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WILL ZHANG YIMOUS DAZZLING swordplay ballet Hero be his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a magic catapult from the art house to the global metroplex? History wont simply repeat itself, since moviedom has long since assimilated the wire-work wonders that made CTHD famous. Now its grist for parody: Princess Fiona in Shrek 2 and the leaping larval lizard in Alien vs. Predator both do slo-mo homages to Ang Lees aerial-combat methods. Jaws wont drop to see Zhang and über-cinematographer Christopher Doyle echo the method.
Jaws will drop because this is a floating world of a different color. Few directors since Peter Brook have had Zhangs sweet tooth for intense hues, and nobody has his rainbow eye for poetically nuanced detail. Hero is a series of tales told to the prudently paranoid king (Chen Daoming) who struggled to unite China about 2,200 years ago. The tale spinner is an obscure rural official named Nameless (Jet Li), who claims to have slain the three superassassins whove been stalking the king. Each time Nameless tells about a duel (or the skeptical king counters with what he thinks really happened), the story undergoes Rashomon-ish variations, for which the cameras palette alters.
Zhangs not after subtle effects his bold strokes of color seize the screen with the force of demonic possession. A fight that erupts near a giant chessboard on a rainy day is cast in brooding gray. Whirling leaves in an ancient Mongolian oak grove shift from blinding yellow to sizzling crimson. A pellucid lake turns green. Doomed lovers in white sigh their last breath together in a desert the shade of bone. As to the swordplay, Zhang isnt aping Ang Lees style. His flying warriors defy gravity with more gravitas, and he pays way more attention to their visual setting and the tinted air they sail through. After years of sad times and bad stabs at new styles (the gangster film Shanghai Triad, anyone? Anyone at all?), Zhang is getting back to the look and fablelike simplicity that made his name in Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern. He can wring as much drama from a falling bolt of dyed cloth as Milton did from Satans fall.
If Li is a deadpan narrator, apparently engaged in some sort of stoic affectlessness contest with the king, he soars in the (rather meditative) action scenes. His first flashback fight, with the chess-player assassin Sky (Donnie Yen), is galvanic, yet the combatants are also like a couple of cunning grandmasters trying to psych each other out. The combat with assassins Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) is both a head trip and a heart trip, with Nameless strategically playing on their ill-starred romance. Meanwhile, Broken Swords young servant, Moon (Zhang Ziyi, who has just a flicker of the young Gong Lis sass), moons over her master, occasioning voluptuous rumplings of scarlet silk bed sheets and a blizzard of stern words from Flying Snow.
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Each of these battles crafts an illusion of absolute skill and infinite calculation. When a calligrapher snatches an arrow from midair, snaps it in half and uses it for a calligraphy pen, its because all of his arts, including the martial, are one. Swords slice through hair, feathers and silk, or bisect a single translucent water droplet. Zooming duelists maneuver above a lake like World War I flying aces but never splash down they tap at the surface as gently as water skeeters. When we thrillingly view their airy acrobatics from underwater, the intersecting surface is perfect glass. The performances are all finely etched, if a bit chilly and abstract. Only Leung and Cheung supply anything remotely resembling passion or sorrow. Their romantic death scene will live on in memory. For the most part, emotion is signified through lurid color, vivid props, opulent costumes, portentous music (some of it performed by Itzhak Perlman) and a camera that can move like Johnny Storm, the Human Torch.
Hero is an epic, evocative of another epoch and of landscapes beyond time. Its overwhelming. And yet I miss the animating anger of Zhangs early masterworks, in which penniless young lovers were oppressed by impotent old men. Some inferred symbolic criticism of Chinas unbelievably geriatric rulers, and I couldnt help but identify the thankless, bratty bastard in Ju Dou as a jab at the Red Guard. Chinese authorities once hassled Zhang. Now they back him, surely in part because the moral of Hero is that the ruler is always right he only bloodily crushes all dissent out of tender concern for his people. Quite apart from any specific social critique, theres a Shakespearean tension between youth and age in early Zhang. Hero has a certain Polonius-like preachiness instead. But if Zhang really is selling out, I cant say I blame him. He deserves millions of dollars and millions of fans. Its just that his dramatic engine used to be sexual and inarticulate political rage, seething like a banked fire. Hero has earth, water and air, but its fire is more in the cameras eye than in the heroes souls.
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I have a story to tell you which is going to put a HUGE smile on your face if you love BMW. So my friend has a 2012 GTR and he has been nagging me for a while now to race him! I really didnt want to because, well because i was scared! HAHA! you know that feeling you get when you are sure you are going to get an ass whipping!? Anyway, so I postponed as long as I could and then the day came where I didnt have an excuse.. We met up, had some food while we waited for traffic to cool down. Now I know the crazy figures of GTR 0-100 in 0.001 sec and all, so we agreed that all tests would be done without launch control, to see which car was stronger not to see who has the better traction system. 1) 0-200 1st gear (I did not disengage the traction to full off but kept it to limited) 2) rolling 2nd gear from 50km/h 3) rolling 3rd gear from 110km/h 4) highway 100-275 start 3rd gear. Score: M6 - 4, GTR - 0 To give you an idea of how the race went. When rolling start in 2nd gear we are pretty much neck on neck, M6 might be ahead with about 0.5meter, then when the GTR changes into 3rd the M6 creeps forward slowly. With every gear change the M6 moves forward a little by about 1meter because you only change into gear later +- 500 rpms later. So when he changes into 5th the M6 is still in 4th and moves forward. By 220km/h I could see his bumper on my ass in my rear view mirror and by 275km/h I was at least 3 car lengths ahead. I know a M6 wont beat a gtr on 1/4 mile but when you meet a GTR on the highway you definitely have the green light to kick some ass! Some other interesting figures when we had at a racing day: M5 1000meter (1km) run : 258km/h GTR : 258km/h GTR 2010 (modd 530hp) : 262km/h M6 F13 : 265km/h (264.7) this was my car with low km's. It feels much loser now and I will soon go race again and record times and make video for all the GTR fanboys! |
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Joslyn James Comes Out of the Woods to Sign With Rising Star PR
It may have been her relationship with Tiger Woods that thrust Joslyn James into the spotlight, but while the golfer's game has struggled, Joslyn is at the top of hers.
