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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - Adam and David - FULL CONTACT
Adam and David - FULL CONTACT
Adam Rupert and David Kadera are two handsome muscle studs who came in for a duo. In just their underwear they are laying on the bed and begin exploring each others' bodies with their tongues. They kiss and lick and then as Adam lays on his back David pulls on the waistband of Adam's undies and sticks his mouth inside to suck on his cock. Releasing the cock from the underwear we see David's mouth wrapped tight around that big cock. David loves to suck cock and he really works on Adam's, it is thick and hard as the hot lips suck on it. Adam thrusts his cock into that eager mouth, going as deep as he can. Then he loses his underwear and scoots around, with David on his knees, and starts sucking his friend stiff dick. With his own cock throbbing and bouncing up and down Adam really sucks David hard. David stands and drops the undies so Adam can suck him even better. Then David turns around and shoves his massive ass back for rimming. Adam's tongue goes right into that ass crack, lapping at the hot hole. His finger slides into that ass as well before rimming some more. David wants more though, so as Adam lays down, he sits his hot ass right down on that big, hard cock. With his hole stretched to the max by Adam's big dick David slides up and down on that pole. He takes it well and then gets onto his knees with Adam behind him. Adam's cock slides into that ass again and he starts to fuck it hard and fast. He really works that hole as David looks back at him. Moving to a spoon position the fucking continues, with David's ass spread well. He starts to wank his hard cock, as he is fucked, and soon shoots his cum. Adam continues fucking until he is ready to shoot as well. David positions his face to catch the creamy load as it squirts out of Adam's dick. Then David sucks on that big cock, to drain it completely, ending a lovely scene.
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Our Coming Soon Set Preview
Wank Party 2013 #3 features Walter Uwe, Adam Rupert, David Chudera and Daniel Kutka. In this second part we join the guys As Walter is fucking Daniel and David is fucking Adam. Daniel leans over and kisses Adam as they both take big cocks in their asses. David reaches down and wanks Adam's rock hard cock as he fucks his ass hard and fast. They all change around and Daniel sits his hot ass down on David's cock and rides it. Walter is behind Adam, fucking him hard and David takes Adam's big cock in his mouth. As the fucking continues Daniel wanks himself and kisses Adam. Adam responds by leaning forward and sucking Daniels big cock, with Walter leaning over to kiss Daniel.
Walter is so turned on that he really pounds away at Adam's ass, long, deep and very fast strokes. Adam has been fucked real well, but he wants some ass too so they all change again. This time Daniel is on his back with Adam fucking him hard and fast. David gives up his ass too, for Walter to work his hot cock in. Daniel is wanking himself as Adam fucks him and soon shoots a big creamy load all over himself. With Walter fucking his tight ass David wanks himself and shoots a fountain of cum in the air. Walter isn't finished with the fucking though and takes another turn on Adam's. Adam moans loudly as he also shoots his cum and then Walter pulls out and dumps his cream all over David. Having all had a great time and delivered a lot of cum they go back to work.
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I'm pretty sure that most of our viewers have heard about the large blast in Prague yesterday.
It happened very close to us, just across the river, and a block and a half north. I must admit, I felt or heard nothing. Reports say the blast could be felt in Prague Castle, which is much farther away. I did hear all the sirens and was full aware of the extreme police presence as they block off access to the river a few minutes later. However, we suffered no damage here. It appears no one was killed. The gas emergency trucks are always blue with blue lights on top. When I see one, I tell visitors, 'we don't want to walk too near to where that truck is parked.' This is the second major gas explosion I've experienced in this neighborhood. And, sincerely, if you see one of those gas emergency trucks parked on the sidewalk, make a quick detour.
Tonight they'll be burning the traditional witch in Kampa Park. Such ceremonies happen tonight in cities, towns, and villages all over the Czech Republic. All of the witches will be straw, unlike the old days.
The Flying Dutchman wanted to do an outing to Heydrich's house a few miles outside of Prague. I'd loaned him a DVD about the assassination that was filmed during the Communist times. A couple of years back Derfla, Marek and I went looking for the house, but found the wrong one. What we found was occupied by Heydrich's successor because Heydrich's wife refused to move out of the main house. The Dutchman, who is not in Holland this week because he's a republican (with small 'r'), found the actual house on Google maps. We ventured forth, and I drove for the first time in about seven years. The house is inside a walled industrial compound. When we parked a security guard immediately accosted us, telling us we couldn't park in in their lot, which was empty, nor anywhere else in the area (kind of gets the conspiracy theories going around in one's head all James Bond like). The Dutchman convinced him to let us park in the empty lot for ten minutes. We walked down to the main gate, which is exactly as it was in Heydrich's time. Previously, the view of the house had been blocked by a tarp. Now it is blocked by a plywood and a tarp.
One could see through a small crack in the plywood. First thing I noticed was the place is guarded by a Czechoslovakian Vlacak, a cross breed between a Alsatian and a Carpathian wolf. The breed was developed in Slovakia by the StB, the Czechoslovakian version of the KGB. It is highly prized as a guard and police dog.
The painting below if a pretty fair representation of what I saw as the dog sensed our presence.
Below is an actual photo of the breed:
It's pretty clear it's a no-nonsense sort of breed.
Actually, we could see through the crack a little corner of the decrepit mansion. Here's a photo from Google.
I think neither of us was tempted to shimmy over the fence and take a closer look. The Dutchman did grab a couple of snaps of me standing by the famous gate:
I'm not much into conspiracy theories. However, clearly something is going on in Panenske-Brezany, either they are determined not to let the decaying mansion become a Nazi shrine, OR they are hiding a Nazi coven inside. Take your pick, two very juicy conspiracy theories. This will be my last excursion to Panenske-Brezany. I get the message, folks.
Now to business.
Adam Rupert and David Kadera set things going today with a lovely duo. They are followed by Mattias Solich and Vasek Konik, and then Roman Tygr's erotic video and Josef Rasara's session stills.
We also have a great selection of castings, Karel Nezbeda, Jirka Gabcik, Robert Drtina and Jano Drotar. All look very good indeed by I will go with Robert Drtina as my pick of the day.
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Marcus's Top 10 2009
Marcus lists his favorite movies of 2009 as well as a few other bits and bobs...
Another year over and another top ten list of movies that I've enjoyed this year.
