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Solo: A Star Wars Story gets a new theatrical poster as Lucasfilm heats up the marketing campaign for their upcoming spinoff. After the film's troubled production made plenty of headlines over the past year, everyone involved is more than pleased to see the movie itself become the center of attention. After a director switch and massive reshoots, Ron Howard finally locked his edit and is putting the finishing touches on post well ahead of Solo's summer premiere. All that's left is for Lucasfilm to promote the project over the next month.
Perhaps it's fitting Solo's advertising has also been the subject of much discussion. After the delayed teaser trailer caused many to fret, the posters have come under fire. Disney was hit with claims of plagiarism in regards to stylized character one-sheets that heavily resembled album covers, and then there was controversy surrounding international posters being sans blasters (the truth of which has been uncovered). Hopefully, the unveiling of this poster goes along much more smoothly, signaling better times are ahead for Solo.


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Your first association with the fire sensor? I have such a, I think that people in the 25 age are similarly similar. Xiaomi has recently completed its portfolio with a gas sensor and just smoke. In the near future, we should also be able to buy a carbon monoxide sensor. In the last days I tested the Honeywell Fire Alarm Detector.
Honeywell Fire Alarm Detector has a plastic housing, so it weighs only 100g. There are two options for mounting on the ceiling. The first with the help of the attached double-sided tape, the second with the use of dowels attached to the set. Both boil down to attaching the bottom part to the ceiling (the smoke detector must be mounted to the ceiling - it can not be placed on a shelf, or hang on the wall.) When the bottom part is attached, the last step is to apply the sensor and twist a few steps until the latches " surprise. " The Xiaomi smoke sensor is powered by the 3V CR123A battery. Xiaomi recommends that the smoke detector be in the same room as the gateway. Honeywell Fire Alarm Detector range is not sensational, it worked well with 15m, later it could not connect to the gateway. For example, a temperature / humidity sensor has twice the range. Before mounting, I suggest to check in the application whether the device connects to the central unit in a given place by "self-checking".
The fire detector works in the ZigBee communication protocol, so that the sensor should be "smart" Gateway from Xiaomi - smart home. The device is traditionally added in the MiHome application by pressing the plus and selecting "Smoke Detector", then three times cut the button on the sensor housing to make the device connect to our central unit.
After switching to the newly added device, we see the scenes options that were created using the sensor. I set it when it detects the alarm sent a notification on the phone and the camera starts recording. The second information on the main screen are Logs, i.e. all events that the sensor has registered.
In the settings, we can choose whether the detection of the alarm will trigger the alarm function in the gateway - it starts to flash and the alarm siren sounds. In addition, we should define where the sensor is working, about it below. We also have the option of using the "self-checking" function - the application will remind us once a month to check if the sensor is working properly. We need to press the "self-checking" function within a few seconds, the sensor should start the siren once, then we have to confirm on the smartphone that we have heard the signal.
In the settings we have to choose one of the three options that best corresponds to the location in which we placed Honeywell Fire Alarm Detector:
- A place without smoke eg office, warehouse
- a place with a slight smokiness - this option is chosen by default
- places where there is "a bit of smoke" - Xiaomi declares it as a kitchen
At the beginning I checked the 1 number options. The sensor triggered an alarm when I lit the paper card, also reacted to cigarette smoke. In the second mode, the default sensor reacted to the burning paper very quickly, but sometimes the cigarette was working, sometimes not. In the last mode, the "least sensitive" to detect a burning sheet of paper, he needed about 10 seconds, and for a cigarette, about thirty burned once detected. After completing the tests, I switched to 2 mode.
Smoke detector from Xiaomi it costs around 100 PLN, is it expensive? Evaluate yourself, in my opinion it is worth spending the equivalent of two "halves". Personally, I hope that I will never hear a siren, but if I "wake up" it will probably be one of the best published in my life.

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I resolve this cold season to not live afraid of germs, to wash my hands better, to never mock the last tissue in the box, to not despise the lowly toilet paper either, to get my rest without being laid out flat for a few days, and to not allow any further breaches in my schedule that would encourage another outbreak. Welcome 2017.
It is hilarious how much I take for granted, especially when I look around the world. Warm house, good food, hot showers, cold medicine… I enjoy all the best comfort while I am sick, and brush off the experience when I am back to being immune and "invincible." No matter how long sniffles may linger, this is not an illness I have to pick up each morning for months to come.
I'm sure Jesus shook His head when He told the Pharisees that He, the Great Physician, had come for people who knew they were sick, not the ones who thought they were perfectly healthy. There are many areas of my life where I operate with little more trouble than an occasional hiccup. This cold has been a good reminder to stop forgetting to be thankful.
God, this year I want to be more thankful. Thank You for the chance to remember all I have, take life slowly, stop over-thinking, and appreciate again that You do not demand perfect people, but people who see they have a lot to learn. Please help me embrace that offer for help. And thanks that my cold is better, too. To Your glory, Amen.


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Modern bands have succeeded in emulating many of the great sounds of the 80's, but one subgenre that has been largely ignored in present times (like it was in the 80's) is US power metal. The US part may be a bit arbitrary, as it's more about the sound, but in any case, newcomers Avalon Steel are from the US, and they play metal in the vein of classic bands like Omen, Manilla Road, and others. Much like those bands, Avalon Steel features a singer who is immediately noticeable as being completely unique. He has a huge bass of a voice, likely influenced by some doom bands or even Peter Steele (Carnivore/Type O Negative). He does have the ability to get into a higher range, but his more natural lower sound is great because it makes everything sound completely epic. He is one primary factor of what sets this EP apart from most modern metal, but there are definitely others as well.
In many ways this release is a rebellion against newer traditional heavy metal bands that have perfect production, soaring high vocalists, and endless shredding. In contrast, "Ascension" has a sound that isn't excessively clean (though still pretty good sounding), a deeper vocalist, and more tasteful lead guitar playing. The solos are still relatively prominent on this release, but they aren't simply there to be flashy. Musically, Avalon Steel tends to gallop along at a mid-paced tempo for most of the EP. Both "The Winter King" and "Curse of the Doomwraiths" make plenty of use of that charging sound in their verses, then lay off the gallops into a more melodic chorus. Both songs have enjoyable choruses, but it is the former track that is truly incredible. "The Winter King" is an immediate winner of a song, and you'll find yourself humming along to the vocal lines after a single listen. This track really manages to capture the epic, majestic feel that a band like Cirith Ungol portrayed. "Curse of the Doomwraiths" is a bit less obvious in its quality, as it took a few listens to get into, but it is still quite a potent track. The final song, "Trapped In A Nightmare", is largely similar to the other two, but it feels a bit less energetic for most of the track as it doesn't use any galloping. Nevertheless, it is just as good of a song. The end of the chorus shows the heights of Tommy Parnelle's vocal range. While this sound is not used often, it is certainly effective. Towards the end of the song, however, the speed picks up, which is pretty much the only time on the EP that things get pretty fast.
Overall, "Ascension" is a unique release in today's times. They've brought back a sound that was underappreciated in its own time, and is still largely ignored by newer bands. If this EP is any indication of the band's potential, they are going to make an impact in the metal scene. Don't wait around for an album though; "Ascension" is worth every penny and then some!
