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Bank Robbery Solved, Charges Issued
June 4th, 2012 by milwaukeepolice
Two suspects are now in custody for the robbery of the US Bank, 2303 N. Farwell that occurred on May 22, 2012 at 10:31 a.m.
Two suspects had entered the bank and confronted two tellers making demands for money after displaying demand notes. The suspects fled from the bank into a red vehicle with an unidentified driver.
Crime scene investigation resulted in the recovery of bank video as well as video from the adjacent businesses. Witness interviews at the bank ultimately provided positive results when a line up was conducted. On May 29, detectives from the Metropolitan Division received a call from a citizen who had viewed the video of the offense on the Milwaukee Police Department's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/milwaukeepolice . The caller recognized the suspects. On May 30, police arrested Antonio Causey. He was charged on June 3 with one count of robbery of a financial institution. A felony warrant was issued for the second suspect.
On June 3 at 12:45 p.m. Neighborhood Task Force Officers Brian Schull and Ken Walkowiak located the second suspect at his mother's residence. He has not yet been charged.
Great job by MPD's Criminal Investigation Bureau Metropolitan Division. These detectives who work on bank robberies always get the bad guy! Additionally, these detectives also provide training for bank personnel on how to react and gather information during a bank robbery.


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Snow Magic: Cool polymer chemistry
A super absorbent polymer that soaks water and 'grows' before your eyes. Feels like real snow!
Just add water to make brilliantly fluffy snow. Use again and again!
It's so easy! Just add 60mls of water to 1 teaspoon of instant snow granules to make soft fluffy snow. Reuse by letting the snow dry out and adding more water.
Tub Net wt: 50g. Makes approx 3.5 cups of snow per tub
Instant snow is not a toy. Perfect for decorating. Non-toxic, however it's always best to avoid carpets and fabrics as it may stick and be difficult to remove.
Can be used over and over again.
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The Gold Heart
A lonely, grumpy old man, who is stuck in a nursing home, befriends his nurse. As their friendship grows, the old man's like story comes out, which includes being abused by his father, living in poverty during the Great Depression, and fighting in World War II. Upon his return from war, he falls in love with a kind and beautiful woman. Over the span of a few years, their marriage dissolves because he starts to behave like his father and hit his wi...


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Understanding rabbit behavior and preventing and treating behavior problems
A pet rabbit's behaviors—and behavior problems—are consequences of the way its wild ancestors and their captive descendants lived and survived. This article outlines the natural behaviors of rabbits and shows how you can help rabbit owners prevent or manage common problem behaviors.
Throughout the world there are more than 50 different species of wild rabbits and hares, members of the order Lagomorpha. The domestic or pet rabbit is descended from the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, which originated on the Iberian Peninsula (now Spain and Portugal). The wild European rabbit is a highly social species that lives in complex social groups in warrens that sometimes become large.1-5The Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and other wild rabbits common in the United States are lagomorphs but are in different genera than the domesticated rabbit. Most do not build warrens.
Within a colony, multiple subgroups of two to eight rabbits spend most of their time together.1,2,4 The females in the subgroup are typically related, while the males maintain a rigid dominance hierarchy by ritualized signaling. As young bucks mature, they are usually driven out of the subgroup by the older bucks and will seek to join another subgroup or even a different warren.6 The young bucks are most likely to integrate into a new subgroup or colony outside of the breeding season. Members of the subgroup and colony all watch for predators when outside feeding.
This living arrangement is often in sharp contrast to that of pet rabbits. Just as the highly social horse is often kept in the social isolation of stalls, the highly social rabbit is often kept in the social isolation of a hutch or cage. In general, rabbits are probably better off if kept in groups of two or more animals. However, as with all social species, appropriate social behavior is learned. A rabbit that is adopted as a kitten and subsequently kept alone will have poor social skills and is likely to be either extremely aggressive or extremely timid when it encounters a member of its own species. Nevertheless, some rabbits can be habituated, desensitized, and counterconditioned to other rabbits. How long this process takes varies; some rabbits are calm and adapt readily to new situations, while others are reactive and less tolerant of new situations.
Introducing unfamiliar rabbits
Since rabbits are more likely to be aggressive when in their core area of activity, introductions outside of a cage should be done in a neutral area, rather than in or near either rabbit's regular housing. For direct introduction, harnessing each rabbit can be useful because it is easy to pull the rabbits apart if either one becomes aggressive. If either rabbit is unfamiliar with a harness, it should become so before the introduction, so that the rabbit does not associate the harness with meeting a new rabbit. While a rabbit may freeze the first time it is harnessed, it will generally adapt faster than most cats do and will begin hopping around. Ideally, owners should take the harnessed rabbit to a lawn with clover and other plants it can graze on, so it associates the harness with pleasant experiences.


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Six Democrats are facing off in the primary for the state Senate seat in Charleston that was held by long-time state Sen. Robert Ford.
Maurice Washington, Emmanuel Ferguson and Herbert Fielding are seeking their party's nomination as are Marlon Kimpson, Margaret Rush and Bob Thompson.
There is no GOP primary. Billy Shuman is the only Republican to announce for the seat in the strongly Democratic district.
With the crowded Democratic field, there's expected to be a runoff in two weeks. The General Election is Oct. 1.
Ford left the state Senate earlier this year, citing health reasons. At the time, Ford was the object of an ethics probe by the state Senate Ethics Committee.


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Lodi, CA
Glenn Daniel Edens
Sept. 14, 1923 - Jan. 28, 2013
Glenn D. Edens was born on a small farm in Lodi, California, September 14, 1923 and passed away
of a heart attack, January 28, 2013 at age 89. He had a full and productive life.
His deceased
parents were M. Ralph Vierra and Helen Minnie Adelia Pruden. He was later adopted by his stepfather, Franklyn Edens, while living in Santa Monica. He is survived by his wife, Faye, and a brother, Dale Edens. While a youth in Santa Monica he had a paper route that included many Hollywood personalities; relationships and memories he cherished throughout his life. Glenn graduated from Santa Monica High in 1941. He enlisted in WWII and served as a B-24 Ball Gunner with the 5th Army Air Force, 43rd Bomber Squadron in Pacific campaigns. He had many stories to tell of his service years, but he never considered himself a hero in comparison with those serving in the infantry.
Words that describe Glenn are loyal, honest, steadfast, caring, helpful, thoughtful, generous, hard-working and disciplined. He worked hard all his life and was a great story teller of his many life experiences. He was a devoted trout fisherman and an avid reader. After the war, he worked for a phone company and then ran an
IHOP restaurant for several years. He moved back to Lodi in 1977 and married Faye Phillips and they raised two families together. Glenn never really retired, but kept busy cutting and splitting wood for himself and family, as well as operating his landscape maintenance service until the time of his death.