While compiling this list I was quite surprising how quietly great this year's been. For the majority of the year the general feeling was that the 2009 was a letdown (especially during the summer months), but the year definitely started providing some cracking movies before the twelve months were up.
As a side note, there are a ton of enticing and very well received movies already out in the US, such as Up in the Air and The Road that the UK won't get until 2010, so they'll maybe end up on next year's list. So for now you'll have to put down some of missing movies down to annoying international release dates (a little bit of a 2009 pattern) as an excuse for their absence.
Before we begin on the top ten, let's see what missed the final selection.
After going over my list while compiling this article, I was actually quite surprised how many movies I had a blast with in 2009. Some missed my top ten by a whisker, some may even wind up moving up into it after repeat viewings but all deserve a mention, so here in no particular order is a brief nod to some of the other great movies of 2009.
Fanboys was a Star Wars fan's delight, [500] Days of Summer will no doubt climb up the list after future re-watches, Let the Right One In made vampires cool again, The Hangover kicked ass, Drag Me to Hell reminded us Sam Raimi knows how to have fun, Whatever Works had Woody Allen throw amazing characters and dialogue at us, Bart Got a Room was a joy and William H Macy's hair alone made it memorable. The Tale of Despereaux was an unexpected gem, Zombieland was a blast from start to finish, Star Trek seems to get better and better (even though Diora Baird got cut), Inglourious Basterds provided one of the performances of the decade from Christoph Waltz and the best Italian accent ever from Brad Pitt and one more for the sheer amounts of chuckles it provided was The Men Who Stare at Goats which just put a smile on my face from start to finish.
Finally, and because leaving 2009 without mentioning it would be a crime, Avatar. It may not have been the defining moment in cinema I wanted it to be and its unoriginality is really what made it suffer for me, but James Cameron still managed to enthral and entertain with his return to cinema and I look forward to seeing it again without the pressure of hype hovering in the air.
Now for my choices of the top ten movies of 2009.
It wasn't perfect but for the most part I'd say that Zack Snyder did the impossible and managed to get the majority of what makes Watchmen so damn good up on the screen (even if the violence was a little bit too ramped up in places).
Every time I watch Watchmen I feel more satisfied with it. I love how the adaptation captures many of the small moments from the comics and how the characters have been depicted. I loved how the style of the comic's story telling isn't ignored for the sake of movie making (Doc Manhattan on Mars stayed in with minimal issues... that's almost a miracle in itself). I love the action and I loved some of Snyder's choices when capturing the comic visuals and generally the entire movie felt right, which is largely what most adaptations can miss.
Admittedly, I still have my issues and of course these are what hold the movie back from being higher on the list. Stuff like old Sally Spectre being a mean drunk, or Warner Bros. pussying out of incorporating the squid and changing too many elements of the finale to really give the Watchmen real respect. Oh, and on a personal note, I hated how the merchandise for this flick totally avoided the use of the blood dripped smiley face. I mean, what's the point of the countdown clock on a t-shirt? We want the smiley... right?
The Disc:With more editions internationally than I care to mention, everything seemed to be going well with the director's cut, Motion Comics, Black Freighter and a few nice features teasing us with what was to come with the Ultimate Edition. Sadly the big Ultimate Edition just drew in all of the existing discs and offered the minimum of new stuff, so at the last minute the whole project dropped the ball and rather than giving us long documentaries and detailed features about making the movie we're left with a stupid pirate covered 'best of' filled with stuff that's already out there and providing a bit of a downer.
I've only seen Pixar's Up once (which seems like ages ago) and try as I might, I don't really remember the ins and outs of what happened beyond the basic set up with Carl and Russell, the talking dog and the nasty old guy with the guard dogs. Oh and of course the flying house. So why in my top ten? Well for starters it hit high on the list of movies I keep throughout the year with ease. After my first viewing it was a no brainer to have it reside in the top end but why do I not remember the fine details of a movie that hit so high?
It's because the overwhelming memory of Up for me (and by what I've read plenty of others too) is the opening sequence showing Carl and his wife's Ellie's life together. Their hopes, their experiences, their sad moments, the depiction of their happiness together and how life got in the way of their dreams. Frankly, director Pete Docter knocked the movie out of the park in the opening sequence with the characters barely even speaking a word and from there on in I was hooked and I would have followed Carl Fredricksen anywhere as long as he kept doing it all for Ellie.
Placing Up here is probably playing it a little safe as having only seen it once it could end up being much higher after repeat viewings but at the same time my no holds barred affection for Pixar has begun to show cracks over their last few movies, when revisiting they never quite woo me like they first did. All that said Up put a lasting smile on my face and I remember it wrapping me up like a hug, so until I get to experience it again, this one gets a placing on feel good memories alone.
The Disc:Not having a region free Blu-ray player, I have to wait until February 2010 to get my mitts on this one in the UK but I'm hoping for great things.
I know, I know this came out in 2008 in the US, but we Brits didn't see it until February, so it's going on the list.
With anybody else cast in this lead role, I honestly don't think Gran Torino would have been half as effective. The sheer presence of Clint Eastwood here somehow manages to add so much more weight to the proceedings and it makes it near impossible not to get on board with what unfolds.
Having Clint playing the bitter, racist widower with a family he couldn't be more disconnected from running around him, somehow never even hints at turning the audience away. His slow involvement with the Hmong family next door is a journey for Clint's character that's a joy to go along with and seeing his character soften his hard edges as the movie progresses could very well be considered cliché with a different star leading the way but Gran Torino just transcends those conventional limitations and makes everything feel like you're seeing this age old character arc for the first time.
Clint Eastwood once again proves he's a director who knows how movies work and how to make them work well. With a great pace, some fine performances, a sweet looking car and a hell of a finale, Gran Torino provides a fine (potentially) final on screen performance from an absolute movie legend and his snubbing at this year's Oscars was a travesty.
The Disc:Not particularly that memorable on the features front but it's a fine looking and sounding disc that shows the movie off very well.
Besides just the good movies of the year, there were some pretty good discs released in 2009 as well. The Clone Wars Season One set was pretty great, The DC Universe's animated titles provided another batch of good adaptations with some utterly enjoyable features. Pixar's A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc. were a welcome and impressive addition to the Blu-ray catalogue and I look forward to future round table conversations on future releases. Transformers 2 disappointed as a movie but made a nice gesture with great video and audio and a nice set of extras and finally The Wizard of Oz set a new standard on catalogue Blu-ray releases pretty much across the board.