Be sure to check out and like Avalon Steel on Facebook!
"The Winter King"
"Curse of the Doomwraiths"
Final Rating
4.5/5 or 90%.
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Dec 10, 2009 - 7:40 am
I was diagnosed two years ago when I was 25. There is no family history of bladder cancer. I was in pain for almost a whole year before I found out. I would bleed and dread going to pee because it hurt so bad. My primary care didn't think anything was wrong with me until I finally went to the emergency room. I had a CT Scan and suddenly nurses started hugging me until a doctor finally told me that I had a massive tumor taking up 3/4 of my bladder. I found the best doctor in boston and a week later, I had surgery that lasted so long, the doctor had to stop, come out and ask my mom if he should keep going or do a second surgery. My doctor said that you usually don't have symptoms and mine saved my life. I had stage one cancer and since then I've been getting cystoscopys every 3-4 months. He said due to the fact that I am so young, he didn't want me to have kemo or radiation. At the beginning of this year he saw a spot and lasered it off and said there wasn't anything to worry about. Well now he just found two tumors that are starting to grow. I am now 27 and I'm going for my second surgery. This time around he is going to remove the tumors and then coat my bladder with kemo. Hopefully this will help me go longer than two years. I just wish I could have more answers to all of this. Is it something we are eating? Is it the fumes from my paints? What, what is it? What can I avoid to prevent this from coming back? Luckily I have a great support team. I have a wonderful family and friends.
May 11, 2010 - 9:39 pm
Sorry you drew the short straw. Nobody in my family has ever had cancer -- any type of cancer. In 2006, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and in 2007 bladder cancer (two tumors). I'm a non-smoker and a non-drinker and am physically active. I've never asked "Why me?", but I have asked "Why?" I'd like to know, too. Right now, it appears I've beaten both. But I wonder if there's another shoe that's going to drop.
Good luck.
May 12, 2010 - 7:43 am
I cannot answer that directly but note that we are both in the Boston area. I am out in the Concord area myself. I would not think you did anything to get bladder cancer ...though it feels like it it is not a punishment. Just do as they tell you and with luck you'll beat the devil for good.
May 12, 2010 - 11:53 am
I guess we are in the same dual cancer club..though I believe the PC is now gone..
Just had prostate removed and pathology reports indicate confined disease. Cat scan indicated small tumor on bladder that was removed Feb 5th. Cysto of April 21 all clean as was pathology. So, hopefully it will be kept under control..
Be well and my best wishes,
May 12, 2010 - 11:54 am
There is much they can do today and your chances are good.
My thoughts and good wishes are with you..


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Mani looked back one more time. Between the trees, through the
underbrush, he could just make out the road as a line of brown in the
distance. He looked down at the slim dirt path beneath his boots, then
turned around to face his partner, Ki.
Who grinned back at him.
"I tell you, Mani, this is the way. We'll save hours, I'm sure of it."
This was small comfort. Ki was a good smith, but he was the kind of dwarf who was always sure, right up until he was sorry.
Mani's beard twitched as he clenched his jaw. His back was aching
again; he adjusted his pack higher onto his shoulders. The pack was
filled with blades to be delivered to Count Evrard, and human blades
were wretchedly heavy, but it will soon be filled with silver, he told himself, provided we get to the castle by sundown.
That was the contract, and dwarf contracts were unbreakable. Bound by stone, as the saying went.
"Let's get going, then," Mani said.
"Right!" Ki said. He set off at a good clip, calling back, "remember, when it's the only way, it's the best way!"
Mani followed after. He could not help noticing that, as he set out, he stepped from sunlight into shadow.
At least the path ran fairly straight. The two dwarves traveled at a near trot, a pace they could maintain for hours on end.
Gradually, ash and maple were supplanted by tall beech trees that
towered high above. Their curved branches arched and intertwined,
obscuring the sun, creating chambers and hallways below. Countless
years of rotting leaves covered the ground. To Mani, it seemed as if he
moved through strange caverns of wood, deep beneath the earth. He
wondered if humans ever wandered into this forest.
"Cac!" Ki exclaimed and stopped. Mani pulled up behind.
"What now?"
"Oh, there it is. Sorry." And Ki was off again.
"What?" Mani called after him, "Why'd you stop?"
"The path keeps getting covered by the leaves," Ki said as he trotted. He waved a hand. "Didn't you notice?"
"The path is disappearing?" Mani hurried to catch up.
"No, dummy, it doesn't disappear. It's not under the spell of an evil wizard."
"No, it's just under the spell of a foolish bladesmith," Mani said. "You'd better not lose your way."
"Our way, you mean," Ki said, sounding not at all worried. "We're partners in this."
Mani resolved to pay more attention to the path. It did indeed keep
diving underneath layers of sodden leaves, to reappear again a few
yards further. That bothered him, but even more, he was bothered by the
Dwarf ears are sharp. They can hear the difference in the tone of
struck metal, can sort out words from echoes, can tell the direction of
footsteps in a maze of tunnels, but he heard only the breath and
footfall of two dwarves. He listened for a long time.
No birds, he thought, no rustle of a fox, no chirp from squirrels. There should be a thousand squirrels!
"We should go back," he said aloud.
"Gods guts," Ki exclaimed, "not again!" He did not turn around to
talk. "There is no other way. The road goes around. We'd be late. Lose
the contract."
"We'll lose more than that if we come to some grief in here," Mani said.
"No smiths without risks, Mani."
Ki and his sayings.
"Stop worrying," Ki went on. "Think about how it's going to be at
Castle Josselin, especially when you show that ax to the Count."
The ax was Mani's special project. The small fighting ax came to him
with the instruction to 'see what you can do with it.' He had, and the
ruby infusion had worked and now it was an ax that cut with fire as
well as a keen edge. He would show this one to the Count personally. He
pictured himself standing in a fine hall with the high ceilings of a
human castle, knights arrayed in armor as he lay the ax before the
Count. He would touch the blade to a piece of cloth, and flames would
dance along its edge. Everyone would gasp, then cheer.
He was so caught up in imagining the courtly audience, he ran into Ki, who had stopped again.
"Watch your step there, you," Ki said.
"Why did you stop again?"
"Lost the path."
Mani looked down and his heart skipped two beats.
"Where's the path?"
"That's what I was saying."
"Ki, that's not funny." Mani felt his throat grow tight.
"Stupid leaves." Ki said, kicking at them.
Mani looked around, but he could not see much. Deep pools of shadow
lay between the massive trees. The air hung as still as velvet drapery.
All around him lay damp brown leaves, trackless as desert.
A scream sliced the stillness. High-pitched, wavering, then trailed off.
"What was that?" Ki said, his voice low.
It sounded again. A woman's voice, without a doubt, and now Mani made out the word.
The two dwarves looked at one another. The cry came from Mani's
left, tugging at him. He could not just walk away, pretending he had
not heard, but what good could he do? He was no warrior, he was a
bladesmith. What help could he give?
Mani loosened the long knife at his hip.
Ki's eyes widened. "Don't do it, Mani."
