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It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon when i was invited to witness the launch of Hada Labo's New and Improved Lifting and Firming Range at the Roofino Skydining & Bar at KL Trillion. On the outdoors, clear fresh air greeted us.
And this was the KL skyline from the rooftop. What a beautiful place to have a launch.
The interior is also fabulous. What a classy place.
A group of bloggers gathering and mingling while waiting for the launch event to start.
The launch of Hada Labo's New and Improved Lifting & Firming Range, now equipped with Elastin, Collagen and 4 types of Hyaluronic Acid to help deeply hydrate skin from the surface to the inner skin layers.
Elaine Choo, Senior Product Manager explaining the product benefits and the formula concept behind this new improved formula. This improved formula targets the epidermis layer to realize youthful skin with firmness and resilience.
Elaine explained the meaning of Collagen and Elastin via a simple exercise using just rubber band and chopsticks. When one end o the rubber band is removed it's like the skin looses its elasticity.
For many women, turning 30 signals a time to truly consider the best-suited skincare for their skin. It is a time to choose wisely a skincare range that is targeted at skin issues such as fine lines, wrinkles, loss of skin elasticity and collagen. Formulated to restore youthful radiance to the skin, the new and improved Hada Labo Lifting & Firming Range does just that!
The two key ingredients in the new and improved Hada Labo Lifting & Firming range are Hydrolyzed Elastin and Hydrolyzed Collagen, which work together at cell level to create skin strength, firmness, and shape. The Elastin and Collagen are both essential to maintain skin firmness and elasticity. This range is also infused with Elasgrow and Fermented Soymilk, an exclusive ingredient to boost collagen and elastin production that helps improve skin density, firmness and elasticity to keep skin visibly tighter, firmer and more lifted.
This new and improved range is also upgraded with 4 types of Hyaluronic Acid to help deeply hydrate skin from the surface to the inner skin layers for a significantly soft, smooth and supple skin. It also contains powerful anti-oxidants properties to fight against the damaging effects of free radicals.
The Hada Labo Lifting & Firming range is comprised of 6 distinct products:
Lifting & Firming Lotion – Rich (RM 67.50)
Lotion is an essential first step after cleansing. It helps to awaken skin and drives moisture deep into the inner skin layers to prepare skin to fully receive the benefit of the next skincare regime that follows. For best results, use twice daily after cleansing. Gently pat the lotion onto the face until thoroughly absorbed.
Lifting & Firming Milk (RM 70.90)
A light-weight milk that easily penetrates deep into skin to restore youthful radiance and luminosity, leaving skin visibly firmer and smoother. This can be applied twice daily after lotion / essence application. Gently pat onto the face until thoroughly absorbed.
Lifting & Firming Cream (RM 78.00)
This velvety cream melts into the skin to provide an intense nourishment to strengthen and improve the skin's youthfulness, leaving skin visibly lifted, firmer and more luminous. After applying lotion / essence, take a sufficient amount and apply evenly on the face and neck area. Gently massage and pat to allow absorption into the skin.
Lifting & Firming Wrinkle Care Cream (RM 74.90)
A rich and nourishing cream that is designed to treat age sensitive contours around the lips and eyes. Regular usage of the Wrinkle Care Cream will leave the lines looking finer and smoother, revealing a plumper, more youthful and renewed skin texture. Use this twice daily after moisturizing. Gently dab onto wrinkle prone areas such as the forehead, eyes and lip area.
Lifting & Firming Mask (RM 52.90)
A serum-soaked mask enriched with anti-aging ingredients to deeply hydrate the skin and restore the skin's youthful vitality. This soft cloth mask is designed with the right thickness to fit the face perfectly. Upon application, skin feels instantly revitalized, lifted and smoother. The Lifting & Firming Mask can be used once or twice a week as part of your skincare regime.
Lifting & Firming Essence (RM 89.90)
The Lifting & Firming Essence contains naturally derived Pomegranate extract and Lycopene, which boasts 100 times more antioxidant power than Vitamin E to fight signs of aging and pollution. It also contains Soybean Extract to help improve skin elasticity and boost collagen and elastin in the skin to reveal firm and youthful skin. The Lifting & Firming Essence is formulated with High Performance Penetrating & Deep Moisturizing (HPP&M) Technology which has an active delivery system to drive moisture deep into skin to fully hydrate skin from the surface to the inner skin layers. This also works to prepare skin to receive the full benefits of skincare that follows. For best results, use after Hada Labo Lifting & Firming Lotion. Apply on palms and gently pat onto face until thoroughly absorbed.
The Hado Labo Lifting & Firming range is pH balanced and free from alcohol, fragrance, colorant as well as mineral oil. It will be available at all major pharmacies nationwide starting January 2017.
Some memorable moments with other blogger friends.
Bloggers having fun posing on stage with the products.
And now it's my turn too!
Thank you for your kind invite, Hada Labo. It was a truly remarkable event.
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Manufacturing is carried out in 26 locations around the globe and marketing / distribution in over 150 countries. The company, privately held for 99 years, was acquired by Rohto Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. of Osaka, Japan in 1988. Rohto is a major player in the Japanese pharmaceutical market with top selling products in the eye care, topical and stomach relief categories.
Since 1889, The Mentholatum Company has grown and prospered from a small purveyor of soaps and toiletries into an international company, marketing quality proprietary medicines around the world. In the United States, and in many countries around the world, the Mentholatum family of products has earned a reputation for quality and value. Every Mentholatum brand is sold with an unconditional guarantee of satisfaction.
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I was in Mississippi from Wednesday until Friday night. This was more or less an excursion to record some of my roots, well family roots.
In fact most of my grandparents had some roots in Mississippi, but both of my parents were from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Basically I took video footage of the rural areas where my dad's family resided. There's no one there now and no structures that I would have recognized from the times that we have been out there in the past. Also those lands had been sold off a few years ago.
Apparently my mother and grandmother found a significant part of their family roots. Further East along Mound Bayou Road which is paved to a certain point and then unpaved towards the Sunflower River is a road, Lombardy go north, and you will find evidences of woodenshacks (quarters for either slaves or workers) then a big mansion that may have been a focal point for a significant plantation. I got it all on video tape even the name of a previous owner made of metal and stuck in the dirt (to be sure I'm not sure what you would call it, but it had the man's name on it).
This man my grandmother often referred to as a nice man. Another man who her father (my great-grandfather) had to deal with she referred to as nasty. The name I saw in front of that "plantation" rang a bell as it seemed that she only knew his last name, but there was a first name as well now and that rang a bell as well. Apparently this area (again across the Sunflower River) was where my grandmother was born so many years ago.
Also before we left on Friday night we arrived back in Memphis where we waited to take a train back to Chicago. We saw a gentrifying area of town that apparently once upon a time was home to a significant low income population. Mostly black at that, but these days it's home to new condo development and boutiques and home to Memphis' trolleys.
The station, Central Station was once a significant rail terminal but since the days of major rail traffic has passed it's home to condos, retail, Amtrak, a city bus terminal, and a police station. This could have been the terminal where people could have taken a train directly to Mound Bayou had there been not only demand for service, but if there were actually still train tracks into town.
