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KINGS MOUNTAIN � The Shelby Golden Lions set the tone with their defense from start to finish in a 49-0 victory against county rival Kings Mountain at John Gamble Stadium on Friday night. Their pressure on Mountaineer quarterback Brandon Bell kept Kings Mountain from getting into any kind of rhythm. They picked off Bell three times and regularly cut off his running lanes.
�I thought our defense played outstanding,� Shelby coach Lance Ware said. �We�ve been challenging them all week and all season to flip the turnover margin. They made some huge strides tonight as a unit.�
Shelby forced a Mountaineer three-and-out to begin the contest, and six plays later Antwan Wright carried tacklers into the end zone for a 29-yard touchdown reception from R.J. George. That pushed the Lions up 7-0 less than three minutes in.On the ensuing possession, Shelby defensive lineman Adam Webber had the first of his two pick-sixes, returning an interception 26 yards to push it to 14-0 with 6:59 left in the first quarter.
�Our defensive ends are fast,� Webber said. �So (their) offensive line had trouble with them.�
A one-play drive on a 70-yard Raekwon Washington touchdown reception from George in the second quarter made it a 21-0 margin heading to the half. Wright broke tackles on a 45-yard scoring reception from George on the second play from scrimmage in the third quarter. Webber struck again with a 20-yard interception return for a score that made it a 35-point lead a mere 94 seconds into the second half. George had a season-high four touchdown passes and 247 passing yards.
�Our offensive line gave R.J. time,� Ware said.
The Golden Lions added scores on a 47-yard connection from George to Chad Reid and an 18-yard Buck Ussery run to complete the scoring before the end of the third quarter.
�They got on us quick and it snowballed a bit,� Kings Mountain coach Greg Lloyd said. �They�ve got an excellent football team. It was a tough task to bounce from the war we had last week at Burns. We�ll try to bounce back. Our goal is get into the playoffs this year.�
Shelby (4-2, 3-0 SMAC) hosts East Burke next Friday, while Kings Mountain (2-4, 0-3) heads to Draughn.


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Skyline of downtown San Jose Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007. ((Patrick Tehan/Mercury News))
Things are picking up in venture capital, and nowhere is that more true than in Silicon Valley.
Venture firms nationwide invested $7.8 billion in 1,005 startups in the third quarter, according to the latest MoneyTree Report, compiled by the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers using data from Thomson Reuters.
That was a 12 percent increase in terms of dollars and a 5 percent hike in the number of deals compared with the second quarter.
Nearly half that money went to companies in Silicon Valley, whomping runner-up New England's 11 percent of the haul. No other region broke double digits.
With that trend holding true year after year, it may be time to retire long-voiced worries that the Bay Area, plagued by high costs and heavy traffic, could be overtaken by other tech hubs like Austin or New York.
"I don't see any risk that what makes the valley special is going away," said Ashu Garg, a partner at venture firm Foundation Capital.
Garg spent years working for Microsoft and, as a VC, has done a number of deals in India. Despite robust educational systems and large consumer markets, Garg said, Seattle and Mumbai lack what he called the valley's most unique ingredient.
"When a founder or CEO needs advice, there are 10 or 12 people they can call who have seen the movie," he said. "No other area has that concentration of talent."
Jeanne Harris, a managing director at Accenture's Institute for High Performance in Chicago, spent three months in the valley trying to quantify what keeps it churning out new companies.
Harris, who's often asked by officials in other countries how they can create their own Silicon Valleys, was surprised by how extensively the attitudes of tech workers here vary compared to elsewhere. "On a list of 50 variables, people in the valley differed from the rest of the country on 47," she said.
Those factors range from higher-than-average levels of optimism and ambition to the valley's famous celebration of failure.
Harris also noted the region's mix of ethnicities and nationalities: About 50 percent of science and engineering professionals here, she said, speak a language besides English at home. The resulting melting pot is both welcoming of new ideas and hard for other places to copy.
Not that others haven't tried. In recent years, for instance, the coastal neighborhoods of Los Angeles have recast themselves as Silicon Beach. It's now home to hot startups like Snapchat and The Honest Co., launched by movie star Jessica Alba.
"You're not competing with Google (GOOG), Facebook and everyone for talent," said Darren Berkovitz, co-founder of a Marina del Rey startup called TeleSign that helps large Web companies verify users' identifies via mobile phone.
"The flip side," he acknowledged, "is there's less talent." Indeed, TeleSign just opened a Sunnyvale office because so many of its clients are valley-based.
While Berkovitz decries the valley's outsized costs and "more cutthroat" pace, tech investor Salil Deshpande said he's backed companies all over the world and hasn't found anyplace that beats the Bay Area for innovation.
"It's the mindset, the thought process," said Deshpande, a managing director at Bain Capital Ventures in Palo Alto. "That's why although successful, feasible, realistic ideas come from all over, the crazy, wonderful, delightful, brilliant, stunning, brash ones come from the valley."
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.

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JC Coccoli
Hello there. JC Coccoli is a comedian born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA to an Italian-Russian family. She began performing at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at the age of 9 before her acceptance into the Point Park Conservatory Theater and Dance school and a summer study program at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her BA in English Writing and Radio and Television Broadcasting from the University of Central Florida while starring in a nationwide television show for The WB entitled Big Man on Campus.
After moving to Los Angeles in 2005, she began touring as a stand-up comic performing at the LA improv, Laugh Factory and underground alternative venues (super hip). She was soon cast in a co-starring role for a FOX comedy pilot entitled Skyler's Revolution from the Executive Producer of Charlie's Angels and We are Marshall.
In 2006, she was hired as a comedy writer for THE WB, MTV, and VH1. She has written for actors and comedians that have appeared on Late Show with David Letterman, Chelsea Lately, CBS's Big Bang Theory, VH1's Best Week Ever and Late Night with Craig Ferguson. Her television appearances include G4, MTV, VH1, and WB. In 2009, she began editorial work for 944 Magazine which shifted to avid blogging for a site entitled Healthy Bitch Daily from the co-author and creator of the NY Times Best Seller Skinny Bitch.
Every Monday night she runs one of the hippest comedy rooms in Los Angeles Keep it Clean @ Public House http://www.laweekly.com/events/keep-it-clean-comedy-829945/ and presently resides in Venice Beach, CA where she embraces the serenity of yoga and continues to observe the hilariousness of human beings. Okay, bye!
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|Skyler's Revolution
|G4 Attack of the Show
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CRESTVIEW � Dawn Onuffer seeks support to bring her baking dreams to November�s 46th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off in Las Vegas. The Crestview resident is a semifinalist in the national competition.
CRESTVIEW � Dawn Onuffer seeks support to bring her baking dreams to November�s 46th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off in Las Vegas. The Crestview resident is a semifinalist in the national competition.
The contest
Onuffer's Hot Pink Raspberry and Cream Cake recipe is one of 60 entries in the "Simple Sweets and Starters" category. Three other contestants, from Miami, Tampa and Melbourne, represent Florida in the category. The top 34 contestants with the most votes will receive an expenses-paid trip for the chance to win a $1 million grand prize.