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The value of a "hero" neighbour and good fire precautions were realised on Saturday by pregnant mother-of-two Kimberley Riley in Hastings.
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If you loved Sarah Shahi's story arc as Samantha Shaw in Season 2 of "Person of Interest" then you're in luck, because so did CBS. The network has confirmed that Shahi will be a season regular on the show's next season, which means that she'll be spending a lot more time opposite Michael Emerson's Finch and Jim Caviezel's Reese.
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The University of Bristol is the guardian of an impressive range of historic gardens. These include an Iron Age hill fort at Burwalls, overlaid with Victorian planting, a Civil War fortification at the Royal Fort, an Edwardian flower garden designed for the treatment of hospital patients, and a rare merchant's eighteenth-century town garden with the most exotic and best-preserved grotto in the entire country at Goldney.
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Igor Stravinsky and Childhood Dorkery
Monday, August 08, 2011
This week! This week simply rules. Are you ready for serious childhood dorkery? Here goes; I am not ashamed. When I was in ninth or tenth grade, I cut the names of three composers out of construction paper (construction paper!!) and stuck them up on the window-free walls of my room. The east was Hindemith (aw, gimme a break: I was a teen viola queen and a massive fan of Trauermusik), the north was Britten (I'd played part of the C-major quartet at camp and died), and the west was Stravinsky. Stravinsky is so good at music. My high school chorus had sung the Symphony of Psalms and I completely lost my mind. How good is that piece? Afjdkslfjdslkf!!
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I worked for a sign painter in Ulster County in 1982. We spent the month of August painting and installing signs all over the area. It was hot and it was humid. WDST/Woodstock had classical music from noon to three every work day and for Stravinsky's Birthday they played only his music for the entire program. For a month! I have been a fan ever since.
Let's see....when I was 13, I spent all my Bar Mitzvah money on a Commodore 64. I named all the components after composers. The computer was Dimitri (after Dmitri Shostavkovich except with an extra "i"), the floppy drive was Serge (Prokofiev), and the printer, acquired later, was Gustav (Mahler). I guess that combines musical geekiness with computer geekiness. Nowadays, I'm more likely to do something like transcribe Gorecki's Amen chorus by ear and then order the score to check my work.
I have to say I was thrilled to hear about Stravinsky week. When our local classical station does Mozart Month or similar, I always ask, "When will it be Stravinsky Month? I'll even take a Stravinsky/Shostakovich Month!" So when Q2 declared Stravinsky week, it was another reminder of why Q2 is my favorite station.
I read that Scriabin slept with Chopin scores under his pillow to attempt absorbing them by osmosis. I used a book that had both Chopin and Scriabin scores.
I grew my hair into an awkward state in an attempt to look more like Liszt.
I wrote a fan letter to Donald Grantham to thank him for writing such beautiful music.
I somehow managed to get Bethany Beardslee's home phone number, and called to ask her if she would work on a project with me, and thanked her for her beautiful recording of Babbit's Philomel.
Sondheim visited when I was in grad school. I said, "You studied composition with Babbit. Do you like any of his tunes?" Sondheim said, "Could you whistle one of them for me?"
This list could go on for a while...
As a teenager, I wore my Tchaikovsky t-shirt until it was full of holes. Man, I wish I still had that shirt. It literally became a rag.
But the really nerdy story is from when I was in college, and an equally John Adams–obsessed friend and I went to the second and third world premiere performances of Naïve & Sentimental Music at the L.A. Phil. There was supposed to be a signing after the Sunday matinee, but it was cancelled, so we actually wandered all around the outside of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a long time trying to catch John Adams & get his autograph.
We finally did spot him and his family walking to the parking garage and swooped in, clutching pens and libretti, and even though he protested that he was already late, my friend didn't hear him and thrust the booklet for Ceiling/Sky at him anyways, which Adams graciously signed, followed by my Nixon booklet. For years afterwards I remembered this fanboi moment with an intense, giddy shame. Now it's just… bemused embarrassment.
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this is my new truck, got it 4 2500 bucks, an i luv it. never thought id get a deal like this, but i was already sellin my firebird and my parents needed the money, so deal done! as soon as i got it, we all packed up in it and traved here to Lavonia Georga. next thing im going to do is get a job, start saving money, and put a little bit here and there into here, make her real pretty, you watch, thisll be in street trucks 1 day ;) still have to figure out exactly what i wnt to do to it
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"With two busy children, I like to have recipes that get me out of the kitchen fast," notes Rose Palsgrove of Piqua, Ohio. "Our neighboring town hosts a strawberry festival every June, so strawberry recipes are popular in our area. This one is simple and delicious. Serve it warm.
Our Best Coffee Cake Recipes Ever
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1-1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cold butter
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans, optional
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the egg, milk and butter. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Top with strawberries.
- For topping, combine flour and sugar in a bowl; cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in pecans if desired; sprinkle over strawberries.
- Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cut into squares; serve warm. Yield: 9 servings.
