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Prison Break: Season Three (US - DVD R1)
Gabe would like the convicts of America to know that he's a good getaway driver
Prison Break is one of those shows I think I may have enjoyed more if I'd seen it from the beginning. I was simply too busy with other review material to catch up on two previous seasons, but without them I'm a little lost, not to mention thoroughly un-hooked on the show's tough guy soap opera plotline. Perhaps with additional knowledge I could have appreciated some kind of character intricacies or ironies. However, what little I was able to glean from the previous seasons informs me that season three was thematically almost identical to seasons one and two. Repetition is not something I usually enjoy in a television series.
So ignoring the fact that these characters I don't really know seem to have found themselves in the same problem they found themselves in last time, I'm left with a series I still find kind of dull. My problem, other then generally not understanding the characters, is that I watch a lot of Oz, and Oz is a pretty hardcore show. Prison Break does sport a hard edge, and the physical threat of the prison itself is palpable enough, but it's still a network show. Even if the FCC boundaries are pushed, they're still enforced. The beauty of HBO is that it has no limits on its content. I wouldn't necessarily call Oz that much more realistic then Prison Break, because both shows are pretty stylish, and pretty soapy, but the unpredictability and general brutality of Oz makes for a more intense viewing.
I'm also a little disappointed by the intricacies and mechanics of the season's central prison escape (or escapes). I don't know what I was expecting, and I don't know what the show's writers could've done after years of heist flicks, but the whole plan seemed a bit vanilla. Fortunately, despite the title, the show isn't really about the prison break, it's about the obstacles that block the prison break. This is a show about suspense. The plot moves to create suspense, the character motivations are compelled by suspense, and every commercial break ends with a cliff hanger. From this standpoint I'd count Prison Break as a success. It's not exactly classic television, or even particularly good television, but it works on a visceral entertainment level. The unfortunate flip side is that the drama is often lost amongst all this suspense, and the humour is nowhere to be found.
The acting is pretty hammy, but it fits the series. More or less all the characters talk in a Clint Eastwood-esque guttural whisper more or less all the time, especially lead Wentworth Miller, who apparently can't break two decibels. Dominic Purcell gets a few meaty emotional scenes, and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is a fun bad guy, but unsurprisingly it's the always awesome William Fichtner as apparently schizophrenic Alex Mahone that steals the entire show every time he's on screen. If only we could give him his own show.
Prison Break airs in HD, and it's too bad that I didn't receive this seasonal collection on Blu-ray, because the show looks fantastic. This isn't the sharpest standard definition TV collection I've ever seen (I think that would be CSI), but it's easily comparable to many of the better DVD collections, and a damn sight better than either of the last two TV on DVD sets I reviewed ( Dexter and Crossing Jordon). The anamorphically enhanced widescreen frame is bursting with bright Panamanian colours. These vibrant hues are mostly solid, and clear of compression or blocking. Details like the sweaty brows, unkempt beards, and dirt caked cell walls are just about as sharp as a DVD will allow, though the sharpening does result in a little bit of edge enhancement. The film grain is a bit on the fuzzy side, and there are some minor blemishes throughout the series. Missing out on the Blu-ray collection is a bummer, but this standard edition disc is really only a small step down.
This Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack isn't going to blow your mind, but it is going to effectively immerse you in the percussion heavy world of Prison Break. The shows score is pretty simple and a little silly at times, but it sounds great on the track. The drums roll all over the channels, and throb nicely in the LFE. The rest of the noise is mostly made up of chatting tough guys, who even at their lowest whisper can be clearly understood, and the echoes of noisy inmates. The latter episodes, when the inmates finally get out of the prison, are livelier, with noisy car chases and even more intense tribal drumming. It's not an overtly aggressive track, but it should please fans. I have to say that the Spanish versions of classic American rock songs on the soundtrack is an enjoyable touch.
The extras start with 'Season 3: Orientacion', a sixteen minute series of interview segments with all the major actors, starting mostly with the new folks and moving up the 'importance' ladder. After everyone's described their characters and motivations, they start praising the rest of the crew, including the set builders, art directors, and each other.
'Break Out Episode' is a thirteen minute general behind the scenes look at the second to last episode of the season. On set interviews with the director, DP, actors and other crew members are mixed with raw on-set footage to create a generally informative, but not particularly interesting. Mostly the interviewees are just describing what happened in the episode.
'Director's Takes' are a series of short featurettes covering the behind the scenes of each episode from each director's point of view, though the actors and crew are also asked plenty of questions. Each director sets up the thrust of the scene for which we're about to watch, and then briefly runs us through some of the stuff that went into the production. These mini-featurettes seem to have been made for web use, and all thirteen run a total of almost forty minutes. These are followed by 'Between Takes', which are a series of featurettes about what happens on set when the camera isn't rolling. All eight run a total of about ten minutes.
Everything is wrapped up with a series of Fox TV trailers and an episode of The Unit: Force Majeure. Out of any sort of context this episode really means nothing, and the show appears generally generic, but it does sound really good in 5.1.
Prison Break isn't really the show for me, but it exhibits enough solid acting and story telling, along with some stylish imagery. I can see why it's popular. Fans may want to get their hands on the Blu-ray set, but those that still haven't gone over to the new format should be satisfied with the solid A/V of this collection. The extras are a little lame though.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Roll on season 4 can't wait to see it on monday.
£ukasz D Member Join Date: August 2005 Location: Poland Posts: 859
Season 1 was probably one of the best tv series i've ever seen....and then it all went black.....
YlowBstard66 Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 661
£ukasz D wrote: Season 1 was probably one of the best tv series i've ever seen....and then it all went black.....Completely agree. I'd say it became terrible after that great start.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
I like Prison Break. The first season is the best even though I enjoyed seasons 2 and 3. The show I really love and can't wait to come back is 24.
Pinkerton Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12
PrisonBreak Season1 was fantastic. They took an original idea, which may have been used before in some other situation and made it better. The one thing that was brilliant was the blueprint tattoo conceived by Michael a structural engineer to get his brother out. The one thing I can't stand about FOX though is their lack of patience in new series. A new show could last a week or two, and if the ratings aren't skyrocketing, they can it. I'd like PrisonBreak to last at least 5-6 seasons. But if they keep creating new situations about some other key character that's in yet another prison that Michael has to break out, it'll get old. Overall if they keep the story between the brothers getting even with the company and going back to a normal life it'll succeed.
Sulaco426 Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 205
About the only good thing about this season was the actress that played Susan B. She is smokin' hot and deadly. Why would anyone pay this much for half a season?
Yeah whatever this is one of the best shows out there just now there will be another two seasons.
knight d Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 221
season 1 owns
Also two and three aswell.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 12th August 2008
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Surround Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Extras: 'Season 3: Orientacion', 'Break Out Episode', 'Director's Takes', 'Between Takes'
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, William Fichtner
Genre: Action and Adventure
Length: 568 minutes
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When God speaks, it helps to be listening. With all the distractions, both good and ill, it can be easy to tune out, oftentimes without even realizing it.
Maybe it's noise. Checking the cell phone before even getting out of bed, pestered by alerts. Watching or listening to the news while getting ready in the morning. Flipping radio stations on the way to and from work. Playing music throughout the workday. Watching TV shows in the evening.
Maybe it's too many Lenten disciplines. Stations of the Cross. Liturgy of the Hours. Rosaries. Adoration. Daily Mass. Chaplets. Novenas. Litanies. Scripture and other spiritual reading. Multiple fasts. Endless service activities. All good ideas, but ones that can become hurried and just something to check off.
Where is the silence?
