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Opened in 1965 with seating provided for 578 & 563. This theater was demolished in late-1996/early-1997. It was a small twin located in the North Street Shopping Center in Danbury, CT, where the Super Foodmart now stands. I lived in the adjacent condos when it had closed down. Its facade looked like it had a steeple at the top with vents, like Fairfield Hall at nearby WCSU.
I never saw a movie there but they were tearing it down to redevelop the dilapidated shopping center.
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The above website is wrong. The 1965 Danbury City Directory lists the theater as The Cinema Theatre on Padanaram Road, but the 1966 doesn't list it.
The 1992-1993 Directory shows the new ownership and it's renamed to Crown Cinema Twin.
The 1984 Directory lists the name change to Translux Cinema Theater.
I will always remember this theater, because it is where my wife and I saw the original "Star Wars" for the first time. And I think it is also where I took my daughter to see "Pocahontas" — she's 15 now, and has been obsessed with Pocahontas ever since. I couldn't believe it when they reduced the place to dust!
Could be mistaken, but my recollection is that in the 70s, it was the UA North Street Cinema.
Small world. I spent the night at my friend's house in Waterbury and his roommate and I chatted about how when he was the janitor/maintenance man for the entire North Street Shopping Center and the movie theater in the early 1980s. He said nothing significant really happened at the theater until it was scheduled for demolition. He was on the roof taking samples to make sure there was no asbestos when it all came down. Unfortunately, there was 2 inches of water on the roof and it all came down and completely destroyed all the seats that were going to be sold.
I found historic theatre attendance tallies for the Danbury Palace and this theatre among others while working for the CT Film Fest last week. On Sunday, during the last screening, I self-toured the stagehouse on both sides and found the info.
There were a few sheets of paper with 11 similar photocopies of ads for this theatre. It says, "Danbury Newest Entertainment Center…RKO Stanley Warner Theatres…Twin Cinema 1 and 2, Danbury Shopping Center…748-2923…Free Parking."
From 3/19-3/25/79, The Danbury Cinema 1 (578 seats) showed All That Jazz and Cinema 2 (563 seats) showed Kramer vs Kramer.
An item on this page of Boxoffice, December 7, 1964, said that ground had been broken for a new theater at Padanaram Road and Hayestown Avenue. Completion was expected by Memorial Day, 1965. The house was to be called the Cinema, and was to be operated by the Stanley Warner circuit. A rendering of the colonial-style building matches the photo of the Crown Twin on display at CinemaTour.
Google Maps won't fetch the correct location for this theater unless the phrase "North Street Shopping Center" is removed from the address. 1 Padanaram Road is the address the Internet gives for the Super Foodmart that the overview says replaced the theater.
My favorite memory of this theater was watching Star Wars VI there back in '1983.
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After a successful mid-week launch on 5 screens, Fox Searchlight expanded Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" to 29 screens across the country this weekend and saw excellent results.
According to estimates, the film, which stars George Clooney as a land baron dealing with his wife's tragic boating accident, grossed $1,222,344 over the weekend. That amounted to a stunning $42,150 per-theater-average and gave "The Descendants" a place in the overall top ten. Considering its 29 theaters when all of the wide releases were playing In over 1300 – 4000 theaters, that's pretty impressive.
"The weekend saw sellouts and crowds at all the theatres and was great counter programming for this adult comedy drama against kids films and teen films in the market," Fox Searchlight's EVP of Distribution, Sheila DeLoach, told Indiewire. "The terrific theatre average indicates strong awareness and a great start toward good word of mouth on the film stirred by tremendous publicity and critics praise. The movie is positioned well as we go into the 4 day Thanksgiving Holiday next weekend expanding into over 60 markets and adding approximately 400 theatres."
The number shouldn't come as a surprise considering Payne and Clooney's history. It acually has a lot to live up to considering their past with limited debuts: Clooney's "Up In The Air" averaged $78,763 from 15 screens back in 2009, while Payne's "Sideways" managed $51,760 per its 4 screens in 2004.
Including its mid-week grosses, the film has now taken in $1,301,544.
Other openers weren't so lucky. Phase 4 released Ellen Barkin starrer "Another Happy Day" on 2 screens and saw a $9,200 gross, which made for a underwhelming $4,600 average.
Screen Media released Joshua Leonard's "The Lie" on a sole screen, and saw a weak $3,000 gross.
As for holdovers, Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" expanded from 19 to 56 screens this weekend care of Magnolia Pictures, and the results were not so melancholic. The film grossed a respectable $350,000, averaging $6,250. Its new total stands at $721,682
The film has actually already surpassed the final gross of von Trier's "Antichrist," which ended up with $404,122 back in 2009.
