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|2011-01-01, 19:49
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So, I was just browsing through the script some. Answering the quiz questions correctly definitely just leads to extra scenes between the quiz games. Total coins doesn't seem to affect anything other than the contents of the present that Kinzo gave to Ange. Or a different present, I dunno, it's definitely a present though. In case anyone was still holding out for more endings, they aren't in there.
Spoiler for Trick End:
|2011-01-01, 21:15
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Uu~ Let's solve a riddle
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Germany
But actually this one answer also again made me want to write down some of the thought and more abstract theories that has circled in head like forever.... So here it goes:
Spoiler for here comes another of my more 'bigger picture' style analysises... also long ^^:
|2011-01-01, 23:14
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I've only seen 13 of the total number of puzzles so far. Translations are as follows for those interested in attempting to solve them. Most of them are fairly easy, though a few involve wordplay or knowledge of Japanese language. Hints are available through consulting Auntie Eva, it appears.
The questions are in no particular order. More will be added later.
Spoiler for Black & White:
Spoiler for Foodstuff Alphabet:
Spoiler for Race for Ingots:
Spoiler for The Eldest Girl:
Spoiler for A Certain Traveler:
Spoiler for King's Reward:
Spoiler for Floor 14:
Spoiler for The Witch's Kitchen:
Spoiler for Cook a Dessert:
Spoiler for Down the River:
Spoiler for Numbers & Cars:
Spoiler for Christmas Again:
Spoiler for Burnout:
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|2011-01-01, 23:38
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Are those questions in the same order that they are presented in the game? I mean, do they match the order Marina2 posted?
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|2011-01-01, 23:41
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|2011-01-02, 00:42
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Man, that King's Reward riddle is a really douchey question to ask a six year old girl. There's pretty much no way Ange would be able to get that one in-story, unless the Japanese school system moves ridiculously fast. I guess she's lucky that she's got an omniscient invisible force guiding her choices, eh?
|2011-01-02, 00:48
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I assume that there is an answer to all of this mess, or, at least, Ryukishi has one in his own mind. There has been enough evidence of that. What I wonder about is whether or not he truly intends to carry his own answer to the grave with him.
Sealing the cat-box indeed.
Edit: Otherwise, I'm banking on a:
"Alright, now that you've all had suffeciant time to think about all 8 episodes for yourselves, here's the answer. Kthxbye." Type deal to happen. That seems naive at this point, though.
|2011-01-02, 01:23
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|2011-01-02, 01:30
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: In my bed. It's great.
Age: 28
Would it be mean to suggest we got the "ending" we did because Ryukishi wrote himself out of a corner and had no way to fix it?
I'm fine with it but ehhhh you do not end a murder mystery like that but, oh wait, this isn't a murder mystery, I forgot.
|2011-01-02, 02:06
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Join Date: Apr 2004
I think people are misunderstanding those of us who are unhappy with the spoilers, the problem is not not having a definite answer on what happened on Rokkenjima, the problem is not having any answer to the main points built by the previous chapter....
for example episode 7 gaves a coherent answer as to the source of the gold then later in the chapter we get a hint that that might not have been the full truth..... I don't know if the gold was touched upon on chapter 8 but if it had been left like that and its up to us to believe Kinzo story or think something else happened that's fine, however. if we had never got any explanation about the Gold and he said something like Oh, you are free to believe whatever you want about the source of the gold that would have just been bad writing.
From the sound of it this is what happens with most of the remaining mysteries, the problem is not that we didn't get an unquestionable solution the problem is that we didn't get any solution at all nor any reasons to keep on believing a coherent narrative with a who, how and why dunnit for each of the first four episodes can be formed
The other problem is Umineko made it seem like the the whole point was finding the solution... Pan's Laberynth had an open end where no final answer on whether the magic world is real is provided but that's o.k because the work was never about that....In Umineko you are encouraged over and over to think about this... even if Author theory applies and on the metanarrative level Umineko was not a mystery novel we are told up to episode 7 that the intention of each of the authors was to write mystery novels and that they wanted the readers to solve them so its o.k not to get an answer about rokkenjima prime but we should at least get answers regarding the solutions the authors of those fictions within fiction novels had in mind.
|2011-01-02, 02:14
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The True Culprit
The answers are there, find them yourself. That's what it means to have "personal satisfaction."
|2011-01-02, 02:36
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Join Date: Jul 2009
What the above poster said. I am unhappy not because of what happened in rokkenjima prime. I would care less about it. I am unhappy because no confirmed answer was given to the mystery provided in the first four episodes.
Although I could form my own answer that Shannon/Kannon/Shkannon (whichever you believe he/she is) is the culprit which fakes the first twillight dead, but my answer will never be the correct answer (or anyone's answer for that matter). It may be correct or it may be wrong but we will never 100% know for sure. This is the one and only thing on why I am dissappointed. I don't care if the first 4 games are fictions within fictions but at the very least provide the answer to them.
No matter how absurd the answer is, the worst is no answer at all. I hope umineko rei would clear this up but i won't get my hope high
|2011-01-02, 02:43
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The True Culprit
....And, again, Ryukishi has been saying literally for years that he wasn't be giving all the answers like he did for Higurashi. This can't at all be blamed on how he wrote EP8, we were told not to even EXPECT it.
|2011-01-02, 02:53
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Join Date: Apr 2004
I think most people was aware we were not getting complete answers but the problem is from the sound of it we are not getting answers to any of the major points ..... maybe we are overreacting and I'll wait until I read episode 8 for giving my opinion.... but for example I don't see how a solution which doesn't give any hint how the outcome could have been avoided if Battler came one year earlier or later could be satisfying... Yes I know we can invoke butterfly effect and just leave it at the slightlest of changes can result in the largest of differences but that does not make for a compelling story
|2011-01-02, 02:54
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So what distinction, if any, are we supposed to be making there?
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Memphis area industrial brokers are reporting an increase in activity with third-party and proprietary logistics companies involved in distribution of medical/pharma-related product.
During the second half of this year, several local companies have inked new leases that will expand their overall space in the Memphis area, creating new jobs in the process.
"We are definitely seeing local and nationwide growth with 3PL activity and medical suppliers based on an improving economy and the very competitive nature of that industry," said Patrick Burke, senior vice president at CB Richard Ellis Memphis, who explained CBRE is currently in top-secret talks with a couple of new companies interested in the area.
