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Colin MacCabe's new book is more a provocative polemic than a rounded biography, but it deserves the highest praise for being inspired by the belief that in the early 1960s Jean-Luc Godard grabbed hold of the medium known as movie, shook it, broke it apart and threw it up in the air, catching enough pieces to redefine "montage," and decided that the young medium was so close to death that only radical surgery could save it–or us, its audience. In those heady years, to say "Godard" was enough. Everyone knew whom you meant, and thrilled at the shock waves that spread around him.
Today? There's the question. But it's bold of MacCabe and his publisher to say, simply, "Godard," and trust that enough people still feel the shock and understand how Jean-Luc's extraordinary "moment" has yielded to his solitude or obscurity. Only film festivals know what he is doing now, and only minds cursed with memory realize that he is still there. Or even here. By which I mean to say that Godard continues to discuss with himself whether there is life in such nostalgic combinations as film and audience. (In France in the 1960s, the new attitude to film made "audience" a synonym for society, or all of us.) What's most stimulating about MacCabe's book is his confidence that we need a new conversation about our moving pictures, as opposed to just scanning the ads, buying the tickets and the popcorn, and letting the silly sensations slip out of mind.
For once, a publisher's blurb serves a book better than its title. So forget "portrait" and the calm of old age in some sweet Swiss village (though there is that Godard), and think about this: "An intimate portrait of the turmoil that spawned the New Wave in French Cinema, and the story of its greatest director." I know, it's hype, and in many ways the New Wave is now beside the point. But "turmoil" is right and useful, and it reminds one of that very Godardian instinct that film itself is a battleground where every modern decision may be dramatized.
In his brief cameo in Godard's Pierrot le Fou (1965), in which he appeared as a tough little man stranded at a funereal party, wearing Godardian dark glasses as an assertion of imprisoned integrity, the Hollywood director Samuel Fuller announced that cinema was "like a battleground: Love… Hate… Action… Violence… Death… In one word, Emotion." That recipe was the childhood Godard spent with American action films, and another way of delivering his deadpan come-on (full of promise, but loaded with warning) that all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun. But Pierrot was also filled with anguish at the loss of two loves: It was made as Godard and his actress wife, Anna Karina, were tearing themselves apart; and it was the clearest sign yet of Godard's developing horror at the American culture that had done so much to make him.
More than MacCabe, I would say that those two "tragic" or necessary severings were absolutely typical of Godard's determined intellectual isolation, his selfishness and even his delayed adulthood. But to say that plunges us straight into the life and the first and superior part of this book. For while MacCabe flinches intellectually from the authoritative assumptions and the narrative sedateness in biography, he has a natural talent for describing life–indeed, this may be the area in which he is least like the Godard he reveres.


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text: Goose fat and fresh herbs are all that is needed to give your roast potatoes a fragrant taste, fluffy texture and crisp, golden crunch this festive season. Not only is this Christmas side dish packed with flavour, but it can also be prepared and frozen a month in advance. Roast the potatoes straight from frozen to perfection on Christmas day itself. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C. Put the potatoes in a pan of cold salted water, bring to the boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain well, then return to the pan over a low heat to dry. Add the lid and shake to rough up the potato edges; set aside. Melt the fat in a large roasting tin in the oven for 2 minutes. Add the potatoes and toss to coat. Roast for 50 minutes, or until golden. Meanwhile, crush the herbs with the salt using a pestle and mortar. To serve, scatter a little of the herb salt over the roast potatoes. See more Christmas side dishes


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Google Plus Local pages are a powerful addition to online dental marketing plans. However, dentists don't have time to optimize them, and dental office team members don't necessarily have the skills to do it properly. Internet Dental Alliance, Inc. (IDA) multiple website packages include help to fill this gap.
For dentists who are unfamiliar with Google Plus Local pages, here's some background. Google has mapped just about every street corner that exists in North America – which is why Google Maps work so well. In the process, it also mapped the location of just about every small business with a front door and a mailing address, and created a free Google Plus local page for every one of them – including dental practices.
Although these basic pages are provided free of charge, they don't automatically include important data such as business hours, phone number, website, etc. The pages must be claimed and optimized in order to add that kind of specific information that can transform them into useful marketing tools. Once that's done, they also become powerful assets that help websites for local businesses become even more visible in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Of course, more online visibility is a contributing factor that can lead to more new dental patients.
"Once you claim your dental practice's page, you can add a lot of information that can attract new patients," explains Jim Du Molin, dental marketing expert and founder of Internet Dental Alliance, Inc. "IDA can optimize your Google Plus Local page to help you gain a steady flow of new patients into your practice each month."
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A U.S. computer programmer is making headlines for outsourcing his own job to China — so that he could fool around while on the job.
The consulting company where the man worked discovered that his computer system was being accessed from China. Company officials originally thought hackers were responsible, but an investigation later revealed otherwise.
The programmer had hired a firm in Shenyang to do his work — during his schedule. He paid the Chinese programmers roughly 20% of his six-figure salary to handle programming while he surfed the internet all day.
