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|Good - 72 reviews
Just 45 minutes from New York City and located seven miles from West Point Military Academy, The Bear Mountain Inn and Overlook Lodge is the perfect retreat to soak up all that Bear Mountain State Park and its surrounding area has to offer. From scenic views and breath-taking hiking along the Appalachian Trail, an escape to our stress free environment is na...
Overall Rating - Good - 72 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Very quiet and peaceful at night no matter how active the park is during the day. A nice contrast. Rooms are immaculate and very comfortable at the Inn.
Excellent 10.0
Very rustic and comfortable. Rooms were very nice and spacious.
Restaurant was closed while we were there.
|Excellent - 197 reviews
Located in Bear Mountain, Overlook Lodge at Bear Mountain is in a state park and close to Bear Mountain State Park and Manitoga The Russel Wright Design Center. This hotel is within the vicinity of Peekskill Museum and Graymoor - The Holy Mountain. Make yourself at home in one of the 48 guestrooms. Satellite television is provided for your entertainment. Con...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 197 reviews
Excellent 10.0
NoBeautiful romantic location. Staff went way out their way to be helpful. Room was superior.
Excellent 10.0
We loved the setting. It was in the woods and felt private. Lovely experience
noWe were extremely happy to have picked this hotel.It has an amazing view of the Hudson River. It felt secluded but was moments from the highway. I would definately recommend it and go back for another visit!
|Excellent - 30 reviews
When you stay at Bricktown Inn in Haverstraw, you'll be near the airport and convenient to High Tor State Park and Hudson Highlands Cruises. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Rockland Historical Society and Marian Shrine. Make yourself at home in one of the 4 individually decorated guestrooms. A complimentary continental breakfast is included...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 30 reviews
|Okay - 84 reviews
Located in Cornwall, Cadet Motel is connected to a shopping center and convenient to New York Military Academy and Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site. This motel is within close proximity of Hudson Highlands Nature Museum and Storm King Art Center. Make yourself at home in one of the air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access kee...
Overall Rating - Okay - 84 reviews
Poor 2.0
It was located near where I wanted to be and the price appeared to be very reasonable.
There was a musty smell, the front window would not open, the bathroom sink was loose.It appeared that the rooms had been let go for a long time and could have benefited from some new carpet, updated bathroom fixtures, and modern windows.
Okay 6.0
This place was--- a night.
The room smelled really musty but it didn't bug me that much.It was clean and super cheap. No internet, basic TV but all I need was a place to sleep and shower.
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With a stay at The Garrison House Historic Inn and Gift Shoppe in Fort Montgomery, you'll be close to Bear Mountain State Park and West Point Museum. This bed & breakfast is within the vicinity of Michie Stadium and Garrison Art Center. Make yourself at home in one of the air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Cable television is provi...
|Okay - 304 reviews
With a stay at FairBridge Inn & Suites at West Point, you'll be centrally located in Highland Falls, walking distance from West Point Museum and close to Michie Stadium. This motel is within close proximity of Garrison Art Center and United States Military Academy. Make yourself at home in one of the 54 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and micro...
Overall Rating - Okay - 304 reviews
Poor 2.0
We were put in room 108, which was very dirty and had a musty smell. The bathroom had not been cleaned. The shower curtain was stained. There was no facial tissue and only one piece of soap, which was the size of a quarter!The refrigerator also needed to be cleaned and defrosted. When we asked for another room we were shown a room that was in even worse condition!! We would not recommend this hotel to anyone!
Good 7.0
Location was good, price was reasonable, beds were comfortable with down covers, microwave and fridge were appreciated, as was in-room coffee.Couldn't enjoy the Continental Breakfast (honey buns, cereal, coffee) due to dietary restrictions; would have enjoyed fruit and decaf coffee if they'd had either.
|Good - 1 reviews
Conveniently located off of Interstate I-87 and less than 1/2 mile from the famous Woodbury Commons Premium Outlets that draws shoppers from all over including New York City. West Point Military Academy is only a 20 minute drive from us and Stewart International Airport is also approx. 30 minutes away. Start each day energized with the free DayBreak continen...
Overall Rating - Good - 1 reviews
Okay 6.0
Flimsy towels.This is the best value for the location if you need a place to spend the night before business or to move on to better climes. It's fine. Stay there a night.
Good 7.0
Location, refrigerator in room
Bathroom was a little smallBudget motel for he area. No elevator but manager was able to provide a ground floor room. Plenty of parking.
|Excellent - 93 reviews
This hotel, about 10 minutes by car from Newburgh, New York, is close to golf courses, vineyards, Hudson River boat trips and shopping at Newburgh Mall. Stewart International Airport is just 10 minutes away. The hotel features 115 accommodation units. Guests are welcomed in the lobby. Services and facilities at the hotel include a safe, a breakfast room, a l...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 93 reviews
|Okay - 84 reviews
Overall Rating - Okay - 84 reviews
|Good - 3 reviews
Located in Newburgh, Hudson Valley Hotel and Conference Center by Fairbridge is in the historical district, minutes from Orange County Choppers, and close to Algonquin Park. This hotel is within close proximity of Ice Time Sports Complex and Motorcyclepedia Museum. Make yourself at home in one of the 120 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Int...