He is survived by daughters: Linda Wallman (Louis), Glenda Paldino (Kevin), Diane DeCoy (Dean),
Kathy Edens, Wendy Davis
(William) and a son Gary Runkle-Edens (Betsy). Another son, John, predeceased his father, but leaving 2 grandsons, Miles and Taylor. Glenn's four step children are: Pamela Long (Lee Miller), Teri Iverson (Tom), Tracy Phillips
(Melody), and Tim Phillips (Judy). Grandchildren are: Shelley Northington, Buffy Carter, Michael Wallman, Madelyn and Richard Runkles-Eden, Katie Holland,
Daniel Holland, Lindsey Paldino, Matthew Davis, Jordan DeCoy, Ireland DeCoy, William Phillips (Snow), Maureen Long, Shannon Ali (Gamul), Kristy McCarver,
Carson and Destiny Phillips,
Michael Phillips, Carl Phillips, Julie Sandoval (Javier), Brittany Phillips (Shawn) and David Phillips (Tara).
Great grandchildren are: Brent and Briana Northington; Sage Carter; Anthony and Andrew Sandoval; Zakarayya, Aliyyah, and Aishay Ali; Jennah, Sofiya, Aymin and Dean McCarver; Taylor, Luke,
Dominic, Matthew, Adam, Dillon, Graceland, Jaden, Adi and Sawyer Phillips.
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Us Windows users have been able to enjoy a perfectly performing Flash video player for a long time now (I barely notice a difference between Flash video and vanilla H264), and Mac OS X users, too, have been able to somewhat enjoy some form of hardware accelerated video (much more limited than on Windows, though). Linux users have been left in the cold by Adobe - until now, that is.
Adobe didn't just enable some basic form of hardware acceleration - no, this isn't scalpel work, but full-on chainsaw action. Adobe's new Stage Video technology enables not just hardware acceleration when it comes to decoding H264; in fact, it accelerates the entire video pipeline, including color conversion, scaling, and blitting.
"Working together with hardware vendors has helped us take advantage of the GPU to offload not only H.264 hardware decoding (introduced in Flash Player 10.1) but the rest of the video rendering pipeline, including color conversion, scaling, and blitting," writes Tom Nguyen, product manager of Flash Platform Runtimes, "How efficient is hardware acceleration in Flash Player 10.2 beta? Using Stage Video, we've seen laptops play smooth 1080p HD video with just over 0% CPU usage." They're not kidding.
Of course, there's a catch. Well, two catches, but one of them isn't such a big deal. First, Stage Video is an API, and developers need to actually add support for it into their video player SWFs. I'm sure all the major Flash video players will be updated quickly enough, so this isn't too big of a deal.
The second catch is a bigger problem. On Linux, Stage Video makes use of NVIDIA's VDPAU, and while this is an entirely open standard, it has so far not been adopted by AMD and Intel. As such, you're going to need an NVIDIA chipset, running the proprietary NVIDIA driver, in order to take advantage of this on Linux. Frame compositing on Linux is done via OpenGL.
I don't blame Adobe for this - the Linux graphics stack is a mess, and they need to make some choices. It sucks for non-NVIDIA users, but alas.


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Radiation Levels Spike, Forcing Temporary Retreat by Reactor Emergency Workers at Fukushima
By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire
Published: March 16, 2011
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The remaining emergency workers battling to save Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex were pulled back temporarily Wednesday after a dangerous spike in radiation levels. Authorities said they were initially unsure whether the source was the blast-damaged Unit 2 reactor or another of the units.
A plan to drop treated water from helicopters or cargo plans on the plant's reactors was also put on hold because of the radiation threat. Emergency crews will use hoses for the task, authorities said. Replenishing water in Unit 4's spent fuel pool is essential to prevent an ultimate radiation release there, experts said. A second fire broke out in that unit Wednesday but was controlled. Its cause and consequences were not immediately clear.
Water temperatures in the pool and other spent fuel tanks have been rising because their cooling system are without power, and if the water cover boiled away over a period of days, exposed fuel rods could ignite, spreading radiation into the atmosphere, U.S. experts warn.
"We have no options other than to pour water from a helicopter, or to spray water from the ground," a spokesman for operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on television Tuesday. "We have to take action tomorrow or the day after."
Although news reports said the emergency crew returned to their posts Wednesday after radiation levels fell back, the threat to them is high. The metrics of the battle could be reduced to the question of whether the radiation hazard will permit workers to stay at their posts to keep reactor cores and spent fuel pools under enough water to prevent meltdowns, experts said.
The hopes for stabilizing the reactors long term depend on restoring outside electric power to the complex and getting the reactor cooling and control systems operating again.
Japanese Emperor Akihito, in a rare address over television, called the nuclear crisis as "unprecedented in scale."
"I hope from the bottom of my heart that the people will, hand in hand, treat each other with compassion and overcome these difficult times," the emperor said.
'Slow-moving nightmare'
"The news we have received in the last 24 hours is worrying," Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference in Vienna on Tuesday. "It is too early to say whether the situation has peaked, or whether worse developments are yet to come," he said, Dow Jones reported.
"This is a slow-moving nightmare," said Thomas Neff of the Center for International Studies, Reuters reported.
The 50 remaining emergency workers were withdrawn Wednesday morning local time after smoke or steam emerged from Unit 3, press reports said. Japanese authorities said that morning radiation readings had ranged between 600-800 microsieverts per hour, but at 10 a.m., readings rose to 1,000 microsieverts per hour. Readings began to fall again an hour later.
On Tuesday, Japan's Health Ministry said it was raising the legal limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker could be exposed, to 250 millisieverts from 100 millisieverts, five times the maximum exposure permitted for American nuclear plant workers, The New York Times reported.
Although the change would permit workers to remain on the site, authorities said they would not increase the limit again. "It would be unthinkable to raise it further than that, considering the health of the workers," health minister Yoko Komiyama said at a news conference.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukiyo Edano told reporters Wednesday that the Unit 3 reactor might have experienced an internal explosion of the kind that rocked Unit 2, possibly damaging the suppression pool beneath the primary containment, according to World Nuclear News. Alternatively, the radiation may have come from Unit 2.
The control plan for the crippled reactors involves pumping seawater into damaged reactor cores and periodically venting steam from the primary containment structure to prevent a dangerous pressure build-up, the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington said. That creates a potential exit path for radiation in the steam.
TEPCO faced growing criticism in Japan for providing incomplete and sometimes inaccurate reports of the threat to a country devastated by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Similar complaints have been lodged against the government.