Also in the immediate area was the National Civil Rights Museum. It seems to me that most of the facade of the former Lorraine Motel was razed and around it was a musuem with exhibits within the structure of the hotel. In addition to that there are old signs all around this place, signs that are hard to come by these days. Across the street the buildings where the shots that killed Dr. Martin Luther King was fired. Today you can go up and visit one of those buildings where the shots were allegedly fired there is a museum exhibit up that way as well.
BTW, there is a protester there. She apparently was upset about being forced out of the motel years ago. She believes this monument to Dr. King is a disgrace to his memory. There is even a count of how long she has been out there, approximately 21 years.
Well I'll talk more about her later, I never talked to her but I should have. At that there were others who were interested in what she was demonstrating against, but at the same time decided that she was a nut not worth talking to.
Certainly there are several posts to be issued here that includes pictures and video(s) so stay tuned for the sharing here!

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Sultan Park and Museum
Sultan Park is a public park, built on the southern side of the demolished Royal Palace grounds in the 16th century in the capital of Maldives, Male'.
The Royal Palace was razed to the ground except for one three storey wing. The gardens (Sultan Park) became a public park and now only the massive iron gate at the entrance, opposite the Islamic Centre on Medhuziyaaraiy Magu, speaks of its former glory. The Sultan's Park forms a quiet green oasis in the now bustling capital, with ponds covered by water lilies and leafy trees filled with bird song.
The wing that survived became the National Museum, housing a complete collection of royal possessions. Its most interesting exhibits, however, are archaeological findings. Spread out against an outside wall and in a small room are the intriguing remains gathered from temples scattered throughout the atolls: Buddha heads, Bohomala sculptures, monkey statues and a broken statue piece of the Hindu water god, Makara. The most fascinating pieces are two five faced statues with long feline teeth, outstretched tongues and extended ear lobes discovered recently in Male'. Most objects in the museum belonged to former Sultans and include Thrones, Sedan Chairs, Ceremonial Parasols, Palanquins and a fine collection of boxes decorated with intricate lacquer work.


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Now that Bernie Sanders has entered the race, he has become, as Byron York writes, he has become the "new Elizabeth Warren."
A new Iowa survey by the Democratic polling firm PPP finds Clinton with an overwhelming lead over the Democratic pack — no news there. But PPP also found that, while the former secretary of state is the choice of 62 percent of Democrats surveyed, Sanders is now in double digits, with 14 percent saying they support him. (Martin O'Malley is at 6 percent, Jim Webb at 3 percent, and Lincoln Chafee at two percent, while 13 percent say they are not sure who they support.)I think that at some point, one of these lesser candidates will emerge as the winner of the votes of Democrats who are dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton as their party's candidate. Bernie Sanders may well be the only reasonable candidate on the left of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race and if that is so, his vote totals would be artificially inflated because as he becomes the repository of the ABC votes - Anyone But Clinton. So the question will become, how low a vote for Hillary will be necessary for the media to regard it as a major slap in the face. She'll win the primary and caucus votes, but would a vote of maybe 60 or 70% be alarming for Democrats if her only opposition is Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, and James Webb?
Given the peculiar character of the Democratic race, just being in double digits qualifies a candidate as a legitimate opponent of Clinton. And PPP numbers also put Sanders in double digits in New Hampshire. "We've now found that in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders is the second choice," says PPP director Tom Jensen. "If there really is a desire on the far left for anyone else — now that they're not going to get Warren — Sanders may be their guy."
What appears to have happened is that Sanders has become a stand-in for Warren among those Democrats who wanted the Massachusetts senator to run and are disappointed that she has declined. They have now transferred their support to the next-best candidate to represent their point of view, and that is Sanders.
Sean Trende analyzes whether Hillary Clinton can keep the Obama coalition together and turning out in the same numbers and how that concern explains why she's moving to the left in her current race for the presidency.
This brings us back to Beutler's argument that the decision to shift leftward is made by the Clinton campaign from a position of strength, and provides evidence of a belief that Obama's coalition is both transferable and larger than the Republican coalition.
I would call this the optimistic interpretation (from a liberal perspective) of her moves, even if you accept that this is simply cynical gamesmanship on her part. The pessimistic interpretation would stem from one of the theses of my book, "The Lost Majority": that Obama modified Bill Clinton's coalition into a narrower, deeper one. This enabled Obama to win a victory in 2008 that was almost as large as Clinton's 1996 win without bringing Appalachians or working-class whites on board. The problem with such a coalition is that it doesn't allow for much flexibility: At least for now, Democrats have to run up the score with different groups in order to win.
Under the pessimistic take, the Clinton Coalition is simply gone. Bill Clinton had managed to keep Appalachian voters and working-class whites in the Democratic camp through skillful positioning and a bit of luck. But over the course of the next decade, these voters finally broke with the Democrats. This occurred at the presidential level in 2004 and 2008, then occurred at the senatorial level in 2010 and 2014, when relatively conservative Democrats like Mark Pryor and Mary Landrieu found they could no longer win with a Clintonian formula (in fact, they couldn't come close to winning). This was a break that was a long time coming, but given that it has filtered down to congressional and even state legislative offices, it seems like it will be difficult to reverse.
So from the pessimistic standpoint (again, from the liberal perspective), Clinton is running leftward not because she believes it is the best way to win, but because she believes that she has no choice.
Jonah Goldberg is struck by how many liberals don't like to call themselves liberals. They're progressive or pragmatic, but not liberal.
Meanwhile, with the obvious exception of gay rights, the country simply hasn't moved left with the Democratic party. In 2012, political scientist James Stimson found that the American public was more conservative than at any time since 1952.
This is one reason Obama's "what works" presidency hasn't worked for the Democrats. By committing to a left-wing agenda — while pretending it's pragmatic — the Democrats have been hollowed out in Congress and in state governments across the country. Obama had hoped to restore confidence in the competence of government. Instead, government's reputation is in tatters.
"By ignoring the electorate and steering the country in an unmistakably progressive direction his final two years in office," National Journal's Josh Krauhaar wrote in February, "he's ensuring that his presidency will be more of an eight-year mirage for liberals, rather than one known for winning lasting support for policies that would move the country in a leftward direction."
Poor Hillary Clinton. She spent the last 20-plus years trying to convince the country she wasn't as left-wing as people justifiably believed she was, and now she must risk whiplash as she veers to the left to reassure the base — and to block a potential Elizabeth Warren run and a real presidential bid by avowed socialist Bernie Sanders. "She seems always to be zigging when history zags," writes the Washington Post's Chuck Lane.
Watching her pretend to be a populist is painful, like watching some of the joke contestants on American Idol tonelessly warble to a panel of snickering judges.
Now, it is certainly true that Republicans are not without their problems. They desperately need coaching on how to talk about issues in a way that doesn't alienate voters. But one of the reasons they need tutoring in this regard is that the press which reports on their campaigns is even more out of touch with reality than the allegedly out-of-touch Republicans they opine on.
