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Readers often turn to gilded fairytale books to escape reality and to, most importantly, find hope. This book proves that hope can also be found in real, honest life.
Nothing in this turn-of-the-century story of a young girl growing from innocence to adulthood is glossed over; family, community, poverty, alcoholism, love and desire. And there's no question why it's a classic; every word is written from the heart.
A very predictable story of the coming of age of a young girl. Great time period piece.
"The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn't held it tighter when you had it every day.
What had Granma Mary Rommely said? 'To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.'"
Published in 1943, this classic coming-of-age novel is set in Brooklyn in the first two decades of the 20th century. The second-generation daughter of Irish immigrants, Francie Nolan grows up in debilitating poverty but with a love of reading and a delight in life. Slowly paced by today's standards, the story unfolds simply and poignantly, providing a glimpse of early 20th-century life. With both optimistic and sober overtones, the themes of family, immigration, poverty, and growing up emerge through a varied cast of characters who are vividly memorable.
The book that broke my reading hiatus of the past year. A good one to do so with, I think.
I picked this up at the library a couple days ago. My first time there (shameful since we've been in this area for a couple years now), I was walking around in the daze of "what to check out, what to check out" and this title popped off the shelf at me. And I was back in Mrs. Atkins' Creative Writing class during memoir-writing listening to her tell us about her love of Francie.
I can imagine waxing on a bit about this book myself someday. Not necessarily about Francie so much so as all the characters combined, along with the very "human" dialogue and expression. It paints a very clear picture of kids growing up too fast, how the place you live and the people you live with become parts of you, and how life's pretty good even if it isn't so grand as long as you have your own personal Brooklyn.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0061120073, Paperback)Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
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The Partnerby John Grisham
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They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and
They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.
But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier, he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night, Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.
From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account. And Patrick fled some more. But they found him.
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First, you fake your death in a fiery car crash, like his protagonist, Patrick Lanigan. Next, impersonate one of your law partners and abscond with $90 million owed to a client. Finally, fly down to Rio, change your name to Danilo and lose yourself in the midst of a bazillion Brazilians. Pick up a paperback at the airport on your way in.
But not so fast. Patrick's done all this four years ago, and none of it keeps him from getting caught by ruthless bounty hunters in the first chapter (available on AOL, if AOL's available). At this point, Patrick's girlfriend springs one of only two surprises in the whole novel, but for a legal thriller, it's a lulu: She rescues him by telling the truth. She calls the FBI, whom Patrick's been fleeing since the day he disappeared, and the G-men frighten off the goons and extradite Patrick back to Mississippi, a place Patrick despises (and Grisham loves).
Ahhh, you can almost hear Grisham sigh, home-court advantage. Goodbye nasty old Rio, hello 40 chapters of interminable legal maneuverings, as Patrick plays his victims off against the Feds to regain his freedom. Reading the middle chunk of The Partner is like being sued by a really good lawyer. Between the boilerplate descriptive paragraphs and the depositions masquerading as dialogue and the interchangeable characters -- Who's this again? Better flip back -- Grisham papers you to death.
The plot doesn't have any real holes to speak of, but it doesn't have any special wrinkles, either. (At least not until the end, which actually isn't bad.) Patrick's meant to be an enigma -- so we can wonder if he's capable of having killed the corpse that passed for him in the car wreck -- but he comes off as more of a cipher instead. Grisham's use of language isn't embarrassing, except perhaps cumulatively, when you get near the end and realize he hasn't turned a single memorable phrase. This reviewer's quotational tweezers hovered over every page, but Grisham's patented non-stick prose resists plucking.
The Partner could have been an interesting book. It's always chancy to label themes as peculiarly American -- as if one country could corner the market on individualism, say, or self-reliance -- but the idea of thwarted escape does seem to tempt us endlessly, from Huck Finn clear up through Rabbit, Run. Grisham senses this, and flirts with it a couple of times, but he's too busy filing countermotions to make much hay out of it. By the end of The Partner, we find out pretty much the same thing Patrick did during his Brazilian getaway: Escapism's no fun if you have to keep looking behind you, whether for shady characters or, in the reader's case, half-forgotten ones. March 7, 1997-- David Kipen
Patrick Lanigan is tracked down to his hideout in Brazil, where he lives modestly near the Paraguayan border. Surely, Jack Stephano thinks, Patrick could not have spent the $90 million he ran off with four years ago. Jack has spent $3 million tracking Patrick down, and he wants that money. He wants it so much that he's blithely torturing Patrick to discover its location. The problem is that Patrick doesn't really know. He's given power of attorney to his lover, the brilliant Brazilian lawyer Eva Miranda, and she has been shuttling the money from bank to bank around the world, keeping it untraceable. When Patrick fails to call her at four in the afternoon, per usual, she skips out, as they've planned, and goes into hiding. And as planned, she phones the FBI office in Biloxi, Mississippi, and tells them that one Jack Stephano has very likely captured Patrick and is holding him in Brazil. The FBI puts pressure on Stephano to bring Patrick back to Biloxi, where the embezzlement took place and where Patrick's cremated remains were buried after his car went over an embankment. Patrick even attended his own funeral, watching through binoculars. As it turns out, the $90 million he ran off with was dirty money his law firm had helped collect in a criminal conspiracy to rob the government. Will the money be returned? Will Patrick escape trial for the murder of whoever it was that died in that accident? And what of Eva, now hiding in the States and helping Patrick orchestrate his defense?
Grisham comes up with a masterfully bittersweet end (with his title taking on a sly double edge) that may be his most satisfying ever.
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They found him in Ponta PorÒ, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the Frontier.
They found him living in a shaded brick house on Rua Tiradentes, a wide avenue with trees down the center and barefoot boys dribbling soccer balls along the hot pavement.
They found him alone, as best they could tell, though a maid came and went at odd hours during the eight days they hid and watched.
They found him living a comfortable life but certainly not one of luxury. The house was modest and could've been owned by any local merchant. The car was a 1983 Volkswagen Beetle, manufactured in Sao Paulo with a million others. It was red and clean, polished to a shine. Their first photo of him was snapped as he waxed it just inside the gate to his short driveway.
They found him much thinner, down considerably from the two hundred and thirty pounds he'd been carrying when last seen. His hair and skin were darker, his chin had been squared, and his nose had been slightly pointed. Subtle changes to the face. They'd paid a steep bribe to the surgeon in Rio who'd performed the alterations two and a half years earlier.
They found him after four years of tedious but diligent searching, four years of dead ends and lost trails and false tips, four years of pouring good money down the drain, good money chasing bad, it seemed.