"This is the mother of all baking contests," Onuffer said. "We will bake our recipes for the judges and they will select the top three finalists."
The second and third finalists win $10,000 and $5,000, respectively, according to the contest website. The top three finalists can choose from sponsor General Electric�s kitchen appliances.
Four other $5,000 prizes will go to participants who present particularly creative recipes.
Onuffer � who expects to know voting results by July 4 � said she already knows what she�d do if given the ticket.
"I have never been out west ... If we go I would like to take the family to see the Grand Canyon," she said.
Standout competition
"I just like to experiment (in the kitchen)," Onuffer said. "I just throw things together; that's just how I cook.�
However, she said, �I enjoy baking more so than cooking."
Onuffer � who has entered several baking contests in the last decade � participated in the Bake-Off four times before becoming a semifinalist in last year's Orlando competition.
"It was a cookie with a cream cheese, coffee-flavored topping," she said of her Cappuccino Toppers.
This year�s cake entry requires flour, eggs and sugar. Per contest guidelines, the recipe includes Pillsbury products,including hot pink vanilla-flavored frosting and the company's self-rising flour.
Click here for Dawn Onuffer's Hot Pink Raspberry and Cream Cake recipe>>
After a half-hour preparation time, the cake takes one hour and 40 minutes to bake. The result is a creamy, vibrant dessert.
�It�s the only pink recipe online (on the contest website) ... it stands out really well," she said.
Want to vote?
Visit http://bit.ly/159LsOa to vote for Dawn Onuffer's Hot Pink Raspberry and Cream Cake recipe. Deadline is 11:59 a.m. June 27.


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Ruth H. Zartman
Ruth H. Zartman
Aug. 29, 1922-Jan. 1, 2013
PLYMOUTH — Ruth H. Zartman, 90, was surrounded by her loving family when she passed away at 4:40 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013 at Pilgrim Manor in Plymouth.
Ruth was born Aug. 29, 1922, the precious daughter of Guy and Lily E. Johnson Hunter. As one of 12 Hunter children, she shared her childhood with three sisters Lucille, Dorothy, Peggy and eight brothers Larry, Russell, Arthur, Harry, Empy, Bill, Kelly and Robert.
On June 17, 1939 in Rochester, Ruth married her best friend Dean L. Zartman. Their union spanned over six decades and was blessed with three children Phyllis Marie, Carol Ann, and Ernest Dean. Over the years the family tree grew to include seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
In the early years Ruth took great pride with flower and vegetable gardening around her home. As an accomplished seamstress she tended to the family mending and made custom clothing. Once she created a beautiful formal for one of her granddaughters to wear to a dance. To keep sharp she enjoyed the challenges of word searches. The proud matriarch of four generations, Grandma Ruth especially enjoyed doting on her grandchildren and the great-grandchildren.
Ruth is lovingly remembered by her two daughters Phyllis Marie Calhoun and husband Robert of Charlottesville, Va, Carol Ann Allshouse and husband Jerry of Barberton, Ohio, one son Ernest Dean Zartman and wife Lorna of Plymouth, one sister Peggy Ehlinger of Rochester, two brothers Larry Hunter and wife Ruth of Rochester, Russell Dean Hunter and wife Nancy of Jensen Beach, Fla., seven grandchildren and 13-great grandchildren.
Preceding Ruth in death are her parents, beloved husband of 61 years Dean Zartman, two sisters Lucille Linden, Dorothy Crabill, six Hunter brothers Arthur, Harry, Emerson "Empy", Charles "Bill", Alvin "Kelly" and Robert.
A celebration of the life of Mrs. Ruth H. Zartman will be held Friday, Jan. 4 at 10 a.m. at the Good Family Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 1200 W. 18th St., Rochester. Burial will take place in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. Friends may visit with her family from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and an hour prior to her services. Expressions of sympathy may be written to Ruth's family at www.goodfamilyfh.com


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Write 2 Simple Programs. Excel, CSV, Upload to Web server.
I require 2 Separate Programs to be written for me to Run on my Desktop PC, Windows 7, 10 +.
The Programs are to do the following.
1. Enable me to Select Multiple Excel files and the program to perform the following..
Automatically edit the files by removing unwanted columns and editing existing column titles.(These are constant and don't change).
2. Create 2 new Columns at the end of the Table by Calculating figures in 2 existing Rows (Resulting in an Average of the Total).
3. Save the resulting files as MS-DOS CSV.
4. Upload to a Website Server (FTP ?) over writing existing files. (If Possible).
2 Programs to manipulate 2 Different but Constantly formatted Excel files that i will be able to Select Multiple of and re save in CSV format and upload to Website Server overwriting Existing files.
I will be running this program once a week to update our website.
I do all of the above manually and it gets Boring :)
Also Open to suggestions if my thinking is off the scope LOL.
I have attached a 2 Sample Files. Before and After.
Thank You
I have also added the After File for you to view.
Thank You
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SDCC 2014 Disney Program Schedule
Here is your Disney lineup for the San Diego Comic-Con 2014! Keep in mind these are only the panels that match up with "Disney" (not Marvel, Star Wars or Disney artists/guests appearing in non Disney sposored panels).
THURSDAY July 24, 2014
Walt Disney Animation Studios 10:00am - 1:30pm
Toy Story That Time Forgot 11:15am - 12:15pm
The Art of Big Hero Six 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Wander Over Yonder 2:00pm - 3:00pm
The Heroes of Star Wars Rebels 6:00pm - 7:00pm
FRIDAY July 25, 2014
Walt Disney Animation Studios 10:00am - 2:30pm
Gravity Falls 1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Forgotten Rabbit 10:15pm - 10:25pm
SATURDAY July 26, 2014
Phineas and Ferb 10:00am - 11:00am
Disney's Gargoyles 20-Year Anniversary 5:00pm - 6:00pm
SUNDAY July 27, 2014
The Official Disney Publishing Worldwide Fall Book and App Preview! 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Disney's Master Teachers' Life Drawing for Animation 1:45pm - 2:45pm
Disney Pin Trading: Past, Present and Future 4:00pm - 5:00pm
For more information please visit the San Diego Comic-Con programming schedule HERE. Have a great con! :)
-Rosemary Domagala-Garcia


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Don't worry, the evolutionary musical adventure will continue on our sister site DarwinTunes. While working on the DarwinTunes project, we made some technological improvements to the algorithm, and also we prefer the less cluttered website. We don't really need polls, forums, t-shirts, popup windows, chat rooms, etc...
So, we're going to have a few channels (maybe three) on DarwinTunes - at least two with drum samples.
User registration and the hall of fame doesn't seem to be worth continuing on DarwinTunes - what do you reckon? Feedback and community interaction seemed to work well on Twitter and Facebook.
And one thing we hope to bring in in the future is an integrated media player and rating system (all in Flash in your browser).
Any comments? Maybe you have a better idea to create a community vibe for Evolectronica/DarwinTunes? Please let us know, either here or on the DarwinTunes Facebook group.
Now... what do I do with 100+ business cards?