The numbers are also impressive considering that "Melancholia" has been available via VOD for the last two weeks – although, of course, those revenue figures are unavailable. Magnolia will expand the film to roughly 100 screens for Thanksgiving weekend, likely becoming the first von Trier film to cross the $1 million mark since "Dogville" in the process.
Drake Doremus's "Like Crazy" expanded from 70 to 109 screens in its fourth weekend and held up decently. The Sundance pickup, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the festival, grossed $525,000 for distributor Paramount Vantage. That's a 4% uptick from last weekend, leaving "Crazy" with a $4,817 per-theater-average and a new total of $1,770,006.
Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" – a fellow Sundance alum – crossed the $2 million mark this weekend. Though it did so while dropping its screen count from 183 to 180 screens and losing 20% of its gross, meaning the film has definitely peaked. The Fox Searchlight release, which stars Elizabeth Olsen as a woman emerging from a abusive cult, grossed $385,000, averaging $2,139. Its total now stands at $2,258,787.
Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In" expanded from 91 to 113 screens in its sixth weekend, grossing $283,275 with an average of $2,507. The Sony Pictures Classics-released film's total climbed to $2,109,272 as a result. Almodovar's last film, "Broken Embraces," ended up with a $5,014,305 final gross. That numbers is out of reach for "Skin," though it is not benefiting from the marketable presence of Penelope Cruz.
Another SPC release – Jeff Nichols' critically acclaimed "Take Shelter" – dropped 8 venues to 74 screens in its eighth weekend and saw a 15% drop in grosses. "Shelter," starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, grossed $101,826 for a $1,376 average. The film's total is now $1,369,705.
Finally, two of the most impressive and somewhat unexpected success stories of the fall continued well on their way:
Emilio Estevez's "The Way," starring his father Martin Sheen, crossed the $3 million mark as it screened in 137 theaters this weekend via a unique partnership between Estevez, Elixir Films, Producers Distribution Agency and ARC Entertainment. The result was a $273,178 gross and a $1,994 average – the average impessively up from last weekend (the third weekend in a row its average has gone up). The film's total now stands at $3,036,783.
"It's crossed the $3 million mark and this 'Little Movie That Could' is now perfectly positioned as the one truly cross-generational family film for the holidays," John Sloss of Producers Distribution Agency said today.
Roadside Attractions also continued to find excellent news from JC Chandor's Wall Street-set "Margin Call." The went from 198 to 173 screens in its fifth weekend and took in $444,850. That made for a $2,510 average and a new total of $3,936,087. The film is clearly turning into quite the success story, partially thanks to timing that couldn't have been more appropriate given the Occupy Wall Street protests. The $5 million mark is definitely not out of the question.
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Philadelphia's Kurt Vile has the kind of murky recording history that could turn off a casual observer. Over the past two years, Vile has released three solo albums, a steady stream of 7-inch singles, and an EP with his band the Violators, and he's punching the clock as the lead guitarist for the War on Drugs. To make matters more daunting, his sound and mood shift drastically from release to release (and sometimes from song to song), making him a veritable musical Zelig: There's Kurt Vile the hazy, bedroom pop auteur; Kurt Vile donning a Tom Petty disguise; Kurt Vile trying out his avant-garde soundscape hat.
So this is not music for the casual observer: It's intense music made by an intense individual. Childish Prodigy is full of Vile's scattershot personalities, but front and center is a tough, full-bodied rock sound that he's only hinted at in his past work. The Violators are Vile's creative vehicle here, and he revels in their potent energy. Kicking off with "Hunchback," Vile lives up to his too-good-to-be-true surname and sneers amidst a wall of dark swamp rock. The stuttering, reverb-drenched beat on "Freak Train" taps into the album's forward momentum, allowing Vile to dance all around the rhythm with screamed profanities and wild-eyed crooning, while stand-out single "Overnite Religion" focuses this propulsion into a driving atmospheric folk tune.
Yet, like on past releases, Vile seems to find his best inspiration in the album's valleys rather than its peaks. While the louder tracks use rhythmic repitition as a means to hammer home his messy squall, "Blackberry Song" finds Vile employing a looped guitar riff as a foundation to build a gently psychedelic ballad on, all the while maintaining the album's sense of urgency. He's equally comfortable sketching out simple folk pop ("He's Alright") or loose, blues-heavy dirges ("Inside Lookin' Out"), both styles serving as testaments to his unique ear for mood.
