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An ace director and one of the most talented actresses failed to get the cash registers ringing! Here are my reasons for the unexpected disaster!
A superstar, really?
Though we were kept under the impression that Kareena was slipping into the grand-garb of a reigning star in the world of films, in this Madhur Bhandarkar's so-called reality-inspired cinema, but we've only been witness to the majority throwing cold water on this not-so-exciting Heroine.
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Bebo's role and performance that had been talked about highly, ended not with a bang but with a whimper!
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In my case, this worked. There are things to be aware of - not following the prescribed course of steroids (missing doses, for example) can cause real problems, as a healthy immune system doesn't need all that much time to fire back up and cause the problem again. Suddenly stopping the steroids, especially early, will cause problems as the immune system tries to fire back up all at once. Excessive use of steroids is problematic, as it will change the pressure within the eye and can cause cataracts, although this is rare and (I'm told) always happens only after excessively long use (eight to twelve months). My course of treatment was seven weeks. If the steroids don't work, there 'may be surgical options' but nobody I talked to would say what those were, or looked sanguine about them. Happily, though, mine appear to have gone away as intended.
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With all of the injuries the Cowboys have suffered this season, we continued to witness the Cowboys get flatter each week . It was like watching a balloon with a slow leak. We watched because we are true fans, but even I found myself doing laundry while watching the game, something I never do. When the game is on nothing else gets done.
But Sunday night the Boys were back! Not only because they won the game but, because they had their personality back. Even with the penalties and a few dropped passes you could tell they were not about to give up. With Romo, Newman and alot of their injured players back somehow you felt they were getting their spark back with each and every play.
Yes, Tony is a talented quarterback but he is also their leader. With him back in charge they believed in themselves again. So many talked about how the Cowboys lacked leadership. Last night they proved that they have leadership everytime #9 takes the field!
Every Cowboy played their heart out Sunday night! Marion Barber showed America why he is the starter. He showed that he is a true 4th quarter running back. He keeps his momentum going thru the entire game.
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Six Ways to Sunday is only director Adam Bernstein's second theatrical film, so it's a little early to attempt a coherent analysis of his career. On the surface this young-mobster story couldn't be more different from his earlier effort, the egregiously unfunny It's Pat, which foolishly bloated Julia Sweeney's one-gag androgyne shtick to feature length.
What's amazing though, is the more you think about it, the clearer it becomes that there are connections between the two projects -- prime among them some of the downright ickiest sexuality in recent cinema. The opening scenes of Six Ways to Sunday aren't promising: We meet Harry Odum (Norman Reedus, who looks like a cross between Leonardo DiCaprio and Edward Furlong), a bland, wimpy young man who lives in a rundown house in Youngstown, Ohio, with his nauseatingly possessive mother (Debbie Harry). Son Harry is such a neb that his main reading is Dog Enthusiast magazine, even though he doesn't have a dog. (Presumably Mom couldn't take the emotional competition.) But the film is just setting us up: When Harry's friend Arnie (Adrien Brody), a gofer for the local mob, takes him along on a debt-collection errand, Harry goes berserk and nearly kills the deadbeat. To Arnie's surprise this explosion of violence immediately gives Harry credibility with the underboss, Abie Pinkwise (Peter Appel); to Arnie's dismay Abie displays a confidence in Harry that he's never had in Arnie. Although he's a gentile, Harry's psycho qualities quickly make him a chief enforcer for the local Jewish mob family, run by Mr. Varga (Jerry Adler). But the same qualities also make him a little too unpredictable for such a risky occupation, particularly when he lays eyes on Mr. Varga's beautiful, lame maid, Iris (Elina Lswensohn). Bernstein delicately balances Six Ways to Sunday on the edge between tragedy and grotesque comedy. Harry is such a pathetic sad sack, so damaged by the grasp of his mother's Oedipal talons, that he starts out sympathetic, despite his blandness. As his psychoses become clearer, however, he grows increasingly off-putting. Unlike for instance, Norman Bates (and the film makes at least one explicit acknowledgment of its debt to Psycho), Harry becomes more psychically impenetrable as the film progresses. We may get to understand him better, but our understanding makes us more distant: He becomes an object of our twisted interest rather than our doorway into the film's world.
Bernstein and co-writer Marc Gerald based the film on Charles Perry's 1962 novel, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning. They take many of the classic elements of the gangster films of the Thirties and Forties and push them to a level that would have been unthinkable back then. Harry's relationship with his mother is an extension of the devotion that dogged Jimmy Cagney characters from Public Enemy to White Heat. Harry is like White Heat's Cody Jarrett, taken to the logical extreme. (And you thought that Jarrett already was the extreme.)
In some ways this explicitness is a fault. It is precisely the inability of those old films to be upfront about their seamier themes that gives them much of their power; the surface ambiguity of their psychological pathology makes the characters even creepier. Still I don't think you'd want Six Ways to Sunday to be any creepier than it already is. It is shocking enough just to see Debbie Harry playing a grown man's mother (time sure does fly, doesn't it?), and her performance makes it even more shocking. She plays Mom as such a guilt-monster that, by comparison, Nancy Marchand on The Sopranos is a pussycat. Harry resembles the wacky moms of Ruth Gordon (in Where's Poppa?) and Gloria Grahame (in Head over Heels), but without their charm. Perry's novel was set in Brooklyn in the Thirties; the transplanting into contemporary terms is not always successful. As soon as you meet the Varga mob, you think: Old-style Jewish crime families still operate? Communicating in Yiddish, no less, and listening to Yiddish pop songs? And Youngstown, Ohio, is big enough to support this kind of operation? Oy! But realism clearly is not Bernstein's goal here. Both the temporal dislocation and the low budget (the milieu always feels unnatural, as though the crew was shooting quick and dirty on real locations and there wasn't enough money for extras) put us in some grungy internal landscape of the mind, inside a dirty dreamworld where Sigmund Freud and W. R. Burnett are queasy bedfellows.
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Same old Yankees
"Old doesn't mean that they're out to pasture. Old just means that they have a lot of experience, and they know how to play the game and do a lot of things right."
Joe Girardi
Born: Oct. 14, 1964
The Yankees have an older team, and while that might be a long-term concern, it doesn't seem to be hurting the Yankees in the here and now. These are the eight Yankees who will be at least 35 by the end of the year. It's not a bad group.
Mariano Rivera
Born: Nov. 29, 1969
The Yankees closer did it again last night. Another hitless inning with two more strikeouts. He's pitched 22.1 innings this season and he's allowed nine hits. He's 15 for 16 in save opportunities. Just watch and enjoy.