text: How do Nation! It's time for our STEELERS to do battle again! Today we battle the current WORLD CHAMPIONS New York Giants!! We're going to be one ailing team when we take the field on both sides of the ball. Does anyone have the for sure list of who's playing and who's not, from what I understand, FWP is out, SH is out, Marvell is out, who are we missing on D now? Is Aaron going to play? I understand his son had an operation and he originally was not going to show up. Lets hope we have a good game and no major injuries occur. Lets have a good clean game. :)


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Cloistral summer dress
Added Jun 29, 2011
by soaringviola
Paderborn, Germany
Used the dress pattern 103 from Burdastyle 11/2010 to make a summer dress. As it has a simple rectangular shape and no zipper or something (only the elastic band and a slit with a small button on the back) it was easy and fast to sew. To make it even easier I used biastape for the arm holes and the neckline. Because the combination of the simple brown cotton fabric (a bit strange colour…), the white top and the simple shape reminded me of a cowl I added the white stitching – I guess it makes it much more look like it belongs in the city than in a cloister :-)
I like the end result very much, it is very nice to wear on hot days and in spite of its simplicity wearable in office. And the pockets make it practical for daily use too :-)
PS: Sorry for the bad pics, it was a bit too much light in the sun in front of the white wall…
Material Notes
Cheap brown cotton from www.stoffe.de and a strange white fabric, guess a mixture of cotton and rayon
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Jun 29, 2011, 09.09 AMby hdk100
I like this version a lot, so you just gave me a new project idea! The embroidery is really cute.
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Jun 30, 2011, 08.12 AMby soaringviola
Thank u! And don´t forget to upload your finished project :-)
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England face another two days of hard graft if they are to retain the Ashes in Manchester this week despite Kevin Pietersen's 23rd Test century.
Pietersen has been largely absent with the bat so far this series but saved his best for an innings of 113 that was the backbone of England's 294 for seven at the close on day three of the third Investec Test at Emirates Old Trafford.
That still represented a deficit of 233 runs and, more importantly, 34 runs shy of a follow-on target that appears Australia's best hope of pressing for a victory they must achieve in order to keep alive their Ashes hopes.
Pietersen ensured they were made to toil manfully for the most part on Saturday in that pursuit - Australia managed just five wickets - as he hit his first Test century at this venue.
The right-hander was given a life on 65 when Australia failed to review an lbw call that would have been given out, before bringing up three figures with an uppercut over point that bounced once before finding the ropes.
But when the 33-year-old fell in the final hour lbw to Mitchell Starc (three for 75), England's lower order were still left with the important task of avoiding the follow-on.
With two days remaining in the match, Matt Prior (six) and Stuart Broad (nine) will begin on Sunday tasked primarily with passing that target after Australia posted 527 for seven declared in their first innings.
England had been in some discomfort before lunch at 110 for four, but Pietersen and Ian Bell (60) put on 115 in a timely partnership that took them into the final session.
England struggle despite KP ton
England face another two days of hard graft if they are to retain the Ashes in Manchester this week despite Kevin Pietersen's 23rd Test century.


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LAW7884 - Bankruptcy, Advanced Topics
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This course provides in-depth analysis of selected topics in bankruptcy law, including confirmation of Chapter 11 business reorganization plans; the scope and limits of bankruptcy court jurisdiction; conflicts between the Bankruptcy Code and other federal laws including labor laws, environmental laws, and ERISA; treatment of intellectual property rights in bankruptcy; the relationship between the federal bankruptcy law and state law; and the treatment of secured claims. The course will include some discussion of significant policies and principles that underlie the Bankruptcy Code. Where appropriate, we will devote particular attention to legislative developments and recent United States Supreme Court rulings on bankruptcy topics. Bankruptcy and Secured Transactions are recommended, but not required, preparation for this course.


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Gary Alvin Franks (born February 9, 1953)
Born in Waterbury, Franks was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Connecticut, as stated by the Hartford Courant. He was the first black Republican to be elected to the House since Oscar Stanton De Priest won his last term on the South Side of Chicago in 1932. Franks served in the House for three terms, from 1991 to 1997. He is the only black American to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Congress.
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Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright swears in Jordan Anderson.
Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright (right) administers the oath of office to new Jackson County Deputy Sheriff Jordan P. Anderson (center) as (far left) Sheriff Tony Boggs looks on.
Anderson, 19, was a winning motocross racer in his earlier years.
His parents, Vaughn and Tonja Anderson, and grandparents, Dick Stone and Mr. and Mrs. Gareth Smith were among those on hand for the ceremony.
Anderson will be entering training a the West Virginia State Police Academy in the near future. Both Vaughn Anderson (Air Force Special Forces) and Gareth Smith (Marine Corps) have military backgrounds.


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Winter Storm Warning Issued for Bangor, Interior Downeast Areas
The National Weather Service on Thursday issued a winter storm warning for much of eastern Maine, including Bangor and interior sections of Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington counties.
The new forecast calls for 8 to 18 inches of snow Thursday into Friday afternoon. Sleet could mix in with blowing and drifting snow late Thursday night. Heavy snow is expected to make travel "very hazardous."
The advisory will be in effect from 3 p.m.Thursday to 1 p.m. Friday.


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Bitterroot Valley Has First Major Fire of 2013, 50 Acres Burned
It's not even spring, and already the Bitterroot Valley has had its first major grass fire of 2013.
The fire, which took place on the afternoon of March 5 occurred near the Three Mile area and was tackled by members of the Three Mile Fire Volunteer Fire Department, The Stevensville Volunteer Fire Department, as well as the Florence Volunteer Fire Department.
"A homeowner was burning his grass and branches and stuff like that," Colleen Schmiedeke with the three Mile Fire Department said. "A little bit of wind came up and blew it out into some taller grass, which he thought was wet, but obviously was dry. It expanded to about 50 acres."
Schmiedeke said no structures or people were injured in the blaze which took about two and a half hours to bring under control.
The fire was still burning in a ravine on Tuesday, March 5, because the homeowner wanted the ravine cleared out.
Schmiedeke said that homeowner started fires are not uncommon and that people need to be sure to try to burn in the morning hours when grass have not dried out and strong winds are less common.
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GRAMMY Rewind: 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Music's Biggest Night, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards, will air live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
In the weeks leading up to the telecast, we will take a stroll through some of the golden moments in GRAMMY history with the GRAMMY Rewind, highlighting the "big four" categories — Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist — from past awards shows. In the process, we'll discuss the winners and the nominees who just missed taking home the GRAMMY, while also shining a light on the artists' careers and the eras in which the recordings were born.
Join us as we take an abbreviated journey through the trajectory of pop music from the 1st Annual GRAMMY Awards in 1959 to this year's 53rd telecast. Today, the GRAMMY Awards remember the year the Dixie Chicks were flying high.