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Philadelphia guitarist/vocalist Kurt Vile first came to music enthusiasts' attention with the release of 2008's Constant Hitmaker on the Gulcher imprint. The homemade Hitmaker (also reissued on vinyl through Woodsist) was a psych pop gem. His debut Matador album, Childish Prodigy ups the fidelity only a little. After all, Matador is home to both Jay Reatard and Cat Power.
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Undergrad Courses Taught: Business 101: A mix of managerial and financial accounting; Business 407: Financial Statement Analysis
Accounting professor C.J. Skender has become a celebrity of sorts at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, partially due to his wardrobe ("43 percent bow ties and 57 percent neck ties," he says), but mostly for his unique teaching style. Skender keeps notebooks filled with song and movie quotes, and he begins each class with what he calls "fourplay"—four songs to set the tone for the day's class. One day they might include such artists as Ray LaMontagne and Elton John, followed the next day with tracks from Nelly and the theme from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Precisely halfway through each class, Skender will remove his jacket and recite a movie quote. The first person to guess the film it's from wins a prize (usually candy).
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It's the ultimate fantasy: Walk into a store, plunk down a dollar, and with nothing but luck — really extraordinary luck — you win a giant lottery. Suddenly, you're rich as a sultan with enough money to buy an NBA team or your own island.
The odds of that happening, of course, are astronomical. But tell that to the optimists and dreamers across the country who lined up at gas stations, mini-marts and drug stores Monday for the last-minute buying frenzy in the Mega Millions jackpot. The $636 million prize is the second-largest in U.S. history.
So what drives people to play, and what makes them think their $1 investment— among the many, many millions — will bring staggering wealth?
"It's the same question as to why do people gamble," said Stephen Goldbart, author of "Affluence Intelligence" and co-director of the Money, Meaning & Choices Institute in California. "It's a desire to improve your life in a way that's driven by fantasy. … The bigger the fantasy, the tastier it gets."
In a piece called "Lottery-itis!," Goldbart and co-author Joan DiFuria wrote on their blog last year on the Psychology Today website that in times of economic stress, playing the lottery is a way of coping with financial anxieties and uncertainty.
"We may seek a magic pill to make us feel better," they wrote. "Ah yes, buy a lottery ticket. Feel again like you did when you were a child, having hope that a better day will come, that some big thing will happen that will make everything right, set the course on track. "
The Mega Millions jackpot soared to $586 million on Monday, still short of the $656 million U.S. record set in a March 2012 drawing. The new huge prize stems from a major game revamp in October that dramatically reduced the odds of winning. If no one wins Tuesday night and the jackpot rolls over past the next drawing scheduled Friday, it will reach $1 billion, according to Paula Otto, executive director of the Virginia Lottery and Mega Millions' lead director.
Between 65 and 70 percent of roughly 259 million possible number combinations will be in play when the numbers are drawn, Otto says. For the ticket-buying optimists, that's no deterrent.
"Even though the odds are against you, it's just the excitement of, 'Hey, I might wake up one day and be a millionaire,'" says Chris Scales, a 31-year-old hot dog vendor in downtown Nashville, Tenn., who brings in about $35,000 a year "if I really hustle." He usually reserves his lottery playing for jackpots of at least $40 million.
The incredibly remote odds don't really sink in for people, says George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University who has researched the motives underlying lottery ticket purchases.
"People don't really understand probabilities at all," he says. "Once you have a bunch of zeroes, it doesn't matter how many you have — one in 10,000, one in a million or one in a billion. … People do understand the meaning of the word 'largest.' They overact to one dimension and underreact to the other."
They also cling to a more romantic notion: Amazing things happen to others, so why not for me?
"When people are desperately sick, there's always a part of the brain that thinks there will be a miracle cure," Loewenstein says. "If you want something to be true, your brain is awfully good at figuring out reasons, magical ones, that there's a good likelihood that it is true. The desire to win does drive a certain kind of frenzied optimism."
That frenzy can grow during the holiday season, when financial hardships become more glaring and people feel pressure to spend money they don't have to demonstrate their love. "If you have plenty of money in the bank, you're not likely to feel the need to buy a lottery ticket," Goldbart explains. "But if there's something missing financially and emotionally and you're thinking, 'I can't get a raise or I'm not likely to get another job,' you buy a ticket as a psychological compensation plan."
The staggering size of the Mega Millions jackpot also makes this lottery special, attracting people who want to participate in a social, news-making event, says Jane Risen, an associate professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
"The lottery happens every day," she says, "but for some people it has to reach almost a cultural threshold before it becomes the thing to think about."
What develops, she says, is a feeling of "anticipated regret." In short, people worry about not playing.
