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La FTC acusa a intermediarios de datos de ayudar a un estafador a extraer más de $7 millones de dólares de las cuentas de los consumidores
La Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC, por su sigla en inglés) ha acusado a una operación de intermediación de datos por la presunta venta ilegal de información financiera de solicitantes de préstamos de día de pago a una operación fraudulenta que se apropió de millones de dólares de los...
FTC Charges Data Brokers with Helping Scammer Take More Than $7 Million from Consumers' Accounts
The Federal Trade Commission has charged a data broker operation with illegally selling payday loan applicants' financial information to a scam operation that took millions of dollars from consumers by debiting their bank accounts and charging their credit cards without their consent.
App Developer Settles FTC and New Jersey Charges It Hijacked Consumers' Phones to Mine Cryptocurrency
Defendants' app installed malware that left phones with drained batteries, depleted data plans
A petición de la FTC, la Corte suspende temporalmente a los comerciantes de productos para el cuidado de la piel por Internet que engañan a los consumidores con falsas ofertas de "Prueba gratuita sin riesgos" y cargos recurrentes
La Comisión Federal de Comercio ha prohibido a un grupo de comerciantes de California utilizar las falsas ofertas de "prueba gratuita sin riesgos" para vender productos para el cuidado de la piel por Internet. A petición de la Comisión, una corte federal de distrito expidió una orden de...
At FTC's Request, Court Temporarily Stops Online Skincare Marketers Who Deceive Consumers with Bogus "Risk Free Trial" Offers and Recurring Fees
The Federal Trade Commission has stopped a group of marketers in California from using allegedly bogus "risk free trial" offers to sell skincare products online. At the Commission's request, a federal district court has issued a temporary restraining order against the defendants halting their...
Payment Processors Involved in I Works Scheme Settle FTC Charges
CardFlex Inc., an Independent Sales Organization (ISO), and its principals Andrew Phillips and John Blaugrund, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they illegally processed more than $26 million in unauthorized consumer charges on behalf of a company called I Works. The defendants...
FTC Rules Jerk, LLC and John Fanning Deceived Consumers, Violated FTC Act
The Federal Trade Commission has granted summary decision against the operators of Jerk.com, a website that billed itself as "the anti-social network," for deceiving users about the source of content on the website. The Commission found that the operators – Jerk, LLC ("Jerk") and John Fanning –...
FTC Returns More Than $2.9 Million to Inc21 Cramming Victims In Second Round of Refunds to Consumers
The Federal Trade Commission is mailing a second round of 58,239 checks totaling more than $2.9 million to consumers and businesses who were victimized by a massive fraudulent operation that placed unwanted charges on their telephone bills.
El proveedor de servicios de telefonía móvil pre-pagados TracFone pagará $40 millones de dólares para resolver los cargos de la FTC por engañar a los consumidores sobre de los planes de datos "ilimitados"
Nota: Se realizará una teleconferencia para los medios de comunicación con la Directora del Buró de Protección del Consumidor, Jessica Rich, tal como se indica a continuación: Fecha: 28 de enero de 2015 Hora: 1:30 p.m. Hora del Este Las líneas de la teleconferencia, exclusivamente para los medios...
Prepaid Mobile Provider TracFone to Pay $40 Million to Settle FTC Charges It Deceived Consumers About 'Unlimited' Data Plans
Note: A conference call for media with FTC Consumer Protection Director Jessica Rich will occur as follows: Date: January 28, 2015 Time: 1:30 p.m. ET Call-in lines, which are for media only, will open 15 minutes prior to the start of the call. Director Rich and FTC staff will be available to take...
FTC Charges Data Broker with Facilitating the Theft of Millions of Dollars from Consumers' Accounts
A data broker operation sold the sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of consumers – including Social Security and bank account numbers – to scammers who allegedly debited millions from their accounts, the Federal Trade Commission charged in a complaint filed today.
T-Mobile to Pay At Least $90 Million, Including Full Consumer Refunds To Settle FTC Mobile Cramming Case
Note: A conference call for media with FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Jessica Rich, FCC Enforcement Bureau Director Travis LeBlanc and Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell occured as follows: Date: Dec. 19, 2014 Time: 1 p.m. ET The speakers were available to take questions from...
Defendant in FTC Landline Phone Cramming Case Settles Charges
One of the defendants behind a massive landline cramming operation that placed more than $70 million in unauthorized charges on consumers' phone bills has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges against him.
FTC Approves Final Order in Case About Google Billing for Kids' In-App Charges Without Parental Consent
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving FTC allegations that Google, Inc., unfairly billed consumers for in-app charges incurred by children without their parents' consent.
Marketers Agree to Settle FTC Charges They Deceived Small Businesses Into Buying Credit/Debit Card Processing Services
A company that sold credit and debit card payment processing services to small businesses has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it used deception and unsubstantiated claims when signing businesses up for its services and processing equipment. The defendants also agreed to...
Defendants in Massive Spam Text Message, Robocalling and Mobile Cramming Scheme to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Charges
A series of defendants will pay approximately $10 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that they operated a massive scam that sent unwanted text messages to millions of consumers, many of whom later received illegal robocalls, phony "free" merchandise offers, and unauthorized...
AT&T le pagará $80 millones de dólares a la FTC en concepto de reembolsos para consumidores afectados por un caso de empaquetamiento de cargos de telefonía móvil
Como parte de un acuerdo resolutorio de $105 millones de dólares con funcionarios a cargo del cumplimiento de la ley del ámbito federal y estatal, la compañía AT&T Mobility Inc. le pagará $80 millones de dólares a la Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC) para otorgar reembolsos a los consumidores...
AT&T to Pay $80 Million to FTC for Consumer Refunds in Mobile Cramming Case
Consumers who believe they were charged without their authorization can visit www.ftc.gov/att to submit a refund claim.
Proposed FinCEN Rule Should Help FTC Track Down Perpetrators of Fraud
Federal Trade Commission staff filed a comment on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of Treasury, in which FinCEN proposed a rule to clarify and strengthen existing customer due diligence requirements for financial...
Google to Refund Consumers at Least $19 Million to Settle FTC Complaint It Unlawfully Billed Parents for Children's Unauthorized In-App Charges
FTC order requires Google to change its mobile app billing practices to ensure consumers' consent is obtained before charges are levied.
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How I came to Anime-Planet:
After I saw some of the very unqiue A-P signatures and developed an urge to have one myself, I began to search for the source. As you all know, the source is Anime-Planet, so that's how I found my way here.