Jorge Posada
Born: Aug. 17, 1971
Injuries have been his biggest problem. Surely some of that is an age issue, but some of it has also been the product of fluke foul balls and errant pitches from Baltimore starting pitchers. When healthy, Posada has been as good as ever. He's hitting .288/.395/.544. That slugging percentage would be the highest of his career.
Andy Pettitte
Born: June 15, 1972
So far, it's looking like a career year for Pettitte. He's 8-1 with a 2.46 ERA, and he's pitched through the seventh inning in each of his past four starts. At this point he seems on his way to his first all-star game since 2001, and he's a legitimate candidate to start it.
Chan Ho Park
Born: June 30, 1973
Park has already allowed as many home runs as he surrendered all of last year, plus he's missed significant time with a hamstring injury, and he struggled in his first few outings back from the DL. But since an ugly outing in Minnesota, Park has allowed one run on four hits in his past seven innings. He's walked three and struck out 11.
Derek Jeter
Born: June 26, 1974
He's not having the same year as last year. To the naked eye, his defense seems to have taken a hit and his offensive numbers are down a bit — especially his on-base percentage — but he's still a .293 hitter with a .440 slugging percentage that's only slightly lower than his career mark. He's on pace for his highest RBI total in 10 years.
Damaso Marte
Born: Feb. 14, 1975
The last time he allowed a hit was May 17 in Boston, when he was asked to pitch 1.2 innings. The last time he was charged with a run was May 14 against the Twins. His job is to get out left-handers, and his WHIP against lefties is 0.91.
Chad Moeller
Born: Feb. 18, 1975
His role is remarkably limited and might be on its last legs now that Posada is able to catch again, but Moeller has been what the Yankees needed him to be: An experienced just-in-case option behind the plate. He's made four starts and has a double in two of them.
Alex Rodriguez
Born: July 27, 1975
After a slow month of April, Rodriguez came back with a .330/.408/.534 slash line in May. He was hitting .317 with two home runs and eight RBI in his past 10 games before the hip flexor issue. His power numbers are down, but he's still on track for another 100-plus RBI season. Could be better, and might get better.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Projects
Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas, is a 100 percent project-based learning school. They are part of the New Tech Network of schools and their approach has yielded remarkable results, including a 98 percent graduation rate, with all of their graduates accepted to college.
The success of their PBL approach is largely attributable to the fact that their process is designed to stimulate student inquiry. Additionally, their process can be applied to any project in any subject, which means there is a consistent approach across grades and subjects at Manor.
We followed a sophomore world studies class through a three-week project called Controlling Factors, created by teaching partners Mary Mobley (English) and Michael Chambers (world history). They designed a project that capitalized on the wild popularity among their students of the best-selling novel The Hunger Games. Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.
Here is a breakdown of key steps, with some examples from Mobley and Chambers's project:
- State standards: Every project at Manor starts with the state standards, and every project's final assessment requires that students demonstrate their mastery of them. State standards are laid out in the rubric, and students should be able to tell you which ones they're covering in any given project.
- Example: For Mobley and Chambers's project, world history standards included understanding the causes of the global depression, the response of governments to it, the rise of totalitarianism, and key world leaders in WWII. English language arts standards included analyzing moral dilemmas across cultures in works of fiction, making complex inferences from literature, and writing personal response essays.
- Critical Friends: Honest, two-way feedback and ongoing adjustments help Manor's projects to continually improve. Both students and teachers participate in a peer review protocol they call Critical Friends. Before teachers launch a project, they often have a session with colleagues for feedback, especially on the academic rigor of the project. Similarly, before their final presentations, students often run Critical Friends to give each other feedback in the form of "I like…" and "I wonder…" statements and suggest next steps for improvement.
- Example: Mobley and Chambers had a Critical Friends session with their department colleagues in which they received feedback on how to better integrate the two subjects. In this session, they also came up with the idea for the second part of the project, in which the students were broken up into districts and a ruling capital to simulate both the fictional and historical scenarios they were studying.
- Entry event: Teachers introduce each project with an entry event that serves several purposes: to hook the kids and get them engaged in the content, to provide an exemplar of what the teachers expect, and to introduce key vocabulary (such as people, events, and terminology) related to the targeted content to get the students thinking about what they'll need to know.
- Example: For the Controlling Factors entry event, Mobley and Chambers created a newsreel that included terms like "Mussolini," "totalitarianism," "global depression," and "World War II" as breadcrumbs. A student might already know what totalitarianism and World War II are, but may not know who Mussolini was and how those terms are all connected.
- "Need-to-know" list: Keywords in the entry event should prompt students to identify new concepts they'll need to learn and help them make connections to related content they already know. As a class, they agree on a shared list of need-to-knows, which they update individually throughout the project.
- Rubric: The rubric is an essential tool for maintaining transparency for students at Manor. Teachers carefully design rubrics to define all the desired learning outcomes for a project, including which state standards students are expected to master and how performance will be measured for each outcome. The rubric sets the standard for each project and is presented at the start so that students have clear goals to work toward.
- Group contract: Individual accountability is a critical component of successful PBL, and Manor students use group contracts to document expectations for each team member. Each project team writes a contract that clearly defines everyone's roles, responsibilities, and contributions to the project, and students are held to it. Students can be fired if they do not fulfill their part of the contract and must complete the project on their own, although this rarely happens at Manor.
- Research and collaboration: Once the project is launched, it is up to the students to work together to figure out what their final product is going to be and how they will acquire the knowledge they need to complete it. Teachers provide workshops to go over concepts depending on students' needs, and they have students run workshops for each other to reinforce their learning and build collaboration.
- Example: Workshops for The Hunger Games project included student-led discussions about real moral dilemmas from events in history or fictional examples based on events in the book. They also had workshops on different totalitarian leaders and other world leaders during WWII.
- Assessment and adjustment: Throughout the process, teachers and students give and receive feedback and make adjustments accordingly. Teachers track student progress to make sure no student is falling behind. Depending on what they find, they might go back and do more scaffolding, quiz more, or provide additional workshops. "If I have a student who is almost done with an entire project and is not doing very well," says Mobley, "I really step back and wonder, 'Where was I this whole time? Why wasn't I paying more attention to the student's progress?'"
- Presentations: Public presentations are the common element to all projects at Manor, with up to 80 percent of them in front of an external audience. Verbal communication, public speaking, and other important nonacademic skills are honed in this process.