Originally published as Strawberry Coffee Cake in Quick Cooking
July/August 2003, p20
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Reports from Italy claim that Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is keeping tabs of former Barcelona youth team prospect Keita Balde Diao.
The 18-year-old fell foul of the powers that be at Barcelona and was allowed to move on to Lazio in Italy for a knockdown fee of around £250,000 in 2011, after it was reported a youth-team prank was the final straw for the Catalans.
The Reds had the Spanish-born player, who is of Senegalese origin, watched in Lazio's 1-0 victory over Legia Warsaw in the Europa League last Thursday and are expected to continue to keep tabs on the youngster who is under contract in Italy until 2017.


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Plans for the 2013-14 Art Trail are being finalized. More than 400 pieces were submitted for consideration and the selections will be announced sometime in the next several weeks. Tecumseh Economic Development Director Paula Holtz and Ken Thompson from Flatlanders Sculpture Supply and Art Galleries in Blissfield head the effort.
"We are finalizing locations for the Art Trail," Holtz said. "We've got some new artists this year and some very interesting pieces. It is just such a wonderful addition to the city and brings people here."
Also coming to downtown Tecumseh in early June will be another outdoor art exhibit. Holtz said Thompson will open a sculpture annex with six other sculptors. The outdoor site will be located between Ivy Gallery and Frame Shop, 146 E. Chicago Blvd., and the Blush Boutique, 154 E. Chicago Blvd.
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After the Williston Red Devils sent the Union County Tigers out of the District Tournament on Friday night 47-40, and the Chiefland Indians knocked the Dixie County Bears out 47-44, the two winning teams were set for the District Championship game on Saturday night Feb. 8, in the Union County Gym.
The Red Devils and Indians met twice during the regular season with the Indians winning both games by the same three point margin.
It was their third meeting of the season with the same results as the Chiefland Lady Indians downed the Williston Lady Red Devils. This time it was for the District Championship.
After playing one of their best games of the season, just one night earlier against Florida Air Academy, the Williston Red Devils faced an old rival in the Bronson Eagles on Senior Night.
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Williston 45 Dixie 31
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Williston boys' basketball enters into this week of play with a 4-1 record.
After a big win over Lecanto High School on Dec. 3 (74-68), Williston fell to Chiefland in the first conference game of the season by a score of 68-65.
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Persistent Controversy in Statistical Approaches in Wildlife Sciences: A Perspective of Students
Jerrod A. Butcher, Julie E. Groce, Christopher M. Lituma, M. Constanza Cocimano, Yara Sánchez-Johnson, Andrew J. Campomizzi, Theresa L. Pope, Kelly S. Reyna and Anna C. S. Knipps
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The controversy over the use of null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) has persisted for decades, yet NHST remains the most widely used statistical approach in wildlife sciences and ecology. A disconnect exists between those opposing NHST and many wildlife scientists and ecologists who conduct and publish research. This disconnect causes confusion and frustration on the part of students. We, as students, offer our perspective on how this issue may be addressed. Our objective is to encourage academic institutions and advisors of undergraduate and graduate students to introduce students to various statistical approaches so we can make well-informed decisions on the appropriate use of statistical tools in wildlife and ecological research projects. We propose an academic course that introduces students to various statistical approaches (e.g., Bayesian, frequentist, Fisherian, information theory) to build a foundation for critical thinking in applying statistics. We encourage academic advisors to become familiar with the statistical approaches available to wildlife scientists and ecologists and thus decrease bias towards one approach. Null hypothesis statistical testing is likely to persist as the most common statistical analysis tool in wildlife science until academic institutions and student advisors change their approach and emphasize a wider range of statistical methods.
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I'm invisible when he spooks Hi there! This is my first post so, first of all, HI! OK, down to business. I've been working with my 4 year old QH for a little less than a year. He was a rescue and hadn't had a whole lot done with him before that. I've been working with horses for 25 years, but this is the first I have started more or less from scratch. I started him under saddle in January. As he has a messed up foot (from a long-ago trailer accident - but he manages very well with it), I plan to use him as a trail horse only. I use sort of a mish-mash of NH techniques from different people and methods - but most of it pretty well resembles Parelli philosophies. We have an awesome bond. His attention is always with me when I am working with him. When he sees something new and scary, he typically spooks in place, investigates the object, and quickly stops caring about it. He's very curious. However, when he finds something really really scary (for him, a donkey is a good example), all of a sudden it seems as if he no longer knows I'm there. Since the idea is for him to look to me for the next move, I'm not sure how to fix this when he's so panicked. He is just desperate to take off running. Otherwise, he tends to be a pretty relaxed guy, even out on his first short trail rides. I'm doing my best to de-sensetize him to everything I can think of, but obviously we're bound to run into unfamiliar things now and then on the trail, and I don't want it to be a big, dangerous crisis every time. What can I do to improve our connection further so that he looks to me when he's losing his mind in terror? |
The main thing is to get your relationship really really good, first on the ground then in the saddle. The more your horse trusts and respects you, the less he will act like a prey animal in strange circumstances. A big key when dealing with a spooky horse is that you need to be able to GET NOTICED. When the horse goes into that prey animal mindset they are only thinking about saving #1, so you need to MATCH his energy and then ADD a little bit more in order to get noticed, otherwise he won't even know you are there. Backing up, going sideways, disengaging the hind end, changing directions are all good ways to get a horse back to you mentally. Basically you are telling him, "You wanna get worked up and move around a lot, let me help you!" When he shows signs of calming down, you do to. You want to let him think he's training you to stay quiet ;) Another thing to be aware of are his thresholds. Never ever force him past a threshold, that's asking for trouble. |
