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Ten years ago Marching on Together ran a poll in conjunction with WACCOE, Leeds Chat and We Are Leeds of to find out the 100 Greatest Leeds Players Ever according to the fans. Ten years on we ask are there any players from the past decade that would make your top 100? Do Jermaine Beckford's goal scoring antics, especially at Old Trafford, mean he warrants a place in the list? With the passing of time would any more of the Wilko team break into the top 10? Would Harry Kewell drop out of the top 20 all together for signing for Galatasaray?
You can check out the full 100 Greatest Leeds Players Ever here but below are the top 10 as voted for back in 2005;
10) Nigel Martyn (1996-2003)
Martyn became the country's first £1 million goalkeeper when joining Crystal Palace from Bristol Rovers in 1989, having made over 100 appearances for the West Country club. Leeds paid £2.25 million for him in the summer of 1996, then a record for a goalkeeper. He had a superb first season for the Whites as part of George Graham's Leeds revolution. His form continued to be a model of consistency and he was an ever-present between 1999 and 2002. He helped United to third place in the Premiership, a place in the Champions League and the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Replaced by Paul Robinson as first team keeper in 2002, he joined Everton in 2003 for a nominal fee. Played 273 games and was Leeds Player of the Year in 1997.
9) Jack Charlton (1952-1973)
"The Giraffe" of Revie's Leeds team and one of the most talented and respected centre halves in footballing history. Big Jack spent his entire footballing career at Leeds, making an astounding 733 appearances over 21 years and scoring 96 goals. His height was used to great advantage at Leeds corner kicks and his surprisingly agile defensive ability kept out even the greatest strikers of his day. He earned the first of his 35 England caps at the age of 30 and was an important part of the 1966 World Cup winning team. Jack retired from playing in 1973 and had mixed fortunes as a manager at several clubs, but his best known managerial success was with The Republic of Ireland.
8) Allan Clarke (1969-1978)
Christened "Sniffer" by the Leeds fan for his uncanny ability to look for and score goals out of nothing, he arrived at Leeds from Leicester, costing a record £165,000. He more than repaid Leeds by scoring 151 goals in 364 appearances for the Whites, including the goals that won Leeds the 1972 F.A. Cup and the Fairs Cup. In fact only Lorimer and Charles have scored more than "Sniffer" for Leeds. His attacking partnership with Jones and Lorimer is legendary and he was capped 19 times for England. Sold to Barnsley in 1978 he saw out his last footballing seasons as their player/manager, before returning in 1980 to unsuccessfully take the manager's job, at Leeds, seeing them relegated.
7) Johnny Giles (1963-1975)
Revie's midfield general and penalty expert, his sometimes telepathic footballing double act with King Billy was a joy to watch. He was signed from Manchester United in 1963, and under the Don's guidance, became one of the truly great midfield players of that era. In 12 seasons wearing the No.10 shirt at Leeds, he scored 115 goals in 525 matches. In his career as a player, he won 59 caps and scored 5 times for Ireland. After leaving Leeds, he coached in the USA and Canada and later coached W.B.A. and Shamrock Rovers, before managing Ireland in the late 70's.
6) Norman Hunter (1961-1976)
A hard but skilful left half, nicknamed "Bites Yer Legs", he daunted opposition players at home and across Europe, with his bone crunching tackling. Despite playing second fiddle to the favoured Bobby Moore, he was still capped 28 times for England. In his 15 years at Leeds, he made 724 appearances, scoring 21 goals before moving on to Bristol City in 1976 and later, to Barnsley. He ended his professional football career managing Rotherham and later coaching at Leeds and a spell as match commentator for Radio Leeds.
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no, some look a little weird but there are many great ones
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It really depends on the artist. I actually think most good artists who draw well are (today's, not 1970s and 1980s) shojo manga artists. Shojo manga are usually prettier. The clothes and backgrounds are better and are with more details. I wish more seinen and shonen manga are drawn like the shojo styles I like. Some of the josei and shonen artists also have unique, pretty yet different from shojo styles, which I also like a lot (those types are my personal favourite since many run-of-the-mill shojo manga's art styles don't have much personality and are not prettier).
No... not really. i think they are mostly drawn better then the most shounen manga.
There ARE some weird ones but most are nicely drawn.
I LOVE Yukiru Sugisaki's drawing style.
I forgot what shoujo meant...is that like yaoi? I dont remember ^^;;
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I think they are fine some truly are amazing and nice some storylines are good too.
They arent drawn amazingly but some just get you it too much
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Not all. Some are actually good. Like Fullmoon wo sagashite and Shinshi Doumei Cross. =/ Also ION.
definitely. Arina Tanemura draws REALLY good, so I always like to read stuff by her
and Matsuri Hino. so it depends on the person who draws it, in my opinion.
however, i don't really like the art in furuba (their eyes are freaky!!!) but i still really like it, though.
I actually don't like the standard shoujo drawings, you know with the huuuge ass eyes
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my answers is
depends on the taste......
did you ever read Vagabond..................
if not you have no idea what you are talking about or what your asking............
please dont hate me
Vegabond is the most un-shoujo manga ever.
I like it a LOT
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no..........its the style.
There okay even though i don't read a lot of them
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The big eyes and other things all belong to the shoujo style of storytelling. Shoujo is all about moods, emotion, and relationships, so the eyes are used to convey many emotional messages. Along time ago I meet a female shoujo manga creator at a anime convention, and I asked her about all the super fancy clothes and hair styles in shoujo manga. She told me that in a society where the kids have many rules about how to wear their uniforms and hair at school she creates her characters, their clothes, and the hair styles based on how she thought her fans wanted to see themselves as, not as how they actually have to dress like and act like in real life. So, shoujo manga is a fantasy world where the girls are freer to express themselves then in the real world were they live.
Itazura na Kiss is a good example of terribly drawn anime/manga...i puked at the very sight of it.
come here little girl, suck my lollipop.
I thought big eyes belonged to the "moe" category in male-oriented manga or in "bishojo" games. Characters in those usually have FAR larger eyes than most characters in (today's) shojo manga. I guess the moe and "bishojo" game drawing styles are borrowed from older shojo manga but with some modifications (like the girls look less skinny with rounder face and the other stuff you all know).
I think it depends - I love dark Shoujo art like in Prince of Monster - and Alichino is very well done. Big eyes small mouth has everything to do with stylization and nothing to do with how well something is drawn. You have to take a look at a few Grey's Anatomies (not the show >_>) in order to figure out whether somone's art is just really stylized or they don't know what they're doing. For instance - a chibi wouldn't be considered bad art - just incredibly stylized - but if you knew anatomy (or had seen a lot of chibis) you would know a bad chibi when you saw one.

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A rose is a rose, is a rose, is a rose
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This is going to be my new favourite dress this festive season. Bought this shiny red lame/cotton in the U.S. of A and it wouldn't stop screaming at me (yes, cotton talks to me and tells me to do things) until I sewed it up.
The minute I saw this fabric I couldn't stop thinking of roses, and after thinking about it extensively while honeymooning in Hawaii, I came back to Australia with a creation fully formed in my mind.
I LOVE how the sleeves turned out, and I can feel another dress version coming on soon.