"It's some version of "What's the harm? I wouldn't want to be the idiot who didn't play the Mega Millions. What if I was the winner?'" Risen says. "It's a better safe-than-sorry philosophy: 'I'd better buy a lottery ticket just in case I was going to the winner.'"
Kathy Malzewski, a 67-year-old retiree from Milwaukee, never buys Mega Million tickets. But while she was in a grocery store Monday, buying scratch-off tickets as stocking stuffers, she decided on a whim to buy a single ticket because of the enormous jackpot.
What would she do if she won?
"I'd go into a nice retirement community myself, but I'd be generous," she said softly. "I'd help Habitat for Humanity, help the homeless, give a lot to charity."
Malzewski also said she'd travel around the United States. She saw the ocean for the first time in May and recently visited the Grand Canyon. She'd like to go to New York or Florida's Everglades as well.
"Why not?" she said with a smile. "There are so many places to see."
She'll know Tuesday night if she has an instant way to finance those dreams.
"I'm not lucky. I never win anything," she says. "But I might today. A person always has a little hope."
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I've been dying to make a Ghost in the Shell vid for some time now. But I wasn't confident enough, due to the lack of usable footage in the film (it's only 1:20). Plus I just couldn't find that certain song that "fits" it. I'm a major electronica freak, and I have a rather nice collection of songs of the genre. The composer whose work stood out most to me was Clint Mansell, who also did the infamous Two Towers' Requiem. (It's real name is Lux Aeterna, and it was originally done for Requiem for Dream, an equally impressive film, albeit extremely depressing.) His piece "We Got the Gun" is what I would consider to be his finest example of electronica. Taken from the Pi soundtrack (another excellent movie), it has various quotes from the movie itself, which I also left in to add to the mood of the vid.
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New details are coming in about the Teen Choice Awards. This year's blowout is being broadcast live on August 11 from 8 to 10 p.m. EST on Fox. Sunday will never be the same, if history is any kind of barometer of upcoming fun.
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- Actors Channing Tatum, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rico Rodriguez and Adam DeVine have all been nominated for various awards against the likes of Melissa McCarthy, Sir Ben Kingsley and Javier Bardem.
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The American city of Boston, Massachusetts, has many nicknames due to historical contexts. They include:
- The City on a Hill, which came from governor John Winthrop's goal, of the original Massachusetts Bay Colony, to create the biblical "City on a Hill." It also refers to the original three hills of Boston.
- The Hub, which is a shortened form of a phrase recorded by writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Hub of the Solar System.[1] This has since developed into The Hub of the Universe.[2][3]
- The Athens of America, which is a title given by William Tudor, co-founder of the North American Review, for Boston's great cultural and intellectual influence. Also a nickname of Philadelphia.[4]
- The Puritan City, which was given in reference to the religion of the city's founders.
- The Cradle of Liberty, which derives from Boston's role in instigating the American Revolution. Also a nickname of Philadelphia.
- City of Notions, which was coined in the nineteenth century.[5]
- America's Walking City, which was given due to Boston's compact and high density nature, which has made walking an effective and popular mode of transit in the city. In fact, it has the seventh-highest percentage of pedestrian commuters of any city in the United States, while neighboring Cambridge is the highest.
- Beantown, which refers to the regional dish of baked beans. According to Boston-Online.com, back in colonial days, a favorite Boston food was beans baked in molasses for several hours. Boston was part of the "triangular trade" in which slaves in the Caribbean grew sugar cane to be shipped to Boston, in order to be made into rum and in turn sent to West Africa for the acquisition of more slaves. Sailors and traders called it "Beantown" while the locals did not refer to their city by that nickname. Even today, tourists often refer to Boston as "Beantown," while Boston natives look on and scoff.
- Titletown, which refers to Boston's historic dominance in the world of sports, specifically the Boston Celtics, who have won 17 NBA Championships, and the New England Patriots, who have won five Super Bowl Titles.[6][7][8]
- City of Champions, which—much like Titletown—refers to Boston's recent streak of dominance in sports, with the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, and New England Patriots each winning national championships in the last decade.[citation needed] [9]
- The Olde Towne, which comes from the fact that Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is often used in reference to the Boston Red Sox (The Olde Towne Team).[10]
- ^ Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1858). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Phillips, Sampson and Company.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1891) [1858]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. p. 172 "A jaunty-looking person... said there was one more wise man's saying that he had heard; it was about our place—but he didn't know who said it.... 'Boston State-House is the Hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.'"
- ^ A Google search on September 28, 2007, gave 867 hits for +boston +"hub of the solar system" but 45,300 hits for +boston +"hub of the universe".