As someone new to all of this, I do have one observation that's come from, incidentally, my dogs. I have Whippets who have a really strong prey drive. If they get fixated on a moving animal, it's next to impossible to get their attention. The key for me is to recognize when they're moving toward that fixation mindset, and prevent them from going there. Perhaps this doesn't apply if your horse is spooking at something completely out of the blue, but I was leading a horse recently who spooked when we neared a junk pile with a tarp over it. I didn't notice the junk pile, but if I had been paying attention I probably would have, and as we neared it I might've been able to help the horse through that moment better. Just a beginner's thoughts, so disregard if this doesn't seem right to you. |
Flexing my horse's neck always gets his attention and keeps him focused on what I'm telling him. Turning in circles, etc. Keep him moving as much as possible. Good luck! :] |
Thank you all so much - those are great suggestions. Spirithorse - I think that threshold is what I worry about the most - I'm not always sure if I'm pushing him too far. Of course it's different for everybody, but can you think of any clear signs that indicate I've crossed the line? CJ - I have greyhounds, so I can totally picture what you're talking about. I'll see if I can think up a way to apply it. I find that many times if I am not worried about him spooking, he doesn't, but if I start worrying, then he starts worrying. But on the other hand, it's also good to be prepared...so I guess it's just all about the balance thing, as usual! That's an interesting thing to think about...thank you! Barrelracer - I've always heard that keeping his feet moving is a good way to deal with an antsy horse, but it didn't occur to me to use circles and such while he's freaked out. It sounds like a good energy re-direction to me - I'll try it! |
Glad to be of help! :] Hope it works for you! |
You will know when he is reaching a threshold because he will hesitate, start to slow down, get tense, snort, etc. |
If he overreacts, overreact with him. Just like Spirithorse said. You need to enforce that he should stay out of your space. But make sure you're not in a place where he can't avoid running over you. |
Eliz - Ah! I like it. Thank you! I do make sure I take him places where there is space for him to be safe if he freaks out - unfortunately around here that really limits my choices for trails. But we make do. Better safe than scenic! :) |
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Laurence ShamesNo one was forcing me to bike up Mont Ventoux. The 6,000-foot ascent wasn't part of the day's program. In fact, some cyclists in our group had elected to skip riding altogether and go shopping instead on our last day in Provence. But I, along with a half-dozen other hardheads, decided to head for the summit. Two sweaty hours into the climb, however, I found myself wondering why.
Was it penance for the industrial quantities of goat cheese and duck confit I'd been eating? Was it to sharpen my taste buds for the well-cellared Hermitage I'd promised myself for that night? Or was it simply a lark?
INDULGENCE. While bicycling through Europe, at least if you travel with a high-end outfit such as Butterfield & Robinson (800 678-1147) or Travent International (800 325-3009), you develop a taste for sleeping in castles. You grow accustomed to three-hour dinners with wines and dessert spreads that border on the pornographic. You get spoiled by hopping onto a perfectly maintained bike while carrying nothing but a fanny pack, serene in the knowledge that your luggage will appear magically at the next chateau. And best of all, you wallow in all this luxury while feeling downright virtuous. After all, there's lots of exercise. And culture: You see churches, ruins, and markets. You speak French.
It is this happy combination of wholesomeness and indulgence that makes European bike-touring one of the fastest-growing travel trends of the past decade. Eight-day bike trips with b&r and Travent cost roughly $2,500 a person and include hotels and most meals but not airfare.
The favorite destination for pedal-pushing Americans remains France. The reasons are simple: France has a great network of well-paved country roads, a tradition of gracious provincial hotels, beautiful scenery, oodles of history, marvelous architecture, and food and wine to die for. It is also a felicitous fact that France has a lot of flat stretches.
Not that I seemed to find many of them in my rambles through the Dordogne (with Travent) and Provence (with B&R). No, I kept running into what serious bikers refer to as "rolling country" but which the rest of us might call hills. Not mountains, mind you, but inclines pronounced enough to put you in touch with the deep truth of gravity. High enough to give you a panorama from the summit and a prodigious appetite for the next gavage. (Literally, gavage is the force-feeding of geese to produce foie gras. But it might also be applied to the eating habits of people who've been pedaling for hours.)
In any case, French hills come in many varieties, and the more of them you pedal up, the more vivid become the distinctions. There are the gradual, south-facing slopes beloved of vintners--bejeweled with purple grapes peeking out from under blue-green leaves. There are the hills like upturned bowls favored by shepherds, with their lamb-nibbled carpets as neat as golf greens. There are the more rugged hills of Languedoc--seemingly haphazard piles of dry white rock with herbs and wildflowers poking out of every crevice. Then, there are hills you want no part of, majestic but daunting promontories you contemplate from afar.
In the Dordogne, the impetus for climbing hills is often a desire to see the region's extraordinary prehistoric sites. The painted caves of Lascaux (actually Lascaux II, a meticulous reproduction, built because air and tourists were causing irreversible damage to the original) demonstrate that Cro-Magnon man was not only a sophisticated artist but also someone with the sense--and the stamina--to seize the protected high ground for his shrines.
While little is known of the eating habits of prehistoric Frenchmen, hearthstones found at sites such as Roc St. Christophe strongly suggest that food preparation was a Dordogne priority from the start. What's certain, however, is that in today's Dordogne, cuisine is a magnificent obsession at the very heart of regional identity and pride.
JUST DUCKY. In contrast to the butter-based cuisine to the north and the olive-oil-based cooking to the south, the food of Prigord is built around the headily unctuous fat of ducks and geese. From leeks to lentils to lettuce, nearly every food is prepared with some essence of well-insulated bird. If you think that sounds rich, you're right--especially when you factor in the almost hallucinatory truffles, the musky cpes (wild mushrooms), and the habit-forming little goat-cheese disks known as cabecous.