But they found him. And they waited. There was at first the desire to snatch him immediately, to drug him and smuggle him to a safe house in Paraguay, to seize him before he saw them or before a neighbor became suspicious. The initial excitement of the finding made them consider a quickstrike, but after two days they settled down and waited. They loitered at various points along Rua Tiradentes, dressed like the locals, drinking tea in the shade, avoiding the sun, eating ice cream, talking to the children, watching his house. They tracked him as he drove downtown to shop, and they photographed him from across the street as he left the pharmacy. They eased very near him in a fruit market and listened as he spoke to the clerk. Excellent Portuguese, with the very slight accent of an American or a German who'd studied hard. He moved quickly downtown, gathering his goods and returning home, where he locked the gate behind him. His brief shopping trip yielded a dozen fine photos.
He had jogged in a prior life, though in the months before he disappeared his mileage shrunk as his weight ballooned. Now that he teetered on the brink of emaciation, they were not surprised to see him running again. He left his house, locking the gate behind him, and began a slow trot down the sidewalk along Rua Tiradentes. Nine minutes for the first mile, as the street went perfectly straight and the houses grew farther apart. The pavement turned to gravel on the edge of town, and halfway into the second mile his pace was down to eight minutes a mile and Danilo had himself a nice sweat. It was midday in October, the temperature near eighty, and he gained speed as he left town, past a small clinic packed with young mothers, past a small church the Baptists had built. The roads became dustier as he headed for the countryside at seven minutes a mile.
The running was serious business, and it pleased them mightily. Danilo would simply run into their arms.
The day after the first sighting, a small unclean cottage on the edge of Ponta PorÒ was rented by a Brazilian named Osmar, and before long the rest of the pursuit team poured in. It was an equal mix of Americans and Brazilians, with Osmar giving the orders in Portuguese and Guy barking in English. Osmar could handle both languages, and had become the official interpreter for the team.
Guy was from Washington, an ex-government type who'd been hired to find Danny Boy, as he'd been nicknamed. Guy was considered a genius at some levels and immensely talented at others, and his past was a black hole. He was well into his fifth one-year contract to find Danny Boy, and there was a nice bonus for snagging the prey. Though he hid it well, Guy had been slowly cracking under the pressure of not finding Danny Boy.
Four years and three and a half million dollars, with nothing to show for it.
But now they'd found him.
Osmar and his band of Brazilians had not the slightest hint of Danny Boy's sins, but a fool could see that he'd disappeared and taken a trainload of money. And, although he was very curious about Danny Boy, Osmar had learned quickly not to ask questions. Guy and the Americans had nothing to say on the subject.
The pictures of Danny Boy were enlarged to eight by tens, and tacked along a wall in the kitchen of the dirty little cottage where they were studied by grim men with hard eyes, men who chain-smoked strong cigarettes and shook their heads at the photos. They whispered among themselves and compared the new photos to the old ones, the ones from his previous life. Smaller man, odd chin, different nose. His hair was shorter and his skin darker. Was it really him?
They had been through this before, in Recife, on the northeastern coast, nineteen months earlier when they'd rented an apartment and looked at photos on the wall until the decision was made to grab the American and check his fingerprints. Wrong prints. Wrong American. They pumped some more drugs in him and left him in a ditch.
They were afraid to dig too deeply into the current life of Danilo Silva. If he was in fact their man, then he had plenty of money. And cash always worked wonders with the local authorities. For decades, cash had bought protection for Nazis and other Germans who'd smuggled themselves into Ponta PorÒ.
Osmar wanted to grab him. Guy said they'd wait. He vanished on the fourth day, and the dirty little cottage was in chaos for thirty-six hours.
They saw him leave home in the red Beetle. He was in a hurry, came the report. He raced across town to the airport, jumped on a small commuter at the last moment, and was gone. His car was parked in the only lot, and they watched it every second of every hour. The plane was headed in the general direction of Sao Paulo, with four stops in between.
There was instantly a plan to enter his home and catalog everything. There had to be records. The money had to be tended to. Guy dreamed of finding bank statements, wire transfer reports, account summaries; all sorts of documents arranged in a neat portfolio which would lead him directly to the money.
But he knew better. If Danny Boy ran because of them, then he would never leave behind the evidence. And if he was in fact their man, then his home would be carefully secured. Danny Boy, wherever he was, would probably know the instant they opened his door or window.
They waited. They cursed and argued and strained even more under the pressure. Guy made his daily call to Washington, a nasty one. They watched the red Beetle. Each arrival brought out the binoculars and cell phones. Six flights the first day. Five the second. The dirty little cottage grew hot and the men settled outdoorsthe Americans napping under a scrawny shade tree in the backyard and the Brazilians playing cards along the fence in the front.
Guy and Osmar took a long drive and vowed to grab him if he ever returned. Osmar was confident he would be back. Probably just out of town on business, whatever his business was. They'd snatch him, identify him, and if he happened to be the wrong man they'd simply throw him in a ditch and run. It had happened before.
He returned on the fifth day. They trailed him back to Rua Tiradentes, and everybody was happy.
On the eighth day, the dirty cottage emptied as all the Brazilians and all the Americans took their positions.
The course was a six-miler. He had covered it each day he'd been home, leaving at almost the same time, wearing the same blue and orange runner's shorts, well-worn Nikes, ankle socks, no shirt.
The perfect spot was two and a half miles from his house, over a small hill on a gravel road, not far from his turning-around point. Danilo topped the hill twenty minutes into his run, a few seconds ahead of schedule. He ran harder, for some reason. Probably the clouds.
A small car with a flat tire was just over the hill, blocking the road, trunk opened, its rear jacked up. Its driver was a burly young man who pretended to be startled at the sight of the skinny racer sweating and panting as he topped the hill. Danilo slowed for a second. There was more room to the right.
"Bom dia," the burly young man said as he took a step toward Danilo.
"Bom dia," Danilo said, approaching the car.
The driver suddenly pulled a large shiny pistol from the trunk and shoved it into Danilo's face. He froze, his eyes locked onto the gun, his mouth open with heavy breathing. The driver had thick hands and long, stout arms. He grabbed Danilo by the neck and yanked him roughly toward the car, then down to the bumper. He stuck the pistol in a pocket and with both hands folded Danilo into the trunk. Danny Boy struggled and kicked, but was no match.
The driver slammed the trunk shut, lowered the car, tossed the jack into the ditch, and drove off. A mile away, he turned on to a narrow dirt path where his pals were anxiously waiting.
They tied nylon ropes around Danny Boy's wrists and a black cloth over his eyes, then shoved him into the back of a van. Osmar sat to his right, another Brazilian to his left. Someone removed his keys from the Velcro runner's pouch stuck to his waist. Danilo said nothing as the van started and began moving. He was still sweating and breathing even harder.