Fast from the distractions this week. Whether five minutes or an entire day, get rid of the noise, extra disciplines and activities that are getting in the way, and listen. Talk to God, offering praise, thanksgiving and petition, but intentionally dedicate time to silence. Listen, and let God get a word in edgewise.
Each week during Lent I am sharing a quick tip on each of the three disciplines of the season: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. So tune in throughout the coming weeks for more ideas! May God bless your efforts this second week of Lent!
Jennifer Rey is the web editor of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.
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Andrea's "Heart on My Sleeve" Room
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- Location:
- Winnipeg Canada
- Division:
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- Inspiration for my palette:
- this room is incredibly bright and airy thanks to some fantastic windows and prairie light. while i didn't want to mess with that kind of beauty, i certainly felt compelled to splash colour around. it all started when i recovered my grandmother's setees in teal velvet...
- Colors used in my room:
- paper white walls and all kinds of colour
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I used to. My uncle used to always see me watching my anime and manga and would make comments such as - 'you watch some crazy crap' or, 'what children's cartoon are you watching now?' It made me self-conscious.
But now I really don't care what he thinks and don't bother hiding my stuff when he passes by. Why waste your life wondering about the critical thoughts of others over something so trivial?
Wondering what anime to watch next. c:
I talk openly about anime, manga, jdrama and Japan with friends, family and coworkers. I suspect they are sick of me talking about it! I ruined some of them by showing them Ninja Scroll, Wicked City and Golgo 13, they think all anime is like that now... I should have mixed it up a bit.
Generally I don't have to hide what I am reading or watching unless it is really ecchi and people are around who wouldn't appreciate it. I do occasionally use a bookmark to cover the naughty bits in Nozoki Ana if my kids are around... Anyone used manga for 'the talk'? LOL
Only have a few DVD's so no point in hiding them.
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. ~Itachi Uchiha
I hide it, but not because I worry what people think. I do the same even if I'm just watching ESPN...Old habit from when my step dad would come into the room, see what I was watching and give his commentary lol always found it annoying.
Nope I am current;y looking for a huge book case so I can display all my manga and anime with pride, and with the posters I have on my walls at the minute manga is the least of my worries
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Not really, It would take too long for me to hide what I have. Also, i dont have a reason to hide my dvds/manga/ wall scrolls.
I used to, now I could care less. I am still getting used to listening to j-pop in front of people though, that is tough but getting easier. I am pretty sure that the people who keep saying they hide hentai don't realize that of course they do, kinda obvious. lol
Nope, not even when I am watching MLP episodes.
The past is the past, don't let it cloud who you are now.
Let's put it this way... my walls are adorned by Gaming and Jpop posters, I also have 2 set's of Jpop autographs hanging up on the wall (set me back a bit in the old wallet those did). I also have shelves full of anime, a manga shelf, a relatively hefty jpop cd collection and a glass cabinet displaying the models/figures i've purchased over the years.
It's pretty much impossible for me to hide anything if someone comes into my room. That said, I wouldn't bother to anyway since this is all a pretty integral part of who I am.
Oh, i also named my cat after an Idol Singer, so if anyone asks where the name Reina came from (and trust me, they ALWAYS ask) i tell them straight - which reminds me, I also have photobooks and a signature scarf of Tanak Reina from Morning Musume.
No. Its obvious what I like when entering the living room
And in office my desk is the desk with the anime girls hung up on the wall behind me^^
Searching a demoness from hell or goddess from heaven...
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I do.
When I was younger I was reading a manga and I had someone sneak on me so I just don't like it....
No.. Who would I hide who I am? I'f be living a lie.
I dont like typing this stuff, but whoa, here I am typing it..You get it. right?
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No. Its obvious what I like when entering the living room
And in office my desk is the desk with the anime girls hung up on the wall behind me^^
My brotha! haha
I dont like typing this stuff, but whoa, here I am typing it..You get it. right?
Nope, I couldn't care less what ppl would think.
'When you find something worth fighting for, you never give up'
If it was hentai then yeah that would disappear the moment I hear the door knob turning lol
Anything else more normal then I don't care if you walk in while I'm watching or reading
What even
HAHA noooo. My room would be empty if I did that!
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Ever feel like you spend most of the year cooped up indoors? Now's the time to make the most of the longer, brighter days and warmer temperatures by getting outside and active whenever you can.
The health and wellbeing benefits of outdoor exercise, particularly close to nature, are well documented. Experts have coined terms such as 'ecotherapy' and 'forest bathing' to describe its antidepressant, heart-rate lowering and stress-relieving effects. And a large-scale 2013 review, published in the journal Extreme Physiology & Medicine, concluded that outdoor, natural environments help increase physical activity levels with lower levels of perceived exertion. In other words, we do more but suffer less, thanks to physiological benefits such as stress reduction, restored mental fatigue, improved mood and self-esteem and perceived health.
So why not press pause on the gym and try something different this summer? 'Take the pressure off yourself to get to that Spin class or pre-work HIIT session – sometimes a hike through the woods or a dip in the sea is what you really need,' says Sophie Everard, fitness coach and Keen footwear ambassador.
Here are a few ideas to inspire you, whether you're at home or holidaying…
1. Head to the park
Launched in 2014, Our Parks is an organisation that works with councils to offer free or low-cost outdoor group exercise classes in local parks and community spaces. Sign up for Bootcamp; Box Fit; or Abs, bums and thighs, for example. This year, it's partnering with Merrell, the rugged outdoor footwear brand, to expand the classes around Greater London and into the surrounding counties, and get 100,000 'parkers' exercising for free each week by 2018. Find your nearest class at ourparks.org.uk.
2. Go wild in the wet
Our favourite place to make a splash and act like big kids is the amazing outdoor New Forest Water Park that's like Total Wipeout meets Ninja Warrior. It uses large floating sports apparatus called WiBit and users can burn up to 500 calories an hour larking around on them. There's also 5-Pylon cable wakeboarding, kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding. If you aren't local, make it a short break and camp there too; visit newforestwaterpark.co.uk.
3. Salute the sun
Take your yoga practice outdoors and salute the sun in person. It doesn't have to be an outdoor class; just take your mat into the garden and work through some poses, listening to the birds and feeling the breeze on your skin. Increasing numbers of teachers and studios are offering outdoor options in summer time. Or Londoners could book a lesson with a local teacher via the Yogi2me app and ask them to meet you at a local beauty spot (from £65; yogi2me.com).
4. Meditate in the fresh air
Visit China and you'll see adults and children alike practising Qi Gong – an ancient form of moving meditation – in the parks, gardens and open countryside. With its roots in traditional Chinese medicine, Qi Gong exercises are designed to stimulate and move the 'Qi' (Chi) energy in every organ and meridian in the body. 'It's a fantastic way to fully connect with and be at one with nature, so we often practise it outdoors,' says Qi Gong and Taoist Master David James Lees. Find a local teacher at qigonginstitute.org/directory or, for David's drop-in sessions in the beautiful Derbyshire Dales, visit wuweiwisdom.com/meditation-classes.
5. Make like a monkey
If you haven't yet tried Go Ape, the treetop adventure course, do your fun side a favour and book in. 'A typical session burns over 500 calories and you'll keep your heart rate at 50 to 60 per cent of its max, so it's a great fat burner,' says personal trainer Ben Boulter. But it's the mood-boosting endorphins we love the most – just try swinging through trees without a huge grin on your face. Find your nearest of 31 locations at goape.co.uk.
6. Enter an OCR
Summer is arguably the best time to take on an obstacle-course race or 'OCR', when you won't get so chilly charging through rivers and plunging into mud baths. Get a team together and take on a 10- to 12-mile Tough Mudder or half (5 miles) – find an event at toughmudder.co.uk. For a more scenic, 'wild run' through forest, lakes and trails – with a few obstacles thrown in, too – get in training for the award-winning Wolf Run in Warwickshire this September. Visit thewolfrun.com/autumnwolf.
