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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone here that sixteen is one of the most angsty eras in anyone's life. You're constantly worried about things: how big or small your thighs are, how crappy the pay is at your weekend job, whether or not that shining transcendental being you're crushing on will ever acknowledge your existence and how to make sure that if they do, you have the exact perfect playing-it-cool hair-flip worked out. I was no different -- angst ruled my sixteen-year-old world, too -- except I didn't worry about that stuff. I worried about the end of the world.
It started in exam season. I'd always been pretty bookish and really wanted to study English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. They have the oldest English Literature department in the world, and entry requirements are extremely high. I needed to ace every exam if I wanted to stand a chance of getting onto my desired course. But I was confident: I was a good student. I could totally do this.
One night, after a long session of obsessive revising, I plonked myself in front of the TV and started the process of switching my brain off for the night. There was nothing much interesting on, so I opted for a BBC documentary called Space, presented by the actor Sam Neill. As I watched, I learned that this episode was one of a series, and that the series was designed to illustrate how vulnerable our planet is. Sam Neill spoke calmly as he explained the various ways in which Earth could be destroyed by a massive black hole or an asteroid the size of Texas. Expensive-looking CGI sequences depicted mass panic and death in the face of tsunamis caused by outer space. There were images of the world exploding in a fiery supernova of lava. I watched for a while, one eyebrow raised, and then went to bed.
I didn't think much about the TV show initially. But over the next few days, I found that during quiet times, like when I was trying to study, those lurid CGI images kept wandering through my mind. I knew I had to prioritize my exams, so I tried to push all thoughts about the show out of the way and focus. But it seemed that the more I tried, the more anxious I became.
Certain items the show had presented as "fact" began to haunt me. They'd said that Earth was overdue a massive asteroid strike. They'd noted that there were very few high-tech observatories in the southern hemisphere, so if there was something apocalyptic coming our way from outer space, we might not spot it. This was the BBC, an organization I'd always trusted to deliver high-quality information and largely unbiased news. I was sixteen, and still pretty naïve. Within a couple of weeks, my space-anxiety had become full-blown terror.
A lot of the mock-up scenes the show depicted happened at night, presumably because big CGI explosions look cooler in the dark. But because of this I convinced myself that whatever cataclysm was going to happen, it would happen at night. I found I was unable to fall asleep. I started waiting until it got light outside before I'd go to bed, meaning I was working through school days on only one or two hours' sleep.
My studying ground to a halt: I found I had no ability to remember anything, so revising was useless. I tried talking to my parents about my fears, and they said very sensible, logical things. Nothing worked. Eventually I stopped sleeping altogether, and lay awake all night listening for noises in the sky. As proper sleep-depravation took hold, I started hearing them.
One night, my Dad got up at 3am to get a glass of water. When he looked out of the kitchen window, he saw me, shivering in my dressing gown, at the far end of the garden. I was wide awake, staring up into the sky, tears streaming down my face. I was convinced I could hear a terrible, massive noise -- like many, many aircraft passing overhead -- and when my Dad walked up to me I told him I could see a black hole opening up in the sky and coming to swallow the planet.
Of course, there was absolutely nothing there. I was hallucinating. I'd had a complete breakdown.
The next day, my parents marched me to the school therapist, who was great. We talked very little about my apocalypse anxieties -- instead, she wanted to know about my exams. I told her how desperate I was to get into Edinburgh, and about how excited I was by their literature course. She immediately diagnosed me with severe stress, and said my fears were the result of all the exam pressure I was piling on myself.
I'd never even thought about this. At no point had I ever felt freaked out about the exams -- just very, very determined. She said that often people who are stressed have no idea, until the stress manifests itself in some other way. The way it manifested in me was weird, but not all that unusual.
The school therapist referred me to a GP for treatment of my sleep issues, who in turn referred me to a private therapist specializing in paranoid delusions. It was this therapist who helped me work through my specific fears about the apocalypse, which had only been rationalized, not removed, by the stress diagnosis.