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So I enjoy watching the NASA's High Definition Earth-Viewing System (HDEV) live stream on ustream and NASA's page.
however I don't like to have to keep a window on my browser dedicated to viewing this. So I decided to build a viewer box with a raspberry pi. So I can put it on my already cluttered desktop but have a constant view of the stream. The stream will drop out/black out depending on the position of the International Space Station (ISS). I also am a trekkie , so I decided to combine the two together. So I feel like I'm on the Enterprise of TNG watching earth , much like the movie "First Contact."
Here is the final result:
So what did I use?
- Raspberry Pi B+ (cause I had some lying around from a previous project)
- 7 Inch HDMI Screen. (any screen would do but I wanted a small screen factor so I could position it on my desk among the other things )
- Jessie Lite ( I wanted to run the Raspberry in a minimal configuration and not use the X-windows, so I went no X windows , Jessie Lite)
- OMX Player (this is the actual core player playing the video feed and the background. -I'll explain more later)
- libav-tools (mainly avconv to create a looping video of the LCARS background)
- livestreamer (the grab the stream of the ustream.tv NASA channel and feed it to omxplayer)
Once it ran , it seemed simple but the process wasn't.
Initially I thought of just building a raspberry pi with a TFT shield , running the Iceweasel browser in full screen. This was a long road into the abyss, the TFT shield I have did not like the frame buffer output , Iceweasel can't play the ustream etc etc…Now there might be a way but I also felt it was a bit of overkill for a simple stream viewer to have a full X-windows+browser setup. So omxplayer to the rescue. With omxplayer I can still view the stream via live streamer without having to boot fully into a x-windows environment.
So based on the Miguel Grinberg's blog post about building a raspberry pi NASA live stream viewer , the first step it to set up livestreamer to capture the NASA's stream and hand it over to omxplayer.
while true
livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/embed/17074538?html5ui mobile_478p –player omxplayer –fifo –player-args "–win \"75 110 710 564\" {filename} –layer 20″
So , livestreamer grabs the mobile_478p stream and passes it to the omxplayer and creates a window(size 710 x 564, at the position x=75,y=110)
Now to make the video play inside the LCARS container , its actually 2 layered videos. The lower video is a loop video (mkv) of the LCARS interface generated by using avconv.
sudo avconv -loop 1 -i lcars.png -tune stillimage -t 10 -y -r 5 lcars.mkv
So the idea is that the lcars.mkv is playing at a lower layer and the NASA feed is on top of that video. (thanks to Brad's Blah Blog for the idea)
This is were the omxplayer "–layer" option comes in, the higher the number , the closer to the screen the video play is. So the LCARS video plays on layer 10 and the NASA video plays on layer 20. Now since the LCARS interface is just there as a container this video does not have to loop indefinitely , so I decided to pause it after it loads. So using FIFO file , I send a "p" to the player causing to the stream to pause. (updated: I realised I could use the fbi image viewer to layout the background instead of using 2 instances of omxplayer, the background generating one tended to crap out randomly anyway . )
so the final script to launch the viewer is:
while true
livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/embed/17074538?html5ui mobile_478p –player omxplayer –fifo –player-args "–win \"75 110 710 564\" {filename} –layer 20″
done &
sudo fbi -T 1 –noverbose –fitwidth –autozoom /home/pi/lcars.png
#mkfifo t
#cat t | omxplayer –loop lcars.mkv –layer 10 &
#sleep 1s
#echo p >t
#rm t
The last step was to adjust the positioning of the NASA video feed so it would play inside the black container area of the LCAR's video. After some tweaking I settled on on
–win (omxplayer window positioning option) \"75 110 710 564\" = Postion the video at x=75 from the left of the screen, y=110 from the top of the screen, size 710 x 564.
added the the script to the profile of the user "pi"and enabled autologon so the viewer would automatically boot overtime I reboot the pi. And now I have a ISS HDEV LCARS viewer.


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2012 is shaping up to be a patent nightmare for most of the largest pharmaceutical companies. Nearly $29 billion in annual sales are at risk as patents are set to expire on some of the world's best-selling drugs -- including Pfizer's
Pfizer isn't going to just roll over and die now that its top-selling drug is no longer exclusive; it's also using its clout to bring new drugs to market. On Friday, the FDA approved Inlyta, a second-option twice-a-day pill for those who have kidney cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Under normal circumstances a new drug approval might be cause for celebration -- in this instance I'm simply going to reserve a golf clap for Pfizer.
First off, kidney cancer is a brutally overcrowded field, with seven drugs having been approved since 2005. Of those seven, five are a primary line of treatment, including Roche's (OTC: RHHBY) Avastin, GlaxoSmithKline's
Secondly, the market for kidney cancer simply isn't that large. That doesn't mean that drug companies shouldn't seek cures -- that would be misconstruing what I'm saying. But according to estimates from the American Cancer Society, 64,770 people in the United States will be diagnosed with kidney cancer. From a sentimental perspective, that's 64,770 more cases than I'd like to see. From an investment perspective, this represents just 0.02% of the entire U.S. population, which seems a ridiculously small slice of pie from which seven companies are expected to eat.