If someone nods along when Obama ludicrously claims to have no ideological agenda, it's no surprise he'll shake his head when a conservative admits to having one. But at least the conservatives aren't lying.
Michael Barone laughs at the defense that Hillary's supporters are putting forward.
Some of Hillary Clinton's defenders have taken to saying that voters shouldn't pay attention to the latest Clinton scandals — the gushing of often undisclosed millions to the Clintons and their organizations by characters seeking official favors — because the charges are just one more in a long series: Whitewater, the Rose law firm billing records, the Buddhist temple fundraising, the Lippo Group.There's also, as Barone points out, a difference between the public rallying around an incumbent president than voting for a presidential candidate.
So, the theory goes, because the Clintons have been accused of so many scandalous doings before, people shouldn't be concerned now about Secretary Clinton's actions that helped certain donors turn over 20 percent of U.S. uranium reserves to a state-run Russian company.
Hillary Clinton is in a different position. She is a candidate, not an incumbent. Candidates are easily dispensed with, as former Sen. Gary Hart learned when the photos of him sailing on the "Monkey Business" appeared in May 1987 when he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. His staffers vowed he would hold onto his support, but it wasn't his to hold on to. He quickly withdrew and faded from view.That prospect must terrify many Democrats.
Hart's position in 1987 was weaker than Clinton's position today. His lead in Democratic primary polls was not overwhelming, and there were other serious active or potential candidates in the field or just over the horizon. That's because even in Ronald Reagan's 1980s, Democrats of varying ideological stripes were winning major offices around the country. Democrats had reason to think they had a good chance of nominating a strong ticket without Hart.
Today's Democrats fear they are not in this comfortable position. They've been losing most elections lately in constituencies beyond those where their core constituencies — blacks, some Hispanics, gentry liberals — are clustered. They don't have many prominent plausible alternative candidates.
Absent Hillary Clinton, they would be faced with a choice of tax-raiser Martin O'Malley, socialist Bernie Sanders, Reagan appointee Jim Webb, former Republican scion Lincoln Chafee, or the gaffe-prone Joe Biden. None run as well as Clinton in general election polls.
But how strong is Clinton? Her numbers have been declining and she runs under 50 percent against lesser-known Republicans in most national and target-state polls. All voters know her and most don't favor her. She runs stronger in polls of all adults, not just registered voters. That gap suggests she could have a hard time inspiring maximizing turnout.
The argument that the Clintons have always faced scandal charges is intended to shore up her support. But it may have the opposite effect.
And when every day a new story seems to appear about undisclosed foreign money pouring into the Clinton coffers, Democrats are rightly terrified.
Even someone who apparently admires her a great deal as Joe Klein does is dismayed.
In recent days, I've spoken with a bunch of Democrats about the Clinton mess. Inevitably, their first reaction is political. The Clintons were "sloppy" but probably didn't do anything illegal. It's "good" that this came out early, they argue; it'll be forgotten by the time the election rolls around. She's still a lock for the Democratic nomination and probably the presidency, it is said. And how much worse is this than the parade of Republicans crawling to Las Vegas to kiss the ring of the loathsome Sheldon Adelson, in return for $100 million in campaign -contributions—or the Koch brothers' auditions? Isn't this what American politics is all about now?Of course, Klein feels that the Republicans would be a worse bet for the presidency. That's why the guy who so brilliantly skewered the Clintons in Primary Colors is so very disappointed now.
There is a moral distinction, however, between campaign-related moneygrubbing and the appearance of influence peddling. And in practical political terms, while the Clinton Foundation crisis may not prove damaging during the primary campaign, it may come back to haunt Hillary in the general election—just as Bain Capital did Mitt Romney in 2012. True enough, my Democratic interlocutors say, but there's a lot of real enthusiasm out there for Hillary. She's historic. She's smart and moderate and experienced. She's probably better prepared for the presidency than any of her rivals. Then I ask them: Let's leave the politics aside; how do you feel about the way the Clintons ran their foundation? "Nauseated," said one. "Atrocious," said another. "It's no surprise," said a third.
And I suppose that you do have to assume the worst about the Clintons—"to be cynical" about them, as the young reporter told me. How sad. Their behavior nudges up against the precise reason Americans, in both parties, have grown sick of politicians. It's near impossible for Hillary Clinton to go around saying, with a straight face, much less a sense of outrage, that the "deck is stacked against" everyday Americans when Bill's partying with the deck stackers. Even if the appearances of impropriety were for good causes, shouldn't the arrant naiveté of it all disqualify her from the presidency?
So much for President Obama's pretense of wanting to work together with the Republican Congress:
President Obama spent years tarring House Republicans as the cause of a "do-nothing" Congress, but House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) has turned that critique back on him.
Obama welcomed the new Congress by issuing veto threats about once every five days, on average, McCarthy's team points out.
"In the first 100 days alone, President Obama threatened to veto 22 bills, including 17 House-passed bills with bipartisan support," according to a new post on the majority leader's website. "He has now issued nearly 25 veto threats since the beginning of the new year."
The post notes that two of those "bills were so bipartisan that they passed committee by a voice vote."
There are quite a few commentators on the protesters and rioters in Baltimore about how what they are trying to communicate about their situation. Ian Tuttle wonders exactly what they're trying to communicate.
I am not insensible to the notion that those things could lead to riots — but drawing attention to structural injustices, to a lack of economic opportunity, or to metal in the water supply is clearly not what these particular "protesters" are trying to communicate.There is clearly quite a bit of angry frustration, but there is also a lot of joy in destruction random businesses and stealing stuff. A lot of these rioters are trying to communicate that they like taking stuff without paying for them.
Consider their targets: not government facilities responsible for the "state-sponsored violence" that the above commentators blamed for the riots, but pharmacies and shoe stores and a check-cashing service. They did not go searching for weapons to defend themselves from, in Dyson's words, "the forces of oppression," but for Pringles, Pumas, video games, and condoms. Under the hashtag "#BaltimoreLootCrew," rioters have been posting photographs of their prizes. At least one user — who yesterday posted a picture of four new iPhone 6's — has suspended his account.
One store owner whose family had owned a sports shop for 35 years in the same location spoke up about the real losers.
Levy isn't just a store owner, he's also an employer of people living in the neighborhood who need to provide for their families. A million dollars in product were lost and employees can no longer be paid.
During an interview on The Norris and Davis Show earlier today, Levy talked about the damage to the store and to the people who work for him. The interview starts the three minute mark.
"It's terrible man. It's terrible. A lot of people lost a lot of jobs and they don't know where to go from here." he said. "The owners we'll be okay, you know it's going to take months and months to get ourselves situated but the poor people who depend on these weekly salaries it's a terrible thing."
Some of the same people who are in the streets rioting over a supposed lack of opportunity are the same people destroying opportunity for people in their own communities.
Along the same lines, will CVS rebuild its burned-out store that was destroyed in the riots? Eleanor Clift wonders if they'll return.