Overall Rating - Good - 3 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The facility was quiet, affordable and clean
The television in the room was way too small
Poor 2.0
not much
everything. it is a very nasty place and we will never return
|Excellent - 194 reviews
Overall Rating - Excellent - 194 reviews
|Excellent - 70 reviews
Discover a Home Away from Home at this Newburgh-Stewart Airport Hote Welcome to the Homewood Suites by Hilton® Newburgh-Stewart Airport hotel. Located within Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, New York, our all-suite hotel is just two minutes from the main airport terminal. Expect easy access to I-84, I-87/New York State Thruway, and attractions s...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 70 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Everyone there was super nice. Room was very clean.
Excellent 10.0
The suite was perfect for our family!
NoWe loved the family friendliness of this property. The location is great, close to restaurants and shopping. The pool was the perfect temperature. Perfect for a nice weekend getaway!!
|Excellent - 200 reviews
Nestled in the heart of the Hudson Valley, the Hilton Garden Inn Stewart Airport/Newburgh hotel in New York is the perfect getaway from city life whether it is for business or pleasure. Conveniently located off the New York State Thruway I-87 and I-84 in the center of the historic Hudson Valley, our Newburgh, New York hotel is the perfect stop for major shop...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 200 reviews
Okay 6.0
Extremely nice staff
I picked the hotel because it had an indoor pool. it was not heated and it was so cold I couldn't go in past the steps. My daughter did better, but after ten minutes her lips were purple.
Excellent 9.0
The lobby was absolutely beautiful!
Yes - The wall mounted hair dryers are AWFUL. For 3-stars, and such a nice hotel, I would expect actual, stand alone hair dryers.Only stayed one night on business, no real complaints. The lobby is beautiful, and the rooms were nice, bed comfortable. My only disappointment was that the bathroom had only a mini, wall-mounted hair dryer. For a three-star hotel, I would expect to have an actual stand alone, regular sized hair dryer! Its a basic amenity that I love to have in a hotel, while travelling on business!
|Good - 1099 reviews
Located in Central Valley, America's Best Value Inn, Central Valley is connected to a shopping center and convenient to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets and Mary H Harriman Memorial Park. This motel is within the vicinity of The Golf Club at Mansion Ridge and Lake Tiorati Beach. Make yourself at home in one of the 45 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerat...
Overall Rating - Good - 1099 reviews
Okay 5.0
Location is the main reason
Cleanliness, need to be look at seriously as under bed area, on the corner was dirty n dusty. Carpet was so sticky. Staff attitude and knowledge
Good 8.0
Value for money guarantee! Location is just 1 minute from Woodbury Common Premium Outlets. Everything was perfect specially the staff.
|Excellent - 1 reviews
a great stay is in the bag.. welcome to the Hampton Inn Harriman Woodbury. The Hampton Inn® Harriman Woodbury is a destination in and of itself. Within walking distance is Woodbury Commons Premium Outlets, one of the largest designer outlet centers in the world. The Hampton Inn Harriman Woodbury puts you at the center of a tremendous number of fantastic scen...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Beyond our expectations.
Space, breakfast, and location.I highly recommend this hotel. We were 2 adults and 3 children, and the space was awesome. Besides that the breakfast was more than delicious and FREE for the whole family!
Excellent 9.0
Proximity to shopping and relatively easy going staff.
Cleaning staff did not listen well to what time we asked them to return. We were preparing for a wedding and the groom was using our room. We asked the cleaning staff to come back at 1pm, but they did not return until 1:45 which was also inconvenient.Overall good stay and everything was clean. Breakfast was acceptable, but the bacon and sausage were pretty bad. Staff was friendly, and in spite of the scheduling problem with cleaning, they were easy going and everyone would smile and greet you. Pricing was high for the level of the hotel, but I guess all hotels in the area run higher then normal. Still I knew it was a 2.5 star hotel when I booked it and it did have all the correct amenities to support that.


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Hello again guys, thanks for all the help Night Hawk and Brink but it seems my hard drive has failed and thats whats causing windows to not load. I ran ubuntu and tried that guide you gave me Brink but it didn't work, after several hours of googling and asking questions i found that my hard drive was failing. In Ubunto on one of the thing it says
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You may suffer the loss of files in part if not all of them. That will be one thing you may run into. There are a large number of partition table repair tools and data recovery programs out there but usually one you have to pay for to see actual results.
The alternative would be bringing the drive along with several blank dvds or a spare to a data recovery service and expect a nice tab there for the service. The first option of course can run upto $70-US for one of the better recovery programs while a few open source programs are found as well. Just be prepared to see files and folders renamed and numbered with some of those however like Data Recovery Doctor
One program offers a free as well as option to buy you can look over at Partition Recovery Software for Fat & NTFS
EaseUS is a more familiar program to many offering another free partition recovery program as well.
Since the bad sector formed after the drive was OSed the partition table being corrupted will stall things to an extent while a repair tool may make it possible to get more from the drive. The problem is sometimes you may end up trying out several programs to see results especially if the drive is too far gone.
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I'm following Method Two from the first page. I complete Step 5 but, instead of getting the menu of choices of Step 6, it automatically jumps to a Startup Repair. This lasted for three days. This morning, I woke to find the screen had returned to that shown on Step 3.