Amano urged Japan to step up its communication efforts. "I would like to receive both more timely and more detailed information from our Japanese counterparts," Amano said.
Initial reports Tuesday that the fuel rods in the Unit 4 pool had ignited, sending radioactive smoke rising from the unit -- which were based on statements by Japanese authorities -- turned out to be inaccurate.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan's spokesman Noriyuki Shikata said Tuesday that there had been "a sign of leakage" in the pool while firefighters were at work, "but we have found out the fuel is not causing the fire." The fire, believed to be caused by an oil leak connected to a pumping system, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, was reported extinguished.
Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Banri Kaieda yesterday ordered TEPCO to replenish water in the spent fuel pool in Unit 4 because rising temperatures in the pool threatened to evaporate the existing water cover, exposing the fuel rods. Whether the fuel rods had in fact been uncovered was not clear from official statements or press reports.
Fire report later discounted
Unit 4 had been offline when the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on Friday, but the loss of electric power to the plant and its backup generators and the exhaustion of emergency batteries, left the pool's pumped cooling system out of action, authorities said. The temperature of a 30-foot layer of water over the fuel rods has been rising as water evaporated.
TEPCO considered using a helicopter to get water into the pool through two large holes caused by an explosion in Unit 4's outer secondary containment structure.
David Lochbaum, head of Union of Concerned Scientist's nuclear safety program, said "the helicopters and aerial water addition won't help core cooling on any of the innards. However some kind of delivery like that might help with the spent fuel pools."
The reports of a fire in Unit 4's spent fuel pool had raised frightening possibilities. The fuel rods, though depleted, hold dangerous amounts of fission products that could have ignited had the fuel been completely uncovered. Then, radiation from the pool would have been released into the atmosphere because the pool is not enclosed by a steel and concrete containment shell, as is the reactor vessel.
The International Atomic Energy Agency put a bulletin on its website Tuesday saying, "Japanese authorities also today informed the IAEA ... that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere."
News organizations carried the IAEA report yesterday, which worried and puzzled senior officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who were unable to get official confirmation of the serious development as late as Tuesday morning, according to people in touch with the commission. But officials of the Nuclear Energy Institute concluded Tuesday that the reported radiation levels at the site at the time of the Unit 4 fire were far too low to have resulted from an ignition of uncovered fuel rods.
One U.S. nuclear consultant commented, "A spent fuel fire would probably cause sizable release with dispersion driven by the smoke, and there would little question as to what is taking place."
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We Vibe brings a touch of elegance to your pleasure play with the Touch.
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We-Vibe brings a touch of elegance to your pleasure play with the Touch. The We-Vibe Touch is a sleek, curvaceous, vibe designed with both solo and partner play in mind. This powerful and petite vibrator features three intensity levels and five thudding pulsation patterns driven by magnetic induction charging technology –- 90 minutes of charging lasts through up to two hours of sustained use! Made of super velvety medical-grade silicone, the Touch's sculpted tip allows for focused rumbly sensations, while the underside provides more diffuse vibration. The 100% waterproof design makes the We-Vibe Touch easy to care for, while the simple single button operation makes it easy to use. Revel in the ecstasy of Touch.
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"From a divine son will rise a human race and a hero will dominate the world and his fame will spread over the earth." These words from a 7th century Tibetan hymn suggest how deep and universal is the anticipation for one among us who will come and lead us beyond ourselves in order that we may at last find ourselves. This one we await will be both familiar and a stranger.
The run up to the Christmas celebrations are rituals, religious, cultural and domestic. Year by year we repeat them and their familiarity is of their essence. But they are a front for a deeper level of meaning in our relationship with the one who makes his appearance in a transhistorical 'today', every day, with every breath. This one is as strange as he is familiar. He is like a fully expressed, well-chosen statement or a thought that that is not spoken casually or unconsciously but is well-considered and articulate and accurate - a true and powerful word that comes from the real silence and brings the reality of that silence with it.
'Even when manifest he is still a stranger' (Maximus the Confessor) and 'in whatever way he is understood he remains mysterious' (Dionysius the Areopagite). His coming has been worth waiting for because it is not only a gift from outside. It also implodes the awakening of our own true nature, making us conscious of the gift of our own being. Its familiarity is that it entirely human. Its being ever strange is due to its elusive divinity. When it is recognised and when it fully opens the parcel of the soul, everything is changed because we see everything as it really is.
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Secret move keeps Osama bin Laden's records in the shadows
The top US special operations commander, Adm William McRaven, ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout to be purged from defense department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.world Updated: Jul 08, 2013 21:19 IST
The top US special operations commander, Adm William McRaven, ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout to be purged from defense department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.
The secret move, described briefly in a draft report by the Pentagon's inspector general, set off no alarms within the Obama administration even though it appears to have sidestepped federal rules and perhaps also the US Freedom of Information Act.
An acknowledgement by Adm William McRaven of his actions was quietly removed from the final version of an inspector general's report published weeks ago. A spokesman for the admiral declined to comment.
The CIA, noting that the bin Laden mission was overseen by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta before he became defense secretary, said that the SEALs were effectively assigned to work temporarily for the CIA, which has presidential authority to conduct covert operations.
"Documents related to the raid were handled in a manner consistent with the fact that the operation was conducted under the direction of the CIA director," agency spokesman Preston Golson said in an emailed statement.
"Records of a CIA operation such as the (bin Laden) raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA director, are CIA records." Golson said it is "absolutely false" that records were moved to the CIA to avoid the legal requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.
The records transfer was part of an effort by McRaven to protect the names of the personnel involved in the raid, according to the inspector general's draft report. But secretly moving the records allowed the Pentagon to tell The Associated Press that it couldn't find any documents inside the Defense Department that AP had requested more than two years ago, and would represent a new strategy for the US government to shield even its most sensitive activities from public scrutiny.
"Welcome to the shell game in place of open government," said Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, a private research institute at George Washington University. "Guess which shell the records are under. If you guess the right shell, we might show them to you. It's ridiculous."
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Bottomly will moderate the upcoming Linux Kernel Roundtable at LinuxCon, a discussion with, among others, Jonathan Corbet and Linus Torvalds. In an interview, Bottomly said that getting open source innovation to the end user is one of the challenges for Linux.
It's a complaint you often hear, namely that GNOME and KDE try to cater too much to the Windows, and to a lesser extent, the Mac crowd, while they instead should be trying to innovate and differentiate themselves.
I'm honestly not so sure of this. If you look at especially KDE4, then you see a desktop environment bearing very little resemblance to either Windows or Mac OS X (and remember, we're not talking about looks, but functionality and behaviour). Instead, KDE4 is truly standing on its own two feet, and while it was off to a rocky start, and still poses problems for some users (especially in trying to get performance at an acceptable level), it is distinctly different from other desktop environments out there.