"Ki ... I ...." There was nothing to say. He gripped the knife and sprinted toward the sound.
Fool, fool, fool! Mani scolded himself, the word striking
with each footfall. Fool to have left the road and fool again to have
left Ki. He glanced left and right as he ran, marking his passage, as
if he could find his way back again, knowing it was futile. He would be
lost, was already lost. As lost as the job would be. He would spend the
rest of his days casting charms on horseshoes.
Again the woman screamed, a thin, sharp sound.
He ran hard, struggling under the weight of his pack. He dodged
around a squat yew tree, his boots slapping on the heavy, damp leaves.
The ground became rough, as if the tree roots only waited for
someone to go astray. He stumbled as he ran. More than once he thought
he should stop, but the cry for help sounded again, and he ran on.
Ahead, the trees thinned enough for a thicket of buckthorn to erupt in a tangled arc on one side of a small clearing.
There he skidded to a halt. The bushes were impenetrable. He looked
left and right. If she were dragged in here by captors or some beast,
there would be signs.
Footsteps approached from behind. He whirled, knife at the ready, but it was just Ki.
"I don't know," Mani said. "She stopped yelling. You look there, I'll look here."
The two dashed along the length of the bushes. They called out,
"we're here, where are you?" but only silence replied. They returned to
the center.
Ki looked pale. "Do you think she's...?"
"I don't know. Something's strange, though," Mani said. "I could swear she was right here, but there's no signs."
A noise from behind caused them both to spin around.
Ki cursed and stumbled backward as if shoved. Advancing upon them
was a grotesque man, dwarf-high, wearing a heavy cloak that sagged too
large for his frame. A large hood enveloped his head, hiding the face,
or else, Mani shuddered, he has no face at all. The man uttered weird shrieks that grated like a rusted metal gate, so piercing it set Mani's teeth on edge.
The sleeves of the cloak hung nearly to the ground. From them
emerged a tangle of green and orange, trailing on the ground like a
mass of tentacles.
"Stay back!" Mani shouted, but his voice sounded like breaking twigs.
The man came on, staggering unsteadily. Mani raised his blade to
strike. A motion at his side and there was Ki, knife also at the ready.
He glanced over.
"Partners to the end," Ki said, low and quick. Mani nodded and planted his feet.
The creature in the cloak uttered a different sort of shriek and stopped, teetering madly.
Then it fell apart.
The cloak opened and out tumbled two pixies, who fell to the ground
yipping with laughter. They sounded like cats trying to bark.
Relief flooded over his panic, then exploded into fury. Mani raised his knife high and charged, shouting.
"You wretches! Scoundrels! Curse you!"
The pixies, still entangled in the cloak, scrambled wildly, piping
incomprehensibly. Mani tried to grab one, but it slipped from his grasp
like quicksilver.
"I'll kill you both!" Ki shouted.
"Aiee!" cried the other pixie, "don't chop me up!"
A voice from behind them said, "Prank!"
Mani turned around. A third pixie emerged from the bushes, the thorns scarcely touching him.
"Grant mercy, sir!"
Mani stopped. Ki, knife in hand, was looking back and forth between the one pixie and the two others near the cloak.
"Pixies." Ki spat the word.
"Prank! Prank! Grant mercy, sir, it is but a prank!"
The other two took up the plea, repeating it like a formula. Their voices were high-pitched, like the cry of robins.
Ki brandished his knife.
"No, no," cried one of the pixies, "we have called prank. Grant mercy sir, by dwarf honor."
Ki took a step, but Mani stopped him, saying "dwarf honor."
"Come here, you," Mani demanded of the two pixies. They came nearer
in hesitant steps, each pushing the other forward. Over their nut-brown
skin, they wore green linen shirts and breeches, striped in white. With
yellow caps on their round heads, they looked a bit like two dandelions.
"Prank, sir. Grant mercy." The pixies both stretched out their
hands, palms up, then brought their fingertips to their chest, a motion
they repeated as they spoke.
Nearby lay the cloak, its size more suited to a human. Scattered at
the sleeves lay two piles of carrots. He felt ashamed that so simple a
decoration should have made him think of tendrils.
Pixies, he thought in disgust.
"What do you mean by this nonsense?" he demanded.
"Grant mercy, good dwarf," a pixie said, "it is the Carrotfinger Man
we mimic. A little scare, a little fun. We did not dream to provoke. We
thought anyone would see through..." he stopped, seeming to realize
where that sentence would wind up.
"What's a Carrotfinger Man?" Ki asked. He seemed to have recovered a little.
The other pixie edged round until they were all three together.
"You do not know?"
The three spoke together in whispers. Mani caught "foreigners" and
"only dwarves," but when he overheard, "Perhaps they're simple," he
The pixies fell silent.
A snicker from Ki distracted him. The other dwarf had one hand over
his mouth. His face was red. At Mani's glare, he held up two fingers
close together.
"You have to admit it's at least a little funny." His voice was thick with suppressed laughter.
"I suppose you think being lost is even funnier," Mani said with a snarl.
"Lost?" said one of the pixies.
"You have lost your way?"
"No, damn it," Mani said, gesturing futilely at the forest, "you lost it for us."
"We cannot lose it. It was your way, not ours."
Mani took a deep breath. Arguing with pixies required a clear head.
"I am Mani. This is Ki. We are from Canton Jura."
The pixies bowed. From left to right they replied.
"I am Tun."
"I am Udo."
"I am Eth." The third one continued, "we are brown pixies."
"Then why are you wearing green?" Ki asked with a smirk.
"Ki," Mani said severely. His partner was not taking this seriously enough.
Mani kept his attention on the pixies. "We are lost," he said, "but you are going to help us."
"We ourselves? But we do not know your way."
"We only know our way."
"And the other way, but you don't want that way."
"We want our way," Mani said. "You made us lose it, with your prank. We have suffered loss."
"Loss of way."
"A very sad day."
"To lose one's way."
Mani spoke as solemnly as he could. "You are obliged," he said.
This statement caused the pixies to put their heads together. They
talked in long, soft trills, sounding like a trio of curlews. Ki
started to speak but Mani waved him quiet.
The pixies arranged themselves into a line again. Together they bowed low, arms wide, their hands waving elaborately.
"Don't chop us up."
"We are obliged."
The three looked so silly he had to chase a smile from his face.
"You must lead us out of the forest," he insisted. "We are lost."
"Lost is no good. Not in this forest."
"No, not in here."
"Lost is quite the wrong thing to be."
"So it is agreed," Mani said, trying to be patient. "You will take us where we want to go."
"Which is to say, no."
"We do not know where you want to go."
Ki said, "We go to the castle of Count Evrard."
"We cannot go there."
"Humans there."
"Humans do not like pixies."
In unison the three of them said, "particularly brown pixies."
Ki took a half step forward, which made the three pixies take two steps back.
"Listen," he said, and all three pixies leaned forward, hands cupped
to ears. "Just get us to the edge of the forest, where we can see the
castle. I know it's near. I could see this forest from the castle walls
when I was there."
"He was at the castle."
"He has a mighty sword."
"He is a great warrior."
Mani said, "Do you all three have to speak? Can't you have a spokesman or something?"
In unison the pixies said, "No."