In Provence, the hilltop attractions have more to do with the Romans--both the ancient ones, who made southeast France their own, and the medieval ones, who established a papacy in Avignon, thereby assuring the region of prosperity, assassinations, and religious wars. On the ascent to Les Baux, a macabre ghost town perched on a solitary stub of mountain, there is ample time to reflect on how quick the trip down must have been for the heretics pitched over the sheer edge by Raymond de Turenne, nephew of Pope Gregory IX.
If Les Baux inspires fretfulness, Chateauneuf-du-Pape inspires mostly thirst. The insinuating aroma--part grape juice, part dirt, part woody exudation reminiscent of root beer--fosters an urge to drink the output of the local vineyards. And there is no better place to do this than the Pope's patio--the stone courtyard that fronts the remains of the papal summer cottage from which the village draws its name.
ROOM AT THE TOP. The final ascent of most days carries a different motivation--since it's usually the climb to the hotel: Many of Europe's oldest and most beautiful villages sit on hilltops. And many of life's pleasantest hotels are in those villages. It takes legwork to reach them, yet people soar up the steep approaches on wings of expectation--of a hot bath, a basket of fruit, a split of champagne from the mini-bar.
There's one more motivation that carries bicycling bodies heavenward: It is motivation-for-the-hell-of-it. Which brings us back to Mont Ventoux. At the beginning of that ascent, I told myself I was doing it for the view of the fertile valley that stretched away in purple and gold. But the wind came up, the clouds descended, and the view disappeared. I had 10 kilometers to go and could no longer kid myself that I had a reason for going.
But it was perfect. Innocent of the hope of gain, the climb was pure...well, pure climb. Pointless? Sure. But I would submit that anyone who has lost sight of the pleasure of that kind of gratuitous challenge is badly in need of a bicycle trip in rolling country.


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The dive center is located in the "Golden Tulip Hotel" in Khassab, which is the capital of the most northerly province of Musandam.
This province is a peninsula just on the Strait of Hormuz, 3 hours by car northeast of Dubai and is separated from the rest of Oman by the stunningly beautiful fjords (long narrow strips of sea between high cliffs), small villages and dramatic mountain-hugging roads.
The wild rugged beauty of the Musandam coastline and fjords is a national heritage of great value and is only 1 hour Domestic Flight away from Muscat with Oman Air for 48 OMR return ticket!
It is the only dive center in the whole area…so lots of fish and few divers!
Turtles, rays, nudibranches, dolphins, barracudas…you name it!
The dive center is open since Jan 2005 with new equipment, compressor, tanks, dive shop, dry room for our guests, multilingual instructors (German, English, French, and Dutch), a workshop… and a terrace for chill-out after diving. It has a new speedboat build in Dubai the way we wanted it with 2 x 150 HP Motors (33 knots/hour), sweet water shower, tank holders, First Aid, Oxygen etc… It offers all SSI & PADI courses from Bubble maker for kids up to Assistant Instructor license as well as Intro Dives for people who just want to try! It has a kind of house reef, good for courses and intro dives and an eventual check dive.
There are rumors that this area is difficult and just for advanced divers?!
Not at all…it has instructor in the water at all times and it's a nice area for all levels! The dive excursions are organized on a daily basis. As the dive sites are at a one hour drive by boat, going out will be once a day for a 2-tank-dives from 9:00 – 15:00 incl. soft drinks, cookies and fruits.
Please be in the dive center at 8:30 a.m. the day of your first dive and bring your license.
Night dives and courses on demand. Payment can be in any currency cash and for the last day it will be fantastic mountain safaris with jeeps into the nearby area.
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I was at a friends watching him play this and I would have to agree with Op...the zombie combat in the game seemed less a focus them having to fight against other players. It was his biggest complaint. Due to some very limited ammo in the game play trying to do zombie killing tends to result in your death due to gankers. To me it felt like a dumb down version of combat arms zombie mission with more douche baggery.
This game should not be classed as a mmo in any way shape or form. Though I have been hearing some rumor mill at Horror cons that there is a mmo being developed based on the WWZ book and movie I thought it was this game but was laughed at when I said this out loud. Guess even the horror geeks knew this would be a joke....Then again these are the same people praying for a lovecraftian mmo.
Why would anyone wanna kill zombies in the game right now is confusing to me. I could run around with my hammer all day and kill zombies and just get some money out of it. There is no incentive to PvE and to much to PvP.
What poeple right now seem to fail to notice is that there is no reason at all to kill zombies. There is no XP or skills in the game yet. There is also no reason to be "afraid" of death. The loot you loose can in most cases just be found again easily enough and you do not lose anything. Well access to you character in that whole hour and that is only a problem if you manage to get killed every 10 minutes and stuck without a character for 10 minutes.
I mean yes the OP is spot on, but not sure if you should avoid it. I still find it enjoyable and believe that once released it might be fun. The devs are working hard from what I can tell at the moment and do update often. It might also fail, but I have already got my monies worth out of it.
I think some need to step back and read what is to come on this game.
There will be skills
Grouping/Team building
zombies to drop cash and Items even now in beta - so there would be one reason to kill them.
Game not the best out there as of now, but I see where it could go.
It is in beta, paying now for it gives you a discount and early access to the game. If you ordered before Oct 15th think it was, you got the game cheaper than it is now to order it.