The therapist -- who I'll call Dr S -- told me I was suffering from a very specific type of thanatophobia, or fear of death. After weeks of feeling like a complete weirdo, I learned that thanatophobia is in fact one of the most common phobias out there. Almost everyone, said Dr S, is afraid of death on some level. Some people are deeply afraid of dying; others are terrified of dying in a certain way, like in a house fire or car accident. Many people list the death of a loved one as their absolute worst fear. Lots of people don't like flying because they think the plane might crash and kill everyone. Basically, my thanatophobia was just the same, only much, much bigger.
As I talked with Dr S, we worked through various issues. He explained that thanatophobia is often not about the feared thing itself: it usually masks other problems, namely a fear of the unknown, or a desire for control. I identified that yes, I always like to have a plan -- I hate not knowing what's going to happen, and the unknown does frighten me. I also identified for the first time that I am a massive control freak. At sixteen, I didn't have much experience of situations getting out of my control, and I'd never really been outside my cozy little comfort zone. It was no wonder I'd been freaked out by the huge, little-known depths of space.
Dr S sorted me out remarkably quickly. Little by little I started sleeping, and as my body began to function properly again, I stopped hearing noises and seeing things that weren't there. I used breathing and concentration exercises Dr S taught me in order to reign in my anxiety levels. I finally sat those pesky exams, somehow got As in all of them, and was offered a place at Edinburgh. For the remainder of my time living at home, we had a family pact: no apocalyptic movies, TV shows or books would cross our threshold. We wouldn't ever talk about that stuff. Eventually, my fears completely disappeared.
Except these things never completely disappear. Fast-forward ten years, and you have my worst nightmare: every media outlet is suddenly talking about how 21st December 2012 is going to be the End of Days. My entire Twitterfeed is full of silly cartoons about Mayans and jokes about building bunkers and storing canned food. There's a meme going around that includes a photo of the earth exploding -- it could even be a screen-shot from that Space documentary. Having always been thankful for the fact that my anxiety is not that easily trigger-able, I am spending most of my days -- and an increasing number of my nights -- feeling triggered as hell.
Fortunately, I've learned a lot over the past decade. Just as I know now that the Space documentary was ripped apart by critics for being overly sensationalist and full of factual errors and pseudo-science, I also know that it's highly unlikely the world will end on 21st December. In fact, the Mayan people are pretty offended by the suggestion. Dr S taught me well: I have a trusted brand of sleeping pill and plenty of good anxiety-busting exercises to tide me over until December 22nd. However, I also know how very easy it is for an already-vulnerable person to slide into mental ill health over something like this, because I've been there. I dread to think how many people are genuinely petrified about whatever they think is coming in a couple of weeks. Thanatophobia is a nasty business.


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Our stumbling rambling purveyor of rum speaks (belches?) out once more on a rum review:
Today we review a rum from the British West Indies (Barbados)—Pusser's Rum. For more than 300 years Royal Navy of Great Britain had their Pursers issued their sailors a daily ration (or "tot") of rum. This was believed to prevent scurvy as diet restrictions on board were prone to cause the disease. Sailors's turned Purser into "Pusser" and the daily tot continued until July 31, 1970 (now sometimes recalled as "Black Day") when the tradition ended. Per the Pusser's website, entrepreneur Charles Tobias obtained the recipe and rights of the five-rum blend and formed the company on the BVI and started selling to the public in 1980. The company donates a portion of the sale of each bottle sold to the Royal Navy Sailors Fund. Per the website, Pusser's is now a single malt rum, uses no flavoring agents, and is mostly pot-stilled. The bottle is Royal Navy Blue and Red with a blue-capped cork and British Naval Flag on the front.
Opening the bottle, the aroma is strong but not overpowering. The first neat sip is rich, with molasses coating your throat like a warm blanket on a cold night. The 84 proof rum has a smooth middle with a residual metallic finish from distillation. The extra 4% from most rums, brings a powerful substance to the drink and can be stout without being overpoweringly heavy. This is a very good sipping rum, for those that like more "oomph" and mixes well with regular cola. It may be a little too strong for most diet colas. If mixed with fruit juices, it works better with a little less rum and more juice. Which has an upside in that the bottle lasts a little longer that way.
I had little expectations of this rum, and was very pleasantly pleased. At approximately $25 per bottle, this is not a cheap rum, but a good rum for the price. The buyer needs to be aware that this rum will not be a rum for everybody as responses from friends and family varied greatly. I give this rum 7and a half corks and slide it into my Top 10 Rums.