In July, proprietary medical device company Teleflex Inc. inked a 627,294-square-foot lease at Olive Branch Distribution Center in DeSoto County. Burke represented Teleflex in the transaction. The deal represents the largest lease in the area since July 2010 and greatly reduced the availability of Class A bulk inventory in the local industrial market. The Memphis market enjoyed more than 1 million square feet of positive absorption in Q2 followed by 1.6 million square feet of positive absorption in the third quarter, according to CBRE's recent Industrial MarketView report.
"DeSoto County is also currently offering a new tax break for companies involved in the medical sector that relocate near to area hospitals," Burke said.
The goal of the Mississippi Health Care Industry Zone Act, which was implemented in May, is to expand access to high-quality medical care for Mississippi residents and increase the number of health care jobs in the state by providing incentives to health care businesses that locate or expand within a qualified health care zone.
McKesson, Teleflex and Smith Medical are the first companies to take advantage of the new tax break.
Then in late August, Millstone Medical Outsourcing LLC inked plans to relocate its Memphis operations from a 45,000-square-foot space to a larger, 150,000-square-foot facility in IDI's Crossroads Distribution Center, which is currently under construction in Olive Branch. The new facility will offer Millstone operational space for bone/tissue storage, mechanical inspection, loaner kit processing, and packaging services and distribution.
"Companies are looking for really clean facilities where they can get their sensitive products, both in regards to time for delivery and how they are handled, in and out with good logistics and traffic times," said Andy Cates, executive vice president at Colliers International.
The past few months have also seen other local 3PL companies announce plans to increase their area footprints, gobbling up prime Class A industrial and office space across the Mid-South.
Coregistics is taking over the rest of its building in the Hickory Hill area, expanding its operations from 265,000 square feet to 420,000 square feet, and the company could expand further into a nearby 180,000-square-foot facility by the third quarter of next year.
The company originally entered the Memphis market in 2009 and handles packaging and logistics for customers in the pharmaceutical, electronics, automotive, apparel and beverage industries, among others.
"Memphis is the distribution heart of America," said Eric Wilhelm, Coregistics CEO. "I am twice as bullish on the Memphis market as I am about our other three markets of Indianapolis, Atlanta and central New Jersey. Memphis is a target-rich environment for us. We can do more for more companies in Memphis that aren't being served by what we do currently."
The company will add approximately 100 new employees as part of the current expansion, and Wilhelm expects to add as many as 150 additional employees with the growth next year.
"Since the rebranding, we have completely beefed up our management and middle management teams," said Wilhelm. "Memphis is one of our key velocity centers during peak shipment times. We expect that by the middle of 2013 we will have peak days of between 60 and 85 truckloads, with the busiest days possibly hitting 100 truckloads."
Further company growth plans could lead to the need for as much as 1 million square feet within the next three years.
Coregistics, which was formerly known as Market Resource Packaging, rebranded in June after being acquired by IAM Acquisition in March.
Bioventus announced plans last week to grow its overall Memphis operations from 30,000 square feet to nearly 70,000 square feet, creating 44 jobs in Shelby County. The Durham, N.C.-based biologics company, which will invest $5 million in the expansion project, will lease nearly 40,000 square feet of new office and manufacturing space off Goodlett Farms Parkway at 1900 Charles Bryan Road in Cordova.
And New Breed Logistics, specializing in outsourced logistics and supply chain consulting, signed a new 404,000-square-foot lease in September at Southpark Distribution Center.
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Jurgen Klopp retaliated to questions over Robert Lewandowski's future at Borussia Dortmund, suggesting that star players at potential suitors Bayern Munich will not accept a reduction in first-team action.
Arjen Robben's goal booked the Bavarian giants a spot in the DFB-Pokal semi-finals at the expense of BVB, and when asked if Lewandowski would be plying his trade at the Allianz Arena more regularly, the Dortmund coach was not amused.
He reacted by voicing the potential negative impact such a signing could have on the evening's goal-scorer and striker Mario Gomez.
"I'd be more interested in where Gomez and Robben will be playing next season," Klopp told ARD in the wake of the defeat.
"I do not think, they will take another year [on the bench] like this. Maybe that is more interesting instead of always talking about Lewandowski."
After a disappointing first-half display, Dortmund showed more of the form that saw them win the competition last season. However, they were unable to find a breakthrough and Klopp admitted that his team should have done more.
"It was a very intense game. In the first half we showed little of what we wanted to show. The second half was better and you have to play well for 90 minutes to beat Bayern," he said.
"I did not see 17 points difference today. We should have caused Bayern more problems during the first half and that is what we have to be angry with ourselves about.
"But the difference was not big. We will come here again, and we will be able to win matches here again."
Roman Weidenfeller echoed his coach's thoughts on their failure to threaten in attack but was pleased that his side stood firm for large parts of the game.
"Things did not go smoothly, our offensive game did not work fluently. There were one, or two situations, when we could have scored, but those were not big chances," he stated.
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STERLING — Water levels on the Rifle River rose steadily over the weekend and early Monday morning, as the flood waters breached the river's bank in some areas.
On Sunday evening, the National Weather Service said that the Rifle River had reached its flood stage level at 6 feet, and that it was expected to go to 6.2 feet.
Rifle River Campground Manager Laurie Richardson, said that the river was moving so fast that they lost their dock to the current.
"I've been here 45 years, and we've never lost a dock," she said. The campground's dock floated away late Sunday night.
"It rose a good six feet. I've never seen it rise so fast,"Richardson said.
The river, which is one of the area's largest tourist destinations in the summer,rose enough that Richardson said that they had to move picnic tables out of the way late Sunday night after she and her friend went to go check on the campground around 11 p.m.
"About 1 (p.m.) is when it started to rise. At nine everything was still intact," she said about the flood, which caused no injuries, and affected only the dock. "I was at home and something just told me that I need to come check on the dock."
Living and working on her family-owned campground for most of her life Richardson said that she has never seen the river rise this much.
"It's been high before, but it's never been this high like this year. Usually, there is only a little piece that ends up in the water," she said about the campground's canoe conveyor belt that was a quarter of the way underwater more than usual. "It's up about a good six feet."
With the high waters, usually comes a faster and more steady current, and because the current was so fast, Richardson said that they are not letting anyone go out on the water.
"I am all about safety. We're not letting them out. The current, you can't stand in it right now," she said Monday afternoon. "By the weekend it will probably be OK. Camping is still open; you just can't go on the water."
Though the flood may be hurting business a little bit, Richardson said that it isn't hurting that much since the month of June is usually not that busy.