After getting my geek fix out of the way with Watchmen at the beginning of the year, my attentions should really have switched over to Transformers 2 or James Cameron's Avatar. Instead, and thanks almost entirely to the movie's first trailer, I fell hook line and sinker for the prospect of seeing Spike Jonze's adaptation of a childhood favourite, Where the Wild Thing's Are. Both trailers where absolutely spellbinding with the use of Arcade Fire's 'Wake Up' and visuals and good feeling that just screamed 'watch me now!'
After getting over the December UK release (two months later than the US—*Grumble*) I was happy to discover that this one really was a stunningly grown up family movie. The story was kept simple, the characters were developed from the fairly limited source material beautifully and Max Records (coolest name ever by the way) gave us a lead performance from a child that was a breath of fresh air.
The use of limited CGI combined with the amazing costumes effectively proved that practical fantasy characters are far from obsolete and in my personal opinion totally outweighed the best illusions of reality that CGI can offer. Where the Wild Things Are is a movie I can see me re-visiting for a long time to come, just to spend time with all of the characters and follow Max as he discovers things about himself via those awesome Wild Things. It also provided one of the best delivered lines of the year. No not 'Let the wild rumpus start!' but 'Woman: Feed me!'
The Disc:Once again, this disc won't hit until 2009 but with the recent making of book already impressing the hell out of me, I hope for the same sort of goodness on the upcoming disc.
Set in the summer of 1987, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) has to find a summer job to fund his college and travel aspirations. He winds up in the theme park Adventureland and meets Em (Kristen Stewart) as well as a whole host of other co-workers and his outlook on his life begins to change.
I've never worked in a theme park and for the most part I have never had any real intention of ever doing so but Adventureland suddenly makes it a bit more appealing and for me, I think it's because it effortlessly captures the feeling of that first job where you meet a whole host of new people and of course fall in love for real for the first time.
Of course, director Greg Mottola doesn't force feed these feelings to us and really on the surface here the majority of what our lead, James (James? Am I pronouncing that right?) goes through aren't exactly experiences most consider 'good' but there's something about Adventureland's honesty in how it depicts the dramas of growing up or finding a place in the world that I totally responded to and had a blast with.
Loaded with a great soundtrack that sat on my MP3 player for a good while, some fantastic characters, another great 2009 performance by Eisenberg (the other being Zombieland), a great role by Ryan Reynolds (the law of averages dictated he had to do something good this year) an adorably broken performance by Kirsten Stewart and for me Adventureland all added up to one of the best feel good (without being chirpy) movies of 2009 and one I'm looking forward to repeat viewings of.
The Disc:I wish I could comment on how good the Blu-ray is but Fox made this one of their region A only titles and until I get around to a multi region player, I'll have to hold out for the region B release in 2010. For now take a look at Gabe's review for more info.
Take a classic Roald Dahl tale, get Wes Anderson to direct it, what do you get? Pure gold! Wes Anderson somehow manages to make another Wes Anderson movie despite it living in the world of stop motion animation. Literally nothing is left out, nothing is compromised and the director's unique spin on things fills the world of children's movies with sheer glee.
Of course all of this is helped along by the wonderfully enjoyable dialogue delivered by a cast that make other animated movies feel almost characterless. George Clooney's Mr Fox has absolutely everything we all love about Clooney's live action performances and more. His character is incredibly confident/deluded and seems to make lines instantly memorable. His quirky, cocky attitude to the events around him just makes him a joy to be around and Meryl Streep's Mrs Fox's dry ability to bring him back down to earth is the perfect counter.
There are great supporting characters as well, with Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Wallace Wolodarsky, and Owen Wilson all filling the world of Mr Fox with an infinite amount of chuckles and giving Mr Fox plenty to bounce off. For me though, Jason Schwartzman steals the show. Schwartzman has had a stellar year with great performances in both Funny People and his absolutely class TV show Bored to Death and here he continues to be a stand out presence of 2009 by depicting Mr Fox's son Ash as a frustrated, desperate for his father's attention little fox with too many great moments to even begin to list here. 'There's a lot of attitudes going on around here. Don't make me get one.'
The Fantastic Mr Fox is quite simply fantastic and I defy anyone not to walk away from that movie with a grin on their face and a spring in their step.
The Disc:The disc isn't out until next year but here's hoping Wes Anderson opts for the typical Anderson awesomeness on his discs rather than a typical family friendly approach for the kids. In fact a Criterion edition would be nice along with The Darjeeling Limited finally hitting Blu-ray please.
9 sort of took me by surprise. I expected to like it (after all, those Tim Burton-esq sack boy designs are exactly the sort of thing that draws me in), but I never expected to fall for it so damn quickly into proceedings. The introduction into this post-apocalyptic world and the slow discovery of the threats that face our hero and more so their causes were so staggeringly simple in their depiction that I went through the adventure with an overwhelming sense of sadness because all of this farfetched story seemed to have been because of human tragedy.
The individually numbered characters do a fine job at playing off of each other's personalities and each come with those usual post-apocalyptic sensibilities, but their coming together against a common foe and the discoveries they make in regard to their origins totally worked for me. The subtleties and simple emotional moments add so much weight to the effective visuals on show and in a year where big hitters like Transformers 2, G.I Joe and Wolverine pulled in the crowds as well as the return of James Cameron, I'd probably go as far as to say that 9 was still the movie that provided the finest orchestrated action sequences for me. Everything felt so kinetic and the way that the sequences flowed really added up to some exciting stuff that drove the story on as opposed to taking you away from it.
The Disc:Having only just received the disc, I've not had time to delve right in but with the original short showing that the producers didn't want to change much and a nice look at the filmaking process behind the movie, it all backs up a very pretty looking and more so sounding disc.
There was a point about mid-July where it felt like every movie would be in this section. Wolverine was one massive series of wasted opportunities and resigned itself to being another X-Men movie with a new group of faces (oh and making a real pig's ear of Deadpool). Transformers 2 added a whole new example to the phrase 'bloated mess' and even though I found it a little better on a re-watch, those bloody twins and that totally pointless 'The Fallen' are another bunch of dents in the Transformers franchise. Oh, and Terminator Salvation was just a mishmash of good ideas that just didn't seem to pan out.