GNOME is a bit of a different story, but GNOME is more about providing a stable, slowly improving desktop than KDE is. The KDE project is trying all sorts of new things, while GNOME is more about gradual progress. However, even the GNOME project is working on a lot of new things for GNOME 3.0, which will really set it apart from other environments currently available.
In the end, though, the inescapable truth of the matter is that desktop environments are all relatively alike, and if you can find your way around one of them, it doesn't take too much adapting to find your way around another. While trying to be different is a noble cause, you do have to wonder if being too different won't just scare people away.


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Active Essentials: Rambo
With the fourth movie on the way, Scott McKenzie looks back at Rambo's legacy
In May 2006 my fiancée Lizzie and I went on holiday to Canada. We flew to Calgary and spent two weeks driving to Vancouver via Banff and through Jasper National Park. One of the least impressive sights on the journey was Hope, British Columbia, but goddammit I wanted to visit this little town in the mountains. Why, you may ask? Well, Hope doubled as small town USA in First Blood and I was excited to visit this little haven of Hollywood memories.
The reality was very different. We picked up a tour guide and decided to follow the 'Rambo Trail'. My excitement peaked as we headed off to find point number one. Unfortunately we could have saved a lot of time by reading ahead. It turns out that a lot of the buildings in First Blood were constructed specifically for the movie and they were subsequently blown up or deconstructed. What that meant to the trail that me and my increasingly unimpressed wife-to-be were following was that there's actually not very much left to see apart from the H-shaped tree (see the screenshot above) and the railway tracks that Rambo jumps over on a motorbike. However, the visit wasn't a total disaster with the discovery of the last refuge of a desperate tourist…
That's the look of a man who has been told to look rock hard because he's pretending to be Rambo when another car full of soon-to-be-disappointed tourists has pulled up in front of him. That's the end of my career as a travel journalist so now it's on with what I'm supposed to be writing about…
Top Twenty Moments
I'd like to point out that I'm well aware that Rambo isn't exactly the greatest series of movies ever made. I considered different options for this article, knowing that writing up the top twenty moments and treating the whole series as a guilty pleasure might work so I've decided to go for something in between.
First Blood
Given that it's based on a novel and deals with important issues like post-traumatic stress disorder and the lack of respect for soldiers returning home from the Vietnam war, it's no surprise that First Blood is generally regarded as the best in the series. Seeing as I was born in 1978 it's difficult for me to imagine life before 80s action movies but this is one of the first, if not the first. Sylvester Stallone mentions in his DVD commentary that he thought there was no way this movie would ever work and the first cut that was over two hours long was very dull. Then someone made the decision to cut it down to ninety-something minutes and change and the action movie standards were set for the rest of the decade.
1. What do you use a knife like this for?
One of the things that sets First Blood apart from its Roman numerated brothers is the strong performance of the always-reliable Brian Dennehy. Who'd have thought of putting a young strongman up against a chubby middle-aged bloke? Oh, hang on a minute, that's the setup for Rocky Balboa isn't it? Anyway, the whole film (and the path of Rambo's life through the series) depends on him having a convincing bust-up with Sheriff Teasle that descends into chaos for the whole town. Without Dennehy's grumpy old antagonist we'd just have a by-the-numbers action movie with a stock bad guy, but this initial run-in between our hero and Teasle sets the tone for the rest of the movie.
2. Shave him dry
Rambo's post-traumatic stress disorder is a theme that's only explored in First Blood and it gives the character an added depth that he isn't blessed with after the boys in blue carry him away at the end. The short cuts back to Rambo's torture at the hands of the Vietcong are genuinely shocking and give us just enough information about why he's so mentally unhinged.
3. Cliffside swan dive
The first big action scene ends with Sherrif Teasle and his cronies chasing Rambo to the edge of a cliff. With nowhere to go, he starts the long climb down and when a helicopter arrives carrying the trigger-happy Deputy, he has no choice but to make a jump for it. After he snags his arm on a branch, we get to see how a man alone in the wilderness patches himself up—with a needle and thread. The makeup is well done and the whole scene is more low key and realistic than the equivalent scene in Rambo III (see further down).
4. We ain't hunting him, he's hunting us
Inevitably, the hunter becomes the hunted and Rambo turns the tables on the men on his trail. Proving himself a man of nature, he fashions booby traps from only natural supplies. The results are as effective as they are brutal. Both of the sequels follow the same structure—Rambo is wronged, bad guys chase after him, then he turns round and chases after them. It's all very simple, but it works and is one of the reasons why I come back to these movies when good sense sometimes tells me not to.
5. Enter Colonel Trautman
God bless Richard Crenna, the Rambo movies wouldn't be the same without him. The only problem with his appearance as Colonel Trautman is that once you've seen him in Hot Shots! Part Deux it's more difficult to take him seriously. I say more difficult because even before his spoof role, Trautman was an over-the-top character that stole every scene. As the movies become more and more unbelievable, he fits in more and more with the rest of the cast. It doesn't matter that he spouts some of the corniest lines in movie history (see further down again); Colonel Trautman is one of the most memorable characters in any action movie from the 80s.
6. Rambo vs. Hope
In the end, Teasle pushes Rambo too far and he incurs the wrath of our favourite tooled-up nutcase. After stealing a truck and a machine gun, he lays waste to Hope, blowing up the petrol station and shooting the police station to pieces. Unfortunately this scene pales into insignificance next to the pure carnage of parts two and three. The sight of a water cooler feeling the business end of an M60 isn't quite the same as seeing Rambo blowing up the man who killed the woman he loved with an explosive arrow, but this is the physical climax of the movie and at least from an action perspective the best is still yet to come from our man Rambo.
7. Time for a speech
I'll be honest and say that I could easily have cut this down to less than twenty scenes but twenty has a nice ring to it, so twenty it is. In my best Joe Cabot voice, it's my way or the highway. This scene almost didn't make the cut and when watching it in a certain mood, it could easily have been included in the five not-so-great moments. The reason for this quandary is the combination of the screenplay and Sly's performance. The words that come out of Rambo's mouth are very emotional and probably strike a chord with Vietnam veterans, but the way the words come out of his mouth make it a bit difficult to watch. It's probably the most incomprehensible ending to a mainstream movie, but action junkies (and Sly's bank manager) will be happy the suicide ending wasn't used instead.
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Interestingly (or maybe not so interesting depending on your level of geekiness), the new Rambo movie is technically the second entry in the series to be titled Rambo, since the first sequel is only subtitled First Blood Part II. If you're still awake, I'll stop all this nonsense and refer to this movie as Rambo II from now on.