"June is always slow, because there are a lot of graduation parties," said the manager. "It all depends on the water when it's safe. It's just too dangerous."
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Jessica Simpson has confirmed her pregnancy through a Twitter pic, posted Christmas morning to her account!
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Having now worked with thousands of clients in diverse areas of professional pursuits Ive come to realize that there are two classes of clients: The first that know how to take charge of their career and achieve their goals according to a plan they control, and the second, who let career happen to them. In one of my previous blogs I had analogized this latter class as belonging to the Jelly Fish species. Why? Because jelly fish is the only living organism that just floats around in a current of water and goes where the current takes it and eats what the current brings it. In contrast a shark as a predatory animal goes after what it wants, sometimes aggressively and without fear of what may befall it, once it pursues an objective.
Career Management requires getting out of the jellyfish mindset and taking charge of what you want your career to provide you as an outcome of your own planned efforts and deliberate actions, much like a shark. So, for those who want to take charge of their career and see themselves more as a shark and less of a jellyfish, the following strategies are worth some attention:
- Growth outlook: As one pursues their job in the field of their specialty it is a good idea to have a perspective on how their area is positioned in the overall scheme of job opportunities in the immediate and adjacent areas of their work. Career myopia can set in and lack of perspective can severely limit your growth prospects during the active life span of your career. I still have clients deeply engaged in computer mainframes for the past 25+ years wondering about their career growth. If they lose their current job it is unlikely that they will be able to find another comparable job in that field, forcing them to take early retirement.If you are wondering about any specific field or endeavor it is best to do some critical research in the area of your interest and see what opportunities are projected in the next five-10 years. The Department of Labor (DoL) publishes its Occupational Outlook Handbook in which it lists thousandsmillionsof job categories and how these jobs are going to emerge based on the economic and other factors. It is a good idea to review their projections and decide if the career path you have chosen provides the growth opportunities for you to grow.
Some other avenues of what jobs will be more in demand in the next 5-10 years include taking a look at where venture capitalists (VCs) are investing today. VCs have been known to spot technology and business trends ahead of their mainstream application 5-10 years in advance, which provides you a glimpse of what is coming. Shifting your career in a direction aligned with that trend can not only protect your obsolescence, but also provide you early growth opportunities in a growing field (first-mover advantage).
- Going beyond the required: Most tasks in a given job are done to what is required in that task to be complete. Very few bother to delve into why these requirements came about in the first place and try to understand the job to be done (JTD). In pursuit of the JTD they often go above and beyond in what they deliver. It is these professionals that stand out as superstars in their area of work and find themselves always in demand, even during hard times.
- Knowing the real customer: This aspect of doing your job relates to what is already stated in #2, above. As customers requirements get filtered down the information chain they often get distorted or interpreted based on the person doing the interpretation. So, having a curious mind and understanding what the customer intended in the first place can provide you additional insights in how you deliver what is expected can make the difference between showing compliance and showing commitment. A committed response always keeps the customer as the end arbiter of their work.
- Seeking stretch assignments: In any organization there are tasks that are visible and the others that stay invisible because their lack of urgency. Lack of urgency does not make them any less important. For example, if a team is working on its typical assignment and struggles with it because of the poorly structured work environment or workflow everyone suffers and productivity takes a hit. It is never a priority because of urgent tasks that always preempt this important priority, which causes long-term effects that are deleterious to the team, the organization, and the company.Alongside your ongoing task assignment if you can volunteer for streamlining the work environment and make a business case for its implementation youll have something to brag about in the next version of your rsum. That bullet will now say, Identified a chronic infrastructure deficiency that dragged team productivity and delayed project releases. Proposed an initiative, made a business case, and then led it, seeking team volunteers and getting management approval. Within one year the new regime rocketed team productivity 35%, eliminating defective releases, and bringing all future releases on schedule, a first for the team!
- Dont assume, Ask: Most professionals believe that if they do good work in their assigned role annual raises and routine promotions are inevitable. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you take on a significant assignment that is important to your boss and the immediate chain of command, including the company make sure that you have an advance agreement with your boss stating that completing the assignment on time and on target should be rewarded with something commensurate with its impact on the company. Do not wait until after you completed and delivered the task; have a prior agreement with your boss and back it up in writing.How do you do this?
Simple: Once your boss dishes out a significant assignment provide a plan of action and have a discussion about how its impact will benefit the group, business, and the company. Then ask for how that will translate into a commensurate benefit to you and to your career, including a higher grade, title, and salary. Once the boss agrees (since they want you to succeed they are not likely to deny you this benefit) go back to your computer and write an email cementing that agreement. If the boss does not deny that agreement it stands and even if the boss disappears you can hold the next boss accountable to it. You can also use this contrivance to your benefit stemming from #4, above.
- Always be market-ready: Most professionals develop complacency in their role, especially when things are going well for them. In todays highly competitive ethos things can shift overnight. Even if you are doing well in your role how your business is faring in the global market can suddenly change without any warning, putting your job in jeopardy. So, you must always keep your rsum and LinkedIn Profile up-to-date. Learn how to tell your stories of accomplishments in concise, compelling, and cogent stories that present you as the hero of each of your stories presented as rsum bullets. What you are selling now is not how you took orders and delivered what was ordered, but the well-organized stories of your leadership that show how effective a leader you are in what you do. See #4.
- Dont let your high IQ defeat you: It is well known that high IQ correlates directly (99% correlation) with the grades one secures in their academic work. However, the correlation of IQ and professional success is only about 20%. The remaining factors are Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Political Intelligence (PQ), Cultural Intelligence (CQ), and Contextual Intelligence (XQ). Each of these four Qs is a developed skill. Learn how to use your IQ to master these four other Qs and charge ahead with your career.
- Nurture a Growth Mindset: People in professional circles walk around with two types of mindsets: A Fixed Mindset or a Growth Mindset. A Growth Mindset is eternally curious and eager to learn new skills to conquer new vistas. Those with the Fixed Mindset, on the other hand, limit themselves only with what they know and what they are capable of doing without venturing out to grow further. If you want to learn more about this, read the book authored by Carol Dweck with this same title.
- Be resilient: Career setbacks are common, not because you came up short, but because you could not control what happened. Being resilient means not giving up when there are setbacks, but exploring ways to charge ahead with a new mindset to conquer new vistas. Career re-invention is one of the ways you can immunize yourself against sudden shifts that occur beyond your control. This is why knowing how to tell your leadership stories is critical in re-purposing your rsum in a new direction. For more on this see #4 and #6 and my blogs on Inductive Rsum.