Will Inlyta contribute to the bottom line? It depends on whether Pfizer can get it approved as a first-option treatment (which it is currently working toward). In the meantime, Inlyta's approval isn't likely to move the needle much in regard to Pfizer's profitability -- but feel free to give Pfizer a golf clap nonetheless.
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Rescuers free one of several victims trapped in a bus from the Creative Learning Workshop Thursday on Interstate 70. The bus collided head-on with a semi-truck driven by a man from Chicago. Four people were killed. (Springfield News-Sun/Bill Lackey)
Snow-slick roads are being blamed for an accident in Ohio where a tractor-trailer driven by a man from Chicago spun out of control and collided with a small bus carrying disabled adults, killing four people in it.


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The Niagara Falls of Volcanoes: Man Stands a Few Meters from Massive Lava Flow at Marum Volcano
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Some People are Braver than OthersStanding a few meters from the massive lava flow from an active volcano isn't really on my bucket list, but Goeff Mackley obviously has more Evel Knievel genes than I do. He descended 400 meters into the Marum, an active volcano on Ambrym Island in the Pacific ocean, and stood just a few meters from a massive lava pool. He and Bradley Ambrose, who filmed the video below, were apparently the first people to ever get this close. About the experience, Geoff wrote:
Climbing down to within 30 metres of the lava it was so hot (1150 degrees) that without protection we could stand the heat for 6 seconds before retreating, with heat suit and BA I was able to stand it for 40 minutes. "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH"
But you have to see it for yourself (above). Nature really is awesome!
And here's the longer video that shows more of the preparation for the expedition:
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You won't believe which K-drama actor is G-Dragon's biggest fan?!
Nope not just any ordinary mortal! The K-pop idol has found a fan in fellow celebrity actor, Lee Je Hoon. Remember this? We have all the details on their bromance!
At a recent meet and greet hosted for his closest 1,600 fans, Lee Je Hoon couldn't stop gushing about his encounter with the pop star. He said, "I was always a fan of BIGBANG but I didn't know that G-Dragon was going to be on the Muhan Company special. I was so shocked when I heard about it on set during the filming." Adding that when G-Dragon informed him of plans to enlist in the army, the actor was shocked and decided he needed to attend a BIGBANG concert STAT.
Luckily for him, G-DRAGON invited the actor to a concert and pretty much made his day. So sweet right! The two are currently text buddies and the last message they exchanged went along the lines of "FIGHTING!" Seriously??? This is the cutest story we have heard all day!
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Easter Egg Traditions
Whether Christian or non-Christian, most people color Easter eggs around Easter time. Although different cultures have vastly different traditions concerning decorated eggs, most of these evolved from the same ancient roots, beliefs, and traditions.
Since the beginning of time spring was a time of new life and eggs symbolized that new life in a real way. Eggs have so long been a part of the traditional celebrations of spring that there is no record of when the tradition actually began. Romans, Greeks, and Jews all used eggs in the springtime religious ceremonies and rituals.
In Medieval Europe eggs were given as gifts to the servants. There is a story that in 1307 King Edward I had over 400 eggs dyed and covered with gold leaf and then presented them to the servants in his household.
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Symbolic Egg Colors and Decorations
As the tradition of using eggs in religious celebrations spread, different cultures developed different colors and ways of decorating them.
In Greece the eggs are dyed crimson red to represent the blood of Christ. On Easter the red eggs are bumped together.
"He has risen"
"He has risen, indeed!"
The person who is left with an egg that is not cracked at the end of the day is will have good luck all year long. The breaking of the eggs represents Christ breaking forth from the tomb on Easter morning.
In Hungary and parts of Germany there is a tradition of dyed green eggs for Maundy Thursday. By carrying this green egg one will be sure to have luck for the whole year.
Christians began using eggs in Easter traditions for several reasons. As cultures turned to Christianity they were unwilling to give up many of their celebrations and traditions and so transformed these to Christian celebrations. Decorating eggs for Easter may also have been partly because Christians gave up eggs for Lent. By Easter there were many eggs to deal with and using them as part of the tradition and decorations just made sense.
Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Ukrainian Easier eggs, also called Pysanky (or Pysanki), are beautifully and intricately designed decorated eggs. The artisans begin with clean white eggs and use beeswax to create a design. The egg is then dyed in the lightest dye to be used. Next more beeswax is applied in a design and the egg is dipped in the next color. In this way the beeswax always protects the design underneath it. When the final and darkest color is applied, the egg is allowed to dry and then the beeswax is melted off and the egg is rubbed until it shines. The complex pattern is obvious at last. Generally the inside of the egg is left intact. After many years the yolk and white will have dried up. Sometimes the insides are blown out but this makes it more difficult to dye the egg.
