response is maximally flat (no ripple) in the pass band, stop band attenuation is 42dB/octave. Filter transient response is damped oscillatory which colours the response to impulsive type signals.
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You CAN Feed Your Kids Better Food!
Chef Nikki Shaw: Here are a few healthy foods for busy moms to integrate into the daily menu.
The increasing childhood-obesity rate is a real concern, but there are a few easy solutions for all of us to know. Let's start with getting in the kitchen and cooking more, instead of relying (so much) on fast food to feed our families. I'm a busy mom, and sometimes, running through the drive-thru is a must. I understand that. But if we cook at home more, we'll know exactly what we're eating -- and the amounts of sugar and salt used.
Here are a few "Fantastic Foods" that are packed with nutrients for kids ... and adults, too!
You CAN Feed Your Kids Better Food!
Get in Your Fiber
Strawberries, raspberries, apples, oatmeal, whole-grain bread and beans are great sources for fiber.Fiber is important because it keeps you regular.
Eat More Dairy
Milk, cheese and yogurt are great sources for calcium.Calcium is crucial for developing strong bones.
Pump Some Iron
Shrimp, beans, chicken and fortified cereals like Cream of Wheat are full of iron.Iron is good for your blood cells and brain development.
Pick the Letter "E"
Tomato sauce, spinach, broccoli, avocados and almonds are great sources for vitamin E.Vitamin E is an antioxidant and it's good for healthy skin.
"P" is for Potassium
Halibut, bananas, oranges and pistachios are great sources for potassium.Potassium is crucial for healthy muscles and blood pressure.
In this bitter economy, I'll show you how to make life sweet right at home.
Potassium in Pears are a great source too and with as much potassium as a banana.
Calcium: Sunshine is a great source 15-40 minutes a day depending on your skin type before you put on sun block.
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Six student researchers received awards in the undergraduate and graduate categories of the Dana Knox Student Research Showcase on April 16, 2014. >>
NJIT undergraduate students interested in a summer research opportunity are encouraged to apply for a limited number of summer research awards. Any current NJIT student who will be an undergraduate in the fall semester 2012 may apply. The program runs from May 21 to July 27, 2012. >>
NJIT Students Present Leading Research at Upcoming Showcase
March 25, 2011
Improving hospital performance, better emergency shelter and automated people-movers will number among the innovative projects and ideas that will be displayed at NJIT's upcoming Dana Knox Student Research Showcase. >>
Financier Honored Speaker at Upcoming NJIT University Convocation: Teachers, Staff, Students Also Honored
September 03, 2010
NJIT will mark the new academic year on Sept. 15, 2010 with its annual University Convocation, an awards ceremony coupled with a special welcoming ceremony for the freshman class. The event will be held at 3 p.m. on Lubetkin Field at J. Malcolm Simon Stadium, on the NJIT campus. A reception for the award winners will follow. >>
NJIT's Donald Sebastian and Judith Sheft Receive Honorary Faculty Designations from Peruvian University
March 11, 2010
Donald H. Sebastian, interim provost and senior vice president for research and development and Judith Sheft, associate vice president for technology development, were awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Commerce and International Relations by the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (UIGV) in Lima, Peru. They were invited by Daniel Jara on behalf of the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ (SHCC), which co-hosted the First USA-Peru Trade & Investment Forum Peruvian Products Exhibition. The event marked the beginning of an international initiative designed to help bring awareness as well as to showcase selected products of Peru, international trade opportunities, and the information necessary to trade internationally to SHCC members. "The objective is for NJIT to form a relationship with UIGV to help them develop incubation and extension programs that can move the country's economy from one of exporting raw materials to one that captures more of the value chain," said Sebastian. >>
NJIT Announces Appointment of New Provost
March 02, 2010
NJIT has announced the appointment of astronomer Ian Gatley, PhD, to the position of provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. In his most recent role at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Gatley leads the Center of Student Innovation that serves as a hub and clearing-house of RIT innovation resources. >>
NJIT's Don Sebastian To Serve as Panelist Today at "Best and Brightest" Medical Innovation Forum
December 01, 2009
Donald H. Sebastian, provost (interim) and senior vice president for research and development at NJIT, will participate in a panel discussion at the "Best and Brightest" Forum on Medical Innovation today at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. Other panelists include Dick Gephardt, chairman of the Council for American Medical Innovation and former Missouri representative and House Majority Leader, and Bob Franks, president of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey and former New Jersey representative. Sebastian will be speaking on related topics at the New Jersey Technology Council Regional Commercialization Conference on Dec. 10 in Wilmington, Del. >>