- Mentoring: Finding yourself a mentor (not just one but many) and learning how to mentor others yearning to grow is the best antidote for career obsolescence. This is one of the easiest ways to keep your growing and helping others grow in what they do. Also, keeping up with reading books on topics that interest you can also provide the fuel to grow your mind and to become a more enlightened professional.
The above 10 strategies for taking charge of your career are something that we can all work on and internalize in our everyday life to prevent from being blindsided by sudden and unexpected forces beyond our control, yet keeping our careers in control.
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Havnt heard much buzz about it like i have with Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and some others, but I really like Steve Buscemi and Michael Shannon so i'm going to give it a try on Netflix.
Is it any good?
Riley12 wrote:This and Justified are the two shows that I want to start watching but haven't gotten around to yet.
I don't think Boardwalk Empire will ever be on Netflix, since HBO has that HBOGO thing they are trying
to promote for streaming. I think Netflix does stream stuff from FX, though, so Justified might be available.
EDIT - NOPE! No Justified. How odd.
JSeahawks wrote:I just finished the first couple episodes on Netflix. I go with the mail option though, not streaming.


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Dennys Food and Recipes: Summer Food: Blueberry Yum Yum Cake Says It All: From Denny: This sheet pan cake of creamy goodness only requires two cups of fresh blueberries. First you make a simple syrup of water and sugar, add cornstarch to thicken, then add the blueberries. Set the blueberry topping aside to cool while you create the crust.
The crust is a yummy combination of finely chopped pecans, butter and flour that you pat into the sheet pan and bake for about 10 to 20 minutes to make your tasty crust. Set aside to cool.
To make your filling you combine the cream cheese and powdered sugar together and when that is well combined you add in the whipped topping, pouring it into the cooled crust.
After the blueberry topping has cooled then pour over the cream cheese-powdered sugar-whipping topping mixture. Now set the sheet pan of blueberry goodness into the fridge to chill well. Serve to screams of total delight!...
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138.9 km
For the past several weeks, visitors to Willow Garage have witnessed a PR2 robot driving itself around and plugging itself in to recharge -- again and again and again. The goal was to achieve a new record of seven days of continuous operation, which it accomplished on December 15th. We weren't content to stop there, so we let it keep on going. The PR2's record-breaking run came to a conclusion over the holidays: 138.9 km of autonomous navigation over 13 days and 2 hours of operation.
This record wasn't just about being robust -- it was about what being robust can enable as a platform for PR2 and ROS. Robots have to be able to take care of themselves in order to become more useful as personal assistants at home. It is also a boon for developers: instead of writing applications that are limited by the battery life of the robot, developers can now write applications that take days, even weeks, to complete.
During the run, there were only two interventions: one to help the robot maneuver around a chair, and another to tell the robot where it was ("re-localization"). In both cases, the robot noticed there was an issue and sent a message for help, and the issue was resolved over the web.
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Jan. 7, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Following a 2-0 week and an average of 14 points, 8.5 rebounds, two assists, 1.5 steals, and a .458 field goal percentage, Samia Mahjub was selected as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Basketball Player of the Week on Monday. Currently in the midst of a four-game winning streak, the Engineers stand at 6-4 on the year.
In a 61-40 win over Caltech last Wednesday, Mahjub registered a game-high 16 points to go along with eight rebounds and four assists. She then posted a team-high 12 points in addition to nine rebounds and three steals in a 55-47 victory over Simmons on Friday.
MIT kicks off NEWMAC play on Wednesday, Jan. 9 when it hosts Smith College at 6:00 p.m. The Pioneers outlasted the Engineers, 43-41, in a double-overtime thriller last year to close the regular season.


text: Country-by-country requirements: Summary of key European jurisdictions Tax Update Share this 13 DEC 2016 By: Joel Cooper Maria Fernandez-Herranz On 5 October 2015, the OECD/G20 delivered, in the context of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, the final Action 13 report (Transfer Pricing Documentation and Country-by-Country reporting). This report includes revised standards for transfer pricing documentation and a template for Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting. The BEPS Action 13 Report recommends that the CbC reporting takes place with respect to fiscal periods commencing from January 2016. However, countries are at various stages of implementation. This Tax Insight summarises the current status of CbC reporting obligations in various European jurisdictions, as listed below. CbC reporting is a key component of the global trend towards greater tax transparency by MNE groups. We have summarised the framework of the requirements for each of the selected countries. It is worth noting the importance of the decision of the MNEs on where to file the CbC, based on each country's specific regulations on surrogate, voluntary filing or secondary filing options, as well as the notification requirements of each country. For further information please contact Joel Cooper or the relevant country author.


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Emotions came to the surface Monday at the Hudson Area Schools Board of Education meeting as teachers and staff expressed concerns about a proposed salary schedule for 2013-14 that calls for additional cuts to their pay.
According to a chart provided by Michigan Education Association representative Mary Halley, the new step schedule that divides teachers' educational experience from two to four tiers could see teachers faced with a pay cut averaging 4 to 6 percent, though one teacher under the new proposed schedule could see a 31 percent salary reduction.
The district recently emerged from a budget deficit and imposed a
6 percent pay reduction across the board to help the school financially recover.
Negotiations are ongoing after the board of education announced an impasse earlier this year.
Halley said Monday she was of the understanding on Thursday with communication through board members no cuts would be made to salaries in 2013-14.
"Then, at our Friday night meeting, we were hit with it," Halley said as she held a copy of the chart. "Your teachers can't afford to take this cut. We are not the reason you're facing financial difficulties. Our costs have gone down."
Halley said the teachers have worked to reduce health care and retirement cost premiums. Adding caps on insurance has also helped to stabilize expenses.
Many of the teachers in the standing-room-only audience wore buttons that read "Hudson Teachers Matter," while several spoke their concerns to the board during public comment time.
Coach and teacher Scott Marry said the potential cuts dictated by the chart would make it difficult for his family to remain financially solvent, and that he may have to look elsewhere for employment. He said the negotiations and need for concessions are making it difficult to want to teach at Hudson and that tensions are high among the staff.
"I hope it's worth your budget," he said. "I hope it's worth your fund equity."
Teacher Matt Carpenter said a number of teachers are considering leaving for jobs with more future stability if the cuts continue.
"Eight of the 18 teachers in my building specifically have said they are actively looking for jobs elsewhere," he said. "They're probably looking for jobs in other fields. These are people we can't afford to lose."