CVS was heralded for choosing to put a store in a struggling neighborhood. But did riots scare the corporation out of rebuilding?She can't get an answer from the company as to whether they'll rebuild in the same location. Given how areas of cities burned out in riots during the 1960s have never really recovered, people are right to worry.
Its burning store riveted viewers as the cable news networks covered the destruction in Baltimore. But since it's [sic] new outpost went up in flames, CVS corporate has been very quiet.
Analysts have described how critical the pharmacy was to a poor neighborhood with few services and no supermarket. Not since CVS made the socially-conscious decision to stop selling cigarettes in its stores has its name been invoked so many times on national television.
ABC's Jonathan Karl has been one of the toughest questioners of White House press spokesmen. He had a good question yesterday.
Thursday at The White House press briefing, ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl questioned Obama press secretary Josh Earnest over the administration's refusal to condemn Hillary Clinton over not complying with the disclosure agreement she had with them to report all foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of state.Offering up the defense that nothing illegal can be proven seems to be a mighty low ethical bar for the administration and Clintons to establish as their ethical guidelines.
When Earnest said no laws had been broken, a frustrated Karl asked if "out and out bribery" was the only thing that would be a problem for the White House?
Earnest would only say the Clinton Foundation is correcting the mistakes.
A victory for common sense and the rule of law from the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must make "good faith" efforts to seek reconciliation before it sues a business for discrimination, under Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act. The decision was a strong rebuke to the commission, which had previously asserted that the courts had no jurisdiction over its reconciliation process.Another unanimous slap at the Obama administration position from this Court. This has become a pattern.
"Congress imposed a mandatory duty on the EEOC to attempt conciliation and made that duty a precondition to filing a lawsuit. Such compulsory prerequisites are routinely enforced by courts in Title VII litigation. And though Congress gave the EEOC wide latitude to choose which 'informal methods' to use, it did not deprive courts of judicially manageable criteria by which to review the conciliation process," the court ruled in the case EEOC v. Mach Mining.
The opinion was authored by Justice Elena Kagan, an appointee of President Obama.
The case has been closely watched by business groups, since the commission's stance effectively eliminated one of the main defenses used by employers when facing a discrimination complaint. The Chamber of Commerce highlighted the case in a lengthy study published last year that argued the commission under Obama was pursuing a "scorched earth" litigation strategy against employers.
s the world awaits the Supreme Court's rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, pundits have engaged in a phony war that misses a larger story: the court's rejection of the government's extreme claims of unlimited federal power. Indeed, the Obama administration has already lost unanimously 20 times, having passed in its first five years the Bush DOJ's number across two full terms (15).
While it's still too early to make conclusions about the current Supreme Court session, in its previous three terms—effectively in the 30 months from January 2012 to June 2014—the government's goose-egg rate was three times Bush and double Clinton (23 in eight years).
Again, those are statistics for cases in which President Obama failed to pick up even the votes of his own nominees. The overall rate looks even worse: in the last two terms, the solicitor general's office won 39 and 55 percent of its cases, against a 50-year average of about 70 percent.
Howard Kurtz wonders when "thug" became a racist term.
The T-word, of course, was used by the first African-American president of the United States. And the White House hasn't issued any "clarification" about that.
There's no way that people who merely protest, or everyone in an impoverished neighborhood, should be smeared as thugs. But this whole thing strikes me as a sideshow, empty calories for the media.
What we should be debating is how police deal with urban disturbances, how to address the poverty and dysfunctional families that create fertile conditions for riots—complicated stuff that isn't going to be neatly resolved in time for the Sunday shows.
But I guess it's easier to beat up on people who allegedly use the wrong words—or change their minds about what words are acceptable.
Millennials don't seem to trust anyone except the military, small businesses, and the police. And those numbers on the police might not last.


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Let the market set gas prices
When it comes to gas prices, it may be hard to believe that virtually all policymakers actually share the same goal: to protect consumers and help ensure they pay an affordable price at the pump. We agree that high gas prices impose a big burden on families and businesses. We firmly oppose exploitive practices perpetrated by opportunists.
Unfortunately, "price gouging" legislation passed by the House last month and now under consideration by the Senate does not address these concerns. Instead, it would harm the economy in general and drivers in particular.
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The legislation creates price controls that would exacerbate shortages and potentially produce lines at gasoline stations not seen in three decades. By disrupting market prices, price controls make lines longer during emergencies, misallocate the available supply and prevent those with the greatest need for gasoline from getting access. Gasoline trades on an international market. If U.S. gasoline prices were kept below world market levels, there would be shortages here. Consumers would be forced to line up at gas pumps, but gasoline would run out before satisfying demand, and many would be forced to do without.
For example, in the days after Hurricane Katrina, post-disaster price increases induced foreign suppliers, as well as refineries outside the affected region, to rapidly ship additional gasoline to the Gulf Coast. If this legislation preventing retailers from increasing prices had been in place, suppliers might not have diverted their shipments to ease shortages. Retailers would have had even less gasoline and drivers and those using emergency backup gasoline generators would have faced additional hardship.
The legislation is unnecessary because strong laws – based on sound economic principles – are already in place to protect against anticompetitive business practices.
Competition between suppliers prevents them from taking advantage of consumers by setting prices out of line with costs and ensures that gasoline goes to consumers needing it most. Antitrust law prohibits sellers from colluding to impose higher prices and prohibits retailers and refiners from taking actions that would create monopoly power. These laws carry heavy penalties, and they work.


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Twelve militants were killed in fighting between factions of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border on Tuesday, Taliban and security officials said, the first such clash since the two feuding groups agreed to abide by a ceasefire two weeks ago.
The government hopes to exploit the divisions within the Pakistani Taliban, a loose alliance of dozens of militant groups. It is separate to but allied with the Afghan Taliban, who have a far clearer command structure.
The two feuding Pakistani Taliban factions are led by rival commanders from the Mehsud tribe, who provide the bulk of the Pakistani Taliban's men and money. Commander Khan "Sajna" Said supports peace talks with the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but his rival Shehryar Mehsud does not. Peace talks have been going since February but recently stalled again. Taliban sources said that Tuesday's fighting began when Sajna's men attacked militants affiliated with Mehsud.
"We have been told that 12 people from both sides were killed and some others wounded," a senior member of the Pakistani Taliban said.
The rivalry between the two men has existed for many years, but spilled into violence last month when both claimed leadership of the Mehsud tribe. The dispute followed the death of Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, and his deputy in drone strikes last year.


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Before you guys continue an unnecessary argument in the comment sections, I think we should acknowledge the fact that this whole Flora Cash 'fiasco' has been blown out of proportion.
Yes, Cole of Flora Cash did in fact carve his and Shpresa's names into Pompey's Pillar. Horrifying. I think he's the first person who has ever defaced a national monument. I mean, I've never seen name carvings at the Grand Canyon or Muir Woods or the Statue of Liberty, and internationally, people are so respectful that Neuschwanstein Castle, the remaining segments of the Berlin wall, and the Eiffel Tower would never be covered in other's etched names.
