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Procter & Gamble is said to be in discussions with America Online about a one-year advertising deal worth as much as $5 million.
The most surprising aspect of the deal, however, could be that the package goods giant is apparently backing away from its previous insistence on buying online advertising based on a click-through model.
Over the past two years, P&G and its online media buyer, Grey Interactive's Media.com, cut deals with Web sites under which it paid for ads based on the number of users who clicked on ads to visit P&G sites--not on impressions.
Only about 1% to 2% of users click on ads, according to industry research.
Because of P&G's size and clout, its reliance on a click-through model had set off a storm of controversy. But the click-through model never became the industry standard, a reality P&G appears to be recognizing by experimenting with other models.
One executive with knowledge of the AOL talks said "click-through would still be part of the deal. But there are other elements that P&G would likely find very valuable."
Some of these elements could include important positioning, either on AOL's main screen, e-mail screens, or chat-room screens. Also, P&G could get a certain number of pop-up or interstitial messages.
The new P&G deal would be groundbreaking for package goods online media spending. Package goods advertisers--who have been building Web sites and creating content--have largely ignored media buying.
A $5 million buy is more than three times P&G's estimated $1.2 million online media spending for the first half of 1997, according to figures from Jupiter Communications.
P&G has been experimenting with interstitial ads, which appear as users wait for content to load; several such ads are currently running for P&G's Sunny Delight and Always brands on CondeNet's Phys.com site. P&G is lead investor in Phys.com.
P&G is also reportedly talking to some sites for the first time about upfront, long-term deals.
"We are trying to identify and develop a number of advertising options" in cyberspace, said a P&G spokeswoman, adding that the company realizes different ads have different values. "We recognize that for a new brand, building awareness might be most important, while that might not be our goal with a more mature product."
The spokeswoman declined to be more specific. Myer Burlow, senior VP-interactive marketing at AOL, could not be reached.
P&G is said to be in talks with other sites about deals that would include non-click-through elements. Those deals, involving about a dozen of the most-visited women's sites, were first reported by MSNBC Online.
P&G reportedly wants to advertise Bounty, Scope and Sunny Delight. Olean, P&G's patented olestra fat replacer, also has been mentioned as a potential online advertiser.
Women's Wire has just signed a year-long upfront deal with P&G. The effort launches in February and relies on click-throughs, but also uses other models.
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Another women's Web publisher, Hearst HomeArts also will begin running P&G advertising in February as part of a six month deal, although it is a click-through deal, said T.R. "Rocky" Shepard, HomeArts VP-network advertising sales. P&G is the only advertiser on HomeArts that uses the click-through model, he said.
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I believe in snake charming, Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and the Connected World.
When I research, check public opinion and arrange a holiday in an evening; when I use Skype for free to wish my kids goodnight when I'm away; when I transfer money instantly from one bank account to another; and when I can exchange ideas, thoughts and news with people I am connected to it feels like magic. Maybe it's because I'm over 40 and remember clearly the inconvenience, expense and ineffectiveness of the alternatives. Whatever the reason, connectivity and all the apps and websites it has spawned have changed my life for the better.
Working in the industry, advising some of the most influential organisations shaping our digital experiences and having built complex websites from the ground up, I know that it's not really magic – just the product of a lot of hard work, clever technology and great design. Just like snake charming, the magic of the internet is a product of some clever trickery. For avoidance of doubt I also 'know' Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy aren't real physical beings – but that doesn't stop me keeping the idea alive for the enjoyment of others.
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- Before you move into designing functionality, think about the equivalent of an elevator pitch for the proposition. How would you describe it to a potential user in 30 seconds? Try this for 3 or 4 archetypical users. The pitch may be quite different.
- Design a basic, unadorned interface to deliver the core functionality and test it on real people. Do they see the vision? Is the design communicating the pitch? Does it map to the broader brand experience?
- Add in richer functionality or content for specific scenarios with great care not to dilute the core proposition. E.g. by revealing it in response to a user request such as train route details, or by making sure the design protects the visual hierarchy within the UI.
Encourage people to talk about it …
Make good use of the social web to build some volume around your brand, and the experiences people are having.
- Make storytelling easy for them, provide hashtags, links to Facebook pages, forums, invite a friend… and link to susceptible moments such as when they have just fulfilled a goal.
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Jupiter Ascending ReviewPosted by Adam J at 2/09/2015 05:19:00 am
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- Tobi Kun9 February 2015 at 13:15
Yep, i need to get a bundle of weed and watch this with some friends.ReplyDelete
This movie is the Wachowskis' Sucker Punch. Both are what happens when you remove any and all limitations from their directors, and their imaginations just run away with them. They're just every possible concept in their creator's minds being thrown at the screen simultaneously, and as a result there's no overall structure and purpose to any of it. Great action though, the aerial chase through Chicago in Jupiter was something to behold.ReplyDelete
If you think about it, the Wachowskis have an identical career path to Zach Snyder. Each hit it big with their second movies, and following the initial massive financial success Warner Bros kept throwing money at them in the hope of repeating it. They both then made two adaptations that failed financially (though one from each received decent reviews) and then a giant, indulgent disaster of a pet project that crashed and burned spectacularly. This should mean they'll be directing Aquaman at some point.