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This is normal for it to automatically run a Startup Repair if an issue with startup has been detected in an attempt to try and fix it.
Since it is in a Startup Repair loop, you might see if the tutorial below may be able to help.
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You could use the program in the tutorial below to create a bootable Windows 7 installation DVD or USB flash drive with your ISO file. You could then boot from the DVD/USB for the System Recovery Options.
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What is the oldest restaurant in NYC?
I am interested in dining in a few restaurants that have a sense of history.
What are some old ( not old style but have been around for a long time) restaurants?
Any neighborhood-- any type of food
re: swarttav
yup. 1762 was its inception date.
re: dkstar1
How's the food?
As for history: Apparently, among other things, the building also housed the New York capitol's departments of War, Foreign Affairs, and Treasury!
The site makes no mention of the structure itself being a recreation, which I had thought it was too.
"It was built in 1719 as an elegant residence for the merchant Stephan Delancey and his family."
However, wikipedia says, quoting the American Institute of Architects, that the building's 1907 restoration was more of a fanciful reconstruction using whatever was left.
re: swarttav
Has the Fraunces Tavern reopened??
Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10004
re: georgeb
not even close. Pete's opened in 1864, nearly 100 years after Fraunce's.
In the financial district, try Fraunces Tavern (1762 traditional 'american', steak)or Delmonico's (1837 steak).
If you want less traditional old style steakhouse, try Cafe des Artistes (1917 french bistro) on the upper west side.
Cedar Tavern on University Place in the village (University Place) and White Horse Tavern in the west village are great old bars..
re: emmers
The original Cedar was about 2 blocks south. Jackson Pollock peed in the fireplace at the old one.
re: emmers
FWIW, the Delmonico's located on Beaver/South William Street is unrelated to the original 19th century Delmonico's, although it is pretty old, dating, I believe, from 1899, closing in 1917, then reopening with new ownership in 1929, since resold several times.
re: emmers
The Cedar Tavern has been closed since 2006; the Cafe des Artistes folded last year (although there are rumours that the latter is about to reopen under new ownership.)
EDIT: Delmonico's started on William St. in 1827, then moved -perforce- to lower B'way; then to 5th @ 14th [that's the one I remember]; then to 5th @ 26th (across from MSG); then finally back to Beaver, where it finally gave up the ghost in the 1980s!
Not quite 150 years, but Keens is one of the oldest. Opened in 1885 and retains its incomparable old NY ambiance.
Actually, acc. to a listing in Zagat, the oldest are Pete's Tavern (1864), Landmark Tavern (1868), and Old Homestead (1868).
Katz's - 1887
Barbetta just celebrated their 100th Anniversary - 1906
re: dkstar1
Hi dkstar1, I didn't have my 2007 Zagat handy, so I relied on the list in the 2006 edition, which didn't include Fraunces Tavern. But when deciding about its longevity, Wilfred's comment below is instructive. As for Delmonico's, it is not in its original location, nor has it been open continuously like Keens or Barbetta.
Depends on whether, by oldest, you mean longest contuining operating restaurant. The point being that although a Fraunces Tavern was indeed open on that spot in Washington's day, the present restaurant is a re-creation and not in the original building (which burnt down, I think). To me, it doesn't feel real old - more like a museum (and upstairs, that's what it is). The Bridge Cafe should be mentioned, although that building too went through a period when it was not an inn.
Keens is a good choice (because Peter Luger is on the Outer Boros board). Didn't Landmark close again after it re-opened?
Isn't the current Delmonico's a completely different beast than the original Delmonico's circa 1827?
Fanelli's has been open since 1878 tho it's only been Fanelli's since 1922. I can't imagine it was ever much more than a pub. They have liquor licenses on the wall in the back room from the 1890's if I remember the year right. One of my favorite burgers in the city too.
re: jth
McSorley's opened in 1854, and was owned by father and son of that name well into the twentieth century. Since it has been open continuously (and right through Prohibition!) in the same location, I would give it the prize as the oldest bar. Pete's Tavern, whatever it may say on the sign outside, is newer. Some award it to The Bridge Cafe, but although it opened before McSorley's, it went through a period as a house of "ill repute", which does not really count as being a public tavern - so I say it's discontinuous.
But it's an interesting debate. Just to get some chow in here, McSorley's has a short menu, including cheese and raw onions (a nod to its history). I have never eaten at The Bridge Cafe, but it now has a fairly fancy menu.
re: Wilfrid
Yes, but it's the mustard that makes the onions and crackers worthwhile. Also a great gag on anyone who hasn't been there before :-)
thanks for the info, used to be a regular at McSorley's but have only managed to stop in once or twice a year since back then
Delmonico's started as a wine shop with a few cakes, way downtown, and then gradually added to its menu as it moved steadily uptown from location to location.
I am unaware of any connection between the current Delmonico and the long-gone descendants of the original, other than the name.
The Ear all the way over on Spring St. near the Hudson is in a building that has been there since sometime around 1800 and has been operated as a bar since at least 1835 (it became The Ear in the late '70's). It's a pretty nice cozy place now, with decent food, but still looks like the ancient waterfront working class bar it once was.