Interested in making these sleeves your self? Keep on eye on my blog in a few weeks I'll be posting a tutorial showing you how I created the rose effect. Guess what, it involves no hand sewing. Crazy but true.
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Nov 19, 2013, 10.30 PMby mixtlii
Hi! It's me again! I just wanted to tell you, maybe you've seen it already, in the movie "it's about time" (coming out right now in France), the girl wears a red dress with sleeves just like yours!! Interesting, isn't it ?!
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Nov 21, 2013, 06.12 AMby JuliaBobbin
oh my goodness you're right! How crazy! Clearly the designer and I have similar taste! Thanks for sharing with me :)
Sep 23, 2013, 12.30 PMby mixtlii
Hello ! I shamelessly copied you dress, thank you so much for the inspiration and the great tutorial !!! You can see it here .
Thank you :)
Jan 4, 2012, 10.33 AMby Ruffles Gazebo
thanks for the tute! was fun to watch. what a great technique. you are very talented missy!
Dec 27, 2011, 10.24 AMby olg
very well done! BEAUTIFUL
Dec 19, 2011, 07.01 PMby tirrs
Nov 30, 2011, 12.50 PMby efh1687
I'm so impressed! This dress is gorgeous!
Nov 26, 2011, 09.24 AMby KazztheSpazz
B A N A N A S, I just had a looksy over at your blog, the skirt to this!!? A to the amazing.
Nov 25, 2011, 12.11 PMby laurii
gosh, it's beautiful! x
Nov 23, 2011, 12.36 PMby Rosy1964
The dress was stunning! I am totally in love with those sleeves and the color of the dress, I will be attentive to your tutorial to make it.
Nov 22, 2011, 09.47 PMby assets
You are so so talented. I love it and I will be looking out for the instructions on how to do the sleeves. Well done.
Nov 22, 2011, 08.08 PMby Lauriänn
It has to be your fav dress definitely. The back is sooooooooooooo sexy!!!! Big up for your sleeves!!!
Nov 22, 2011, 12.20 PMby carolyn-s
Utterly stunning!
Nov 22, 2011, 05.53 AMby peppit
Speechless!! I want that tutorial yesterday. Pleeeeease!!!
Nov 22, 2011, 03.08 AMby LaraGa
This is such a pretty dress! I've put a link on my blog for people to see, I hope that is ok.
Nov 22, 2011, 02.58 AMby ronnielee
This dress is my fav to date, you just keep coming up with beautiful dresses!! You are the Queen of Ruffles!!
Nov 21, 2011, 08.47 PMby suzeb
Whaaaaaaatt!? This is too cute. I hope you get many, many opportunities to wear it this holiday season — and Valentine's Day, and for upstaging other people's weddings, etc. etc.
Nov 21, 2011, 07.43 PMby leahfranqui
Everything you make is just the best. How do you do that?
Nov 21, 2011, 05.13 PMby LadyDanburry
So wonderful!
Nov 21, 2011, 02.33 PMby max
"after thinking about it extensively while honeymooning in Hawaii" LOL! The words of a true sewist.Looks like your extensive thinking paid off. It's beautiful and you look beautiful in it! Great job.
Nov 21, 2011, 01.27 PMby dottty
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow jj:)x
Nov 21, 2011, 01.10 PMby wildflower31
Amazing. I will be looking for the tute! Not sure I can do it, but I'm going to try.
Nov 21, 2011, 11.25 AMby Anne Wagenhauser
lovely! gorgeous colour on you
Nov 21, 2011, 11.20 AMby mokosha
oh my.. you did amazing job.. i can not wait for that tutorial.. i can already see the blazer with this kind of shoulder embellishments
Nov 21, 2011, 10.49 AMby schnui
I love red dresses, shoes, bags and roses!!! Your dress is stunning and you look wonderful in it. It would be my favourite dress if I owned it too. Well done.
Nov 21, 2011, 09.19 AMby tigger0580
This is a nice dress and the colour suites you well
Nov 21, 2011, 09.15 AMby Redsonia
Gorgeous dress, stunning model!
Nov 21, 2011, 08.51 AMby loulourosa
I like those sleeves, and they look nice on you. My mother made a lot of dresses with those sleeves in the early seventies, and I've used this fun technique also for purses.
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Nov 21, 2011, 08.56 AMby JuliaBobbin
OOooo, on purses it would look lovely! I love how the possibilities are endless!
Nov 21, 2011, 08.45 AMby helenaviertel
Absolutely stunning!
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Nov 21, 2011, 08.47 AMby JuliaBobbin
Thank you so much!
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Ferrer battles on as Almagro crumbles
David Ferrer capitalised on Nicolas Almagro's fragile temperament to hit back from two sets down and clinch a place in the Australian Open semi-finals.
Almagro had lost all 12 previous meetings with his Spanish compatriot and the mental baggage was apparent when he failed to serve out the match three times - once in the third set and then twice in the fourth.
By the fifth, Almagro was a psychological wreck and it was no surprise that Ferrer duly completed a gutsy 4-6 4-6 7-5 7-6 (7/4) 6-2 victory in three hours and 44 minutes to set up a last-four clash with the winner of the match between Novak Djokovic and Tomas Berdych.
"It was a miracle that I won this match," Ferrer said. "Nicolas had a lot of chances to beat me but I tried to fight for every point - that is my game. I will always try to fight and do my best."
Almagro was initially ruthless when opportunities came his way, breaking once in each of the first three sets at the first opportunity to take him to the brink of victory, serving at two sets and 5-4 up.
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Ferrer did nothing special to get to 15-40 and although Almagro got it back to deuce he was powerless when Ferrer converted a third chance. Almagro's composure was shot and it was no surprise when Ferrer broke again to claim the set and get himself back in the contest.
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To his credit, Almagro hit straight back, winning a long game on his sixth break point. But, for a third time, his nerves betrayed him at 6-5 as Ferrer took it into a tie-break and there was a sense of inevitability when he took it 7-4.
By now Almagro was also struggling with a groin injury suffered during the breaker and he had to undergo treatment before the decider got underway. Ferrer was, in comparison, looking stronger than he had at any stage of the match and it was no surprise when he completed a wonderful comeback to progress through to the last four of a major for a fifth time.


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Kaohe Game Management Area (GMA) is an archery unit for game mammals with no bag limit for sheep and goats. To increase public harvest efficiency of feral goats and sheep, DLNR's Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) is allowing the use of muzzleloaders for licensed hunters by permit.
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"Please let me pull my pants up," Dexter pleaded, according to a witness' sworn testimony.
"Don't move!" the officer yelled.
But Dexter, 27, reached to pull up his pants, witnesses said. The officer fired four shots into Dexter's back and head, killing him.
Over the last six years, Inglewood police officers have repeatedly resorted to physical or deadly force against suspects who were unarmed or accused of minor offenses, a Times investigation found.
In the span of four months this year, Inglewood officers shot and killed four people, three of them unarmed. The Times' review of court documents, law enforcement records and interviews shows that the problem is not new.
* Five of the 11 people shot and killed by Inglewood police since 2003 were unarmed. They include a man who fled when officers tried to stop him for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk. An officer said he fired when the man reached for a bulge near his waist, which turned out to be a rolled-up T-shirt.
* Several officers -- including a training sergeant -- have complained about the department's policy on when to shoot and about a lack of training.