7. Try Coasteering
Coasteering is a seaside adventure sport that originated 100 years ago, when climbers began to traverse rocky sea cliffs. You wear a wetsuit, trainers, helmet and buoyancy jacket, and explore the coast at sea level. This might mean swimming in sea caves, climbing natural rock arches, wave dodging or flinging yourself off sheer rock faces. If you're feeling brave, book a coasteering weekend in beautiful Pembrokeshire, where you'll be guided through this exhilarating sport by top-class instructors and also have the chance to go on a coastal hike or try surfing or sea kayaking. Weekend breaks cost from £219 including all food, instruction and accommodation; visit preseliventure.co.uk.
8. Find beauty in running
Forget racing – next time you fancy a run, leave your watch at home and take in some culture, instead. There are lots of sculpture parks across the country, many of them free. Yorkshire Sculpture Park has pieces by Barbara Hepworth and Anthony Gormley. Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland has a stunning forest and lake trail, studded with outdoor art. Other locations include Grizedale Forest Park in Cumbria, the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail in Gloucestershire, Crosby Beach in Merseyside, the New Art Centre in Wiltshire and Surrey's Pride of the Valley Sculpture Park.
9. Go electric
Think an electric bike's cheating? See it as a training aid, instead. Electric mountain biking is one of the fastest growing types of cycling, with women taking the hills by storm. By giving you more oompf, EMTBs make trails more accessible, enabling you to go further and faster. We like the Haibike sDuro HardLife 4.0, £2,000. Find your local dealer at haibike.com/en-US/INT/dealer – many offer outdoor events in summer where you can give the bikes a try, such as Bedgebury Forest (quenchuk.co.uk/bedgebury).
10. Jump on board
With British waters now warming up and so many surf schools now accessible to us, learning to surf has never been more readily available nor more popular,' says Everard – who teaches the sport as part of her Mad To Live retreats (madtoliveblog.com). 'It's an incredible sport that involves endurance, power, strength, agility and balance, and what I love most about it is the multitude of physical and psychological benefits that being connected to the ocean brings.' Find a coach or surf school at surfingengland.org/.
11. Take a TRX
Don't have an Our Parks venue (see no1) near you? No problem – get a full-body DIY workout with a TRX Go, which is the lightest in its range of suspension trainers. It comes in a small carry pouch, with two suggested 20-minute workouts, and takes less than 60 seconds to set up. 'Loop your TRX over a tree branch or a goal post and you've got an outdoor gym for a full-body workout right there,' says TRX Senior Master Trainer Matt Gleed. 'Suspension Training develops strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously, all by leveraging gravity and your own body weight. Use it for planks, lunges, biceps curls, triceps dips – or any of the 100-plus exercises detailed online.' TRX Go, £109, trxtraining.co.uk.
12. Perfect your topspin forehand
Have a knock-up at your local 'walk on and play' free public court. You can even join in a free, weekly coach-led session – all thanks to Tennis For Free, a community-led sports charity that hopes to get more people active and interested in the sport. Find a court or class at tennisforfree.com.
13. Swim outdoors
You don't have to brave the sea or lakes if it feels too daunting – there are plenty of outdoor pools and lidos around the UK where you can enjoy fresh air and (hopefully) sunshine as you swim. Find out more, and get inspiration for wild swimming in nature, at outdoorswimmingsociety.com. Got the bug? Get in training for Macmillan's All Out Swim charity events – 2K or 5K cold-water swims taking place in outdoor pools this September and October. Visit macmillan.org.uk/alloutswim.
14. Get geocaching
This global game takes treasure hunts to the next level. Think Pokemon Go but for real, or orienteering with more rewards. Geocaches are hidden all over the world by fellow players, usually in a location of special interest or beauty. They normally take the form of a small waterproof box containing a few low-value knick-knacks, a logbook and pen. The geocacher then uses their GPS to record the coordinates of their cache and logs its existence online. All you need to play is a smart phone or GPS device. Download the Geocaching app (geocaching.com), then choose a cache (like the 'treasure') near you and navigate your way there. There are 2 million geocaches worldwide, all in different formats. Once you find it, you sign the logbook, and you can take something from the cache and leave something of equal or greater value in return. Then you log your find online and put the cache back for the next person to find. Visit gagb.org.uk.


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CID is back! After the success of the PC and Console versions, this challenging game finally arrives on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch!
The lovable crash impact dummy Cid is getting bored: day in day out he is subjected to the same old safety tests. However, when one fateful day professor Advisor's daughter is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis D-Troit, Cid finally gets his opportunity to live the life of adventure and become a hero. Take control of Cid and help him rescue M.I.A. trough 16 challenging levels, including 6 Giant Bosses. Whether it's in sewers, swamps, ice or lava Cid has to fight, run, climb, shoot, and sneak his way past many different brainy puzzles, traps and challenges.
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- 16 Challenging levels Including 6 end level bosses.
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New Art Nouveau: Gloriously Ornate Posters
As I was swooning over the sold-out Natalie Portman in "Hotel Chevalier" poster I showed you on Friday, I started wondering if other artists were also creating gorgeous prints in the Art Nouveau style. Thank goodness, a few of them are...
- This haunting Black Swan poster was created by Maura of Unspoiled Monsters as an art school assignment- I think she nailed it. You can also see her 1st and 2nd drafts!
- One of my favorite girls is serious about her love for Dr. Who (and she has pretty red hair like Amy Pond) and I'm pretty sure she needs this poster. Does anyone know who created it? And who knew Art Nouveau and sneakers went together so well?
- This darkly innocent poster is by the Italian trio of artists known as Malleus, as part of a show they did in San Francisco celebrating "a revival of psychedelic Art Nouveau-influenced new posters".
- A classy poster in a wonderfully restrained palette was created for the band Phish's "last" show, in 2004. I love the girl's haughty gaze, and the corn (I think?) growing around her. Again, does anyone know the artist?
- Finally, the one that kicked us off, N.Po in all her glory. This poster was made by Joshua Budich for last year's Bad Dads exhibition at Spoke Art, and is, sadly, sold-out.
If you love Art Nouveau posters as much as I do, I highly recommend doing a little searching for yourself: "Art Nouveau concert posters", "Art Nouveau movie posters", "new Art Nouveau". There are so many incredible examples that I didn't feature here...because they contain a lot of (very tasteful) nudity!
Images: 1. By Maura of Unspoiled Monsters 2. The Swedish Bed via My San Antonio 3. By Malleus via Rockland 4. Poster Scene 5. By for Spoke Art
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Who will Catholics vote for in November—Obama or McCain?
"Sorry to tell you this, Sen. McCain, but a good number of the Catholics I know are not certain to light candles at the Republican political altar. Some of us who rode McCain's Straight Talk Express before the Republican commitment to a balanced budget put us on track toward a $400 billion deficit appreciate his confessed desire to redeem himself as a faithful conservative. But there are suspicions. After all, hanging out with Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold comes well within the Latin canon: Similes similibus gaudent. Pares cum paribus facile congregantur—birds of a feather flock together." READ MORE >
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The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help. That is, only for one who feels infinite anguish. The whole earth can suffer no greater torment that a single soul. The Christian faith—as I see it—is one's refuge in this ultimate torment. Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting… READ MORE >
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In her first book, Parched, Heather King documents twenty years of worshipping alcohol to the point, as she says, she was "willing to sacrifice everything: career, family, money, health, reputation, my life, and what is far worse than any of those, my soul, for alcohol." Her second book Redeemed – A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles toward God,… READ MORE >
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Unemployment Insurance Handbook for Employers (UCB-201-P)
Section 4 - Wage Reporting
PART 4 - Paper Wage Reports
- Reporting Options
- Guidelines for Paper Reports
- Preprinted Forms
- Corrections to Preprinted Information
- Quarterly Wage Report - Form UC-7823
- Desktop Printer Wage Reports
A. Reporting Options
Paper Wage Reports may be filed by employers whose employment totals are below the threshold levels that require online reporting.