Besides the big disappointments, there were still plenty of regular stinkers. Paul Blart was painful, The Unborn and The Spirit were total nonsense and Still Waiting... made most other comedy sequels look like masterpieces. There were a few more but why bother spending time with the stinkers when we're not done with the good movies. Back to the list.
The more I watch Moon, the more I love it. From the stellar central performance(s) from Sam Rockwell to the latest in a long line of great Clint Mansell scores there is almost nothing that I don't adore about this little sci-fi movie that plays with the nature of cloning and human emotion with absolute clarity.
Duncan Jones weaves together a tale that plays on the typical plot twists within these sorts of sci-fi outings and takes us down alternative routes that somehow become as uplifting as they are rewarding. Scenes with the ships A.I., Gertie (voiced by Kevin Spacey) are surprisingly touching in places with a thoroughly heartfelt belief that this machine is looking out for our man on the moon and the scenes where the Sam Bells come to terms with their predicament are dealt with in the greatest slow burning pace.
If Sam Rockwell doesn't get Oscar Nominated for his performances here then the man has been robbed. Both Sam Bells show a great insight into the character's mentality and what three years alone can do to a person. How they play off of one another genuinely feels like two different characters interacting as opposed to the age old movie trick of splicing two performances together.
The character of Sam Bell and his journey is classic sci-fi with an overwhelming sense of human emotion. In fact the scene where Sam Bell contacts Earth and has a final realisation of events is a favourite movie moment of 2009 for me and one that triggers the beginning of the end of this great little tale.
The Disc:Besides a great looking and sounding Blu-ray, the Moon disc is a great showcase for first time film director Duncan Jones's work. Not only do we get plenty of insight via commentaries and Q&As, but we also get his short film, which was actually rather good.
As far as I'm concerned Funny People catapulted Judd Apatow from comedy master to bona fide movie maker. He'd hinted at his dramatic sensibilities in his last movie, Knocked Up (another great movie) but with Funny People he went down the Almost Famous route and provided a touching, personal insight into his background as well as hammering home a great story and some solid laughs.
Taking Adam Sandler, an actor that I go through phases of liking and disliking and putting him in a role where he has to come to terms with his own mortality didn't sit well with movie go-ers and Funny People didn't strike the cord in a wider audience that it truly deserved but for the bravery involved with portraying this character as a not that nice a guy, Sandler and of course Apatow deserve plenty of kudos. Nothing here is dealt with kid gloves. Sandler's George Simmons is a bitter man, with a terrible attitude but underneath all that you can see a man desperate to overcome himself and have a better life.
Packed full of much unappreciated performances from Seth Rogan, Leslie Mann and of course Sandler, Apatow fills out the rest of the cast with the likes of Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman and surprisingly sharp and damn funny turn by Eminem. In addition to that you have another of my favourite performances of the year slotted in three quarters of the way through the movie and it's from Eric Bana. He turns up as Leslie Mann's Australian husband and his role as Clark is just one I adore and every time I've watched the film so far, I can't wait to get to his arrival and to hear his dialogue about his admiration for Cameron Diaz ('Fuuuucccckkkk!') and that movie where she had 'spoof' in her hair (seriously, even writing that down put a smile on my face).
The Disc:I may very well go as far as to say that Funny People was my favourite Blu-ray package of the year. Its literally crammed floor to ceiling with funny, well presented, detailed features. The main ninety minute documentary is exceptionally well put together and on top of that there's a whole James Taylor concert, loads of original Sandler/Apatow home videos and archival videos, episodes of the seminal Yo Teach!as well as a documentary about the stand up all the Funny People characters love to hate. R-R-R-Randy! 'You know what I'm talking about, he definitely knows what I'm talking about!'
Though it had its French release in 2008, Martyrs didn't get a proper release in the UK until 2009, so it makes my list.
Having a movie like Martyrs make this list at all is a bigger surprise to me than Vader being Luke's dad the first time I watched The Empire Strike Back. Having it in the top spot is that same surprise times a million but French director Pascal Laugier's movie blew me away and after watching it again recently to see if its placing on the top spot held, I have to say it was even better.
On the surface, Martyrs may be considered just another in a long line of horror movies that push shocking visuals to their limits and uses extremely violent acts to stir uncomfortable reactions in its audience. All of this is true but Martyrs, unlike most of the other movies that get slammed for the same issues has something to say. It doesn't just present messed up scenarios to shock or just put characters in a room and do garish things to them for the sake of audience reaction. It strives for more. Twisted philosophic discussions about life, the truth some may discover in the face of death and how extreme situations can hold the secrets to life's mysteries—none of it is treated lightly and all of it is effective.
After the first forty odd minutes, which delivers extreme violence, and essentially tying up any and all of the threads you may have thought the movie had to offer, Martyrs moves on to deeper grounds (quite literally). As I said in my original review, going into exactly what occurs in the second half of this movie would be completely unfair to its potential impact to a new viewer but I will say that the issues that are covered here had me thinking about the movie for days and weeks afterwards. This wasn't just another movie about 'bad men equals scares' or having characters run away until they're safe. Martyrs gets under the skin (those who've seen the film can take that as a pun). It goes into the darkest realms of the human condition and how extreme wanting to know life's mysteries can take people. It never undermines itself by falling back on easy scares or any annoying convenient outs and Martyrs pushes its characters forward to their absolute limits, totally unafraid of having its events mean something.
I'm running the risk of giving something away here and as I said it would be totally unfair to undermine a movie which for me was the most powerful, brave and thought provoking piece of cinema that 2009 had to offer and so sits proudly at the top of my list.
The Disc:Martyrs provides a lot of great insight from Pascal Laugier and he isn't afraid of discussing the intricate details of his vision and people's response to it. All in all it's a great companion to a truly astonishing bit of filmmaking.
2010 seems to have a lot of big titles showing themselves off in trailers but for the life of me I can't seem to get too excited about them. Things like Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia and Alice in Wonderland just don't seem to be sparking my interest yet, so I hope for a turnaround from them in the New Year.
Sequels wise Iron Man 2 (which is going to make sooooo much money at the box office) is looking more and more fun by the second and of course Toy Story 3 is potentially going to blow a hole in any previous animated records and it'll be great to have the gang back. On the flipside of that, Shrek 4 looks like it's taken that step too far like many fourth instalments do, but thankfully it's been confirmed as the last in the franchise.