* To investigate shootings by police, the department has assigned the vice president of the Inglewood police officers' union, which advocates for officers accused of wrongdoing, and a detective accused by a prosecutor of lying about his own off-duty shooting.
* Two Inglewood officers were involved in using electric Taser guns on unarmed suspects four times in five weeks -- including on one man's genitals -- prompting defense attorneys to call them the "Taser Twins."
Earlier this year, the city hired consultants to review the department's training, policies and procedures and initiated a training program to improve officers' tactics.
Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said it was unfair to portray her officers as quick to pull the trigger or excessive in using force.
In some cases, she said, police opened fire only after suspects stabbed officers, shot at them or pointed guns in their direction. The 195-member department responds to more than 130,000 calls each year, she said, usually without problems or headlines.
"We interact with people who are exceedingly violent and resistive to the lesser levels of force, and we don't always shoot them," said Seabrooks, who became chief last year.
Inglewood officers have shot unarmed people they mistakenly believed posed a threat on six occasions, or a quarter of all shootings by police since 2003. Two of those people were carrying toy weapons. Five died and one was wounded.
On four other occasions, officers opened fire at moving cars, a practice strongly discouraged by many police agencies, including Inglewood.
"That's a lot of shootings in a smaller department," said Geoffrey Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina who has helped police agencies draft policies on the use of deadly force. "It raises a red flag."
Comparing officer shootings at different agencies is difficult because of varying crime rates, demographics and force size. Few agencies keep readily available data on the circumstances surrounding such shootings. Nevertheless, statistics from nearby agencies suggest that Inglewood's numbers are high.
Officers in the neighboring city of Hawthorne, for example, have shot and killed one unarmed suspect since 2003. Hawthorne, which has a crime rate similar to Inglewood's, has half as many police officers and four-fifths the population of Inglewood.
A report by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department -- which patrols an area with a population more than 20 times larger than Inglewood's -- shows that deputies have killed fewer unarmed people than have Inglewood police since 2005.
'He was real gentle, real kind'
Jule Dexter battled his share of problems. He struggled with a drug addiction, and in 2004 his mother sought a restraining order against him, accusing him of pushing her and stealing from her garage.
But when sober, Dexter was a joy to be around, said his aunt Patricia Hayes. "He was a big kid, but he was real gentle, real kind," she said.
A month before his death, Hayes said, Dexter completed a drug rehabilitation program and told her he was determined to provide for his 3-year-old son, whose name was tattooed on Dexter's right arm.
But by the night of June 6, 2005, Dexter was using cocaine once again, according to toxicology tests by coroner's officials.
Just after 6 p.m. he was standing outside an Inglewood liquor store with some friends when an unmarked police car pulled up. Officer Jose Estrada and Det. Louie Johnson of the city's gang detail approached Dexter's group.
What happened next is in dispute. Estrada told investigators that Dexter was slow to take his hands out of his pockets and seemed to fumble with what Estrada feared was a weapon.
But witnesses told authorities that Dexter moved his hand to pull up his pants. In a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by Dexter's family, Earnestine Baldwin, a bystander, testified that she heard Dexter repeatedly beg the officer to let him pull up his pants.
The city paid $725,000 to settle the lawsuit.
"I realize they can be afraid. But they're supposed to be the skilled ones," said Hayes, a bank vice president. "What gave them the right to kill my nephew? Where is the justice?"
The district attorney's office decided not to file criminal charges against Estrada, concluding that he reasonably believed that Dexter was preparing to pull a gun and shoot him.
A panel of three Inglewood police captains decided 2 to 1 that Estrada had not violated the department's deadly-force policies. But then-Chief Julius I. Davis disagreed and suspended Estrada for 16 days.
Estrada appealed, complaining that he was not trained properly. He has asked a Los Angeles court to throw out the department's deadly-force policy because it is confusing.
Kenton Ferrin, then Estrada's training sergeant, testified during Estrada's disciplinary appeal that the policy is confusing to officers.
The department never ordered additional training for Estrada after the shooting, according to legal documents filed by his attorney.
Seabrooks said she believed the policy was clear, but added that it was being updated to make it more precise.
Investigating their own officers
Like many police agencies, Inglewood entrusts the job of investigating officer-involved shootings to its own homicide detectives. Their work is reviewed by the district attorney's office.
In recent years, the detectives assigned to such shootings have included Loyd Waters, vice president and former president of the Inglewood Police Assn.
Seabrooks, a former Santa Monica police captain, said she saw nothing wrong with a union official investigating officer-involved shootings, saying it is not unusual in smaller police departments.
But Bill Geller, an Illinois-based public safety consultant and nationally recognized expert in police shootings, described it as a conflict of interest. Police union officials, he said, advocate for their members, but investigators must objectively review the facts of a shooting even if an officer is at fault.
"That seems to me really foolish," Geller said. "The department is needlessly risking its reputation for integrity and objectivity by doing this."
Another detective assigned to probe recent officer-involved shootings is Willard Salmon Jr., a 12-year department veteran.
In 2002, Los Angeles police were called to the parking lot of Dodger Stadium after Salmon, while off duty, shot and wounded a paroled carjacker after a game. Salmon told police that he fired in self-defense after the man attacked him with a beer bottle.
But Deputy Dist. Atty. Max Huntsman concluded that Salmon's account was "not credible." Two groups of independent witnesses, he wrote in a memo, told police that Salmon wasn't attacked and that he and his girlfriend hunted for the shell casing and removed it before Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived.
"This behavior supports the conclusion that Salmon felt he had acted improperly and removed the evidence in the brief hope that he might be able to keep himself from being identified," Huntsman wrote.
The prosecutor also faulted the Inglewood police internal affairs investigators for failing to give Salmon an alcohol breath test until eight hours after the shooting.
Huntsman opted not to file charges against Salmon, deciding that a jury would not be likely to convict him given his claim of self-defense.
Seabrooks said the department's internal investigation cleared Salmon of wrongdoing and that the agency has received no complaints about his work as a detective.
Salmon said he was assigned to the homicide unit about 18 months ago.
"I don't think, if they had issues with the shooting or questions about the shooting, they would have put me in the position to investigate officer-involved shootings," Salmon said in a brief interview.
Last year Salmon was the lead detective investigating the police shooting of an unarmed man, Richard Ray Tyson, according to coroner's records.
Tyson, 20, was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk when two officers recognized him as an alleged gang member and tried to stop him. Tyson fled, leading the officers on a foot chase until he was cornered in a residential backyard.
Officer Zerai Massey told investigators that Tyson ignored orders to show his hands and moved them toward his waistband. Massey fired six rounds, hitting Tyson's back and torso. The officer told investigators that he believed Tyson was armed with a gun. No weapon was found on Tyson. Instead, officers discovered a rolled-up T-shirt stuffed in his sweatshirt's front pocket.
The district attorney's office found that the officer had acted "in lawful self-defense." Tyson's family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, alleging that the shooting was unjustified and the investigation inadequate.
As fallout faded, more use of force
In 2002, Inglewood found itself in the national spotlight when a white officer was caught on videotape punching a black teenager and slamming him onto the trunk of a police car. The city installed video cameras in patrol cars, required sensitivity training for officers and set up a panel of citizens to review complaints against the police.