8. Suiting up
In the same way the viewer always expects a training scene with uplifting music in a Rocky movie, a Rambo movie also needs to contain a scene where he tools up, ready for the fight ahead. It serves two purposes—to remind us that Rambo is hard as nails and to set up the devices that will be used later on in the movie. You can be certain they will be used as well because there would be theatres full of very dissatisfied customers if any movie were to show explosive arrows, but then not show lots of things being blown up with them.
9. What bring you luck?
Rambo II is a movie that could have gone one of two ways. It could have focused on Rambo's struggle to deal with his PTSD during his time in prison and his difficulty adjusting to life on the outside. Instead, it focused on Rambo killing lots of people and blowing stuff up and this is probably the moment when he switched from a traumatised war veteran to a pumped-up superhero. When Co asks him what brings him luck, he picks the best thing he can to remind us that he's a badass who's more than a little mentally unhinged.
10. Pirates… Best way down river
After disregarding his orders just to take pictures of the American POWs, Rambo and Co help one of the unfortunates to escape and make their way back down the river with their pirate hosts. Predictably they get sold out, but the details aren't really important. What matters is that this is the first excuse for a great action scene and goes some way towards clocking up the on-screen body count of sixty-seven, which was one of the highest of the time, but was still eclipsed by Commando, American Ninja and Invasion USA, also made in 1985.
11. Abort
Rambo's left wishing he hadn't disregarded his orders as the not-to-be-trusted Murdock orders the extraction team to abort, leaving our hero and his POW companion stranded on the top of a hill with the bad guys approaching. As Rambo drops his empty machine gun in the mud, we know it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, both for him and Murdock and his computers.
12. Enter Steven Berkoff
Just when Rambo thought it couldn't get any worse, a British thespian with a dodgy Russian accent turns up to make his life a whole lot more uncomfortable. Coming straight from playing the bad guy in Beverly Hills Cop, one of my other favourite 80s movies, he steals the show in the relatively small number of scenes he's in. I'm glad he doesn't show up earlier because for me, watching Steven Berkoff is like drinking champagne—a small amount is just nice, but have too much and I start to feel a bit queasy.
13. Murdock, I'm coming to get you
'Yes!' the audience shouts and throws a fist skywards as Rambo delivers a metaphorical punch to Murdock over the radio followed by plenty of regular punches to everyone else around him. This is the moment where Rambo does his Incredible Hulk routine and flips out, only pausing for a few moments in the killing to cop off with his indigenous companion. Which brings us neatly along to…
14. Just when it was all going so well…
Co Bao is notable for being the only female character in all five hours of the series. The Thing, Bad Taste and No Escape are all guy movies with no female presence, and I'm sure you can think of plenty of similar movies, but it's pretty incredible to have a whole trilogy of movies with hardly any women in starring, supporting or even extra roles. The fact that Co fancies Rambo is rather predictable, but her death makes him even more mad and as far as we the viewing audience is concerned, he never goes anywhere near another woman again until the impending fourth instalment.
15. Explosions and more explosions
Rambo kills everyone. That's all you need to know. Whether he's stabbing them, shooting them or blowing them up with explosive arrows, there's no doubt he's going to get all of the POWs out of 'Nam. Hell yeah! I'm getting a bit carried away now. Moving on…
16. Rambo vs. Murdock and his computers
Steven Berkoff might have been the Russian antagonist but the real bad guy here is the weasely Murdock, played by the great Charles Napier. With rooms full of state of the art computer equipment (well, it was state of the art in 1985 anyway), he reckons he can sweep the existence of POWs under the carpet and save the government some money. By this point you shouldn't be surprised that Rambo doesn't like his attitude and makes his feelings known with the help of an M60 and the one thing that brings him good luck.
Rambo III
It's no coincidence that the fewest top moments occur in the third movie in the series and there are almost as many not-so-great moments further down the page because let's face it, Rambo III isn't exactly a great movie. It's possible to analyse the homoeroticism until your head spins, but for me it's just an action movie and let's not forget that the most expensive movie ever made (circa 1988) can't be all bad.
17. The stick fight
Our first encounter with John J Rambo in this instalment is when Colonel Trautman and Griggs (played by Kurtwood Smith) find him stick fighting in a warehouse for money to give to the monks who let him stay at their temple. What's immediately clear is that our Sly has either been working out non-stop since part two or he's pumping himself with more hormones than a pre-op transsexual. Either way, the fact that the size of his body is pushing the limits of believability sets our expectations at the appropriate level for everything else about the movie. The scene itself is great and is unfortunately another way the series has been tainted by countless spoofs in the years since.
18. Allah must love crazy people
I'm no expert on Afghan history, but Rambo essentially joins the Taleban, doesn't he? There's so much going on here thematically that I could bang on about how George W should have watched this before sending troops to the Middle East, but I don't see the point in baiting anyone out there. Just before a load of stuff blows up, Rambo ingratiates himself with his new friends by joining in a nice game of polo, only with no mallets and a dead animal instead of a ball.
19. Fight in the caves
Afghanistan is well-known for its network of caves within the harsh landscape, so I'm glad to see they were used somewhere in the action. We're well into silly territory here so we've got death by guns, exploding arrows, emergency lights and napalm-inspired dodgy one-liners.
20. F___ 'em
This is another moment that could easily have made its way into the list further down the page. Rambo's final line before we launch into another one of the action scenes that by this point are becoming a little too much is the height of lazy screenwriting but it also neatly sums up the man himself. We're the good guys, they're the bad guys, so f___ 'em.
Five Not-So-Great Moments
This may be a love letter to the Rambo movies, but I'm no fool. My love isn't blind and I'm well aware of the shortcomings. Here are five of the moments that let the big man down.
1. F-Troop
On his DVD commentary, Sylvester Stallone himself bemoans the inclusion of the part-time soldiers who do nothing but bungle their attempts to apprehend Rambo. Comic relief is always a good idea, especially in a dramatic action movie, but the humour here is too broad and completely goes against the tone of the movie.
2. Oh, and what you choose to call hell, he calls home
God bless Richard Crenna (again). I could very easily have put together a list of Trautman's dodgy lines, but this is my personal 'favourite'. It earns its place in this list because of the way it's delivered. What Richard Crenna has said before it is more than enough to make Murdock realise that Rambo's a mean mother, but it's the way he starts to walk away, then turns round again to deliver the killer line like he's just thought of it that makes me squirm into my sofa.
3. We just chipped away the small pieces
I don't even know where to start with this one. The story Trautman tells Rambo to get him to realise he's a mean mother by nature would probably sound inspiring if it was delivered by anyone other than Richard Crenna, but instead it just sounds unbelievably cheesy. The idea that Rambo's mental state could be changed by an assembly-time story for children is absurd, as is the complete lack of detail in the story. Who is the artist? Why is the rock so special?