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Feb. 11, 2007
Album Of The Year
Winner: Dixie Chicks, Taking The Long Way
Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
John Mayer, Continuum
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds
This Album Of The Year win was just the tip of a huge year for the Dixie Chicks, all of which was welcome vindication for the group after a politically charged comment made by singer Natalie Maines at a concert in 2003 had cost the group some fan and radio support. GRAMMY voters rose above the controversy to reward the album's merits. The group would win four GRAMMYs this year, and have won 12 to date. Gnarls Barkley (producer Danger Mouse and singer Cee Lo Green) teamed for a galvanizing album that drew from pop as much as the collaborators' roots in hip-hop. Mayer's Continuum won the Best Pop Vocal Album trophy, and marked his conscious awareness of the social issues of his generation, evidenced by his GRAMMY-winning "Waiting On The World To Change." The Red Hot Chili Peppers earned a nomination with the sprawling Stadium Arcadium, a 28-song double album released in a CD/digital-download age in which double albums rarely exist. Timberlake, the former 'N Sync star, rounded out the nominees with a modern-day, blue-eyed soul record, which ambitiously reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 2006.
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Record Of The Year
Winner: Dixie Chicks, "Not Ready To Make Nice"
Mary J. Blige, "Be Without You"
James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
Corinne Bailey Rae, "Put Your Records On"
The Dixie Chicks took Record Of The Year on the strength of "Not Ready To Make Nice," a fiercely defiant song that contained lines that spoke volumes about their trials, including death threats: "How in the world can the words that I said/Send somebody so over the edge/That they'd write me a letter/Sayin' that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over." "Be Without You" was equally heartfelt, with Blige pouring her soul into every word in her typical no-holds-barred approach, withholding no emotion. "You're Beautiful" was the ballad of the year, a soft ode to the perfection of a woman from the past, just out of the singer's reach. Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" captivated listeners with its combination of retro-soul, inescapable hooks and cutting-edge production. Brit newcomer Rae brought a jazzy feel to the neo-soul of "Put Your Records On," though she started out inspired by all-female punk groups such as L7.
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Song Of The Year
Winner: Dixie Chicks, "Not Ready To Make Nice"
Mary J. Blige, "Be Without You"
James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
Corinne Bailey Rae, "Put Your Records On"
Carrie Underwood, "Jesus, Take The Wheel"
The Dixie Chicks completed their sweep of the "big four" categories for which they're eligible with a Song Of The Year win for "Not Ready To Make Nice," which the group wrote with Dan Wilson, whose band Semisonic scored a Best Rock Song GRAMMY nomination for "Closing Time" in 1998. Blige co-wrote "Be Without You" with hot R&B writers Johnta Austin, Bryan-Michael Cox and Jason Perry. Blunt wrote "You're Beautiful" with Amanda Ghost and Sacha Skarbek. Ghost, former president of Epic Records, also received a nomination for her production work on Beyoncé's GRAMMY-nominated Album Of The Year, I Am…Sasha Fierce, at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Rae teamed with John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou for "Put Your Records On." Beck's credits include Tasmin Archer's "Sleeping Satellite," a Top 40 hit in 1993. Finally, Underwood scored a No. 1 Country Singles hit with "Jesus, Take The Wheel," a tune written by country songwriting stalwarts Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson. The track also picked up Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance honors.
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James Blunt
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A project by the N.C. Department of Transportation and the New Leaf Society is sprucing up the county�s interstate exits.
The $250,500 project is re-landscaping six Alamance County exits through June, including Interstate 40/85 interchanges at University Drive, Huffman Mill Road, Alamance Road, Maple Avenue, Trollingwood Road and Mebane Oaks Road.
The project is funded through federal dollars earmarked specifically for highway beautification. The NCDOT helmed the project but the New Leaf Society helped plan the landscape design.
The New Leaf Society is a group of private citizens who donate money and assist local governments with beautifying streets and public areas.
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This is the last installment of a six part mini-series and a huge letdown. The story was weak and the conclusion even weaker. I must admit the new A1 looks good, though.
I revisited The Hire BMW film series and even their weakest film short was 10 times better than this series. The legendary series of short "webisodes" featured A-list directors such as John Woo and Ridley Scott telling tales of the Hire, an enigmatic driver and the passengers that need his transportation and protection. My favorite was The Star. This short film was directed by Guy Ritchie and enlists his ex-wife, Madonna, to play the most spoiled and shallow diva on screen to date. Hilarious.
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Beverage Trends Point To Natural Ingredients And Safe Sources Of Energy And Nutrition
Today's beverage trends point to natural ingredients and safe sources of energy and nutrition.
What is today's most important beverage ingredient? You might say it is the latest sweetener that can provide intensity without anxiety. Or we could salute the expanding palate of natural colors, or maybe those fruit and vegetable juices with their antioxidant powers.
There are good arguments to be made for any of these. So what about the beverage ingredient of tomorrow? Well, it might be yet another new sweetener, or it might be the cucumber. Just last month Sunny Delight Beverages Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, rolled out two new flavors of its Fruit2O flavored water, and one of those was Lemon Cucumber.
Whatever the beverage ingredients of future are, there is a pretty good chance they will be all-natural and good for you, says, Kelly Weikel, senior consumer research manager with market research firm Technomic Inc., Chicago.
"One of the main trends is that consumers are looking for natural ingredients when they look at beverages," she said. "They also realize that a lot of the calories that they are getting are not just from food, but also from beverages. So I think they are saying to themselves: 'If I am going to be consuming this many calories through beverages, I expect them to contain something that is good for me.'"
PepsiCo just launched Mountain Dew Kickstart in February, a combination of carbonated soft drink, juice and energy beverage. See Kickstart in our New Product Database.
The folks at PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y., see a bright future for a very familiar beverage component — caffeine. PepsiCo's Mountain Dew Kickstart is a new line extension that makes the carbonated soft drink into even more of an energy drink while offering a splash of real fruit juice – and positioning it for breakfast. While Kickstart uses commonplace ingredients, if the company is successful in creating a hybrid category — the morning carbonated soft drink — other innovative ingredients might find their way into a succession of Kickstart wanna-bes.
Whether it's a matter of discovering new ingredients or finessing applications of the tried-and-true, there should be plenty of innovation around the bend for beverage ingredients.
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In discussing what the future might hold for beverage ingredients, David Meggs, director of business development at Purac, Lincolnshire, Ill., also expects the "more natural" theme to continue, and he points to stevia as a key example.
"The application of stevia in beverages is becoming increasingly accepted," he notes. "This is stimulated by the improved quality of stevia extracts themselves, as well as the stevia masking offerings on the market."
Stevia has only been available as a sweetener in the U.S. since 2008. It is extracted from one of more than 200 species of the stevia plant. Stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts tend toward a bitter (sometimes described as licorice-like) aftertaste at high concentrations, says Olsen says. So Golazo uses it in combination with organic cane sugar to achieve a mildly sweet flavor. The products contain about half the sugar of leading sports drinks (21g per 12-oz. serving).
And while it took years for the FDA to approve stevia for the U.S. market, the sweetener wasn't approved in Europe until late 2011 and in Canada in November 2012, notes Cecilia McCollum, executive vice president of Blue California. The company was an early supplier of stevia in the U.S., creating products under the name Good&Sweet. Extracts are available at purities up to 99 percent.