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Originally posted by Cakeisyummeh
Just get a refund o: the devs are terrible. Isn't going to improve much more than it already has.
i want to warn everyone that the devs dont follow the europe lawn on refunds. This company cannot be trusted and is clearly not serious. They copied the toa from another comapny, the ceo calls people faggot and the admins talks about how they will use admin powers to kill people on the server, and giving free stuff to his friends.
More and more people are saying the exact same things... I tought it's not possible but...
Tho, regarding refunds... They don't have to give you a refund. You just contact your credit card company and say you want to do a chargeback because you bought a broken product with very uncivilized support and they'll do a chargeback in matter of hours. You'll get your money back, WarZ will be charged for your money and problem solved. It's a common buyers protection.
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This game is 19 dollars. What is wrong with you people. Best 20 bucks I have spent in a long time on a video game. Who cares if its half complete. It's sand box.
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War Z is basically DayZ for the Call of Duty kiddies. I used to think the DayZ servers were filled with a massive amount of douchers but, War Z is 10 times worse. If you are looking for a zombie survival game and enjoy a bunch of ritalin/mt. dew fueled pre-teens who just learned how to swear... The War Z is the game you are looking for.
Also calling this game a MMO is just insane, it is no more of an MMO than BF3/TF2.
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6 year old account, first post. Nuff said.
I just felt strongly enough about this to finally post something.
Don't usually hang out on the mmorpg forums much, admittedly, but still this is my opinion and I wanted to warn people.
Originally posted by Nilarko
I went there looking for some zombie-killing fun, and all it turns out to be is an FPS with Zombies in the background. Most people in the game don't care about the zombies, they just want to kill other players. Shoot a zombie? I might need that ammo for a player! If you want some FPS deathmath, there are much better ones out there. AVOID WAR Z.
Quite funny that you think you know what's good for the rest of the world.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
Hell, I'm as qualified as the rest of the 'tards on this forum.


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In 2003, two rebel factions, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), revolted against Khartoum.
The Darfur Peace Agreement was signed in 2006, between Khartoum and the SLA arm led by Minni Arkou Minnawi. JEM and Abdelwahid Muhamed El Nur's SLA contingent refused the peace deal, with El Nur asserting that the agreement did not include or respond to crucial needs of the Darfur population. Upset over the accord created a critical change in the nature of the conflict. What had predominantly been a direct battle between rebels and central government, then included opposition groups warring against each other as well.
JEM is the only opposition group to launch assaults on Sudan's strong political regions. In 2008 JEM raided Omdurman, where the parliament is located, and it has also attacked oil installations in Kordofan.
In March 2009, an arrest warrant for President al-Bashir was issued by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The war has crossed heavily into Chad and Central African Republic. In January 2010, Presidents Idriss Deby of Chad and Omar al-Bashir of Sudan agreed to stop supporting each other's rebels.
All of the armed movements hold that no settlement can be reached unless Darfur is restructured into a single state. It was separated into three regions in 1994, the divided states being North, South, and West Darfur. Within Darfur, this is commonly believed to have been done with intentions of weakening the territory. In March 2011, the government announced a plan to construct two new states out of the region, to be Central Darfur and Eastern Darfur. This has enraged rebel groups who claim it as a ploy to further divide and cripple Darfurian efforts.


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Calling all Jung-ians
The Nanaimo C.G. Jung Society is sponsoring an illustrated presentation on "The Symbolic Life: Rituals In Our Lives" by Jungian Psychoanalyst, Marlene Brouwer at 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Vancouver Island University campus, 900-5th Street Building 180, Rm 134.
This presentation is open to both members and non-members. This engaging presentation will explore the potent unconscious "religious instinct" and our psychological need for the symbolic. Particular attention is focused on rituals in our lives.
In today's technologically directed society, where traditional beliefs and ways are changing with global consciousness, educational and geographic mobility, telecommunications, media and personal encounters, we are evolving an ever increasing awareness of the world we now live in. We have more personal freedom and choices than ever before.
Carl Gustav Jung was adamant that no one, especially in the second half of life, can be healed without attention to one's religious attitude and that involves becoming aware of, and relating with one's god(s) or highest values—whatever that may really be for the person.
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Is cable TV access is a feminist issue?
My mom posed the question, possibly to see if I can construct an argument that might persuade her household to spring for the extended digital basic. I suspect the long nights watching the ION channel are beginning to grate. Good daughter that I am, I figured I'd try tackling the question.
To start with: Cable television isn't cheap. The average bill for expanded basic cable is $49.65 per month -- nearly seven hours of work for your average minimum-wage employee -- and that's more than double what it was ten years ago. Since it's not like we've all doubled in wealth or earning power in the last decade, it's evident that cable is eating up a larger chunk of discretionary income.
Yet this is not really stopping people from getting cable. According to the U.S. government, 64% of households making less than $15,000 per year have cable. Sadly, the U.S. government doesn't examine how many of those households might be made up of college students whose parents are paying the rent, thus freeing the kids up to pay for HBO, but the fact remains, more than half of all households pulling in less than $1250 a month have decided that they can live on $1200 -- that remaining $50 is going to cable.
So in terms of purely economic issues -- economic issues being the ones that point out that women's fulltime earnings are 77% of men's fulltime earnings, and that five times as many households headed by single women fall below the poverty line as households headed by married couples, so it's a fair bet women are the ones making the decisions about whether or not they can afford cable -- in terms of those issues, a lack of access to cable doesn't seem to be a gendered phenomenon. A majority of people in this country have it, no matter their income level.