Intrigue wise the Tron Legacy footage released a while back looked incredible, with far more poignancy than the franchise probably deserves but goddamn it worked and has hit high on my 2010 radar as has the curious looking Kick-Ass. The A-Team will be kept in sights just for my love of the original series, however the same can't be said for the Karate Kid remake. The teenager in me wants Predators to be the best film ever made though I'm pretty sure it won't be and I'd love to see M Night Shyamalan return to form with The Last Airbender, but again I'm yet to be convinced.
Yet to really get the hype train fully out of the station, Youth in Revolt, Daybreakers, Hot Tub Time Machine, Cemetery Junction, Jonah Hex, Inception, Day and Knight and Salt have caught my eye and I hope they all turn out to be on highlights in the year ahead.
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What's the point in ignoring reality?
My born-again sister wouldn't (or couldn't) believe it, even after I showed her the images. My wife, the same, even though she was there for part of the "show" and of course had seen the photos. "Get your blinders at the church door! Come and and sit a spell".
They didn't believe that the kids were being brainwashed...
They refused to believe that leading kids in organized songs, with coreographed dance moves was brainwashing.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
even since it's inception into scientific stardom, most "proof" of evolution is merely negative theology. evolution's proofs rely on a specific victorian interpretation of what God is like and how he could create the world.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Complete brainwashing, and it led me to my enlightened athiest status today...
Last year, as a service to my former church, I volunteered to photograph the Vacation Bible School (VBS), a gross missrepresentation of intent. Very little of the bible was taught: instead, the young cherubs (some still in diapers) were "taught" (read - brainwashed) to dance to various songs denigrating the Theory of Evolution specifically, and science itself in general.
What is interesting is his connection to the discovery institute,
Of course they're not monkeys. We don't have tails, which means technically we're a species of ape!
Quote from: cvlspaz on September 05, 2009, 03:31:26 AMeven since it's inception into scientific stardom, most "proof" of evolution is merely negative theology. evolution's proofs rely on a specific victorian interpretation of what God is like and how he could create the world.Please come back to us, once you have a better understanding about the theory of evolution.Evolution (and the evidence for evolution) has nothing to do with theology. Unless you perceive biology, genetics, paleontology, anthropology and a large chunk of medical science as being theological disciplines of science.Do you really think, if the TOE was just a theological concept it would see such widespread use in real science?
i'm only responding to the comment on your post that made it seem as if you accepted evolution is scientific fact. if this is not how you believe, disregard the rest of this comment. did you know that darwin only began his theory because he was addressing the problem of "natural evil."? just as the philosophers of his time, he was inundated with the perception of God as perfectly good so anything bad or "evil" in creation must be explained away as not connected to the original creation. (don't think i'm saying i believe necessarily in a six day creation here) he was trying to solve a theological problem of the time. he, just as theologians of the time, of trying o separate God from the "evil" (which is only described as what we perceive as inefficiencies in nature) found in nature. even darwin wasn't trying to disprove the EXISTENCE of God, he was simply offering and explanation of how a perfectly good god could have been the creator of a world which is "obviously" inefficient and "evil". even since it's inception into scientific stardom, most "proof" of evolution is merely negative theology. evolution's proofs rely on a specific victorian interpretation of what God is like and how he could create the world. i'm not saying evolution is total bunk. but i just think it's healthy to be skeptical of it as we are skeptical of six day creation.
For me it came in fits and starts from childhood. I foolishly ask the question, "where is heaven" in sunday school class. I was nine. The answer was laughable even then. The teacher told me heaven was out by the north star somewhere because science was unable to penetrate that part of space, so god had pulled the vail over the eyes of humans to keep them from trying to get there without first being saved, and since there was so much evil in the world (we humans apparently are some evil MFers) he just wasn't going to allow us access to that region of space. Then like a fool, I asked what we were going to do when we got to heaven? She looked like she was gut shot. "we're going to do a lot of praying, and praising the lord; what do you think?" I suspect she wanted to add "you little imp." None-the-less, I wrote it off as maybe she didn't know, or just wasn't going to give me the real answer. However an iota of doubt snuck into my impressionable little brain. Then Viet Nam 1967. I was still kinda christian then, and I confided in my Vietnamese girlfriend we were headed for the DMZ on a dangerous mission. She said she would pray to buddha for my safe return. I thought what kind of pagan bullshit was that? (The fking arrogance of christians.) I think the carnage that followed did it for me. This world is too sick to be created by the supernatural, at least the benevolent sort. The church's answers for Nam were trite at best. "We just can't know the mind of god," or, "god works in mysterious ways." However theologians seem to know what god's will is for me. I'm rambling. Education was the real solution for me.


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Sepang, 5 February 2014 - Malaysia Airports launched its third annual "Green Day" programme, a two-pronged employee engagement activity which aims to stimulate environmental awareness and to enhance camaraderie among its staff.
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James E. Tyler Jr., 84, of Ripley died at his home on February 3, 2013 following many years with prostate cancer.
James E. Tyler Jr. 84 of Ripley died at his home on February 3, 2013 following many years with prostate cancer.
He was a Professional Engineer, retired from FedEx in Memphis, Tennessee. There he followed his love of flying by obtaining all flight certifications and becoming a private flight instructor.
Jim followed many avocations with perfection and enthusiasm. He put himself through college at the University of Florida with a thriving photography business and also led a school dance band. In his retirement, he served as a volunteer photographer for WV Forestry Association and many Main Street Ripley functions. He was an avid shooter and at one time participated in lower level Olympic Trials.
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He was preceded in death by his mother, Helen Cranford Tyler and Father James E. Tyler Sr.
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This variable is only for when qwiki is called from the commandline or through the post-commit hook. It is ignored when running qwiki through qwiki-handler inside Spiffy. In that case it will just use Spiffy's root-path.[parameter] (qwiki-docroot [DIRECTORY])
In case you want qwiki be accessible underneath a subdirectory of spiffy, you can use this. (it's unsure whether this even works and whether it will stay)[parameter] (qwiki-base-uri [URI])
The URI (an uri-common object) under which this wiki is available. All internal links will use this as their base URI. Defaults to /.[parameter] (qwiki-output-driver [TRANSFORMATION-RULES])
This defaults to qwiki-html-transformation-rules from the qwiki-sxml module. It can be changed to qwiki-LaTeX-transformation-rules or qwiki-Texinfo-transformation-rules when generating offline documentation.[parameter] (qwiki-extensions [EXTENSIONS])
This parameter can be extended to add transformation rule extensions to the output driver. Defaults to the empty list.