Although each egg is different from the next common symbols are used. Some of these symbols are:
Sun- Good fortune
Chicken or rooster- Wishes fulfilled
Deer- Good health
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Modern Celebrations
In recent years in the Southwestern United States and Mexico a tradition of filling blown out eggs with confetti has begun. On Easter the children crack the eggs often on each other) and the confetti goes everywhere in a swirl of color.
Whether you use a homemade food coloring for dye or make the intricate, jewel-like Pysanky, coloring Easter eggs is a fun part of the Easter celebration.
It never really crossed my mind that easter eggs could have so much deeper meaning. We have been celebrating Easter Sunday for as long as I can remember and I never thought behind the symbolism of the colored eggs.
Fascinating! I've wanted to learn to dye eggs the Ukrainian way for years (along with 100 other hobbies), so the resources in this hub made my day. Thank you.
Guess I never gave much thought to decorating eggs. They are very detailed in design. Nice to learn about the different traditions.
I have a friend who boils her eggs with a bunch of onion skins that she saves for her Easter Eggs. The onion skins make natural patterns of brownish tint to the hard boiled eggs. They look nice and I am assuming it is some sort of family tradition, maybe of Polish decent. Thumbs Up for this write!


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UW Medicine's Valley Medical Center use of electronic health records in outpatient settings has been rewarded, as it is the latest recipient of HIMSS Analytics' Stage 7 Outpatient Validation award.
The designation honors the top level of achievement for the use of electronic medical records. The Outpatient EMR Adoption Model provides a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for ambulatory facilities owned by hospitals. These facilities can include physician practices, clinics, outpatient centers and specialty clinics.
Tracking their progress in completing eight stages (ranging from 0 to 7), outpatient facilities can review the implementation and use of IT applications with the intent of reaching Stage 7, which represents an advanced electronic patient record environment.
"Achieving HIMSS 7 validates that we are ahead of the curve in our avid adoption and integration of technology as well as robust use of analytics and dashboard reporting, giving us the intelligence to make more informed decisions," said Wayne Manuel, senior vice president of strategic services and chief information officer of the facility in Renton, Wash.
"It also means we are well positioned to meet the changing demands of healthcare reform," says Manuel. "By utilizing and continually optimizing the digital tools available, we have been able to streamline workflows for our staffs, put patients front and center with the goal of improving the quality of care we provide, ultimately impacting in a very positive, significant way our patient outcomes and experience."
Valley Medical Center is a 303-bed acute care hospital and clinic network. The oldest and largest public district hospital in Washington state, VMC serves more than 600,000 residents in South King County. VMC is the largest nonprofit healthcare provider between Seattle and Tacoma. VMC is also South King County's only disaster recovery facility and offers advanced emergency care in its Level III Trauma Center.
During the first quarter of 2016, only 8.1 percent of the more than 37,000 outpatient clinics received the Stage 7 Outpatient Certification.
"VMC has done a phenomenal job establishing the culture we expect of a Stage 7 organization. From the CEO and throughout the ranks at all levels, it was clear they all share a common vision to provide the best healthcare quality, service and access through their use of information technology," said John H. Daniels, global vice president of the healthcare advisory services group, HIMSS Analytics.
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How to Make Rice Balls
Chinese New Year is right around the corner, so why not help your child make festive and tasty rice balls to celebrate! Chinese New Year is celebrated in January or February, and part of the celebration is making and eating lots of foods – including rice balls! Known as Onigiri, traditional rice balls have a special treat inside and are sometimes coated in sesame seeds or strips of nori.
What You Need:
- 1 c. sushi rice
- Large bowl
- Spatula
- 2 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp. Sugar
- ½ a cucumber, chopped
- Sesame seeds
What You Do:
- Bring 2 cups of lightly-salted water to boil and then invite your fourth-grader to measure the sushi rice and gently pour it into the water. Cover the pot and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
- It's time to get rolling! Invite your child to place the cooked rice in a large bowl and cover with the rice wine vinegar and sugar. Working with a spatula, encourage your child to mix the rice, helping to incorporate the ingredients as well as cool the rice.
- Now your child can carefully chop the cucumber into small chunks to place in the center of the rice balls.
- Invite her to gather a handful of rice and make a hole in the center to place a couple of the cucumber pieces. Now she can carefully squeeze the rice ball together and then roll in the sesame seeds.
- The rice balls can be eaten on their own or dipped in soy sauce!


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the game sucks...
is GP a new group?
gp did another gba release a while ago
they are also a console release group
If boycott would run this i'd play it x_x
any movie footage in the game?
Wow, you still using that crusty old Boycott Advance emulator? O_O
Yea sadly, it surprisingly runs some new gba games like batman begins. this computer doesnt have direct x for some inane reason and the owner doesnt want it.
Don't worry, this game is garbage.
VBA can run without DirectX, just chose Options > Video > Render Method > GDI - wallah! (or is that viola? :/)
really? i'll try it and get back to you on it working or not
EDIT:It worked thanks so much dirtie!
now, StingX should be a happy one, finally able to play with VBA!