But as the fallout from that episode faded, Inglewood officers have continued to resort to force, including Tasers, on unarmed or handcuffed suspects.
The city settled two lawsuits this year with residents who claimed officers shocked them with Tasers as a punishment rather than to subdue them.
One woman alleged that officers shot her with a Taser twice after she kicked out a patrol car's rear window while handcuffed and hyperventilating in the back seat. After shocking her, she claimed, the officers asked, "Did you like that?" She collected $95,000. A man who claimed a sergeant stunned him with a Taser at the police station and said it was for biting an officer was paid $55,000.
"It seems there is very little discipline there," said his attorney, Gary Casselman.
Just how often Inglewood officers deploy their Tasers is unknown. A police spokesman said the department does not keep track of Taser incidents.
But in 2005, deputy public defenders noticed a pattern of complaints by clients who said they were shot with Tasers by Inglewood cops. Two officers stood out.
During one five-week period that year, four people complained that they had been shocked by Officers Eduardo Sanchez and Rafael Rodriguez. Defense attorneys gave them the nickname "Taser Twins."
"They seemed to be immature and poorly trained officers," said John Raphling, a former deputy public defender now in private practice. "They seemed to be operating with very little supervision."
Among those shocked by the pair was Clarence Williams, whom the officers arrested on suspicion of public drunkenness.
At the city jail, Rodriguez and Sanchez, along with a third officer, took Williams to a room to be strip-searched. Sanchez wrote in a report that Williams became belligerent as he got undressed.
Sanchez wrote that Williams, 5 feet 7 and about 160 pounds, took a step toward Rodriguez with his fists clenched. Sanchez said he shot Williams with the Taser, striking him in the genitals and stomach. He said he used the electric current three times before Williams calmed down.
The department's policy prohibits officers from firing Tasers at a suspect's genitals.
Williams, 42, told The Times that the officers attacked him without provocation while he was naked and starting to pull his pants up.
Lt. Mike McBride said supervisors concluded that Williams was struck unintentionally in the genitals and that officers otherwise used appropriate force.
He said Sanchez resigned last year during an unrelated internal affairs investigation into alleged misconduct, including making false statements. Rodriguez was fired around the same time. McBride declined to detail why, citing Rodriguez's pending disciplinary appeal.
The officers could not be reached for comment.
Williams said of the Taser: "It was like pure electricity going through my entire body." Getting shot in the genitals, he said, caused "excruciating pain."


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Rather than New Year's resolutions, I've decided to make monthly resolutions. I think these are easier to manage and achieve. For January, I will continue editing my novel Hoping It Might Be So, submit my novel Purple Loosestrife to at least one place (I think, though I may decide to do a little more editing on this one, too), write at least one short story, and write at least one memoir piece. Of course, I hope to get more done than just what's on this list. I still have wide-scale work to do on the draft of my novel Dark and Bright, but I believe this is a good plan.
About Me
- Emily Glossner Johnson
- Hello! I'm a writer from central New York who has bipolar disorder. Among other topics, I write about mental illness and writing. I have short stories published in Lynx Eye, Lost Coast Review, The Outrider Review, Sliver of Stone Magazine, The Mondegreen, The Linnet's Wings, Cobalt Review, Breath & Shadow, The Round Up, Postscripts to Darkness, and several other journals. I have poetry in The Poeming Pigeon and WINK Magazine. I have essays about mental illness in The Ram Boutique and Amygdala Literary Magazine, and an essay in Parts Unbound: Narratives of Mental Illness & Health, a book that was published by Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective. My story "Santa Lucia" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I've written three novels entitled Purple Loosestrife, Hoping It Might Be So, and Dark and Bright, all of which are as yet unpublished. I'm working on a memoir about my experiences with bipolar disorder. I have a B.A. in English from SUNY Buffalo and an M.A. in English from SUNY College at Brockport. I hope you enjoy your visit to my blog!
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Today's matchup of USA and Canada in the Olympic men's hockey semifinal pits two of the best teams in the world in a game that will send one squad to the gold medal game.
Here's a closer look at what to expect when the two teams face off at noon ET/9a PT on the NBC Sports Network or on nbcolympics.com.
Scoring Depth vs. Grit:
Team Canada has 11 of the top 25 NHL scorers on their roster, but have only scored 14 goals in four games. The significantly less star-studded USA offense has scored 19.
Team USA also has three of the top hitters in the game in Dustin Brown, Brooks Orpik and David Backes, who are all in the top 20 in hits in the NHL.
Nothing slows down speed and finesse like grit and wide shoulders. While Team Canada has a few guys that can hit in Chris Kunitz and Drew Doughty, Team USA has a better balance of two-way players with Ryan Kesler, Backes and New York Rangers captain Ryan Callahan.
If Team USA can keep Sydney Crosby and the rest of the hungry Canadian offense away from the front of the net, the game can get feisty, fast.
3 Things to Watch in U.S.-Canada Olympic Semifinal
Powered by Phil Kessel, who leads all Olympians in goals and points, and the heroics of TJ Oshie in the shootout, the gritty and well-balanced Team USA has fared much better than Canada on the scoresheet in Sochi. When the Team USA roster was decided, many pundits had qualms that scorers including the Islanders' Kyle Okposo and the Senators' Bobby Ryan were left off. Offensive production, however, has not been a problem for Team USA.
How They Match Up:
Offensively, Team Canada is stacked, with five of the top ten scorers in the NHL on their roster. While the MCL tear that knocked John Tavares' out of the Olympics may seem like a big hit for Canada, it's not nearly as big a deal as you'd think. The team's fourth line center, Tavares wasn't getting the ice time you'd expect being the NHL's third leading scorer and wasn't a real factor. Tavares' replacement, Matt Duchene, has a similar skill set and can break a game open the same way Tavares could if given ice time.
However, that deep bench hasn't helped Canada in the Olympics. While they have gotten excellent goaltending from Carey Price, the offense hasn't produced (away from a 6-0 drubbing of Austria) the way that many predicted. A sleeping dragon- or one in a coma, Canada's offense will either wake up or allow the rambunctious USA to hit and skate all over them.
Team USA will have to deal with injuries as well. Puck-moving defenseman Paul Martin will not play due to an undisclosed injury/illness, replaced by another smaller, smooth-skating D-man in the Hurricanes' Justin Faulk. A part of Team USA's second D-pairing, look for USA's top D-men, Ryan Suter and Ryan McDonough, to carry more of the load on the blue line.
Final Thoughts:
How quickly each team finds a weakness and capitalizes could be the key to the game,. With Canada's lack of offensive output thus far and Team USA's surprisingly dominant play, anything can happen once the puck is dropped.


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The Lure of the East
The cover of the catalogue for the exhibition "The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting" shows the 1881 oil painting An Arab Interior by Scottish artist Arthur Melville. This captivating work portrays a white-bearded man, long tobacco pipe in hand, seated before a mashrabiyya, or latticed wooden screen. Exhibition curator Nicholas Tromans notes: "The patterns of strong sunlight falling through these screens into an interior became a favourite motif of British painters."
The subdued interior is gently brightened by the rosy hues of the furnishings and the man's dress. An Arab Interior has an intimacy and warmth, and is an enticing introduction to the exhibition of some 115 works by 46 artists which runs at the Tate Britain gallery in London until the end of August.