Cole did something without thinking it through, but he has issued a public apology and, not only is he paying for the explicit damages done unto the rock, but the band is also paying for the negative publicity and the loss of fans who have decided to take this insignificant and thoughtless action as a personal assault. It was stupid, it happened, but it's over now.
Your opinions are valid, freedom of speech and all that jazz, but you are not going to come here and bully the artists who have sought out or supported this site.
While the possible readership loss of a few individuals who do not agree with my actions will be so detrimental that I cannot begin to fathom how I will carry on, it is not okay for you to try to shame one of my bands so, if you have an issue with this, don't follow the site, because the band's good, their music's great, and I am going to continue to support them, despite this one slight, and overly publicized, error in judgement of theirs."When You Came (oh, oh, oh)" Flora Cash


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Newest setback for streaming theory comes from nielsen latest music 360 study, which implies that teenagers get most of their music not from streaming services like spotify, or out of cds, or even a from iTunes but from youtube.Teens 18 years old or younger use the video site to be handled by music.Radio stations(56%), I-Tunes(53%), And dvds(50%)Have always been next.The only streaming service that a considerable number of Cheap Pandora Beads teens use is pandora(35%).Quite simply, young people do seem to like the thought of streaming music from the web they just don seem inclined to pay for it. But in any event, spotify keeps growing.The service updated its subscriber figures this month in my ballet shoes in a year, showing thatit now had 15 million active users throughout the, 4 million of whom pay for the operation every month.That's up from 3 million in 2011.And the service is signing up subscribers at an unrivaled rate:In order to a report bymusicindustryblog, it took seven quarters for spotify to reach a thousand paying users while it took rhapsody, another service, 11 years to do exactly a similar thing.Listeners can easily search and find any specific band or artist, all at no worth, and not have to download a separate program.And youtube made it much easier for users to re listen to a common artists through saved playlists and customizable tools. Then there all the time consumers continue to illegally download free music over the web. Another issue is our appear to stubborn desire to own the music we enjoy the most.Nielsen study shows that many adults discover new music on the radio, 61% say they still take heed to music on cds.Even old cassette tape yes, cassette tape is outpacing most music professional facilities.Pandora registers measurably better, with 32% saying they often use the service.About 30% of adults say they transfer music through itunes. "I thought internet would rapidly overtake digital downloads, promises crupnick.I reversed my feeling with that.What the research keeps saying is that people like the thought of ownership, (Whole lot great deal new:The economic new rules:Carry on glocal) Less than 10% of music people listening are digital only consumers, to be able to mark mulligan of musicindustryblog.Most still listen to music through some schooling would include biology digital downloads, compact disks, internet surging music services, and vinyl synonyms.More than 70% of spotify listeners also buy digital downloads mostly from itunes based on npd group. "Four million paid users[along with spotify] is a wonderful achievement, but it's a drop in the ocean in the record companies, shows mulligan. "I'm not sure we'll ever get to the position where most people should take time to pay $9.99 a month for internet surging music.Album sales across Cheap Pandora Jewelry all platforms rose the first time since 2004(But you can largely thank adele for any). Why do slimmers want to own their music?Safety from credit card have a long history of purchasing musical recordings but not tv shows or movies a habit that seems hard to break.Another convincing theoryis that the music we listen to is seen as an expression of identities, more so than the shows or movies that we watch.Many streaming services attempt to address this impulse by allowing users to create their own individual playlists but so far it would appear that isn enough. You will find, nielsen latest numbers do provide a glimmer of hope for champions of internet surging services like spotify.The youngest generation reliance upon youtube shows that it doesn place as much emphasis on actually owning the music that they listen to.Signifies that a playlist, saved around in the cloud, may eventually be a satisfying replacement for ownership for them.If that's, streaming services may yet prove to be the record companies salvation. Somewhat other:Spotify keeps recovering at phone apps' expense Loading music services like spotify and mog have it right.$10 for streaming almost every artist we know seems like a no brainer.Associated with, youtube is free but i imagine it's heavy creating a play list on there vs.Spotify unsure.The big thing for me is piece of mind knowing i need not download music illegally.Would you rather pay $10/month to stream uncountable songs or play roulette with downloading music via p2p? I really believe, artisans like metallica, ac/dc, baby trend segar, and thus.Who aren't entirely on spotify or mog yet, will most likely work out a deal with those companies show up.Just think, it's an income stream for the bands/artists.Who does turn that down? A slam dunk a scientific comparison test, but frankly my ears detect innovative music fidelity from spotifypremiumvs.Pandora one(All else in my various component setups funny enough, constant during my use of either service). I've noticed the superior fidelity of spotify premium vs pandora one on my 2 home sound systems and on one of my vehicle's sound systems(So, the signal is conveyed by wireless wireless from an android phone to a wireless wireless enabled receiver). The negative with spotify?In a beauty contest between my boogers and spotify's puke green desktop software shortcut/phone app symbol, i'd have to supply the crown to my boogers. And am still discover def leppard, ac/dc, metallica to get with the application and get their tracks up on spotify.Right this moment, abovementioned groups and their tracks are represented mostly on spotify by cover bands. I use this audials tunebite soft situations to record music from spotify.As long as i know, your sincerity make one backup copy of smth you own for your personal use, without the benefit of the purpose to sell it or god knows what, it's completely fine.Talking about free music.I think it may be necessary sometimes;)I am completely aware that artists need to sell their work but with so so so many selections out there, it becomes impossible to just buy them all.Just the phrase telling you.


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Friday, March 31, 2017
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I've started reading WOLVES OF THE CALLA as part of my continuing reread of Stephen King's The Dark Tower for Macmillan's Criminal Element blog. Ava has been intrigued by the covers and especially the artwork in this particular edition of CALLA. So she asks me to tell her what they are about, and, of course, I often dilute it for the six-year-old ears. When she realizes I have read more pages, she asks me to update her on my progress but to start from the very beginning of the novel. This, I don't mind, but becomes quite lengthy and still her attention holds. (I'm not sure I was ever that patient at her age.) A recent passage in CALLA reminded me of our little coconut's devout rumination. Susannah explains to Eddie Dean exactly how Roland of Gilead pays attention. She says, "Like an anthropologist trying to figure out some strange culture by their myths and legends." YES! That's Ava exactly. Love her so much! Ok. My dad moment is over. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend.
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- pattinase (abbott) said...
Wow! Amazing child.
- March 31, 2017 at 4:28 PM
- David Cranmer said...
I'm sure we all think of our kids as amazing, right? I try to refrain from posting something daily. :)
- March 31, 2017 at 5:05 PM
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I'm back! After a bout of bad internet connectivity and the loss of my camera cord, I thought VeganMOFO was going to be more like VeganNO-Fo for me, but now things are relatively straightened out.