When the van stopped on a dusty road near a farm field, Danilo uttered his first words. "What do you want?" he asked, in Portuguese.
"Don't speak," came the reply from Osmar, in English. The Brazilian to Danilo's left removed a syringe from a small metal box and deftly filled it with a potent liquid. Osmar pulled Danilo's wrists tightly toward him while the other man jabbed the needle into his upper arm. He stiffened and jerked, then realized it was hopeless. He actually relaxed as the last of the drug entered his body. His breathing slowed; his head began to wobble. When his chin hit his chest, Osmar gently, with his right index finger, raised the shorts on Danilo's right leg, and found exactly what he expected to find. Pale skin.
The running kept him thin, and it also kept him brown.
Kidnappings were all too common in the Frontier. Americans were easy targets. But why him? Danilo asked himself this as his head wobbled and his eyes closed. He smiled as he fell through space, dodging comets and meteors, grabbing at moons and grinning through entire galaxies.
They stuffed him under some cardboard boxes filled with melons and berries. The border guards nodded without leaving their chairs, and Danny Boy was now in Paraguay, though he couldn't have cared less at the moment. He bounced happily along on the floor of the van as the roads grew worse and the terrain steeper. Osmar chain-smoked and occasionally pointed this way and that. An hour after they grabbed him, they found the last turn. The cabin was in a crevice between two pointed hills, barely visible from the narrow dirt road. They carried him like a sack of meal and poured him onto a table in the den where Guy and the fingerprint man went to work.
Danny Boy snored heavily as prints were made of all eight fingers and both thumbs. The Americans and the Brazilians crowded around, watching every move. There was unopened whiskey in a box by the door, just in case this was the real Danny Boy.
The print man left abruptly and went to a room in the back where he locked the door and spread the fresh prints before him. He adjusted his lighting. He removed the master set, those freely given by Danny Boy when he was much younger, back when he was Patrick and seeking admission to the State Bar of Louisiana. Odd, this fingerprinting of lawyers.
Both sets were in fine shape, and it was immediately obvious they were a perfect match. But he meticulously checked all ten. There was no hurry. Let them wait out there. He rather enjoyed the moment. He finally opened the door and frowned hard at the dozen faces searching his. Then he smiled. "It's him," he said, in English, and they actually clapped.
Guy approved the whiskey, but only in moderation. There was more work to do. Danny Boy, still comatose, was given another shot and carried to a small bedroom with no window and a heavy door which locked from the outside. It was here that he would be interrogated, and tortured, if necessary.
The barefoot boys playing soccer in the street were too involved in their game to look up. Danny Boy's key ring had only four keys on it, and so the small front gate was unlocked quickly, and left open. An accomplice in a rented car came to a stop near a large tree four houses down. Another, on a motorbike, parked himself at the other end of the street and began tinkering with his brakes.
If a security system started howling upon entry, the intruder would simply run and never be seen again. If not, then he would lock himself in and take inventory.
The door opened without sirens. The security panel on the wall informed whoever might be looking that the system was disarmed. He breathed lightly and stood perfectly still for a full minute, then began to move around. He removed the hard drive from Danny Boy's PC, and collected all the disks. He rummaged through files on his desk, but found nothing but routine bills, some paid, others waiting. The fax was cheap and featureless, and declared itself to be out of order. He took photos of clothing, food, furniture, bookshelves, magazine racks.
Five minutes after the door opened, a silent signal was activated in Danilo's attic and a phone call was placed to a private security firm eleven blocks away, in downtown Ponta PorÒ. The call went unanswered because the security consultant on duty was swaying gently in a hammock out back. A recorded message from Danilo's house informed whoever was supposed to be listening that there was a break-in. Fifteen minutes passed before human ears heard the message. By the time the consultant raced to Danilo's house, the intruder was gone. So was Mr. Silva. Everything appeared to be in order, including the Beetle under the carport. The house and gate were locked.
The directions in the file were specific. On such alarms, do not call the police. Try first to locate Mr. Silva, and in the event he cannot be found at once, then call a number in Rio. Ask for Eva Miranda.
With barely suppressed excitement, Guy made his daily call to Washington. He actually closed his eyes and smiled when he uttered the words, "It's him." His voice was an octave higher.
There was a pause on the other end. Then, "You're certain?"
"Yes. Prints are a perfect match."
Another pause while Stephano arranged his thoughts, a process that usually took milliseconds. "The money?"
"We haven't started yet. He's still drugged."
"I'm by the phone." Stephano hung up, though he could've talked for hours.
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I must make an admission...I have been a big fan of John Grisham for a long time. I know that this book was written over a decade ago. I'm still playing catchup with my reading. I have four entire shelves of books to be read and I keep adding to the stack faster than I can read them. Such is the burden of a lover of books. Anyway, as with most of John Grisham's other books, this one revolves around a lawyer and the wranglings of the legal system. I have read all of his novels prior to this one (the others are in the "to be read" column). At 366 pages, it is a pretty quick read. As with all of my reviews of fiction, I won't ruin the ending. The story is of a former lawyer - Patrick Lanigan - turned thief...a thief to the tune of $90 million. Stolen from his law firm after faking his own death. the story picks up from the time he is apprehended, 4 years after he fled, first by those who want the money back and then by the FBI. The story twists around through a web of agendas including his reasons for leaving his wife and child. It is a page-turner that keeps a rapid pace with a great deal of action, especially early on. However, compared with the rest of Grisham's legal thrillers, this one is somewhat weak in two areas. The story is pretty far fetched. A great deal of bungling by an awful lot of people is required for this story to work. In addition, it is pretty predictable, especially from the mid-point of the book forward. While I would not go so far as to say that the book was a disappointment, it was not one of Grisham's better efforts. In spite of it's problems, though, it is still a pretty good story.
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The Partner is a great mystery about the search for the truth. I loved this book, as I do all John Grisham novels. The Partner is about a new partner, Patrick Lanigan, to a little firm in Biloxi, Mississippi who finds out about an illegal deal in which the other partners are involved. Patrick learns that the other partners plan to fire him right before conducting the deal which is worth ninety million dollars. Patrick decides he will not let this happen, instead he will disappear. Patrick bugs the entire firm and all the partners¿ offices in order to learn everything about the deal before he makes his move. He decides to also take out a two million dollar life insurance policy for his unfaithful wife and infant daughter (who really isn¿t his). Just before the deal is expected to take place and Patrick is going to be let go, he dies in a fiery car crash leaving behind hardly any bodily remains. The case is pretty straight forward and within a couple of days his charred bones are cremated. The morning the deal takes place, right as the money arrives from the client at a bank in the Bahamas, it vanishes. The money disappears. It was transferred from the bank by an imposter without a trace. The client and the firm hire private investigators and after years and years of chasing, they get an anonymous tip that Patrick Lanigan is living in Brazil. From this point on, the novel is a mystery as we find out how Patrick did it and how his life will turn out after his capture (it¿s not what you¿d expect).