- shitapple13 February 2015 at 12:25
So Sean Bean *Drones* on. heh heh. Good one.ReplyDelete
We need an American sniper reviewReplyDelete
But Redmayne is a good actor, don't misjudge him ! Seriously, in The Theory Of Everything he was great! I don't know what happened in Jupiter Ascending...it doesn't make any sense...ReplyDelete
I'd be ten minutes of him snoring.ReplyDelete
- LOPutarek2 March 2015 at 14:45
Holly shit this guy won an Oscar !!!!!ReplyDelete
- Milton17 March 2015 at 20:09
Just watched Detachment (A.Brody), what you think of it?ReplyDelete
- Florentin Meinecke20 July 2015 at 10:10
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also, a big bunch of shit is burning up and exploding around them, and i dont know how that should be possible without any oxygen.
either they have phlogiston in their atmosphere or there actually was oxygen, but also some sort of toxic component which kept them from breathing. still, that was never mentioned and the breathing issue remains a mystery to me.


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What do clients want and value in their agency relationships? What level of digital sophistication can be seen client-side? How are clients transforming in the light of increasingly digital customer experiences?
These are the questions asked by the 2014 Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) Report and its Digital Marketing Outlook survey conducted in partnership with Econsultancy.
In this post I've rounded up some highlights from the report, looking at changes in the agency-client landscape.
The Digital Marketing Outlook Study had 736 respondents. More than 82% of respondents were key decision makers and influencers with annual marketing budgets ranging from $5m to over $100m.
Clients accounted for 42% of the total respondent base (the majority in consumer packaged goods or the service sector) while agency and production company respondents constituted 43% of the overall sample. 36% of respondents were from the US, with 22% and 20% from EMEA and APAC respectively.
Client-side expertise is growing
Digital expertise on the client side has continued to grow for a number of reasons, including:
- New talent at both blue-chip and challenger brands.
- The continuing development of client-side teams with direct responsibilities for digital.
- The hiring of former digital agency professionals.
- The increasing incidence of embedded agency partners within client teams.
- The maturation of digital as a whole.
62% of clients work with two agencies or fewer
The number of agencies clients are working with has remained fairly consistent. 2014, like 2013, sees 88% of clients indicating they have four or fewer agencies on their roster in both years.
What has changed, however, is the number of marketers working with no agencies whatsoever. This number has risen as inhousing continues.
Specialized digital agencies are the most popular assignment
As you can see from the chart below, clients relying on full-service digital agencies represent only 16% of respondents. Using specialized agencies, sometimes alongside a full-service offering, is the method preferred by the majority of survey respondents.
Client engagement sees increasing focus on education
Looking at how agencies actually engage with clients, 2014 has seen a 21% increase in agencies reporting work based on a retainer fee. This is perhaps due to an increase in number of specialized digital services.
A big change over 2013 has been the increase in the proportion of agencies providing education and training services to clients. This training is often provided to internal client teams that have been developed to handle digital production and maintenance. The number of agencies providing this education rose 25% in relative terms.
Agencies not great at estimating project costs.
The average self-assessment for all agencies and production companies was just 6.09 out of 10, when measuring their ability to correctly estimate project costs.
Client spend hasn't wavered, despite economic recovery
The report authors postulate this could be due to a decrease in respondents from North America, where the economic recovery is strongest. It could also be down to more in-house activity by clients, or due to North Americans sitting on cash reserves until they gain greater confidence in the opportunity for growth.
Campaign spend decreasing
In 2013, campaign spend was increasing, but in 2014 more than 50% of clients are maintaining the status quo when it comes to campaign spend. This could be due to clients still taking stock of the results of last year's increase in campaign budget.
Innovation labs proliferate
50% of agency respondents had a product incubator or innovation lab. With innovation and product creation the second highest priority with clients, these labs are a bridge between agency world and clients taking things in-house.
Agencies cited funding/company spin-offs (24%), talent retention (49%) and new business (52%) as benefits of establishing an innovation lab (31% saying it was too early to tell what the outcomes would be).
The 2014 SoDA Report features much more data from this DMO study.
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Thank you, Ben Davis. Excellent recap and interpretation. I am just digging into the full report.
Jeannie Swindle
JAS & Associates Consulting
Interesting summary.
Certainly from our experience, the issue that you hit with agencies currently is them spreading themselves too thinly and hence not actually proving an asset to the advertiser meaning that where it's something that can be, it is often easier to do things in house.
Agencies need to realise that they are far less necessary than five years ago and as such, they need to add real value to the client in order to remain involved for the long term...