Four NJIT Researchers To Be Honored by NJ Inventors Hall of Fame
October 21, 2009
Two NJIT faculty members will receive Innovators' Awards and two recent alumni will be honored at the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame dinner on Oct. 22, 2009 at Stevens Institute of Technology. >>
NJIT's 2009 Commencement Ceremony will be held Saturday, May 16, 2009, at the Prudential Center, Newark from 9 a.m.-noon. During the ceremony, more than 2,000 honorary doctoral degrees and earned doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degrees will be conferred on the Class of 2009. >>
NJIT students aim to improve the quality of life in New Jersey and there is no better indication of the scope of these efforts than the remarkable range of student research projects entered in the recent annual Dana Knox Student Research Showcase. >>
Outstanding Achievements by NJIT Students Featured at Dana Knox Student Research Showcase
April 08, 2009
Senior architecture students Robert Pietrocola and Joseph DiNapoli presented their research project entitled "Newark Bus Rapid Transit" today at The Dana Knox Student Research Showcase in the Campus Center Gallery. Previously known as the Provost's Student Research Showcase, the event was renamed this year to honor the legacy of the late Dana E. Knox, PhD, professor of chemical engineering and associate provost at NJIT. >>
More than two dozen of the best graduate and undergraduate research projects at NJIT will be on view at The Dana Knox Student Research Showcase on April 8, 1-3:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Gallery. >>
NJIT Community Celebrates Life of Dana Knox
December 12, 2008
Members of the NJIT community shared memories of Dana E. Knox, PhD, professor of chemical engineering, member of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological, and Pharmaceutical Engineering and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs, at a celebration of his life yesterday in the Campus Center Atrium. Knox passed away on Sept. 24, 2008; he was 53. Speakers led by NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch remembered Knox as an exceptionally dedicated administrator, teacher, colleague and sports enthusiast whose legacy continues in the lives of the numerous students he mentored in his 25 years at NJIT. >>
NJIT Provost To Resign Nov. 28: Will Pursue International Projects
November 21, 2008
Priscilla P. Nelson, PhD, has announced that she will resign her position as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at New Jersey Institute of Technology, effective November 28, 2008, to pursue the university's special projects related to international program development. >>
NJIT Community Mourns Passing of Associate Provost Dana E. Knox
September 25, 2008
The NJIT community mourns the passing of Dana E. Knox, PhD, professor of chemical engineering in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs at NJIT, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 at home. He was 53. Born in Mineola, NY, he lived in Troy, NY and Iselin before moving to Edison in 1995. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic University. He received the Franzosini Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in appreciation of his continuous contribution to the Solubility Data Project. Dr. Knox was serving as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Solubility and Equilibrium Data for IUPAC and was extremely active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, often organizing and chairing sessions at the National Meeting. He was also a frequent contributor to annual meetings of ASEE. An avid sports enthusiast, he once coached the Ice Hockey Club at NJIT and also enjoyed soccer, golf and racquetball. He was beloved as a colleague across the NJIT campus as a dedicated advisor for many students who received their degrees from NJIT; this year he would have celebrated his 25-year anniversary at the university. He was currently serving as co-advisor for NJIT's Student Chapter of AICHE. He received awards for excellence in teaching and for excellence in advising from the Newark College of Engineering. In 1994, Dr. Knox received the university-wide Robert W. Van Houten Award bestowed by NJIT alumni to recognize teaching excellence. In 2002, he was appointed to the rank of Master Teacher at NJIT. Surviving is his wife; Petra; and a sister, Laura Matthews of Plattsburgh, NY. A Blessing will be held on Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 at 10 a.m. at the Gosselin Funeral Home, 660 New Dover Road, Edison, followed by Interment at St. Gertrude Cemetery in Colonia. Visitation: Sunday 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers or other expressions of condolences, and as a tribute to Dr. Knox's commitment to education and to the NJIT community, donations to the Dr. Dana E. Knox Memorial Scholarship Fund at NJIT are suggested. Contact: Jacquelynn Rhodes, associate vice president of development, email@example.com or 973-596-3407. NJIT friends and colleagues can share memories of Dana and condolences with his family at http://rememberingdanaknox.blogspot.com. >>


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Each year, Doritos crowd-sources their Super Bowl ads from the viewers with a contest they call. And lo and behold, some of you degenerates actually have talent. Since its inception in 2006, Crash the Super Bowl has consistently produced quality spots, so we're taking a walk down memory lane with a look back at our favorite submissions over the years.