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Thanks for the info Owen I was not aware of that, I can see at the beginning of the twiki http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToReleasePostMavenization that it is kind of implied by the skip this section comment. But, I was just confused because to do an official release I need to change the version number in several different places, and I didn¹t think that is was all that kosher to do that directly in the tags area. It also seems to be a bit different then what is happening on branch-2. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2/ http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.0.1-alpha/ http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-2.0.2-alpha/ I was planning on deleting the branch once the vote for 0.23.3 finished, but I can delete it now if you would prefer and the roll back the version numbers on branch-0.23 to be 0.23.3? Or would it be 0.23.3-SNAPSHOT still? I also want to be sure that we want to not allow anyone to check anything in for a week+ on branch-0.23. There are a few things I know of that are almost ready but are not Blockers. --Bobby On 9/10/12 12:33 PM, "Owen O'Malley" <email@example.com> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Bobby Evans <email@example.com> wrote: >> I have built an RC0 for 0.23.3 and am calling a vote on it > >Hi Bobby, > I noticed that you created a branch-0.23.3. The pattern we have >used in Hadoop is that there is a release branch that is for a minor >release (branch-0.23) and tags for the release candidates >(release-0.23.3-rc0) and releases (release-0.23.3). Generally, the RM >freezes the minor branch while they are trying to get the right set of >patches together for the release candidate. > >-- Owen
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Grey's Anatomy Writer on "Where The Wild Things Are"Steve Marsi at . Comments
The head writer of last night's episode, Zoanne Clack, talks about it in great detail on the show's official writers' blog. It's funny and insightful!
Here's what she has to say about "Where The Wild Things Are," which marked the first new episode of Grey's Anatomy in more than 100 days ...
Okay, before I start the blog, I wanted to mix this up a little in the spirit of the episode. Let's have a contest. 10 points for whomever tells me why Bailey's carrying her baby around all the time. 25 points if you can tell me the name of the crazy tumor that Phillip ends up having (no cheating by going back and looking!!! We're on the honor system here!). 40 points for the guesser of the theme of this episode.
And here's the motherload, the "medical mystery" if you will: there are lyrics to a song referenced within this blog (which also gives another clue to the theme). 80 points for the person who can name the song (and an extra 20 for the artist).
Did I mention I'm SO GLAD WE'RE BACK????!!! So glad prime-time network TV is back and can fill my TIVO with sweet, yummy non-rerun fictional candy again.
So what's been going on in the 6 weeks (tv time) since we've been gone? I've heard a lot of speculation out there, but Meredith is absolutely. Not. Pregnant. Not even close.
Hasn't even had sex. Meredith Grey. Our beloved, "have-sex-instead-of-problems" / "meet-your-soul-mate-and-sleep-with-him-after-picking-him-up-in-a-bar" Meredith.
She's traded sex for ... therapy? Therapy? Our Meredith? She senses there's something wrong, something really wrong. But she can't put her finger on it. Or can't admit what she's already put her finger on. Therapy is interesting because it's the one place you get to talk about yourself incessantly and someone actually LISTENS.
They're actually paid to listen to your drivel. And occasionally give you mind-blowing assessments of your behavior. But Mer's not quite taking full advantage of that. But it looks like there's some movement at the end… we'll see what she does with that. Maybe it'll help her actually start acting like a human being around Derek. They haven't spoken in the entire six-week interim. Mer's been totally avoiding him and he's been avoiding her. But they can't keep that up. They can't handle that.Deep, deep down, on their basest levels, taking intellect out of the picture, they belong together. They need each other. It's instinctual, base, feral.
But what if it's not? What if all of their instincts are wrong, like with Izzie? She put all of her blood, sweat and tears into Cheech, I mean, Otis, and for what? Poor Izzie. It's time for her to figure out who she wants to be and what kind of doctor she wants to be. On her own.
Not emulating Cristina, not fighting for lost causes, something where she can take charge and find out what she's good at. Don't you think? Thank God Richard's around to put everything into perspective for her. Maybe her instincts weren't great, but she's human. And being human ain't so bad.