Lol didn't the other version work perfectly?
It took some working but i'm finally reunited with vba
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Harry Potter was easy. Build Hogwarts Castle in the town of Hogsmeade -- almost all of the action in the seven books and eight movies takes place there. Star Wars plays across an entire universe, however. How do you decide which of the multiple planets that have hosted Star Wars stories should provide the setting for Disney's Star Wars Land? And if one were to choose to place the land on multiple planets, how would one logically explain guest movement between the different planetary settings?
Disney's current Star Tours ride never addresses the location of its Star Tours terminal. But the ride makes clear that there are multiple planetary destinations in the Star Wars universe beyond its setting. Given that Star Tours ought to be part of Star Tours Land, how would the ride's inclusion affect a decision about the land's setting?
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Let's assume that the setting will be a planet, and not on a Death Star or other spaceship, which would necessitate building a much more-expensive all-indoor land. The top two choices, given the action of the first six films, would appear to be the Skywalkers' home planet of Tatooine, or the Republic/Imperial Capital of Coruscant. Yet, other planets surely will appear in the new Star Wars movies Disney is beginning to produce and will be eager to promote to its millions of theme park visitors. Perhaps the land's setting should be one of them?
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Tatooine is a desert planet, covered in sand. As Anakin Skywalker once awkwardly proclaimed, I don't like sand. I don't want to get it in my shoes, and I don't want to get any in my eyes if the wind picks up. Sure, they could cover the ground with a rocky surface that looks sandy, but it's not really the same.
Coruscant is a planet that has been completely enveloped by a city. A city that has progressively grown taller, blocking out all sunlight from the lower levels of the city. Coruscant would be very hard to accurately depict. I can't see them being able to give us the sense of depth required.
I definitely don't want to see it as a Star Wars movie set, because most of the prequels were shot in front of a green screen instead of a set.
I'd like to see a few diverse elements; maybe we get Mos Eisley and the cantina, the Jedi temple on Coruscant, the Ewok village on Endor (I know, it's a moon, not a planet). One thing I'm sure of is that if they can do Blizzard Beach, then they can do Hoth.
I also seem to recall hearing that the woodsy area behind the park is kind of swampy. You know what that means, Degobah!
I voted for multiple planets and would like to see Naboo/Tattooine/Coruscant with the Coruscant portion including the Jedi academy or something of that nature.
so exciting!
But Robert, you're missing the most important question.
"Will they serve Blue Milk?"
After all, new theme parks lands need a signature drink.
Of course, they already have two planets represented. The Ewok planet near the front of the ride where the AT-AT is, and what I guess is Mos Espa at the store, which is all sun-drenched rock.
Simply extend each section in the direction its facing and there would be no need for any changes to what already exists, while giving a nice transition area right at the Star Tours ride.
But one of the reasons I love Harry Potter land so much is that it's a huge area all in the same theme. Having two+ planets represented could make for two small lands, neither of which would be as immersive as if one planet was used for the entire land. And though the particular planet will likely never be agreed upon by everyone, it will look better.
A post on another thread detailed this and I think that poster had some good ideas. For DHS I would go with Tatooine. I would personally extend out over or under the road with the bridge being decorated as the transition into Mos Eisley, and converting the swampland into tattoine (knocking down things would probably make more financial sense I admit). Star Tours could have a rethemed exit so the ride is the thematic access route to tatooine from earth.
As for content, the cantina is a given for the primary meals area. Jabba's palace, I believe would be the best secondary food outlet,and would double up as the opening to a ride which features the escape from the palace and the sarlac. You could throw in the obligatory broken yeti - I mean rancor. This would be best done as a semi dark ride with the first half being inside and the rest outside. I'm thinking something vaguely similar to the mummy rides, or perhaps Indiana Jones (only on a smaller scale)
The next ride would be on Luke's t-16, definitely a kiddie coaster (I don't believe DHS has one at all) with a simple threading of the stone needle and taking potshots at womp rats.
The final ride, and the e-ticket,would be a pod-race. This could be done in many different ways, and I'm sure disney's imagineers could come up with better ideas than I could on how it works. This is one of the best action set-pieces from Tatooine, and could make for an incredible ride if done correctly.
Please let me know what you think of my ideas.
Hollywood Studios - They've already established Endor, it could easily be expanded into Muppets area. Turn Pizza Planet into Ewok Eatery, lots of food on a stick. And Muppets 3D can be rethemed, Keep Star Tours as is.
Epcot - Coruscant can be done up in the area of Ellen's energy adventure. Mission Space can be re-themed. And a small c-ticket attraction can be done. The area shouod be in a similar style of the world showcase, they can have nightclubs / bar / counter service etc.
Animal Kingdom - instead of Avatar Land , build Felucia and go wild! (Pun intended)
magic Kingdom - Naboo. I think this could fit perfectly between tomorrow land and New Fantasyland. They can take out the racing ride, and convert that whole area into naboo, have one d ticket attraction involving an attack by the federation or they could bring back the submarines and theme it to the gungan world.