"There are two ways to go."
"The one way, and the other way."
"You don't want to go the other way."
Mani made a show of putting away his knife. "Take us the one way. To
the edge of the forest where we can see the castle of Count Evrard. You
are obliged."
The pixies bowed again, then spoke.
"We agree."
"We agree we are obliged."
Ki whispered at Mani's ear. "Do you trust them?"
"I trust they will try," Mani said. "It's not like we have a choice. Do you think you can find our way out?"
"No," Ki said, meekly.
"So we trust them, but they're pixies, so who knows?"
The pixies chirruped.
"Follow us."
"Do not stray."
"Do not go the other way."
The three pixies set off at a good pace. There was no path to be
seen, but they trotted along without hesitation. Mani was glad there
was no underbrush. With their brown skin and their deep green leggings,
the pixies could easily disappear into any natural foliage. Since the
three were now the only hope of reaching the castle, he did not want to
lose sight of them for an instant.
"I'm sorry," Mani said to Ki. "I never should have run off. You were the sensible one, for once."
"Don't be sorry," Ki said. "You went to rescue a fair maiden." His voice only hinted at playfulness. "Truly, it was brave."
"Truly, it was stupid."
"It was more than I was willing to do. I only ran after you because I didn't want to be left alone."
"It was still stupid."
"Never mind," Ki said. "I was stupid first, for trying to take a
shortcut. I'll never take the word of a human innkeeper again." He
tugged at his beard, then added, "I was just so sure."
After an hour or so, a path appeared. The leaves were still heavy,
but they drew back to lay bare a track that was never more than a foot
wide. Sometimes it shrank to mere inches, with leaves piled deep as if
someone had come along dragging a branch, but it never completely
disappeared. The pixies trotted and the dwarves strode. Mani began to
"Those stupid pixies found it," he whispered to himself. Ki heard him.
"Have faith, partner," he said.
"First the little path," Eth said, "then the big path, then out."
"Obligation done," sang Udo.
"Then we have fun," sang Tun.
Eth trilled at them and they shushed each other. Mani could not help
smiling. Let them jabber. Soon he would be out of the forest and on his
He hoped.
The path came to a stone bridge that arched over a ravine. Paving
stones at the foot of the bridge hinted at a road, but it had long been
blanketed by leaves.
Two trees stood like sentries on either side of the roadway. Near
the ravine, the forest gave way to a border of dogwood and fern, then
at the edge, dark, bare clay with a few yellowish vines trailing over
the side. The smell of foul water fingered up from below.
The bridge vaulted in a half-circle high over the ravine, climbing
steeply as if to avoid being touched by anything below. The stonework
was Roman, Mani thought. Certainly not dwarf.
"Ha hey!" Eth cried, "we're on our way now."
"I don't know about that," Mani said quietly. Beech trees overhung
the road, their branches intertwined. Golden light filtered through. He
squinted. Was it from the west? Could the hour be so late? He thought
of elves, and time lost in fae burrows.
Annoyingly high voices broke into his thoughts.
"What's going on?" Mani demanded.
Eth stepped forward. "No troubles," he said.
"We have come the other way," Tun said.
Mani blinked. "What? How?"
"It is a mistake," Tun said gravely.
"The forest plays tricks," Udo said.
"No troubles," Eth said, "we make it right. No troubles."
Ki leaned over to Mani and whispered, "I don't much like this."
Then, to the pixies, he said aloud, "Is this the right way or not?"
"We go that way," Eth said, pointing to the bridge.
"Yes," Udo said.
"No!" from Tun.
"It is unanimous," said Eth.
"It can't be unanimous," Ki said. "That one said no."
"It is unanimous," Eth said, "with we two."
Tun muttered something.
"Here we go!" Eth declared.
"Wait," Mani said, "what did he say?"
"Unimportant." The pixie folded his arms over his chest.
"I'll decide that. What did he say?"
"He said, 'Carrotfinger Man,' but not important."
"What are you up to now? You said that Carrot ... thing ... was a trick," Mani said.
"This is not a trick," Tun said, "you go that way, the Carrotfinger Man will get you."
Eth stepped in front of the other two. "The Carrotfinger Man used to
live near here. He ate many pixies, but he was killed by an elf
chevalier long ago."
"Very dead," agreed Udo.
"Yet there are stories," said Tun.
"Long ago?" Mani asked. For pixies that could be anywhere from weeks to centuries.
"Long ago," said Eth, spreading his arms wide for illustration.
"The Carrotfinger Man ate my grandfather's uncle," Tun said.
"Your grandfather's uncle got drunk and wandered off," Udo said.
This set off another round of chirps and trills among the pixies.
Tun shoved Udo and in a flash, the three were circling each other,
shrieking like gulls.
"Stop!" Mani said sternly. "I'm not going to stand for this."
They stopped. Tun folded his arms over his chest. "Then sit," he said, "but Carrotfinger Man is real."
"Carrots for fingers?" Ki muttered. "Doesn't sound dangerous."
"No, it doesn't," Mani agreed, "but who knows?"
Tun placed one hand over his heart and raised the other above his head. He spoke as if to an assembled crowd.
"The Carrotfinger Man lies in wait in the dark places of the world.
He grabs when you are not looking. He snatches when you are not
thinking. He takes you into his den and drains you dry and chews you up
and no one finds you and your families weep."
The pixie lowered his hands. "So it is said."
Ki looked over his shoulder, then back again. "That was quite a speech," he said. He gave a nervous chuckle.
"Killed by an elf, you say?" Mani looked to Eth, who nodded.
"Long ago."
Mani and Ki looked at each other. Mani shrugged. Ki frowned.
"We follow the pixies," Mani said. "They led us this far safe enough."
"Gah," Ki said, "they're the reason we are this far."
Mani slowly and deliberately drew out his knife.
The pixies backed away, whispering, "chop, chop."
"We will follow you, but no tricks" Mani said. "I'll be keeping this at the ready."
"Wise," said Tun.
"We will go over the bridge, to show you," Udo said, scowling at Tun.
"All will be well," Eth said, and the three set off.
As they climbed the steep bridge, they looked left and right. They
paused for a moment at the top, then went down the other side, keeping
step with each other. The arc of the bridge hid them.
Mani waited, straining to hear. Ki looked at him and manufactured a
wan smile. Mani listened to the silence of the forest. After a few
moments, the pixies reappeared at the top of the bridge.
"We crossed," Eth called out, waving them on. "All safe."
The moment he said this, something thin and ropy swung out from
beneath the bridge. Dark green like a vine, it had an elbow and a hand.
Impossibly long fingers whipped around Udo, who screamed once, then arm
and pixie disappeared over the side.
Eth still had his hand in the air. Tun was already running and
shouting, but it was in pixish, so all Mani heard was a cascade of
noise. Eth sprinted after him.
"Help, help!" Eth gasped. "It's him. He got Udo!"
"We know. We saw," Mani said, "but what...?"
A terrible squeal came from the ravine, cut off by a deep-voiced thump, like a hollow tree trunk being struck.
Tun spun around and sprang away without a word. Eth called out after
him, but the other did not slow. In a moment, he was gone into the
"What's he think he's going to do?" Mani asked.