4. I'm no tourist
No, you're not a tourist Mr Stallone, and anyone who thinks you are must be a complete idiot. If it were any old random person turning up and asking a stranger for cases full of military equipment, you might expect some snide comments but this is Sylvester Stallone, a man with shoulders so big he has to walk through double doors sideways. This is just one example of the many excuses for Roger Moore-style one-liners that litter this episode and while the mood does need to be lightened from time to time, a lot of the gags are cheap and don't make a lot of sense.
5. Patching himself up again
The scene in First Blood where Rambo patches himself up with a needle and thread worked because it was low key and had the 'ew' factor that comes with something that you could almost imagine having to do yourself. When Rambo finds himself on the wrong end of some shrapnel and decides to treat the wound himself, what then happens is graphic, plain crazy and filmed like a love scene. Eli Roth is fooling himself—torture porn started in 1988.
Better Left Forgotten…
To round off this trip down memory lane, I'll sign off with two video clips of Rambo's darkest days. No six words strike fear into the hearts of Rambo fans more than Rambo and the Forces of Freedom…
Oh, one more thing. If you find yourself in Hope, don't order a panini from the Blue Moose café. They're a bit soggy.
Editorial by Scott McKenzie
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (September 17, 2011) – The Appalachian State quartet of Maggie Seeds, Alison Blasingame, Kelly Rhein and Meghann Forshey combined for 45 kills to propel the Mountaineers past ETSU, 3-1 (25-17, 22-25, 28-26, 25-18), Saturday on day two of the JMU Coca-Cola Classic at Sinclair Gymnasium.
With the victory, Appalachian State evens its record to 6-6 on the season, while ETSU falls to an even 6-7 on the year.
Seeds and Blasingame each recorded 14.5 points and 12 kills for ASU. Rhein chipped in 11 kills and eight digs, while Forshey added 10 kills. Appalachian State out-hit ETSU .250-.156 in the contest.
Sophomore Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) led the way for the Buccaneers by recording a game-high 17 kills for the match, while also adding 10 digs for her fifth double-double of the year. Kayla Williams (El Paso, Texas) filled up the stat sheet by dishing out 42 assists, while also adding nine digs, eight kills and three blocks. Krista Hughes (Williamsburg, Va.) came off the bench to record seven kills, three service aces and a block for 10.5 points. Kiley Tamblyn (Torrance, Calif.) and Katie Muey (Alexandria, Ind.) combined for 25 digs to lead the ETSU defense. Muey also added four assists and two service aces.
The first significant run in the opening set came after ETSU pulled within two at 12-10 following a Barber kill. Appalachian State then went on a 7-0 run to extend the lead to 19-10. ETSU could not get much closer as the Mountaineers clinched the set, 25-17.
ETSU jumped out to a quick 6-1 start in the second set thanks to three kills by Devine. Appalachian State battled back to cut the lead to one on two different occasions but the Bucs never relinquished the lead. ETSU went on to claim the set, 25-22, to even the match up at one apiece.
In the third set, Appalachian State was in control early as the Mountaineers got out to a quick 12-7 advantage. After ETSU reeled off four straight points to cut the lead to one, ASU took the next two points to extend the lead back out. The Bucs again had an answer as they went on a crucial 6-0 run to take a 17-14 lead. ETSU remained in front and had set point at 24-20. Appalachian State would provide the turning point of the match by winning the next four points to tie the score at 24 apiece. After an ETSU kill by Chentel Pate (Nashville, Tenn.) gave the Bucs set point once again at 25-24, an Appalachian State kill tied the score and extended the match. Once again, ETSU had set point after a Hughes kill made the score 26-25, but a timely block by ASU tied the match back up. A kill and a block in succession finally broke the tie and gave Appalachian State the set victory, 28-26.
The momentum from the third set victory carried over for Appalachian State in the fourth set as the Mountaineers led from the outset. ASU hit .361 in the set to take the frame, 25-18, while also clinching the match.
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Earlier today, I posted about the California Teachers Association's plan to occupy the State Capitol on May 9-13 as part of the union's protests to increase tax revenue for the state's schools and teachers. I now have further information, including the news that CTA has budgeted $1 million for the protests.
The union has set up a web site of material for activists at CAstateofemergency.com. The documents include the handout I posted earlier, plus a 10-page list of "potential activities" the CTA State Council dreamed up. The State Council consists of more than 700 elected union representatives from all across the state. I've also posted this document on the EIA web site.
The "potential activities" include:
* Target the businesses of legislators in their home districts.
* Circle the offices of "problem legislators." Target them with various actions.
* Picket/rally in front of legislators' offices/homes.
* Follow targeted legislators for the entire day.
* Have students and parents do informational picketing for one hour outside their school site.
* Have parents and students camp in front of schools all night.
* Have teachers being laid off contact parents and other CTA members.
* Make phone calls on Parents' Day. Call parents to tell them how their child is doing and then talk about the budget cuts and invite them to attend the rallies.
* Refrain from Shopping Day. Show the value of educators and other public employees and the economic contribution they make to local communities by refraining from shopping one day.
* Throw monopoly money in the toilet to show that all our money is going down the drain
* Publish a list of companies that are not paying their fair share of taxes. Send letters to these companies and the media and picket their offices. Withdraw funds from banks that are not paying their fair share. (Editor's note: CTA is a tax-exempt organization.)
* One-day boycott of Microsoft and other corporations that are pushing failed education reform efforts.
* Turn fire/earthquake drill into crisis response drill to the budget cuts (involve students and the community)
* Attempt to close a major artery into town/cities
* Have celebrities involved in the demonstrations
* Dye hair red or wear red wigs
* Homeless encampments of students and teachers as they can afford a place to live
* Have people participate in a run across the state with a torch (like the Olympics)
* Statewide "A Day with No Teachers"
* Pay for everything with $2 bills to show true impact of teachers
* "Lights Out Day" during the week where educators teach in the dark
* Protest at an MLB game. Everyone wears a matching shirt and sits in one section. Have scoreboard acknowledge their presence (i.e., "pink-slipped teachers seated in section ___")
* Work with organization like Ben & Jerry to have them create a labor-union flavored ice cream that can be sold at the rallies and in stores
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Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Job 11:8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Job 14:13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 17:16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters:'so doth'sheol those that have sinned.
Job 26:6 Sheol is naked before God , And Abaddon hath no covering.
Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
Psalms 30:3 O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
Psalms 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah
Psalms 55:15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Psalms 86:13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 116:3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 15:11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Proverbs 15:24 To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Proverbs 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it .
Isaiah 14:9 Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah 38:10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Isaiah 38:18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 57:9 And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.