Fraunces Tavern was where G.W ultimately went at the end of his "march" from Yorktown, VA. to NYC. I can't speak for the food, but it is old.
As far as food and history, go to Keen's. Some of the best steaks in town. Great food all around. Check out pipes once owned by Teddy Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, and Ripley (with the distinctive Ripley's signature). Ask the bartender upstairs to show you the program found under Lincoln's chair at the Ford theater, complete with bloodstain.
For great drinking and ambiance, the Ear is well worth a visit. Pull up a pint and enjoy!
Barbetta on W 46th claims to be the oldest restaurant which has been continuously owned by the same family. I would also add the Oak Bar, Algonquin, Sardi's, 21 Club, Russian Tea Room, Carlyle among some which seem to have been there forever.
21 Club
21 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019
321 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036
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150 W 57th Street, New York, NY 10019


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AMC has debuted the highly-anticipated trailer for the fourth season of "The Walking Dead," featuring over four minutes of zombies, new characters and the promise of a high body count.
SDCC: Marvel Comics Teases Marvelman During Retailer Lunch
Fri, July 19th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
Among the upcoming projects teased by Marvel Comics Senior VP of Sales David Gabriel during Comic-Con International's annual retailer's lunch were new Marvel NOW! launches and a Marvelman project.
SDCC: Vertigo Debuts McKean's "Sandman: Overture" Cover, Williams Interior Art
Wed, July 17th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
Vertigo has released the first look at J.H. Williams III's interior art for his and Neil Gaiman's "Sandman: Overture" miniseries, along with the first issue's cover by Dave McKean.
"Lights Out!" Kicks Off in "Green Lantern" #23 Early Preview
Fri, July 12th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
DC Comics continues to count down to "Lights Out!" hitting the Green Lantern corner of the DCU, debuting Billy Tan-illustrated pages from his and Robert Venditti's "Green Lantern" #23.
Marvel Debuts Joe Madureira's "Inhuman" #1 Cover Art
Fri, July 12th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
Hot on the heels of announcing the post-"Infinity" direction for the Marvel Universe with Matt Fraction and Joe Madureira's "Inhumanity," the publisher has released Joe Mad's cover for "Inhuman" #1.
"Enemy Within" Continues with New Amanda Conner "Avengers Assemble" Variant
Mon, June 24th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
Amanda Conner's variant cover for "Avengers Assemble" #17 offers a look at Earth's Mightiest Heroes as they continue their battle in writer Kelly Sue DeConnick's "The Enemy Within" crossover.
Ben Reilly Returns on Stegman's "Scarlet Spider" #21 Cover
Tue, June 18th, 2013 | Category: Comic Books
Although the solicitation text for the issue promised his return, it may take seeing Ryan Stegman's just-released cover for "Scarlet Spider" #21 to convince fans that Ben Reilly may indeed be rising from the grave.


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Welcome to The Rat Trick's Morning Links, your round up of what's going on around the NHL. There were nine total games last night, here is the run down of the final scores,
The Buffalo Sabres dropped a game to the Nashville Predators 4-1. [Recap]
New Jersey Devils beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 on a controversial call [Recap]
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers to end 10-game skid [Recap]
The Blue Jackets defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 [Recap]
Your Florida Panthers fell at home to the Phoenix Coyotes 3-1 [Recap]
The Pittsburgh Penguins completed a home-and-home sweep of the Washington Capitals with Sidney Crosby out pointing Alexander Ovechkin 4-0 in the two games [Recap]
The Dallas Stars won what had to be an emotionally driven game against the St. Louis Blues in overtime with captain Jamie Benn scoring the game winner [Recap]
The Edmonton Oilers won a game! They beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 [Recap]
Joe Pavelski continues his career season, as his two goals brings him to a season total of 34, as the San Jose Sharks rolled over the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 [Recap]
Speaking of the Wild, if you had said that Matt Cooke was still in this league and contributing still five years ago, no one might have believed you. But his ability to adapt his game and stay out of trouble has allowed him to reach 1,000 games played for his career. [Gone Puck Wild]
One interesting thing to come out of the General Managers meetings has been the potential changes to the faceoff procedure. The obvious topics were extended overtime as well as instant replay but this has just as much potential to impact the game as those. [NHL.com]
The Vancouver Canucks are quickly sinking, and the their loss against the New York Islanders might be rock bottom for them. A look at how quickly things are turning bad. [Two Pad Stack]
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The Saints love using running backs in the passing game and they have some pretty fast backs that can be effective. Traveris Cadet and Derrick Strozier are fast backs that can be utilized in this manner if they can start proving themselves on the field.
Cadet is tough and fast but he is going to need to exhibit patience in finding good holes to run through. I see him operating as a flex back in certain packages.
Derrick Strozier is a fast back but I'm interested to see if he fits the mold of a receiving back or is more of a balanced runner. I believe if he proves himself to be effective in special teams that will keep him in the queue for a special package or play designed to utilize his ability.
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Tim Flanders is going to be the back to watch for a couple of reasons. He had three seasons of 1,000 yards rushing or more so this guy can carry the rock. The Sam Houston State product reminds me of undrafted Pierre Thomas because he is very humble off-the-field and hungry when he is on it. I honestly don't know if his ability is going to be enough to earn him a roster spot, but he's got a fighting chance. He will be back to watch heading into Saints training camp.