- ^ "Boston's nicknames: Beantown, Hub, the Walking City". The Boston Globe. August 10, 2006.
- ^ "LCP Art". Retrieved 2010-06-12.
- ^ "Their Nicknames". Decatur Daily Dispatch: 2?. September 23, 1889. Decatur, Illinois. Found at listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0307b&L=ads-l&P=2093.
- ^ "SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: Boston Is The New "Title Town"". Business Insider. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ "4 Rings in 6 Years makes Boston the real TitleTown". SF Gate. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ ""Title-Town" --- How Boston Became the City of Champions". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/clashing-realities-in-a-city-of-champions/?_r=0
- ^ Entries from Bostonist Tagged with "Olde Towne Team"


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Midway through Paul McCartney's two-hour set at the Apollo Theater Monday evening, he paused for a few seconds before playing a gorgeous rendition of "Maybe I'm Amazed."
"I want to take a moment," he said, standing at the piano with his hand on his chin. "I just want to just soak in the Apollo." The huge smile on his face as the crowd roared seemed genuine. The 68-year-old icon has played just about every major venue in New York (Carnegie Hall, Shea Stadium, Madison Square Garden), but until now he had never performed at Harlem's most hallowed theater. Early on he even touched the fabled onstage log — which all Apollo performers touch for good luck when they go on. "This is very special for us British boys," he said. "The holy grail."
The concert was held by Sirius XM to commemorate their 20 millionth subscriber. Tickets weren't sold to the public and were offered mainly to Sirius XM listeners — though celebrities also comprised a substantial portion of the crowd. In the audience was Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jerry Seinfeld, Matt Damon, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, John McEnroe, Patti Smith, Rob Thomas, Kevin Bacon, Steve Van Zandt and Max Weinberg, among many others. (When we arrived I asked my friend if he knew how to find the staircase to the mezzanine. "Walk right past Howard Stern," he said. "Then take a right at Val Kilmer." He was exactly right.)
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Towards the end of the night McCartney said, "Now I only want the celebrities in the house to cheer." They produced a mighty roar, though many of my fellow civilians screamed along with them.
Indeed, the entire crowd — celebrities or not — saw a stellar Paul McCartney concert. Last summer, when he came to Citi Field on a cold, rainy night, the show ran a bloated three hours and dragged in the middle, when he played selections from Flaming Pie and the latest Fireman disc. At the Apollo, stripped down to a lean two hours, the show's energy never dipped in the slightest. It also took on renewed power without the massive stage lights and video screens he utilizes at his regular arena and stadium gigs: This was just five men playing selections from one of the strongest catalogs in rock history.
It's a shame he so rarely does gigs like this. Bands like Pink Floyd and U2 were made to be heard alongside 50,000 people in a soccer stadium, but McCartney is perfectly suited for the clubs and theaters where he began his career.
As usual, the bulk of the set was devoted to Beatles classics. In the cramped, sweaty theater, even overplayed tunes like "Let It Be" and "Drive My Car" took on renewed power. He opened with "Magical Mystery Tour" and later played note-perfect versions of "The Long And Winding Road," "Get Back," "Eleanor Rigby" and "Hey Jude."
He also devoted a lot of time to Band On The Run, which was recently re-released. "Band On The Run," "Jet" and "Let Me Roll It" are staples of most Macca shows, but the hardcore fans in the back let out a huge yelp when he began playing the wonderfully obscure album closer "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five." "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" had the crowd singing along to every word, while an acoustic "And I Love Her" was perhaps the most tender moment of the night.
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The only real kink in the night came when he began playing a cover of Marvin Gaye's 1962 classic "Hitch Hike." As six go-go dancers appeared from behind a scrim the vocals dropped out and piercing feedback rang throughout the theater. McCartney did his best to hide his annoyance. "Of course that happens when we're at the Apollo and on the radio," he said as the band started it up again — only to stop again after just one verse. On the third time they nailed it. "Now we've proven that the show is live," McCartney said.
McCartney is a walking advertisement for a strict vegetarian diet. It was easy to forget that he's pushing 70 when he threw his band into a smoking "I Saw Her Standing There" that led right into "Get Back." The encore also contained an inevitable (but still fun) "Wonderful Christmastime" and the standard show-closing medley of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/Carry That Weight/The End."
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term to describe the short-term separation of a set of lovers. when 'carte blanc' is called by either person, both of the people in the relationship are free to do whatever, and more so whoever, they wish. it is different from 'talking time off' or a separation, break-up, etc... in that the possibility of negative consequences are slim.