Employers with 25 or more employees must file their reports electronically via the Internet. Once you are required to file electronically you must continue to file electronically in the future.
B. Guidelines for Paper Reports
An optical character recognition (OCR) system is used to read information on the contribution and wage reports. Optical scanning reads typed and computer printed data and electronically converts it for computer processing. This system eliminates clerical key entry and is therefore very cost effective and accurate. The OCR can process reports at less than half the cost of clerical data entry.
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Submit wage reports on the preprinted forms provided or in the print format specified by the format guide on 8-1/2" x 11" white bond paper.
- Return the original forms, not photocopies.
- Please do not attempt to duplicate our forms.
You can find a copy of the Quarterly Wage Report - Form UC-7823-E in the DWD Internet Forms Repository. (This form is an Adobe Acrobat document. To view or print the Wage Adjustment Report, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free from the DWD Viewers Download Page). If you are unable to print a copy, you can order copies of the Quarterly Wage Report by calling 608-266-6877 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. We supply forms free of charge.
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Type or computer print all paper reports (letter quality, no dot matrix please) to ensure readability by the optical scanner. The scanner reads data, which has been typed or printed in black ink on 8-1/2" x 11" white bond paper with:
- Font = OCR-A or OCR-B
- 6 lines per inch
- 10 characters per inch
- Double spacing (one employee per line)
- First Name field = 64 characters or less
- Last Name field = 64 characters or less
Report Social Security Number, Name and Total Gross Wages Paid
Report the social security number, name and total gross wages paid each employee for that quarter. Since Wage Reporting files are accessed by social security number, it is crucial that the number reported be accurate.
Printing Information By Hand
The OCR equipment is able to read computer printed or typewritten information ONLY. All hand written documents must be manually keyed into the computer system. If a typewriter is not available and the report must be completed by hand, PLEASE PRINT ALL INFORMATION WITH BLACK INK.
Note: If you are unable to conform to the above specifications and have Internet access, you can file your reports using our web-based application. It is designed for employers with fewer than 150 employees. It is a form-fill application that asks you to fill in the wages of the employees you reported the previous quarter, as you would on your paper wage report, and uses this payroll information to figure your UI tax liability. Call UI Teams at 608-261-6700 for more information on obtaining access to this site.
C. Preprinted Forms
Preprinted forms are designed for employers who consistently employ fewer than 25 employees.
A preprinted wage report form will be mailed to employers with their quarterly contribution report at the end of each quarter. The wage report form contains preprinted information, including the social security number and name of each employee as reported by the employer in the prior quarter. You must:
- Complete wage information for employees shown;
- Add SOCIAL SECURITY number, name, and wages for newly hired employees;
- Leave the wage entry blank if an employee received no wage for the quarter; and
- Complete the contribution portion of the report.
Samples of forms follow. Our forms are available free of charge. Photocopies of forms cannot be used. Please do not attempt to duplicate our forms.
Special Note To Request Forms:
Visit the Forms section of our website and locate the UC-7823-E Quarterly Wage Report in the list of forms.
Call: 608-266-6877
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Or Write:
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We Supply Forms Free of Charge
D. Corrections to Preprinted Information of Wage Reporting Forms
The preprinted forms contain a preprinted list of employee names and social security numbers. If a name and/or social security number is in error:
- Enter an "X" in the CHANGE column.
- Draw a diagonal line through each incorrect number and/or letter.
- Enter the correct data above the incorrect data.
|Social Security Number
|Last Name
|First Name
E. Quarterly Wage Report - Form UC-7823
This preprinted form is used to report wages paid to each employee within the calendar quarter. One extra sheet is provided each quarter to report new employees.
If you are currently reporting with paper forms and have Internet access, you can file using our web-based application.
Instructions for Completion
If employee data is preprinted, enter the total gross wages paid to each employee in the quarter. If employee social security numbers and names are not preprinted or you want to add a new employee, enter the information in line with the example printed on the form. Enter social security number, name (last name, first name) and the total gross wage paid in the quarter.
If an employee listed was not paid during the quarter, leave the wage field blank. The employee's name and social security number will not appear on the next quarter's report.
Correct preprinted data by placing an 'X' in the CHANGE column, drawing a line through the incorrect character and entering correct information directly above.
Special Note To Request Forms:
Visit the Forms section of our website and locate the UC-7823-E Quarterly Wage Report in the list of forms.
- Call: 608-266-6877
- Email: email@example.com
- Write to:
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Example Form
F. Desktop Printer Wage Reports
Wage Reports may also be created on plain white paper using a standard desktop laser or ink-jet printer. A sample of this type of report is shown below. Note that the report displays the same data as the UC-7823 report, but does not contain any field labels or column headings.
With this wage reporting option, you must also complete a separate Quarterly Contribution Tax Report. For an example and instructions on form UCT-101, see Section 2, Part 4.
The report should be printed on 8-1/2'' x 11' white bond paper. The first two lines of the report contain header information, which consists of your 10-digit UI Account Number, the Quarter/Year, your Federal Employer Identification Number, and the employer's Legal Name.
The remainder of the report displays Wage Detail information presented in four separate columns: Social Security Number, Employee Last Name (up to 10 characters), Employee First Name (up to 8 characters) and Quarterly Wage.
The first line of Wage Detail should be printed at least 2 inches below the top edge of the page. Up to 23 lines of Wage Detail may be printed on a single page. Additional pages of Wage Detail may be created if you have more than 23 employees to report.
The last line on the report shows the Page Total, which is the total of all wages paid to employees listed on that page.
In order to be read by our OCR scanner, you must use a letter quality printer. Please do not use Dot Matrix printing as it is unreadable by our OCR scanner and must be manually key entered.
Other reporting options using the same print report format are:
- Use blank forms UC-7823 in your laser printer.
- File online using our web-based application. After completing your quarterly Tax and Wage reports online, you can mail your payment with a payment coupon or you can make an electronic payment via EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer).See Section 2, Part 4 - Account Reporting (I) or call 608-261-6700.
Sample Report
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which led to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, resulting in the escalation of the Vietnam War. It is a history worth remembering at a moment when the US faces so many crises in so many corners of the world. There were actually two reported Tonkin Gulf incidents. The first, largely undisputed, occurred on August 2, 1964, when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US vessel engaged in surveillance operations. It is quite possible that the second incident, two days later, never took place: If there were North Vietnamese boats in the area at all, they never engaged the US fleet.
Nevertheless, US sailors had been fired upon and what had been one of many brushfire wars to which the nation had sent military advisers suddenly was the centre of popular attention. Congress adopted the Tonkin Gulf Resolution by an overwhelming bipartisan vote on August 7, 1964 — three days after Barack Obama's third birthday. That is how long ago it was. And yet the war it enabled continues even today to cast its grim shadow over US foreign policy. Seven months after the resolution was adopted, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrived at Da Nang. In the years to come, the number of US troops escalated fast and by the end of 1968, more than half a million Americans were serving there. Vietnam, successive presidents insisted, could not be allowed to "fall" to the Communists.