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The son of an American Methodist mother and a Palestinian Muslim father, Jihad Turk is Director of Religious Affairs for the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), the oldest and largest masjid in the Los Angeles area. He is also completing a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He is a popular speaker, advocate and expert in the media. Turk teaches Arabic and is widely involved in interfaith advocacy and dialogue across Southern California. He also serves on the Board of Governors for Claremont Lincoln University.
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In this class, I'll walk you through the process of painting patterns on your fashion illustrations. At the end of this class you'll be able to create simple patterns on different mediums not only on fashion illustrations. These patterns are applicable on invitation cards, logos, digital patterns, backgrounds and much more. Unleash your creativity and you'll see wonders!
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Here's a good example of when you take money from someone, it always has strings attached and you need to know those strings before you take it.
Treasury Seeks to Keep U.S. Bank Stakes After Buyback
By Rebecca Christie
April 17 (Bloomberg) — The Treasury intends to retain an ownership interest in many U.S. banks even after the lenders buy back preferred stock the government currently holds as part of its rescue effort.
The government will continue to hold warrants, attached to every capital injection it has made, even after any share buybacks, Treasury officials said on condition of anonymity. Banks seeking to escape the government's grip want to retire the warrants — which give the right to buy stock in the future at a preset price — at the same time they acquire the government- owned preferred shares.
The officials said the U.S. would give up the warrants only after subsequent talks with appraisers and the banks to agree on a price. As long as the warrants remain, lenders would continue to face some federal constraints, including limits on hiring non-American citizens, the officials said. Lenders would be freed of restrictions on executive pay and dividends, they said.
"When this program was created, everything was done so fast, I don't think people were contemplating they would be exiting this quickly," said Diane Casey-Landry, chief operating officer of the American Bankers Association.
Escalating federal demands on the banks have spurred institutions including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to seek an early exit from the Treasury's rescue program. The warrants issue may be the latest complication in a $700 billion effort to unfreeze credit that has sparked an outcry among both lawmakers and some bankers.
Toxic-Debt Funds
Most of the funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program distributed so far have been used for buying stakes in financial companies. Warrants apply to all elements of TARP, and officials are still wrestling with how to include them in their plan to finance purchases of distressed assets.
Treasury representatives are working with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and potential participants in the toxic- debt programs on how to apply the warrants requirement.
Lawmakers pressed for warrants in the TARP law enacted in October as a way for taxpayers to benefit from future profits of companies getting help.(Looks to me like they just want to continue some control of a public business) When exercised, the government can buy newly issued shares from the company at a pre-determined price.
It's unclear how much the warrants may be worth and valuing them may prove contentious. Bankers said the warrants, under current market conditions, may turn out to be expensive for those looking to exit the rescue programs quickly.
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"If you look at the cost of those warrants and turn it into an annual percentage rate, it's enormous," said Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America. "It almost makes the Treasury look like a payday lender."
Financial shares have rallied in the past month on signs that the industry's performance improved in the first quarter. The Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index has soared 88 percent from its low of 78.45 on March 6, closing at 147.28 yesterday. That's still down 71 percent from the high reached in May 2007.
Futures on the S&P 500 index were little changed at 861.2 just before the open at 9:27 a.m. in New York.
Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar said in an April 14 interview that "there's a prescribed process for how you do it — where you propose a price, they accept or not, you negotiate and then you hire appraisers and come up with an agreed-upon valuation."
"We'll figure it out, we don't know" the cost, Viniar said. Goldman Sachs raised $5 billion this week in a share sale in order to help pay back the $10 billion it took from the government in October.
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JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said April 16 his firm could repay U.S. government rescue funds "tomorrow." He called the receipt of the $25 billion in TARP money last year "a scarlet letter."
JPMorgan spokesman Joseph Evangelisti declined to comment on the warrants.
For the top 19 banks, any TARP repayments will have to wait until after the so-called stress tests conclude, a Treasury official said. U.S. regulators are reviewing the biggest banks to gauge whether they have enough capital to survive a deeper economic slowdown. A Federal Reserve official said yesterday that the results are planned for release May 4.
To repay, a bank must apply to the Treasury. The request then goes to the bank's regulators, who review the soundness of the institution. If the bank is deemed in good shape, it's allowed to buy out the government stake.
Some smaller banks are already in the process of repaying their TARP funds. Of the six who have repaid so far, five have outstanding warrants that need to be addressed


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The Characters:
Commander Jack Rankin - This guy wouldn't stop smiling if a rabid weasel was in his shorts; he would just grin and give you a thumbs up.
Commander Vince Elliott - In charge of the space station and not very happy Rankin is senior to him. A rash man who gives one Green Slime a hug. (That means he dies.)
Lisa Benson - Woman torn between loving Rankin and Elliott.
Dr. Halvorsen - Head researcher aboard the space station, he gets seriously fried.
General Jonathan Thompson - Gruff senior officer, his main role in this movie is sweating.
Captain Martin - Elliott's right hand man, for some reason he looks natural in a white motorcycle helmet.
The Green Slime - Alien life form which feeds on energy and even a single drop of blood can regenerate into new creatures. Incinerated.