Unless you're Cristina. When being human is bad. When being human means that you have to go against all your natural instincts to win at all costs.
When being human means putting your tail between her legs (figuratively speaking, of course) and sacrifice the win to get where you want to go in life. To realize that sometimes in order to win, you've got to lose â€" you have to give up one thing to gain another.
What you gain can be what you need. Humans need human connection. And when they don't get it, they tend to take it out on other people and not realize what they're doing themselves.
Who could I possibly be talking about? Maybe a little guy we like to call George? George walking around like a wounded lion. Pouncing on people left and right, trying not to show the scars of being left out of his peer group. Poor Lexie got the brunt of this… little did he know he had a friend right there, the whole time, wanting to be there for him.
And frickin' Lexie Grey! There's someone who needs to be loved. So sad. So vulnerable. Which kind of actually makes her strong in a very co-dependent kind of "please like me" kind of way.
She's like a little puppy who works so hard to do right and please their owner (except that puppies don't usually have the whole alcoholic father part). Her pleasing puppy is in sharp contrast to Alex's underdog, who's always fighting to keep his head above water.
For him, it's like a jungle sometimes, it makes him wonder how he keeps from going under. There's something going on with him. With his past. Something that doesn't fully let him reach his ultimate potential. Hmmm, maybe we'll start finding out what that is soon. Every dog has its day.
Humans also get jealous, and boy is that running rampant around Seattle Grace. Cristina so wants to be in the Callie-Erica crowd and she's so not. Callie and Erica are like birds of a feather now. They stick together.
And Cristina is not in any way a part of their flock. And what about Mark? He's totally jealous of Derek. It's like Derek is the prodigal wolf that strayed from the pack and Mark's been waiting for him to come back, but Derek's not coming. Mark thought they'd go back to the pre-Addison days where they were hunters on the prowl, spiders spinning their webs. But Derek's already moved on to new prey. Already catching someone new in his web.
And that somebody is Rose. During the time we haven't seen them they've developed a bit of a mating ritual where she pretends she doesn't care and tries to hold on to her iguana aloofness even in the face of the overwhelming cuteness that is McDreamy.
And for once, he's not trying to hold back the McDreaminess. Usually reserved only for Meredith, he's weaving his web and it's trapping Rose. The more she resists, the tighter the web gets around her.
I don't think she'll be fighting it much more. But will Derek watch her struggle in his web, store her up for later, or go for it? He seems pretty determined… she wants what he wants. She's a real woman ready for a real relationship. And despite Mark's incessant taunting, Derek's going to stay true to Derek.
As Bailey stays true to Bailey.
Taking care of the hospital, the residents, her baby, her life, and overall just being supreme ruler of the universe that she is. But can she handle it all? Is she superwoman or is she about to implode? Or perhaps even explode. I mean, she just went through one of the biggest tragedies of her life, feeling like she may have failed in protecting her own little bear cub. Then here comes this literal mama bear that kills because her bear cub was just touched.
Overreaction? Or simply just instinct?
Can Bailey's instincts be as sharp as she thinks they can be? I think she really believes she can handle it all. She is woman, hear her roar. She's also a doctor. And a chief resident. A wife. A mother.
CAUTION: Grey's Anatomy spoilers (trivia answers) ahead!
She's split up with her hubby and she's trying to get as much time with Little Tuck as possible (10 points). She's a Mama Bear Which is how we got to our theme: Animal Instincts (40 points). A freakin' bear attacked Phillip because he had a malignant glioma (25 points â€" and I'll give it to you if you guessed just "glioma") that was causing him to go against his own natural instincts. Not to mention our residents are running around the hospital like rodents, feeding off of the life (and death) of the hospital.
And now for the ultimate. The motherload. The "medical mystery" of it all. The 80-point monster:
The lyric was: It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under… And the song is called "The Message" (circa 1982).
20-point bonus if you guessed Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
How'd you do? Max is 175…
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Poor Sublime doesn't realize Sky is relentless. I don't think any member has ever won a debate with him.
Originally posted by Sublimecraft
My second response is up.
And can I just say that this is very enjoyable.
I have NEVER officially debated before in my life - not even at school.