How I started to be interested in Anime:
The one who brought me to Anime was my older sister with Sailor Moon, which aired on German TV at that time. After watching a few episodes with her, my interest in Anime was born and I researched what this kind of show was called. This was my "First Contact" with Anime.
Why the hell has that guy so many 5 Stars rated Anime?!
Well, unlike most people, I'm not really that strict about rating and because I tend to only watch Anime which seem interesting to me anyway, most of them end up getting at least a 3+ rating.
How I started to learn English:
Because of my great interest in Anime/Manga and my opinion that original japanese audio + english subs rules, I started to learn English on my own. Even today I'm still trying to improve it bit by bit without much success, though xD
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Dead Sara Unveil Video For New Single 'Mona Lisa'
The new song, 'Mona Lisa,' is accompanied by a music video featuring some good old-fashioned rock and roll debauchery.
The new song, 'Mona Lisa,' is accompanied by a music video featuring some good old-fashioned rock and roll debauchery.
Metallica's Orion Music + More festival just got a little more awesome with the reveal of several new acts that have been added to the bill. Highlighting the new additions is the reunion of Robert Trujillo's onetime project Infectious Grooves.
It's not uncommon for bands to have some inner tensions, but what better way to get rid of that than shooting a video where you and your bandmates get in some bare knuckle boxing. That's the setup for Dead Sara's latest video, 'Lemon Scent,' which primarily pits frontwoman Emily Armstrong and guitarist Siouxsie Medley against each other in a bloody battle.
In late 2012, the Offspring toured with Dead Sara. During the Offpsring's set, Emily Armstrong from Dead Sara would join the band for a stripped down version of 'Gone Away.' A video of an October performance of the song at a show at the Hollywood Palladium, as well as footage of the pair recording a studio version of the song, has been released (watch below).
Last week's 'Band to Band Combat' was another ass kickin' match up! An epic battle between Otherwise and Volbeat! Both bands came to fight and didn't disappoint. In the end Otherwise ruled the Rocktagon with another big win taking out Volbeat with an incredible 90.43% of the vote! They now have an official record of (3-0) and move on to Z94's Heavyweight division to battle it out with other bands in the same class. Congrats to Otherwise, we'll be seeing them back in the Rocktagon sometime soon...


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ESPN 150 quarterback Asiantii Woulard (Winter Park, Fla./Winter Park), the nation's No. 1-rated dual-threat QB, and ESPN 150 inside linebacker Isaac Savaiinaea (Honolulu/Punahou) have signed with UCLA, as Bruins recruiting continues to surge.
Toss in ESPN 150 defensive end Kylie Fitts (Redlands, Calif./Redlands East Valley) committing on Tuesday, and the Bruins are having a very good week and good signing day.
Meanwhile, Oregon added its fourth ESPN 300 member and its fifth offensive lineman when Cameron Hunt (Corona, Calif./Centennial) flipped from his commitment to California.
In other news, Washington added a fourth linebacker to its 2013 class Wednesday with Keishawn Bierria (Harbor City, Calif./Narbonne) committing to the Huskies on signing day. The three-star prospect picked Washington over Oregon State and Arizona State.
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People who are engaged in homosexual activities are considered to be the virus of the society and are seen with a negative perspective by the people living in the society. The major reason behind this is that a lot of people fail to understand the major reason behind a person's involvement in homosexual activities.
Here is certain evidence which supports the fact of how people get involved in homosexual activities.
On Being Approached By Someone Else
Like drug use, homosexuality is also handed down by someone else and that too by older individuals. In various separate studies around 60% of respondents had claimed that their first partner was an older person who had the sexual experience.
In various other multiple studies, it was found that young boys and girls were approached firstly by an elder or older homosexual into homosexual activities. This clearly suggests that homosexuality is introduced to youngsters in the same way other behaviors are introduced to them i.e by experience.
Unusual Sexual Experience
A report says that an unusual sexual experience may also lead a person into homosexual activities. Unusual sexual experiences include excessive masturbation, exposure to pornography in childhood and depersonalized sex .
All these unusual experiences have been proven to urge a person to get into a higher demand for sex which leads them to get easily attracted to people of the same gender and ending up into homosexual activities.
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Unlike any addiction or bad behavior homosexuality can also be changed.There are certain associations which are helping homosexual people so that they can transform themselves and turn back into a heterosexual person again.Comments closed


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Screaming headlines are not the Japanese newspaper style, but in this case the Asahi Evening News made an exception. "Butchered pets strike fear in Kanto region," read Sunday's front page: "Pet Rabbits In Peril".
Japan is famous throughout the world as a virtually crime-free society but not, it seems, if you are a bunny. Since the end of May, 86 rabbits and seven chickens have been killed in nursery and primary schools all over Kanto. Some have been set upon by dogs, after their cages were deliberately broken into; others were beaten to death, dismembered or disembowelled by what looks suspiciously like an organised hit squad.
In most countries, the attacks would be considered nasty but inconsequential, and at any other time the same might be true here. But this has been an unusual and upsetting year in Japan, and recent events have endowed the bunny killings with a much deeper and more sinister significance.
The attack at the Motogo Minami Elementary School in Saitama Prefecture at the end of last month was typical: four out of the school's five pet rabbits were found with their throats ripped out by dogs, in cages which had been prised open by a human hand. Understandably, the attack caused great upset among the school's pupils; their headmaster, Shigeru Hagihara, told the Asahi that he found them "eerily quiet" when he broke the news to them at the beginning of the new term last week.
The local police seem to have few clues and, in any case, cruelty to animals is not considered a particularly serious offence in Japan, where it can be prosecuted only as a crime against property. But the horror engendered by the attacks has less to do with what has happened, than with fear of what might come next. "With the string of murders and attacks on schoolchildren in Kobe," said Mr Hagihara, "attacks on small animals strike closer to home."
In May, Japanese public opinion was traumatised by the murder of Jun Hase, an 11-year-old Kobe boy whose severed head was found placed the gates of his school. The following month, a 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of the crime. It appears that the boy had killed at least two other schoolchildren. Police attention was drawn to him after he boasted of killing cats, whose severed tongues he carried around in a jar in his pocket.
Another notorious serial killer, a young man named Tsutomu Miyazaki, also tortured to death cats and dogs before embarking on the murders of four girls. Japan has long been vexed by worries about its children. The Kobe killings have prompted still more intense reflection, with anxious comparisons to the killing of James Bulger, and calls for a toughening up of Japan's juvenile crime laws. It has become impossible to see animal killings as just a sick aberration; the fear of teachers like Mr Hagihara is that whoever is killing rabbits today will tomorrow turn to children.