The Plot:
Packing more goofy models and props than most Godzilla films comes this lovely piece of b-cinema.
I still want to know who starched Commander Rankin's face while he was smiling, either the guy is a loon or he's on some serious happy pills. Prozac boy gets things done though; when you have a rogue asteroid hurtling toward Earth he's the man to call. (Not Bruce Willis, mind you.)
When the astronauts land to place their bombs they find the asteroid is inhabited by strange blobs of glowing slime that are drawn to the equipment. After blasting off and barely escaping the massive explosion (Imagine an orange and brown papier mache' ball with half a stick of dynamite inside and you're golden.) the heroes return to Space Station Gamma 3.
Unfortunately, for everyone, some of the slime was carried back on a space suit. It soon evolves into a tentacled creature! So the thing kinda looks like Sigmund the Sea Monster - he never fried anyone with several thousand volts of electricity. (Yes, I know it's the amps that get you.) This gives a nice excuse for Elliott and Rankin to have a power struggle over who is in charge, the latter a firm believer in "shoot first ask questions later."
Another unfortunate fact about Green Slime: even a single drop of blood will grow into a new monster. So now you have dozens of pissed off Sigmunds running around electrocuting the crew, good job Rankin.
In the end humanity is saved by crashing Gamma 3 into Earth's atmosphere, incinerating the Green Slime. Thank goodness something stopped them besides THROWING your laser rifle. The characters often unload at point blank range without effect. Soon as they throw the weapon it goes right through the monster's eye. Even if you don't like watching "spacemen" wearing white 1960's police motorcycle helmets firing "laser guns" at waddling masses of latex monsters you have to love the title song.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Asteroids look like a Gobstopper which has been under the refrigerator for ten years.
Movies are less interesting from a phone's objective.
Pulsing green muck plays heck with interstellar golf carts.
People can stand up and walk around while experiencing ten G's.
Never let a bitter exgirlfriend tend your wound.
Alien life is best represented by green soap suds.
Space station security guards wear white motorcycle helmets with a little space symbol on them.
Golf carts are not four wheel drive.
Laser rifles work better as spears.
Never hug an ungrounded Green Slime.
Stuff To Watch For:
2 mins - Nice miniatures, ahm.
13 mins - For some reason this scene is making me horny.
25 mins - Bad dubbing!
48 mins - White motorcycle helmets?
64 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A FLASHLIGHT!
70 mins - The explosion took out half of the model space station, but not that flimsy door?
75 mins - Elliott could use some boxing lessons.
83 mins - Jack, I'm going to kick your smiling self in the testicles. What do you think of that?
Audio clips in wav format
Starving actors speak out
Elliott: "Now, since that's the way it is, let's be sure that's the way it is, huh?"
Rankin: "You're making a big mistake Lisa. You don't love Vince - you pity him."
Lisa: "I'm very happy with him."
Rankin: "You're lying, you love me."
Rankin: "What a minute. You mean this stuff reproduced itself inside the decontamination chamber and then as we...as we stepped up the current it just grew?"
Dr. Halvorsen: "Precisly!"
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Re: The Green Slime
Reply #41.
Posted on October 10, 2008, 09:55:10 AM by
So many bad movies feature such GREAT music. Who WAS the singer of "The Green Slime"? A guy named Charles Fox is credited with the film's music, but was he the one who actually SANG that song? I heard the song was released as a 45-single around '68 or '69.
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #42.
Posted on October 16, 2008, 10:53:16 AM by
By the way, the shooting script for "The Green Slime" was based on a screenplay by Renato Moretti and Ivan Reiner (or Reitner), who brought us the Italian baddie "Wild Wild Planet" as well as several other Z-grade sci-fiers. It seems they couldn't raise the money in Italy to make it, so they sold it to producers in Japan, and the rest is bad-movie history. At least the laser-guns in "Green Slime" aren't poorly disguised propane-torches.
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #43.
Posted on March 14, 2009, 10:56:29 PM by
Just finished watching this little gem...
Now... Not only is Rankin the hero of this film but.
He is also the jackass that caused the whole problem in the first place!
By smashing Dr.Halverson's sample onto A rock while they were still on the asteroid.
This idiot splashed some of the green slime onto His spacesuit.
Unknowingly bringing it back to Gamma 3!
Wonder if that was in His final report.
Still A fun movie though!
9/10 stars..
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #44.
Posted on March 16, 2009, 05:57:53 PM by
When going to light speed to out run an anti-matter blast...turn on the force fields BEFORE you go to 10 Gees! idiot!
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #45.
Posted on May 18, 2010, 04:33:47 PM by Max Brandt
I remember this cheese ball movie, watched it many moons ago I think on Commander USA's Groovie Movies. Them were the days! I also believe The Green Slime was one of the first b-grade movies mocked on MST3k.
I'm surprised the Beastie Boys haven't found a way to incorporate the silly monsters into one of their videoes.
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #46.