- Example: Final presentations for Mobley and Chambers's project included a multimedia presentation with audience participation about a moral dilemma faced by Nazi concentration camp survivors and a skit dramatizing the moral decisions made by world leaders running up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Final assessment: Because teachers take pains to observe student progress throughout the process, the final assessments tend to be relatively easy. The work up front on creating a clearly defined rubric that identifies multiple learning outcomes and criteria also helps considerably. As Mobley explains, "By the time students turn in their final work, they should know what grade they're going to get."
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While watching all of the videos posted at Edutopia as well as other sites, one part that always seems to be missing is the instruction. All of the videos focus on a bit of teacher collaboration, student performance assessments; but the instruction is always left out. Is the instruction traditional but not shown, or are the students on their own to find information? That is the missing piece for me. Do they get choice in how they want to learn the content, is there a list of "to do's", or is direct instruction happening and the students work as the instruction takes place? Am I missing something. Thanks
That is an excellent question, Nathan. Depending on what strategy we are focusing on, sometimes we're not able to show as much of the details of classroom instruction in lieu of capturing details about the strategy. In the case of Manor, students learn the content through a variety of methods, almost all of those you listed. At the start of each project, they identify "need to knows" on both a class and individual level, and students are responsible for their list. They find the information through independent research, sharing info with each other, group workshops, and occasionally traditional teacher instruction. The teachers generally use the students as a gauge for when this is appropriate. If they are getting feedback from several students indicating difficulty with a subject, or if they want to make sure everyone is on the right track, then they will give direct instruction to the class. Otherwise, they serve as guides and a resource, and let students take on the responsibility of how they will obtain and learn the information. Hope that helps, thanks for the insightful question.
Mariko had a nice reply to your comment and I wanted to add that your view is a common question from people looking in at a PBL classroom. Whole group instruction does (and should) occur, small group instruction is even more prevalent, and individual research is on going. PBL is just good teaching practices all rolled into a thing we call PBL. There are daily formative or summative assessments, daily reflection pieces, and peer critiques going on continuously, as well. PBL is HARD to do properly. But when the students and the teacher both understand the process, it is incredibly rewarding for both teacher and student.
Thank you for the helpful additional info, Chris! Excellent to get it straight from the classroom.
Great! I want this to be shared to our U.B.I. scholars in Urians of Bayugan International, Inc - UBI of Bayugan, Agusan del sur so that they will learn more by doing projects by themselves.
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The Essentials of #PBL. Resources: @biepbl and @edutopia. Inspired by @ncnewschools #ScalingStem '13. pic.twitter.com/kyrpTEyUIa
So, Manor's shift from PROJECT Based Learning to PROBLEM Based Learning in math has enabled teachers to recognize and respond to students' math-related needs more quickly. How does their model for PrBL differ from PBL? What is it about the PrBL that facilitates "immediate remediation", that is not present in PBL?
This story about Manor is inspiring. This is a three-week project? It sounds like there's too much to accomplish in three weeks. Was one hour a day devoted to the project for the three weeks? Or two hours a day, given it integrated SS and Eng? Or full days for three weeks?
Can we get a glimpse of the project calendar mentioned in their project form?
Hi, I'm not sure whose statement you're agreeing with, but do you mean "doing problems" as they are traditionally use in math - like the ones in a textbook? Or do you mean problem based learning is when students learn a concept more deeply? I'd agree with that, but not with the idea that textbook questions allow students to learn very deeply. I've seen plenty of project based units in math that go deeply into concepts - maybe you've seen some poor examples of PBL.
I had really hoped that this was an active discussion because I really want and answer to my question. May we please see a project calendar?


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In August 1995, Arthur Weasley was assigned to use one of these to solve the problem of the regurgitating toilets that had been set up by Willy Wildershins.[1]
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I used to be friends with a woman who was a nutritionist by profession. She was a nice person, but pretty uptight. She once told me I had to break my emotional connection with food. Admittedly, my food follies as of late have been calorically supercharged, but that's what exercise is for right?
I haven't thought about what she said to me for a few years, but looking at the picture above brings it back to me. I get what she was saying, but it was inherently maligned. People who rely on food as an emotional crutch have problems that need treatment. But food is inherently about an emotional connection.
Sustenance aside, cooking for someone is about providing for them. It's more symbolic than it was in caveman times, but the action of creating food for someone and sharing it with them is a core example of the human experience on a basal, altruistic level. Eating food elicits feeling of happiness because of that shared connection. It becomes a memory, and brings up past, similar memories.
What's my emotional connection to the awesome looking burger? Aside from being freakin' delicious, it was made by a good friend, Tadashi Ono.
Tadashi is the executive chef at Matsuri. As a Japanese chef who learned his chops in a traditional french kitchen, he's an artist whose ability to created beautiful, interesting food is steeped in an organic, heartfelt love of creating food for others to enjoy.
I met Tadashi when he came on as head chef at my parents' restaurant, La Caravelle (now closed). He came on in the mid 90's and unleashed a fusion of japanese ingredients in a traditional french setting before it became an overdone fad. It was inventive, not gimmicky. He created some of the best food to ever come out of that kitchen, and it was a joy for my brothers and I to eat there whenever we could.
Flash forward a few years, and the New York Times' Alex Witchel wrote a fantastic piece on my mother, our champagne, and Tadashi. It was also a showcase for how well Champagne mixes with unlikely, "unrefined" foods such as burgers.
The burger in question comes from Tadashi's new book: The Japanese Grill. It's full of simple, delicious, Japanese grill recipes that are perfect for the summer. At a glance, the burger looks pretty normal. Hell, it even looks overcooked. It's not. Tadashi invited me to Matsuri for a cooking session and used it to show off a few awesome dishes from the new book, including the burger.
The secret to that burger is as follows: It's a mixture of ground pork,beef (the fresher the better, duh), panko soaked in milk, onion, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Check out the recipe here.
Pretty large patties are formed with a divot in the middle. when you hit it on the grill rack, the pork fat renders, and it plumps up.
To add nutritional insult to injury, a pat of butter on top of the burgers while they are finishing up adds a simple decadence to it. Slap the burger on a lightly-grilled Brioche bun, and you're almost done.
Normal ketchup won't do. Instead, Tadashi iterates and combines it with a popular japanese condiment, Wasabi.
Together, it's a fantastic combination. The burger is juicy and fatty, despite being cooked medium due to the pork content (not that I have a problem with medium-rare pork). The wasabi ketchup offers a refreshing antithetical kick that brings everything together.
The best part of watching the burger take shape was watching Tadashi himself. He exudes a heartfelt love of the craft; it speaks to his emotional connection to the creation and sharing of food.