I am an avid reader and carefully select my reads. This book had a great story line, and I had a hard time putting it down.there was no way to figure out how the character would make out until it was actually told. I'm only disappointed in the ending, because once it started to unravel, it ended quite quickly. I'd read it again.
I really liked the Partner. It was fast moving and always exciting. I have read many of John Grisham's books and would rate this very high on the list. If you are looking for a fast moving book that will keep the pages turning and the suspense coming take a look at this one.
My favorite part about this book is that it really keeps you interested. I could not wait to see what had happened to Danilo and his past, and how it all would work out for him.
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I just finished reading The Partner for the 3rd time in several years. Ths is without a doubt my favorite book ever written. There has never beem a character before or after that I have held such admiration for than Partick Lanigan. On top of that just when you think you know how its going to end anotger surprise is around the corner. I highly encourage anyone to read this book Grisham fan or otherwise.
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Talk about multitasking: Peter Berg spent much of the end of last year running back and forth, directing two projects at once. "Battleship" and "On Freddie Roach" are about as different as two films can be.
"On Freddie Roach," which airs for six Friday nights through Feb. 24 on HBO, is a documentary series about the boxing trainer who trains sensational world champ Manny Pacquiao. It delivers more quiet pathos than pumped-up celebration. Mr. Roach lives with the body-quivering shakes of Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Berg's other film is Universal Pictures' $200 million "Battleship," which—there's no polite way to say this—is based on a plastic board game. (It started as a paper-and-pencil game in the 1930s and was first released in 1967 by Milton Bradley, now part of Hasbro.) The movie goes a bit further than tiles, grids and sea battles, adding enemies from outer space, Liam Neeson and hunky actor Taylor Kitsch. It's slated for a May 18 release.
"We were able to set up the 'Freddie Roach' editing suites in the same building as 'Battleship,' " says Mr. Berg, 49. "So when I couldn't take staring at giant CG alien warships anymore, I could go down and look at a 40-minute shot of Freddie visiting his brother in the hospital and breaking down in tears. I think that kept me sane."
What do the films have in common? "Competition," Mr. Berg says. "I try to look for the emotion in violence."
Mr. Berg has always had a hard-to-label career. He's made intense dramas—he developed and executive-produced the television series "Friday Night Lights," based on the movie, which he directed—as well as dark comedies, thrillers and action movies ("Very Bad Things," "The Rundown," "The Kingdom"). "Hancock," with Will Smith as a superhero, was a box-office hit. He's also an actor, with roles on TV ("Chicago Hope") and in movies ("The Last Seduction").
Mr. Berg is no boxing neophyte. Counselors at his childhood summer camp in Cape Cod, he recalls, "took us into the woods, made us fight, and bet on who would win." He met Mr. Roach while training at Mickey Rourke's Outlaw Boxing Club in Los Angeles. In 1996, he portrayed "Irish" Terry Conklin in "The Great White Hype," a comedy about the crooked fight game.
"On Freddie Roach" calculates the price of glory more coldly. After a screening, Mr. Roach said he was surprised to see how much his hands shook from his Parkinson's, a condition likely caused by punishment he sustained as a fighter. (Muhammad Ali suffers from it.) He may be the top boxing trainer in the world now. He makes millions, and in June he'll enter boxing's Hall of Fame. But in Mr. Berg's un-narrated verité-style film, we simply see a character with a complicated life. Evidence of Mr. Roach's achievements (adoring crowds, Mercedes in the driveway) mixes with the mundane (obsessively cleaning his sink).
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When "Battleship" arose, Mr. Berg was planning a different Navy film, called "Lone Survivor," about a deadly real-life SEALs mission. Universal, which in a deal with Hasbro also is making movies based on Candy Land and Stretch Armstrong, asked for "Battleship" first. The big stars are the ferocious, Aegis-class destroyers to which the Navy allowed exclusive access, says Mr. Berg, a lifelong Naval history buff.
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The time has come to revise the framework that dictates the acquisition process for federal IT, according to two lawmakers in what might be a rare moment of bipartisan agreement.
Kicking off the Dec. 3 Nextgov Prime event in Washington, D.C., Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) said the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 should be revamped to better serve the federal government's technology acquisition needs. The law created the CIO role and has spurred many discussions over the years about whether it is necessary for CIOs to have budget control.
In September, Issa released a draft of a bill intended for the next Congress, called the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. It would grant more power to agency CIOs to control the technology government acquires while also promoting strategic sourcing.
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But some industry groups say certain parts of Issa's bill should be modified to gain the support from the private sector. In a Nov. 30 letter to Issa, TechAmerica, BSA | The Software Alliance, the Coalition for Government Procurement and the Information Technology Industry Council wrote that the current version of FITARA could cause confusion for federal procurement officials. Instead of streamlining the acquisition process, these new provisions could instead stall it, the groups said.
The letter also states the group supports the goal of government becoming more sophisticated as a customer of IT, but calls for investments in the acquisition workforce and the consolidation of governmentwide and multiagency purchasing agreements that the groups believe to be unnecessary.
"We truly appreciate the effort of Chairman Issa and his staff and look forward to continuing to discuss our serious concerns," Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for global public sector at TechAmerica, said in a Nov. 30 statement. "Ensuring that the federal acquisition system is working as it should be, the government has access to the latest innovation and that taxpayers are getting the best value for their money is the top priority for all of us."
Meanwhile, Issa said he and Connolly are both in a position to see the long-term effects of Clinger-Cohen and how it could be improved.
"This is not a partisan issue," he said. "Clinger-Cohen, which was passed before either of us was in Congress, needs an overhaul for one most important reason, and that is: If you authorize CIOs, then by definition the term should mean something. When you have hundreds of them for 24 agencies, you really don't have chiefs."
Issa's bill intends to redefine the term "chief" to mean "the chief," Issa stressed. "There are plenty of ... people controlling at the lower levels, but there has to be one responsible individual that holds their staff [accountable] at all levels regardless of their titles or pay grade. We don't have that in the federal government."
"If something goes wrong, you can have in one agency 20 people who bear the name 'chief,' but none has budget authority," he added.
In praising Issa's draft proposal, Connolly acknowledged the long road ahead, in particular in the areas of the acquisition workforce.