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Goldacre is right - greater honesty is needed
One of the most trenchant critics of pseudo-science in healthcare, the neuro-psychologist Dr Ben Goldacre, has turned his guns on the pharmaceutical industry.
I am only part way through 'Bad Pharma' (Fourth Estate, London), but I do know Ben and have heard him speak several times. The current theme emerged a couple of years ago, when he supported a debate at The Oxford Union on this topic. I have to say that, after 38 years working with big pharma, the whole issue causes me considerable pain. Let me outline why.
On the opening page there is the following statement: "Industry-funded trials are more likely to produce a positive, flattering result than independently-funded trials."
This establishes the theme for the book; drug companies distort and even hide research data, and thus mislead regulators, doctors and patients. But I am not writing a book review here, and in any case I am quite familiar with some of the abuses that Ben sets out. If there are any surprises, they would include the vast scale of book-cooking that seems to go on.
A casual reader could get the impression that there is really nothing that drug companies say about their products that we can believe. That would jar with those of us who work in drug development, and who know the huge grinding effort that goes into getting the data right.
But the fact is inescapable that the process does go wrong, sometimes deliberately so, because Bad Pharma is well enough referenced to back up the overall message.
A painful necessity
That such a book could be written is a tragedy. I spend most of my spare time in voluntary work supporting evidence-based medicine, for example with the charity HealthWatch. The many opponents of real medicine are having a field day, claiming that drugs do far more harm than good, and citing Goldacre in support.
Some of you might have seen a new magazine on the newsagent's shelves, called 'What Doctors Don't Tell You'. It says nothing good about real medicines, and is full of false claims for 'alternatives'. The editor dismisses previous books by Goldacre on the fantasies of homeopathy, chiropractic etc., and delights in his broadside against big pharma (and ignores his praise of pharma's major contributions to public health).
Industry response
So what do we as an industry think about all this? Presumably the ABPI speaks for the UK research-based companies, and in a press statement devotes 63 words to addressing what the book actually says, finishing with: "...the examples he refers to are long documented and historical, and the companies concerned have long addressed these issues."
It continues with 557 words on how the industry is heavily regulated, how difficult and expensive drug development is, how it is meeting unmet medical need etc etc. I and many of my colleagues do not see that as a balanced and constructive response.
Indeed, the clip reproduced above is demonstrably untrue. Publication bias continues, studies are still disappearing from public view, and there are still big gaps in safety data. I feel badly let down by such complacency.
Sell, sell, sell....
It would be rather facile to say that everything is fine in R&D, and the problems only start when the data get to the marketers. I am reminded of something I heard from one of my competitors, in the early days of my first business.
The gist of it was that the content of one's offering was much less important than how hard it was sold. That seems to be a message that has struck home, with global sales and marketing spend about twice that of R&D.
Nevertheless, I am realistic enough to know that no matter how good the product, it simply won't get used unless someone is paid to sell it. Companies will do whatever they can to sell their products, so I don't think we can ever legislate to stop them from spending their own money on that.
What we can do though is to ensure that what the sales reps say is decent, legal, honest and truthful. Perhaps the messages will become much simpler for having to rely only on solid data, and will cost less to deliver.
Unnecessary trials
Meanwhile, everything clearly is not fine in R&D. Clinical trials absorb the major part of resources for that, and for decades have been governed by various flavours of Good Clinical Practice. But it has dawned on me that it's perfectly possible to have 100% compliance with GCP, yet still do bad science and mislead the consumer.
For example, does it add to our knowledge to carry out a placebo-controlled trial when there is an effective treatment already available? Yet that is what I have found myself doing, because that's the study that the regulator wanted. Surely what we want to know about a new drug is that it offers an advance in patient care, not that it is better than doing nothing.
Inappropriate trials
Even with active-controlled trials, there are ways of doing bad science. It is unlikely that the study drug and the active comparator will have identical response profiles. So there is scope to make your drug look better, by carefully selecting the time point which you can designate the primary response parameter. Don't laugh, I have seen this done.
The regulator (a different one) bought it hook, line and sinker. For such trials as these, millions were spent on gruelling GCP compliance, necessitating many thousands of air miles, and rooms full of paper files. Surely I am not alone in questioning the sense of all this?
A broken model
It is becoming more widely appreciated that the current GCP model is not sustainable. The concept of the data trail, which emerged from the original FDA GCP guideline of 1977, is firmly rooted in paper-based systems. Any clinical research associate knows that there is no guarantee that all data in the study database will have originated in the patient's medical records.
When errors and omissions occur, we all know that gaps in the medical records are commonly filled in from data in the case report form, just to keep the auditor happy. People repeatedly fly into remote countries to monitor sites that only recruit one patient, or none at all. Hence we can easily be looking at £50,000 to £100,000 per patient to get the study done.
It is very widely accepted that because of this lack of realism, and many other problems that I have highlighted previously, GCP and the current drug development process are not meeting the expectations of a more sophisticated and challenging consumer base.
Ben Goldacre and his ilk have got wise to what is going on, and with Bad Pharma already among the best sellers his arguments, even if flawed in places, are falling on receptive ears.
Some commentators are asking whether the focus of R&D should not be on new products, as driven by pharma, but on quantified health gains. Thus, the placebo-controlled trial that I mentioned above would be worthless, as it could not demonstrate a health gain over the status quo. R&D would then have to proceed as more of a partnership between industry and healthcare stakeholders.
A new paradigm
How could this work? I can think of two main branches to follow. Firstly, clinical trials need to be far more relevant to clinical practice. Many medical journals are now demanding that authors provide a structured synopsis of their paper, including a clear statement of what we now know from their findings, that we didn't know before, and how it will change clinical practice. This needs to be brought forward into the original proposal for doing the trial, including a firm commitment to publication.
Yes, a protocol has objectives, but they are very commonly more esoteric. Secondly, we need Good Scientific Practice as an integral part of GCP. This falls squarely into the laps of the ethics committees and the regulators, both of whom have been strangely silent so far about Bad Pharma.
To enable these things to happen, the crushing burden of GCP drudgery needs to be relieved, so that resources become available to do better science that matters to more people. That doesn't mean lowering standards, it means raising them by refocusing.
We need to put the effort into where it will have the most benefit, and that means a risk based approach to trial management. Should we keep monitoring those unproductive investigators? I don't think so, we should put them on hold and go where we have the most data.
It may well be that the regulators are alert to some of this. Last year the FDA published draft guidance on a risk-based approach to trial monitoring. There is increased emphasis on using intelligence about the study to govern what is to be monitored.