Tadashi reminds me of the importance of having that emotional connection. It's cultural and inherently human to do so. As far as I'm concerned, that once-friend of mine was as wrong as ever. She has repressed her connection to something that brings us all together, and that makes me sad for her. If proving her wrong means gaining a few lbs around the middle, so be it.


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The BrikVerse and all the places it interacts with are home to a staggering amount of creatures, many of them even sentient. With the planes teeming with life, and their own fates seemingly directed by outside forces, it is only natural that copious quantities of theological and philosophical beliefs and ideas would arise from a population struggling to make sense of it all.
There are many cults and religions in the Universe. Here are the more notorious ones.
Philosophy is endless in the BrikVerse, but often very simple. The great questions in life can be answered with the pointy end of a stick.


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Josh Koury and Myles Kane met in 2002 at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where they studied filmmaking. They started the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival in 2002, where they met Eric Swain and Troy Bernier, who had submitted numerous films to their event. While Koury and Kane initially didn't know what to make of their work, they eventually screened the films at the festival and began a long relationship with the filmmakers.
That relationship is what led to Koury and Kane's documentary, "Journey to Planet X."
What it's about: "Journey to Planet X" follows Eric Swain and Troy Bernier, two amateur filmmakers who struggle to create an epic, low budget sci-fi film titled "Planet X."
Director Koury says: "We make character driven documentaries that are hopefully funny and inspiring, but have an emotional core. Our film is ultimately a story about these two amateur filmmakers' creative journey. They set out to produce something larger and wider reaching than their previous work, which is a leap of faith for them. Troy and Eric's films have always been exciting and unpredictable because they are created on the fringe, by an unlikely creative team. They simultaneously attempt to emulate the familiar formats of 'hollywood style' action films while also telling unique tales from imagined worlds of their own. The results are often bizarre, but very fun to watch."
On the challenges: "The biggest challenge for us was making a film about amateur filmmaking that was funny and entertaining but also wouldn't be misunderstood as something condescending or exploitative. Since screening their films at Brooklyn Underground, we've been huge fans of Troy and Eric's work, and wanted to get behind the scenes of their filmmaking process. We sometimes forget how difficult it is to create these things – it's physically and emotionally straining, you feel overwhelmed and anxious at every turn, and even after all of your efforts there's no guarantee your film will ever find an audience. That's tough as an independent filmmaker. Through the process of making 'Journey to Planet X' we saw our own anxieties, excitement, and fear reflected in every step of Troy and Eric's production. The similarities were eye-opening."
What would you like Tribeca audiences to come away with? "Hopefully the audience will leave feeling inspired by Troy and Eric's perseverance and their earnest and unpretentious approach to making films. We also hope that more people are turned on to their work and see the magic that we've seen for years. Obvious comparisons can be made between our documentary and 'American Movie' (a film we both adore). They are both stories about characters who are struggling to make their mark and create something big. However, more than a decade later, a lot of the technological boundaries have disappeared and it's completely possible to create a film that takes place in outer space, with computer generated space craft and laser battles. What they lack in experience and budget, they make up for with passion and blind ambition. It's ultimately a universal story of the struggle that every filmmaker goes through to realize their vision and bring a project to life."
On the film's inspirations: "We watch documentaries constantly. One of the exciting things about docs is seeing how filmmakers portray the material, and figuring out how they solve problems and sculpt a narrative structure. I value every screening we go to, because even if we don't particularly care for the film, there's almost always something that we can take away from it that helps inform our filmmaking. I guess that's one of the reasons we felt inspired by Troy and Eric's work. It's very strange stuff, but it's the kind of outsider filmmaking we absolutely fell in love with when we first programmed their work at the Brooklyn Underground back in 2003. There was an undeniable passion behind it all and a certain charm in the follies and amateur shortcomings. The blend of low budget effects, cast of amateur actors, and bizarre plots resulted in work that was infectious and mesmerizing. "
What do you hope to get out of the Tribeca experience? "We just hope people enjoy the film. It's a huge honor to be at Tribeca – we've never had a World Premiere in NYC before. Myles and I both moved to NYC in the late 90s, so we feel like this is our home. It's so exciting to be able to bring this film to such an amazing festival right in our backyard. It will be great to celebrate this with Troy and Eric, who will get to share in the excitement of a big premiere."
Future projects: "The next thing we have will be a short film on the Cryonics movement -the science of preserving deceased people for possible revival in the future. It's a short film which is a bit of a departure from us, but we're excited to make it. The film is in the can and we hope to have it finished by the end of the year. Sometime in the late Summer we hope to begin work on our next feature length film – no idea what that one's about yet."
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On Halloween Eve, the fox is showcasing two of the best films of 2009; and although they seem lack the overall theme of spooks, boos and haunts, they do serve well with the array of classic cinema being showcased at the fox. On Friday night at 7pm Marc Webb's underdog hit (500) Days of Summer is screening opening for Quentin Tarantino's newest bloodbath Inglourious Basterds (2009) at 9pm .
On Halloween night, The Fox is going all out with a total of three feature screening, an opera performance and toons for toddlers screening at 10:30am. A special presentation of Shane Acker's surprise animated hit 9 (2009) at 1pm . At 2:30pm, Opera at the Fox featuring Don Giovanni gets everyone yelling and screaming early in their seats. Followed by what is considered the scariest film of all time, William Friedkin's 1973 classic The Exorcist at 7pm. To close out your Halloween and still early enough to head over to any other Halloween inspired parties that evening at 9:30pm is a screening of master filmmaker and resident weirdo/genius Stanley Kubrick and his 1980 horror classic The Shining. Because there is nothing more pleasant than having the image of Jack Nicholson chasing you with an axe before you go to bed. Here's Johnny! Happy Halloween folks and see you at the Fox theatre!
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So whenever I'm asked the question, "what's the easiest way to design a party with style on a budget?" my answer is always the same. Go and get yourself a brand. A party logo. Which can come in the form of a monogram, a distinctive color palette or a fun icon. Then thread that little piece of pretty into everything you can think of and voila. Instant cohesion among a chaos. For Audrey's birthday party, I settled on a sweet golden crown that I hand-painted with a glitter + glue combo (which is crazy because I'm not an artsy kind of mama) onto a handful of fun details. Namely, some simple cotton sacks and cute lunch bags filled with popcorn.
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Pope Francis is driven through the crowd in in St. Peter's Square for his inaugural Mass at the Vatican on Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013. Francis took his name from Francis of Assisi, who was known for his concern for the poor and downtrodden, and for a 13th century encounter with the Sultan of Egypt.