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With a month until the preliminary election, Boston's mayoral race remains fully, vibrantly open. Anyone who says they know who'll be the two finalists is just guessing. It's truly rare to find an election for a major office that is so loosely defined in the public mind just a month before voting. That's partly because the 12 candidates haven't spent a lot of energy differentiating themselves from each other — and that may not be such a bad thing. The time that might have been spent on politicizing their differences has instead been spent on crowd-sourcing a new agenda for Boston. The city may not know who its next leader will be, but it already knows many of the changes the next mayor will bring to City Hall.
The candidates joke that they appear together so many times that they can parrot each other's opening statements and positions. But they are absorbing each other's messages as well, especially the ones that make for a healthier and happier city. City councilor John Connolly has set the educational agenda for the campaign. City councilor Michael Ross has served the same function for development by challenging the current "build first, plan second'' mindset. Former School Committee member John Barros has reminded voters and fellow candidates that many Bostonians still depend on human services, including mental health for students. State Representative Martin Walsh has kept housing needs front and center. And city councilor Robert Consalvo has spurred discussion on the ways that new technologies can speed the delivery of city services, such as expanding the sensor system that immediately informs police of the location of gunshots.


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For the ones that had thought and for the ones that hadn't, this debate is a way to expose your ideas about the unfied theory, string theory, quantum loops, theory of relativity and others.
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Jan 15 2013: Not a particle physicist. Just a fan of Hawkins. The current options of the Unified Theory are just that. Are there new ideas and alternatives to quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory, etc. None that I have read lately, altho, there are many people who are .... doing the math... on some variations of current theories. So, are these current working
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Sarah Michelle Gellar with one hot manicure (source)
Feelin' a little blue? Stuck in a style rut, and have an equally stuck budget too? My favorite trick for giving myself a glam little lift is a femme and fancy manicure. For about $4, you can give your hands (and your attitude) a hot little pick me up thanks to a simple bottle of nail polish. You don't have to spend tons on nail polish (but if you've got the cash, treat yourself to a nice bottle of Chanel, MAC or OPI) in a trendy color for instant glam.
If you want to splurge, then definitely go and see the professionals for a manicure, but in between, there's nothing wrong with keeping it up on your own! Take a 30 minute break while you are watching "Gossip Girl" or whatever your guilty favorite is and start polishin'.
Here's how to give yourself a manicure with these simple tools:
1) Nail polish (duh): Get a hot hue (right now deep purples are trendy) and a clear top coat.
2) Nail file, cuticle cutters and any other shaping/cutting tool you like.
3) Nail polish remover, cotton swabs and a towel to protect surfaces.
4) Your favorite lotion.
5) A free block of time and a glass of wine (optional, of course).
Start with clean, lotioned hands, being sure to cut and shape your nails and push back cuticles. SLOWLY and carefully paint your nails, ignoring mistakes until the end. Wait 15 minutes in between coats and finish with clear topcoat. When your nails are all dry, use a cotton swab to erase mistakes with nail polish remover.
Don't get frustrated if you can't get it perfect and trust me, resist the urge to fold laundry while you wait for them to dry! A sexy manicure is the perfect way to give yourself an affordable little pick me up, so give it a try on your day off and enjoy effortless and easy glam.