I do wonder if there's an argument to be made that access to cable TV matters in terms of cultural depictions and issues. Anyone who's ever tried watching the networks in the mornings knows that you've got your choice of gabfest, gabfest, gabfest and gabfest. Granted, FOX News also offers their own gabfests -- or, as I like to think of them, the televised equivalent of an intellectual heat sink -- but when you've got cable, FOX News isn't one of four choices. It's one of 40, and I can tell you, at least 30 of those will be better.
What do you think? Casting financial matters aside -- since they're apparently not bothering a majority of Americans in the first place -- is access to cable TV a feminist issue in terms of cultural exposure?
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Clare replied on
I think not. While access to cable is convenient, I cannot think it is a feminist issue. In fact, as someone who grew up in a household without cable, I often think cable is a bane on our society more than anything else. Cultural exposure comes from museums, activities, education, and social interaction, not from vegging out in front of the TV. Further, these days anyone with access to a computer can watch virtually any show they missed on TV the night before online. We have cable simply because my husband cannot live without ESPN, and quite frequently I wish I could find an excuse to cancel it. Not to rant - but if anything, cable is a feminist issue in that it ties families to the home, limits our true cultural interactions, and diminishes our propensity to get out of our homes and truly experience and enjoy life.
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Heather replied on
From a class analysis, I think it can be. I think feminism can be used as a tool to analyze all kinds of things beyond gender and sex issues. I think it is important that feminism does that because not every feminist has the same experience from all kinds of things like class, race, sexuality, gender identity, able-bodied, etc etc ...
Now, I choose to not have cable because of the price (really? $50 for bullshit, I think) and also because I cannot afford it (single mother, on welfare, going to college full time). I also don't want my kid exposed to the sick advertisements on shows. I also choose because so much of it perpetuates gender roles, sexism, etc etc - so for myself and my kid: cable is a big no (beyond the money). This also led me to choose between cable or internet. Internet is more accessible to all kinds of things, my kid can use it easily, and I need it for school.
I like how the author of the post pointed out the statistics, though. So again, if we are looking at this issue from a class analysis - of course, it's a feminist issue and it ought to be one! Feminism needs to continue to critique all kinds of issues and be aware of our own privileges and oppressions as feminists (such as my white and physical able-body privilege even though I'm a poor, queer, single mother and womyn).
Good post! It is good to talk about this stuff!
access to information is
fullyengagedfeminism replied on
Before the big switch over to digital television (away from airwaves) many areas still required cable to get anything beyond 1 fuzzy television channel. To find out about road and school closings, upcoming elections, and anything cultural occurrence television is used. It requires less literacy, less time, and less access to things like the internet, or a library with compatible hours.
Many po' folks I am sure go without cable. I certainly did growing up. But I also lived walking distance to the library, and my Mother new what radio and news resources she could use - spoke the language, could read, and enjoyed escaping in books. For many others it is a wiser economic decision to pay for basic cable to cover news, cultural coverage & buy a bit of escapism.
If we invested in greater access in news and other media (longer library hours, more public access tv channels that TVs actually picked up, free newspapers) perhaps then the issue would be different.
cable might give one access
Ashley McAllister replied on
cable might give one access to more channels, but i don't believe that it gives us more access to information...perhaps i'm sidestepping, but i think this is a feminist issue because there are so many low-income women in this country who do not have the time/luxury to get their news outside of their tv.
Third Degree Burns replied on
I think cable television is a source of entertainment. Information? Not so much.
I don't subscribe to cable. I grew up without it, had it for a few years in college (free with the apartment!) and while I can't say I'd turn down free cable, I also can't say its worth $50 from my paycheck every month. (Also: Part of my reasoning for not ordering cable is that I just hate the way it's sold in packages. I mean, if I could order per channel, thus granting myself access to Turner Classic Movies and HBO and AMC and channels that air programs I'm into -- without having to spend extra money on ordering the PREMIUM DIGITAL WHATEVER PACKAGE so I could get access to all three current TV shows I actually care about -- I'd spring for it).
I'll admit that sometimes when I read Bitch, not having cable means I am, at times, totally clueless about certain television phenomenons being addressed. But you know what? Sometimes what I read in Bitch makes me totally okay with that!
I'd also like to add that not having cable in and of itself does not keep me totally in the dark about television. I caught the new season of Mad Men at a friend's house every Sunday. I have seen the eye-popping badness that is Jersey Shore at another friend's due to the marathon-heavy programming of many basic cable channels. Oh, and let's not even get into the glory that is Hulu.
Which brings me to my actual point: Who really needs cable when you have the Internet, a source of entertainment and information and (more recently) social networking? Is Internet access a feminist issue? In the context of economics and the impact of access to technology & information on women and female households, I think it is. Far more than cable, especially as the lines between the Internet and TV (thanks, Netflix!) become increasingly blurred.


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November 21st, 2006
There were a few surprises on the charts this week, including the number one film.
But overall things played out almost exactly as expected, leading to a total of $146 million at the box office.
This was 15% higher than last weekend but 19% lower than the same weekend last year.
However, that was the weekend when Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opened and no-one was expecting this year to be able to keep pace.
Happy Feet may have taken top spot on the charts, but I think Harry Potter had a lot to do with that.
Friday marked the first time the teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was shown in theaters and I can guarantee that at least $700,000 worth of tickets were sold to people who wanted to see it in theaters and had no interest in Happy Feet (in fact, I would estimate at least $2 million was a direct result of the Harry Potter trailer).
Even so, Happy Feet did get off to a great start earning $41.5 million over the weekend.
That's just bigger the opening weekend of Chicken Little and that film finished with $135 million. However, Happy Feet's reviews are much stronger at 79% positive to 37% positive and that should help the film's legs giving it about $175 million in total.
Casino Royale may have missed first place at the box office with $40.8 million, but that still has to be seen as a huge success.