Superintendent Mike Osborne said after the meeting the teachers are being moved from a two-tier to a four-tier schedule based on their degree and additional credits received for continuing education. Some teachers who have not kept current with credits and who are tentatively scheduled to be moved to a new tier may see some salary reductions. He said they are also given the opportunity to pursue educational credits to switch to a higher tier.
Teacher Emily Mansfield said the cuts are not necessary if the board examines the numbers provided by the district.
"We are using your numbers," she told the board. "We (the teachers) would like to openly invite the board to correct our errors. Just like in the classroom, we don't just mark a paper and hand it back. We walk the students through it so they understand. Meet with us, so we can all move forward for a fair contract settlement."
Board member Jerry Price said the financial decisions the board has had to make regarding salary reductions have not been easy, nor will any possible future reductions.
"The input, the analysis is important and valuable," Price said. "We take this position very seriously. We care about our community, the schools, the teachers, the parents, the children. There are things that wake me up at 2 a.m. making me think about how to make things better. This is one of them."
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Emotions came to the surface Monday at the Hudson Area Schools Board of Education meeting as teachers and staff expressed concerns about a proposed salary schedule for 2013-14 that calls for additional cuts to their pay.


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Us folks in NPD have very little interaction with it. When we ready a product for launch, we get all of the specifications, DFMEA, testing reports, design controls, etc at the ready and hand them off to a different group who actually inputs them into the PLM through an ECO. Those then get routed to get signoff by marketing, engineering, RA/QA, legal, regulatory affairs, etc. As soon as that becomes "baked", any changes are handled by everyone other than NPD (cost improvements, manufacturing process change, software, testing, etc). If NPD does want to make a change, again, we get the materials ready and they get inputted as a DCO. And again you need the proper signoffs before they can be released.
The signoff process is usually the most frustrating. Want to make a change to the the packing, label artwork? Or the IFU? We need about 20 signoffs. I'm not shitting you. If a comma is out of place, and expect that on your first submission, your DCO will get rejected and you get to go through the signoff up to that point again. It's especially awesome when the 20th signature rejects the DCO.
I should mention that we are a medical device company and our documentation process is more rigorous than most. We are also mostly class 1 exempt devices with a few class 2 and drugs thrown in there. And the FDA and the EU requirements for class 1 are less than class 2. Unfortunately for us, we were acquired by a company that lives in the class 2 and class 3 world. They want us to complete the class 2 requirements for class 1 devices. That is currently an ongoing negotiation where it does not look good for those who believe in less paperwork.
If I were to estimate, figure a day to get the launch package submitted as an ECO. Your signoffs will depend on the structure you create. Ours can take 1-4 weeks, depending on how hard you birddog the process. A DCO or ACR takes minutes to a couple of hours, depending on complexity to create. Signoffs can be quicker, but that depends again on who is needed to sign. You really need to manage the signoffs. Less is better than more. Don't let politics drive who is on the list, it will doom your software to failure.
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I met my first alien, and he looked like a tall Canadian.
Indeed, he was Canadian. It was Keanu Reeves, suited up to play the part of a visiting extraterrestrial by the name of Klaatu.
This was months ago, when I was ushered into a large building in an industrial suburb of Vancouver. The interior was stuffed with sets for the remake of the sci-fi movie classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. Fox studios had brought me here to be a technical advisor ? to review the film's script and some of the staging to ensure that this archetypical tale of aliens come to Earth was at least modestly true to science.
In the 1951 version of this story, Klaatu (played by the smoothly laconic Michael Rennie) lands his saucer on the White House ellipse. He's come to deliver a telegram to Earth, and the message is straightforward: Don't spread nuclear armaments to the rest of the Galaxy. Failure to heed this small request will provoke a fate "too terrible to risk" at the mechanical hands of Gort ? an interstellar Robocop brought along by Klaatu who looks as if he could barely stumble across a busy street. If we don't behave, Gort and his chrome-plated android buddies will reduce Earth to "a burned-out cinder." The worst kind.
Now, a half-century later, Klaatu and Gort are back ? with more complaints. No longer concerned that Earth will somehow start nuking other planets, the aliens have sent their good-cop, bad-cop emissaries to rescue terra firma from environmental destruction. Imagine: The inhabitants of other worlds are more concerned with global warming than we are (although their remediation plans are not gentle)! This intervention reminds me of alien abductions: not precisely the social life to which you aspire, but at least someone's showing interest.
My job on the film was straightforward: review the screenplay for errors in the science, and coach the principles in certain technical details.
I read the script several times, and made suggestions both with regard to the specifics of the dialogue, and the portrayal of the (earthly) scientists. The former sported some techno-babble that ? while approximately accurate ? was as stiff as an I-beam. Real scientists don't describe an object entering the solar system as "notable for the fact that it was not moving in an asteroidal ellipse ? but moving at nearly three times ten to the seventh meters per second." More likely, they would say that there was "a goddamned rock headed our way!" (Real scientists might also note, in passing, that any object encountering the dust of the inner solar system at 0.1 times the speed of light would burn up faster than a bug in a blast furnace. But that's Klaatu's problem.)
In addition to making dialogue suggestions, I tried to wean the filmmakers from the clich? image of scientists as clipboard-carrying, labcoat-wearing ciphers. Rather than addressing one another as "Dr. Rodney" or "Professor Furball," I suggested that they do what real scientists do, and use first names (or in the case of men, last names) without the honorific. Stuff like that.
Among my biggest responsibilities was to advise Jennifer Connelly on believable jargon and interests for her character Helen, the astrobiologist. Connelly was, like Reeves, remarkably serious about her role, wanting to understand her real-world counterparts as well as possible. She did everything short of writing a NASA grant application.
In Vancouver, my major task was monitoring a sequence in which Klaatu meets up with a human scientist, Professor Barnhardt, played by John Cleese. The two of them engage in a blackboard duel, writing equations to flaunt their stuff, eventually convincing Barnhardt that this Klaatu guy knows some important physics that humankind doesn't. The film's director, Scott Derrickson had me suggest some high-falutin' equations for this interchange, and instruct Reeves and Cleese on how to convincingly chalk them on the board. The equations were taken from General Relativity, and since this is hardly my specialty, I enlisted the help of a couple of experts (Marco Peloso at the University of Minnesota, and Hector Calderon and William Hiscock at Montana State) to come up with some relevant mathematics.