And not just with the internet. After weeks of constant stress, I have now basically figured out everything I needed to know, from how to print at the Flemish copy shop, how to order a beer in french, where to find seitan and tempeh and vegan chocolate, and most critically, how to cook without burning my apartment down. (Although that last one took rather more attention then one might think.) Despite constant reminders of my own stupidity, my general outlook is now very sunny. Brussels is beautiful, dirty and bizarre... but certainly filled with amazing food. I don't think I've ever eaten so well in my life! The trick is to not spend all your money on food, which is something I accomplish by shopping the Sunday markets for fruits, veggies, and spices, the organic market just for the most hard-to-find luxuries (since its so expensive) and the corner bodega for everything else.
One thing I've gotten very obsessed with is soy yogurt. They sell it in huge containers at the organic market, and in every flavor under the sun. (Including plum and apricot!) I like to get the plain and cover it in strawberries, puffed quinoa "soufflé" (another amazing discovery) and a drizzle of agave nectar. Another way to use it is my own version of a Waldorf Salad: thinly sliced roasted beets, apples, and carrots with walnuts and a bunch of lemon juice, tossed in yogurt, salt and pepper. I feel like I ought to be sitting at a fancy hotel in the fifties when I eat this, and its also a good way to use up the yogurt since everything here goes bad in about two days. (I guess they don't like preservatives here? So un-American.) The same is true for fruits and vegetables, which I don't really understand. Have they been injecting our strawberries and broccoli with preservatives? Or is my American fridge just stronger?
Either way, I essentially need to empty the contents of my fridge bi-weekly to be able to eat things before they deteriorate, so I've been experimenting with simple-as-possible meals with very few elements. A winner the other day was smoky tempeh and broccoli in some garlic-chili hot sauce. This was one of the meals that nearly set my flat on fire ("smoky" tempeh indeed), but it was still quite good.
And I had missed tempeh so much. It may mean having to go to 3 different grocery stores to stock up on things, but at least I have a routine now.
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- Ms. T (of haiku tofu) said...
Wow, that puffed quinoa looks amazing!!! I thought it was israeli cous cous cereal or something at first. Glad to hear you're getting on well in a new place... those big adventures can sometimes be trying!!! Welcome back to MoFo!!!!
- October 15, 2009 at 7:42 PM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Isn't Brussels a strange place? No matter how many times I visit the place I can't quite seem to get the handle on it. But I am glad to hear that things are smoothing out for you! Sounds like you've got all the important things down, especially the chocolate part, that is absolute critical, vital to a beautiful life! Enjoy yourself, can't wait to see more posts.
- October 16, 2009 at 1:51 AM
- Synaura said...
Dark colored leafy veggies are known to have a wide range of nutrients. Eating such food is good for digestion and brings out all essential nutrients our body requires.
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- October 16, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- Sophia.Pflieger said...
That waldorf salad looks very tasty and crunchy!
- October 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Here, I notice that organic fruits and veg ast longer. I can leave strawberries un-refrigerated for at least a couple of days, and several days in the fridge, but the non-organic ones start getting mushy and moldy right away. Anyway, glad you're beginning to enjoy yourself.
- October 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- jessy said...
hooray for feeling awesome 'n getting into the swing of things, T. that rocks socks! i'm glad you're more happyfaced and relaxed, too. i feel so lost without a schedule and a rhythm to things - i know how ya feel.
so awesome on the soy yogurt in so many great flavors (and being offered in large container), the puffed quinoa looks so cool (i need to see if i can find myself some), and i'm in love with your waldorf salad (totally gonna have to try something like it. hooray for roasted beets!). i love a tasty simple meal with just a few components - those are the best! for me, lately, it's been simply roasting veggies with a little olive 'n sea salt. so good... chili sauce 'n tempeh sound absolutely delicious - especially paired with broccoli.
i can't wait to see more of your delicious eats and read all about your adventures in brussels!
- October 17, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Mihl said...
I am glad you finally feel at home in Brussels. Eating soy yoghurt every day is one of my passions, too. Is it the soyade brand? I once tried their plum yoghurt and it was excellent.
- October 19, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- Lacey said...
cool blog! i think you might like http://www.greenerfolks.com
- October 20, 2009 at 5:06 PM
- Kate said...
Hey, Can you tell me about the puffed quinoa and the organic market with the soy yogurt? I'm a veggie and live in Brussels as well so would love some tips!
Thank you
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The Chairman of Zinox Computers, Leo Stan-Ekeh, gave out his daughter, Andrea Chigozie in marriage to Tolu Ijogun, at a colourful ceremony in Lagos, NNEKA NWANERI reports.
They first met on his way to see a friend at Loughborough University in February 2008. He was travelling from London. It was on the trip that Tolu met Gozy, as she is fondly called.
"I met Gozy on that trip and I was struck by her beauty, brain power, kind heart and willingness to help other people. I dare say that it is always easy for like minds to experience instant connection."
This is the story of Imo State born daughter of the chairman of Zinox Technologies, Chigozie and her Ondo State beau Tolu.
A colourful wedding reception to welcome the bride into her new home was held at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Their marriage was solemnised at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church on Victoria Island, Lagos with the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, officiating.
The bishop said it is marriages such as this that help build "a strong bridge across ethnic boundaries". Such marriages, he said should be encouraged as a way of cementing national integration.
In church were many Christians and Muslims, who are friends of the couple's families. The couple's attire was breathtaking. It is one fit for princes and princesses.
From the grandeur of the church, guests moved to the splendour of the reception held at Eko Hotel & Suites.
The colour of the day was purple and the venue was draped in a carnival-like display of different shades of purple. From the hallway, there was a ceremonial route where big shots took.
The walkway was adorned with exquisite pictures of the couple which were displayed to the admiration of guests.
Gozy and Tolu walked through this ornamented aisle before being ushered into the grand ballroom of Eko Hotel for the reception. The couple made a dramatic entry into the hall.
The high point of the occasion was the live performances of top Nigerian artists Akin Sugar, Tiwa Savage, Nato C and Iyanya.
The Chairman of the occasion, and Chairman of MTN, Mr Pascal Dozie, spoke on the choice of colour and the majesty of the hall as a symbol of how the minds of the couple work: an expression of their intelligence.
A documentary of how the journey of the couple started and commentaries and impressions of their friends and parents were shown.
The hosts left no stone unturned as they ensured that their guests had a memorable outing. From the decor of the venue, to the guests' dressings, it was a spectacle. There were lots of wines and assorted dishes.
Ace comedian Ali Baba was on ground to ensure there was never a dull moment.
Tolu and his bride both share the same vision. Even before they met, they had established and begun their different Non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Genteel Plea, Gozy's NGO serves as a means of providing quality education for indigent students to develop a mathematical foundation and build a science oriented young generation.
Tolu runs Access for All, a project that empowers the physically challenged through Information Communication Technology (ICT) educational skills and empowerment.
The ICT background of Mr Ekeh and his son-in-law underscored the digital props that attended the event.
In attendance were former governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife Oluremi; Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola; senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church Taiwo Odukoya; wife of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Bola; Senator Chris Ngige and House of Representatives member Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa; Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Ms Arunma Oteh; former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs Timi Alaibe and former Chirman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Ernest Ndukwe.