Catholics and Muslims have come a long way since the Crusades, but during the tenure of Pope Benedict XVI, relations between the world's two largest religions hit the skids.
So it was with relief and renewed optimism that prominent Muslims and interfaith advocates cheered the newly anointed Pope Francis.
"We are hoping for better relations with the Vatican after the election of the new pope," Mahmud Azab, adviser for inter-faith affairs at Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning in Cairo, told AFP. "We congratulate the Church of St. Peter and all Catholics around the world."
"By the second one [World Day of Prayer for Peace in 1993] Muslims could see he didn't have any other agenda — that he wasn't going to get them all together and convince them to become Christians," said Michel, now a professor of Christian-Muslim relations at Georgetown University.
"By the time of the third, in 2002, there were so many leaders of Muslims organizations there wasn't room for them on the podium… I don't think Muslims changed so much, but what changed was the level of trust."
Mohammed brought 'evil and inhuman' But when Benedict gave a controversial speech at the University of Regensburg in Germany in 2006 — a little more than a year after his installation as pope — he sparked fury across the Muslim world by quoting a Byzantine Emperor as saying, "show me just what Mohammed brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman."
Muslim protestors rally in Jammu, India on Sept. 15, 2006 after Pope Benedict XVI made a controversial speech at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
In response to the pope's comments — though some argued they had been misunderstood — 138 leading Muslim scholars from around the world signed an open letter of protest to Benedict. In some countries there were protests and attacks on churches.
"It was a very strained period of the relationship," said John Esposito, professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.
The Vatican took measures to patch up the fallout from Regensburg speech — which Vatican officials reportedly called "the accident."
They held formal meetings with the Muslim leaders who had launched a "common word" initiative emphasizing the shared principles at the core of Christian and Islamic scriptures.
In October 2006, Benedict traveled to Turkey, making a symbolic visit to the ornate Blue Mosque in Instanbul where he emphasized his desire for reconciliation between Muslims and Christians.
And in 2009, Benedict traveled to Jordan and visited the site where Jesus was baptized, emphasizing the "common history" of Christianity and Islam. Even so, he stopped short of praying with his Muslim hosts in a mosque, or taking his shoes off to enter the prayer hall.
Dialogue resumed, but the relationship remained cool.
There are some early signs that Pope Francis could pick up where Pope John Paul II left off.
Reports from Argentina citing local Muslim leaders suggest that Francis — formerly Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires — was a friend to the Muslim community.
One report out of the country said that in 2006 Bergoglio spoke out against the Regensburg speech, according to the Daily Telegraph of London.
Quick response to Francis "Pope Benedict's statements don't reflect my own opinions," he said in a local press interview, according to the report. "These statements will serve to destroy in 20 seconds the careful construction of a relationship with Islam that Pope John Paul II built over the last twenty years."
But a lot of Muslim optimism about Francis is based simply on hunches about his character.
The initial impression of the pope — as a man who values simplicity, openness, and the ability to connect with all people — is appealing to Muslims, said Esposito.
Cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
For the new pope's installation ceremony, he noted: "They went out of their way to talk about how people of all major faiths are invited. From the other side, it's interesting to see how quick Muslims were… to say how they look forward to working with him."
He referred to public statements issued by prominent imams as well as larger Muslim civil rights groups including the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
Michel saw the same optimism about Pope Francis in a flood of email from Muslims.
"They are so happy and looking forward to working with him," he said. "He's coming in as every pope does with a real fund of good will and they are really hoping that he will be someone he can work with."
Building trust and influence If Francis establishes a relationship of trust with Muslims, it could have impact beyond just warm and fuzzy feelings, some observers believe.
A pope with a new approach could be important in a Muslim-majority country like Pakistan, where minority Christians — most of them Catholics — suffer persecution, says Jeff Siddique, a Muslim-American in Seattle who was born in Pakistan.
"If (Pope Francis) can build a relationship with the leadership in Pakistan, he may be able to convince them that protecting the Christians in Pakistan is a good thing to do," he said.
Likewise, he may be able to restart discussions with Al-Azhar University in Egypt, which cut off dialogue with the Vatican in 2011 after Benedict called for greater protections for non-Muslims after a suicide bomber attacked a church in Egypt, killing 23 people. Al-Azhar cut ties over what it said was Benedict's "repeated treatment of Islam in a negative way."
To have an influence across religions requires a foundation of trust, said Michel.
"When they trust each other they can speak freely," he said. "If people come on as scolds or know-it-alls, they get their backs up and won't accept it."
For some seeking clues about the pontiff's position on Christian-Muslim relations, his choice of Francis — after Francis of Assisi — has significance beyond his emphasis on simplicity and concern for the poor and downtrodden.
A 13th century story describes how St. Francis left the camp of the crusaders who were attacking the walled Egyptian city of Damietta, and dared to cross enemy lines to meet with Malik al-Kamil, the sultan of Egypt. He risked being killed, but instead, he had a fruitful conversation with the Muslim leader and left unharmed.
The encounter is played up in newer biographies as a pivotal moment of engagement between the two religions.
"We're seeing the church interpret Francis in modern times as a bridge," said Paul Moses, author of "The Saint and the Sultan," a 2009 book which explores the encounter. "To Muslims ears, the choice of Francis for a name should sound good," he told Religion News Service.
"I'd say that it's pushing it to say this was a factor," said Michel. Nonetheless, he said other signs favor improving ties — from both sides of the divide.
"I get the feeling of 'let's start over, let's start a new chapter. The last one was bumpy'."


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The U.S. is experiencing the worst drought since 1956, with 56% of the nation suffering from dry and hot conditions. This epic drought is baking crops, scorching pastures and dwindling hay supplies.
As many of our neighbors have already started to feed hay this summer, there is increased worry about having enough feed resources available to get through the winter; and if none are available, the next worry is how much will it cost to purchase hay? In normal years, we market our surplus hay, but this year, we are turning down interested callers, keeping every bale we have in preparation for a shortage this winter.
As the drought continues to impact much of the U.S., this week's online poll question at beefmagazine.com asks: "What's your local price for good grass hay?" Vote and leave your comments in the comment section.
With 139 votes so far, 46% of you say local good grass hay is running $100-149/ton. Another 39% of you say $150/ton or more, while 14% report good grass hay in their local area at $99/ton or less. Another 1% say it's not available.
Vote in the poll here.
How are things in your neck of the woods? Are you able to put up enough hay, or do you plan to purchase some? If so, how much are you having to pay?