Actors are better at memorizing lines than tensor equations, so the formulae were first written on the board in light pencil, and Cleese and Reeves simply traced them as the Panavisions rolled. After a few takes, I told Derrickson about my concern that Keanu was scribing the Greek letters very slowly, and it might not look convincing. The director responded, "Hey, Seth, he's an alien!" Sounded right to me.
Between takes, both Reeves and Cleese solicited my opinion on subjects that had nothing to do with the film. In particular, they wanted to know why we're here. What's the grander meaning of our existence? Apparently a lot of people assume that astronomers, who deal with big things and long timescales, have some insight into what life is all about. More than, say, tax accountants.
"Surely," Cleese ventured, "we're here for a purpose." I figured that a lifetime of standing around movie and television sets, not to mention the front desk at Fawlty Towers, had prompted this question.
"Well, John," I responded, "maybe that's true. Maybe there is some grand plan. But then again, you might have asked that question 100 million years ago, hanging out with a bunch of your dinosaur pals. The answer then was 'you're just a dinosaur.' The answer today might be no more profound."
I'm not sure Cleese was fully gratified by my response.
The Day the Earth Stood Still raises a straightforward question: Should we really expect aliens to intervene in our bad behavior ? be it nuclear warfare, global warming, or any other ornery aspect of contemporary society?
I think it's unlikely. The evidence for these transgressions is now moving into space at the speed of light, betrayed by the flash from bomb tests and the atmospheric absorption features of chlorofluorocarbons. But this evidence ? even aside from being difficult to detect ? has reached only a few thousand nearby star systems. It's a very long shot indeed that Klaatu or his buddies will know about any of our problems, let alone rocket to Earth to solve them.
But in a way, that's all beside the point. The sci-fi films I so avidly devoured as a youngster weren't important because of the science content (such as it was). They were significant because they engaged me emotionally, and inspired me to learn more. In that sense, The Day the Earth Stood Still may have a greater impact on the next generation of scientists than any ten textbooks.
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in the next post, I'll include the map...
An idea I have seen a few versions of around the internet is to have the kids create their own colonies. I did this with my class by giving each group a map outline, with scale, lines of latitude and longitude, and one major river already added. (The latitudes corresponded with New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.) They then had a number of tasks as they developed the colony. They had to add in mountains, forest, and other features (obviously the mountains had to make sense with the location of the river). They had to write a geographical report on their colony's climate, vegetation, environment and resources - in keeping with the topography and location. They added towns, roads, etc, drew a town map showing the main trades and services, and wrote up information on these. They were given characters based on people off the Mayflower passenger list and wrote diaries. They wrote about how and why their colony started and what kind of government they developed. Each task also involved an oral presentation to the class.
I'm in the same boat as MrsTchrAB. However, I did intern with 5th grade a few years ago. My mentor teacher had a resource book where I found a board game called "Road to Freedom." It was about the hardships of moving from one colony to another for religious freedom. I left the games with my mentor and now I can't find the resource anywhere (contacted her- she switched grades and you know how that goes)! Does anyone happen to know what I am referring to and where I can find it?
Thanks for the great lessons! I am always looking for more ideas and you gave me a bunch.
Thanks for being so generous with your lesson plans. My kids will enjoy these projects.
School tube and Teachertube also have some cool videos on American history:
thanks so much for sharing!!!
Thanks for sharing your documents!! They look great!!
Thank you so much for all your ideas. I appreciate your feedback on the lessons too!
"Which colony would you have preferred?"
But this was a good one too
This was a debate about which section of the colonies was "best"...they had a TON of fun and it was great to make them think on their feet.
Did this one too...would shorten it if I did it again
This is the map that goes with the previous activity
in the next post, I'll include the map...
This is my first year teaching 5th grade American History. I want to make it more interactive and project based learning for my kids, but am running low on ideas... We are about to start a unit on the settling of the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies, but I am not sure what I can do to make it more fun for the kids.
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Don't Fear the Zucchini
Are you enjoying your summer produce? Whether it comes from a farmers' market, a super market, a CSA share or your own back yard, I hope you are finding and enjoying the abundance of fruit and vegetables that are thriving this summer. At the farm we are harvesting a wide variety of crops, spending hours picking beans, choosing the best ears of corn to harvest, and finding plenty of summer squash.
Zucchini, yellow squash, patty pans, and other types of summer squash are growing abundantly. By mid-summer the plants are huge. Spiny stems up to my waist, leaves big enough to make a good rain hat. The yellow and black cucumber beetles buzz around and eat as much as they can, but they can no longer destroy the squash plants that have become a jungle of leaves and stems. One or two plants that seemed so little in the spring can produce more squash than a family might care to eat in a week. If you turn your back for too long you will have baseball bats where innocent green squash once grew.
Don't fear the zucchini*. After you have grilled it, sauteed it, baked it into bread and chocolate cake (what better excuse to make a chocolate cake than zucchini that needs to get used up?) you can hide it in your freezer for a while. Without a garden of my own, I don't have a zucchini problem, but I usually make a point of freezing a few before the season is over. Simply grate them up and freeze the grated squash in an airtight container. For very large over grown squash, I cut the flesh away from the very seedy middle, discard the seeds and grate up the flesh. If you have a food processor with a grater attachment that makes the process even faster.
You can use the grated zucchini for baking in the middle of winter, letting the heat of the oven remind you of the hot day in the garden or at the market, when you picked the zucchini that ended up in your freezer. I also use the grated squash to make savory pancakes. If you aren't sick of summer squash yet, I recommend you make these quick cakes while summer is still here so you can eat them topped with fresh salsa or the watermelon salad below.
*I am using zucchini and summer squash interchangeably. While there may be subtle differences in taste, I think most summer squash is pretty much the same and can be used for the same purposes.
Zucchini and or Summer Squash Pancakes
I make these with very simple ingredients, but there are endless possibilities. You could add some cheddar or feta cheese, herbs, or other grated veggies. I usually make the cakes big enough so that each person gets 2 or 3 for a meal, but you could also make them into bite sized appetizers. Be sure to drain the squash well, especially if it has been frozen.
2-3 medium summer squash (about 8 inches long) to yield about 4 cups grated
1 small onion, diced
1 egg
2 tablespoons flour
salt and pepper
Grate the squash. Place it in a colander and gently press as much liquid out of it as you can. In a bowl, mix the squash with the onion, egg, and flour. Add salt and pepper.
Place a skillet over medium heat. When it is hot, add clarified butter or coconut oil to grease the pan. Scoop about half a cup to a cup (depending on how many and how big you want the cakes to be) of the batter onto the pan. The batter shouldn't spread much and I have a large skillet, so I usually cook four cakes at a time. Cook for about three minutes, then flip. The cooked side should be golden brown. Cook for about three minutes on the other side, flip again if not done to your liking. Continue this process until all of the batter is make into cakes.