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Kareem Doesn't Seem To Remember His UCLA Days Very Well...Or What Team He Played For In The NBA
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is arguably one of the best players in basketball history. He was the ultimate winner and scorer in his time at UCLA but that might be all that he is when it comes to UCLA.
Kareem was on Jeopardy yesterday and up came the category "I Went To UCLA". That should be easy enough for one of the most successful UCLA graduates, plus the $400 answer is always the easiest. So Kareem picks it and Alex reads the question:
"Tell your old man to drag this '70s UCLA & Trail Blazer center (& Lanier!) up & down the court for 48 minutes"
Obviously the answer is "Who is Bill Walton?" but not in Kareem's world. The look on his face once Alex sarcastically yells NO! at him is priceless. Kareem also gives us a classic facepalm.
So keep your head up Kareem, I am sure there are lots of former players that don't remember which pro team they played on... right?


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Greg Gutfeld Calls Jim Carrey's Complaint About Fox News 'a Complete Meltdown'March 30, 2013 09:03:42
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Martin Scorsese to Turn 'Gangs of New York' Into TV SeriesMarch 29, 2013 04:03:04
The Academy Award-winning director joins forces with Mirimax to develop a TV series based on his 2002 critically-acclaimed movie.
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Director Marc Webb confirms the casting of the 'Office' actor through a new behind-the-scene picture from the 'Amazing Spider-Man' sequel.
'Amazing Spider-Man 2' to Feature Chris Cooper as Norman OsbornFebruary 28, 2013 08:02:53
The 'Muppets' actor has just been cast as the cruel CEO of Oscorp who will later become Spidey's nemesis, Green Goblin.
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No team in NBA has accomplished what the Sixers must do to avoid first-round playoff elimination -- win four straight games after losing the first three.
But the Sixers insist they still feel like they can beat the Miami Heat in Game 4 on Sunday afternoon (1 p.m.) to at least earn a trip back to South Florida for a potential Game 5 on Wednesday night.
"It's easy for guys to pack it in, but not this team," said Lou Williams after Saturday's practice. "Everybody still feels like we can win. We've got our itineraries for Tuesday - we're hopefully headed down to Miami. We'll see what happens."
The Sixers had chances to win Games 1 and 3, but the more experienced Heat were better at crunch time.
"I think we're doing a good job," Williams said. "Everything's coming down to the wire. They have some guys that can make plays at the end. I don't think we've finished those games that we had an opportunity to win."
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Walters State's International Festival began in 2004. The first festival was organized by student Betsy Hurst and supported by advisor Sarah Risdahl, associate professor of advanced and developmental education (now retired). Betsy wanted to share her cultural background and learn about the backgrounds of other students. By the next year, the International Club had grown. That second year was organized by the club and club sponsor Michelle Mitrik, associate professor of Spanish. The festival has grown each year. Now, the festival features local speakers and top regional talent. Vendors bring gift items and food from many countries. The festival is open to the community and more than 1,000 people attend each year.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – Louisville Metro Police's Public Integrity Unit is investigating a death after a high profile inmate was found dead Saturday afternoon.
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The Brothers Quay and my very first movie.
This weekend I was elated to read an article in the New York Times about filmmakers Steven and Timothy Quay (aka The Brothers Quay) making a movie about the temple of momento mori, the insanely macabre Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
I'm not sure if I mentioned it before in this blog, but the Brothers Quay are something truly special to me. I've written about movies and music that have had a profound impact on me, but none more than the seminal work of the Brothers Quay, their short film The Street of Crocodiles. While La Haine remains my favorite film of all time, it pales in its personal significance to the Quay film, in that Crocodiles inspired me to make my first ever movie.
The NYT article also reminded me that I had written extensively about the Quays a long time ago, and I dug up a post that I did almost five years ago on my now-defunct, non-film related MySpace blog (remember MySpace?), and I thought it would be worthwhile to re-post it here. (There are personal historical elements in the post that I've already written about in the Lilith blog, so if anything, I'm consistent! ;)).
Also at the bottom of the page is a link to Street of Crocodiles in its entirety.
Originally posted January 17, 2006
Gotta love technology. Below you will find the complete film of what I tell everyone is my favorite film of all time. It's "The Street of Crocodiles" by the Brothers Quay.
There's quite a story to my liking of this film, and this story is basically the telling of how I became a filmmaker. Read on, and you might find a parallel to how you too found your passion in life.
I first saw the film on public television in 1987 when I was 12, and it burned several vivid images in my brain, images that I could nary comprehend, but at that age I knew only one thing: that I liked those images very much. I didn't see the film again for almost a year, not knowing what the title was or who had made it. But again, on public television, it aired again and this time I watched it with joy and scientific precision. I made sure to tape it, and I watched it over, and over, and over again. I made notes, drawings, schematics about every frame of the film, and I knew that someday I wanted to make a film like this. I had to.
We didn't have a camera in the house, so my first attempts at animation came through making flip-books. I would spend almost all of my evenings after school drawing on note cards, drawing decrepit figures wandering in a world of decay and rot. I wish I saved those drawings, I spent so much time on them and they probably had a raw beauty to them that I could never possibly replicate today. Each flip book would provide me with about two to three seconds of footage, and I made a collection of them to give me about a twenty five second "film." It was gratifying, but it wasn't nearly enough.