Going East
The exhibition is organised in association with the Yale Center of British Art, in Connecticut, where it was first displayed in February-April this year. Following its run at Tate Britain the exhibition will move, in partnership with the British Council, to the Pera Museum in Istanbul (October-January) and Sharjah Art Museum (February-April).
Most of the pictures date from the 19th century, when the arrival of steam travel made parts of the Middle East and North Africa much more accessible. Many British artists visited the Eastern Mediterranean and its great cities. Some travelled directly by steamship. Others went via Spain and Morocco, or through Greece and the Balkans.
Among the artists who brought back images of the Orient were Edward Lear, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Seddon, David Roberts, Frank Dillon, Lord Frederic Leighton and William James Müller (son of a Prussian émigré).
New heights of achievement
The dominant presence in the exhibition is John Frederick Lewis, represented by 32 works. Lewis lived in Cairo for a decade from 1841, wearing local dress and living in a grand house. He executed nearly 600 watercolours and drawings during that time. Lewis is particularly known for his beautifully detailed interiors and harem scenes, of which the exhibition has fine examples including The Reception and Hhareem Life, Constantinople.
In his masterpiece A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai, 1842, painted in 1856 Lewis's watercolour technique reaches new heights of achievement. Commissioned by Viscount Castlereagh, the picture shows the aristocrat languidly resting in his tent during a hunting expedition. Lewis's close friend, the critic John Ruskin, declared it "amongst the most wonderful pictures in the world".
There was exciting news for the organisers of the Tate Britain exhibition when, a few weeks before it opened, three works they had hoped to include but had been unable to locate were found in the Qatar Orientalist Museum. The pictures, among them Lewis's exquisite 1855 oil An Armenian Lady in Cairo – The Love Missive, have been incorporated into the exhibition.
The eyes of the young Armenian woman are lowered as if she is in a reverie and she holds a posy. The picture resonates with certain other works on show, by Lewis and others, in which the language of flowers is an essential element.
Debates on Orientalism in art
Inevitably, especially in a year that marks the 30th anniversary of publication of the late Edward Said's hugely influential but increasingly challenged book Orientalism, the exhibition is surrounded by debates on Orientalism in art.
The exhibition organisers have tried to ensure that the issues are explored from both Western and Middle Eastern perspectives. Thirty prominent people, including Arab, Turkish and Jewish scholars and writers, have contributed their thoughts on particular works which are displayed alongside the exhibits.
Two of the four introductory essays in the handsome 224-page catalogue are by Arab women writers: Syrian Rana Kabbani and Moroccan Fatema Mernissi. Kabbani's essay, which is angry in tone, sees a link between pictures painted at a time when Britain enjoyed military and economic mastery over the peoples and places depicted, and the modern era "in which Britain has again participated in the occupation of an Arab country". She admits, though, that "many of these paintings have managed to preserve a poignant visual record of places that are now altered beyond recognition, or have vanished forever."
The West's attitude towards the dark – and the nude
Mernissi adopts a more forgiving approach in her essay Seduced by 'Samar', or: how British Orientalist painters learned to stop worrying and love the darkness. In her view the exhibition is "a wonderful opportunity to probe the link between the West's attitude towards the dark and its fear of Islam". She concludes that the painters' encounter with a different world "led not to conflict but to creativity, and we have much to learn from them."
Anyone coming to the exhibition in the hope of seeing lurid and titillating examples of Orientalist art will be largely disappointed. One point made by the organisers is that there were marked differences between British Oriental artists and those of certain other countries, in particular France. For all his numerous paintings of harem scenes, John Frederick Lewis, unlike some of his French counterparts, never painted a nude.
Tromans points out: "The iconography of the odalisque – the Turkish sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master – is almost entirely French in origin." The odalisque is particularly associated with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, in paintings such as The Turkish Bath crowded with voluptuous nudes.
Combination of cruelty and eroticism
By way of drawing contrasts between the British and French Orientalist painters' approach, French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme's For sale: Slaves at Cairo is hung near the Scottish artist William Allan's The Slave Market, Constantinople. As typifies Gérôme's slave market paintings, For sale: Slaves at Cairo combines cruelty and eroticism – one of the slaves is naked, long dark hair cascading down between her breasts, others are revealingly clad. Allan's painting, showing Turkish slavers on horseback splitting up the women of a captured Greek family, is melodramatic but has none of the prurience of Gérôme.
It would be a pity if the mass of debate over Orientalist art acted as an invisible screen between visitors and the paintings on display. One visitor whose preconceptions were turned upside down was the British Asian Muslim columnist Yasmin Ablihai-Brown. She wrote in the Independent newspaper that she had gone to the exhibition prepared to detest the artists for presuming that through beauty they could deny the unforgivable truth, that they were upholders of illegitimate imperial privilege.
Instead: "All expectations fell away as I gazed upon painting after painting, many of which seemed, to my eye, expressions of undeclared love of the Middle East by white, Christian, upper-class gents, their secret pain and longings, the conflict between head and heart, between Antony and Cleopatra."
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The Reception of the Other
Western Painters of the Orient, Orientalists in the East
In two books that cast light on the history of the reception of the Orient and the Occident, the New Yorker Kristian Davies looks at images, while the Egyptian Muhammad Immara studies texts. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz reports
Leopold Carl Müller
Sand in the Bristles
European painting took to the Orient in the nineteenth century. Egypt in particular was considered the dreamland of many artists. An exhibition in Vienna is now showing the work of the prodigious painter of the Orient, Leopold Carl Müller. Niklaus Maak took a look at the exhibition
"Staging the Orient"
The Dark Underbelly of the Belle Époque
The Orient of the belle époque is sensual: glittering, sweet-smelling, enchanting. It is noble, yet hedonistic to the point of overkill, and deliriously seductive. In his new publication, Wolf-Dieter Lemke examines the deceitful splendour of the age


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As I'm currently living in the area I was delighted to have a look around and chat to the owner Alastair Hendy, who obligingly let me take some interior shots.
Alastair is a well established photographer, food writer and stylist and regularly contributes to journals such as Marie claire, Olive, Saturday Telegraph and the mail on Sunday. He is also a style and food consultant for M&S and Sainsburys.
I felt quite privileged to have this opportunity to write about this latest project of his which he has been planning and collecting for, for about six years.
The concept is essentially a hardware store delivered with style, and attention to detail. Like a bygone department store on a small scale; selling beautifully crafted brushes, kitchen ware, sanitary ware, textiles and vintage pieces. Alastair explains that it reflects a conscious return to old values; values that he's always had.
The products have a utilitarian feel, and simplistic beauty. Alastair feels that in times of austerity people are wanting to choose their purchases more carefully; something useful and decorative, that has quality and will last.
If you are an avid collector of well known vintage crockery such as green Beryl Ware or need to replace some broken pieces, this is the place to come as Alastair has a huge range of pieces in excellent condition.
He is still on the look out for a good string supplier and would like to stock an even greater selection of quality scissors than he already has. The current range made from Sheffield steel, includes even candlewick snippers and Tailors shears, amongst others.