Makes about eight 3-inch cakes. Serve topped with fresh salsa, watermelon salad, lemongrass creme fraiche or other topping of your choice.
Watermelon Salad
Like all summer salads, this is a celebration of what is fresh and available. I made it one night with cucumbers and mint, and another time with basil. I'll give you the basics and you can go from there.
4-6 cups cubed watermelon
2 cups tomatoes, diced
1 cucumber, quartered lengthwise and sliced across
1 medium onion, diced
several leaves of basil or mint, torn into small pieces
1 cup crumbled feta
1-2 tablespoons lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Adjust ingredients and flavors as you desire.
5 Comments
ApseedJuly 29, 2011 at 7:10 am
What a lovely post! We don't have the garden too, but my parents have and it means that from time to time we have to face with zucchini problem.
In our family there are different ways to eat zucchini, but my favourite is to make pancakes.
It was a surprise about freezing them. Thank You for the advice! I'll try to do it this summer.
AnnaJuly 29, 2011 at 9:01 pm
I quite like zucchini pancakes, too. Although I like grilling zucchini a lot when I can. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Apseed!
ElJuly 30, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I love the idea of freezing the zucchini. Do you know off hand, does it need to be grated or can you cut it into cubes? Also, how long will it keep? Thanks!
AnnaJuly 30, 2011 at 6:50 pm
I have only frozen it grated. If you cut it into cubes you would probably need to blanch it before freezing it. I have kept it in the freezer for several months (August to May or so) I usually make sure to use up all my frozen veggies and fruit by the beginning of the next season's harvest.
KathrynAugust 2, 2011 at 1:12 am
Just stumbled on your blog — love it! This looks delicious and great call on freezing the zucchini 🙂


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Quote from: Jabba the Slug on October 24, 2009, 11:50 PMJust heard this wave *may* be an online exclusive wave - that explains why I haven't EVER seen it at retail. Is this rumor true?? You mean Wave 6 (Luminara, Argyus, etc) or Wave 7 (Padme, Matchstick, etc)?I have seen lots of Wave 6 around here, so nothing fishy about that one. Wave 7 however, is NOWHERE to be found outside of e-tailers online. So if that is the Wave you are talking about, I could almost believe it. I mean, they've been available for WEEKS now on the web, that is a pretty significant lag in showing up at retail.
The rumor is false.
Quote from: Jayson on October 25, 2009, 09:33 AMThe rumor is false.Just thought I'd second that statement. A buddy at another site found this wave at a TRU in upstate NY, so they are in the US and in B&M stores.
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Thanks to the generous donation by David and Carol Alloy of Omaha, this state-of-the-art strength complex assists in developing Nebraska student-athletes.
The Nebraska volleyball team utilizes the David and Carol Alloy Strength Complex. The model strength and conditioning program in the nation, Husker Power plays a major role in the continuing success of Nebraska Athletics. Nebraska's strength program was the first in the nation, and their facilities have set the standard in collegiate athletics since the early 1970s.
Building the All-Around Volleyball Player
The Nebraska volleyball strength and conditioning coach is dedicated to making each student-athlete the best all-around volleyball player they can become. The goal of the strength coach is to help the volleyball player reach her full potential on the court. With the year-round lifting and conditioning program, we strive to reduce injuries and at the same time increase performance.
Strength Staff
Brian Kmitta is the head strength coach for the volleyball program. The strength and conditioning program's goal is to produce strength, speed, power, and discipline. Making sure the student-athletes are strong, healthy, and competitive is the number one priority. Another goal is to build team dynamics, leadership and mental toughness through different conditioning drills.
The indoor sand volleyball court is used for both Volleyball and Sand Volleyball training.
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It is important to condition like a volleyball player. Volleyball is a game that requires agility and explosiveness on a consistent basis. It is important to follow this pattern when performing conditioning drills, as plyometric exercises are specialized, high-intensity training techniques used to develop athletic power.
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LONDON - July 29, 2011: Honda will launch the new Civic at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Developed specifically for the European market, the Civic will be offered exclusively as a five-door hatchback and will compete in the C-segment. It will reach European showrooms in early 2012.
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The ride and handling of the new Honda Civic has been developed in Europe. Working closely with European colleagues and external experts, the Japanese development team analysed the current Civic's performance. This led to a focus on improving the ride quality of the new Civic, while retaining the sporty handling of the current model.
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Literary Hook: Poem explores the act of savoring the delicious in life
By Christine Swanberg
Author and Poet
The pleasures of the season linger just a little longer as we savor them.
Of course, we have seasons in our lives as well. Sometimes when we've led busy, goal-oriented lives, the idea of slowing down and savoring becomes enticing. When we actually have a chance to live that way, it's positively delicious. Here is a poem I wrote more than a decade ago when I was experimenting with rhyme, rhythm and form.
Give me Time
Give me time to slow things down,
Meander through a Wisconsin town,
Dilly-dally the morning away,
Read romances on a rainy day.
Give me the grace of fine, small things,
The grace of lightness and of wings —
Hummingbird hovering over a trumpet vine,
Spotted cat chasing a ball of twine.
Give me time to tend the garden —
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Scent of roses pink and white.
Persian lilacs' scent delight.
Give me the grace of time slowed down.
A limestone steeple in a Midwest town.
Or the grace of prairie tassels,
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Give me the grace of tiny treasures —
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A glass of wine, buttered toast.
These are what I love the most.
Give me time to watch the waves.
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Give me the grace of gabled roofs,
And painted ponies with muddy hoofs.
Fireflies beneath a moonlit trestle,
The invitation of a train's last whistle.
Give me time to think about
The ones that I cannot live without.
I want to give them more of me
And know the best is yet to be.
Christine Swanberg is a local author and poet. She received the Lawrence E. Gloyd Community Impact Award at the 2012 Rockford Area Arts Council State of the Arts Awards.
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With massive cuts looming, Home-Start Erewash will rely more than ever on its trusted volunteers.
Giving up as little as three hours a week, parents and grandparents are asked to befriend a family in need and become the person they can turn to for help and support. But what exactly do the volunteers do?
Reporter AMY HIRST spoke to Pauline Atkin and Sara Hextall about their role.
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"We're here to help, to listen, to offer advice, to just be there for families in testing situations," explained Pauline.