I got a good laugh out of you tearing shreads off me - so I thought I'd do the same (hehehe)
Come at me!!!
Would anyone be willing to debate the premise: HUMANS WILL SURVIVE LONGER THAN EARTH. I will be arguing in favor, and the debate will start after my current debate concludes.
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LOL - I also need to articulate myself better, my request for proof on the monuments was focused on the Sphinx and Pyramids only.
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Why Women Only?
Are Women Only Business Events Still Relevant?
A women's only business conference is blessedly not a rare thing these days, but as a producer of one and a speaker who often attends them, I frequently find myself in conversations about whether or not they are still relevant. Conversations, which I alternate between enjoying engaging in and feeling intensely frustrated by. Which end of that spectrum I fall on often has a lot to do with just how aggressively the other person raises the issue.
There are a lot of ongoing conversations about the issue of women's equality in the corporate world and entrepreneurial cirlces, particularly since Lean In hit shelves. Earlier this month, the Harvard Business Review had a post looking at why corporations do not need internal women's only networks, which touched on a lot of the topics frequently raised in conversations about women only events. The debate about women's only events typically boils down to: does having women only events have the unintended side-effect of further segregating women and what we perceive as "women's issues" like childcare, balance and equity to arenas where only women are present? Or, as Avivah Wittenberg-Cox , the post's author puts it,
…women are working far too hard at an issue actually beyond their power to solve. The men currently in power may not actually have the skills and knowledge to effectively manage across genders (not to mention across nationalities, the other global elephant in the room).
Now her post is about internal corporate networks specifically (she closes the article by acknowledging that "External women's networks serve many vital purposes including lobbying, information sharing, education, and mentoring"). I agree with her that more does need to be done to make the men in decision making and power positions aware of the issues that women in their workplace are facing, particularly if they aren't seeing gender equity in leadership positions.
As for external conferences and networks, like Wittenberg-Cox, I come down firmly on the side of yes. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that women only events are vital to moving more women into leadership positions. Why?
Increasing access. This may seem a bit trite, but as the producer of a women's only conference (that has an all genders welcomed counterpart), it is always interesting to me to hear how many women register/attend that would not have felt comfortable attending a mixed gender event. The reality is that women's only spaces, even if that simply means a space where women know they can go and discuss business/career/technology issues in the presence of other women, is still of value to a lot of women. And before you decide that this is an issue that dominates in junior circles, trust me: many very successful and high profile women have surprised me by revealing this concern.
Creating a space for honest dialogue amongst women about the real barriers that we face. And then finding productive ways of moving through that conversation to reveal how some successful women have overcome or approached those barriers. This is a conversation that also very much needs to happen with men in the room, but the lightbulb that goes off when women hear each other talk about some of the unique challenges that women face in navigating high profile careers is invaluable. Many women do not feel safe sharing those personal stories with men in the room, particularly men with significant influence. We need to work together to share our stories and then present them in aggregate or as systemic issues when discussing them with a larger mixed gender group.
We still have a lot of work to do.There are a lot of conversations that we need to be having about women as leaders, women as mentors, setting examples for up and coming generations, and what equality looks like. Those conversations need to happen among women. They do also undoubtedly then need to be continued in a broader mixed gender context, and I would encourage champions of women's equality to find ways to get those topics on broader conference agendas.
Access to mentors. This is one that Wittenberg-Cox raises, Sandberg raises and many other savvy folks have pinpointed as well. Women still seem to struggle with accessing mentors, who can have a significant impact on advancing their careers. I have seen women's only events as a less intimidating venue for women who are perhaps reticent to approach a senior leader to become a mentor. Furthermore, I try to actively encourage senior attendees to consider becoming mentors, as the business world lacks in female representation at the mentorship level as well.
One of the bigger challenges that I find in this conversation is that frequently men (and some women), who raise the issue, are those who come from a position of equality. They (to the best of their abilities) practice gender equity and feel like they don't discriminate, many are men who are allies of women leaders and feel as though the presence of these conferences is somehow a judgement on their performance. Or, on the other hand, are women who genuinely do not feel they have been subjected to much in the way of discrimination. To those folks I say: wonderful. Truly. Wonderful that there are pockets (getting bigger all the time we hope) where discrimination is not an issue. Those pockets are still not the norm however, and until they dominate women only events will still have their place in the business world. And, to counter balance the possibility that they reinforce segregation, let's keep trying to get more women speakers and more topics that have been previously seen as "women's issues" on all conference agendas.