Such intelligence would be managed centrally, implying the need for advanced systems to analyse the study progress data feed in real time, and to inform managers of future potential problems.
We are in this together
Goldacre has shown us where our science is not good. Ethics committees and regulators now have no excuse for not spotting protocols that pulled the wool over their eyes before. One ethics committee member I know suggests rejecting submissions from investigators with a track record of failure to publish (as does Goldacre).
The legislators have the opportunity to include essential checks and balances to ensure that good science is done, and that patients are better protected by increased emphasis on where the biggest risks are, and much less on wasteful backwaters.
I am doubtful that either industry or regulators will drive this process alone, and it will need far more creative collaboration than I can recall ever happening before.
Les Rose is a freelance clinical research consultant and medical writer.
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As someone outside the industry, but who teaches, writes and has an interest in the general area, I did have an opportunity to ritually club Big Pharma in a textbook and recent chapter in a longer text, but I felt it necessary to be more balanced, as without their products, I would not have survived the 1980's. So I felt your piece was very reasoned, constructive and it should receive wider publicity. For every loathsome practice discovered under some slimy rock, there has been a drug advance that would look little short of miraculous to medicine as recently as the '80s and 90's.
> Like the car industry,Big Pharma has its faults, but unless you try to build one yourself, so to speak, it is hard to appreciate the virtues and easy to attack the problems, real though they are. The system can be improved from the regulatory, financial, commercial and R&D standpoints if the will is there to do it. This can sometimes happen if constructive and informed views such as yours receive some coverage
I really enjoyed reading this article.
As a concerned consumer of pharmaceutical products and a rank newcomer to the issues being addressed by books like Bad Pharma, I think it's important that pharmaceutical companies take seriously and respond thoughtfully to the criticisms being raised by these kinds of books. It is easy for debates to polarize into rhetorical rock throwing contests, but when we outsiders see that sort of thing, it tends to discredit both sides and leave us scratching our heads and ready to flip a coin or "go with our guts".
The above article strikes me as thoughtful and fair and although I'm still scratching my head, I get the feeling that if I stick with it long enough, pay attention to the reasonable debates, and do my homework as a consumer, then in the end I just might be able to make some good decisions.
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Barrow vs. Matt
BessetteRound 1Bessette lands a leg kick to start the action. Barrow catches a
kick and looks for a single-leg before switching to a body lock
against the fence. Bessette pushes Barrow against the cage now, and
Barrow lands an accidental low blow as the fighters push off the
cage. Bessette catches a kick and lands a couple punches. Bessette
moves forward and attempts a head kick, Barrow responds with a kick
to the body. Bessette with a low kick, then a body kick. Barrow
defends against a single leg attempt against the cage. Bessette
lands a couple knees in the clinch before pushing his opponent into
the fence once again. Much of the round has been contested in close
quarters. Barrow finally gets a takedown with less than 20 seconds
remaining in the frame and that's how the round ends.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Bessette.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Bessette.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Bessette.
Round 2
Bessette outpointed Barrow for 15 minutes.
Bessette closes his guard while Barrow lands punches to the ribs.
Barrow gives a thumbs up and escapes the hold. Now in Bessette's
guard, Barrow works some ground-and-pound. Bessette unsuccessfully
attempts a triangle as the round ends.
Round 3Bessette closes the distance immediately and begins landing offense
in close. Barrow catches a kick, kicks out Bessette's leg and winds
up in top position. Bessette pushes him off and gets up. Bessette
continues with the occasional knee to the body as they clinch, also
mixing in elbows. Bessette gets a double-leg takedown and moves to
his adversary's back. Barrow breaks away, but Bessette quickly
cinches a front headlock. Barrow whiffs on a spinning back elbow
and right hand. Barrow is bleeding from his nose as he moves
forward. Bessette ends the frame landing a body kick and a left
Ward pounded out McCoy in 2:49.
Official score: 29-28 30-27, 30-27 all in favor of
your winner by unanimous decision, Matt Bessette.
Mucitelli quickly tapped out Uhde.
Machaev (top) bested Nelson.
Round 2Machaev throws a right hand and then locks up with Nelson. Nelson
briefly has a standing guillotine, but the fighters break away.
Machaev counters a low kick with a right hand, which allows him to
close the distance and take Nelson down with a single leg. Machaev
goes to work with short left hands from half guard. Now Machaev
moves to side control.He traps Nelson's right arm with the
crucifix, and he pounds away with left hands. Nelson escapes the
crucifix, but now Machaev has his back. Machaev is content to pound
away with punches. Nelson is up but Machaev quickly dumps him back
to the mat. Nelson has yet to mount any significant offense as
Machaev dominates positioning.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Machaev.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Machaev.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Machaev.
Round 3Machaev lands a two-punch combination as Nelson misses on an
uppercut. Machaev backs his opponent into the cage and executes
another takedown. Now on Nelson's back, the Russian is landing
measured punches to his head. Nelson briefly stands, but Machaev
has little trouble taking him down again. He continues to
methodically punish Nelson with ground-and-pound and positional
dominance. Machaev achieves the crucifix position again and he's
unloading with left hands on Nelson, who now has cuts under both
eyes. One minute to go, and Nelson shows no signs of mounting a
rally. Machaev moves to full mount and increases his output. Nelson
rolls over, and Machaev forgoes the hooks to continue his punching
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-8 Machaev (30-26
Machaev).Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Machaev (30-27 Machaev).Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Machaev (30-27 Machaev).
Official score: All three judges score the contest
30-27 for the winner by unanimous decision, Murad Machaev.
Cramer absolutely smoked Lamoureux.
Calandrelli dominated and finished Brown.
Round 2Brown moves forward throwing punches, but the powerful Calandrelli
grabs him and takes him down with the outside trip again.
Calandrelli lands a few short strikes from half guard before
passing to full mount. Calandrelli unloads with more punches to the
head and then the body. Calandrelli continues to maintain full
mount before transitioning to an armbar. He patiently gets his hips
into position and commits to the maneuver, giving Brown no choice
but to tapout. The official time of the submission is 3:10.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Filkins.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Filkins.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Filkins.
Filkins took two rounds from Billstein.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Billstein.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Billstein.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Billstein.
Round 3Filkins counters a Billstein combination with a right hand.
Billstein clinches and pushes his man against the fence. Filkins
catches Billstein with an inadvertent knee to the cup and takes a
minute to recover. They start again, and Filkins find range for his
left hook. Billstein lands a snap kick, which seems to fire up
Filkins. Filkins lands a right hand. Billstein shoots for a
takedown, bounces his foe against the fence and pulls Filkins on
top of him. Now they're back to the feet and they tie up. Billstein
has his hands on his hips. Filkins lands some more good right
hands, keeping the pressure on. Billstein fails on another takedown
and Filkins tees off with punches and elbows from full mount as the
round ends.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Filkins (29-28
Filkins).Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Filkins (29-28 Filkins).Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Filkins (29-28 Filkins).