A transformation rule is simply a ruleset accepted by pre-post-order*.[parameter] (qwiki-update-handlers [HANDLERS])
This parameter can be extended to add update callbacks which will be invoked when a wiki page was updated. Defaults to the empty list.
An update hook is a procedure that accepts a path to the wiki page (a list of path components) and the sxml which represents the new contents.[parameter] (qwiki-delete-handlers [HANDLERS])
This parameter can be extended to add update callbacks which will be invoked when a wiki page was removed. Defaults to the empty list.[parameter] (blocked-ip-addresses-file [PATH])
A path relative to the qwiki checkout which points to a file containing IP addresses to be blocked, one address per line. Useful for combating spam.
Defaults to "edit-deny".[parameter] (qwiki-current-file [PATH])
Not to be touched in the configuration; this is a run-time parameter used to indicate the current wiki file being processed. Useful for use in transformation rules.
These parameters are exported by the qwiki-svn module.[parameter] (qwiki-repos-uri [URI-STRING])
The URI to the subversion repository. Defaults to #f, so you must configure this![parameter] (qwiki-repos-username [USERNAME])
The username for commits done from the wiki interface when the user chooses not to authenticate. Default: "anonymous"[parameter] (qwiki-repos-password [PASSWORD])
The password for the qwiki-repos-username user. Default: ""
These parameters are exported by the qwiki-search module.[parameter] (search-server-uri [URI])
Defaults to whatever the environment variable QWIKI_SEARCH_URI holds if it is set, or else "http://admin:admin@localhost:1978", which is the default estraier URI.
These parameters are exported by the qwiki-menu module.[parameter] (menu-file [PATH])
If not #f, this file will contain (in wiki syntax) the contents of the menu which is rendered on all wiki pages. Should be relative to the wiki checkout directory. Defaults to "/menu".
qwiki-install[procedure] (qwiki-install!)
Performs the steps for installing qwiki. It uses the parameters qwiki-repos-uri, qwiki-source-path and qwiki-web-path and considers their values are valid ones.
This procedure is to be used by installation scripts.
qwiki-post-commit-hook[procedure] (qwiki-post-commit-hook!)
Executes the required steps after a commit is performed. It uses the parameters qwiki-repos-uri, qwiki-source-path and considers their values are valid ones.
This procedure is to be used by Subversion post-commit scripts.
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Former collegiate wrester Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler,) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter.
Everyone thinks Scott is crazy – most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek) – but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school.
Starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann, Joe Rogan, Bas Rutten
Directed by Frank Coraci
Running Time - 1:45
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USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display
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How to use a USB cabled Palm-OS device as an external (20x4) character LCD display for your Linkstation using the PalmOrb emulator
This article is for people that want to add an LCD display to their Linkstation, but don't want to crack it open, and happen to have a USB cabled Palm OS device lying around.
This article assumes that you have installed Projects/FreeLink. A 2.6 Kernel Articles/GeneralUpgradeTo26-Kernel has better USB support, but a 2.4 Kernel would probably work as well. For these instructions you will need a USB cabled Palm-OS Device.
- Install PalmOrb on your USB cabled Palm-OS Device. The v1.1a4 version has the most font options for a (20x4) emulated LCD, there are several other versions available on the sourceforge site. It emulates a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 LCD.
- Install and remove LCDProc using apt-get (this should take care of any dependencies) The Debian Stable Version only has the LCDd Daemon program but not the lcdproc client, so you'll have to install lcdproc from a tarball. Kind of an ugly solution to get the dependencies resolved, but it works:
apt-get install lcdproc apt-get remove lcdproc
- Get the LCD Proc tarball and compile/install it.
wget http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/download/lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz tar -xvzf lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz cd lcdproc-0.4.5 ./configure make make install
- Use these instructions to configure LCDProc to run with PalmOrb properly: How do I configure LCDproc for PalmOrb? make sure that the MtxOrb part looks at least a little something like this:
........ [MtxOrb] # Matrix Orbital driver # Select the output device to use [/dev/lcd] device=/dev/ttyUSB0 #device=/dev/usb/tts/1 #device=/dev/ttyS1 # Set the display size [20x4] size=20x4 ........
- Attach the USB enabled Palm-OS device and start the PalmOrb app. Do a dmesg of your linkstation; if things went well you should see lines like this at the end:
usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
- Run the LCDd (LCDproc Daemon) and LCDproc client with some options to see if it works.
LCDd & lcdproc C M X
- Hopefully you got some output on the Palm-OS device as an LCD. For other clients Google:lcdproc to see what other LCDProc clients you can find. Or just go here: LCDProc Site:Clients
What's the point?
Well if you happen to have a USB enabled older Palm OS PDA lying around and want an external LCD display for the price of nothing, now you have it!
Shell Scripts
#!/bin/sh # lcdmon.sh # Kill any LCDd that are running first, Start the Daemon and # fork it to the background. Then run LCDProc with the Time option and # fork it to the background. # You can run lcdproc -? alone to see what options there are. # Run another client: netlcdclient which gives U/Dl speed # You could run this script at startup. killall LCDd LCDd & lcdproc T & netlcdclient -i eth0 -a LinkSTN -d
- The NSLU2-Linux project where this idea was hijacked from: Palm as LCD-Display or terminal
- The PalmOrb Page: SourceForge:PalmOrb
- The LCDproc home: LCDproc
- The Wikipedia: Palm_OS_devices


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ROCHESTER — Ruth Parker says in the 26 years since she saw her two sons before they were allegedly kidnapped by their father, she has had a lot of time to think about what a reunion with her boys would be like. Now 64 years old, Parker admits, maybe she wouldn't even like them, interacting with adult strangers that once were her 2- and 4-year-old toddlers.
"My kids have been told lots of things about me," she speculated. "Basically, he's the hero of the story and I'm the villain. I'm sure they've been told all of kinds of horrible things … They don't know I've been trying all of these years."
Parker, a former Rochester resident, last heard from her children on Oct. 9, 1986. Her now ex-husband whom she was separated from at the time, Charles Martin Vosseler, told her he would take the kids for the weekend a little longer than anticipated. When they weren't dropped off at her apartment the following Monday, Parker went to Vosseler's realty business on Liberty Street, and found the company had been shut down and Vosseler had told all of his employees they no longer had jobs.