The mumof two boys and proud grandmother of one, uses her experiences as a parent to help and support her families. Each Home-Start volunteer is paired with a family.
They might be experiencing debt and financial problems, there might be a history of domestic violence, they might have had a bereavement or they might be new to the area with no family or friends.
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It was six years ago that Pauline decided to volunteer for Home-Start. Four years later Sara joined the ranks.
After full training in a whole range of issues and areas they were paired with a family. Both said they haven't looked back since.
Sara explained: "It is about helping a family and seeing that you make a difference to them, and seeing them improve and change and grow in confidence is very rewarding."
Pauline agrees, adding: "It's such a fulfilling role. There are challenging times but overcoming them and seeing your family benefit from the advice and support you give them is great."
l Since 1973 Home-Start has helped one million children across the UK. Home-Start Erewash has been running for more than 25 years.
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The charity stands to lose 70 per cent of it's funding when Derbyshire County Council cuts kick in later this year.
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London to Brighton (UK - DVD R2)
Scott McKenzie ventures into the seedy underworld of the south of England...
In the early hours one morning, two prostitutes run into a public toilet. Kelly, the older one, is bruised and battered, while twelve-year-old Joanne is crying her eyes out. They've left their customer bleeding to death on his bedroom floor and now his son, a very disagreeable character, is looking for them. He tells their pimp he has twenty-four hours to find them or he's going to kill him. Kelly takes Joanne from London to Brighton, trying to raise enough money the only way she knows how to get Joanne to her grandmother's house in Dorset. Someone's going to die, but who, and when?
Produced by Vertigo Films, the company that brought us The Football Factory and The Business, you could be forgiven for expecting an enjoyable movie filled with violence and blokey banter. What London To Brighton actually delivers is grim, gritty realism with only a few funny moments to lighten the dark mood. Writer/director Paul Andrew Williams is at pains to bring us the reality and complete lack of glamour of the seedy back streets of England and he does so thoroughly convincingly.
The non-linear story follows Joanne as she is plucked off the streets by Kelly to be taken to a man who wants to 'play with her', with Joanne receiving £100 for her trouble. We see her as both a young child and as a girl trying to look older to survive in a world in which she doesn't belong. One particular edit from a scene in the past to a scene in the present contrasts her real personality with the personality she has to adopt to survive on the streets two days after running away from home. The character of Joanne is played by first-timer Georgia Groome and she is so believable in the role that I expect to see her cropping up in many British movies in years to come. I'm a big fan of Thirteen and I'd compare her performance here to that of Evan Rachel Wood in that movie.
The scene that made this movie for me was the first meeting between Joanne, Kelly and her pimp, Derek. Derek and Kelly both know they are doing something terribly wrong by talking Joanne into doing something they know she shouldn't. It's a very well-written scene and the performances are spot-on, leaving the viewer feeling almost as awkward as the characters on screen. After watching this scene, it's easy to see why girls with low self-esteem and nothing to live for may be convinced to turn to prostitution, no matter how young they may be.
London to Brighton is a short movie and has a very simple story. It is fast-moving and efficient, no doubt partly imposed by its quick shoot and very low shooting budget, which was just £80,000. The flashback structure works well to keep the viewer guessing until we find out exactly what happened in the man's bedroom that caused the girls to go on the run. The showdown at the end has a twist in the tale, which is pretty predictable, but this isn't a movie that depends on a twist to make an impact.
As an enjoyable piece of entertainment, it's difficult to recommend London to Brighton as a popcorn movie. However, as a guerrilla piece of filmmaking that is a prime example of how to tell a believable story with credible performances from the actors for almost no budget, I wholeheartedly recommend London to Brighton. It throws a spotlight on the underworld that most of us are lucky enough to avoid and has an impact on the viewer that will keep you thinking about it long after you've hit the stop button.
London to Brighton comes with a 2.35:1 anamorphic picture. The picture is almost as gritty as the subject matter, but this is not due to the transfer to DVD, this is almost certainly due to the technology available due to the low budget. There's blurring and graininess but coupled with the handheld camerawork, it lends the film an extra dimension of edginess. Close ups are used frequently but the characters aren't beautiful people who are supposed to look pixel perfect so the relatively low quality of the picture is not as much of a problem as it may be if this was a presentation of a major Hollywood blockbuster.
It's a similar story for the audio quality, although there are moments in the stereo track that stand out. The scenes in the toilet and train station have an appropriate amount of echo coming through and the classical score sounds good, certainly better than the dialogue, which sounds a little tinny and very occasionally makes the characters sound like they've got a lisp. An audio descriptive track is also available on this release.
The disc opens with trailers for Bobby, Hannibal Rising and the theatrical trailer for London to Brighton is also included. The highlight of the special features is the commentary track with the director, director of photography and the actors who played Derek and Kelly. It's a very interesting talk track filled with details that are invaluable to anyone who's thinking of making a low budget movie. The actors also reveal that they spent a lot of time working out a back story for their characters, which explains some of the reasons for their actions on screen.
The alternative ending and deleted scenes are all shown as rough footage without director commentary, which would have been welcome to explain the reasons for their exclusion. The deleted scenes are actually no more than extended versions of scenes that made it into the movie and I'm glad the alternative ending wasn't used because it would have meant leaving the viewer on more of a down note. The outtakes are also rough footage and amount to less than a minute of screen time.
The behind the scenes featurette is composed of rough footage and while we get to see what goes on behind the camera, there's not really a lot of substance. Of more interest is the (still roughly filmed) Q&A session with the cast and crew. We probably learn more about the making of the movie in this featurette than the behind the scenes footage. The producer goes into detail about the exact budget and the director reveals that many of the locations used are friends' homes. Finally, the director's short film 'Royalty' is included on the disc, which is another story about Derek and Kelly from the same world that London to Brighton is set in.
I can highly recommend London to Brighton to anyone who is looking for a well-written, well-acted slice of low budget British film making that while not epic in scope or length, still has a lot to say and a point to make about British life. The quality of the presentation isn't going to blow you away but it's acceptable for the tone of the movie. Some of the extras are filler material but the commentary, Q&A and short film complement the feature very well. It's not a movie for everyone but it'll definitely make an impression on anyone who watches it.
Review by Scott McKenzie
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 30th April 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles: English
Extras: Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Behind The Scenes Featurette, 'Royalty' Short Film, Alternative Ending, Outtakes, Georgia Groome Audition Tape, Q&A, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Cast: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Sam Spruell
Genre: Drama
Length: 83 minutes
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