Ezekiel 31:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
Ezekiel 32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Amos 9:2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Jonah 2:2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.
Habakkuk 2:5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
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Banking Industry Consolidation: Past Changes and Implications for the Future
by Daniel E. Nolle
OCC Working Paper 95-1, April 1995.
Since 1980 the commercial banking industry has undergone radical structural change, the most obvious evidence of which is the substantial decline in the number of banks.
Despite public focus on record numbers of bank failures in the mid-to-late 1980s, much of the consolidation of the banking industry was due to corporate reorganizations within bank holding companies. In particular, the dismantling of geographic barriers to branching within states allowed multi-bank holding companies to merge their subsidiaries into fewer banks in a given state. At the same time this trend toward centralization of corporate structure occurred, banking companies also responded to state-by-state legislation to allow interstate banking by increasing the number of states in which they operated separately capitalized banks.
A simple extrapolation of these past consolidation trends results in a decline of over 2,000 banks by the end of the decade. Augmenting that scenario by taking account of the possible impact of the recently enacted nationwide interstate branching act yields further possible consolidation of about 1,000 banks.
As with all OCC working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
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The Riot Girl Turned Laugh Riot
IFC's new sketch comedy series Portlandia features an unlikely leading lady: Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein—one of the coolest, baddest, punk guitarists who ever was
Once upon a decade ago, Carrie Brownstein was an icon of the indie music scene, back when there was such a thing as "the indie music scene." Brownstein was the guitarist in the critically adored, Seattle-based punk band Sleater-Kinney, at a moment when the Pacific Northwest was the nerve center of American rock music. The all-female trio was tough, uncompromising and ferociously non-commercial. They were also, to put it mildly, not known for being a funny bunch. Which is why the newest chapter of Brownstein's career is so mind-blowing for those of us who adored Sleater-Kinney: she's starring in a sketch comedy series alongside her old friend Fred Armisen. (Yes, the guy who plays Obama on Saturday Night Live.) Portlandia, a sardonic—and yes, very funny—ode to the two stars' adopted hometown, shot entirely on location, premieres tonight on IFC. The pilot episode features cameos by Kyle MacLachlan (who plays Portland's mayor; Portland's actual mayor plays his assistant) and Aubrey Plaza. But the revelation here is Brownstein, the former riot girl turned laugh riot. She spoke with GQ about her transition to comedy, the peculiar people of her home city, and the Portland in all of us.
**I don't know how to say this without it sounding insulting, but here goes: I was really surprised that you're funny. I was a big fan of Sleater-Kinney, and that was not a funny band. And now here you are doing a sketch comedy show with the guy from SNL! So how have you been handling conversations with people like me who say, "Wow, I had no idea you were funny"? **
Um, the best I can! You know, I wish Sleater-Kinney had been a joke band—then we would be fine. Like, if we were Ween, then no one would be surprised. But I think I've always had a sort of fearlessness when it comes to performance. When I was a kid, I was always putting on neighborhood plays and doing these living room performances. I never took a ballet lesson in my life, but that didn't stop me from borrowing a kid's tutu and ballet shoes and doing an entire ballet performance in front of a lot of neighbors.
A lot of people say to me now, "I'm so sorry, I've never heard of your band." And I always say, "That's fine!" Actually, at this point, it's a compliment—that without any context, someone would believe that I've just been in improv school all this time. So I don't really know how to answer your question except to say that I'm not insulted by people being surprised. In this day and age it's pretty hard to surprise people.
It's wild to think lots of people will only know you as a sketch comedy performer, and only later will they perhaps discover that you used to be in this critically adored punk band.
It's strange to me, too. Also, I have a new band, and even though my bandmates haven't said it, I know they secretly fear people will come to our show because of Portlandia. Then I'm like that actor who's in a band, which is the worst.
You have a long history of collaborating with Fred Armisen, and it sounds like this show did not remotely begin as a show. It sounds like it began as two friends messing around with a camera.
It started out with Fred and I in 2005 making these short videos called Thunderant, which were for nobody but us. We weren't even putting them on the web. We were just sending them to friends. We weren't even trying to be funny. We were just trying to capture these awkward moments and be strange. And then five years later, after we had built up this arsenal of videos, that's when we brought in Lorne Michaels and IFC. But even at that point, it remained very organic. IFC encouraged us to shoot in Portland, where I live. They didn't really want to change much of the show, except to obviously elevate it into something worthy of being on TV.
**By landing at IFC, it's as if you've moved from the indie music world to the indie television world. Are there parallels? **
Oh, certainly. When we pitched the show to IFC we felt an immediate kinship with them. They were okay with the show not appealing to everyone. They knew it wouldn't. As long as it reaches the audience it was intended for. Lorne has said the same thing. He's aware that this is not going to be a massive hit. But I think the people who get it will feel it on a visceral level. And that's what happens with a good indie label, too.
**Obviously, you are spoofing a very specific place, one that often seems like a country of its own. But how do you make sure the humor on the show isn't TOO Portland for folks (like me) who have never been there? **
Well, for one, I think there are Portlands all over this country. You know, Williamsburg, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco. The spirit of Portland is definitely nearly universal at this point. Even the states or cities that don't have a Portland—there's a huge population of people wishing they did. But I also think there's this strange paradox in that the more specific and nuanced you get—and I think this show has a lot of specificity—the more that somebody on the other side of the country will be able to relate to it. They'll say, 'Oh, that's me, or that's someone I know'. The barometer is just to aim for something that feels real. Then you know that someone, somewhere, will connect with it.
In the pilot episode, there's a great sketch that's essentially a '90s tribute video—the idea is that Portland is where the '90s are still alive—and you show up and Fred tells you you're "a little too San Francisco." For someone from Portland, what is a little too San Francisco?
There's a little more of a modern primitive thing going on in SF, but also mid with the kind of cosmopolitan nature that Seattle has too. Portland kind of fancies itself as the gritty underdog compared to nearest West Coast cities. But that's me being elitist in a Portland way. That's the conundrum with all these liberal, progressive cities: we're constantly battling back and forth with these inferiority comples.
One theme that runs through the show is the way cities like Portland are almost tyrannically tolerant and oppressively liberal. It can have the odd effect of pushing liberal people to the right, just out of irritation.
I think you're exactly hitting the nail on the head there. In these liberal cities, you have these people who espouse to be very inclusive, but in order to be included, you have to follow these rules. And then the rules are really hard to follow. The rules are really esoteric. So you're trying to feel included and to be good, but all of a sudden you're so frustrated by it that you turn into a contrarian. I feel that way all the time here, where it's like, of course I want to shop at your local business—but I can go to Target and buy everything. I think that's an internal conflict that a lot of these characters feel. They're really trying to walk the walk, but they hit these stumbling blocks and they're so mad at themselves for not being able to be the person they thought they were going to be.