Posted on May 21, 2010, 10:26:00 PM by Anonymous
I think both this and Message from Space might possibly be Kinji (Battle Royale)Fukasaku's weakest movies, his other movies are a lot better than this and he kind of drops the ball for these two movies. He drops more in The Green Slime than in Message from Space (Message from space has a goofy charm that keeps it from being unlikeable regardless of the star wars rip off).
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #47.
Posted on August 22, 2010, 08:37:46 AM by Alrx
I'm actually pretty cool with this film. Cheesey rubber slime monsters, yes, but pretty good film overall. I love the theme song to this movie. GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN SLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. :P
So, overall, I'm cool with this film, and I ceartainly hope the Mst3k pilot version of this film, even though already on YouTube, will be released on DVD one day. :)
Re: The Green Slime
Reply #48.
Posted on January 26, 2011, 10:17:24 PM by BadIsGood
This movie once saved me fromn food posioning. Four of us were on a day-hike trip in northern New Mexico, we had dinner in some tasty Mexican hole-in-wall and then watched this movie with a case of beer. It quickly became a drinking game for all but one of us who did not partake and, alas, spent the next day with buzzards circling over him. The rest of us were fine thanks to this top notch drinking movie.
It's got everything: hammy acting, awful special effects, preposterous aliens, goofy plot. We still joke about it to this day. OUr favorite "bring in the net gun", standard gear for any space station one presumes. And the two bozos on the light cart are a hoot: every few seconds one would point his light forward, the other backwards and thn they would switch for no discernibl purpose except to cause us to drink some more.
Well worth it; this is my favorite so-bad-its-good movie.
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Catalogue raisonné: Van der Koelen, no. 73025.
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The Young Democratic Socialists were a huge part of the People's Summit in Chicago this past June 17-19, 2016. YDS co-ran the workshop "Raising Hell on Campus" and made DSA one of the most multi-generational groups! Everywhere YDS went, people were excited to see young activists.
See these pictures below of YDS activity: YDS Co-Chair Jack Suria Linares co-leading DSA's anti-racism discussion; YDSers together; YDS Co-Chair Shelby Murphy facilitating "Raising Hell on Campus" with United States Student Association, United Students Against Sweatshops, and Student Action.
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As I said to several YDS folks at The People's Summit, it was great to see their political intelligence, organizational savvy, & positive energy.


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Finnish coach fuming at Team Canada's Groulx
Reports say Finnish bench boss Hannu Jortikka wasn't happy with Team Canada's coach following Monday night's game. (QMI Agency)
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Finnish bench boss Hannu Jortikka fumed following Monday night's post-game press conference at Montreal's Bell Centre.
Already peeved after being blown out by Team Canada at the world junior, Jortikka took aim at Canadian head coach Benoit Groulx for his remarks.
Not the remarks themselves.
Rather, how he said them.
According to Finnish media, Groulx's French put Jortikka into a tizzy.
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"I should have spoke Finnish," Jortikka said, according to a tweet Finnish reporter Juha Hiitela.
Wasn't just me who thought Groulx's behavior was arrogant. Hannu Jortikka was too. "I should have spoke Finnish."
— Juha Hiitelä (@jhiitela) December 30, 2014
International Ice Hockey Federation guidelines require all post-game press conferences to be in English or translated to English.
Jortikka followed those guidelines Monday night while Groulx has consistently ignored them for local media in Montreal.
Really, though, Jortikka's beef should be with the IIHF, which is supposed to provide translation to English when native tongues are preferred.
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Up in Smoke
|Up in Smoke
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Lou Adler
|Produced by
|Written by
|Music by
|Gene Polito
|Edited by
|Scott Conrad
|Distributed by
|Paramount Pictures
Release date
Running time
|86 minutes[1]
|United States
|$2 million[2]
|Box office
|$44.4 million[3]
Up in Smoke is a 1978 American stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and Cheech & Chong's first feature-length film. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, and Tom Skerritt.
Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much of the film was shot in Los Angeles, California, including scenes set in Tijuana, while scenes set on the Mexican border were actually filmed at the border in Yuma, Arizona.
While negatively received upon its release, Up in Smoke is credited with establishing the stoner comedy genre. It's now considered a classic.
Anthony "Man" Stoner,[4] a jobless, marijuana-smoking drummer, is told to either get a job by sundown or be sent off to military school by his parents. Anthony leaves the house in a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle convertible (which had his father's Rolls Royce radiator grille on the front), a car which is subsequently left smoking on the side of the road. Anthony is picked up while hitchhiking by the equally enthusiastic smoker Pedro de Pacas. The license plate reads MUF DVR ("Muff Diver"). They share a large joint, which Man says is made with "mostly Maui wowie" and "Labrador" (essentially dog feces, as his dog, a Labrador Retriever, had eaten his stash). Police find their car parked on a traffic median with them in it, discover that they are clearly stoned and arrest them. At trial, the pair are released on a technicality after Anthony discovers that the judge is drinking vodka.