Cargill Inc., Wayzata, Minn., was one of the original FDA petitioners for stevia, and has achieved great success in creating a tabletop sweetener under the brand Truvia. Its website has lots of information to help formulators learn more about Truvia, stevia in general and other sweeteners.
Monk fruit is at the front of the pack of those "other sweeteners." It's been around for centuries under its Asian name luo han guo but made only a small dent in the North American market until Tate & Lyle Plc brought it to the fore in 2011 under the name Purefruit. Like stevia, it's natural, coming from a plant, is non-nutritive and is 200-300 times as sweet as sucrose. And as it did with its sucralose sweetener, Tate & Lyle is providing commercial quantities to food processors while turning over marketing of a tabletop version, called Nectresse, to McNeil Nutritionals (which markets sucralose as Splenda).
Perhaps hedging its stevia bet, Blue California introduced BlueSweet luo han guo extract. And U.S. Niutang Chemical Inc. plans to introduce two concentrations of monk fruit sweeteners, tentatively called Fruit20 and Fruit50, denoting the percentages of the mogroside.
Both stevia and monk fruit extract allow for partial or total replacement of sugar's calories with a natural, plant-based ingredient – a powerful one-two punch for consumers.
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Skip to comments.OLD MEDIA WHINES ABOUT BLOGGERS
Posted on 10/09/2004 10:45:48 AM PDT by forest
Last week, Cliff Kincaid, Editor of the Accuracy In Media Report[1], wrote that at least two in Congress have considered a Rathergate hearing. Actually, the way I heard it was that Rep. Chris Cox requested that House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) schedule a hearing but Barton was not overly enthused with the idea.
Rep. Barton is quoted as saying, "A news organization's responsibility is to facts and truth, but the oversight of network news generally is a matter best sorted out by the viewing public and the news media."
I wholeheartedly agree.
There is a simple reason most of "Old Media" is losing money. The majority of the American public understands that most "journalists" working in the Old Media slant the political news they report to the left. Being shunned by so many American people nowadays, Old Media's profit margin is adversely affected.
CBS is investigating itself, so they say. However, they are not going about it in an acceptable way. Rather intentionally used false information to harm a sitting president during a campaign cycle. The bloggers in the "New Media" caught Rather and nailed him for it. Today, most everyone in both Old and New media agree the documents Rather used were forged. So, what's to investigate? Just call in Madame Guillotine to perform the necessary surgery.
Les Moonves, the co-president of CBS' parent company, Viacom, sort of announced the reason for the (cover-up) investigation at a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York. He said there was no timetable for the completion of the investigation but that, "Obviously, it should be done probably after the election is over so that it doesn't affect what's going on."
Let's see if we can get that straight: It is okay for the CBS news hacks to broadcast false information about President Bush during an election cycle. It is not okay, however, for CBS to broadcast that the Kerry campaign and Democratic Party gave CBS the forged documents because that information could be seen as favorable to President Bush and expose the Democratic Party activists (including those in the media) for the lying cheats that they are.
Is that how it works, Moonves? Sure looks that way.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) told a meeting of the TV engineering trade group, MSTV, that broadcast network news divisions "need to have safeguards to prevent reporters from infusing their opinions into news reports."
Agreed. But how? Old Media has the same freedom of speech as the rest of us. We can tell them to take a hike and/or stop supporting socialism but we cannot make them shut up. We can refuse to watch or listen to their programming misinformation and stop buying their newspapers, but we cannot constitutionally pass a law to censor their talking or writing.
What we can do, and are doing, is putting them out of business by not watching, listening or reading their leftist-liberal dribble. Because, they cannot pass a law forcing us to buy their product -- or the products of their sponsors.
Move over Old Media, New Media is here and has you stuck between a rock and a hard place. Old Media knows it, too, and the whining, kicking and screaming has already started.
Walter Cronkite's disparaging remarks about the Internet are on record several times. At the Society of Professional Journalists meeting in New York last month, Cronkite said: "I cannot understand how the Internet should have gotten so entirely oblivious to the whole theory of libel and slander. How is it possible for these people to get on the air with any allegation they want to make, any statement they want to make, as if it were true, as if they were journalists, which they are clearly not? They are scandalmongers."
Does that need comment? Nah.
It's sour grapes all around at the newsrooms nowadays because they see their pink slips coming. Liberalism is out -- or will be soon. Which means, liberal "journalists" are also on their way out.
The New Yorker magazine sponsored a panel discussion in New York last Saturday. It turned out to be a whining session for Old Media. NBC News' Tom Brokaw and ABC anchor Peter Jennings both bashed Internet bloggers and supported Dan Rather's style of broadcasting false news. Brokaw compared the bloggers' attacks on Rather's "60 Minutes II" report about President Bush to a "political jihad." (Wonder who wrote that script for him?)
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad," Brokaw said. "It is certainly an attempt to demonize CBS News, and it goes well beyond any factual information a lot of them has, the kind of demagoguery that is unleashed out there."
Factual information concerning the forged documents used by CBS to help throw the election in favor of Kerry is available for all to read.[2]
And, while we're on the subject of media bias: Some of the paid mannequin news readers commented that President Bush "made faces" during the first debate. Yes, he did -- and for good reason. Most of us out here in flyover country saw that as an understandable reaction to all the ridiculous babble Kerry was spewing. One enterprising blogger put it in proper context for all to see.[3] Enjoy.
Oh . . . and Walter, Dan, Tom and Peter . . . . Good Night.
1. <http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/2000_0_2_0_C/>
2. <http://22.214.171.124/forgery.pdf>
3. <http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/faces_fr_fast.wmv>
Media's left slant is costing them. That's a safeguard. Liberal "journalists" are on their way out.
Bloggers nailed Rather.
CBS is hushing itself.
In the debate, Bush made faces as a reaction to all the ridiculous babble Kerry was spewing.
Note: New Media = Internet = Bloggers = Freepers. Cronkite called us scandalmongers. Brokaw called our work demagoguery and "political jihad".
Interesting. I noticed Brokaw had one of the founders of Powerline and another blog on TV following the VP debate the other nite. Looks like he's trying to consolidate the MSM with the new media. What a joke.
You mean this Walter Cronkite?
The Pajamahadeen have changed the world more than Johannes Guttenberg did with the first printing press in 1450.
MSM, TV etc is run by a bunch of fags, neocons, deviates, perverts, socialist and leftist. I figure at the rate we use our TV, it'll last another 20 years. It's already 12 years old.
You forgot to mention ABC. Halpern just stepped in it with the bias memo.
But they will try to force us to watch and buy--you wait, some dimbulb rat will propose legislation banning boycotts by "right-wing extremists" under the alleged authority of interstate commerce.
Of course! Now they have to go out and get jobs!
We can also challenge their licenses. The "public airwaves" are being misused. Offering only slanted news fails the public interest test.
What a perfect metaphor for the Stone-age press distorting the truth for all the world to see. Just like last weeks debate where the moderator wanted to become the story and asking anti-Bush question after question. Starting Yaaawn with, would you be a better President? Whats he going to say no? Then Mr. Hate your guts President, explain your failed War! Here in a Town hall debate Charlie Glibson helps Yaawn clarify one question and then tries to corner President Bush with Charlies follow-up he had been laying in wait for.