I assume a lot of the sketches on Portlandia are based on real people—but the show made me wonder if the real people of Portland are often stranger than anything you guys could invent.
Certainly. In one of the later episodes, there are characters who are basically dumpster divers, or 'freegans'. And while we were filming the sketch, one of our crew members said, "Oh yeah, I used to be a dumpster diver. I made my own internet." And I was just like, "What are you talking about?" Like, he literally found a way of assembling his own, like, wireless internet signal.
From some stuff he found in a dumpster?
Yeah. So I was just like, "Okay, there's nothing we can do at this point that is beyond the pale." In some ways, you want reality to be a little stranger.


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Blocking SMURFs may increase effectiveness of experimental melanoma drug
Lowering the levels of a protein called SMURF2 inside melanoma cells can boost the effectiveness of experimental drugs called MEK inhibitors, according to researchers in Manchester.
The discovery could ultimately lead to new trials aimed at overcoming resistance to these drugs, which can develop rapidly in melanoma patients on existing trials.
Dr Claudia Wellbrock and her team at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research at Manchester University compared human melanoma cells that responded to the drugs against cells that did not.
The cells that did not respond to the drug contained higher levels of the protein SMURF2, according to the research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
But if the level of SMURF2 in the resistant melanoma cancer cells was artificially reduced, then the tumour cells became 100 times more sensitive to the drug.
Further analysis showed that removing SMURF2 lowers the level of a second protein, called MITF, in tumour cells. The research indicates that MITF is responsible for resistance to MEK inhibitors, at least in some cases.
"We're very excited about the potential for this new approach that has proved to be so effective in our experiments," Dr Wellbrock said.
Melanoma is one of the most deadly forms of cancer and is the fifth most common cancer in the UK.
"By the time many people are diagnosed with melanoma the cancer has already started to spread and advanced tumours can be highly resistant to conventional cancer treatments," Dr Wellbrock said.
"The development of resistance to new drugs has also been a major drawback."
"If we can identify more potent and less toxic drug combinations to tackle melanoma then we could save thousands of lives."
Cancer Research UK co-funded the research. Dr Julie Sharp from the charity said such efforts will form a key part of plans for the new Manchester Cancer Research Centre.
The centre is intended to bring together all the latest research developments and expertise to help revolutionise the way cancer is treated.
"Recently there have been some really exciting developments in treating melanoma - but new approaches that tackle the problem of resistance are still needed," she added.
Dr Wellbrock's team at Manchester University next task is to find a drug that can reduce the activity of SMURF2 in cancer cells.
Researchers are currently searching through existing drug collections for one that may already be approved for treating a different condition.
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- Smith M.P. et al. Effect of SMURF2 Targeting on Susceptibility to MEK Inhibitors in Melanoma, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djs471


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Roy Halladay has won two Cy Young awards. He's one win shy of 200 career wins and he's arguably been the best pitcher in baseball in the last decade.
He's also started 10 straight Opening Days. But he's ready to hand the ball to the longest-tenured Phillies pitcher this year.
After throwing to hitters for the second time this spring in a live batting practice session, Halladay fully endorsed Cole Hamels as this year's Opening Day starter.
Here's all of what Halladay had to say:
Q: Do you expect Hamels to start Opening Day?
Halladay: "Yeah absolutely, I think the commitment they made to him last year… you know, it's his time. He's been here for a long time, he's had a lot of success here. There aren't many teams where you have a World Series MVP and then you bring in 4-5 guys to pitch in front of him. It should have been his spot a long time ago. I think it's something he's going to embrace. And really after Opening Day, we're all five days apart anyway.
"But I talked to him about it when we're going out and doing drills, stuff like that, it's time for him now to kind of step up and take charge in those situations and establish himself as the head of the staff."
Q: So you expect that's the way they'll go, with Hamels on Opening Day?
Halladay: "Yeah, after the year he had last year and everything else. I think you earn it year-to-year. There is no… I don't care what you've done in baseball, what you've done in the game. I've always believe you come in every year to earn your spot in spring training and he earned his spot last year as the Opening Day starter. He deserves that and I think that's they way it should be."


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Xbox 360 Kinect and Holiday Game Preview
The quest for getting healthier via the Kinect continues in this week's installment in which we take a look at some of the games that are going to be hitting the shelves in time for Holiday '11. How does the much anticipated Star Wars stack up? What kind of fitness benefits can we expect out of these new titles? Answers to these questions and more below the jump.
Recently we had the opportunity to play a few of the titles that are coming out for the Holiday '11 season, some targeting children and others, fun for the whole family.
Holiday 2011 Kinect Preview:
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster: A new take on the storybook, this title puts young children in a storybook with their favorite Sesame Street characters. Game play is whimsical and at times rather active. We see this as a nice title for young children especially on rainy days.
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures: Another title for children (although slightly older than Sesame Street) this game takes the family on a virtual tour of Disneyland. We are not going to lie, we did break a sweat while fighting off Captain Hook in the Peter Pan ride mini-game.
Kinect Sports: Season Two: Being big fans of Kinect Sports we were eager to try our hand at Season Two unfortunately for us the only playable elements in the preview were two golf courses and we are rather rubbish at golf. Since golf is not really a game known for the workout it delivers we cannot accurately gauge the fitness potential of this title at this time.
Dance Central 2: It is no surprise that the Dance Central 2 station was the busiest demo of the event. We braved the stares of onlookers to give this game a whirl and did our best impression of a fantastic dancer alongside our event dancing partner. The biggest improvement to this game over the previous version is being able to dance alongside a friend. Like the prior version, this game does deliver a workout, so now with version two you and a friend can sweat together.
Kinect Star Wars: We are not going to lie, being the nerds we are this was hands down the title we were most excited to try at the event. Having made allusions to trying to Jedi mind trick our Kinect this title is one where the hand movements for using the Force come oh so naturally. Surprisingly the game does offer a bit of a workout as you slash your lightsaber and knock out droids. We can hardly wait to see more of this title and it is decidedly our most anticipated title of Holiday '11.
What's titles are you most excited about?
Weeks 1-8 with the Xbox 360 and Kinect:
- Week One: Getting Setup and Dance Central
- Week Two: Kinect Sports
- Week Three: The Biggest Loser
- Week Four: EA Sports Active 2
- Week Five: Your Shape Fitness Evolved
- Week Six: Hitting the Wall
- Week Seven: Calorie Challenge
- Week Eight: Powerful 10 Minute Workouts
(Images: Joelle Alcaidinho, Disney, and Microsoft)


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