Official score: The cageside judges score the
contest 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 for the winner by unanimous
decision, Perry Filkins.
Sandro choked Neace out cold.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Jansen.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Jansen.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Jansen.
Jansen slipped by Tirloni via split decision.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Tirloni.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Tirloni.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Tirloni.
Round 3Jansen begins the round throwing punches in volume. Tirloni pops
the American with an uppercut in close. Left hook-right hand combo
connects for Tirloni. Tirloni continues to hunt for his right hand.
He lands an uppercut, but misses the follow-up hook. Jansen looks
for a takedown, but Tirloni isn't having it. Tirloni is doing a
good job of keeping Jansen at bay with his jab. Both fighters are
bleeding now. Jansen remains game, but Tirloni has landed the
better strikes in the frame. Jansen recognizes this and shoots, but
Tirloni defends again. With 30 seconds left Tirloni tries a single
leg takedown. Jansen grabs a guillotine and Tirloni relents. Jansen
gets the back and suplexes his opponent near the end of the period.
Tirloni returns to his feet as the frame ends.
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Tirloni (29-28
Tirloni).Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Tirloni (29-28 Tirloni).Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Jansen (29-28 Jansen).
Official score: Dave Jansen takes a split verdict
on the official scorecards (29-28, 29-28, 28-29).
Tristen Critchfield scores the round 10-9 Held.Brian Knapp scores the round 10-9 Held.Mike Fridley scores the round 10-9 Held.
Held painfully tapped out Clementi.
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The message is clear: "take it easy" because "lightness is a soul category and is the contrary of the superficiality". These are the words which Marco Trevian, Affrodable Art Fair Milan director, borrows from Federico Fellini to explains the spirit of the contemporary art fair that opens its first Italian edition at Superstudio Più tomorrow February 2nd and that is going to be accessible to the public from Thursday to Sunday 6th.
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Born in Shkodër, Albania, in 1969.
Lives and works in Milan.
He chose Italy as his second homeland, leaving Albania at a very young age. Adrian Paci started living and working in our country since the early 90s, bringing with him, in an ideal case, his experiences as a "foreigner". Many of his works reflect precisely about this condition of exile, refugee, of a person who thinks about the sense of abandonment or belonging.
Even in the work that he is presenting at the MAXXI for the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea – together with the other finalists, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Patrizio Di Massimo and Luca Trevisani – Adrian deals with these themes in many ways.
In the large video installation that you will bring to the Italian Prize, The Visitors, you collect a lot of scenes from real life. Why this choice?
The scenes that compose The Visitors come from an archive which I've been taking care of for years and that include wedding videos filmed in Albania at the beginning of the 90s. The original material was elaborated by making the reference to the ritual of marriage secondary to the visual power of many sequences that document it. The ritual behavior of people produces, through gestures, its representation. I don't care about turning real-life scenes into art, but I care about discovering in them moments that, together with truthfulness, have a suggestive potential to give us time for reflection.
You've always addressed very strong issues such as emigration, nomadism, identity. Do you conceive your works as awareness "actions"?
Well, you call them strong themes but they are realities which are part of our daily lives. To ignore them would seem more forced than to deal with them. What I try to do is not to be rhetorical, but sensitive. I don't conceive "awareness actions ", but I don't shirk from showing my feelings on certain topics. I do not believe in the artist who "knows" and shows to those who "don't know" their knowledge. I conceive the action of the artist as if it were the sharing of a question, of an astonishment or a particular sensitivity that becomes form.
In your work you deal with the issue of the handshake "ritual". What have you discovered in this daily gesture so as to make it the content of a work of art?
It is a gesture that has so much potential in its simplicity and this is what fascinates me. It is a daily life gesture in many ritual ceremonies: from weddings to several celebration, to include funerals. The handshake crosses past centuries coming up to the current days.
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"I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died.
"I want to be with my babies - they need me, no one else does."
Yesterday an inquest heard that in the run-up to the termination Miss Beck discussed it with her GP, who described her as "extremely vulnerable". She missed one hospital appointment and cancelled another before finally seeing a doctor at Treliske hospital in Truro, Cornwall.
But the counsellor at the unplanned pregnancy clinic was on holiday, so the doctor gave her the number of a "telephone pregnancy counselling service". Eight days later, in September 2006, the same doctor performed the termination.
In February the following year, the night before her 31st birthday, Miss Beck hanged herself at her home in Helston.
Horrible story...
god rest her and her twins' souls.
I mean God rest her and her twins' souls.
So very very tragic both for the babies and for this young woman....
They never warn women of the emotional/mental/spriritual damage abortion does to them....
Yet those who are "prochoice" NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE THE TERRIBLE HARM DONE TO THE MOTHER by abortion.....NEVER.
God, be merciful.
I was simply providing a link to more about the same story.
First I heard of this report. BTW, I was sound asleep at 5 am CST.
ok. There were some pretty thoughtful, and not so thoughtful, comments there. You might like to read them. Lots of suffering is being ignored by the "professionals."
May God have Mercy on her as she was not of right mind when she committed the final act...Reading this you can feel real remorse and love for her twins...Poor dear mom...
From the more detailed article linked at post #5, per her general practice physician: "She had a long history of anxiety and depression."
This unfortunate young woman had serious psychological problems long before she had an abortion, and those problems were most likely what caused her to have an abortion she didn't want just because her boyfriend said he didn't want the babies. And also most likely what caused her to take up with such a self-centered young man in the first place.
Very sad. Prayers for her & her twins.
I had a natural miscarriage many years ago, and it devastated me. I heard a baby crying (in my sleep) every night for years. And I couldn't do a thing to comfort that child; I couldn't feed him, rock him, sing to him, or even hold him. I cannot understand how a woman could deliberately chose to abort a life within her.
I don't know either ...hugs Pandy
> That sound to me, every reason for her not to have an abortion. Knowing her mental state and all. At for the boyfriend. She should have kept the babies, and dumped the scumbag!
Agreed on all counts.
But of course, that doesn't count with folks who will claim the only reason the poor woman killed herself was the abortion -- per the headline. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they blamed ALL her problems on the abortion, including even those she had prior to becoming pregnant. *sigh* She sounds like she shouldn't have gotten knocked up in the first place, much less had an abortion.