The proud Republican looked at the Ratherforged Danosaur holding the Gate with all of his weight, trying to pin Capitalism in its box. spewing its vile flames. The young strapping cowboy sized up the situation and decided if your are going to keep that Gate closed, I will turn my steed out the Internets Gate and talk to the American People directly. He has those rare instincts of a normal person to say, if your not going to let me get my message out; then I will go talk to my people my way. What a perfect metaphor for the dying mediaCrats of the Old NY Times and ABDNCBS and Ws way of leading.
And what a message he gave! Not only did he defeat the media, he fileted Yaawn with the skill of a Champion Bass Fisherman. He turned to the people with arm extended and said, Tell Tony Blair, your going it alone, tell Berlusconi, your going it alone, tell the President of Poland Kwasniewski, your going it alone..You Cant Lead a coalition that way! Game, set.....
That was a rhetorical moment for all times.
This debate will go down as one of the Great Debates of this country. President Bush not only defeated and exposed Yaaawn Tax & Carry for the Liberal he is but exposed the press to the American People. He was masterful in his delivery and his answers were complete and from the heart. This President has one of the most complex minds that has occupied that office since Lincoln. I would say Ronald Reagan, but Yaaawn seems to mention RR at least 10 times per debate trying to sound Conservative even though he hated Reagan.
From that moment on you could see that Kerry was done. Searching for ideas and numerous times unable to come up with words. His answers were disjointed syntax and not on topic add to that his turning from the audience to lecture and dress down The President of The United States on his failed policies was way over the top.
His worst answer of all, was his answer on abortion. The beautiful young lady with the angelic face asked a question from her heart about the need to end Partial Birth Abortion? Yaawn attempts to answer it by saying he was in Vietna....no that he was a Catholic and an Alter Boy? What does being an alter boy have to do with abortion?? He fished for Dingbats work with Planned Abortionhood and then after W answered it so clearly and compassionately, Yaawn has to have a follow-up?? Why would anyone need to have a follow-up on abortion?? Abortion is not an issue that you debate with your mind. Either you believe it is a baby and death or you dont.
What a night and what an answer to Prayers. GW showed the country and the world why we Bushbots love him like only one other President, his mentor; who must have that twinkling little eye and that rosy smile, President Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Great post, Maceman. That puts Cronkite in his place -- elsewhere.
I junked my TV back in the 50's. My kids then took music, art, etc. Big difference. I not miss it now, except for things like the debates.
It is not encroaching on the first amendment to conduct an investigation of a forged government document and a slandered, deceased military officer.
Those are illegal acts whenever you find them irrespective of their source.
I hope after President Bush wins re-election that he takes on the media through Congress. I don't see how after the way their biased treatment of him has been exposed this time around,anyone could blame him,and he'd be doing future conservative/Republican candidates a mighty good turn.
Defund the liberal news media. Don't consume their products or the products of their sponsors.
Whether or not he takes on the media, I do think they should pursue the illegal act of forgery of government documents.
Because a minister is exempt from revealing the confidence of a penitent, does that mean he can rob a bank?
Nor can a network, just because it has freedom of the press protection, commit criminal forgery.
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Gabe welcomes his vampire overlords and sits quietly on his blood farm seat...
In the not to distant future the vast majority of humanity has turned to vampires, and human blood is at a premium. Remaining humans are farmed, and a blood substitute is in production to be sold by a pharmaceutical company called Bromley Marks, run by the evil Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) is a guilt ridden hematologist working on the blood substitute. One night he assists a small band of militant humans, and the humans repay the favour by kidnapping him a few days later. It turns out that one of the humans, Lionel "Elvis" Cormac (Willem DaFoe) is actually a cured vampire, and the humans need Dalton's assistance in re-creating the circumstance that lead to his cure. Meanwhile, Dalton's own brother, Frankie (Michael Dorman), is sent to bring him back to Bromley Marks by any means necessary.
Vampires seem to lend themselves well to high-concept interpretations. George Romero's Martin featured a mentally ill, real world man who thought he was a vampire (or did he?). Near Dark put a Romero and Juliet twist on the genre. From Dusk Till Dawn started as a hostage flick, then turned on a dime into a vampire stripper movie. More recently 30 Days of Night set blood-suckers loose on the month long, deep dark Alaskan winter, and Twilight made them sparkle. Daybreakers is about a world of vampires running out of human food, who fall into two categories of 'infection', which is a concept pioneered by one of the best and most filmed modern vampire stories – Richard Matheson's I am Legend. Writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig add a futurist edge, remove the post-apocalyptic angle, and for the most part make the concept their own. The pre-credit sequence starts things off on a clever note – a dreary, un-aging vampire teen trapped in a child's body commits violent suicide in the morning sun. Other clever little technical details a vampire populace would require patch-up the backgrounds (daytime driving mode cars with cameras instead of mirrors), but like nearly every other high-concept vampire flick, Daybreakers fails to execute its high concepts without defaulting to various genre tropes. The political subtext also continuously and awkwardly draws attention to itself, which rarely works for serious-minded genre films.
Daybreakers has a lot of visual appeal (some will fairly argue visuals are the only thing that works), but the most arresting images are unmistakably saturated in homage. There are shades of Ridley Scott's neon Bladerunner cityscapes, and Steve Norrington's vampire underground from Blade, but the most obvious, analogous (semi-recent) movie is probably Alex Proyas Dark City. Dark City, which is the more successful film overall, also takes place in a 40s/50s futurist's, neo-noir universe, and both films have valid thematic reasons to exist almost entirely at night. The daylight scenes do set Daybreakers slightly apart, but these scenes, ironically enough, reminded me of Knowing, which was directed by (wait for it) Alex Proyas. Proyas is also and Australian, which doesn't really mean anything, but is something else to put on the list. The Proyas parallels may very well be coincidental, but even without substantiated proof (see the audio commentary on this disc), it's not hard to assume that the Spierig's wanted to evoke memories of their favourite films (look for some obvious callbacks to Near Dark, Day of the Dead, and various John Carpenter films). Of course the most comparable film is Blade II, which shares dozens of similar thematic issues, and which approaches the material in a much more pulpy manner. Guillermo del Toro's vampire hunter sequel also features similar narrative problems, but Daybreakers falls short of entertaining on the same level.
The imagery clearly runs the show, and the characters certainly suffer, as does the narrative thrust, which should be more suspenseful considering the end of the world timeline, and the chase movie elements. The set-up is exciting, high enough to promise something genuinely special, and every time the film grows particularly stale something new comes along to spice up the story, but the film is still habitually disappointing. The consistently dour tone definitely works against what should've been a more fun experience, and is unexpected considering Undead's charming comedic streak set it apart from the early '00s' zombie overload. There is some unavoidably funny splat-stick, but the miserable qualities of an undying world certainly rule the film. Willem Dafoe threatens to inject the film with a bit more fun, but his performance is a little too weird to really enjoy (Dafoe sometimes sounds like he's impersonating himself). The Spierig's clunky dialogue worked well with Undead's Sam Raimian intensions, but the (likely) intended resolved tone of Daywalkers is just that much more heavy-handed when hampered with heavily expositional, and obligatorily 'snappy' on-liners.