"Help," Eth said. He looked pointedly at Mani's knife.
"What, me? With this?" Mani laid the knife in his palm, to show how small a weapon it was.
"Mighty warrior," Eth declared.
"I'm no warrior. I'm just a bladesmith." Mani's heart raced. He swallowed hard.
"Help," Eth said, more firmly. He darted, snatched the knife from Mani's hand, and wielded it.
"Warrior," Eth declared, then dashed away.
"Hey, my knife!" Mani shouted, but it was no use. In two breaths, Eth had disappeared after Tun.
"Ki, did you see that? Crazy pixie ... wait, what are you doing?"
Ki had loosened his pack and was laying it on the ground.
"We have to help them," Ki said. Mani looked at him, surprised at the resolve in his tone.
"Help them? They're probably already dead."
Ki drew his own knife from the pack. "No," he said, "I can hear them."
It was true. Desperate wren-squeaks came from somewhere below.
"We can't," Mani said. "We're not warriors. Not even an elf could kill it." His insides were turning to water.
"We have to do something," Ki said softly. "We're obliged."
That word. The pixies went onto the bridge, although they were
afraid, because they were obliged. Stupid pixies and a stupid prank,
but they honored their obligation and now they were in trouble.
"All right," he said. He set down his own pack and pulled out one of
the human weapons. The ax. He stood up, hefting it. "Dwarf honor."
The ravine was about ten feet deep, with steep sides. At the base, a
shallow stream meandered through heavy mud, muttering its way among
reeds and rocks.
"Down we go," Ki said, already going over the side.
Mani cursed desperately and followed. His feet sank two inches when they hit bottom.
The ravine was dim, and under the bridge lay deeper shadows, but a
shape was there. It turned toward them. The shape dropped a small body,
and stepped out from under the bridge.
It was a man, or at least it was closer to human than to anything
else. Taller than two dwarves, its face held eyes as wide as the palms
of Mani's hands. These sat on either side of a mouth that ran
vertically down its long, narrow face. It wore debris rather than
clothing—its body covered with clumps of earth, twigs, even bits of
clothing. Mani shuddered to think where the cloth might have come from.
Strands of green hair, or maybe long grass, hung down to its narrow
Its arms were thin, like vines, and so long, its hands hung at its
knees. At the end of those hands were fingers even longer. Filthy with
muck, but plain as anything they were orange. The fingers hung right
down to its feet and trailed along the ground. They moved seemingly of
their own accord, like orange snakes writhing.
Ki charged. Mani said "no" in a helpless way but could not move. A
few steps away from the monster, Ki's foot slipped and he fell sideways
into the stream. One long arm looped around Ki's leg and swung him back
and up. The creature held the dwarf in front of its face, regarding
him. Ki flopped and twisted like a caught fish, mouth gaping. The tall
frame placed its other hand over Ki's face. One of the orange fingers
ran along Ki's eyes, two went to his ears. One hovered over his mouth,
probing his lips.
That brought Mani back to himself. He shouted. The monster's head
swiveled. Its eyes contracted to pinpoints, then went big again. It
threw Ki away like an unwanted bone. The dwarf crashed sideways into
the stone bridge, tumbled like rags onto the muddy ground, and lay
Mani sprinted, ax in hand. His vision narrowed as he ran; he saw
only the ropy arm, the undulating fingers. Two more strides and he
readied the ax for a blow.
He dove, aiming for one leg. The Carrotfinger Man swung a hand down
to block. Bright yellow fire flickered along the ax's edge. The hand
went flying.
Mani hit the ground and rolled. A thunderous roar shattered the air,
echoing against the stone. He came to his feet and saw the monster
holding one arm up, grasping the wrist. There was no blood, only a
stump that oozed something viscous. Its screaming mouth was as wide as
its entire face.
The roar grew louder and the Carrotfinger Man leaped at Mani. Its
gait was uneven and it still gripped its own wrist. Mani had no thought
to fight the thing. He wanted only to get Ki and to get away.
He would not turn his back on the thing. He scrambled backward, his feet slipping on the slick mud, tripping over stones.
The monster was several feet away when it struck. It lashed out with
one impossibly long arm impossibly quick. Mani brought the ax up to
defend, but the arm snaked past, orange tendrils as strong as roots
tightened around his wrist and forearm. The long arm twitched and Mani
lost his hold on the ax. He was jerked forward, landing face first in
the mud. He lifted his head, gasped a single breath, then a foot rammed
his head into the muck, and kept it there with crushing strength.
Mud covered his mouth and nose. The creature's foot stood across his
neck, its long toes stretched over his head, digging into his scalp.
Only his ears were above the muck.
He held his breath, but his heart still thundered. He had to breathe
soon. He tried to think: let the air out, twist around, grab fresh air,
but if he did the one without the other, syrupy mud would flood into
him, and that would be the end. The thought made his heart pound even
His lungs were screaming at him. His brain spun. He couldn't think where he was or what he ought to do.
Somewhere, he heard birds trilling furiously, which was strange. Not
one bird had sung in all this forest. The thought faded like mist.
The weight lifted from his neck. Air exploded from his mouth. He twisted, and his lungs filled not with mud but with sweet air.
He rolled onto his back, coughing, then got to his knees. The air
cleared his eyes and his mind. Above him, the monster was trying to
knock pixies away. They clung to him, one on his back, and one on each
Mani got to his knees. On the ground a few feet away, the ax lay
near the water's edge, its blade glowing brick red. He got to his feet.
The monster had a pixie in its grip and hurled it against the ravine.
It yelped when it hit. The other two were still attached, shrieking
like jackdaws.
Mani retrieved the ax. It was slippery with mud and he frantically
wiped at it, to get a grip. The shrieks shrilled upward. He looked. The
monster held Udo under its injured arm, clawing at him with its one
Mani shouted and charged. The creature's eyes narrowed until they
were tiny coins. Its mouth became a single, black oval. It dropped Udo.
Mani ducked the arm and swung the ax.
A sound like the hiss of a snake and the blade flared yellow. It cut
through at the wrist and the hand spun away. As it struck the ground,
the fingers popped off and fell separately into the mud. Udo scrambled
away, keening.
That sound was drowned by a bellowing roar. The Carrotfinger Man
stood erect, his black mouth stretching until the whole of its head
distended sideways. Inside that hole were no teeth or tongue, only
blackness from which came a sound like gods groaning. It twisted
violently and fell to the ground.
"Cut off the head! Cut off the head!" The pixies shrieked at him, their voices like bright pins.
The ax was a torch in his hand. The creature lay face down. He
leaped onto the creature's back and swung again. The ax bit into the
neck. Fire erupted, but the blade passed through smoothly. The head
rolled away. The body shuddered and lay still. It did not bleed, but a
kind of orange mud oozed from the neck.
Mani jumped away from the body as if it were a scorpion. Strength
fled from him and he sat down hard. The ax viper-hissed against the
mud. His heart pounded away. His lungs labored. His mind galloped and
reeled like a penned horse. His blood cried out for action, but there
was suddenly nothing to do. So he panted and stared, and wondered if
the thing might not rise up again.