The bones of the building are quite beautiful, from panelling to peeling walls and woodwork, all of which give the impression that they have always been there. However, I was astonished to hear that this was not so. Alastair had to source some of the backdrop from London and salvage places elsewhere. The building did have some of the desired 'look' but the enhancement of this is down to Alastair's creative abilities and meticulous attention to detail, all of which are testament to his vision and passion for his concept.
There is something here for everyone ; Alastair confirms that he has a broad customer base from London professionals to Local pensioners and his fan base is likely to get bigger, with plans in place for an on-line shop and the addition of a cafe serving sea food and local produce. The visit for me was a real experience.
I asked if he intended to role out this concept in other towns and he confirmed that he would like a Home Store London....watch this space.


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2010-05-19 / Columnists
Pets, Pets, Pets
And now a feline Public Service Announcement… Animal advocates (and people with common sense) need to unite so the Brookhaven Town Board does NOT pass a proposed feeding ban of feral cats on Town property. Besides being unethical, unenforceable and probably illegal, feeding bans do not work. Bottom line: The cats will stay while Brookhaven wastes manpower prosecuting the same people who were trying to improve the cats' quality of life and keep their population down.
Brookhaven's feral cats need your support at the Brookhaven Town Board public hearing on Tuesday, June 1 at 6:30 pm at 1 Independence Plaza in Farmingville. You need not be a Town resident; just a caring person. Many humane organizations like the Animal Alliance of LI and Last Hope, plan to be there. Presently there is an online petition (Google "Care 2 petition site-Brookhaven cats") with 1,740 signatures to stop this cruel ban.
Two years ago the Long Island cat welfare community showed up en mass at another Town Board meeting when Brookhaven was waging a war against the feral colony at Cedar Beach in Miller Place. At that time Brookhaven wanted to pay a professional trapper (exterminator?) $10,000 to remove the cats because of a pair of piping plovers that had made an appearance several years before. Instead, because of the uproar, a rescue stepped in to help the Town implement a kinder resolution. We saw how callous and misinformed certain officials were about successful feral cat TNR (Trap/Neuter Return) management, even concerning methods in tricky cases when endangered species are involved. The latest proposal shows that their attitudes have not progressed. Presently the Cedar Beach situation is under control, so it is not the impetus for the feeding ban vote.
The Brookhaven proposal #2010-209, moved by Council member Jane Bonner, would expand the present Town Code prohibiting feeding pigeons and water fowl to include not feeding all wildlife and domesticated animals within Town of Brookhaven parks, nature preserves and designated open space. Punishment for breaking the law could result in a fine as much as $250 and ten days in jail for each offense.
Whether you love, hate or are indifferent to cats, everyone has the common goal to reduce the number of cats living outdoors. To the uninformed, a feeding ban seems like the simple solution. Neighborhood Cats of NYC, the authority on the successful TNR management explains in their handbook: "Take away the food, and the cats will not go away. Not unless there is another food source nearby. Feral cats are territorial and will not wander in search of food. Rather than leaving, they come closer, taking more risks in encroaching on human habitations as they grow increasingly desperate to find something to eat." Cats will even eat insects. Trying to starve out cats results only in hungry, unhealthy animals vulnerable to disease and parasites that can still reproduce. Many more of cats and their kittens will suffer and die.
Furthermore, by hook or by crook, nothing is harder than stopping determined folks from putting out food once they know there are cats in need. People will risk their jobs, leases, and even personal safety to prevent animals from starving. Ban feeding, and the caretaking will go undercover. Proper feeding stations will become pig pens. Conflict will increase. Successful TNR works when everyone is on the same page- that is, when the landowners are cooperative and when the feeders have an organized system, are monitoring colonies and most important- are spay/ neutering all of the cats. Besides their emotional ties, caretakers have tons of money invested in the veterinary care of each colony.
As for the legality of a feeding ban, rules governing feral cats are vague. Our anti-cruelty laws are spelled out in Article 26 of the NYS Agriculture and Markets laws. Under Section 350-Definitions, all cats and dogs are considered "companion animals." No distinction is made between pet and feral cats. (Actually it takes only one generation for a tame cat's offspring to become feral.) Then within the laundry list of cruelties outlined in Section 353, it states that a person "whether the animal belongs to himself or another" can be charged with a misdemeanor if he "deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, food or drink." Hence, wouldn't a feeding ban be considered cruelty by NYS law?
Another LI Town, with a more compassionate mindset, is setting up a model colony at a Town park on Great South Bay with a plan inspired by Project Bay Cat in Foster City, CA. Years ago this LI park had constant "cat fights" between feeders, government and residents. Presently this Town's shelter director has set up a dialogue between the caregivers and officials. With the help of a local rescue and the Town-subsidized vouchers, 27 cats have been spay/ neutered, vaccinated, ear tipped and returned over the last year. Thearea has been cleaned up. Thedirector built longhouse shelters and a raised feeding station. A Girl Scout Troop assembled smaller shelters and painted them in a Caribbean cabana scheme. All are placed out of view. Thecolony is posted as a Town feral colony asking outsiders not to feed (and make a mess) because the cats are already being maintained on a schedule. This plan is light years ahead of Brookhaven's legislated starvation.
If you care about cats, you can help the Brookhaven ferals by attending the Town Board meeting on June 1 and possibly signing up to speak. If that is impossible, please add your signature to the online petition and call/ write Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko (631-454- 9100) and Councilwoman Jane Bonner (631-451-6964) to remind them of the words of Francis of Assisi: "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: "Sheba" a sweet stray Husky in Cage 30 came into the shelter wearing a tag and a license but her phone has been disconnected, whereas "Blanca" is an adorable older Bichon who needed to be shaved down immediately because her mats were so uncomfortable.
Male: chocolate Lab puppy caught in a humane trap Cage 1; "Tigger" brindle Mr. Congeniality Cage 18; American Bulldog Cage 14; "Montana" Golden Retriever mix Cage 4.
Female: "Bella" huggable Pit Cage 27; "Jinni" carries her bowl Cage 48; gray kitten and her tabby sisterboth left behind in an apartment.
u Big Pet Weekend: Thefirst ever NYC Pet Show (www.NYCPetShow.com) is at the Metropolitan Pavilion on May 22-23 with the "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Milan making a guest appearance; and a LI cluster of three dog shows begin Fri./ Sat at Planting Fields in Oyster Bay and finish on Sunday at Old Bethpage Restoration (www.infodog.com).


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Last week I was contacted by a PR firm representing the Discovery Health Channel about two new cooking shows they are premiering on Thursday, March 29, 2007 (at 10:00 and 10:30 PM EST/PST). Up until the time that I got the e-mail, I didn't even know there was a Discovery Health Channel (there is - it's part of the Comcast Digital Classic lineup in my area). Both new shows,
Lyon in the Kitchen
Healthy Dedadence
are aimed toward the calorie conscious.