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Internet Radio
Streaming MP3 Audio and
Playing MP3 Audio Files
I prefer the audacious audio player, which should be included in your operating system. It's easily added if you don't have it, get it from: audacious-media-player.org. It evolved out of the XMMS project. Linux users need to see my how-to for details on adding MP3 support to Red Hat Linux and its derivatives.
Streaming Internet Radio Stations
Below is a list of some streaming Internet radio stations I have enjoyed or at least found interesting in the past.
This type of list is impossible to fully maintain. Some of these may not work because the stations frequently change their stream URL and even stop streaming audio from time to time.
Please let me know if you find problems in this list, or if you have suggestions for corrections or additions!
Some of these require the RealPlayer software from real.com, but most are MP3 or WMA streams.
Start with the listenlive.eu directory
Demk Radio
Yerevan, Armenia
Russkoe Radio
Minsk, Belarus
Hit FM
Brussels, Belgium
Nicosia, Cyprus
Radio Prague Intl
Prague, Czech Republic
Kiss 105.3 FM
Quito, Ecuador
SIS Govt Radio
Cairo, Egypt
Tallinn, Estonia Olukorrast riigis
Tallinn, Estonia Eestii Radio
Tallinn, Estonia Eestii Radio (english news)
Tallinn, Estonia
La Varenne St Hilaire, France Click'N'Rock
Paris, France Radio FG (Techno)
Paris, France Champagne FM
Riems, France
Hellenic Public Radio
Athens, Greece
Europa Plus
Almaty, Kazakhstan
TRK Pyramida
Frunze, Kirghizstan
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Sterlings, as the name suggests, specializes in sterling silver jewellery, but also offers beautiful designs also in 14kt, 18kt and stainless steel. The owner prides herself in having a store with a difference and travels extensively to find those pieces of jewellery to fit your style.
Located on the ground floor in the duty free shopping area of Heritage Quay, Sterlings is also the exclusive retailer in Antigua for Pandora, Links of London, Folli Follie Marah Lago, Steven Anton Rehage, Alexis Bittar, 5th Season by Roberto Coin,Fendi Crazy Carrot Watches, Thomas Sabo and Calvin Klein jewellery. Other lines by Honora, Candela, Misaki and Samuel B. The amber collection is second to none. They are also agents for watch brands such as Swatch, Victorinox-Swiss Army, Calvin Klein, Charriol, Guess, Michael Kors, Fossil, Festina, TX, Luminox and Skagen.
Sterlings is the home of Marahlago-Larimar, jewellery made from a rare stone found only in one square kilometer on a remote mountain on the Caribbean Island of the Dominican Republic. The Larimar stone captures the beauty of the blue shades in Caribbean Sea and is a wonderful keepsake of your holiday of sun, sea and fun. The stone is durable enough for everyday wear and the Marahlago designs are beautiful and modern. They range from simple stone settings in silver to pieces enhanced with opal, blue topaz, diamond and pearl and gold. The seal of the Marahlago flower ensures that your purchase is genuine and is covered by their 3 year guarantee.
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C'mon Hollywood #147
... make a decent dragon movie, or stop making bad ones!
by Sturdy
I think fantasy films are the hardest genre of films to make. By the time you build the mythology, establish the world, build interesting characters and then have enough action to keep the audience wanting more., you�ve run out of time. That�s a tall task for a two-hour film. In fact, it�s nearly impossible. LOTR had to split it up into three films. Can you imagine how bad the trilogy would have been if they had combined it into one two-hour film?
First off, this isn�t even a dragon.
Maybe that�s why there�s never been a decent dragon movie. You gotta give Hollywood some credit for at least trying over the years. It just seems that no matter how hard they try, the film usually seems uninteresting, cheesy, bland, rushed or a combination of all. It�s odd too, because you would think that a movie about a giant, flying, fire-breathing monster would be fun. Unfortunately, it�s harder than it sounds.