In an attempt to procure marijuana, they visit Pedro's cousin Strawberry, a Vietnam War veteran. Strawberry's nickname is derived from the large birthmark on his face and neck. Pedro tells Man not to look at the birthmark, but of course Man does and makes a remark. They narrowly escape a police raid on Strawberry's house while Strawberry has a flashback and thinks the police are the Viet Cong, but are soon deported to Tijuana, by the INS (la migra), along with Pedro's relatives, who actually called the INS on themselves, so they could get a free ride to a wedding in Tijuana. In order to get back to the United States they arrange to pick up a vehicle from Pedro's uncle's upholstery shop, but arrive at the wrong address, a disguised marijuana processing plant. They end up unknowingly involved in a plot to smuggle a van constructed completely out of "fiberweed" (hardened THC resin derived from marijuana - a play on the word fiberglass) from Mexico to Los Angeles, with an inept police narcotics unit, led by the overly zealous Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach) hot on their heels. At the Mexican–American border, they almost get arrested but attention is diverted to a group of nuns (Man had thrown away his joint, in order to avoid capture by the border patrol, which fell into the nuns' car by accident). The duo then narrowly cross the border into America and pass Stedenko who is giving an interview to Toyota Kawasaki, a newswoman. Stedenko then finds out from his unit that they apprehended the wrong group and they begin to chase after Pedro and Man. They don't get far, however, after one of Stedenko's men accidentally shoots one of the tires to the car they were in.
Along the way, Pedro and Man pick up two women, who convince them to perform at a Battle of the Bands contest at the Roxy Theatre. Pedro and Man tell the women they need marijuana; the women convince them to see Gloria—a police dispatcher who sells drugs being held as evidence. Gloria informs the women she can't sell them any drugs as the police destroyed the evidence they were holding, but there should be some in stock soon as the police were searching all over town for a huge stash—which the police do not realize is currently sitting in the police station parking lot. They narrowly avoid another arrest, at one point, after being pulled over by a police motorcyclist, but the officer gets high from the burning "fiberweed" emanating from the van's exhaust, and lets them go after asking for a hot dog one of them was eating.
When they arrive at the venue, most of the bands that are performing are negatively received by the audience. One of the women gives Man what she believes is an "upper", though, upon seeing his reaction to the drug, which was causing him to feel out of it, she checks her pills and says "I think I fucked up," indicating that she gave him the wrong drugs. Later, the duo's band, Alice Bowie, Ay Les Voy ("Here I come to you" in Spanish), wins the contest and a recording contract, with a performance of their song, Earache My Eye, despite a rough start to their performance; they win over everyone, including the cops, who get stoned due to a large amount of marijuana smoke from the burning van being funneled into the venue.
The film concludes with Pedro and Man driving in the former's car and dreaming how their future career will pay off. Man then lights a small portion of hash and gives some to Pedro. However, it falls into his lap, causing him to panic and swerve the car while trying to put it out; Man attempts to put the hash out with his beer. During the scuffle, the car swerves down the road and smoke billows out the windows over the end credits.
- Cheech Marin as Pedro De Pacas
- Tommy Chong as Anthony "Man" Stoner
- Strother Martin as Arnold Stoner
- Edie Adams as Tempest Stoner
- Stacy Keach as Sgt. Stedenko
- Mills Watson as Harry
- Zane Buzby as Jade East
- Wally Ann Wharton as Debbie
- Tom Skerritt as Strawberry
- June Fairchild as Ajax Lady
- Angelina Estrada as Aunt Bolita
- David Nelson and Kurt Kaufman as Roxy Theatre doormen
- Rodney Bingenheimer as Himself
- Ellen Barkin (Uncredited) as Guitar-playing woman
- Harry Dean Stanton (Deleted Scenes) as Police Officer
As this was the comedy team's first film, Paramount wanted the initial screenings to be filled with their most ardent fans.[5] Cheech and Chong also came up with the novel (and ultimately successful) idea of advertising the film through comic strips, which they left on bus benches. The film opened first in Texas to huge business, and also later in Canada boosted by strong word of mouth.[5]
Box office[edit]
The film was a huge success, earning $44,364,244 at the domestic box office,[3] making it the 15th highest-grossing film of 1978.
Critical reception[edit]
Up in Smoke received mixed to negative reviews, now earning a 44% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[6]
Home video[edit]
It was released on DVD in the early 2000's. Then again a few years later as a special edition. It was released on bluray for its 40th anniversary in April 2018
See also[edit]
- ^ "UP IN SMOKE (X)". British Board of Film Classification. October 18, 1976. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- ^ Buchalter, Gail. "Cheech & Chong's Joint Career Is a Smoke Screen: at Home They're Not Potheads but Proud Papas". People. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ^ a b "Up in Smoke, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ^ Chong's character name is used only once. It is during the scene in which his father berates him, and his mother calls him "Anthony".
- ^ a b Litwak, Mark (1986). Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood. New York: William Morrow & Co. p. 251. ISBN 0-688-04889-7.