May God rest her soul and those of her unborn twins. And may that boyfriend reflect forever on this tragedy he might have been able to prevent; though I doubt he will.
Wow, heartbreaking story. G-d have mercy.
"Why Bad Things Happen to People Who Make Bad Choices"
She did the honorable thing, like Admiral Boorda.
This story illuminates the result of state sanctioned murder, i.e. abortion, and nationalized health care. This is the furure that the socialists in our country have in store for us.
Seems to me, her "bad choices" included the choice of boyfriend, and the (presumed choice of) getting pregnant. And quite possibly, long before that.
The post-abortion grief may have put her over the top, but she'd obviously been climbing in that direction for years.
Abortion supporters don't care if women feel pressured into having abortions as long as they continue to have them. The only "prenatal" service that abortion supporters offer is counseling that tells women that abortion isn't wrong. The pro-aborts don't offer support services to pregnant women. They just tell them that aborting their babies will solve their problems. And, as we can see from the attitude of these people to this woman's suicide, they don't care if the woman suffers severe distress as a result of the abortion. It isn't their fault!
I'm sure that God will have mercy on the soul of this young woman but I am not so sure that He will be merciful to those who pushed her into having the abortion.
sorrowful ping
This is a horrible story but all too common and all too ignored by those that claim they are looking out for the best interests of women and their children. A friend of mine related a story about a woman who had been "forced" into an abortion by her husband and her parents. She had a psychological break after it and being deeply religious would hallucinate seeing the devil holding her little baby after she went through with the abortion. Women are constantly bullied and threatened into having abortions by boyfriends, parents, and husbands and it is disgusting. Where is the charity, where is the concern, where is the good will for these women, or the respect for their natural desire to keep their baby and carry it to term?
The leftists proponents of this horrid procedure will find themselves in hell for this if for nothing else.
Hasn't she heard? Abortion is supposed to FREE women of the domination of men!
Her poor tortured souls is at rest. I pray that she made her peace with God before she died.
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*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Hugo is a beautifully made movie with great 3D effects. Yet with the
misleading advertising, the story that goes nowhere, and with over 2
hour runtime it is one hell of a boring movie.
Please do not believe 8.3 IMDb and 94% RT ratings, this movie one of the most overrated movies in the history of the film, the word 'history' is the key one here. When everything is said and done Hugo reveals itself as nothing but a cleverly disguised homage to one of the French pioneering movie directors, a subject interesting primarily for the movie history buffs.
As I said Hugo is hugely misrepresented in advertising. Every poster tells you that some Narnia type adventure is awaiting you. All the trailers were masterfully crafted to leave you with expectation of magical miracle. The words like 'quest' and 'mystery' are a part of Hugo's brief description on each and every site, just read what it says on IMDb. Furthermore the word "adventure" is lavishly sprinkled throughout the Hugo's first part. And yes, great Martin Scorsese is behind all of it, so what should you expect but a magical adventure on a grandeur scale ?
Sorry, you will get none of that. Yes, Hugo is like a charming 3D French postcard, but its not worth looking at for over 2 hours. 3D effects are well done, yet absolutely not required for this story that never leaves the setting of Paris train station.
While plot has some holes, the elephant in the room is that pretty much nothing happens in the movie with all these mechanical dolls, golden keys, and the visually rich Dickensian atmosphere. And be sure, there is absolutely no magic, or any type of adventure hidden here.
I am giving Hugo just one star to counter misleading ads and all those hypists that ether work for the studio, or easily hypnotized by big director's name. Please have few good games on your smartphone and bring a thermos with coffee if you decide to go see this snoozefest, you will need it.
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Martin Scorsese's first kid's movie falls short of its expectations.
After seeing the trailers, my family and I had very high expectations
for this movie, and we eagerly went out and saw it in the theaters. We
walked out extremely disappointed.
First of all, the trailers were completely misleading. My first impression was that the movie was about a boy trying to uncover a great mystery left behind in the wake of his father's death. I thought the movie was going to open up into an enchanting adventure, complete with suspense, action, and magic. I didn't get any of those things. This movie starts out will a long build-up, with the audience waiting for this magical adventure to get underway, only to keep them waiting for another hour or so, where nothing interesting or magical happens.
The pacing in the movie is terrible. The movie opens with some stunning visuals, the camera panning over the Paris cityscape and eventually showing us around the train station where the protagonist, Hugo, lives. We get the story of his father's death, and are left with a sense of wonder. We want to know what the automaton is for, why Ben Kingsely's character is so bitter, and what this adventure Hugo promises his little gal-friend is and when it's going to happen. The movie starts and stops, then drags for a bit, then starts, and drags for a long time before grinding to an unsatisfying halt. The adventure doesn't happen. All that waiting around... for nothing.
I don't really know what to say about the acting in this movie. Most of the actors had good moments and bad moments. The dialog was lacking. The characters spent more time staring at each other than actually talking. Some of the facial expressions and emotional reactions were a little on the melodramatic side. (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)Ben Kingsley gets pissy because the two kids find out that he used to make movies? Hugo throws a fit because the automaton didn't work as he expected to? I don't think these were appropriate responses to their situations.
The one good thing I have to say about this movie is that the visuals were absolutely gorgeous. From the cold blue lighting in the snowy outdoor scenes, to the orange-y warmth of the train station, to the powerful metallic essence of the gears and clockwork in the tower, this movie has some of the best 3D effects that I've seen since that awful, shallow Avatar. The problem is, the magical visuals cannot make up for the drab and very UN-magical story.
Overall, the magical, engaging adventure the trailers promised does not exist. The movie's pace is very slow. Some of the acting is questionable. The visuals were good, but they didn't save the movie. Do not go to this movie expecting something with substance. And definitely do not bring your kids to this movie; they will be bored to tears.
Martin Scorcese's new film, Hugo is one of the best cinematic
experience, I've had in years. The 3D is just simply astounding and the
best I have ever seen in a movie. The visual effects, cinematography,
art direction, just technically superb. Finally a smart, awe-aspiring
family film, which are really rare nowadays. A definite surprise coming
from legendary director, Martin Scorcese, who's known for movies with a
lot of swears, violence, drugs and other adult-themed subjects.
The acting was really good and completely convincing. Asa Butterfield delivers a very committed performance as Hugo Cabret, and he shows a lot of promise in his future career. Chloë Grace Moretz, also gives a fine and respectable performance. Sacha Baron Cohen is surprisingly very effective as Station Inspector. Ben Kingsley gives the best performance in the whole movie, he is just superb and deserves some recognition. Overall, the whole cast was top notch.