Yeah, McConaughey was a stud in this one
Looking back through the years, dragon movies have suffered damning fates. REIGN OF FIRE is probably the best dragon movie out there, but didn�t you feel like it was a bit of a letdown? DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS is a good example of a film that already had a fan base, but with the cheap effects and comic feel, it was almost unbearable to watch. DRAGONHEART took a shot and even got Sean Connery to voice the dragon, but that ended up making things a little weird. Of course, we have THE NEVERENDING STORY, which I remember being a good film, although I haven�t seen it since 1989. Besides, that�s not really the type of dragon film I�m talking about.
Honestly, this is all I could see the entire movie
Most recently, we�ve had ERAGON and DRAGON WARS. I actually really liked the dragons in ERAGON. I thought the effects were decent and I thought they looked cool. As it turns out, that was about all I liked in the movie. It missed on every other level and the result was a bad film that was easier to make fun of than to take seriously. DRAGON WARS managed to be even worst, but at 90 minutes, how are you going to make a decent fantasy film? I think the problem with these two films is the lack of commitment from studios to invest the time and money into making a decent dragon movie. It�s easier to throw something together, slap a dragon on the cover and get it to store shelves.
I liked the dragon, but that was about it
Or, maybe the problem is that no director or screenwriter out there has taken the time to create an epic dragon movie. We need someone to take a good dragon story and Peter-Jackson (yes, I�m using his name as a verb) it. Before we can do that, we need a good, epic story that will captivate an audience. How about�well�or�ok, I don�t read fantasy books, so I don�t know. Has anyone out there read a decent dragon tale that would make a good film? If so, let me know.
So c�mon Hollywood, make a good dragon movie. Dragons are one of the coolest mythological characters around, but every time we get them on the big screen, it turns out to be comically bad. At the very least, if you�re not going to invest the time and money into making a good dragon film, then at least stop making bad dragon movies.
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By Greg Minter, July 23, 2003 6:24 AM
In what's turning out to be an incredibly exciting race, the race's three front runners were all within 5 miles of each other at last check. Coming through the Panamint Springs resort around midnight last night, the runners were all within roughly one hour of each other, with the remainder of the field a good eight to nine miles back even then.
Chris Bergland came through Panamint Springs at 23:23am, followed by Pam Reed 48 minutes later at 12:11am. Running strongly through the valley, Dean Karnazes came through 17 minutes later at 12:28am. All three runners passed through the 72.3 mile station without stopping.
Leader Chris Bergland had carried his lead through to Darwin, coming through time station #4 at 4:19am, although Reed had managed to chisel away nearly twenty minutes from his lead in the eighteen mile stretch since station #3. Dean Karnazes continued to move strongly, picking up 11 minutes on Berglund, but Reed's surge had distanced her further from Karnazes.
As of 6:47am, Pam Reed has passed Chris Bergland. At roughly 100 miles, Pam's steps were still light, and coming down the hill into Owens Valley, last year's winner passed Berglund on the right and continued into Lone Pine.


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Visitation Friday 3 to 8 p.m. atHills Funeral Home, Ltd., 10201 S. Roberts Rd. (8000W.), Palos Hills.


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Vocabulary Word
Word: hatch
Definition: deck opening; lid covering a deck opening; V: emerge from an egg; produce (young) from an egg
Definition: deck opening; lid covering a deck opening; V: emerge from an egg; produce (young) from an egg
Sentences Containing 'hatch'
Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom.
Removing this hatch we expose the great try-pots, two in number, and each of several barrels' capacity.
The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth in front of them.
Then crossing his arms on his breast with Yojo between, he called for the coffin lid (hatch he called it) to be placed over him.
After the eggs are laid, they hatch into a larval period that can range anywhere from four to 20 weeks.
An adult female can lay between 45 to 250 eggs that usually hatch within three to 17 days.
The two white eggs hatch in 17 to 19 days, and the young leave the nest at 24 to 26 days of age.
When spawning, the females deposit their eggs inside bivalves, where they hatch and the young remain until they can swim.
Col. Edward Hatch to attack the Confederate rear and left flank, respectively.
The eggs will fall to the bottom of the tank, where they will hatch in three days.