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Capturing the right words to share memories can be a challenge' but it'll be easier than ever with the more than 175 solutions, quizzes, and ideas in this book. Even the most experienced scrapbookers' and writers' can get stumped from time to time. Words are sometimes hard to find, or they don't seem adequate to capture the powerful feelings behind the photos. That's why the editors at Creating Keepsakes magazine have gathered together some of the most inspiring' and easy to follow' journaling solutions around. Beginners and longtime scrapbookers both will find what they need to get beyond those writing stumbling blocks to share their memories with style and meaning. There is inspiration in every page. AuthorsCreating Keepsakes ISBN9781609002442 Pages288 ThemesGeneral - Additional Information
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This 1970 double LP proved to be about as good an approximation of the singular methodology of a Doors concert as was possible in the pre-video era. Alternately short and to the point (like the AM radio hits "Touch Me," "People Are Strange," and "Hello, I Love You," among those featured here) and long and meandering (like such open-ended excursions as "When the Music's Over" and "The Celebration of the Lizard"), Morrison and crew displayed the full slate of their estimable powers as both musicians and motivators--continuing to daringly break through whatever sonic and thematic doors they opened. --Billy Altman


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Crime and Punishment In The Elizabethan Era
A presentation by: Jacob, Ryan, Josh, Nick, and Sean
The Commoner The Nobility
Conditions poor at best- dangerous and disease ridden
Poverty forced many into crime to survive
However, not all commoner crimes were acts of desperation
Crimes differed extremely from lower class
They were much more political,due to their power in government and church.
Some nobility pursued forbidden practices and committed various other crimes
Common Crimes of The Commoner
Cut Purse
Vagabondage (begging)
Dice Cogging
Common Crimes of The Nobles
High Treason
What They Actually Were
Lower Class Crimes
And How They Were Punished
The act of being publicly drunk
Punishment extremely different from today's - it was the Drunkard's Cloak
Essentially was an ale barrel with 3 holes
Unbelievably so, gossip was illegal .
Women were almost exclusively charged with this crime.
The punishment was the Gossip's Bridle
Painful device that cut the tongue when user spoke
Dice Coggers
Dice cogging was when a con artist setup a dice stand and cheated the players
Not only dice, many dice coggers cheated other games
Punishment was severe, you could be hanged of have digits cut off
Upper Class Crimes
Vagabondage ( begging )
person without a permanent home who moves
from place to place.
Drunkenness awarded one with this very fashionable barrel
Could you imagine this in your mouth? OUCH!
Was a Major Crime
More likely committed by the rich.
Punishable by death, Most likely by caged or hanged
Mostly committed by lower class
Punishable by death
Used mostly in riots or government issues
Poisoning was when you slipped a lethal chemical into another person's drink
Men were boiled in lead, and wives who poisoned there husbands were burned alive
Committed by Lower Class
Punishment depended on time of day
Blasphemy is speaking offensively
about religion
If you committed blasphemy you were burned alive
Sedition is the act of speaking of protest or rebelling.
You were whipped, or branded.
If it was serious enough you could be hung and quartered.
High treason was a crime that the crown did not tolorate and felt that all treasones acts should be punished harshy and without mercy.
There was 1 punishment for this crime and that was the triple punishment. This is when they would hang you until your half dead then they would remove your internal organs and would finaly quarter you.
- This was a major crime
- The accused would be quarterd
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Steeler fans are at Candlestick Park in force. Terrible towels are being waved all over the stadium. It seems as if half the fans are waving the yellow towels characteristic of Steeler partisans.
Tight end Delanie Walker said on KNBR this week that having fans root for the away team at Candlestick upsets him and the rest of his teammates. "Yeah, it makes us mad," Walker said.
Not that the 49ers didn't prepare for it. They played loud music this week at practice to prepare for Steeler fans, who probably travel more than any other NFL fans. We'll see how it plays out during the game and how many fights it inspires in the stands.


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7418 Beechmont Ave.
Anderson Township
We met up with friends on Friday evening to check out the newly opened Kar-Ma Asian Bistro, situated next door to Carrabbas at Anderson Towne Centre. The restaurant is quite small and might be considered cozy if it was not so chilly - most likely due to the fact that one whole wall is a bank of windows, making it a difficult space to heat. On a night where the temperature dipped into the teens, sitting next to a large window with little insulation isn't ideal. Luckily it is currently fashionable to wear winter scarves indoors.
The restaurant is tastefully decorated with teak wall hangings and soothing paintings, and little red votive candles glow brightly on each table.
Since the restaurant does not currently have a liquor license, we ordered a round of hot tea to warm ourselves up. Our waiter told us that if we wanted, he would hold our table while we nipped over to Kroger to grab a bottle of wine, but we declined and said we'd remember to bring our own next time. Rather than a pot of tea, we were given bags of organic green tea to steep in our cups, which would have been fine had the water been hot enough, but by the time our bags had steeped the tea was tepid at best. We were given a glass caraf - similar to a Bodum coffee press - of hot water to top up our tea as needed, but the caraf either wasn't designed to keep the water hot, or the water wasn't hot enough to begin with. Proper tea pots or insulated carafs would be a better option.
Wanting something to warm me up, I thought I might order some hot soup, but the waiter informed me that none were vegetarian. Too bad, but at least he was well informed and knew the menu, which was a plus. Instead, I decided upon a fried tofu appetizer, while Steve opted for fishcakes and Mike and Jennifer split a spring roll and an order of pot stickers.
The kitchen seemed to have trouble pacing the dishes and courses - none of our appetizers arrived at the same time, and by the time all four were on the table, mine, which had been the first to arrive, was no longer hot. Despite this, I thought the tofu was very good; firm wedges lightly browned in peanut oil and served on a bed of shredded carrot with a side of peanut sauce for dipping. Before we could eat, however, we needed napkins and cutlery, which were not on the table when we were seated. Our waiter apologized profusely and rectified the mistake quickly, bringing out chopsticks as well.
Steve found his fishcakes to be rubbery and unappealing, but Mike and Jen had better luck with their pot stickers and spring rolls, which they ate with great gusto.
I quizzed our waiter on which entrees were and were not vegetarian since the menu didn't specify, and was told that the restaurant does not use fish sauce or shrimp paste in their curries - a big plus for vegetarians and vegans. Since I had already had a green curry earlier in the week at Bangkok Bistro, I asked if any of their specialties were vegetarian and was told that the Pra-Ram was a completely vegan option. Intrigued, I decided to give it a try.