I would spend weekends at the library in Aurora, Colorado reading up about stop motion animation and filmmaking. The Quays hadn't achieved the cult status then that they have now, so there was no mention of their work or how they made films. There were, however, a couple of books on Eastern European animation, particularly the works of Jan Svankmeyer. There were a few works of Svankmeyer on VHS, but none of the libraries in Colorado stocked them. I did however find an old catalog in the library, a catalog to order films through the mail from a store called FACETS in Chicago. They claimed to have every film on Earth, although they didn't have any of the Quay films so I held that comment quite suspect.
The Svankmeyer tape was very expensive for a kid in middle school, so I had to devise a way to get some money (without having to go through the embarrassment of asking my parents to buy me a tape of weird, semi-erotic Eastern European animation). As most Indian kids, I never had an allowance, but I did have one source of revenue- my lunch money. Mom would give me a dollar a day for lunch, and the tape was almost thirty dollars. So I skipped lunch for a month, and acquired my first ever foreign film. It took almost three weeks for the film to arrive in the mail, and I was excited beyond belief.
I watched the Svankmeyer tape in private, and it blew me away. It was so raw, so primal, so gross, and so completely enthralling. Like with the Quay film, I made notes upon notes upon notes. I started to write little scripts for films and comics that dealt with issues of death, of rebirth, and of rotten meat. Good thing my mother never read this stuff, she probably would have put a quick end to whatever fascinations I had with art!
And then the day came- my father bought a Panasonic video camera, and he managed to use it all but once, and it was starting to gather dust in the corner. I confiscated the camera and set up a little studio in the basement of my house, where I built small sets and used the one light that the camera came with to light my scenes. I tried my best to build puppet armatures out of wire and garbage, but it just wasn't happening- I couldn't make the armatures stand up. So i needed my actor, and lo and behold I found an old Mickey Mouse doll that had almost 12 points of articulation. It was robust, it could stand in various positions without falling over, and it was perfect but for one thing- it looked like Mickey Mouse.
So I transformed him. I gave Mickey dead eyes and stripped him of his robes- he was a black, almost unrecognizable creature and he had quite a journey ahead of him. My casting was complete.
There was one problem with using a video camera for stop motion animation, and that was that the shortest shot you could take was a one second shot (done by tapping the red record button like a maniac to ensure the fastest start/ stop time). I had made the understanding that good quality animation was done at 24-frames per second, and here I was working at a pitiful 1-frame per second. After much trial and error, i devised a plan to alleviate this, if just a little.
I dug up our old VCR and ran it into our new one, so to make a dubbed copy. The quality was good, and the older VCRs had a limitation in that if you pressed fast-forward during the dub, it would record in fast forward. It was a technical glitch for the technology, but it served me very well. So I went ahead and shot my movie in 24-frames per 24 seconds (over a one month period where I would move Mickey's arms and legs bit by bit, shot by shot), and complied all of my footage on one tape (the movie was edited in camera, I wouldn't figure out how to use the 2-VCR system for editing until later). I would then dub my footage onto a new tape, but while pressing the fast-forward button on the source VCR. This bumped up my frame rate from one frame per second to about eight frames per second. There were distortion lines from the FF funtion, but I could live with that, because in that moment, Mickey came to life. I had given movement to that which was dead and immovable. It was a landmark moment of my life.
Using the dub system, I was also able to put in music directly on the tape, and my music of choice was "Stigmata" by Ministry (I was a twisted child by every means).
And so I had made my version of "Street of Crocodiles," and while it was shit in comparison, I was hooked. For life. It wasn't later until college that I made a second attempt at the Brothers Quay, where I made an 8mm film called "Haus Der Luge (House of Lies)" for a beginning filmmaking class that I took pass/ fail. The intro title card of the film had, in small letters, "apologies to the Brothers Quay." The film was the closest thing to "Street of Crocodiles" I had made, and I sent it to the Denver Underground Film Festival, and it won 3rd place. I still have 'Haus' on tape, but unfortunately the Mickey movie was recorded over, as it was imperative that I had to tape the Denver Broncos' playoff run to the Super Bowl, in which they got their asses kicked. It is gone, forever.
And maybe that's why I had to write this long, exhaustive entry. Because it's the only record of my first movie I ever made. It lives in my head only, but it's still the most important piece of art that I've ever made and ever will make. It's my treasure.
And I owe it all to public television. Enjoy the film below, and I hope you see the magic in it that I first saw so long ago.
Streets of Crocodiles
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Cville-Enviro is a local company that can help trim the waste and cost of running your home with a green home audit. Through a series of tests they can measure the efficiency and air quality of your home. "The first test we run is a blower door test and it's a little bit like blowing up a balloon. We just put a slight pressure or de-pressure on the house. That exaggerates where the drafts and leaks are in the house." They run an infrared scan of the house to identify warm and cool spots or places that may need extra insulation. A duct blast test will identify any leaks within the ventilation or duct work. "We run an air quality monitor that tests for a handful of different things that are pretty key indoor pollutants."
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1. Use what works for you, and not because it's trendy, or has a "celebrity" signature line attached to it.