A weak trill made him turn his head. Eth was bent over Udo, uttering long, soft coos.
Mani got to his feet and ran to Ki's side. He was breathing.
His eyes fluttered but did not stay open. He made as if to get up, but while his left side moved, the right side did not.
"Stay there. We're safe now."
Ki's left eye opened. "You sure?"
Mani gasped a smile. "Sure."
It was an hour before they left. It took that long for Ki to regain
the use of his limbs. The general opinion was that the fingers held
some kind of paralyzing toxin.
The fingers were the other reason for the delay, for the pixies
declared these must be destroyed utterly. Once they had helped Tun to
his feet, the three of them scoured the ravine for the orange tendrils.
Each time they found one, they fell into a frenzy of smashing with
stones until the thing was obliterated.
At the end of it, there was some discussion as to whether they had
found nine or ten, with accusations all around about not knowing how to
count. The dwarves put an end to the dispute, insisting they needed to
get going and reminding the pixies they were still obliged.
They reached the edge of the forest in half an hour. Mani started to
bid them farewell, telling them their obligation was done, but they
refused to leave.
"We won't go back," Tun said.
"Never go back," Udo said.
"We will find another forest," Eth said.
When the pixies and dwarves parted way, a few miles from Josselin Castle, the sun had just touched the western horizon.
By the following April, the enterprise of Mani & Ki was
known throughout Bretagne, as famed among humans as among dwarves. They
had taken on three journeymen and a half dozen apprentices, for Count
Evrard himself kept them busy with many new orders.
The three brown pixies ought to have been famous, for they had a
grand tale to tell, and they told it often. Fame did not come to them,
however, for who can believe a pixie?
At the very end of April, near the arched bridge that stands just
inside the forest, a vagabond happened upon a carrot of unusual size
growing in the bank near the stream. Being hungry, he pulled and tugged
until the thing came free. It was absurdly large and curiously smooth,
but he had not eaten in two days, so he took an eager bite.
And spat it out again.
The texture was wrong, the smell was bad, the taste worse, and no
carrot should ooze when bitten. In disgust and despair, the vagabond
hurled the thing high and far, and went off in search of real food.
The object landed atop the bridge. Slim tendrils probed the stones,
but found no nourishment. April left, May arrived, and the orange
fingerling turned to ash under a bright spring sun.
Bio: Mr. Knox is a retired medieval historian now writing full time. He has been published at Bewildering Stories and self-published two novelettes.
E-mail: E.L. Knox
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Hai!!and Assalamualaikum...today I want to share my story about 'My Friend's Birthday"!!
Actually,on Tuesday(17/2/2009) is my friend's birthday which was Nory!..Me and some of my friends planned to surprise her!!Firstly,Ain and Ayu asked Nory to go to the playground near Anis's house..and the rest go to Farah's house-to prepare food,drinks and cupcakes!! ;p
After that,we started to walk slowly to the playground!!.....We were also sang for Nory 'Happy Birthday' song loudly!!She was very happy and then say thank you to us..Next,we ate macaroni cooked by Anis!!It's very delicious!-yummy- :] After eat,we played and take some pictures!!
It's very happy...
But,around 6 p.m everyone started to back home!!...Although I'm very tired,but I'm still happy..I hope Nory will always get happiness and healthy life from God!!-AMIN-
Okay,I think that's all today,see you guys next time!!(^~^)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
-My Friend's Birthday-
Hai!!and Assalamualaikum...today I want to share my story about 'My Friend's Birthday"!!
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Hi!!Assalamualaikum...my name is Nor Azira bt Kamarudin..Just call me 'Jia'!!:p
Tomorrow(14/2/09) is 'Larian Sevens' in our school,SMKS 7!!It must be a best and good day because I haven't to run..~I will handle the checkpoint!-haha-Sorry to say but,Green will be the winner!!Yeah....don't be mad!!~Insya-Allah~
Go Green!!Go Green!!~hihi ;p urm...I think that's all for today,just want to inform you about our activities tomorrow!!(^_^) Good Luck Green!!
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
-My Heroes-
Hi!!Today I want to tell all of you about my favourite heroes in films...I am very enthuse about them..They are very good in their acting!! :) Okay,I don't know how to explain more about them so,let we start from their name...
My Heroes:
Philippine:Richard Gutierrez.
Films :Let The Love Began,Sigaw,Mulawin, and many more.... :p
Hollywood's:1)Robert Pattinson
Films :Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire(4) and Twilight..
:2)Daniel Radcliffe
:Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone,H.P and The Chamber Of Secret,H.P
and The Prisoner Of Azkaban,H.P and The Of Goblet Of Fire,H.P and The
Order Of Pheonix,H.P and The Half-Blood Prince & H.P and The Deathly Of
Hallows.. (^_^)
:3)Johnny Depp
:The Pirates Of Caribbeans,Charlie and The Chocolate Factory,Sleeping
Hallows,Edward and Scicorss Hand& many more...... ( ",)
Bollywood's:Many!!~( "!" )~
Korean:Also many!!maybe....~HIHI~
*They are also very handsome and well-known people....Okay,I think that's all for today. I know maybe my blog today doesn't too interest and it's too short but I hope it is still be the best writing!! : ) Hope you guys enjoyed reading it although it is very simple...Right?!
Okay,like usual..I will inform to all of you that I am still low in my writing so maybe you guys can add comments to my blog about my mistake....Perhaps!!-(^~^)-
See you all next time!!(always the same words)~haha..................
Wait!!Before that,I want to say sorry for the pictures that you must dislike.. :p
Thank you!!!
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Last month, Apple revealed iPhone TV ads featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. Today, the company has begun running a pair of new television ads for the iPhone 4S and Siri featuring actor John Malkovich.
Turns out, the past two celebrity ads scored very well with viewers, registering higher scores from advertising tracking firm Ace Metrix than any other iPhone 4S ad released so far this year.
Malkovich is best know for his acting style and his iPhone 4S ad reflects his somewhat peculiar persona. The first ad is called "Life":
Malkovich: Life.
Siri: Try and be nice to people. Avoid eating fat. Read a good book every now and then. Get some walking in. And try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
Malkovich: That's pretty spectacular advice, actually. Thank you. I enjoyed this chat immensely. You are very eloquent.
Siri: That's nice of you to say.
The second ad is called "Joke":
"I Kant answer that. Ha ha!"
"It's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya."
"Life: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death."
"I don't know. But I think there's an app for that."
"I can't answer that now, but give me some time to write a very long play in which nothing happens."
"I find it odd that you would ask this of an inanimate object."
"That's easy… it's a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of life or existence in general."
"Life: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings. I guess that includes me."
"A movie."
"I give up."
It is not every day that Apple disappoints me, but I found these ads to be disappointing! The bottom line is that these ads are monotonous, depressing, and terrible. Remember when Apple's iPhone 4S/Siri ads used to be fun to watch, struck a cord, and magical? You know, ads like "iCloud Harmony" and "Roadtrip"? And my favorite, "Santa". That ad was genius and magical.
I hope, at some point Apple gets rid of the celebrities and brings normal people back.


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Betsey Johnson, 33 Grant Ave., S.F., 415-398-2516.