The first show, Lyon in the Kitchen (at 10:00PM), is really focused on using fresh ingredients. Nathan Lyon (some of you will recognize as a finalist in 2006's
The Next Food Network Star
) says "the fresher the ingredient, the better the food" and takes you "grocery stores, mom and pop places, and even roadside stands" to prove his point. Nathan seems to be a real proponent of buying local (to "support the community") and in season ("buying out of season, that means it's picked early and doesn't have a lot of flavor"), which is a philosophy about ingredients that I whole heartedly agree with. From the few clips that I watched, Nathan seems to have a good sense of humor and a pleasant attitude about food preparation. Also, the press release promises that Nathan will show us how to find the freshest produce from stands to farms, so I'll watch at least the first couple episodes just for that. It was unclear to me how his show is more "calorie-friendly" than other (fresh ingredient) cooking shows (perhaps that's a phrase that cooking shows on Discovery Health need to stick in for marketing reasons).
While Lyon in the Kitchen might be calorie-ambiguous, Healthy Decadence (at 10:30PM) is all about the calories. Devin Alexander (who wrote the
Biggest Loser Cookbook
that accompanied the NBC show in 2006) apparently specializes in reducing calories (mainly by reducing fat) in classic dishes. She selects "the right cuts" of meat and "simple cooking techniques" (such as replacing some chocolate in a recipe with instant coffee) to reduce fat. Hopefully, her recipes will work better than those provided by Juan-Carlos Cruz in his Calorie Countdown Cookbook (Cooking For Engineers will have a review written by David Papandrew at some point in the future; David's been working through some of the recipes and needed a break after a really bad one involving carnitas made from pork boiled in enchilada sauce). Devin is up beat, is excited about low calorie cooking, and reminded me of a lower-key Rachael Ray. If you're a calorie watcher, her show should be worth checking out.
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I don't have a TV, let alone cable, so I unfortunately won't get enjoy these two shows. I don't know if I'd enjoy Healthy Decadence though. It seems like a good premise, but if Devin Alexander is (like you say) anything like Rachael Ray, I'm sure I'll be flipping the channel...
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There may be so many things that are shown to make people aware of their growing calories but I do not think that there are enough people who are willing to pay heed to this as people nowadays are too much involved in money making and therefore they dont like to waste time looking after themselves.
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I don't watch TV anymore, but these sound interesting. Maybe I should get a friend to tape it for me or consider getting satellite again.Hmmm....
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:55 am
Post subject: Devin is NOT like Rachel Ray
Whoa, Devin may be like Rachel Ray in terms of the fact that she is a perky brunette, but I'm hooked on this show and trust me....she is a HOT-TIE! She doesn't sound like she's been talking to too many hockey players the way Rachel does and she doesn't do all of the annoying abbreviations that Rachel does. Let's just say that ANY guy would be excited to take Devin home to mom...or anywhere else!
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I just watched the Grilled Halibut and Provincial Bread Salsa episode of Lyon in the Kitchen and caught these mistakes in the first five minutes:
1. The on screen tips say that olive oil has monosaturated fats
2. He says his provincial bread salsa is homage to Provence (which means he meant provençal instead)
3. He claims the Provence-style is from Italy (Provence is French)
I find myself watching the show only for the first two minutes where he visits a food source...
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:48 am
Post subject: That's Nathan, Not Devin. Devin is a Woman
You have your shows confused. Devin is the hottie we're talking about here. Nathan is the other one--the one who uses fresh ingredients.
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Where is Nathan Lyon now? I have looked a week ahead and cannot find his program. I was really enjoying his show. Thankyou
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Olive oil does have monounsaturated fats. The majority of its composition is monounsaturated.
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Lintu wrote:
Olive oil does have monounsaturated fats. The majority of its composition is monounsaturated.
Yes but he put monosaturated on the screen - there's no such thing!
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Victoria Regan is a former United States Latin Champion, 5 time Canadian Ballroom & Latin Champion, North American and U.S. 10 Dance Champion and is a British Latin Finalist. Much of her time is spent coaching professional and amateur competitors and judging major competitions worldwide. Her Broadway credits include the original cast of
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For the last six months, three entrepreneurship students—Trevor Young, Eric Hollenberg, and Joel Edwards—have spent nearly every day together building their business: Boston Uncharted.
Their company develops maps of Boston's most popular neighborhoods, such as the North End and Beacon Hill. The maps provide interesting history facts and exclusive deals to local retailers and restaurants. Printed on Tyvek material, the maps are rip proof, water proof, and wrinkle proof.
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How did they get the ball rolling so quickly? They took advantage of Suffolk's resources.
"This business would still be an idea without Suffolk," said Young.
They worked with nine Suffolk interns who are studying anything from finance, graphic design, and history to journalism and entrepreneurship. One intern in particular, graphic design major Shubha Roy, was instrumental in moving the product forward.
"She worked with us almost every day—modeling and tweaking the maps. She was a valuable asset and prime example of what students can achieve when they put their mind and energy into something," Young said.
Young and his team also collaborated with students in Professor George Moker's Financial and Legal Startup course.
"The school has been there every step of the way. We're working with faculty to have the Beacon Hill Edition be distributed to incoming and touring students. We want students, their parents, and the city of Boston to recognize that Suffolk has the resources and intellect to create a product that required an interdisciplinary effort," Young said.
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The most important lesson they've learned along the way—face your challenges head on.
"Every situation is a learning experience. You can't succeed without failing, recognizing why, and making improvements," said Young.
They hit their first road block when the North End Chamber of Commerce proposed extreme changes to drive down the cost of the map.
"We had to stand our ground and decline their offer. We didn't slow down. Instead, we moved forward by pitching to independent businesses. This taught us to stay strong and persistent," Young said.
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And all that hard work is paying off.
Boston Uncharted is printing 5,000 maps for the North End and Beacon Hill. And now they're pitching their product to local businesses.
As the president of sales and chief of technology, Edwards is leading the charge in finding new opportunities and connections. "Without Joel, the business would still be a big idea rather than a tangible product," said Young.
Young is the president and creative director. He oversees the daily operations, works with the graphic designers, and handles the legal issues.
Hollenberg is the CEO and brainchild behind the business. "He's the ideas man, the motivator, and problem solver. This business is his baby, and he'll do anything to see it live," Young said.
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They have big plans for the future. The three plan to expand their product into other major cities, including Chicago; Washington, DC; and Philadelphia.
They're also developing an interactive app that will suggest retailers, restaurants, and entertainment for different target audiences.


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Police Story 2: Collector's Edition (US - DVD R1)
Detective Chan is back in the explosive follow up to his first monster hit..
After whomping all over the bad guys in Police Story, detective Chan is in the doghouse for property destruction and gross misconduct. He's cut down to traffic duty, which he grudgingly takes to only to find out the man he sent to prison has been released. Chan's mortal enemy harasses his girlfriend and generally makes life difficult, but when Chan quits out of frustration with the system a new threat is born. Could his nemesis be behind the destruction rocking Hong Kong?
A few months back I saw Police Story for the first time and liked it a lot more than I had intended. In that review I said something about how I'd seen Police Story 2 and Police Story 3: Supercop, and that part two was a boring rehash without very much action and was best left unwatched. I have no idea what film I was talking about, but it wasn't Police Story 2, and I'm admitting here that I was very, very wrong. Supercop is still the best of the three, but the second chapter in Jackie Chan's star making series is no pushover.
Police Story 2 was a movie made with the sole purpose of topping its predecessor, and on most levels it succeeds. The stunts are even larger, the punches and kicks are harder, and the characters are generally further developed. The sheer amount of explosive pyrotechnics is somewhere between Die Hard and Terminator 2, and at the time was a revelation for the Hong Kong film industry (or so I'm told by our friend Bey Logan).