"I think we have a lot of work to do; I'm hopeful and I think Chairman Issa's draft bill gives us a framework that we're still working on and I'm thanking you for including a number of us in that effort," he said. "But we have a long way to go in making the federal government a lot more efficient and its management of IT resources, and the criticality of that when we look at the fiscal situation." In a separate interview, Connolly told FCW that he intends to be a chief co-sponsor when Issa introduces the measure next year.
Every year, $80 billion is funneled into government technology, $20 billion of which is spent on wasteful projects, Issa said. Those projects have a ripple effect and add hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. "I would throw that $20 billion into the mix if it meant the rest of the government was efficient and effective and had the kinds of information and accountability that, let's say, Walmart insists on for its equipment," Issa said. "If you're a Walmart today ... you have complete transparency and your vendors have complete transparency as to where the information is, where the incoming goods are."
Issa's bill also aims to fix the contentious issue of budget authority for CIOs. Some have argued that it would allow CIOs to get things done faster and more efficiently; others say plenty can be done without it. Issa said what is needed is one person who has the power to stop a program and tell Congress, "This is my $2 billion, and I'm telling you, we need to move it here and there."
That person does not have to be the most technologically savvy individual, Issa added, or even the best manager, but rather someone who recognizes when a program is struggling or when it has an opportunity to succeed.
"Chairman Issa and I share a lot in common on this subject, and I very much look forward to working with him on trying to find a statutory framework to move forward," Connolly said, adding that the government faces a host of challenges with respect to technology, including addressing such issues as how well the existing resources are being used.
"Whatever happens with the fiscal cliff [or] a contracted federal presence over the next 10 years to get the debt down ... then technology becomes more important than ever," he added. "Can I deploy technology in such a way that I more than make up for the aggregate resources we are using? That is the essential task for every federal agency."
In many ways, the federal government is lagging behind the private sector, Connolly said. "We're less nimble, and it takes us a lot more time to make decisions when we see something isn't working," he said. "And it takes us a lot more time than the private sector to pull back and acknowledge a mistake and move on and not stick with it and waste even more money."
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From my own gov't experience for 20+ years, that real problem lies deeply in GROSSLY over compensated UNqualified so-called "management" who in too many cases are nothing more than USELESS nepotism hires. We have them all over the place in our "organization". We also get all kinds of "ethics reminders" too, yet we have an attorney who is sleeping with an employee in her own department! The "peter principle" is also very much alive and well too. These people conveniently, at will, hire their relatives and friends too....several here WITHOUT any kind of official job posting!!! It should be easy for any one with a shread of common sense to see that the abuse/corruption is absolutely rampant and is seriously demoralizing to employees who are truly here to serve taxpayers. It is a daily struggle for far too MANY of us. Unfortunately no one really wants to hear about it and if you do dare to bring it up, the typical management mentality is to "shoot the messenger" and openly retaliate against those who raise legitimate concerns about blatant waste, fraud and abuse. My organization alone has wasted MILLIONS upon MILLIONS every fiscal year on the FAILED IT "projects" of some ignoramus "ideas" of UNqualifies IT pretenders in our organization alone... There is NEVER any "Project/Business Plan" either it is always off the top this guys's head on a second by second basis. He doesn't document anything and when the guy does write something, it sounds like a vendictive illiterate grade schooler, not at all like a true professional. ALL the "managers" above this guy that allow this nonsense to go on and actually defend this incompetent>>SHOULD be FIRED too! Until "management" at ALL levels in government are truly held FULLY accountable, NOTHING will ever change. Quite frankly, I don't ever see that happening in regard to any "new" updates to existing or new laws....it simply more "useless words on paper" just like the "No Fear Act which also has no teeth...Needless to say these incompetent so-called "managers" at all levels need to be PERMANENTLLY REMOVED from government service. The people responsible for all these nepotism hires also need to be permanently removed from government service as well. We are SUPPOSED to be civil servants to the American taxpayers, because it is THEY who fund our salaries! Technically THEY are the bosses!!! Yes indeed welcome to our gov't workplace world, what is commonly known here as "Stupidville"...sadly your tax dollars at "work"...NOT!
I'll tell you needs revisiting - Federal shared services centers and their stable of large contractors. Talk about restricting competition and squeezing out small business!!!
It is time to refrom CCA, but the focus needs to be on 21st century management using IT. the government needs business transformation more than fewer chief geeks. this bill needs to do more about making the real chiefs (the Prez and Secretaries) responsible and accountable for making government operations modern...not just consolidating purchase of the latest technology fads.
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I doubled the amount of growth flasks, and ignored the two feeding flasks as per Emma. We started with 2 flasks of TISO at 600ml, and 2 flasks of PLY at 300ml, I proceeded to split the flasks in half, resulting in (2) flasks of TISO at 300ml/150ml and (2) flasks of PLY at 300ml/150ml. I then proceeded to add equal parts of fresh f/2 media back up to their original levels of 600/300 mls respectively.
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(2) Flasks of TISO at 600 ml
(2) Flasks of TISO at 300 ml
(2) Flasks of PLY at 600 ml
(2) Flasks of PLY at 300 ml
Preparing (4) new batches of sterilized seawater to make another 40liters of f/2 media for future use.
10:30am - 1:00pm (2.5)
Began preparations for the Algae Feeding Study. Claved the necessary flasks and bottles of seawater to get us moving towards the volume of flasks needed for the study.
- Placed Backup flasks into larger flasks and added 250ml of f/2 media.
- Placed Growth Chambers into larger flasks and added 200 ml of f/2 media.
- Later poured 300ml of both PLY and TISO into a smaller flask to provide more surface area for our growth chambers.
- Began cleaning Red Rocket to give backups something to rest on rather than static non-movement.
- Sizzle
- Sizzle
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Routine cleanup, sinks, claves, ovens
- Identified sediment from autoclave, showed Sam for processing.
- Finish scaling algae.
- Placing on hold, going to alloy PLY to cultivate further.
- Assisted Sam in ID'ing tissue samples from -80 freezer.
- Bleached tabletops and pipettes
10:30am - 3:00pm
- Shadow with Molly
- Go through algae culture, regular routines
- Culture scaling
- Scaled TISO (Orange)
- Did NIOT scale PLY (green)
- Prepped seawater and flasks to scale PLY tomorrow, Tues 21st 2010.
- Did NIOT scale PLY (green)
- Scaled TISO (Orange)
- Routine cllean-up
- Checkup on adult oysters in basement
- Appeared alive and healthy
- Fed 10 ml of oyster-food.
- Emptied and refilled seawater.
- Organized recon invoices for Sam.
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Worked with Emma at NOAA.
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Proof-read Steven's ref/cite.
- Discuss findings with Steven.
- Begin cleaning gathered oyster shells.