- ^ Up in Smoke at Rotten Tomatoes
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- Films about music and musicians
- Films about smoking
- Films directed by Lou Adler
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Today Thomas Jay Oord shares why he wrote Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement.
For the past decade or more, I have been thinking about the love, science, and theology interface. The questions about how these three major domains of inquiry might relate to one another are complex, and these questions require complex but understandable answers.
One of the central issues in this kind of interdisciplinary love research is how one defines love itself. Many go about assuming they know what love is. But most people—including scholars—have not done the careful work of composing a love definition.
To some people, the idea of defining is sheer foolishness. Love escapes any defining, they say. Pressing them to identify how they know which actions are loving and which are not, however, reveals quickly that they do adopt some definition of love. These adopted definitions are often tacit, intuitive, or largely unconscious.
Part of the love scholar's task is to make explicit and conceptually coherent love assumptions that may currently remain implicit and incoherent. In my book Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement, I explore various facets of love in various disciplines. I do the work of making the implicit explicit and the incoherent coherent.
Perhaps the most important contribution of the book is my proposed love definition. I define love in this way:
To love is to act intentionally, in sympathetic/empathetic response to others (including God), to promote overall well-being.
I explore each phrase of my proposed definition in the book. When it comes down to the basics, love has three essential elements:
(1) intent/motives
(2) relationality/embodiment/environment
(3) consequences/outcomes
Defining Love begins with philosophy and asks various questions about these three elements. Along the way, the book addresses forms of love such as agape, eros, and philia.
The heart of the book explores recent research and theory in science. I focus on the social sciences in one chapter, the biological sciences in another, and cosmology in a third.
I have had the great privilege of having access to some of the most influential scientists of our time. The chapters on science and love in the book draw from their work, some of which I heard them present personally, others which they detail in their published works.
Readers likely will be surprised at the vast amount of research and theory pertaining to love, altruism, well-being, prosocial behavior, agape, benevolence, and related issues in science. Reviewers and readers often report being unaware of so much interesting research being done on these subjects.
Defining Love concludes with a chapter exploring God's love. It quickly surveys the general approaches to how science and theology might most effectively relate. Rejected are the views that say or imply that theology always trumps science or science always trumps theology.
One of the more creative proposals in this final chapter emerges from the theological issue most worrisome to those who believe God loves perfectly: the problem of evil. I call my response to the problem of evil "essential kenosis."
Essential kenosis says God acts as a loving causal agent in every agent or event. But God never entirely determines anyone or anything. To put it another way, God never totally controls others. Because of this love-grounded power, God should not be thought the cause of evil nor be thought culpable of failing to prevent it.
Essential kenosis does say, however, that God's love varies. God's persuasive influence oscillates as creatures respond appropriately or inappropriately. And God expresses diverse forms of love. Divine love is not an amorphous "steady state" or "blind force," because God is personal.
Some reviewers of Defining Love have praised the general structure and substance of the book. But many theologically informed readers find the final chapter too brief.
Anticipating this, I published simultaneous with Defining Love a thoroughly theological exploration of love called The Nature of Love. In it, I wrestle with classic love theologians like Augustine and Anders Nygren. And I propose a series of ideas pertaining to essential kenosis that should satisfy readers of Defining Love who had hoped for more theological reflection.
My hope is that Defining Love becomes a tool for both academics and laity as they wrestle with love's meaning and expression in the world. The research will likely surprise many. And I trust that my own proposals will prove fruitful in the ongoing work to gain a better understanding of God and creation.
To read more about love, science, and theology, I invite you to visit my blog, www.thomasjayoord.com.
Thomas Jay Oord (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and is ordained in the Church of the Nazarene. He is the author of Science of Love and the editor of The Altruism Reader.
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Amish Fail
I don't even want to talk about the Amish Bread. It was a disaster. Something went horribly, horribly wrong, and I was so despondent (and busy learning the mystical ways of the tambourine so I could perform at CMJ and go on tour with my dear friend Neon Hitch) that I couldn't blog for months.
Honestly, the Amish Bread experiment turned into more of a crash course on how to brew your own moonshine rather than how to make your own sweet and delicious cake-like cinnamon-sugar bread to share with your favorite friends.
So I scrapped the entire project and moved onto bigger and better things: namely, another collaboration with Urban Outfitters! I can't divulge details just yet, but keep your eyes on the UO Blog in the upcoming weeks for an exclusive holiday treat from yours truly!
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Posted by Cindy on December 12, 2016
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All OneHorseShy t-shirts are made to order, so between production time (up to 5 business days) and shipping transit time, I can no longer guarantee delivery before Christmas. However, if you'd like to chance it, here's a tip that may still give you a shot at pre-Christmas delivery on t-shirt orders: unisex t-shirts tend to go through production faster than women's t-shirts.