Okay - how many of you have been to New Fantasyland? It's cool and all, but the transitions are not what I would call "seamless" or "natural" which I would hate to see happen to SWL.
Oh, and because it needs to be said - forget SWL and CL. Just get rid of the Indy show and replace it with the Indy ride already! Such a no brainer!!!
Here are the planets I want to see represented:
* Tatooine (with Mos Eisley cantina) and a speeder chase E-ticket ride through the mountain canyons; my idea is to take the Radiator Springs Racers ride from DCA and clone it at DHS...but don't theme it to Cars. Instead, theme it to Star Wars and you could have sand people shooting at you, those Bantha and Dewback creatures, and other things. I also think you could have Jabba's Palace too...and have that be a theater where shows could be put on...and it would have animatronic Jabba on a balcony watching the show with you!
* Coruscant (this is the city-planet)...I think this could have a really fancy and elegant restaurant that would rival Le Cellier because Coruscant is the capital of the whole universe! I think it could also have a ride where you are flying around and zipping and zooming past the skyscrapers and then down into the dark reaches of all those buildings! I also think it would be fun to have a "Galactic Zoo" dark ride that would take guests past a collection of animals from the Star Wars movies. This would be a fun ride for Animal Kingdom too, if Avatar wasn't going there.
* Dagobah (the swamp planet where Yoda lived)...would make a great place for a spooky dark ride. Remember when Luke had to be tested and Yoda was telling him about The Force and he had to fight that ghost Darth Vader in the Empire Strikes Back? That would make a great dark ride.
* Hoth (the ice planet)...Disney can make Sea World's Antarctic look very junky by building the Ice Planet of Hoth...and I think the ride here would be set inside the rebel base and there would be those animatronic TaunTaun creatures and you'd maybe have a dark ride that would have that Wampa monster trying to womp on you!!! Would make a great place for an ice cream parlor too, built to look like it was carved out of the ice.
* Endor (the forest planet)...I see this as maybe a children's play area, running along rope-like paths like Grizzly Trail at DCA...only theme to be in the redwood forest of Endor's green moon. That's where those adorable little Ewoks were all living.
* Naboo (where Queen Amidala lived and it all looked super elegant). The architecture is so beautiful here...but I can't think of a good ride. You know what would be fun though? What if they themed the whole showcase like it was Naboo, next to a lake, and the Pavilions could all be on Naboo...so Naboo would be the host planet and then all the other planets would be represented by pavilions.
* Bespin (this is where Cloud City is and where Lando Calrissian lived). I think this could be a really exciting ride that maybe could be like Soarin'.
* Alderaan (that's the planet where Princess Leia was from and it got blown up by the Death Star). I think there could be a ride here that's set as the Death Star is attacking. For many years I wondered what Alderaan looked like...so I would like to visit there. They showed it briefly in the Revenge of the Sith movie at the end...it looks like Slovenia there, with futuristic buildings.
* Mon Calamari (that's a water planet that will be featured in the next trilogy). This is where that Admiral Akbar is from. Could be a good excuse to have a really good underwater-feeling ride.
This is exciting to think about all the possibilities!
I think a world showcase setup that is themed as if you are on Naboo would be the easiest way to represent all of these planets...just like at EPCOT with the countries.
1) Dagobah-- because nothing says Florida better than being in the middle of swampland with fake alligator-like creatures lurking in the water
2) Hoth-- Disney can one-up Universal's Harry Potter land by having an actual icy wonderland all year long complete with life-sized AT-ATs and Wampa monsters that only work for 6 months after opening
3) Death Star interior--Guests will love being in a mock-up of a colossal mechanical space station with Klaxons blaring and panicked Cast Members running around as the Death Star is about to blow up. Talk about something going horribly wrong!
4) Endor moon--Disney will spare no cost and transplant a redwood grove in Florida and hire an army of Hollywood extras to work in costume as Ewoks.
While I hope very much to see Star Wars Land (And CarsLand East), I just can't get any excitement out of year-old recirculated rumours until I see anything official from Disney. After all, most of these same sources were the ones claiming Bob Iger and George Lucas were at DHS on May 4th to announce Star Wars Land. That didn't happen either.
True, but Robert Niles has a pretty excellent track record when it comes to industry leaks (he seems to be the "official, un-official" conduit), at least as far as Universal and Harry Potter goes. In any case, I suspect we'll know either way at D23, since it would make no sense for Disney to use plans like a Star Wars world as a weapon against Universal and NOT go public as soon as possible.
Enter from the currently themed Endor, ride the ride then have the last scene of the ride be in Tatooine. This would trigger a set of exit doors which would lead to a Tatooine themed planet.
Another ending of the Star Tours ride might be the Death Star. When the Death Star ending occurs different exit doors open, walk down a long airport like corridor and you are now on the Death Star.