Pra-ram is a Thai peanut curry consisting of vegetables and lightly browned tofu stir-fried in peanut sauce and put atop a bed of baby spinach leaves. When the first two dishes arrived (as with the starters, the kitchen hadn't coordinated the timing of all four dishes correctly) the server who brought out the food incorrectly identified Jen's chicken-ginger stif-fry as my Pra-ram. As we sat waiting for the other two meals to arrive we pondered over whether or not the dish sitting in front of me was indeed praram, since there wasn't a hint of spinach to be found, and the "tofu" looked suspiciously like chicken. Steve tried a small bite and announced that it was definitely chicken, which was when the other two dishes arrived at the table and the heaping dish of tofu and veggies over baby spinach was placed in front of Jennifer. We swapped plates and tucked in.
Kar-Ma's heat scale for their dishes ranges from 1-3 and, feeling adventurous (plus I was still attempting to get warm), I went for broke and ordered mine as a 3. Three might be the hottest on their scale, but I found it to be rather mild - more like a three on a scale of 1-10. Steve and Mike both found their paad thai entrees to have no heat whatsoever. Even without the heat, I found the pra-ram full of peanut-y goodness and would certainly recommend it, as there was a nice juxtaposition of warm, crunchy veggies, chewy tofu and fresh baby spinach. Personally I thought there was a little too much peanut sauce in this dish, but not enough to detract from the overall taste.
Our table was surprised with two complimentary desserts, possibly to make up for the uneven service we had received, and those two plates more than made up for the chilly surroundings and poor timing.
The restaurant, owned by the same family that runs MeKong Thai in Sycamore Township, is still trying to find its footing, and I hope that they do.


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This past weekend my husband and I started 4 batches of our limoncello to give as Christmas gifts. Since we only need the zest of the lemon for the limoncello, I now have a 1/2 gallon of lemon juice. I've been looking for some new recipes that will help me use it all up! In my searching, I kept finding lemon cookie recipes that used lemon cake mix, egg and cool whip. I was pretty curious. They all had positive reviews. Many had stories about grandmas making them for them as kids. I had to try them! Most were pretty similar, so I combined a few recipes and added some fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and ground clove. They turned out really nice. My boys decided they were kind of like cake, and kind of like cookies, so they called them "cakeys"!
The Recipe: Makes about 3 dozen
1 lemon cake mix
8 oz. whipped topping thawed
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves ( I think I will add more next time)
the zest of one lemon
1/4 cup lemon juice
powdered sugar to roll cookies in
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
Zest the lemon. In mixing bowl combine zest, whipped topping and eggs. Next add cloves, lemon juice and cake mix. Stir well.
Let the dough rest. I found that my second batch was much easier to roll than the first batch after it had sat for about 15 minutes. Using a spoon, scoop balls of dough (about 1 tablespoon) and drop in bowl of powdered sugar. Roll around the sugar using a fork. Place on cookie the "sheet. Bake for 10-12 min, just until the bottoms start to turn golden brown.
Let the "cakeys" cool on their cookie sheet for a few minutes. Then enjoy! They are delicious with a mug of tea!


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My good friends are in them midst of a battle with a pipeline, so I had a few hours to sew one day when they were being filmed by a news crew and the girls were out playing with their adopted cousins. I purposefully brought only one item to sew for myself, which was fabric for a new bag. I've needed a new everyday bag for a while now - the old one is seasonally in the wrong (gray corduroy) as well as dingy and in need of a wash. I've been embarrassed to take it anywhere lately.
See? It even looks like it's frowning at me. |
And it turns out that a bag is the perfect for a little light vacation sewing: quick, easy, with no fitting issues. The beach novel of the sewing world.
This is the bag pattern from Burdastyle's Sewing Handbook. My only changes this time around were to add an internal zippered pocket, thermolam fleece interfacing to give the bag structure, and faux leather handles.
I bought slightly longer handles this time around (26 inches instead of the 19 inch handles I used for my last Burda bag) because I wanted to be able to wear the bag easily with a coat in the fall. They are maybe a tad too long now, but they hit about right.
I used fabric that I bought about 9 months ago from Ikea and the bag handles are from Etsy shop Merry Sewing N Fabric. The print is a little wild, but as these are all colors I regularly wear (teal/turquoise, purple, green), I figured I could pull it off. And I also don't care that much if it doesn't work - it's summer and I think the fashion police are all drinking Mai Tai's in their Hawaiian shirts.
This wasn't the only vacation sewing I did, as I brought some projects for Malinda and her girls that I'll show off for them later in the week. And I had so much fun with my own light sewing, that I made up a little clutch when I got back home which I'll post once the glue dries (my first metal frame!).
How about you? Have you done any beach sewing lately?


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LED kitchen lighting –My experience.
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I'm a kitchen designer in St. Louis. We are doing a new display in our showroom and in an effort to showcase the "latest and greatest" we are using LED lighting in one area of the display.
We made calls to all of the lighting suppliers in St. Louis looking for a lighting showroom with LED lights. All were aware of LED but had none on display and had not sold any for residential use.
So we went to the internet and bought fixtures without knowing how they would perform. I needed under cabinet lights and puck lights that would be in view.
For the "UCL's" we went with the cyberlux company "Pro HB" fixtures. I am very impressed by them. Each is 32" long and is similar in output to flo's or zenon lighting. The bad thing is the cost. $400+ Yikes!!!
For the pucks we went with a second company. Two pucks and transformer was $95. they are 1 watt 20 lumens. They don't put out much light and will are returning them.
We may use 3 watt pucks from aemricanlighting.com. We are waiting on pricing.
Verdict??...... not worth the cost. The savings in energy used is not worth the trouble. Emagine lighting an entire home in LED at these costs. The price will come down with time but for now its a high end product for people with deep pockets.
Zenon is the most popular lighting used in kitchens now. It runs cooler that halogen and the bulbs last longer. The cost for a 30" fixture with bulbs is around $70 and pucks are about $100 for 3 pucks and 1 transformer.
I'm sorry, but lighting manufacturers and their outrageous prices for $2.00 worth of parts make me laugh. Which is not to say that I haven't forked out big dollar for a chic Italian light fixture or two in my house, but 3 puck lights for $100? PUHLEEZE! It seems like undercabinet lighting (along with track lighting) in particular is the biggest offender.
IKEA's TRETTIOEN LED strip light system looks great and is cheap. And how about 4 LED pucks for $35? Also IKEA, as are the three halogen pucks for $14.99, including transformer.