2. It is the runner, not the gear, that makes a runner.
That being said, the stuff I am posting is what I use because it works for me. Go out and experiment.
Kicks: Salomon Fellcross 2 and Speedcross 3. The Fellcross are my go to shoes. Super light. Aggressive lugs for muddy terrain (they even work great on technical terrain). They dry really fast so your feet aren't soaking for long periods of time. The toe-bumper is built like a tank. There have been times when I should have broken a toe or two on the trails from kicking a root or rock, but they saved me from a good deal of pain. I go to the Speedcross when I need a bit more cushioning.
Socks: Drymax Max Pro Trail. Probably the only piece in my kit that I can't live without. They are expensive but worth even more. No blisters, hot spots, masceration, ulcers, etc... Pulls the water away from the feet in minutes. 500 mile tested ;-)
Headlamp: Lupine Piko x4. Ridiculously expensive. Worth every penny. And ridiculously bright. 1200-4500 lumens. You can cook your food with it. Makes your Petzl feel like a kid's toy. Built like a tank. Extremly light-weight. Water-proof. Cold-proof down to 40 below. Tiny rechargeable battery that lasts 58 hours on a moderate setting. Flip on the high beam to replicate a Mercedes-Benz flying down the trails. The most reliable piece in my kit.
Poles: Black Diamond Ultra-distance Z poles. Carbon fiber. They weigh nothing and you can put your full weight into them. Collapse down fast and compact. I have beaten the hell out of mine and I can't break them. I cut off the wrist straps to be able to adjust hand placement for different inclines, terrain, etc...
Back-up: Raidlight Carbon fiber poles. Slightly heavier than the BD poles, but not much. Even more durable than the BD. These come with special gloves that replace the wrist straps, and clip directly between the thumb and index finger. Great leverage.
Gloves: Raidlight fingerless gloves. Great when using poles to prevent blisters. Even better when you take a dive on technical terrain and prevents your hands from being shredded on rocks.
Back-up: Salmon fingerless gloves. Breathe better and have a stow-away wind defelctor. I have a variety of fingerless cycling gloves that work just as well.
Watch: No Garmin for me. I want something accurate, indestructible, and that I don't have to recharge. Casio Rangeman Japanese carbon fiber edition. I use it for food/water alarms and timer. The barometer, temp, elevation and compass are more acurate than any gps watch I have owned or tested. And consistently accurate. But Nick, it doesn't tell you your mileage or heart rate!! I don't care about mileage. I know where I need to be at the given times. And I have an illogical timing method in my head that I can't explain to anyone, but it works for me and it synchs up nicely to my accurate watch ;-)
And heart rate: I'm working hard anyway. Don't need an HRM to tell me something doesn't feel right or if I'm in a proper zone. That won't matter running 500 miles, or perhaps a 1,000 mile.............
Hydro vest: Ok, maybe I have some secrets. I build my own hydro rigs from pieces of other packs. I'm picky. No single pack has ever felt "right" for me, so I decided to piece and sew together the things that did work, and make my own. It's always changing and evolving for a particular race, weather, and problem solving for things like: busted bladders, calorie dispensing, gear storage, preventing frozen hoses, breathability, comfort, etc... I have solved a lot of problems with experimentation and pretty much have a base-line hydro-vest that I can adapt to anything. My advice: don't settle for something if it's not working the way you want it to.
Foot Cream: It's no secret that my feet got destroyed at last year's Peak 500 mile. So, I needed a foot cream to prevent blisters, repel water, and protect against open sores and friction. Some how word got out that, what was in my anonymous, unlabeled jars was vegan-aise, and I was also using it for calories...sure, go with that ;-)
Shirts: EMS long sleeve, and RRS sleeveless. EMS has the best material for keeping you cool and dry.
Shorts: Race Ready. Light-weight even when wet.
Underwear: Under Armor 9" briefs. Prevents chafing. 'Nuff said.