Betsey Johnson's West Coast flagship closing, everything on sale
Sara Johnson | May 15, 2012
It's a little after ten on a Tuesday morning, and Alice Johnson is already fielding calls from deal-seekers.
"It feels like Black Friday," said Johnson, store manager of the Betsey Johnson boutique on Grant Ave., which is beginning to close its doors a mere eight months after opening.
Johnson is facing the on-the-ground reality of the Betsey Johnson bankruptcy, filed on April 26, according to WWD. All 54 U.S. stores and nine outlets began liquidation sales on Friday. While she doesn't know when the store will officially close its doors, she knows she and her nine employees are out of jobs.
"My liquidation guy has his hotel booked through mid-July," she said, her only indication of the final closing date.
Johnson's store, considered the West Coast flagship for the brand, has the highest volume in California. She expects to receive another 750 items on Friday, but she said any shipments will not be new inventory and may include merchandise from past seasons.
Everything in the store not already on markdown is 20 percent off currently, a discount that may increase as the closing date nears. At the end of the liquidation process, even the store displays will be available to purchase.
On April 27, the day after the company filed for bankruptcy, Betsey Johnson (@xoBetseyJohnson) sent out the following missive via Twitter: "I love my brand I love my fans and I'm not going anywhere! As creative director, it's full speed ahead. Thanks beyond and beyond! xox Betsey."
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Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland created the first large mammal clone, a sheep named Dolly. Using emptied egg-cells and the nucleus from a mammary adult stem cell from another sheep, Dolly was, genetically, identical to the donor sheep. A haphazard process, Dolly was the only of 277 lambs to survive to adulthood.
While celebrating successes, an inebriated biology student beneath Wilmut and Campbell on the project, William Howard, boasted, "Well, so what, I'm gunna clone maself a dinosaur!"
Laughed off as the usual drunken banter of graduate students, the resulting angry spite from Howard caused him to pursue the project. He had no funding, but the widespread fame of Jurassic Park, the novel by Michael Crichton and film by Steven Spielberg, gained him notoriety. He used the newly developing Information Superhighway to start a message board, news group, and account for donations, usually only a few pounds, dollars, and, later, euros at a time. Picked up by the tabloids as perhaps a prank, Howard's popularity took off when he indicated that he was indeed serious.
Howard collected funds, began his lab, worked building relations with leading paleontologists (at least ones that would take him seriously), and created a team of innovative biological technicians. While the lab practiced cloning birds and amphibians, Howard waited for a specimen. Many rumors spread that he would attempt a wooly mammoth first, but Howard routinely refused.
In 2007, researchers at North Carolina State University under Mary Schweitzer claimed finding preserved material of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, clearly too good to be true as the king of the dinosaurs being the first to be cloned. Further research proved the material to be biological film, useless scattered bacteria.
In 2009, Schweitzer's team used similar techniques to discover actual bone cells and minute fragments of blood vessels of a Brachylophosaurus. This was Howard's chance. Over the next few years, his lab isolated usable DNA, sequenced it, and managed to reconstruct a whole system. After two months gestation, the first dinosaur in untold generations hatched from a nest of artificial eggs created from those of an ostrich. She was named "Dolly" after her sheep technological ancestor. Contained in a hyperbaric chamber made to mimic Cretaceous Earth, the first dinosaur lived only a few days, but more of its sisters successfully grew into adulthood.
Public outcry roared on positive and negative ends of the spectrum. Many claimed Howard was playing God, others said that he was leading mankind into a new era of ecological preservation. As he accepted his Nobel Prize, Howard repeated his drunken boast, affirmed it, and said he'd move on to mammoths now.
A hyperbaric terrarium later opened at the London Zoo, the first of many where eager tourists walk among peaceful herds of duck-billed dinosaurs munching on fronds. No interest has been made to reintroduce them to the wild in a world so changed from their own.
In reality, Dolly was successfully cloned, but no dinosaurs have come from her legacy. In 2009, a clone of a Pyrenean ibex, declared extinct in 2000, was successfully born, though she died shortly afterward.


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By Daniel Carlson | Film | August 28, 2006 |
The ads for The Quiet are all about Elisha Cuthbert, and Elisha Cuthbert is all about sex. Her career, her presence, her entire reason for being are all wrapped up in maintaining an erotic stranglehold on the fragile psyche of young American males: She first gained notoriety as a cheery floozy in Love Actually, then turned around and endeared herself to frats across the country with her underwear-themed turn in Old School. And who could forget her "work" on "24"? And then, oh goodness, the self-destructive wish-fulfillment that is The Girl Next Door. Even her role in the moronic House of Wax required her to do nothing but jiggle and run in a wife-beater while getting just the right amount of dirty. And herein lies the problem: She's become so inherently sexualized that it's impossible to take her seriously as anything other than a slutty caricature of real life. Even in the best of circumstances, Cuthbert would have to do a fantastic bit of acting to overcome the fact that even she doesn't take herself seriously. And trust me when I tell you: The Quiet is far from the best of circumstances. Far. Pilgrimage to Mecca on foot far. Director Jamie Babbit's film aspires to be a moody thriller dealing in dangerous subjects, but it's really just a slice of blissfully unselfconscious tripe, the kind of tawdry tale that should be coming on Oxygen late at night and featuring Nancy McKeon or Mackenzie Phillips as the pill-popping mom. It has nothing going for it, and everything against it.
From the outset, the film aims for the eerie mood of a sophisticated thriller, but it's hampered by everything from sets that hit the trifecta of ugliness, cheapness, and clumsy metaphor; to laughable dialogue, including some of the worst exposition you'll ever hear; to story points that feel random and completely unconnected to any kind of overarching plot; to dreadful acting by a group of not-very-talented performers; to the gradual slide from drama into unintentional comedy.
The film begins with Dot (Camilla Belle) wandering the halls of her high school. She's deaf and mute, though that doesn't stop her from narrating the film. Recently orphaned, Dot now lives with the family of classmate Nina (Cuthbert), a cheerleader who hates Dot with the blind passion reserved for teens who hate other teens in movies. Dot bears silent witness to Nina's tortured home life, which includes a mother (Edie Falco) who's forever remodeling the house and cruising on prescription meds and a father (Martin Donovan) who has more than a passing interest in his daughter. This is the house's big secret: the incestuous physical relationship between Nina and her dad. Nina confesses this to Dot, since Dot is deaf and she just needs to get it off her chest. Nina also admits that she sometimes enjoys the sex, and that she hates her father and plans to kill him.