Eyes may be the window to the soul, but movies are the projection of our dreams, according to "Hugo" that is. Martin Scorsese's first attempt at a children's film might be over most of their adolescent heads, but this founding member of the "Movie Brats" might've just concocted a delectable cinematic treat that speaks to most film lovers' surrealist commitment to the big screen. In retrospect, it works, and this enchanting flick is one of the best of the year.
Saw it today in a sneak preview today at the Director's Guild in LA. James Cameron who was there professed it's a masterpiece and the best 3D to date. And he's right on both fronts. The film is exquisitely crafted. The cinematography and set design is likely going to take home a couple gold guys. It's a film lover's dream movie. As with many of Scorsese's films, it's an inspired film history lesson along side of being a dreamlike children's fable. A really unique combination that will work for the film enthusiasts and discerning family's with kids. Maybe a bit long for broad audiences with very little kids, but the images are so enchanting, it should win over most everybody. Sasha Baron Cohen is a brilliant and hilarious standout as the twitchy constable. It should be very well received just on the 3D alone.
Without spoiling, consider a motion picture whose last 30 minutes are
equal to the last 4 minutes of Cinema Paradiso. To be in a theater with
people tearing up over images of vintage and historic cinema, so
beautifully integrated into a dazzling and heartfelt story is something
special indeed. Absolutely knock-out use of 3D, fantastic performances
by everyone involved, glorious set design, music, costumes and state
-of-the-art CGI that propel a story rather than being superficial,
stand alone tricks makes HUGO a film for moviegoers world wide.
Absolutely do not miss this film in a theater. The images are
transporting and need to be experienced on the big screen.
Thanks Marty, for bringing to us all such a gift. This is truly one for the ages
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A movie about the silent film industry with an automaton set in a train station? Sounds good doesn't it. This was a movie with potential, but it fell short so much so that I'm not going to waste my time giving it a detailed, complete critique. So here's the bullet points: The transitions were horrendous. The scenes jumped so much that half the time i didn't know where the characters were or where they were going. The boy who played Hugo was terrible. He was hired for his blue-sad eye stare. That was it, no range of emotion past the stare. The Station Inspector was a strange character. When you make an injured war veteran the comic relief (not in a heartwarming way, but a feels awkward to laugh at his injury sort of way) there's something wrong. Pitiable and sad to hear others in the theater laugh at him. The dialog was vapid and moronic. "Everything has a purpose in life... even machines". Well ya, machines have a purpose otherwise we wouldn't bother having them!! I could bury myself with all the plot holes in this movie. Nuf said. Overall no heart to the story. I can't waste anymore time reviewing this disappointing movie. Bottom line: Don't bother.
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I was frankly stunned at how BAD this movie is. The 3D is very well
done, but like all the clockwork and machines the movie revels in,
"Hugo" is technically brilliant, moves like an elegant automaton, and
has NO heart or soul. It is dead and hollow within.
The "plot" is confusing, the script seems to be more dictated over a cell phone than written, the lead character looks like an animated corpse, and it is DULL, DULL, DULL, DULL, DULL. My boyfriend actually fell asleep. It is terrible that a technique such as 3D seems to have totally eliminated the need for a decent plot, script, characters, motivation and some essence of believability. Scorsese also has to re-learn the use of editing as the movie is too long by at least a half hour, and the pace limps slower than the villainous station cop's leg.
The acting was competent except for Sacha Baron Cohen who is nearly unwatchable as the aforementioned gendarme - if he would only get a wooden leg it would match the rest of his performance.
The "plot" manipulates emotions rather than inspires them, and is unbelievably pedantic. It's like watching Scorsese lecture a Film 101 class. ***SPOILER?*** I could not believe the scene in the library where the children actually PULL OUT A BOOK and start lecturing the audience about the history of movies up to that point. Stunningly awful.
The great irony is that George Melies made FAR FAR FAR greater movies, even with his limited technology than this putrid piece of dreck. "Hugo" is a shameful waste of $170 million dollars. The Melies clips are the ONLY part of this debacle that have life, art, wit, color, and are actually entertaining.
PULEEEZZZZZ....Marty....put down the camera for GOOD, and stay in the lecture hall. You have lost the ability to make captivating, interesting movies that speak to normal, living people. If you want to make a movie about Melies, or educate the audience....make a documentary.
I just returned home after seeing Hugo on opening day and if I can
describe this film in one word, it would be beautiful. This film has
inspired me in ways that I can't even begin to explain. It's been a
while since I've seen a film that spoke to me as personally as this
film did. I'm a fan of Martin Scorsese and he's crafted a beautiful ode
to not only cinema but also imagination and in a way, it celebrates all
the things that help us escape. The world is a scary place and everyone
goes through pain and suffering but if you just try and learn to dream,
find your voice and not be afraid then you would be surprised what
could happen.
I love how this film tells the amazing story of pioneer filmmaker Georges Melies who many of today's directors such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron owe everything to. I love his films and I own a box set of his work, it's wonderful to see more people be introduced to him and the magic he created that continues to capture the imagination of many.
So if you love the cinema and magic then I highly recommend this masterpiece. Hugo is really something special I think.
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There's no denying that 3D has almost never looked this sharp, but
there are plenty of films out there where it doesn't call this much
attention to itself; it enhances the cosmetic aspect of the film; it
hardly does much for the weak adaptation of the novel. In "Hugo", as it
is the case in many of the of Scorcese's films, technological
improvements throw his film out of balance, and this is the beginning
of the many flaws in this project.
The art direction and costumes are breathtaking, immersing the audience in the right period, though it has barely any of the charm and magic that made another film set Paris this year so successful. In that other film, all the scenes in the various periods are evocative and involving. Here the experience is as cold as a disorganized display in the best museum. It doesn't have much impact on its audience. Some of the scenery could be an exact imitation of the original inspiration. There were a couple of times when the visuals blend perfectly with a few of the clips that are integrated in the film.
The problem is the almost absolute lack of warmth in the various relationships between many of the main characters and the way they are directed in this movie. The young man at the heart of the film feels at time as another piece of furniture in the set. When I walked into the theater, many of the people weren't sure if we were watching an animated film or a live action production because they said the actors looked funny. The feel feels so cold in its adaptation of a very interesting literary piece, a book so charming with its integration of words and its simple black and white adaptation. To be fair it is hard to look away because it is so gorgeous, but at the same time, the disappointment hits hard because this is a film that should relies heavily in the sense of wonder usually associated with children's films and/or young performers. Earlier this year "Super 8" and "Real Steel" benefited immensely from the outstanding work and charisma of their young performers. The Elle Fanning scene in "Super 8" puts everything in this film to shame. Where both of those films project warmth, innocence,and a great variety of emotions, "Hugo" never becomes multidimensional, a big irony, considering its best quality is the nearly perfect 3-D visuals. To make things worse, two other projects involving literacy and story telling, made by Cuaron ("A Little Princess") and Petersen ("The Never Ending Story") have shown that its is possible to blend reality and magic, with the help of the right approach and the appropriate performances.