Vietnam gave my generation an entire vocabulary with which to doubt what we are told: Quagmire. Light at the end of the tunnel. Body count. Collateral damage (an old engineering term repurposed as euphemism for tragedy). Even the original "Green Zone" was established not in Baghdad but in Saigon.
The war was confusing not just at home but also in theatre. The North Vietnamese army was a foe the US understood. They were classically trained by the Russians, moved men and material according to staff command and never once defeated US forces in a set battle. The Viet Cong irregulars, however, blended into villages and jungles, relying on stealth and surprise rather than numbers and weapons. Sustained urban warfare against guerrilla fighters proved challenging, for the US military had relatively little experience with this new-old form of warfare. Vietnam gave us the phrase "hearts and minds". and the effort to win both somehow led to Operation Phoenix, in which US personnel promised bounties to farmers in the outer provinces who would turn in informers and collaborators. Evidently it hadn't occurred to the program's architects that even farmers might lie to settle scores with neighbours, or that people might take unkindly to the killing of tens of thousands of their fellow citizens. (Estimates of the dead vary, but everyone agrees that the body count is in the five figures.)
Yet Vietnam, like every war, was also an occasion for heroism and patriotism. Some 246 Medals of Honour were awarded, the great majority of them posthumously. The feats for which they were earned — throwing oneself on a live grenade, for example, or returning again and again to a firefight to evacuate the wounded — were the stuff of legend.
Members of violent underground groups, including Weatherman, used the war as an excuse for their terror attacks. Opposition to the war became so strident — and, in certain quarters, so unquestionable — that in 1967, so esteemed an intellectual as John Updike had to take to the pages of the New York Times to defend his position that the war, horrid though it was, should be debated on its merits, not according to whether one happened to like the president.
Vietnam was the first war America watched on television. Often, in its hunger for a story and its inexperience in covering this kind of war, the news media got the news badly wrong. The Tet Offensive, in 1968, was widely reported as a great success for the North Vietnamese, even though 45,000 of the 84,000 troops committed by North Vietnam were killed and not a single major strategic objective of the battle was gained. Other reporting, about the pains and complexities of the war, was far more accurate: We learnt, for example, that the swankiest clubs in Saigon were not open to locals. And that the going rate paid by the US for the accidental killing of a Vietnamese civilian was $30 (Dh110.34).
And all the while, domestic resistance mounted. Demonstrations were huge. In May 1970, National Guardsmen killed four protesters at Kent State University in Ohio. The war's end was coming. Some 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. The death rate, about 11 per day, was among the lowest of any war the US has fought. The high number of casualties is due in part to how long the war dragged on. America was not the same country after the Vietnam War. The crisis of confidence the war engendered was made worse by rising inflation in America and, abroad, a series of tiny but noticeable defeats (the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980-1981, for example). It seemed to many that the "American Century" had run its course. Some say the wound to America's spirit did not heal until the Reagan era. Others argue that the US grew its way out of it during the enormous economic expansion of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Iam afraid I cast my vote with those who contend that America is still not free of the shadow of Vietnam.
Something in the American character was broken in that war. A generation that had defeated the armies of fascism abroad and the forces of Jim Crow at home was suddenly full of self-doubt. The doubt is with America still.
We dream no big dreams any longer, we Americans. We want new apps for our smartphones and better health insurance. As for dreaming of a better world — when we think of that, we tend to think of Iraq, and think again. Unbuoyed by America's occasionally grating but often indispensable self-confidence, the world nowadays is taking care of itself. The results are plain to see.
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This is the 20-year anniversary of the game being coined the "Battle of the Boulevard." On Feb. 17, 1990, largest Battle of the Boulevard was played at Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym. Over 16,000 fans packed the gym to watch Lipscomb defeat Belmont 124-107 in the largest-attended basketball game in NAIA history.
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Last night, we had the best meal we've eaten in Austin, Texas so far. This meal was better than that exceptional first meal at
we had almost three years ago. The food was impeccably prepared and the level of execution was beyond anything we've experienced in Austin. Congress could easily be transplanted to any major city and still qualify as one of the best fine dining experiences in that region.
has been open for less than a 45 days, so we've heard reports of differing execution levels and off nights. While our meal was exceptional, it remains to be seen if six months down the line Congress will still be performing at a world class level. I, for one, am glad I had the opportunity to eat there last night when everything was practically perfect and am eager to see what the future months will bring.
We arrived before our table was ready, so while waiting at the bar, we ordered the
Burrata - Oxtail Marmalade - Buttered Brioche
($12) from the bar menu. The creamy mozzarella, sweet oxtail, and drops of fruity olive oil made an excellent appetizer which we lathered over the soft, fluffy bread.
Just as we finished out appetizer, our table was ready, so we followed the hostess to our table in the main dining room. We settled in and studied the menu - which is simple: seven course tasting menu for $125 ($175 with wine pairing) or three-course prix fixe for $65 per person (four to six choices for each course). Only two or three plates from the prix fixe menu were repeated on the tasting menu. We were intrigued by more dishes in the prix fixe menu, so we ordered six different items off of that and added the foie gras torchon.
Amuse bouche of
parsnip custard topped with parmesan foam
. The salty parmesan flavor blended with the velvety, subtle sweetness of parsnip. Wonderful. Tina said that it only took a bite of this to know that this meal was something different than what we've had in Austin and more like the fine dining in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York that we've had the opportunity to sample.
Bread. I think they like small breads here. I don't know what kind of bread it was, but it was good.
1st Course.
Wild Arugula - Artichoke Confit - Burrata - Red Grape Agro Dulce
. The artichoke was cooked sous vide to produce firm but fully cooked artichoke hearts that were not diluted with water via steaming or boiling. The burrata (as in our appetizer at the bar) was refreshingly creamy and worked beautifully with the mild arugula, sweet grapes, and artichokes to form a perfect salad.
Beef Tartare - Fried Oysters - Black Truffle - Parmesan - Ciabatta Chips
. A great garlicky preparation of steak tartare with sweet and crispy oysters. The ciabatta chips were flavorful, but a little too hard for my (currently) sensitive teeth (they were sliced incredibly thinly though).
2nd Course.
White Lobster Bisque - Fresno Tomato Jam - Lobster Ricotta Fritter
. When I started this dish I tasted the bisque by itself first. The soup itself was excellent with full lobster flavor. However, once I mixed in the other components (which included the tomato jam which an incredible fruitiness, lobster pieces with just the right amount of chew, and a delicate fritter), I found that the original bisque paled in comparison to this excellent mixture.
Roasted Bone Marrow - Corn Custard - Apple Bacon Marmalade - Parsley Salad
. The marrow bone was paired with a refreshing corn and parsley salad while the rich marrow itself was mellowed by the corn custard (served in the bone). The apple and bacon topping added an extra punch to the whole dish.
Foie Gras Torchon - Griddled Chestnut Brioche - Turnip - Minus 8
. ($24) We added the foie gras to our three course meal at an extra charge. The chestnut powder encrusted foie gras was excellent - smooth, silky, and salty. I thought the turnip was a little out of place when I ate it with the foie gras on the brioche, but truly enjoyed bites of turnip between my bites of foie gras. Minus 8 is a sweet ice wine vinegar that worked decently with the rich foie gras. I personally prefer a larger quantity of sweet and tart material to pair with foie gras - like an ample quantity of quince jam or something similar. Still, the best foie gras preparation we've had in Austin.
3rd Course.
Veal Tenderloin and Cheek - Celery - Celery Root - Black Truffle
. Both pieces of veal were amazingly tender and the cheeks were so full flavored that it was like beef heaven. Combining the veal with meat enhancing celery and truffles was well balanced and extremely pleasing (especially the white truffle oil aioli with brioche crumbles that topped with tenderloin piece).