Parker said she then went to their house, where many of her belongings still remained, and found the home had been cleared out and empty, and the children were gone.
Since then, the case of an alleged parental abduction, shrouded in much mystery and national interest, has consumed Parker's life. But before the 26th anniversary of the incident, Parker reflected on the hope of a new beginning with her lost family. She hopes to issue a video on the Internet this fall stating what she would say to her children – Charles Jason Vosseler, who would be almost 30 today, and William Martin Vosseler, who would be 28 - if she could speak with them again.
"I'm worried about them, whether indeed they are the people, the young men, that I would raise," she said. "(I would tell them), 'Let's just try this. Let's just have a conversation, because we're people. We had been shattered, but let's pick up the pieces and go on from here. Let's try this.'"
Parker said it is hard to believe more than two decades have gone by in the investigation. She remembered when she first began attending local support groups in 1986, with other parents who had experienced abduction. She recalled a woman saying it had been four months since she had seen her children, when Parker was only about one-and-a-half months into her heartbreak.
"I said, 'I'm not going to make it four months.' That additional time period, I just thought, I couldn't do that," she said. "I was thinking, 'I just can't do this.' And the next morning I had a conversation with myself (in the mirror) saying, 'You don't have a choice.'"
26-year-old case
The FBI reports they are still working on the cold case of the missing Vosseler children. Supervisory Special Agent to New Hampshire Kieran Ramsey, who works out of the Portsmouth bureau, said the investigation is still "very active." For the 25th anniversary last year, the FBI offered a $25,000 reward for anyone who could provide information on the whereabouts of Vosseler, a wanted fugitive for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and alleged parental kidnapping. Vosseler has not been seen or heard from since the late 1980s.
"I can only surmise that whatever changes to his identity (Vosseler) made, he probably made them 26 years ago, before technology caught up to where you can't even make changes like that in this day and age," Ramsey said. "That doesn't mean we can't still explore opportunities … Often in these types of cases, it's the plea to the public nationally, locally and worldwide that causes someone to see this and pick up the phone."
In addition to federal agents, Parker has enlisted the help of a private investigator she connected with in 1988 who has grown to be a dear friend, Monty Curtis. Based out of Boston today, Curtis still scours the country, pours over decades' old evidence and conducts interviews all "pro bono," determined to find a happy conclusion for Parker, who he met through his ex-wife originally. He agrees that perhaps what could ignite the case and turn it cold to hot would be the help of the public.
"I think this case requires out-of-the-box thinking. My plans at some point are to engage a guerilla marketing firm to really make the public a part of this case," Curtis said. "We're not going to stop looking … I made a promise I'm not going to break. (I told Ruth), so long as she doesn't mind me doing this, I'm going to continue doing it."
Curtis believes Vosseler is a "narcissistic" individual, bordering on the edge of sociopathic, who has tormented Parker for years in his adept skill at remaining completely hidden from society. He says it's not even known whether the missing boys are still alive, in good health or if they have changed their names and identities altogether. Curtis speculated at what Vosseler's dark motives in kidnapping the children may have been but Parker maintains she believes "he took them because they're his."
She claims when Vosseler took all of her belongings, he also took every photo she had of her children. The images showcased today on the FBI's wanted posters were grabbed from a neighbor's video that had about 13 seconds of footage taken of Parker's two children playing at a cookout before they disappeared.
New developments
Curtis said in the last year since Foster's reported on the Vosseler case, a few interesting developments have arisen. In the past several months, two online profiles have cropped up, one being a Google profile for one "Charles Vosseler" otherwise known as "Charles Jason Vosseler," the full name of the eldest missing child. The profile lists the individual's "places lived" as Portsmouth, the Seacoast area in New Hampshire, Maine, California and Japan with an occupation listed as just "TMI."
"Now, the Japan listing is interesting because currently, that's a country that doesn't recognize parental abductions as a crime," Curtis said, over a meal at the Dos Amigos in downtown Rochester.
Is the TMI listing a message from the wanted ex-husband, taunting investigators with a "too much information" slight?, Curtis posed. Or is this profile altogether a prank, from someone who read the news and wanted some attention?
Ramsey declined to comment on the Google profile, adding the FBI won't dismiss any development as trite or being too far out of the realm of possibility.
Curtis said another mysterious break came in 1989, when he received a call from a woman claiming to be the current girlfriend of Vosseler, who had seen a missing poster for the children and said the trio was in Stillwell, Okla. Curtis says when agents got to the property, almost nine days later, they found the home had been torched and the car burned to the ground. A note was found in a P.O. box for the address that read, "The feds are coming," Curtis said.
Ramsey said he could not comment on the events described by Curtis but confirmed investigators have traveled to the state as part of their investigation. He said the FBI has also pursued leads "on the West Coast, in the Southeast, (and) overseas."
Curtis said one could say he has become a little "obsessed" with the facts of the case, but he said he is determined to find any new detail that could help Parker, and sends most information he finds to the FBI for review. Ramsey said an outsider working with the FBI is often a "one-way street," where they cannot share information most times with civilians like Curtis. But Ramsey said his colleagues take this case to heart as much as the private investigator does.
"We are professionally, highly-trained special agents of the FBI and we have a duty and a job to fulfill under the strictest constraints … but that doesn't mean there isn't a human element," Ramsey reflected. "Something as tragic as this or with any other number of cases … the human element doesn't play a factor in our personal motivation for carrying out the mission, … (but) the ultimate goal is to identify, locate and reunite these children with their family."
Holding it together
Parker recalled in the weeks after losing her children, the pain and struggle of being without them. She said Vosseler closed her bank accounts and took every cent she had, so she had to continue working immediately following the incident, which was immensely difficult. At the fast food restaurant in Rochester where she worked, she said she overheard co-workers gossiping about her, saying maybe Parker didn't really care about her kids if she was already back at work and showing little emotion about it.
"I am a private person," Parker admitted, saying the gossip was hurtful. "I've had tough years, where when you tell this story to people, there's a lot of disconnect. They don't believe it. It's a Lifetime movie of the week. It's not real life."
She said she kept much of her sorrow hidden, especially when family and friends suggested later maybe she should move on and forget about her children.
"You just have to find ways to cope. You can't forget about your kids," Parker said. "That's just not a possibility."