As I suggested above, the lighting in my house runs the gamut from $.99 fixtures to $500+ fixtures. My expensive lights are no better than the cheapos, and the irony is that I've discovered that most of the time the expensive stuff is just as crappily constructed as the cheap stuff. Paying for unique, good design I accept, but there is generally nothing at all innovative or unique about undercabinet fixtures. And as far as Zenon running cooler goes, I have both halogen and zenon undercabinet lights in my house. I notice absolutely ZERO difference in heat output between the two. So yes, I accpet that on paper, Zenon may operate cooler than Halogen, but in practice, it is not a big enough difference to be a legit selling point. The bottom line is they both crank out A LOT of heat. And yes, maybe the bulbs last longer, but they also cost three times as much.
We received the new pucks from americanlighting.com. I'm very impressed they are 3-4 times brighter than the pucks we returned from another company. They are 3 watt 3-bulb fixtures 2 ½" diam. with a heavy aluminum housing that can be surface or recessed mounted. (Model #LPL-1BK) They are cool to the touch.
We were not looking for the most affordable LED lighting but the best available at this time. They are going in our new showroom display. The fixtures would cost about $360 for 2 pucks, 1 transformer & cords.
If I were doing LED in my own home I'd look at the fixtures from IKEA.
5 years from now this stuff will be at your local home Depot and be much cheaper to purchase. For now its still a new technology and your going to pay high prices for high quality fixtures.
LED has a long way to go to replace other forms of lighting in the home. It sounds cool, but it falls down in alot of areas.
*less efficacy than fluoroecent
*electronics not tolerent to heat
*some are not dimable
*limited fixture designs available
*color of light (some good/some bad)
*requires driver (transformer)
*lamps not replaceable (varies)
I had the same experience. But I also believe they are the future when the price comes down and light output goes up.
They run cool, and I think they have more lumens per watt than CFL's
Howdy! I'm with you all the way with LED's. They are way over priced... usually. We sell a few LED lights off our website, but have chosen to stick with the less expensive stuff. I have been totally shocked at how expensive they really are. Here's a link to some outdoor spots we sell on our website:
http://www.rlights.com/viewproduct.php?id=13971 These are only 8 bucks, but you can't get under cabinet lights that cheap. You can't get puck lights that cheap. Look at the automotive ones. I just paid $300 for a pair of break lights for our Expedition. Yikes! They look cool anyway, but ya, LED's are usually way WAY over priced. I'd actually be surprised to see them get very popular in the lighting industry. They don't diffuse right and the color rendering isn't warm like people like.
Finally Lowes is carring what looks like some cheap under cabinet pucks. 25-30 bucks for three with transformer.
If you are looking for high performance LEDS I'd look to "Color Kenetics" owned by Phillips. Price continues to drop on high end LED products but very slowly.
interesting thread. you can spot a lot of best company leds in the market. overpriced leds a somewhat preferred since they are more useful and last longer.
Professional LED lights suppliers information website :http://www.topledsupplier.com .
A new way to lights up your life for led lights.
LED lights are now much famous nowadays...No doubt this kind of lights are the caused to minimize the electric consuming and increase the beauty of your kitchen....
One thing I'd like to mention is that if you live in California and the areas you are lighting are subject to Title 24 restrictions (kitchens, bathrooms, closets and outdoor areas), http://www.ledstrips8.com/outdoor-led-lighting-c-11.html lights are not included in the allowable fixtures, only flourescent. So make sure you talk to your inspector and get a specific exemption for the LED bulbs/fixtures. If the inspector looks up to your ceiling and sees normal, screw-in type cans ready for your LED bulbs, you will not pass your inspection!
LED lights are the good source to make decoration of your kitchen and also it consume the less energy, we can say that these lights are energy savors..
LED bulbs have a number of advantages over both halogen lights and incandescent light bulbs. In fact, from an environmental perspective, one can easily argue that CFL bulbs, while reducing demand for electricity, will cause tremendous harm. This is a way to enhance the festive mood and also welcome guests on any special occasions. With some wall lights, coloured filters are also available to heighten the glow. You will find that both flexible and fixed LED light strips can be created to the exact length and specifications you need, helping you create even, efficient, clear light in your entire display or across your entire counter.For more information: led corn bulbs,led corn light,led bulbs corn,new led lights.


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Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard
from the getting-to-be-a-habit dept
As befits an organization that seeks to promote the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a clear policy on the use of patents in its standards:
In order to promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis. Subject to the conditions of this policy, W3C will not approve a Recommendation if it is aware that Essential Claims exist which are not available on Royalty-Free terms.That's to ensure that no company has a stranglehold over a W3C standard that it can use to extract a monopoly rent from the implementations, and to create a level playing field so that all companies can compete fairly.
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As a condition of participating in a Working Group, each participant (W3C Members, W3C Team members, invited experts, and members of the public) shall agree to make available under W3C RF licensing requirements any Essential Claims related to the work of that particular Working Group.
Clearly, Apple's not happy with that approach, since it has just disclosed some patents that may be relevant to a new open standard the W3C is working on. Opera Software's Haavard Moen explains the significance of the move:
This time they have four claims - three patents and one patent application - that threaten to block the W3C Touch Events Specification. They filed their patent claims a little over a month before the time limit expired (the claim was filed on November 11, and the time limit is December 26, 2011).As Moen points out, this is not the first time Apple has pulled this trick of disclosing patents at the last moment, and throwing a spanner in the W3C's machinery. This suggests that it doesn't have a problem with the specific W3C open standard, but with open standards in general.
The odd thing is that Apple chose not to join the working group that handles touch events. If they had joined, they would have been forced to file the patent claims far sooner. So now we know why they didn't join. What we don't know is why Apple insists on waiting almost until the last minute before filing its patent claims.
Moreover, there are serious knock-on effects for the whole of W3C:
What makes this matter even worse is that this doesn't just affect these specific standards. The Patent Advisory Groups could in fact slow down the development of other standards by pulling people from other projects in order to investigate these claims. The investigation can take several months, and will take time, resources and money to complete.You would have thought that a company as successful and generally admired as Apple would go out of its way to be helpful to these industry efforts to bring open standards to the Web for the benefit of users. Sadly, it seems to take the view that the only thing that matters is preserving its own power and profit, and that one way to do that is to stop the spread of open standards that give everyone an equal chance in emerging markets. The only consolation is that Apple's latest move adds to the evidence that patents today are more about stifling the competition than promoting innovation.
That's time, resources and money that could have been spent on improving various other work-in-progress standards.
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