Black Cod - Piperade - Serrano Ham - Basil Puree
. This large serving of mild flavored cod cooked until perfectly tender and just flaking made a great "light" main. Combining the fish with the other components on the plate makes the dish excellent. After I ate most of my share, I took some notes, and, when I looked up, Tina had polished off the plate.
Grapefruit sorbet, grapefruit segments, and campari pop rocks
. Strong grapefruit flavors with whimsical pop rocks.
Sweet potato beignets (topped with sugar and black pepper) and salted butter sorbet
. This is one of the best desserts we've ever had. The beignets were perfect - light and fluffy with slight resistance that I associate with potato starches. The sorbet was strongly flavored and perfectly balanced in saltiness and sweetness. The best frozen dessert that I can remember having.}?>
Chestnut panna cotta with cocoa nibs
. A pleasant end to the excellent meal that oddly tasted more like pecans than of chestnut.
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Wow! I hadn't even heard of this restaurant yet! Thanks so much for the review. Your pictures are inspiring, can't wait to try it!
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The addition of targeted agents to standard chemotherapy failed to improve efficacy in two different trials of advanced head and neck cancer.
In one trial, patients given gefitinib (Iressa) in addition to docetaxel lived about a month longer than those who received docetaxel plus placebo. In the other trial, adding erlotinib (Tarceva) to cisplatin-based chemoradiation did not improve response rate or progression-free survival.
However, neither regimen was associated with increased toxicity compared with standard chemotherapy, investigators reported online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Noting the lack of useful biomarkers to guide the use of targeted agents, the authors of an accompanying editorial said that experience to date suggests current strategies amount to "skimming the surface of a problem that is exceedingly complex."
"It is unlikely that genomic sequencing alone will represent a panacea to the therapeutic challenges in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck," said Aaron R. Hansen, MBBS, and Lillian L. Siu, MD, of Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto. "Comprehensive characterization that encompasses a broader omics-based molecular evaluation, as well as immune function assessments, is urgently needed."
The rationale for the gefitinib and erlotinib trials came from evidence that the drugs targeting epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) have synergism with conventional chemotherapeutic agents, have radiosensitizing properties, and have demonstrated modest activity as monotherapy in some clinical studies.
Cetuximab (Erbitux), another EGFR inhibitor, has been approved for use with radiation therapy or as monotherapy in selected patients with head and neck cancer.
Preliminary studies of the docetaxel-erlotinib combination showed considerable toxicity that required dose reductions. As a result, the investigators chose to evaluate gefitinib in combination with docetaxel.
"Our hypothesis was that the addition of gefitinib to docetaxel will be synergistic and improve outcomes of previously treated and/or compromised performance status patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck," Athanassios Argiris, MD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and co-authors wrote.
Eligible patients had recurrent or metastatic disease and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 2 or ECOG 0 to 2 and previous exposure to chemotherapy. All patients received weekly docetaxel and were randomized to gefitinib or placebo.
Treatment continued until disease progression, and the primary endpoint was overall survival.
The phase III trial had a patient-accrual goal of 330, but enrollment ended after 270 patients when an interim analysis suggested efforts to demonstrate improvement in the primary endpoint would prove futile.
The results showed a median overall survival of 6 months in the docetaxel-placebo arm and 7.3 months with the docetaxel-gefitinib regimen. An unplanned analysis suggested that patients younger than 65 benefited from gefitinib (7.6 versus 5.2 months median overall survival, P=0.04).
Grade 3/4 toxicity occurred in a similar proportion of patients in both treatment arms, with the exception of diarrhea, which was more common with gefitinib.
The erlotinib trial involved 204 patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. All patients received cisplatin-based chemoradiation and were randomized to the EGFR inhibitor or no further therapy.
The primary endpoint was complete response rate, and progression-free survival (PFS) was the secondary endpoint, as reported by Renato G. Martins, MD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues.
The results showed a complete response rate of 40% without chemoradiation and 52% with chemoradiation plus erlotinib, a difference that did not achieve statistical significance (P=0.08). After a median follow-up of 26 months, PFS also did not differ significantly between the two treatment arms (HR 0.9, P=0.71).
Investigators prospectively evaluated p16 status in 90 patients. A positive result was defined as "strong, diffuse nuclear and cytoplasmic staining in ≥70% of tumor cells." Patients with p16-positive tumors had significant improvement in the hazard for progression when they received erlotinib (HR 0.39, P=0.04).
Martins and colleagues also evaluated the relationship between development of rash and PFS in patients who received erlotinib. The analysis revealed rash as a significant predictor of improved PFS (HR 0.41 versus erlotinib-treated patients without rash, P=0.03).
"Despite preclinical data suggesting that erlotinib could be synergistic with both chemotherapy and radiotherapy, erlotinib previously failed to improve outcome in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer," Martins and colleagues noted in their discussion. "Here, erlotinib failed to improve the outcome of locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck when combined with cisplatin-radiotherapy."
Although disappointing, the results do not represent the end of the line for investigation of targeted agents in head and neck cancer, Ellie Maghami, MD, of City of Hope in Duarte, Calif., told MedPage Today. Echoing the sentiments of Hansen and Liu, Maghami said the true potential of targeted agents in head and neck cancer will not be determined in the absence of accurate biomarkers to guide patient selection.
The gefitinib study was supported by AstraZeneca. The erlotinib study was supported by Genentech.
Argiris disclosed a relationship with AstraZeneca. Co-authors disclosed relationships with AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, and sanofi-aventis.
Martins disclosed relationships with Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals. Co-authors disclosed relationships with XCENDA Amerisource Bergen Consulting Services, Genentech, Intuitive Surgical, and OSI Pharmaceuticals.
Siu disclosed relatinships with Roche, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Boehringer Ingelheim.
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Primary Source
Journal of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Argiris A, et al "Phase III randomized, placebo-controlled trial of docetaxel with or without gefitinib in recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer: An Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group trial" J Clin Oncol 2013; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.4272.
Secondary Source
Journal of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Martins RG, et al "Cisplatin and radiotherapy with or withoout erlotinib in locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: A randomized phase II trial" J Clin Oncol 2013; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.46.3299.
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Journal of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Hansen AR, Siu LL "Epidermal growth factor receptor targeting in head and neck cancer: Have we been just skimming the surface?" J Clin Oncol 2013; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.9220.


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It's not surprising Apple isn't bragging about how good its maps application is. In fact, the company is apparently trying to quietly downplay it.
The company appears to have removed the claim on its website that its map system is the "most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever," according to a report by 9To5Mac.


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Pass the champagne and slink on down in Boho Chic. A sassy bow at the neck let's everyone know that you are a leader not a follower and do not cave in to casual necking. This is the year when we cast our memories back to the hazy days of the 70's. Unearthing and breathing fresh life into the beloved era of big hair, free flowing dresses and flowers in our hair–it is the year of boho chic.
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Euro Superstars
Canada doesn't have a star system. Makes me crazy. In other countries, in the UK, in Australia, in France, in Spain, all over Europe, there is a local star system with many, many celebrities that don't translate across borders but, who nevertheless, form the foundation for a thriving entertainment ecosystem indigenous to that particular region. And it's not as if what they're offering is any different, or better, sometimes even worse, than what we have here.
But still…
Canadians seem averse to it. Then they complain about the lack of support for Canadian talent.
Anyway, this is the bodacious Monica Bellucci with her husband Vincent Cassel (yum!) at the Cesar Film Awards in Paris the other night. I've seen her in Cannes so I've been witness to the frenzy: Europeans they go batsh-t over Monica. Like crazy swarming and mobbing cars.