- Routine cleanup-- ovens, claves, sinks
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Routine cleanup-- ovens, claves, sinks
- Helped load up seawater-tank into truck for Emma
- Tank being filled and transported to NOAA facility.
- Consult with Steven about tank project, as per Emma
- Instructed to wait on plans on containers from NOAA
- Continue research on metals in the puget sound and their affects on shellfish
- Added Emma and SR320 to Delicious-Network.
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Continue cleaning and rinsing oyster tank and accessories.
- Routine oven/sinks/clave cleanup.
- Continue processing storage space in labs, clean benches, general cleanup.
- Continue with Room 209/213.
- Feed oysters in basement tank room.
- Trip to NOAH facility to drop off collected oyster samples.
- Begin research on metals in the puget sound and their affects on shellfish
10:30am - 12:30pm
- Continue cleaning and rinsing oyster tank and accessories.
- Routine oven/sinks/clave cleanup.
- Continue processing storage space in labs.
- Continue with Room 213.
- Sizzle
- Continue with Room 213.
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Empties and bleached oyster tanks and accessories.
- Routine oven/sinks/clave cleanup.
- Begin processing storage space in labs.
- Started with Room 213.
- Cleaned Drawers, Started labeling as necessary
- Cleaned off table tops and large sink.
- Started with Room 213.
10:30am - 3:30pm
- Algae culture scaling.
- Clean up tank room
- Organize shelves
- Toss un-necessary junk
- Organize supplies into containers.
- Routine lab cleanup: ovens, sinks, claves
10:30am - 4:00pm
- Routine cleanup, ovens, sinks, claves.
- Prep seawater for algae culture scaling.
- Piece together the 10-bottle setup, as per Emma.
- Static Tank v1.0 is built, running air through everything to see if any of the lines give.
- Soaking in seawater, will empty and refill before day is up.
- Applied oyster larvae to static tank.
9:00am - 1:00pm
- Prepare new tank setups for the rest of the day.
- Equipment is rinsed and ready for construction.
10:30am - 3:00pm
- Prepare f/2 media for culture
- Observed black flakey particles in the seawater containers
- Later confirmed from Dave that the seawater tank was in fact, contaminated with identical substance.
- Dave stated that he would empty/refill seawater tanks in basement "after lunch"
- Stored sample of black substance under a slide for further examination.
- Filtered 1000 ml of f/2 media to remove black substance
- Did not use filtered media for culture. Stored for further examination.
- Used remaining 400 ml of f/2 media from last culture to give culture more temporary food.
- Poured 50 ml into each of the 4 culture samples.
- Poured 100 ml into each of the 2 backup culture samples.
- Later confirmed from Dave that the seawater tank was in fact, contaminated with identical substance.
- Preparing supplies for culture scaling tomorrow, 8/24/2010, after Dave refills seawater tanks in basement.
- Observed black flakey particles in the seawater containers
- Usual cleanup routines: ovens, claves, sinks
- Walk-thru with Emma and Steven in the basement
- Begin reconstruction of tanks. 8/24/10
- Walk-thru with Steven in labs
- Begin clean-up overhaul of cupboards, drawers, tables, sinks.
- Finished Identifying algae samples, and placed into the freezer.
10:30am - 12:00pm
- Conduct Routine cleanup, ovens, sinks, claves, washer
- Check Algae, write up adjusted process for culture.
- 300 ml f/2 media
- 100 ml algae sample
- Replace backup samples
- Add more media to new leftover culture to produce more food for backup
1:30am - 3:30pm
- Clave/Oven/Dish Clean-up
- Algae cultures renewed
10:30am - 12:00pm
- Clave/Oven/Dish Clean-up
- Sanitizing seawater for F/2 media
- Cataloging Algae ID Pictures, preparing for samples for ID
1:00pm - 1:00pm
- Emergency came up, had to leave.
- Will be available via cell phone and email if something important comes up.
11:00am - 1:00pm
- Clave/Oven/Dish Clean-up
- Assisted Sam in clearing out fridge, made room for more algae
- Preparing more sanitized seawater for F/2 media.
- Preparing for next Monday's algae
9:00am - 11:30am
- Empty/Fill autoclave/oven
- Unloaded algae bags into fridge
- identified more Algae samples
11:00am - 12:00pm
Picked up new specs from Brent
Went over protocol in basement regarding access, etc
12:00pm - 3:00pm
- Glassware upkeep
- Dishwasher, Autoclave, Sink, Oven
- Accidentally broke small flask
- Placed broken flask in "broken glass box"
- Accidentally broke small flask
- Dishwasher, Autoclave, Sink, Oven
- Gathered intel for tank-build designs.
1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Forgot algae identification books at home
- Must wait until tomorrow in order to finish ID's
- Clean-up all glassware and autoclave items left over from last week.
- All dishes picked up, unloaded/loaded dishwasher
- Oven emptied and put away
- Dishwasher loads packaged and placed into autoclaves.
- Transport supplies to basement
- Bleach, etc, that Emma ordered.
- Main Alage
- Build new flasks
- Set aside backups
- Get rid of old un-needed backups.
- Sizzle
10:00am - 4:00pm
1) Researching documents on algae in order to properly identify given samples.
- Check out books from library.
- Created Google-Spreadsheet
- Began identifying algae
11:00am - 12:00pm
1) Gathering materials needed to identify algae samples for Emma.
2) Emptied the oven, autoclaves, and dishwashers.
2:00pm - 4:00pm
1) Thought there was a meeting scheduled at 2:30pm as per the SR calendar so I wandered around looking for anyone; found nobody, gave up on the meeting and later ran into Sam who informed me that the scheduled meeting block on the calendar was an erroneous revolving entry made a while ago that is no longer in affect.
2) Discussed the logistics with Brent, regarding building the new tank according to the specs as per Emma. Going to compromise with a build similar to the original but utilizing the new data received from the plans. Began preparing a list of materials needed in order to build to nerw tank setups.
3) Spent some time loading and unloading the dishwasher and autoclave, labeling some new glassware with the initials "SR".
4) Went back to work on finishing my A-Term Final for the rest of the day.
12:00pm - 12:30pm
1) Minor pickup, removed items from autoclave, placed more in. Relatively uneventful day. Spent a few hours in the break room studying for midterms and working on completely A-Term final.
1:30pm - 4:00pm
Items Completed:
1) Made (2) 1L bottles of f/2 media.
2) Autoclaved various flasks
3) Cleaned up glassware in lab sink. (incomplete)
4) Filled out paperwork with Karen regarding pay
5) Picked up new tank-build specs from Brent
... A) Was informed to speak with Dave before starting tank construction
2:00pm - 5:30pm
1) Checked on fish tanks, they seem to be doing well, no major leaks.
... A) Filled hot-side can with more salt-water.