In each of these "planets," there would be a Star Tours spaceship terminal which would allow you to return to the ride, via a long airport like corridor, and take it to another location.
You could even have designated motion simulators, the 2 on the left go to Tatooine, the two on the right visit Hoth, the center ones are shuttles to the Death Star.
Each would have their own separate exit into a differently themed planet.
Also, Tatooine and Radiator Springs are lot of barren desert for humid Central Florida. The park already lacks trees
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Lake Forest man responsible for murder-suicide in Vegas hotel lobby
A Lake Forest man was at the trigger of a gun in what's believed to have been a murder-suicide in a Las Vegas hotel lobby, authorities said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said Edward Brandt, 31, entered Excalibur Hotel and Casino about 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, and he fired several gunshots toward the lobby concierge desk, striking and killing Jessica Kenny.
Police said an investigation indicated "there may have been a previous dating relationship" between Kenny and Brandt. Police spokesman Marcus Martin said a handgun was used in the shooting.
Clark County Coroner P. Michael Murphy said Monday that Kenny, 30, died from multiple gunshots to her head and chest from what's tentatively classified as a homicide. Kenny died at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, police said.
Murphy said the Lake Forest man died from a self-inflicted bullet wound to his head that was considered a suicide. Brandt was pronounced dead at the hotel.
Police said many emergency calls were received about shots possibly being fired in Excalibur's lobby. They said patrol officers found Kenny and Brandt on the ground near the concierge desk suffering from gunshot wounds.
Kenny was working for VEGAS.com at the hotel-casino's concierge desk when she was shot. VEGAS.com is a travel company.
"We were saddened to learn that a member of the VEGAS.com family was the victim of (Friday's) tragic and senseless killing at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino Las Vegas," company Chief Operating Officer Bryan Allison said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends."


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To start, log-in times should now be faster. In the past, we gathered information about all of your projects when we logged in' which could take some time if you've been doing a lot of work. Starting today, we only get information about the project you were last in, because most of the time you're only working on one or two projects. There may be a slight delay when you move to a project you haven't opened in a session—but overall, you should see faster log-in times.
Another significant change is that Character elements can now include multiple characters, so you can specify that multiple characters are speaking the same line. On some productions, this isn't a big deal—but in some cases, you may need to track how many speaking scenes a character appears in, and this feature makes it easier to do that. To add multiple characters to a line of dialogue, enter the character names separated by " / " (space/space; don't use the quote marks!). What's cool is that after the second space, you can use auto-complete to fill in the character's name.
Finally, you can now display the Series Name and Program name in your Headers and Footers. To customize what's in your Header or Footer, choose Production > Modify Header or Modify footer, then select different options for the Left, Center, and Right fields. Where do you set the Series and Program names? Choose Edit > Script Properties, then click Edit Production Information. In the Production Information dialog, click Edit, and you can enter additional information about the Series Name, etc.
We've also made some other enhancements: You can now specify speaking/non-speaking characters at a set level, and you can display or hide studio/location and scheduled date in the script. And, as we always do, we also addressed a number of issues reported by our users. If you encounter something untoward in Story's behavior, please let us know by submitting feedback here.
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Forum Energy Sees Buyouts, Share Gains Fueling Growth
Like a lot of companies that earn their living in the oil and gas business,Forum Energy Technologies ( FET ) has been on a strong run the last couple of years.
The company provides equipment and services through two main business segments: Drilling and subsea, and production and infrastructure. Its customers include oilfield services firms, assemblers of drilling and well servicing equipment and onshore and offshore drilling contractors.
Thanks to high crude prices and heavy demand for its equipment and services, Forum has recorded four straight quarters of triple-digit earnings growth. Sales have risen at least 45% over the same period.
The company sees no reason it can't continue to produce robust growth well into the future despite the fickle nature of the oil and gas industry.
"Forum expects to grow at a 20% annual rate over the next several years through market fundamentals, market share gains and acquisitions," JPMorgan analyst J. David Anderson noted in a recent report.
The company's buyout strategy will center on companies in the subsea, international and downhole equipment sectors, Anderson says. He looks for deals in the $30 million to $150 million range that are immediately accretive to earnings.
High Debt
"The company has plenty of flexibility on the balance sheet and is willing to take debt up to as high as three times EBITDA," Anderson said. "Management expects to do at least one deal by year end."
In a note following Forum's second-quarter earnings report, Citigroup analyst Robin Shoemaker said the company should find growth on a number of different fronts in coming quarters.
"We continue to believe that Forum will benefit from its emphasis on consumable parts, potential expansion in Brazil, Australia and China, and leverage to increasing service intensity, higher well complexity and greater deepwater development," Shoemaker noted.
Forum's ambitious growth strategy belies its status as a relatively new operation.
The company was formed in the summer of 2010 after a five-way merger that included Forum Oilfield Technologies, Triton Group, Subsea Services International, Global Flow Technologies and Allied Technology.
Forum went public April 12 at an opening price of 20. Shares peaked at 23.86 April 30, then sagged as low as 18.60 July 27 after the company lowered its full-year guidance. But the stock has rebounded since then and currently trades near 23.