Monica and Vincent have been married almost 10 years. Their relationship is the subject of much tabloid speculation. Rumour has it they've agreed to take lovers, so long as it doesn't become too public, and this in turn has supposedly solidified their partnership. Rare that an arrangement like this works. I am not so evolved. I wish but I am weak.
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Antarctica lives in our dreams as the most remote, most forbidding continent on Earth. Yet it is also a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of marine life along its edges — several species of penguins; tens of thousands of seals, humpback, Minke and killer whales; and dozens of different seabirds including giant, soaring albatrosses.
In "Antarctica: On the Edge," you will travel to the southernmost continent by sailboat and then along the 900-mile-long Peninsula by sea kayak, foot, small plane and dive gear. You will see this one-of-a-kind place and gain a unique perspective on our planet's most remote land of sea and ice, and the incredible wildlife that call it home.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > March 2004 > Kenya Theological College president shares vision
Kenya Theological College president shares vision
PLAINVIEW - Decades ago as a youth leader in Kenya, Bernard Kabaru never imagined himself as a major ministry leader. But as the principal of Kenya Baptist Theological College, and with a vision to reach the nation for Christ using its own residents, Kabaru now finds himself helping to shape the mission endeavor of the African nation.
Kabaru shared that vision with Wayland Baptist University officials and ministerial students during a recent visit to the campus while in America on development visits.
"I feel that missions should be empowering the local church, with partners coming along to help in that mission rather than bringing in their own vision and expecting people to follow," Kabaru said. "What we are going to do with the present generation of Christians will determine what the church in Africa will be in the future."
While meeting with WBU leaders, Kabaru shared passionately much of the strategic planning completed in Kenya as a result of meetings with the Baptist Convention of Kenya and the KBTC leadership, looking deep into the decade with goals aimed at increasing the education level of Kenya pastors.
Pointing out a pyramid chart detailing current theological training, Kabaru noted that of the some 3,000 pastors in Kenya, only seven hold a bachelor's degree in theology and only five hold a degree higher than that. About 100 have earned a diploma through KBTC and another 90 have certificates of theology. Only about 25 percent have received Theological Education by Extension, a number Kabaru says the college wants to be at 100 percent by 2010. Many of those most highly educated are serving as teachers at KBTC.
The challenges of educating Kenya pastors do not include lack of willingness on their part, Kabaru pointed out, but a lack of resources. Ministers who attend KBTC must often travel days to get to the campus in Limuru, leaving family and churches behind while earning their education. And with about 95 percent serving bivocationally - most, Kabaru said, receive no financial compensation from the churches they serve - attaining theological training often means leaving a paying job at least for a short time.
Students at KBTC are required to be in ministry at the time of enrollment, and Kabaru said it is important for them to be learning while they are serving. But they're not just pastors or ministry leaders; many are businessmen, farmers, teachers and even housewives. Though education represents a great sacrifice, those longing to serve take that challenge willingly.
"Those who have been the recipients of western missions have experienced significant numerical growth in church starts and are urging to move forward into maturity, but the western (world) still has the resources," Kabaru said. "Kenyans have caught the vision, and the momentum is there. They are already working on church-planting strategies among the churches. The locals are doing the work, but they need trained leaders."
Wayland's role in the effort
Work in Kenya is nothing new to Wayland, whose leaders began a formal academic partnership with the KBTC in 1999 with the goal of helping train ministers in the East African nation. Five years later, Wayland has conferred 16 associate's degrees in theology to ministers who are now better equipped to disciple their church members and minister to unreached populations. The university continues to send faculty for short visits to teach courses toward the AAS degree. The first student group visited in the summer of 2002 as part of a three-week mission endeavor and another group plans to visit in May 2004.
According to Kabaru, Wayland's involvement brings great hope for the vision of KBTC leaders to be fulfilled in coming years.
"You all have been a Godsend. I really feel God has affirmed my role in this by bringing the partnership with Wayland," he said, adding that the college had approached others about the possibilities of partnering but found little interest.
Dr. Vaughn Ross, professor of biological sciences and a former missionary to Kenya, brought the two entities together after visiting with Kabaru and realizing the university's mission went hand-in-hand with KBTC's goals. The resulting partnership excites Ross, who has made several trips to Africa to teach and to accompany mission groups.
The endeavor in Africa represents something of a new paradigm in missions thinking to Ross, who spent 20 years on the field. Evangelistic efforts in Kenya are still valuable, but training the Christian nationals there, as Kabaru mentioned, will have more far-reaching effects. For one, the cultural barriers that often must be overcome by visiting missionaries do not exist when nationals witness to other nationals. Another positive is the ability for new believers to be discipled and trained as leaders themselves as churches grow stronger in unity and theological knowledge.
Members of Wayland's religion faculty are excited about the venture with Kenya, both for what it now represents academically and for what it may someday represent as a cog in a greater missions wheel.
"We are envisioning establishing a missions center here that would involve a faculty member in missions and would serve as a direct link to the Kenya campus, coordinating activities there such as students traveling there for courses or missions opportunities," said Dr. Fred Meeks, chairman of the Division of Religion and Philosophy.
"The missions center would also serve as a focal point for churches wanting to do missions and partnering with Wayland for endeavors. We would be the ones providing training and equipping them on how to do missions, perhaps even providing some language training," Meeks added.
Meeks and his faculty have been instrumental in helping develop and deliver the associate's degree in religion at KBTC, but they see this as just the tip of the iceberg as far as Wayland's academic involvement.
"We are currently only able to offer the associate's degree but our goal is to offer the baccalaureate degree, and, in the future, we would envision even offering graduate level training on that campus," Meeks said. "We have a long-range vision for this campus, with long-term opportunities for 'doing missions' in that area."
Spreading the vision
While Ross and other Wayland leaders are excited at the university's participation in this new trend, they know there is great potential for other churches and entities to be involved as well. By catching the vision, they can see how assisting KBTC in accomplishing its mission will mean they have had a hand in seeing others come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ through today's African believers.
Since KBTC's student body is not restricted to Kenya residents - others come from Burundi, Rwanda and Sudan; participants in the deaf ministry program come from many other nations - the potential for spreading the gospel is amazing.
According to Kabaru, needs are great. The college continues to work through a lengthy and complicated accreditation process for the Kenyan government, but that will eventually require better housing facilities for students and other upgrades. Wayland has been offering the program to KBTC at no charge, adding the expense to the university's regular annual budget. Wayland would like to help KBTC make technological and library upgrades that will get them closer to eventually offering a bachelor's degree, but those efforts obviously are costly.
Scholarships for students is another avenue Kabaru would like to see increased. Since Kenyan nationals have little income, the cost of attending KBTC - though reasonable for theological education - is still a financial hardship. Scholarships that help students cover cost of tuition, books and other requirements for school would help ensure more students are able to further their theological education.
Special gifts such as a $15,000 donation from First Baptist Church in Plainview are used directly in the cost of delivering the AAS degree to Kenya. This is the kind of partnership efforts of which Wayland and KBTC hopes to see more. Ross hopes more churches in the area will see that through gifts like this, West Texas residents can be involved in missions on the other side of the globe and the gospel will be spread.
"What KBTC needs is a full spiritual partnership where all participants prayerfully understand the challenge and each brings to the vision the resources God has given them stewardship over," Ross said. A very real part of that, he said, is prayer support and sending groups for missions experiences. The key, Ross added, is getting involved.
"It's a full expression of what the body of Christ is: What gifts you have you bring to the body."
For information on giving to the Kenya partnership project, contact Wayland Baptist University at (806) 291-3427.