2) Walked through algae culture process with Steven.
... A) Made 3 "greens" and 3 "yellows"
3) Cleaned (2) new 1L bottles of seawater to be used as f/2 media.
... A) Placed into autoclave.
4) Filling up the remaining 2ml screw-cap vials for Emma.
1:30pm - 5:30pm
Worked on finishing up basement tank for oyster larvee. Went over a few things with Emma and Elene, and began preparations for when Emma leaves for Term-B.
Scheduled short meeting with Emma to discuss protocol on Thursday morning.
11:15am - 4:00pm
1) Check on salt water left in autoclave yesterday. (complete)
... A) 1L bottle of salt water found on Emma's bench. (complete)
2) Review Emma's to-do list.
... A) Table (complete, used existing)
... B) Build 2nd System (incomplete)
....... a) Positioned table
....... b) Built bottle base
....... c)
... C) Move Oyster/Ocean acid to other building.
... D) Sterilize new glassware. (complete)
....... a) Place into autoclave(s) (complete)
... E) Prepare f/2 media with sterile seawater
... F) Sampling with Emma @ 3pm.
3) Finish filling 2ml screw-cap vials with RNA Later.
Emma's to-do list.
1. find a table
2. get the second system ready to go. i've already made the bottles for the larval chambers so all it needs is proper drainage and something to affix the bottles to. i will put all the materials you need on the metal bench in the lab. sam is bringing in a glue gun so you will need to get that from him. the white plastic is styrene and the green is pvc foam. there should be plenty of ethanol in the flammables cabinet below the hood in the lab where my bench is not.
3. move all oyster/ocean acid. stuff to the other building (steven will tell you more about this).
4. sterilize the new glassware. sam washed it today but it needs to be autoclaved.
5. go ahead and make more f/2 media with the sterile seawater (the bottle is on my bench). there's still a partial bottle in the hood you can use up. you can also scale up the algae that is already cultured. there are more algae cultures going in the friedman lab that i will show you tomorrow afternoon.
6. if you're still around 3-ish i should be back in. i'll be doing final sampling of the experiment going now and then rinsing and bleaching everything. so you can help me with that if you want!
9:00am - 9:30am
To-do items:
1) Re-sanitize bottle of salt-water - (placed into autoclave)
2) Check on RNA solution (complete.)
3) Check on basement tank (complete)
4) Visit biochem storage. (complete)
... A) Picked up (2) 100ml bottles of RNA Later (complete)
1:30pm - 4:00pm.
1) Setup "Shop" (complete)
2) Review Emma's "To Do" List. (complete)
...A) Empty flasks from autoclave and replace in lab. (complete)
...B) Place salt bottle in autoclave. (complete)
......a) Error Message 1: Not enough Water, retry in the morning.
...C) Prepare (120) 2ml screw-cap vials (incomplete)
......a) Partially complete, (88/120)
3) Review basement tanks for Friday-Project. (complete)
9:00am - 10:00am
Trying to track down Emma to see what she's working on so that I can observe and assist accordingly.
Emma's List of things to learn:
1) Drainage for larvae tanks
2) Secondary tank maintenance
3) Saw-horse build
4) Algae culture (See [*1])
. a. make media
. b. sterilize glassware
. c. basic scaling up existing cultures
5) 120 2-mil screw-cap vials
. a) fill with RNA later.
. b)
Remind Emma to send me Algae culture document
[*1] Algal starter cultures
Sterilized 2 L of seawater in glass bottles (just sterilization cycle in autoclave).
Sterilized varied flasks & graduated cylinders for growing algae on full sterilization through exhaust cycle.
To make 1 L of pro-culture for algal starter cultures:
Procul A & B = Kent Marine Pro-cultures A and B
10 mL Procul A + 10 mL Procul B for 20 gallons of water
1 L = 0.264 gallons
0.264 gallons * (10 mL/20 gallons) = .132 mL = 132 uL of Procul A & B for 1 L seawater
Adding silicates:
1 gallon Procul A + 1 gallon Procul B makes 7,680 gallons culture water
Add silicates at 20 g per 1,000 gallons of culture water
0.132 mL of Procul A + Procul B makes 38.425 gallons of culture water
Need to add 0.7685 g of silicates
Sterilized all equipment needed to make culture media in germicidal hood for 15 minutes. Made 1 L of regular culture media (Procul A & B) and 1 L of regular media + silicates. Media are made in sterile bottles, labeled, and at 4C (behind my bench).**


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How does being a POW make you qualified to be President? Are we expecting the next President to be taken as a POW? Maybe held hostage? Or did McCain receive National Security briefings while in the "Hanoi Hilton"? Did Nixon call him up from the White House situation room for advise on foriegn policy issues while he was tied up?
Someone seriously, help me understand this?
Maybe it's a two-way street...you can't criticize anything about Obama or his policies because that makes you a racist. Ergo you can't criticize McCain because of his time as a POW.
I thought Repugs were all about not being so sensitive, anti-PC, etc. etc.?
Man, for a former POW McCain sure is a big pussy.
Also, nobody's allowed to ask a question where his POW status is extremely relevant: If you claim, Sen McCain, that under torture you gave the North Vietnamese no useful information, how can it be that you support the Bush administration's use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" for extracting information? Conversely, if you are standing by your assertion that waterboarding et al are essential tools for intelligence-gathering, that would seem to be an endorsement of torture's efficacy. Is this a tacit admission that you have been less than forthcoming about the information you did give your captors in the Hanoi Hilton?
Nope, you sure can't ask that.
McCain lies about EVERYTHING. He's even lying about his time as a POW now. That "cross in the dust" story he tells? Bullshit. He stole it from Solzhenitsyn. He never told it when he first got back from Vietnam, not even in his book on the subject.
And he's allowing his proxies to spread the notion that he "never broke" in Vietnam, when in fact he confessed to war crimes under torture.
McCain is a lying sack of shit, I'm sorry.
I'm sick of the "Staight Talk Express" moniker. He has lied and switched positions so many times it should be called "The B.S. Express".
Too bad she didn't say: "The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, who admittedly cheated on his first wife, cheated is outrageous," Ms. Wallace said.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Americans are DUMB! So I appreciate every attempt to point out hypocricy, etc; but it doesn't do any good.
In America, Republican = good morals (regardless of when or why he left his first wife); Democtat = Pinko commie (or worse! maybe even a moslem!).
Good luck convincing Joe Dumbfuck from mid Missour-uh otherwise. I'll give you a hint: facts or actual logic are useless to Joe D.
The careful way the question is answered, that he did not hear the broadcast, implies to me that an aide actually listened and briefed him on how to answer all the questions. Otherwise, why not say that McCain had no fore knowledge of the questions, which is really the issue, not whether or not he literally heard the broadcast.