Daybreakers is packed with blown-out, high contrast, desaturated, fluorescent imagery. This 1080p transfer isn't quite as sharp as I'm assuming was intended, but fully achieves the static and depressing intended feel. The film quality is consistently grainy, especially where red elements are concerned, and the blown-out whites don't always sit perfectly with the deep blacks, creating slight edge enhancement. This is the intended effect, based on comments made by the filmmakers during the commentary, and on the mixed media approach to the photography (most of the film was shot in HD, but there are 35mm shots as well, the grain is clearly inherit in the film, and reproduced in the purely digital photography). The outdoor and human worlds are a bit cleaner, and are more colourful, but are also very limited in hues. These scenes are bleached with golds and softer reds, rather than night vision-like blues and greens that define the rest of the film. It's not an original take on the image of the vampire lifestyle, but it works nicely in high definition. The enhanced detail doesn't do the chintzy digital effects any favors (especially compositing shots and digital blood), but the detail levels are consistent in both real close-ups and CG created vistas (sometimes the digital city-scapes are inconsistently cleaner than the rest of the film).
Daybreakers is an aural feast. I was expecting stylized noise from the Spierig Brothers' first major motion picture, but this DTS-HD Master Audio mix is a bit of a masterpiece in terms of abstract sound design, specifically the wordless, world establishing opening sequences, which throb with eerie dissonance and terrifying spikes of noise. The soundtrack's dynamic use of silence gives the action scenes real punch, and the whizzing bullets, darts and arrows, though excessive to the point of boringness, work directionally on most occasions. The standard fiery explosions and car crashes are expectedly LFE heavy, though it's the exploding vampire effects that create the most interesting LFE pump, along with some juicy stereo and rear channel after-effects. Christopher Gordon's score is big and juicy, featuring rumbling strings, punchy percussion, and a few rear channel embellishments. Sometimes it's difficult to separate score from the random ambience, but the effects, dialogue, and score rarely turn to aural soup, even during he busy action scenes.
The Spierig Brothers packed the Aussie release of Undead with extras, so it's no big surprise that this release is packed with extras, which begin with a commentary featuring the brothers themselves and creature effects designer Steve Boyle. This is a chatty, involving, and well prepped track, which is only sullied by a little more tech talk than I, personal, really care about. The tone of the track is, like the film, more serious than it probably should be, but I am a sucker for filmmakers discussing their visual reference points and inspiration. The participants also have the good sense to poke fun at themselves, which is usually pretty charming. In movie extras also include optional storyboards and animatics, which are a nice, but not entirely mind-blowing addition.
'The Making of Daybreakers' (2:01:40, HD) is a rather massive, four part behind the scenes documentary that delivers the behind the scenes goods, as it should, since the film was apparently four years in the making. Things start with a look at the film's early development, including discussion of the Spierig's history, story development, early storyboards and animatics (it appears that vampiric cattle was left out of the final film), creature designs, casting, and Weta workshop's involvement. The pre-production section mostly covers the production design, set construction, rehearsals, and make-up and action prep. The production section (which is broken into several smaller parts) is made up of raw set footage, and cast and crew interviews, some of which contextualize the footage, some of which seem to have been recorded for an EPK. As per the usual, the production phase is the most painful for the film, including Shigella (a potentially deadly bacteria) outbreak. The post-production section closes things out with the usual stuff like edition, visual effects (lots of before and after shots), music, sound effects, and release reaction (from the Toronto Film Festival).
Next up is The Big Picture (13:50, SD), a Spierig Brothers short film made before Daybreakers or Undead. The Big Picture is a well made, and surprisingly moving little one room drama about a woman that watches sections of her future life by switching channels on her television set. The concept is perfect for the format, the performances are decent, and the editing and photography is impressive. The punch line kind of sucks, though. A poster art gallery and trailers close out the disc.
Daybreakers features cool ideas, awesome gore effects, and gorgeous visuals, but it never really clicks. It opens and closes strong, but the middle section lags, allowing the imagination to wander, which leads to damaging comparisons to other films. There's also the distinct possibility that I, like so many others, am just vampired-out for the time being. This Blu-ray release is certainly worth a look, and should really please fans with its effective video, expressive DTS-HD audio, and hours of special features.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
I agree the movie had a good set-up but failed to carry it out.
JackJackMN Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 629
I enjoyed it, I've seen worse movies. I really like the directors first movie, Undead.
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
I liked it, but I was disappointed that they couldn't go farther. Such a great premise and a great case, how can the product turn out as "it was decent". Out of 1-10, I'd give it a 6. It could have been better, but for what it was, it delivered.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 11th May 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Directors Commentary, Bonus View PiP, The Making of Daybreakers, The Big Picture, Poster Art, Trailers, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Michael and Peter Spierig
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Willem DaFoe, Sam Neill, Michael Dorman
Genre: Action and Horror
Length: 98 minutes
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Vampire on the loose in Europe
PANIC has hit a small Serbian village after the local council issued a public health warning that a VAMPIRE was on the loose.
An old ruined watermill on the Rogacica river at Zarozje village once housed Sava Savanovic - who is said to have been a 'self-confessed vampire' who drunk the blood of anyone who dared visit.
The local Jagodic family bought it up years later and turned it into a tourist attraction after being too scared to use it for anything else.
However, their terror led to the building collapsing over a lack of building work for fear of disturbing the vampire and they are now worried that Sava has been disturbed and is on the hunt.
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Locals are now terrified that the vampire legend is true and the council has advised terrified residents to put garlic up outside their home to ward off the ghoul.
Local mayor Miodrag Vujetic said: "People are worried, everybody knows the legend of this vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people.
"We are all frightened."
The mayor added: "We have also reminded them to put a Holy cross in every room in the house."


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You know them when you see them, or remember them beyond all others - the particularly eccentric ones who wore festive plumage, or whose wardrobes consisted mainly of Orioles give-aways, the ones who gained a special place in Baltimore's baseball memory by standing out from the crowd, raining love from the rooftops, leading a charge with a bugle or barking like a dog.
We do not have records on all of them, and you will not find their names in old programs or their faces on collector's cards. Missed is the stern-faced woman from Section 8 at Memorial Stadium who never smiled, never spoke, yet kept score of every inning for game after game. She exists with many others, each unique, in a kind of sentimental archive - not merely passionate fans or stadium regulars, but sideshow performers, the ones who might have made a trip to an Orioles game even more memorable than the team on the field did.
Linda Warehime was the blond teenager who from 1969 through 1975 appeared at the fifth-inning break at Memorial Stadium to sweep dust from bases and players' shoes, wielding a broom that she also would use to playfully spank a coach on the fanny. The crowds loved the show and Warehime's capers got her guest appearances on the TV game shows What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth. The Orioles paid her $5 a game.