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Thanks alot for all your help :) My First daughters name is Natalie ...and my second daughters name is Allorah Renee...Renee means rebirth, I realize I skipped alot of good moments, It just kinda ended up that way when we were picking names.
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Hey there guys. To those that know who I am, then hey how are you doing? I bet you're doing great and that makes me really happy and thankful to Jesus! If you don't know me then check out this article about the time I took drugs with gay devil-worshipping bikers, or the essay I wrote calling the pope ugly, or the article I wrote that wasn't about gay devil-worshipping bikers.
Basically I'm just a normal home-schooled Christian kid and every once in awhile they let me write a little about my life and what I think about things, which is a lot of fun for me and also allows me to help convert some of you. Every person that you convert gets you a point and then if you get a bunch of points you go to the high score board which is called heaven. I have just tried video gaming for the first time, can you tell? More on that in a few paragraphs.
Also I will be making some jokes because this is a funny site for jokes. Q: What could you call someone who lies with other people but is not married to them? A: SIN-gle. There will be more jokes later.
Obviously I am interested in Jesus because he is the coolest guy in the world. Actually he floats above the world on a cloud ship piloted by God, but that is a matter of serious theology that we don't need to get into. The point is that the Bible says Jesus is awesome ("Jesus had the biggest biceps, which were a token of his dominion over the Earth.'" Matthew 11:14). It also says you should love Jesus ("Let all who have eyes to see, look at his big biceps and love him for yay he is the messiah and ripped." Matthew 11:15) but that loving Jesus doesn't make you gay even if you're a guy and you love him really really hard.
Lately however, I've developed another interest, and that's my cool new Asian friend. I met him at the mall which my grandma let me go to because my mom is off on her honeymoon with my youth pastor, Mr. Harding. I could never have gone there if Mr. Harding was home, so maybe Jesus was making up for letting her marry him by having me meet my cool new Asian friend. Like it says in the Bible, "For every door I shut, I open up a window because man does it reek in here. Is something rotting? Check the trashcan." (Luke 10:9).
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This is how I have ventured into the world of gaming as I talked about earlier. He showed me some games and even let me press the buttons on a few. Then he tried to make me play a game called Great Theft Automobiles but it was too much sin at once for me and I cried a little and then threw up all over his mom's couch and now he doesn't let me press the buttons when the games are being played anymore. Still, gaming is the most fun you can have without Jesus or drugs, and it is a little less sinful than drugs.
(Levels of sin that my mom explained to me: Level 1: Not doing schoolwork, not listening to your dad even if he isn't your real dad, cussing. Level 2: Stealing, federal taxes, video gaming, saying you wish your new dad would go join Jesus in heaven right now since he loves Him so much. Level 3: taking drugs, accidentally seeing another guy's thing in a bathroom, kissing a girl).
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very interesting!!!! i thought this was sooooooo cool, well according to equus magazine :D giving your horses acess to grain anytime they want can actually be HEALTHIER for them! and that once they figure out there will always be grain for them to eat at anytime they will not gorge themselves with it. They did a test and they slowly started giving a certain amount of geldings a certain amount of grain...then they kept giving them more and more grain over a period of time...at first the horses would gorge themselves, but after about 3 weeks the geldings were on free-choice and they were only eating as much as they were before they started the experiment!!!! they also said that it is really bad for people to buy grain dense with nutreints and stuff just so that they can feed less, because the nutreints and other things (haha whoops, bad memory i cant remember the name they said!) is what usually caused laminitis,colic and other food sickness's. did anyone else read this article? i thought it was great! but sadly we cant start feeding free choice at our barn because its a boarding barn, and that most of the horses get certain supplements that others cant have. :cry: i dont want to hear a big arguement about this, it was tested, thats what it said in the magazine,period. :wink: i just thought i would share, its useful information anyway!!! |
Reread the article...it's very misleading. They didn't give free-choice grain based feed. They a "very high-fiber, moderate energy-dense feed"---most likely a complete feed (designed to replace forage in the horse's diet). |
I was thinking along the lines of a pasture horse, who doesn't need grain ALL the time. I did read that article and have that issue of magazine, lol. But I would never do that with my horses as none of them are stabled and they stay healthy and tend to get fat as it is =] |
That seems a bit extreme, but I would think the best case scenario for grain is to feed smaller amounts more frequently rather than two big feedings morning and night. It just plays better into the all day grazing routine that horses have. |
I also read the article, and I think it would be kind of like leaving hay thrown down.....I would rather just leave out his whole days grain ration, rather than say a whole tub full. It would probably be better for the natural grazing pattern, like myboypuck said. |
my mom read it and thinks it was a good idea for our horses. except jasper loves his sweet feed |
Yes, it did not apply to sweet feed, grain based feeds at all - it is misleading. My husband first told me about it, and when I thought it was talking about grain based, sweet feed types, I was horrified because I knew that couldn't be the case - but it talking about a more forage based, complete type feed. I would still be leary about trying it without a lot of vet based supervision. |
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Actress Amanda Bynes celebrated her 28th birthday weekend on Saturday by sharing bikini photos with her fans and thanking them for their support during her recent mental health problems.