I've met Bob Dole. Bob Dole was a better war hero, younger, and more experienced than serial-cheater John McCain.
Well, not more experienced at cheating.
And he didn't win ... either.
Well, that's exactly what happened to the President in "Escape From New York", so you know, in many people's minds it totally COULD happen.
Don't apologize. He IS a lying sack of shit.
@13, made my day. Will the President need to speak in tounges as well?
I'll stop saying bad things about him as long as he agrees to get out of politics.
Where are some other POWs who can counter these arguments and criticize McCain?
Hey, if Reagan's being an actor made him incapable of lying, McCain's POW status probably means he could be the second coming.
If he didn't lie and cheat while he was a POW, then he's an idiot. Doing time doesn't make you honest.
Too bad the prisoners in "The War on Drugs" don't even get to vote.
Yeah, how dare they accuse McCain of something they have no evidence of, save marital transgressions that are 30 years old.
The flipside: "The insinuation from the McCain campaign that Barack Obama, who admittedly smoked crack, smokes crack is outrageous."
Not to belittle his experiences or to make light of being a POW and torture, but it may just be worth it for all future presidential candidates to undergo such treatments if they can. The free pass it gives you on all issues of honesty and integrity just can't be beat!
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Dialysis removes urea and other waste products from the blood. To find out how well dialysis is working, you will have blood tests that look at the level of urea in your blood. Usually these tests are done once a month, at the beginning of your session and again at the end. Two measures show how well dialysis is working: urea reduction ratio (URR) and Kt/V.
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One way to measure how well hemodialysis is removing urea from the body is to measure blood urea nitrogen (BUN) level. The BUN is measured before and after your treatment session. Then the two numbers are compared to see how much the urea level in the blood has decreased. This difference is called the urea reduction ratio (URR), and it is usually expressed as a percentage. An adequate dose of hemodialysis should result in an average URR of 65%.
Another way to measure the effectiveness of hemodialysis is to compare the amount of fluid that is cleared of urea during each dialysis session with the amount of fluid that exists in the body. This is called the Kt/V.
- Kt represents the amount of fluid that is cleared of urea during each dialysis session. It is measured in milliliters per minute (mL/min).
- V represents the volume of water a person's body contains.
The Kt/V is the most accurate measure of hemodialysis, because it also measures the amount of urea removed with excess fluid and takes into consideration other factors, such as weight loss during dialysis. An adequate dose of hemodialysis should result in an average Kt/V of 1.2.
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The world of ecommerce has always been a dynamic place and it has been reported to be on a steady growth rate year after year. While there are several basic rules that you can hang on to, everybody expects it to change in most cases due to the speed by which the Internet changes. Now, with the last quarter of 2012 upon us, it is important to review the current ecommerce trends that are in effect today.
While this will probably change, if you want to be successful until the end of the year, it would be good to pay attention to these ecommerce trends of 2012. May the items listed below help you shape your marketing for better success in the coming holidays until the end of the year.
1. Significance of Third Party ecommerce firms – For small businesses, third party ecommerce firms and platforms (smartphones, tablets) are becoming more common. From postings on Ebay and Amazon, to shops like Shopify and other web catalogs, most small businesses are using those online services instead of creating their home grown (and sometimes expensive) online sale and payment mechanism.
Not only are these services cheaper than producing your own ecommerce system, learning them is typically faster and easier for most small businesses. Beyond this, people usually use a combination of different sales portals and ecommerce platforms to extend their reach and profit potential. So it might be wise for you to also look out and create accounts for other ecommerce firms. It might give you some extra boost in exposure and sales.
2. Rise of Mobile Devices – Since the iPad and the ever increasing popularity of "Smart Phones" that can connect over to the Internet, the statistics of where people access the Internet have changed. Mobile devices are now gaining ground when it comes to the primary tool that people access the Internet.
For ecommerce, this means that a lot of sales opportunities are now shifting to a more smaller and mobile view of your ecommerce site. If you do not have mobile optimized versions of your website, you will be taken over by others who have more effective setups for mobile viewing. That is why this trend is very significant, as people nowadays also need to pay attention to the "mobile" audience.
3. Social Media marketing – Another major trend that is hanging around for ecommerce is the role of social media marketing. Continually, since the popularity of Facebook and other social networks, we have seen many small online companies get big, just because their campaigns are more social and are perfectly creative. No business big or small can deny the huge impact of a social following and viral content plugged into that social network. It gets you real traffic, real customers and real results. For the time being, it would be important for any business to have a social presence.
4. Targeted Marketing – It is also a fact that many ecommerce sites nowadays are doing a more targeted approach to marketing. This is related to social media marketing in some ways, but also other online advertising networks offer more targeted advertising, depending on the demographics of the audience. What this basically means is that businesses are having their online advertisements only delivered to their specific key target demographics that they know will respond to them. This makes advertisements more efficient and of course makes it easier for marketers to make them more Effective. With customized display options for Facebook and Google Adwords for example, most businesses get the market they want as they visit or search for something on the Internet. That is why it is worth investing in targeted marketing.
5. Small business success online – A good trend and positive news for most people is the fact that small businesses are continuing to succeed online. Even small mom and pop stores set for a local market may in fact get a great following with just the right website and local listings. This should bring fresh hope for any entrepreneur still beginning his or her business. The online ecommerce playing field while vast and sometimes complicated, will still give everyone equal footing in terms of reach. All it takes is the right imagination and the right tools and talents to get ahead in ecommerce. So do not lose hope if you are as small startup.
6. Consumer reviews vital – What we have been seeing more and more is that people search for reviews over the Internet before buying. This goes deeper than just the simple testimonials that they read. Other people search for actual blogs that review the products, some even look at Youtube videos and other related media. The more positive reviews they see, the more likely that the product will be bought of course. Hence, reviews from sites like epinions or Yelp does count a lot for a business. That is why it is good to encourage people to write their own positive reviews of your product, and even get some extra affiliates to talk about you. The social proof that comes with these reviews will be a big determining factor from now on in ecommerce.
7. SEO-SEM – Finally, a big mainstay of trends in ecommerce marketing is Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. These two still needs to be practiced by EVERY business website out there. Some of the rules may have changed due to the PANDA and PENGUIN updates, but we must still always optimize our sites so that they get the best rankings from Google, as well as by other search engines. This is a daily task, and each optimization, from Internal Links, Keywords to outside links via link building will all count for success in ecommerce today.
Those are the trends that you should always keep in mind on as you go about your online business. Ecommerce is a fluid and dynamic thing, but for the next month or so, all these trends are still sure to apply. Good luck!


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