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It's only fitting that actress and filmmaker Katie Aselton should choose five favorite movies about strong women who take charge.
LOS ANGELES — The thriller "Black Rock" is about a trio of childhood friends (Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and director Katie Aselton) who travel to a remote island off the coast of Maine to work through past issues and reconnect. But when it turns out they're not the only ones on the island, they end up having to fight for their lives.
Aselton's film, playing in select cities this weekend and through video on demand nationwide, celebrates the inner strength and resourcefulness women can summon when they're called upon to find it. So, it's only fitting that the actress and filmmaker, perhaps best-known for her supporting work on the FX comedy series "The League," should choose five favorite movies about strong women who take charge. It's also a pleasure to have her here since her husband, writer-director-actor Mark Duplass, took over the Five Most space last year with a list of great time-travel movies when "Safety Not Guaranteed" debuted.
Here's Aselton, in her own words:
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991): You cannot talk female heroines and not acknowledge Sarah Connor, a character faced with not just the challenge of preventing a nuclear war, but protecting her son. The girl is textbook bad-ass. And she has the guns to prove it.
- "Thelma & Louise" (1991): I love everything about this movie, but more than anything, this film illustrates a beautiful, authentic friendship between two women and how deeply fierce a bond like that can run. I love that these two women took the wheel of their lives and take us, as an audience, on an amazing ride.
- "Bull Durham" (1988): Susan Sarandon, again, I know! But the woman epitomizes bad-ass to me perfectly in that she never compromises her sexuality by being strong and smart. The woman makes no apologies in her characters or her performances. As Annie in "Bull Durham," she delivers another one of these amazing performances and cemented her place as "who I want to be when I grow up."
- "The River Wild" (1994): And then there is Meryl Streep. Who is amazing in everything. And while "The River Wild" may not be the highest moment in cinematic history, she plays an amazing mother who finds herself in the extraordinary situation of having to save her husband and son from deranged thieves on the run. Crazy, I know, but it's Meryl, and she does it all on a river raft while navigating rapids in mom jean shorts!
- "Tootsie" (1982): And finally, my favorite kick-ass girl is ... a dude? But Dustin Hoffman's character, Dorothy Michaels, taught us more about being a strong, powerful, compassionate woman in this world than most actual female characters could ever try to do. Dorothy Michaels is certainly a bad-ass role model for us all. And I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes of hers: "Oh, I know what y'all really want is some gross caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point that power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly. Well, shame on you for letting a man do that, or any man that does that."


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Now, there are a few things to do in preparation for the second leg of this mission, which is an entirely different leg of this epic mission. Since you have to wait for a call from the lawyer's office, you should take the time to bring one of your friends out to waste some time. We went out to a strip club with Brucie, for instance. It shouldn't take too long to get that call, however, but the appointment will always be the following day, so don't sweat it. Also, you'll need some nice clothes, so hit up one of the upscale establishments in Algonquin if you haven't done so already, and buy yourself some nice clothes. If you don't have any when you go to the meeting, you are going to run into some issues. So, a suit and nice shoes must be purchased.
Once you are properly dressed, in a suit and tie and nice shoes (head over to the high-end clothing store near the lawyer's office if you need to make any last minute alterations), head to the lawyer's office on or around the time instructed in your game. The office, as the GPS will inform you (if you're going there near enough to the time of your appointment) is on Bismarck Avenue. Head over there and go to the intercom outside of the office. You will be buzzed in by the receptionist (granted you're dressed properly and arrived on time). You can then go visit her, and she'll escort you to the lawyer's office for your "interview".
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I come to the end of the year with such mixed emotions. The school shooting in Connecticut is still fresh on everyone's minds. As we watch the news and see the funerals for these precious students and their teachers and principal, we grieve anew for the enormous loss for these families.
Many of the conversations I've had this past week revolved around school safety. I reiterate my earlier call to all educators throughout the state to review their safety plans and update them as needed. This will be different for each district in the state as each district has its own geography and architecture. Local boards should decide what best meets their needs. Still, every school must practice lockdown drills twice each year, and it is important to make sure communications plans are in place both internally and for parents. Keeping our children safe must be our goal. The more prepared we are, the better our chances of protecting our most precious resource – our children.
I support the work of Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman, and House Speaker-elect T.W. Shannon who announced on Thursday the formation of a School Security Commission. The trio said they will work to make sure security in our schools is as good as it can be and that as a state we are doing everything we can. In addition, they want to address mental health and make sure we are doing everything possible to address needs in this area as well. I am eager to hear the findings of this group and will offer the full support of my office to enact any measures they deem necessary.
While tragedy has taken up much of our thoughts recently, I don't want to forget all of the good that has happened in Oklahoma this year.
In October we rolled out our state's first A-F report card. Since then I have heard many accounts of initiatives at school districts throughout the state that are drawing educators, parents and community members together to brainstorm ways to boost student achievement and raise school grades. I read a wonderful article in The Oklahoman this week in which Western Heights Superintendent Joe Kitchens along with middle school Principal Randy Atkins, teachers, parents and community leaders, organized a grassroots initiative called the One Kid Challenge, or "OKC" for short. Their goal is to get one adult with one child for one hour once a month to focus on math and reading.
This was the point of A-F, to give parents and others outside of education a way to understand school performance and start these types of conversations.
We've also made some strides in student test scores. We heard earlier this year that Algebra II scores on ACE end-of-instruction tests ‹ one of the most important indicators for college readiness ‹ were up 21 percentage points compared to 2008. Students also showed gains in Algebra I, Geometry and English III. Additionally, 2012 OCCT (Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests) math results for grades 3-8 and OCCT reading results for grades 3-8 saw modest gains. At the same time, we saw college remediation rates drop for the first time in many years, which indicates more students are graduating high school better prepared for college.
Our REAC3H Coaches, meanwhile, are seeing positive responses to their work on literacy. Teachers are excited and energized to utilize the strategies they teach through job-embedded training. I am grateful for all of their hard work, as I am for the hard work of all educators throughout Oklahoma.
I'm encouraged to see these positive changes in education for our state. It gives me hope that the goal of every graduate of an Oklahoma school being college, career and citizen ready is attainable.
I close this column wishing each of you a very blessed Christmas and a happy New Year.


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Producer Michael Schwarz (Mystery of Memory, The Body's Secret Army, Botany of Desire, Muhammad: Legacy of A Prophet), brings his gift for unraveling complex topics to the subject of infectious diseases. In the past century, the tremendous expansion of scientific knowledge about the causes of infectious diseases has helped to more than double average global life expectancy. But as far as we've come, we still face some very daunting scientific challenges. The War Against Microbes takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through some of the most important advances in our understanding of infectious diseases, focusing on the relentless efforts of Nobel Prize laureates to uncover the mysteries of the body's smallest adversaries. From the dawn of bacteriology up through today's cutting-edge research, each generation of scientists continues to pursue the same question: can we one day declare victory in the war against microbes? The filmmakers travel to California to examine the effects of polio on a survivor and then look at the work of generations of scientiest who defied conventional wisdom as they searched for a vaccine. In Australia, we meet Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, who in the 1980s encountered steep resistance when they found evidence that bacteria called helicobacter pylori caused stomach ulcers - a discovery that flew in the face of conventional medical wisdom. But nearly two decades later, Marshall and Warren were rewarded for their tenacity with the 2005 Nobel Prize. The War Against Microbes charts both the progress we've made in understanding infectious diseases and the challenges that still remain. As Barry Marshall puts it, "we have come a very long way in infectious disease science over the last hundred or so years. But don't assume that everything has been discovered."


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