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The Washington Post short-sells a reporter's integrity - Steven Pearlstein smears TheStreet's Adam Feuerstein for criticizing a biotech firm
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"Treme" was created by David Simon, whose HBO drama "The Wire" ended two years ago, and Eric Overmyer, a veteran producer and writer on "Law & Order" and "Homicide: Life on the Street," the cop series based on Simon's book. In "Treme," your gaze is always brought from the general to the specific, or—more specifically—to a dense mesh of details that don't always appear to make sense or add up easily. That approach is a fitting one for looking at New Orleans, especially post-Katrina, assuming that Simon and Overmyer can get under the city's skin. It's one thing to take us to New Orleans—anyone can do that—but not everyone can take us inside New Orleans. Simon, a former city reporter for the Baltimore Sun, has spoken of his love of New Orleans music and his feeling about the importance of the city, and Overmyer, who's also a playwright, lives there part time; they had thought about setting a series there even before Hurricane Katrina. 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I thought he meant that symbolically—and it does work on that level—but he was referring to the Rebirth Brass Band; the people who join in brass-band processions, getting caught up in singing and dancing, are known as the second line. More than most cities, New Orleans is a world unto itself, and you're plunged right into it. Even the opening credits are, by design—literally so—ambiguous. The marks left by the flood and the toxic mold that flowered in people's homes form the background to the names of the cast and the creators. The flood lines, seen close up, are painterly, their drip marks seeming to betray an artist's hand, and the blooms of mold come in a range of colors; each frame looks like a work of abstract art. (Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke," an essential, damning piece of work that has to be seen by anyone who wants to know the first thing about the disaster, also uses the signs of flood damage as a backdrop to the film's title; there the colors are mostly red and black, invoking blood and death.) The "failure of institutions"—law enforcement, education, journalism—was Simon's stated subject in "The Wire"; "Treme" may build to that, but its early episodes focus on depicting New Orleans accurately. Simon hired the writers Tom Piazza, the author of the 2005 book "Why New Orleans Matters," and Lolis Eric Elie, a former Times-Picayune columnist (and the writer and co-director of a film called "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans"). In a column three years ago that was timed for the start of Mardi Gras and published in the Washington Post—it was intended for the eyes of the federal government and the eyes of the nation—Elie wrote of the coming marauders: "They will empty their beer-filled guts onto each other's shoes. They will clown for hungry cameras and for journalists eager to capture New Orleans as some distant editor has imagined it. Invariably, the networks will set up their shots in the French Quarter, though none of the major parades and few of the emblematic Carnival activities take place there. Neither the journalists nor the revelers seem to care that our lives, local lives, are elsewhere." Tremé (spelled by some, including Simon, without an accent), adjacent to the French Quarter, is one of the elsewhere places: largely unknown to outsiders, it's thought to be the oldest African-American neighborhood in the country and had a large population of free blacks even before the Civil War. Historically, it's the musical heart of the city, going all the way back to the seventeen-hundreds, when slaves were allowed to gather in Congo Square (now contained within Louis Armstrong Park) to dance and play music. For authenticity's sake, Simon and Overmyer brought in local musicians, including the saxophonist Donald Harrison, Jr., and the trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, who was a co-founder of the Rebirth Brass Band, and whose current group, the Barbecue Swingers, appears in the series, as do Dr. John and Allen Toussaint. The character who gets out of bed to hear the second line is Davis McAlary (Steve Zahn); he's based on a real New Orleans musician named Davis Rogan, who also consulted on "Treme." David Mills, a longtime friend and collaborator of Simon's, was part of the show's writing and producing team as well; he died last week, of a brain aneurysm, during production. It was a shocking blow, in many ways, to the fellowship of the group and to television fans who knew, and invariably admired, his work on "The Corner," "Homicide," "NYPD Blue," "ER," and "The Wire." It's heartening (and mind-bending) to know that for some scenes the production team had to re-create the damage caused by the flood, because by the time shooting began, last year, repairs and reconstruction were under way. "How's your house?" people ask each other, almost as a greeting. But just as important to Simon and Overmyer's story is the fact that not all the damage in New Orleans occurred in 2005, and that the city's own peculiarities have generated plenty of trouble. LaDonna Batiste-Williams (Khandi Alexander, who played the drug-addicted mother in "The Corner"), a bar owner, is trying to find her brother, missing since the storm, and is facing law-enforcement officials who are trying to cover up corruption or incompetence, or both. She asks her current husband to appeal to his brother, a civil-court judge. But he looks down on her, as a rougher, lower-class, darker-skinned black; when he balks, she tells her lawyer, in frustration, that her husband's family is "into that Seventh Ward Creole shit, like they a different fucking race." The lawyer, Toni Bernette (Melissa Leo), the person who's doing the most to help LaDonna, is white. LaDonna's ex-husband, an irresponsible charmer named Antoine Batiste (the wonderful Wendell Pierce, a native New Orleanian, who played Detective Bunk Moreland in "The Wire"), essentially ignores the two children they have together. To us, he may be what makes New Orleans what it is, but to her he's a problem. Someone asks her what made the marriage go sour. "I married a goddam musician," she says. "Ain't no way to make that shit right." "Treme" isn't in the business of taking a socioeconomic or political view of the storm's ravages (if there was a reference to President Bush in the first three episodes, I missed it) or of drawing many moral distinctions between characters. There's no sense of judgments being made, except when it comes to non-natives. If you want to snicker a little at Davis McAlary, the puckish, amusingly annoying musician, a scruffy white guy completely immersed in black music and culture, when you find out that he comes from a top-drawer local family and that his empty pockets are a matter of choice, you're on your own. The dramatic information in "Treme," as of the first three episodes, is essentially cultural and musical. John Goodman plays a Tulane English professor who makes angry declamations to inquiring journalists, throwing a British TV reporter's microphone into a canal when he suggests that the city doesn't deserve to be saved. His way out of his rage is to take up a novel that he once started writing, about the New Orleans flood of 1927. Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freamon in "The Wire") plays a contractor who returns to Treme to rebuild his house but feels an even more urgent need to re-form his group of Mardi Gras Indians, who have a long tradition in New Orleans street rituals. One night, he dresses up in costume and goes looking for one of his old cohorts, and we see him dancing in the dark, in an enormous costume of red and gold feathers. I'd never seen anything like it in a TV show. And yet it didn't strike me as exotic, since that's a word I would use to describe something I felt distanced from. But here I felt a strong connection. I think this is what Simon wanted to have happen to viewers, though so far it hasn't happened to me very often. 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