The unisex t-shirt looks great on men and women. It's a true unisex style, not a boxy men's shirt. In fact, the only style difference between the two is that the women's shirt has slightly shorter, narrower sleeves. And since the women's sizing runs so small, I always recommend the unisex t-shirt for everyone except petite women. The women's size XL is equivalent to the unisex Small.
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Beaver Meadows Trail is a 10.8 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near Idaho Springs, Colorado and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking and camping and is best used from June until November. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Directions from Evergreen: Travel west on Upper Bear Creek Road for 10 miles to the Mount Evans State Wildlife Area, then go west to the Camp Rock Trailhead. The road in the State Wildlife Area is closed intermittently in the fall for hunting season and from January 1 to June 15.
Great hike. Short trip to Beaver meadow and picnic shelters then tons of longer options and gorgeous views! great spot.
FYI locked gates 4.5 miles from the trailhead during winter. went this morning but didn't feel like "hiking" on the road for 4 miles before the actual trail. could be good for cross-country skiing or snowshoeing once there's more snow. will try again in the summer!
Nice trail- did the Beaver meadows, cub creek and bear track trail loop, 10 miles, 5 hrs (including lunch time), 2100 approx elevation gain. I'd say moderate B classification hike.You see big change in Eco system throughout the trail. Trail winds up thru evergreens, with wildflowers, lotsa giant toadstools, strawberry & elderberry bushes. You come to pretty meadows with beaver ponds and tall grass. Gr8 views of Mt Evans, Rosalie and Captain. Had lunch at the fireplace ruins from some old Ranger station, I believe. There is Cub creek. Several creek crossings via log bridges. Then on the other side of loop, you also get to see what fire blowout looks like. And among all the deadfall, you see surviving limber cone trees which live for 1000's of years. Deadfall is pretty amazing to see close up. Past Bear creek, you get back down to wildflowers and raspberry bushes- makes a nice snack; left some for the Bears! Did not see any bears tho.
Saw some beautiful rare rose gentians on the trail and arctic gentian (heralding approaching fall weather). Saw some very pretty twisted stalk with red berries by the creeks.
Overall nice trail, steady long, rocky trail climb up then down.
Cool trail, hiked from here up the connecting Resthouse Meadows trail. The burn area here coupled with some interesting rock formations gives some great views of the surrounding area. We bushwhacked off the trail a bit to climb one of the rocky outcrops in the burn area. Very nicely secluded area, definitely worth checking out.
The small parking lot was full when we arrived, but it seemed like most who parked there were camping at the Camp Rock or Beaver Meadows campgrounds. Saw maybe two other groups on the actual trail on a Saturday in August (nice!).
The Beaver Meadows trail is only about 3.5 miles long from the Camp Rock trailhead to the junction with the Cub Creek and Resthouse Meadows trails. 7 miles round trip. Can be combined with Cub Creek and Beartracks trails into a nice loop hike.
This is one of the best hikes I've ever done! You start out in very dense Old Growth Pine and the ground is covered in moss and there were huge mushrooms of every kind of color all over the place. Eventually you break out into a meadow with very nice beaver ponds with visible lodges. This is followed with a nice moderate climb where you break out to great views of Mt Evans, Mt Spalding, Mt Rosalie, and the Pegmatites to the left. Spectacular views I'm tellin' ya! Then lots of ups and downs in and out of dense pine with differnt views every time you come out.
Finally at the end of this loop you walk through an old fire site with thousands of burned pines and huge boulder and rock formations.
Fairly long hike that I would call Intermediate. One of the best things is we saw maybe 8 people in 3 separate groups the whole time we were on the trail and this was in August.


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It's taken me a year to create an about me page. I guess I really didn't know where to begin... I never really knew what the page's purpose was. Was it really suppose to be about me, like my upbringing and life story? Or is it about this website and why I created it? Whenever I attempted to write something I often asked myself "what facts about my life are interesting"? Which ones should I embellish? How do I start? Do people even care?
Perhaps I'll start with a little bit about myself? Well, my name is Keenan, I'm Detroit raised and I'm a dreamer.
I chose dream because I haven't really figured myself out yet. I'm a diverse being, what I'm passionate about depends on the day you ask me.
I'm big on growth... and that's kind of what this blog is all about, me growing, it's about finding myself, and hoping that others are attracted to my story and that they are inspired to do the same.
I just so happen to take photographs. During my 2 years of professionally shooting I've tried just about everything, weddings, events... people. I found that what I had a true passion for was the streets. So I guess I'm a street photographer.
In the same breath, I love the idea of capturing growth, Detroit is a city that's growing... I have a group of friends who've decided to call this new wave that we dream about as New Detroit... So essentially I want to capture New Detroit. I want to document the process, maybe I'm a documentary photographer?
Oh, by the way, I run a blog, you're reading it now! I love blogging, it's actually what got me into photography, so yeah, I'm a blogger too...
Do titles really matter? I'm a kid who loves everything, I take everything I do serious and I truly believe that each day I can be great in whatever creative category I decide to partake in...
Hopefully, I can inspire you to do the same.