In addition to the lack of emotional magic on the screen, the pacing in "Hugo" is so slow it borders on catatonic, dragging for most of its two hours. We finally arrive to the last third of the film, a place where the film finally comes alive; suddenly, Scorcese pours his heart in the film, using original film clips and beautiful recreations of the original sources from various classic films of early French cinema. These are breathtaking, as they play, one after another, showing us the sense of wonder original audiences must have experienced. Finally, one is almost overpowered as Toto was in several scenes of "Cinema Paradiso" as the director viewed the treasured collage in the final scene of that movie, or as the young protagonist of "A Little Princess" told her magic stories set in exotic India, infused with her own imagination and simple stop motion work. Petersen went even further with the seamless blend of the young man, as he becomes a part of the literary experience, and one realized how powerful the magic in the written word can be. Very little of that exists in "Hugo", a shiny package, with a rock for a heart.
Scorcese has done much for the preservation of cinema, and the original source of this film lent itself to a cinematic production to support his cause, but just like Spielberg chooses other people to direct some of his projects, much more could have been achieved by handing this property to a more suited director, a person who understands innocence, wonder, how important it is to get inside the hearts of people, opposed to working with projects where the main characters are notorious for not having one. Rarely Scorcese has shown in his movies any sort of affection for or between his characters, "Alice doesn't live here anymore" is a rare exception, and children in it are a bit on the precocious side. Come to think about it, Law showed much more emotion in "A.I." as he interacted with the marvelous Osment, and both of them were playing automatons.
A big disappointment.
"If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from, just look around.
This is where they're made."
Hugo Cabret's story was told so well that it felt like you were right there with him on his stunning adventure.
For those unfamiliar, this is the story about a young boy named Hugo. He lives inside the walls of a train station in Paris in the 1930's. His father dies, leaving behind a mysterious automaton that, when fixed, can write. Hugo makes it his mission to fix it, believing that it will reveal a message from his father. With the help of an eccentric girl named Isabelle, he tries to uncover a magical mystery about the old man at the toy booth (Isabelle's godfather) and enchanting early films.
I had been looking forward to this film for a very long time, and I was not disappointed at all. I was a bit unsure about the 3D at first, but it turned out to be superb. Every single object became part of the story, and the audience became immersed in this beautiful world created by Martin Scorsese and Brian Selznick. While every member of the cast was brilliant, there are two in particular I'd like to point out.
First, Asa Butterfield as Hugo. He carried the film with perfection and gave a truly incredible performance. His acting was very natural--you could hardly tell he was acting! He did an amazing job of bringing life to a complex, lost, sad character. Asa is one of the most talented young actors I've ever seen; a very likely Oscar nomination in his future.
Last (but certainly not least) is Chloe Grace Moretz. She is another young performer that never fails to amaze me. Chloe nailed the British accent and brilliantly portrayed a bright, energetic Isabelle.
This movie has it all: beautiful visuals, super-talented cast, magic, love, heart, feeling, emotion. Best Picture Nomination for sure, and quite possibly others. Overall, this movie is a must-see. It was the most enjoyable theater experience that I've ever had. The entire theater broke into applause once it ended. This film has something for all ages, and it's really something special.
Especially if you love adventure, mystery, wonder, and have a bright imagination, you will fall in love with this film just like I did.
"Come and dream with me."
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Most children are exposed to electronics the day they're born. Family and friends who can't see a newborn in person can catch up online thanks to social media. Webcams are also an easy way for grandma across the country to see her new grandchild.
"There's no screen time for children before two years of age," said Tammy Else, a Child Life Specialist at
"I think that the most important thing is that when the child is focused on the screen and not their cues that's when we tend to see effects in their relationship building and if they can't build a relationship and trust and bond with kids, peers their own age at a young its going to be even more difficult when they get older," said Else.
Too much time in front of the t-v or on the phone can impact more than social cues.
"When they're not used appropriately or balanced appropriately with normal developmental play meaning going outside, riding a bicycle, doing arts and crafts, socializing with other kids, that's when it could be detrimental to their health," said Else.
Else's job requires her to prepare children before going into surgery.
"It used to be us as a child life person providing distraction maybe providing some guided imagery, distracting them blowing bubbles, now you have an app on the iPad to pop bubble wrap or to blow bubbles," she said.
A frequent patient that works with else is Bethann Fawcett and her nine-year-old daughter Ebony.
"Ebony is battling her third time with stage four Neuroblastoma. It's a childhood cancer and it's chronic."
Ebony has gone through many surgeries. She uses electronic devices before going in and then afterward as a reward.
"Electronics to us are basically a reward system, she knows that with different procedures she gets iPad time," said Fawcett.
"When I grew we played outside and got dirty, kids don't get dirty these days. I didn't want her to be completely plugged in. Even though we're enclosed in the hospital we can still have fun with arts and crafts," said Fawcett.
Else says parents have to demonstrate limited electronic behavior at all times.
"When you're sitting at the table eating with your child it's important to spend that time to engage in conversation, ask them how their day was and develop those social skills they need when working with peers."
Young ebony has grown to value her time away from electronics.
"I like tv's but I mostly like to draw so I really don't like to play on [electronics] a lot," said Ebony.
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Earlier this week, a new dining experience debuted at the House of Blues in the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim. "Crossroads at House of Blues" features a new menu created by celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez.
Chef Aaron incorporated flavors from all over the world to create new signature dishes like shrimp and grits, short rib meatball sliders, hand stretched grilled flatbreads, chile braised short ribs and street tacos. But don't worry, jambalaya fans! House of Blues favorites like jambalaya will remain on the menu alongside updated versions of guest favorites like cornbread, pulled pork sandwiches and signature burgers.
"House of Blues is all about music, love, art and spirituality," said Chef Aaron. "In many ways, those are the same ingredients for great food and that's exactly what I've tried to capture in the new menu for the Crossroads restaurants."
Downtown Disney District guests can enjoy lunch and dinner seven days a week at "Crossroads at House of Blues" and breakfast Monday through Friday.
'Crossroads at House of Blues' Dining Experience Now at Downtown Disney District by Erin Glover: Originally posted on the Disney Parks Blog
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