Today, Parker lives in Yadkinville, N.C., and works as a child protection social services worker, helping others. She said at times the job can touch a nerve or strike a chord with her, as she recalls her own personal experiences. But social work was something she had a passion for, even before she married Vosseler.
"Early on, it was hard to see the moms that still have their kids, and it was ever harder to see moms that didn't appreciate their children," she said. "But you have to reach a point where that doesn't bother you."
Parker said she is now mentally and emotionally preparing to make her soul-bearing video, which will be released on the website for the non-profit organization "Never Stop Looking." The group formed in 2011 to help Parker and others with missing children. Current members of the non-profit's board include Curtis and Parker's nephew.
Parker said she has hopes that her personal message will reach her now adult children.
"There are times when I can hold it together, and times when I don't," Parker said. "Someday, someday, it's going to happen. I'm going to be able to see them. They will know I didn't leave them, and where it goes from there, I don't know."
The FBI asks that anyone with relevant information to the case call the New Hampshire FBI in Portsmouth at 603-431-4585. Other pertinent information may be shared with the Rochester Police Department, at 603-330-7127. Those seeking more information on the case, or wishing to donate to the efforts of Ruth Parker, her family and her friends, may visit NeverStopLooking.org.


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Season 8 • Episode 42
Unsuspecting New York City taxi passengers hail a cab and suddenly find themselves on a TV game show. They can win money for correctly answering a series of fun trivia questions. But answer three questions wrong -- and they're out on the street.
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RichNhansom wrote:rjdriver : "I think Boldan is a huge pick up that negates their losses."
All of them? All their loss's? I could see saying he replaces Manningham and would even buy he might be an upgrade but what about Moss? And the fact Crabtree will be the only returning starter from last year.
Delanie walker was used alot in their two TE sets and moved on because he wants to be a starter. Alot of members here wanted him on the hawks. He's not a giant loss in himself but take away Moss and Manningham also and I don't see how Boldin makes it an even swap.
Kaepernick will only have two guys from last year catching pass's in Crabtree and VD. Boldin's not "that" good. Kaep will also need to learn how to use Boldin. He is not fast but he is strong. If you can place the ball properly Boldin will win most of those battles but it is not as simple as it sounds and unlike Crabtree who gets separation and is visible when he is open, Boldin rely's on the QB to place the ball were he can fight for it. By the way if he is going up against Sherman that ball placement had better be excellent and if he is going up against Browner, please try and let Boldin fight it away from him. That won't work so well. Bowner can out muscle him and Sherman can out maneuver him.
Last time he played against those guys Boldin had two catch's for 22 yards.
Defensively their front 7 was what kept that machine rolling and hid the fact they were pretty weak in the secondary. Now they lost their NT and his back up. Again, might not normally be a big loss but they don't have a replacement on the team right now that can play the NT position. Add in that Justin Smith is coming off injury and is turning 34 in September. Consider whoever they get to play NT will take some time to get familiar with their schemes and how will that effect Justin Smith?
Now figure if that font seven takes a step back, how will that effect the secondary? Then remove the only probowler in the secondary from that equation. How good do you think Boldin is?
Yes they have 14 picks but last year was the first year that Balke was on his own as well as the first year in many he was picking towards the end of the draft. LMJ I think is the only draft pick that seen the field and AJ Jenkins looks like a horrible miss with zero catch's on the year and not being able to beat out even Ted Ginn for playing time.
If they lose Ted Ginn and it is looking like a real possibility, their return game will also take a big hit. LMJ might be able to step in but it is another unknown and most likely a down grade even if he is decent.
They just signed a new kicker. Do we just automatically assume he is going to be good? Can he boot it into the endzone on kickoffs? What about consistency or long kicks?
Glenn Dorsey might prove to be a good pick up and I am sure they are hoping he is Justin Smith's replacement but again, his track record so far doesn't guarantee success. I was hoping we would make a run at him so I won't lie, I think he has potential but still he is not the answer at NT and even if he does work out, as long as Justin Smith can play, he will be on the field.
Frank Gore also turns 30 May 14th. That is something that could very possibly come into play also.
I like Boldin but he is not the answer to all the questions they have going right now. They still have many other issues staring them directly in the face.
Great points. Many I didn't consider. I agree with them and think we are the best team in the NFL. My whole point was that I understand and even agreed (til seeing these points) how many could consider SF an early favorite. It's their draft I'm worried about guys, everyone seems to dismiss it. I think they can fill some needs with their draft. I'm not on their side, I hate em' , but just trying to be objective. Thanks for the great post though RnH


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Of the tens of millions of dollars raised for the Hurricane Sandy relief effort, New Jersey's pharmaceutical and medical device companies say they have donated $11.1 million in cash and products to date to the Sandy relief effort, not counting donations from employees or matching gifts from employers.
In a statement, Dean J. Paranicas, president of the life sciences trade group HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, called the companies' work "swift, decisive and comprehensive."
HINJ members have supported the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, Direct Relief International, Feeding America, the Salvation Army, Save the Children, the United Way, and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce is also keeping track of Sandy philanthropy, which includes $5 million from JP Morgan Chase and Johnson & Johnson, and $3 million from Prudential Financial. The Pfizer Foundation, which donated $1 million, is assisting Sandy victims in getting access to medication, through the Pfizer Connection to Care program.
HINJ spokesman Doug Berger said companies have given cash "to the folks doing on-ground logistics, who know what the needs are, and are putting that money to good use. Our members are very practical: in the initial days, they were supplying water and food to food banks around the state, also tents and generators for volunteer stations. One or two had free clinics and put medical teams out in the field."
Parsippany-based Daiichi Sankyo, which makes products for hypertension and diabetes, gave $25,000 to the American Red Cross, and will match employee donations to any charity employees want to support, said spokeswoman Marah Binder. The company has 3,000 employees in the United States, including 500 headquarters employees in Parsippany and about 400 employees at a research division in Edison.
Phil Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, estimated that several thousand member firms, large and small, have donated cash, supplies and volunteer time. He said NJBIA is working as a clearinghouse, steering companies to organizations on the ground that can use their help.
Kirschner said NJBIA is also coordinating "people from out of state who call and ask where they can they go: they want to come up and help or send a check. We are hearing from Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri — states that have been through hurricanes or tornadoes, and want to give their help and experience."