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If you have visited this site periodically over the years you know there are a lot of articles with a business or industry slant. I'm a business writer and consulting analyst by trade, and an avid motorcyclist and racing fan — particularly motocross racing.
One area I've never covered is the essential business of running a motocross track. Though rarely discussed — except when there's a legal brouhaha of some sort or someone is complaining — track owners, operators, and promoters are absolutely essential to the health, growth, and preservation of motocross.
Without tracks you probably aren't going to ride, brother. And you sure aren't going to race. From the legendary Edison Dye and iconic Stu Peters, to modern mega-promoters like Bud Feldkamp and David Claybaugh, the history of US motocross tracks and events is filled with characters large and small. These are the people who provide the framework upon which the rest of the sport is built.
To be sure they're not all saints, and the sport has had its share of dubious events and promoters. But for the most part the men and women who run the tracks of America do a great job providing a service we can't do without.
Across the US there are more than 500 motocross tracks in operation at any given time — ranging from small, backwoods facilities operated as a sideline to closed-door practice facilities to massive pro-level, multi-track event venues. Operators range from good ole' boys working off a wing and a prayer because they want a place to ride, to full-time businessmen making a quite respectable living.
The goal is to dig into this obvious yet nearly invisible aspect of the sport we love, to find the characters and the innovators, to learn from them, and to bring some of their stories to light.
To get started I've enlisted the help of Shand Garcia of Holeshot Magazine. Shand knows his way around the amateur and local pro motocross scenes in Texas. With his help I'll be working the next few weeks to setup some interviews and visits to top tracks in Texas. Shortly after that you'll begin to see the results here on MuddyWatersMX.net, and maybe a few other places around the web.
If you want to know how the best operators build a successful business in racing stay tuned. We're on the gate and revving the throttle.


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(COLUMBIA, Md.) — A self-identified friend of the 19-year-old gunman in the Maryland mall shooting said Sunday he can't explain why the teen would have killed two people.
Police have identified Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, as the shooter who killed two people at a Maryland mall before turning the gun on himself, Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon said.
Police said Aguilar used a 12-gauge shot gun during the incident and at least 6 shots were fired. In addition to the gun and ammunition, crude explosive devices made from flash powder and household items were found in Aguilar's backpack.
The friend, Ellis Cropper, told ABC's Hank Disselkamp that Aguilar had just received a promotion at a local Dunkin Donuts and was planning on enrolling in college
"Darion was a good kid," he said. "I don't know what happened … Darion is quiet, kept to himself. Nice, normal, calm demeanor."
According to police, Aguilar entered the mall around 10:15 a.m. Saturday morning. Around 11:15, he entered the Zumiez store, a skateboard shop, on the mall's second level and fatally shot Brianna Benlolo, 21, of College Park, Md., and Tyler Johnson, 25, of Ellicott City, Md. Both were employees of the skateboard store.
McMahon said it wasn't clear whether the shooter knew his victims, although both Aguilar and Benlolo lived in College Park.
Aguilar then turned the gun on himself as frightened patrons ran from the area, McMahon said.
Police said they're still investigating the shooter's motive.
Police started receiving 911 calls about a possible shooting at the mall at around 11:15 a.m., and it was immediately put on lockdown, McMahon said. Police were reportedly on the scene within two minutes of the calls.
Aside from the three dead, five other people were injured. One person, who was below the Zumiez store during the shooting, suffered a gunshot wound to the foot and others had minor injuries as they ran to escape the shooting, according to police.
"All of the activity took place at one time, in one store," McMahon said.
After the crude explosive devices were found, police swept through the mall using canine units to ensure there was no other devices on the premises.
Police said the mall would reopen by Tuesday.
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I would like to update the platform at a new state, especialy with the automations on the removal effects, but it seems the programing language beeing old, it needs very much code. If you guys know people that can write in Visual Basic 6(VB6), it would be great. We could make most of the cards abilities be automatic!!!
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1. First go on the bed and take out the blanket and get a map that
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2. The zoom out and go right tree times
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4. Now you have: R R
5. Go right one time
6. Open the drawer of the right. zoom in. its empty. zoom out again and open
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7. You have R R C.
8. Then zoom out and open again the one that is empty.
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CAR_ theres a missing letter too. is the D now remember the D.
10. Remember you have R R C D.
11. Zoom out and combine the letters. the password is: C D R R
12. Put it in the computer and it is going to say: open CD-Rom dRive tray!
13. Click on the CD on the left top of the computer.
14. The part where you put the CD its open. take the blue key. Zoom out.
15. Go left one time and click on the door. use the blue key.
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CAROLINE, OR CHANGEat the Minerva Theatre, Chichester
A warmly enthusiastic reception on Press Night for this stunning revival. Tony Kushner's musical, initially commissioned by San Francisco Opera, is an opera in all but name, almost entirely sung through, with just a little underscored dialogue and sprechgesang.
Following its New York première, it had a successful production at the National Theatre in 2006. A decade later, it's certainly due another outing. That NT never transferred; this one could well follow a long line of Chichester musicals into the West End.
On the same day we stood and cheered in the Minerva, confederate statues were being removed, not without protest, in Louisiana. Just such a statue, in that very state, greeted us as we walked in, only to disappear before the action begins. Exactly why, and how, gradually becomes clear as the plot unfolds.
The story succeeds on both the personal and the political level. Caroline is the African-American maid, toiling in the humid heat of a Louisiana basement - "sixteen feet down". She's employed by a dysfunctional Jewish family, a reserved clarinet-playing father, and his second wife, neither a bassoonist nor a smoker, unlike his dead first wife, mother to the lonely little boy Noah [based loosely on Kushner's own childhood].
This is a very polished revival, with a long stair-case to emphasise the divide between the family and their slave. The costumes are striking, too, for the Radio – three Supremish singers – the Washing Machine, all over bubbles, and the red hot Dryer, who doubles as the Bus - "the orphan ship of state".
All the performances are superb, led by Sharon D Clarke's powerful Caroline, her nobility and heroic resignation cracking only very rarely, as when she "speaks her hate to a child". Her great arias are breathtakingly done – Lot's Wife a show-stopping performance. Her daughter, one of the agents of change in this subtly developed story, is a fierce rebel teen, compellingly played by Abiona Omonua. And the young Noah is unbelievably well done by Charlie Gallacher – one of two children to share the role. Because, like all the company, he has a deeply explored character, some complicated choreography and a tricky score to master.
The show, deftly directed by Michel Longhurst, manages to explore epic themes – change is slow to come to this forgotten corner of Lousiana – and the intricate dynamics of the two families. Nigel Lilley, and a splendid pit band above the stage, make the most of Jeanine Tesori's evocative, varied and very melodious score.
Memorable moments galore, including the Act One finale, a wonderful dance fantasy from the four children and the Moon flying overhead. Dollar bills rain down on the stage – change is in the air, we feel, the money Noah "accidentally" leaves in his pants' pocket a symbol of the old patronising relationship between the Gellmans and the Thibodeaux.