After months in hospital and rehab for a series of personal issues, the Hairspray star appears to be well and truly in recovery and she took to Twitter.com over the weekend to show off snapshots taken during a family vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Looking happy and healthy in a yellow bikini, a smiling Bynes wrote, "Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes."
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Gavin: Okay, so it's another year later already and a new series of Go Girls. Our guys are another year older and we hope a little bit wiser. At the end of last series, Cody already had her quest (to look after her family) and Amy had gone off with her German Prince, Hans,to help with his good works. Britta and Brad were together, having found true love in each other. And Kevin had realised too late that perhaps he should have tried harder to make Olivia stay but instead she had gone to New York to pursue her career.
And so, on to episode one of Series 3...
Hard to believe, but Kevin turns thirty this year. But more importantly, we introduce a new guest character in Episode one and I know you all want to know more about her. No, I'm not talking about the gorgeous Robyn Paterson, although she is wonderful as Danni, Kevin's brief but intense 'Ms Right'. Even if she did turn out wrong. No, I mean the other guest. She's beautiful, she's black, she's a little temperamental, but such a fantastic ride. Of course I'm talking about the Matte Black Ducati 800 Monster that Danni rides.
Rachel: Gavin, no. You can't mention the motor bike! Why would chicks, or even some guys, care about a motor bike? Even if it is your motor bike - aka the Very Expensive Garden Ornament.
G: I'm sure you'll all be fascinated to know that it's a 2005 model, originally imported via the USA and, even though it's only the SR 2 (two valve) model, it has a lot of grunt down the bottom end. And yes, she's all mine. It's very strange; when I wrote the first draft of episode one and Danni rode into Kevin's life, it was on a Ducati 800 too!
R: Yes, and then you went out and bought one just like it. Artistic inspiration - or did you just want to buy a bike? Hmmmm.
G: What a coincidence. So of course I offered her up, with some trepidation it must be said to the production. And they took excellent care of her. Peter Burger (the Director of Episodes 1 and 2 and also of 8 and 9 further down the track) even sent me a photo of many strong people laying her down with padding for the 'Cody rides over the bike' scene - which I have to admit made me wince when I first saw it in the rough cut. Wince from empathy I mean, such a beautiful bike, so cruelly treated.
R: But what about the stories for the series; our lovely characters? The fact that season 3 is all about some bigger issues for our gals and Brad and Kevin? Life and death - that kind of thing - along with the romance and the laughs.
G: I totally empathised with Danni wanting to punch out Cody, even if it was all in Kevin's imagination. But I guess Cody was excused cos she was having such a hard time with her Mum.
R: Finally, back to the story.
G: And it's all done with mirrors and the bike was fine. Phew. I know you're all as relieved as I am that no bikes were hurt in the making of this episode. But there was a nasty incident after the shooting, but more of that later. I thought Robyn did a fantastic job of looking like she knew how to ride a bike, even though all the actual riding was done by a stunt woman. And I thought it was really cute the way Kevin got on the back - although there was a lovely scene of him working out where to put his hands that we had to drop for time because the episode ended up being a bit long.
R: Yes, you can go on a bit sometimes. (This blog being exhibit B).
G: So anyway, Kevin's story is all about him meeting a girl with a beautiful bike, er, I mean a beautiful girl with a bike who is a passionate free spirit. And we thought it would be neat, after all this time, to turn things on their heads and instead of her being the nutbar, Kevin realises that it might very well be him. As she tells him, she loves to ride her bike real fast... and why wouldn't she, when it's clearly such a lovely bike to ride. It can be a bit jerky around the city and hard on the clutch hand, but once you get her onto a nice twisty bit of road and open up the throttle she is absolute magic...
R: Enough about the bike. What Gav didn't say is that we talked long and hard about how to establish that Kevin wanted a kid. We already knew this from season 2, but it's not the kind of thing Kevin would ever admit to - unless he was forced to. We went all round the houses before deciding that love was the answer, and also it was nice to start the season with Kevin feeling upbeat for a change, even though his happiness could not last. (It never does on television.)