The storyline is a direct continuation of the first film, taking place seemingly only days after the events that saw Chan beating (up) the bad guys. The overall plotting this time around is a little weaker, and basically consists of a series of ideas tossed about with a thin unifying narrative. The inclusion of the original film's baddies basically screams 'red haring', but the attempt at broadening the film's focus is admirable. Though the film was made in a time when the idea was still fresh, I can't help but be a little bored by mad bomber plots at this point in my cinematic life, but switching gears from the tired Triad genre to mad bombing terrorists is also admirable in its own way. Whether the scripts for Police Story 2 and The Dead Pool were written in complete ignorance of each other is probably up for debate, but it is amusing that both films, released the same year, feature RC cars wired to explode.
Artistically speaking Police Story 2 is a step up for Chan, who employs some great, almost Orson Welles-esque angled shots, and sometimes utilizes his widescreen frame as well as a master like Sergio Leone. According to our commentator this was one of the first Hong Kong films to employ steady-cam, and there are even a few single long take scenes. This robs the film a bit of the original's grit, but is too much an improvement to ignore.
The first Police Story still has a bit of an edge over the sequel because of its overall roughness, and the fact that I find it more fun to watch Chan finding his character than seeing him running with an already established one. Though part two has plenty of emotional sequences, including quite a few between Chan and co-star (now dramatic superstar) Maggie Cheung, and a pretty intense torture sequence, the actual emotion of the story takes a distant backseat to the action. It ends up feeling a bit like uncut gristle between exciting set pieces. It was important for Chan to build the drama, but it makes for an overlong film.
The action is worth waiting for, and though Chan has since topped himself (especially in Police Story 3 and Armour of the Gods 2), these scenes of carnage are some of the best you'll ever see out of the era. It's the spontaneity that sets the set pieces apart. One feels the impact of not only the punches, but of the impromptu car crashes and property destruction. We've seen it all since, but overall the film is not robbed of its intensity. Again, in the meagre complaint department is my admission that compared to the original it all comes off as a little too polished at times, which can rob a sequence of its real danger.
Police Story was a colourful and detailed transfer, but suffered from a whole heck of a lot of grain. This disc fairs better, maintaining the bright colours while doing away with the bulk of the grain. The image is very soft at times, but this appears to be due to the lighting and film stock choices Chan and his cinematographer made while filming originally. Sometimes it can appear as if objects are glowing.
The film shows its age, but still manages to look better than expected. The only overt issue is the blooming of vibrant reds and pinks, often the colours of objects of special focus on Chan's part (a child's ball, a flower). These were most likely meant to be brighter than the rest of the objects in frame, but the DVD's producers seem to have taken it a bit too far.
You've got three choices here: a tinny original Dolby Mono track, an echo chamber of a Dolby 5.1 track, and a 5.1 English dub. The sound of the film on the whole is pretty thin, so the 5.1 is rather unnecessary, and the occasional lip-sync problem is a little annoying. Overall it's a decent surround remix from an old source, but dialogue is artificial, and obviously on a separate track. The Mono track is tinny, but preferable overall, as most of the film's music and explosions aren't really all that audibly intense anyway.
Once again, as happened with their first Police Story release, Dragon Dynasty has included director Brett Ratner on the commentary track with Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan. I was rushed enough with this review that I didn't listen to the entire track, rather I jumped around, but it did appear that Ratner had a little bit more to say this time around. I'm thinking he actually hadn't seen the first film in a long time, and remembered part two more vividly. Still, Logan rules the track, and Ratner is entirely unnecessary.
The rest of the features are pretty fluffy, and very repetitive once one's listened to the commentary. The least fluffy extra is a thirty-plus minute retrospective with Jackie Chan's stunt team, Stunts Unlimited. In the featurette members of the team reminisce about the good times and the bad, but most of all they kiss Chan's butt. I don't blame them, of course, I'd do the same thing, but it's all a bit too celebrative and not quite informative as I'd like it to be.
Ratner and Logan have a brief featurette entitled 'Celebrating a Sequel' where they heap praise on the film, though most of this specific man-love was already covered in said commentary. Ratner actually takes some of what Logan states in the commentary and reappropriates it for himself. This is followed by a location guide, which consists of Logan wandering Hong Kong, in a stylish hat might I add, to show fans what various filming locations look like today (which is mostly the same as they did in 1988).
There is also an alternate version of the credit sequence outtake reel, which is only slightly different than the one that made the movie. For real hardcore Chan fans I suppose this is exciting. Things are finished off with a trailer.
Please ignore the crazy negative comments I made about Police Story 2 during my Police Story review, I have no idea what I was talking about. Here is another classic from Jackie Chan, presented decently from Dragon Dynasty. Those with non-anamorphic DVDs on the shelf may want to update for the video quality, but the extras and audio aren't must haves. Now I patiently wait for Police Story 3, which is probably the best one, assuming I'm remembering the correct film this time.
Review by Gabriel Powers
bradavon Member Join Date: April 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,945
I believe Disney kept PS3 (aka Supercop in The States) so sadly it won't be re-released.
Pity as the "only" decent version is the HK IVL version is which is decent but only part of their trilogy box set. I only like part 3 personally, which is great fun. Most people think it's the worst of the three, it's definitely more Western than Parts 1-2.
Pity as the "only" decent version is the HK IVL version is which is decent but only part of their trilogy box set. I only like part 3 personally, which is great fun. Most people think it's the worst of the three, it's definitely more Western than Parts 1-2.
Mal Webmaster Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,290
Just as a side point, I noticed THINKFilm will be releasing New Police Story later this month in Canada... got no idea if it's any different to the existing Lionsgate release in the US.
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PS1 stands out the most for me simply because it is so crazy. Every fight, every stunt felt grand and insane. Supercop rates 2nd for me. Quality wise, its the best. Its the best looking, best sounding, best shot of the PS films (obviously because its got a bigger budget), but there were too few fights and not enough stunts, although the ending stunts are quite insane. PS2 is the weakest. My main problem: its too damn LONG!!! I only skip directly to the fights when I'm watching this one.
Ray Waterway Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 462
Well, here's hoping that Dimension and the Weinstein brothers still have the rights to "Supercop" and make a decent release of it, like they have done with the last two "Police Story" movies. Too bad New Line has the rights to "Police Story IV: First Strike", 'cause they will not release the movie uncut and proper. The US cut of "First Strike" is abominable and needs to be rethought.
BubbaGummer Member Join Date: June 2006 Location: United States Posts: 19
I'll always like the first one more then the rest, but I've only seen grainy, badly dubbed VHS tapes of it. I did enjoy New Police Story but I dont know how that ties into the other films.
Trap Door Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 253
I so want to see a proper relase of Police Story 3. It's a action film that should be everyones DVD collection.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
Great review, gabe. keep it up.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
hey David, I added you to my livejournal buddy list the other day.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th February 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Cantonese, Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital Mono Catonese
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Brett Ratner and Bey Logan Commentary, Stunts Unlimited: The Legendary Police story 2 Stunt Team, Location Guide, Celebrating a Sequel, Alternate Outtakes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jackie Chan
Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Benny Lai
Genre: Action and Crime
Length: 122 minutes
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