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Director: William Nigh
Genres: Horror, Mystery & Suspense
NR 2002 1hr 1min
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Reviewed on 6/30/2011...
Researchers want to conduct research, chiefly for praise-worthy reasons like altruism and generating knowledge, but if they assume the end justifies the means, unfortunate consequences may result.
Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Bernard Adrian, a small-town doc whose sideline is free-lance research. His research aims to cure lower-limb paralysis, a debilitating outcome of polio. The gentle folk of the town rightly suspect him of kidnapping their dogs for experiments. But the doctor has moved on to drug trials on a human being. The doctor is using an unwitting young woman as a guinea pig in a study involving an investigational serum to make her walk. When a circus trainer has been injured by a grudge-carrying ape, the doctor goes off the ethical and moral rails. Ignoring the imperative Do no harm, the doctor kills the trainer for his spinal fluid, which he subsequently utilizes in the experimental serum for the young woman. This also raises questions of justice, as in harming one person to benefit another.
Definitely, silly things pop up in this typical mad scientist movie. I would argue, on the other hand, that the poverty-row studio Monogram did the public a world of service by producing this movie that makes thinking people ponder whether the end (a cure) justifies the means (conducting unethical research on human beings).
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Lonnie E. Holder | Columbus, Indiana, United States | 10/04/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I love campy old movies featuring a guy in a gorilla costume, especially when the guy is supposed to be a real gorilla. A movie with a moth-eaten gorilla outfit is even better when paired with Boris Karloff as kindly Dr. Bernard Adrian.
Dr. Adrian has been diligently working on a serum that will cure paralysis. Unfortunately, the doctor makes his serum using human spinal fluid. Even more unfortunately, his "donors" need to be alive when he makes his serum. Most unfortunately, his "donors" do not survive the experience. Dr. Adrian would probably call the death of his donors an unfortunate side effect.
I guess the FDA had yet to enforce the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in the area that Dr. Adrian was living, because he was injecting his untested serum into Miss Frances Clifford (Maris Wrixon, "Meet John Doe" and 70 plus other film and television appearances).
Backing up a little, a circus went through town. One of the features of the circus was a gorilla. One of the animal keepers seemed to enjoy tormenting the gorilla. One of the rules of horror movies is never abuse anything with the potential to kill you. After taking care of business, the gorilla takes a stroll through town and then into Dr. Adrian's house, where the injured keeper was brought after the ape attack.
The ape keeps hovering about Dr. Adrian's house, and keeps killing. I guess the gorilla enjoyed killing the keeper and took it up as a hobby.
A bunch of stuff happens to the end of the movie. We get to see how kindly Dr. Adrian is. We see that Dr. Adrian's serum is not likely to kill Frances Clifford and it might even do some good. The townspeople think the good doctor is evil and we wonder whether the townspeople will burn him at a stake (I exaggerate). Since the townspeople are reluctant to run the doctor out of town and they are reluctant to burn him at the stake, they stalk the ape instead.
You are left with a bunch of questions that the end of the movie will resolve. Do they catch the ape? Does Frances Clifford enter a marathon? Do they will the gorilla suit to another movie? Incidentally, I am thinking this gorilla suit might have been bleached and used in "White Pongo," which also featured Maris Wrixon. So many questions for a movie that is so short. Also, does Dr. Adrian win some sort of prize for his miracle serum or a short trip to the electric chair?
This movie makes a real shot at having a clever ending. I thought the ending was one of the better ones in a horror movie from this era, even if it was somewhat predictable for modern audiences. I liked Boris Karloff as Dr. Adrian. Dr. Adrian was a rather interesting variation on the Jekyll and Hyde theme. The gorilla suit was cheesy and I wonder if the same Gorilla suit has been making the rounds of Hollywood for decades. The townspeople were stereotypical and seemed to be the townspeople from "Frankenstein." The result is roughly three stars. Fans of Karloff's early movies will probably enjoy this one. Fans of Maris Wrixon might also like this film. If you are following the progress of the gorilla suit in this film, you might be interested in this movie. Everyone else can just go ape somewhere else.
Good luck!
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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein | under the rubble | 04/16/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Dr. Bernard Adrian (Boris Karloff) has been experimenting in his lab for years, trying to perfect a serum that will cure paralysis. Unfortunately, he needs human spinal fluid and the townsfolk think he's a nut. Thankfully, a circus comes to town, complete with animals. A vengeful trainer decides that torturing the go-rilla that killed his father is a dandy idea. This results in the ape escaping it's cage, wringing the trainer's neck, and lumbering away for it's obligatory rampage. The unlucky trainer is brought to Dr. Adrian for treatment, where he is summarily killed and becomes Adrian's first spinal fluid donor. Drawn by the trainer's scent, the go-rilla visits Adrian's place by crashing through the window. Adrian stabs the go-rilla to death, skins it, wears the go-rilla suit, and pretends he's the wacky ape out on a kill spree! This is fortuitous, as his only vial of spinal fluid serum rolled off the table and smashed on the floor. Now, he can knock off some locals and harvest their bodily yuck. Humanity is saved! THE APE is a fun little movie, kept interesting by Boris' amiable yet homicidal character. Yes, the ape costume is ridiculous, but hey, the budget was probably around 50¢. Just enjoy it..."
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
Edward Garea | Branchville, New Jersey United States | 06/27/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Boris Karloff has always been one of my favorite actors and a double feature DVD is always welcome news. This DVD in particular contains one of Karloff's forgotten gems and possibly the silliest film he ever made."The Ape" (1940), made for Monogram, represents the nadir of Karloff's career. In the film he portrays a kindly doctor who seeks to cure ingénue Maris Wrixon of polio through injections of human spinal fluid. Of course, spinal fluid is difficult to obtain, particularly as the victim must be alive. Enter the solution to Karloff's problem. A circus ape escapes and breaks in to Karloff's home. Karloff kills the ape with a knife and skins it, sewing the skin into a costume. Since no one but Boris knows the ape is dead, Karloff dons its costume and goes out to kill townspeople for their precious spinal fluid. (Wouldn't it have been simpler just to buy a costume?) There is a hilarious scene with Boris running for home after one murder wearing the costume by carrying the headpiece. Simply precious. Directed by William Nigh, who directed Karloff in his "Mr. Wong" series, also for Monogram. To quote film critic Michael Weldon, "And you thought only Bela Lugosi made films this bad.""British Intelligence," made the same year for Warner Bros., is a taut, nifty spy thriller set in World War 1. A master German spy has been operating one step ahead of the British and the causalities are mounting. As his mission is extremely important to the German war effort, the Germans dispatch Margaret Lindsay (operating as a nurse at a British field hospital) to England as an assistant. It is there in the home of one of the British bigwigs that she meets Karloff, who works as the butler. Is Karloff the dreaded spy? Or is he a red herring to throw us off the track? Could it be someone else? The film will keep the viewer guessing until the last tem minutes. Directed by Terry Morse, who also directed Raymond Burr's scenes in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" (1955)."


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