Now 48, she is preparing to relocate to Kentucky with her husband, William Butcher Jr. She'll leave behind the three brothers who were members of the Orioles' grounds crew back in the day - Wayne, Ralph and Kenny - and a lot of great memories from her time as the broom sweeper.
"I still go to Orioles games now and then," says Linda Butcher, who has lived in Glen Burnie for several years. "But it broke my heart to see them tear down Memorial Stadium. I still have all my old photos and newspaper clippings, plus a 1970 World Series ring that my parents got for me; it's just like the ring that was made for the Orioles' wives."
Wild Bill's ride
In all the years of baseball at 33rd Street and Camden Yards, the most enduring character is Wild Bill Hagy, the Dundalk cab driver with the full beard and jug-band hat who led cheers from the upper deck in the 1970s and '80s, when the Orioles seemed always in the hunt for a pennant.
The Hagy thing developed the way these things should - spontaneously, a natural progression from man sitting with beer and watching his team, to man standing and leading cheers by spelling the name of the team with his pot-bellied body, to man becoming local legend and the face of down-home Baltimore.
Hagy, now 65, retired in January from driving a cab. He subscribes to a 29-game plan with the Orioles, his seat in the first row of Section 312. Once in a while he leads a cheer, but for the most part he keeps a much lower profile at Camden Yards. "I don't think most of the people around me know who I am," Hagy says with a laugh, "and that's OK; I kind of like it that way."
Hagy and his Section 34 gang flourished at Memorial Stadium in a time when such things could develop on their own, without contrivance by marketing managers. His was a genuine outburst of affection in the time of tank tops and Oriole Magic. Before it was over, Hagy had secured iconic stature, and someday there will just have to be a statue.
Before Hagy there was Pat The Bugler. Charles "Pat" Walker's bugle could be heard all over Memorial Stadium, from the bleachers to home plate. He grew up in Ellicott City during the Great Depression, found an old bugle in an attic and taught himself to play. In the Army for 23 years, he developed a repertoire of 22 bugle calls, including the cavalry charge heard for many years during Orioles games.
Age and the loss of teeth put him out of commission for a while in the 1980s - fans actually booed the poor man in 1985 - but, after some repairs at the University of Maryland Dental School, Walker went back into action and ended up tooting his horn at Bowie Baysox games by the mid-1990s.
In a last gesture, Walker mounted his bugle on a plaque with the inscription: "To the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, Donated by Charles A. Walker, 3-17-97." He died within weeks, said curator Greg Schwalenberg.
The most remarkable character from Section 8 in Memorial Stadium, and later Section 12 at Oriole Park, was Dan Mink, the Barking Dog Man. He did - and still does - a startlingly authentic imitation of an excited dog. When Mink barked, the opposing third baseman and third base umpire snapped their heads, expecting to see a golden retriever in the box seats. But what they saw was Mink, a big, dog-that-ate-the-steak smile beneath his mustache.
He was known to bark "Jingle Bells" when an Oriole hit a timely home run. He loved to rover a rookie, or arf an umpire new to Baltimore. (Mink described his bark once as "a Chihuahua with a megaphone.") Nothing pleased Mink more than a little ump whiplash caused by the sudden, incongruous sound of a dog at a Major League Baseball game.
Nothing except what he calls his "baseball family."
Family atmosphere
What Mink liked the most from all his years, starting in 1984, as a season-ticket holder were the people who became his friends - the other fans and ushers and vendors around him, especially at Memorial Stadium. They socialized outside of Orioles games back then, taking in Baltimore Skipjacks or Washington Capitals games in the winter.
"It used to be so much fun, and it was more of a family atmosphere," says Mink, who doesn't spend as much time at Camden Yards, where the crowds are generally considered polite, corporate, restrained and less tolerant of barking dogs.
But even at Camden Yards there is room for the Bird Man. That's George Fuhrer, longtime fan from Anne Arundel County, who dudes up in a plastic bird beak, an old-fashioned Orioles uniform and exotic orange-and-black headpiece. Fuhrer, who just turned 50, has been Bird Man for about 11 years.
"I'm a true-blue Oriole fan and a rah-rah kind of guy," he says. "I don't think there's anyone louder cheering for the Orioles. It comes from my diaphragm, like a lion's roar."
As a child in southwest Baltimore, Fuhrer had rickets, a disorder characterized by weak bones. He wore braces on his legs until he was 4. "In most of my youth I wore cowboy boots to support my ankles," Fuhrer says. "I tried to keep up with other kids as best I could." He learned math, he says, from reading baseball statistics in the sports sections of daily newspapers.
Fuhrer worked for Anne Arundel County, in public works, until an injury left him disabled. Since then, he has volunteered in prison ministries. At the Jennifer Road Detention Center and the Ordnance Road Correctional Center, the "Bird Man" is known as "Bible Guy."
Shaking things up
No single character in the age of the modern, Camden Yards Orioles has parlayed his sideshow shtick into what Marc Rosenberg has - a second career as motivational speaker, auctioneer and life force with his own Web site (http://www.lemonadeshakingguy.com) and marketing DVD.
We are talking about one of the ballpark's most dynamic, successful and spasmodic vendors, the Lemonade Shaking Guy. Here's a wiry and wired man of mind-spinning energy who hustles lemonade - "Shake it, baby!" - and provides Rip Torn-meets-Robin Williams slapstick as he goes through the stands. One fan described him as "a rooster on acid."
Rosenberg, who has been shaking and selling lemonade at Orioles games since 1996, has received exposure beyond his Camden Yards gig on television and in national publications. His client list for public appearances, private parties and motivational talks continues to grow. People hire him to bring energy - and a pretty good schpiel on teamwork - into a big room, a conference or convention.
At Camden Yards, only a small percentage of customers go old-fogey on Rosenberg, asking that their lemonade not be shaken. Most want to see his act and gladly pay for his gyrations.
And while Miguel Tejada may have been the only Oriole to go to the 2004 All-Star Game, he was not the only Baltimore performer in Houston. Rosenberg went, too, as part of an 11-member all-star vendors crew - our own Lemonade Shaking Guy at the big dance.
His employer, Aramark Corp., gave him an all-expenses-paid trip to the game and assigned him to work the crowd behind the third base dugout.
"It was in Minute Maid Park, so I had to use Minute Maid bottled lemonade," he says. "But I shook it anyway and did my thing, full-throttle, pedal to the metal. Oh yeah, baby!"


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In the past, efforts to mitigate global warming have focused almost exclusively on lowering carbon dioxide emissions. But we now know that although reducing CO2 is critical, even if the entire world switched to a zero-carbon economy and lifestyle today, it would take thousands of years for this gas to dissipate.
Some scientists and government officials now recognize that limiting shorter-lived greenhouse gases such as methane and ozone, and other contributors to warming such as black carbon, released into the air from burning biomass and fossil fuels, can have a major influence in slowing planetary heating in a short amount of time. As one climate scientist says, we need to reduce short-lived greenhouse gases today in order to ensure a livable planet for our children, and we need to reduce CO2 to ensure a livable planet for generations a few hundred years from now.
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