What also Gavin meant to say - except the bike got in the
way - is that season 3 is our favourite so far and we shamelessly
laugh and cry while watching it and our cast and crew really pull
out the stops. So tell your friends in case they missed
that it's on, or don't know that it's moved to Tuesdays at
And next week, episode 2 has one of our funniest scenes ever; and
also one of my favourite scenes because of the standout
performances from Jay and Esther as Kevin and Olivia.
But I'll blog more about that next week. And I can promise
there will be no mentions of Bikes.
G: Because sadly, Danni has ridden off into the sunset on her (my) bike. And when I finally got it back after several weeks - cos it wouldn't stop raining - it had a smashed speedo cover! Costly to fix - she is Italian after all. But you'll be relieved to know it was fixed and my Ducati is riding as sweetly as ever.
R: All very relieved. And ep 2 is a Ducati-free
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Summer is drawing to its end but the temperature is not going to dip in Clint City. Miss Stella will have to her crown to another Lady. Discover all candidates and vote for the one you prefer on our Facebook page. With Oraya, Sheryl, Kalindra and Ivy, this year will be highly competitive.1st phase: From September 17 to October 1, elect the 7 most beautiful candidates on your Facebook page. You will be able to vote for 7 groups of 5 candidates.2nd phase: From October 3 to 12, vote for the winners of each group in the previous phase.
I hope if Yoshida become miss clint city the new card show us more of here so vote to Yoshida if you want more of here
I'm playing the game through FB link. Browsing through the history of this browser game, the UR team have made a deal with FB (check their history) so that they can still continue running the game (an online-running game needs some support funds to pay the staff and the artists, because not everyone is charitable and not everything is free). It sucks; but it happens. My only complaint is now that they've brought the voting in the FB page of official UR site, how will they single out players from friends who were just asked to vote so they could FIX the event up?
I wish the site should have a poll system of its own rather than relying with the poll system feature of the FB. Maybe after a year they could develop the module.
But as of now, just go with the flow and vote that next Miss Clint City.
@UM facebook doesn't allow you to use any name for instance it will not accept mine (even my real name as I have a strange surname that it tells me isn't real) hence I am excluded from the competition such a shame UR is excluding so many of its players and not listening to those that say this
As this is 1st Miss Clint City that Im playing UR, Im interested how do you get the new miss, does every player that plays the game get one like the Noel cards, or does she just go into NB like new cards?
I found it funny people dont have facebook account these days, its like dont have a smart phone, i know some people do, but just dont understand
anyway, voting on facebook allows voters to see the current votes on each character, which i highly dislike
My vote goes to Sheryl
Diana ftw!
Wait a minute, I thought it was 7 groups of 5. This group has 6...
Yummy12345 - why pp Don have smartfone ... 1.expensive 2. crap durablity 3. were i live is better to have a old pfone because of the bad reseption so that newer models Don get reseption at all and last 4. adiction
wy pp dont have facebook... well firt of all its esear to live because you dont ned to care about most thing on that dam page... better to hang out with frends an ceep more privecy ...
.... sry for my english ...i bad at writing
No mr clint city once again...and this was after the whole standard overhaul proclaiming you'd release cards more often. Come on now guys


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Get Your Point Across Clearly and Concisely
Try this quick exercise. Pretend that a friend is an employee and that you need to give him an assignment specific to your business. The catch is you have only 20 words or fewer to fully convey what you need. Have your friend tell you, based on those words, what it is exactly that you were asking or assigning. How good are you at expressing your needs coherently, and—just as importantly—concisely?
As a leader, it is important that you understand the impact that the sequence of information has on employees when you are discussing assignments with them. If you are not always on the same page as your employees, try beginning your messages with the main point and then delivering relevant details afterwards, if necessary. This gets your workers thinking in the correct frame of mind right from the start.
When you try to be more direct and concise with employees you may initially feel somewhat aggressive. If this style of interaction is a departure from what is normal for your office environment, let employees know that you are trying something different and ask them for their feedback. Though assertiveness may sometimes be mistaken for aggressiveness when you talk to employees in a succinct style, in the end your people will know what is expected of them—and that will put them at ease.
Keith Ayers President Integro Leadership Institute West Chester, Pa.


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Lot 1042: 18 K YELLOW GOLD CURB CHAIN NECKLACE
October 2012 Unclaimed Bank Deposit Box Auction
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October 4, 2012
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Description: 18 K YELLOW GOLD CURB CHAIN NECKLACE 35" l, 62.2 grams
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