Forum's Drilling and Subsea business supplies a variety of services and goods, including capital equipment, products for subsea pipelines and remotely operated underwater vehicles, or ROVs.
ROVs are tethered and unoccupied vehicles that can be operated by someone aboard a surface vessel.
The company's production and infrastructure business supplies surface process and pipeline gear such as tanks, pressure vessels, modular process plants and manifolds. It also provides specialty pipeline construction equipment, valves and aftermarket services.
Subsea Business
The drilling and subsea business contributed 60% of Forum's second-quarter revenue with the production and infrastructure segment providing the rest.
Analyst Anderson sounds especially bullish on Forum's prospects in the subsea category.
"They are the manufacturing leader in work-class ROVs used in the construction and installation of equipment and systems on the seabed," he noted. "Forum is effectively operating at full utilization right now with a 12- to 18-month lead time for new orders compared to a typical cycle time of five to six months."
Anderson expects an increase in offshore development activity that will likely last the next three to five years.
"Several of Forum's customers are getting ready to place big orders for new equipment," Anderson noted. "In addition to customers needing ROVs for new construction vessels, older ones also need to be replaced after about a five- to seven-year cycle time."
Forum's drilling and subsea business pitched in Q2 revenue of $223 million, up 17% from the prior year. All three product lines within the drilling and subsea segment posted year-over-year growth, with the drilling technologies product line delivering a gain of nearly 20%.
Revenue Growth
Production and infrastructure revenue for the quarter climbed 30% to $151 million, led by a top-line gain of 40% for Forum's production equipment product line. Its valve solutions product line also delivered strong revenue and margin growth, thanks to improved distribution and strong market penetration of new valve products.
"Our revenue growth was attributable to an increase in demand for many of our products, such as our deepwater ROVs and wellsite production and process equipment," Forum Chief Executive Cris Gaut said in a statement.
Overall revenue grew 45% from a year earlier to $373 million, slightly above estimates. Earnings came in at 49 cents a share, also beating views.
"The primary drivers of the beat were strong drilling and subsea results, low corporate expenses and accrued contingent benefits," Shoemaker noted.
On the downside, Forum lowered its full-year earnings guidance, citing weakness in the U.S. land market. But JPMorgan's Anderson downplayed the issue.
"Essentially, it was an inventory destocking issue that will self-correct by the end of the year, even with the U.S. land rig count expected to be flat or slightly down," he noted.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Forum to post full-year profit of $1.94 a share this year and $2.14 a share in 2013.


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Defunct Company Loses Bid for CIT to Hear Case for Failure to Pay Outstanding Duties
In a Sept. 18 decision, the Court of International Trade dismissed another case because the plaintiff failed to pay outstanding duties before filing suit. This ruling follows a similar decision in a case in which the plaintiff argued that this prepayment requirement is unconstitutional.
In E&S Express Inc. v. U.S., the plaintiff challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection's denial of a protest contesting the assessment of more than $76,000 in supplemental antidumping duties, with interest, on certain entries of wooden bedroom furniture from China. The original duties of nearly $15,000 were paid or deposited and the entries were covered by a $50,000 continuous bond, which would have covered the supplemental duties allegedly owed on six of the nine entries. However, E&S did not pay the supplemental duties before filing this case, arguing that:
- the Department of Commerce rescinded the AD duty rate it had determined to apply to the producer of the merchandise at issue and instead instructed CBP to assess AD duties at the cash deposit rate, "a sum that E&S Express states that it previously paid, leaving no additional duties owed";
- the supplemental duties are "impermissibly retroactive";
- the supplemental assessments came two to three years after the dates of entry of the goods, without notice and after the goods had been sold, which precluded E&S from increasing the price of the goods to recoup the higher duties and thus denied the company due process and defeated a primary purpose of AD duties; and
- the bills for the supplemental duties were not received until nearly a year after E&S was dissolved.
E&S asserted that the CIT may hear this case under 28 USC 1581(a), which gives the CIT exclusive jurisdiction over civil actions contesting the denial of a protest but requires the plaintiff to pay all liquidated duties, charges or exactions before the suit is commenced. The court rejected the plaintiff's argument that this requirement should be waived as to six of the nine entries at issue because the outstanding duties could have been paid prior to the case being filed if CBP had made a demand on the surety and the surety had paid out on the applicable bond. "Whatever the facts are or might have been," the court said, "it is well-settled" that the prepayment requirement "is not subject to the court's discretion, and any failure to comply … cannot be waived or excused based upon equitable principles."


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Put the dates and water in a pot over medium-low heat. Cook and stir for 10 minutes until the dates are very soft. Transfer the softened dates to a food processor and puree until smooth. Add the sugar and vanilla, puree again until well-blended. Scoop out the puree into a mixing bowl. Sift together the cocoa powder and flour and add to the date mixture. Fold using a rubber spatula; combine gently until well mixed.
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