It is the second highest opening weekend for the James Bond franchise, which is even more impressive considering the amount of uncertainly surrounding the film, and not just the new Bond.
However, it appears that fans and critics alike approved of the film. On a side note, the 95% positive reviews gives the film the best reviews for a wide release this year and it could top Die Another Day's domestic box office of $160 million, and half a billion worldwide is certainly within reach.
Even if it doesn't make it that far, it should be able to top Star Wars as the biggest franchise at the worldwide box office.
The enigma that is Borat continued this weekend as the movie fell nearly 50% to $14.6 million.
This was enough to lift the film to $90 million and it should have no trouble hitting $100 million over the weekend.
The only real question now it how far up the 2006 chart it can reach.
A placing in the top ten seems unlikely; not that it is impossible for it to surpass Mission: Impossible: III, it's just that both Happy Feet and Casino Royale will beat it to that mark.
Regardless of the film's performance from now on, it is still one of the most profitable films of the season and arguably the most unlikely $100 million film of the year.
Direct competition hurt the kids movies more than expected with Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause falling almost 51% to $8.3 million.
The film now has $51.7 million at the box office and will finish well back of the previous films in the franchise, but it should still match its production budget and might even meet original expectations if it can grab a lift from the holidays.
Rounding out the top five was Stranger Than Fiction with $6.6 million.
This was a bit of a surprise, not that its drop-off was better than expected; it's just that the competition, Flushed Away, was weaker than expected.
That film fell more than 60% to $6.6 million, placing sixth along the way.
Also surprising analysts was 8 Films to Die For as the horror festival grabbed 10th place with $2.3 million.
This could be enough for the distributor to plan another such release next year and at the very least, it will ensure the 8 films get a DVD release relatively soon.
Finally we have Let's Go to Prison, which just missed the top ten with $2.2 million.
As expected, the critics hated this movie and that gave it just 9% positive.
This combined with the pathetic per theater average will result is a massive drop-off in theater count the Friday after this and a total box office of $6 million or so.
Turning to the sophomore class, the best was The Return, which fell 61.52% to $1.7 million over the weekend and $6.9 million in total.
A Good Year didn't suffer as much of a drop-off but it still only managed $1.6 million over the weekend and $6.4 million in total.
Lastly we have Harsh Times as that film plummeted nearly 75% to under $500,000.
I think it is safe to say the MGM label will disappear, again.
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So far, about 72,000 undocumented immigrants have applied for deferred action and some applications have already been approved. Initially, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said it could take several months for the applications to be processed. As many as 80,000 undocumented immigrants in Arizona could be eligible to apply.
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posted Feb 25 2014 8:29PM
The goal may be to help make America healthier, but government involvement in what we eat and drink is more dangerous than you might think.
The recent controversy over a New York City ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces seemed to expose any government efforts to reduce America's costly obesity rate as further advancing the idea of a "nanny state."
The Oxford Dictionary defines "nanny state" as the government regarded as overprotected or as interfering with personal choice.
Contributing to the "nanny state" mentality, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires all restaurants with 20 locations or more to list nutritional information next to every item on the menu. In the case of the national pizza chains, the choices of crusts, cheeses and toppings bring the number of possible items to over 30 million! These national pizza restaurants are mostly owned by individuals and the cost of constantly changing the menus to reflect the latest possible combinations would be costly. That's a cost that could be passed on to the consumer.
Furthermore, where would a menu with over 30 million combinations be located at each location? And since the overwhelming majority of orders are placed by phone, placement of a menu is not even possible.
The Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2013 received bipartisan support in Congress and according to a recent study, about 80% of restaurant customers noticed the calorie count on menus and 26% said they made decisions about what to order based on the nutritional information provided on the menu.
Government bans on food and drink consumption sends the message that if something isn't banned then it must be ok for consumption and consumers gain the sense that it is up to the government to guide their personal decisions.
The requirement to list nutritional ingredients on all restaurant menus does not guarantee that consumers will change their ordering patterns, but does give politicians the sense that they have done something to correct a problem.
The proposed ban of the sale of sugary drinks over 16 ounces is ridiculous because anyone can buy two 16 ounce drinks – thus purchasing 32 ounces of a sugary drink. The attempt to control consumption amounts to nothing more than a "feel-good" law – a law that gives the impression that politicians have actively done something about a problem - while not actually doing anything to solve a problem.
The hidden danger in a government that is involved in the personal decisions about what to eat or drink lies in the feeling that the government is taking care of us and that further diminishes the emphasis that should be placed on individual accountability.
When I go out to eat - I am not inviting the government to go with me. The government should not be so involved in our personal decisions and if we make poor decisions about what we eat or drink the responsibility lies strictly with the individual – not with the government!
The loss of respect for personal accountability has had a devastating impact on America and is the source of many of our problems with obesity, health in general and even crime.
We need to stop looking to the government to guide us in our decision-making and adhere to the idea that we are all responsible for our behavior.
And we should recognize that politicians are quick to pass legislation that only gives the appearance of solving a problem – when the solution lies with each individual American.
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generally agree
but information for the consumer is a good thing. people could make more informed choices, it isn't denying them the choice of those foods - just giving them facts, similar to labels on food. agreed the amount of combinations could make it complex,but the idea itself isn't offensive.
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Why don't they label foods with GMOs in it?? That's worse than anything, banned all over the world but not here in Amerika.
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They regulate every other aspect of our lives, our light bulbs, mandated health insurance, the way cars are built. We live in a nanny-state. We might as well get used to it if our representatives in Washington refuse to change it.
Scoot why do you not talk about Michelle Obama. she is behind all this
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