That's the running gag: Confess your sins and desires to the deaf girl. Nina's concerns are legitimate, but it isn't until Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft's screenplay introduces soccer stud Connor (Shawn Ashmore) that things get really absurd. Connor takes a shine to Dot and takes her out for a milkshake — aww — and isn't with her five minutes before he starts telling her he's wondered what she looks like naked and how these thoughts have driven him to new realms of self-abuse. I felt bad at the few chuckles I couldn't hold back, since nobody wants to be the jerk ruining the ambience in the theater, but I soon realized that the sparse crowd was laughing right along with me. It wasn't that Ashmore delivers his heartfelt confession of flagellation with such gravitas, though that definitely helped; it was the insanity of the situation. It's as if these horrible kids have been just waiting for a deaf student to show up so they can pour out their twisted hearts. What's worse, Babbit shows no interest or ability in maintaining the tension that would (you'd think) necessarily arise from one character knowing or at least suspecting that everyone else was up to something, or from the audience knowing the same info. For a sexed-up thriller, The Quiet is shockingly dull, plodding along through a series of scenes that are tenuously connected at best. There's no story here, just a group of poorly formed ideas. Perhaps the weirdest of these is a scene of Dot mourning her dead father by crying over his ashes before running her fingers through them and then — wait for it — licking her fingers. I don't know what to say. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Soon enough, Dot finds herself drawn into Nina's downward spiral of emotional torment at the hands of her abusive father and absent-minded mother. Nina's mom often passes out in the living room, which is still a wreck from the renovation process. It's a clunky representation of the mental anguish hiding behind every door in suburbia, and the space exists in a constant murk of dust motes and dim light, even during the day. Nina's father grows increasingly brave in his attempts to grab his daughter's butt, so Nina concocts a plan to get some money and run away. But with a life like hers, it's clear things won't work out pleasantly.
The Quiet is a failure for many reasons, notably in that it managed to take an unsettling subject and make it boring. Instead of a web of secrets being slowly wrapped around the central characters, Dot and Nina exist in a world without consequences. The story has a twist, though one that the average viewer will figure out within the first few moments, and it's only through a supreme act of will I'm not spilling the secret here. Throughout it all, Cuthbert pouts those pillowy lips and does what she can with the story, but it's nowhere near enough. She's supposed to be the victim, but her onscreen persona is so sexualized that there's no shock value in the story: Yes, Nina's tale is a dark one, but Cuthbert was bound to get here eventually. It was only a matter of time.
Daniel Carlson is the managing editor of Pajiba and a low-level employee at a Hollywood industry magazine. You can visit his blog, Slowly Going Bald.Talking Without Speaking, Hearing Without Listening


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Jan 17, 2005
Jack D. Rule
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Launches in Denver AreaNew West Physicians' Web-based Program Coaches and Monitors Progress of Participants
GOLDEN, Colo. , Jan. 15, 2005 – Beginning today, Front Range residents looking to make good on their New Year's resolutions to lose weight, eat healthy or begin an exercise regime have a new option. Golden-based New West Physicians, a group practice of primary care physicians serving the Front Range, launched the Physicians Fitness Coach online weight loss and fitness program: NewWest.PhysiciansFitnessCoach.com. Program participants receive a customized fitness and nutrition program, and their progress is monitored by New West doctors.
Waistlines in America are expanding. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2000, an estimated 64 percent of U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, with a body mass index of 25 or more.
"Being overweight means being at risk for largely preventable conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, cancer, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, gallbladder disease and fatty liver disease," said Ruth Benton, CEO of New West Physicians. "The good news is that you can lower your health risks by losing as little as 10 to 20 pounds."
Additionally in its Status of the Nation study released in October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that m ore than 60 percent of adults do not achieve the recommended amount of regular physical activity. In fact, 25 percent of all adults are not active at all. Although Colorado ranks low among states with obesity issues, nearly 48 percent of Denver-area residents do not get the recommended amount of weekly physical activity.
"There is no shortage of information in support of why people need to lose weight, and if the success of commercial weight loss programs is any indication, the public certainly seems to have a desire to participate in weight loss programs," said Barbara Robino, director of the New West Physicians Fitness Coach program. "Unfortunately, what lacks is ongoing motivation or expert advice to keep a person on program. The Physicians Fitness Coach provides one-on-one interaction between the patient and his or her doctor, and is a daily motivator for people looking to control portions, increase fitness levels and learn new recipes."
The Web site, NewWest.PhysiciansFitnessCoach.com, was created by Denver-based incenta HEALTH, a health care technology company that created a unique patent-pending weight loss program. " incenta HEALTH's patent-pending coaching technology focuses not only on losing excess pounds, but on working with participants individually to reshape their eating and exercise habits through interactive e-mail coaching and physician supervision," said Jack Rule, CEO of incentaHEALTH. "The program we created through New West perfectly complements the hands-on doctor supervision provided by a primary care/whole health physician."
Participants will have their own secure login and personal account on the Physicians Fitness Coach Web site. Upon enrollment, members are asked a series of fundamental questions such as current fitness level (foundation, intermediate or advanced) and whether they work out at home or at a gym. Members also must provide their height, weight, measurements, age and gender. A customized fitness and nutrition program is then e-mailed to the individual, including daily workout and suggested meal plans, tips and motivations for success.
Each day, members will receive an e-mail with an exercise routine, suggested meal plan, tip of the day, motivational quote for the day, and access to the Online Health Guide – a comprehensive online health guide that covers all the exercise, nutrition, and support information in detail, including a glossary of terms and links to health-related articles .
The cost of program is $49.95 per month, with a $50 one-time enrollment fee – less than the average cost of a single personal training session and comparable to popular commercial weight loss programs such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig. The program also includes a free exercise kit and three free doctor visits per year with their New West Physicians Fitness Coach. Members need not be a patient of New West Physicians to participate in the program.
Each week, members are prompted to assess their progress in their online success journal, which is collected into a progress report complete with charts and graphs. New West Physician coaches also have access to their patients' journals, allowing them to more easily identify the patient's strengths and challenges, and work with the patient to achieve success. Physicians Fitness Coach also allows members to e-mail questions about exercise, nutrition, or any other fitness related topic to their Physicians Fitness Coach personal trainer.
"That one-on-one interaction is essential for program success," said Benton. "Members now have someone to whom they are directly accountable, which is a terrific motivator."
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Lancashire County Council has embarked on a £4.6m drive to recruit social workers and other specialist staff across its social care, safeguarding, inspection, audit and adoption services.
The recruitment drive will enable caseloads to be reduced and increase support for frontline staff. It will also create additional professional development and training opportunities, improving the quality of practice and recording of case work.
The new investment is part of the council's response to a recent Ofsted inspection of children's services.
Speaking about the recruitment drive, County Councillor Matthew Tomlinson, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: "We believe that putting more staff in place will ultimately help us to improve these vital services for children and their families. We have already filled all of the vacant posts we had prior to the Ofsted inspection and this recruitment drive will expand our team further.
"The difficulty of recruiting experienced front-line staff is recognised across the country which is why we are looking at new ways of recruiting. We've created a dedicated area on the county council's website to explain the opportunities and benefits on offer, and we're also running a recruitment evening for potential applicants to come along and find out more.
"We passionately believe that this is a great place to live and work and we are really keen to talk to people who want to commit to providing high quality services for children and their families in Lancashire."
The £4.6m investment will enable the council to recruit 48 front-line social workers, 12 advanced practitioners and 15 Independent Reviewing Officers, as well as a range of team leaders and more senior managers.
For more information, search for "careers in children's social care" on the county council's website – www.lancashire.gov.uk/job. The opening evening takes place on Wednesday 15 June from 5pm to 7pm at Woodlands Conference Centre on Southport Road in Chorley and is open to anybody interested in applying for a role.


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