Base models have the reverse lights incorporated into the tail light assembly whereas the LE models had them incorporated into the rear hatch.
The next race was the BOAC 500 at Brands Hatch, where the 908 was finally successful, finishing 1-2-3 ahead of a Ferrari 312P.
They lay their eggs in patches on a firm substrate and guard them vigorously until they hatch.
Immediately to the left of the engine is the driver, above whom is a hatch that opens to the right.
Additionally a single piece hatch covers the top of the troop compartment.
A separate pictogram monitored door and hatch opening and exterior light bulb condition.
David may possibly have originated from Hare Hatch, east of Reading.
The eggs hatch in as little as eight hours.
The eggs hatch in early fall, and the newly hatched young are approximately in total length.
When the young finally hatch, they are about in length and grow, reaching in length their first year.
Inside the snail, the eggs hatch and develop into cercariae.
Coney Hatch, Coney Hatch's first album, was released in 1982.
After spawning both parents leave the nests buried in shallow shoals until the eggs hatch.
This shape was also not unique, being available on the Vauxhall Cavalier Sports Hatch variant.
Females lay 3–7 eggs that hatch after 4–5 months.
He often acts as the voice of caution when other characters hatch harebrained schemes.
A fixed camera was fitted, operating through a hatch in the fuselage floor.
Eggs are laid in gelatinous strings in the water and later hatch out into tadpoles.
Males then guard the nest until the eggs hatch.
Eggs are laid on tamarisk leaves and bark and hatch in about a week in warm weather.
Several months following this event, the eggs finally start to hatch.
Even eggs that successfully hatch can fossilize.
More than 100 spiderlings (each about 2 mm long) hatch inside the egg case.
Mating occurs in the spring, and the female lays a clutch of up to 24 eggs which hatch in the fall.
The tour kicked off on June 2 at the Namba Hatch in Osaka.
A power-driven cargo hatch leads from the flight deck to the tank deck.
Although it is beneficial to feed on seeds, larvae do not enter the pods immediately after they hatch.
Richard Hatch is the detective investigating the deaths with Richard Roundtree playing his captain.
At a temperature of 28°C, the young will hatch after approximately 45 days.
After 3–4 more weeks, the pupae hatch into adult workers.
The eggs hatch after approximately two weeks and drift passively in the plankton.
Directly behind the driver position is the vehicle commander's hatch.
The season began at Brands Hatch on 4 April and finished after 28 races over 10 rounds also at Brands Hatch on 4 October, supporting rounds of the British Touring Car Championship.
For the 37 nesting attempts followed to hatch, egg survival was 84.38%.
David Hatch is a former member of the Cronulla Sharks rugby league team.
Hatch played many games as captain of the Cronulla Sharks from 1978-1990.
The female then buries the eggs in a small gravel mound; they hatch in 95 to 100 days.
The hatch house is now operated as a fish hatchery museum.
When Taylor Mase steal a red kite egg, he is not expecting it to hatch out — but it does.
Here, they are aerated by the pleopods (swimming legs) until they are ready to hatch.
More Vocab Wordsfaculty - mental or bodily powers; teaching staff
temerity - boldness; nerve; rashness; Ex. temerity to ask for a pay increase after only three day's work
bawdy - indecent; obscene; about sex in a rude funny way; CF. bawd
firebrand - piece of burning wood; hothead; troublemaker; person who stirs up trouble
impale - pierce (with a sharp point); Ex. impaled by the spear
disproportion - lack of proportion (between the parts); ADJ. disproportionate
bombast - grandiloquent, pompous speech
revert - relapse; backslide; turn back to; return to the former owner; N. reversion
acetic - vinegary
placid - peaceful; calm; Ex. placid child/lake


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WHITBY TOWN Council agreed to freeze the parish precept at a meeting which decsended into a row when former councillor Pete Budd criticised members for ignoring his suggestion to provide funds for a woman bishop.
Mr Budd of Sandside arrived at Pannett Park Art Gallery just after the meeting had been closed and a precept of £227,500 agreed for 2013/2014 which remains the same as the current financial year.
He said he has asked the town council six times to raise the precept by £20,000 which would fund a bishop's rail fares to and from London. It would also mean a visit to the town from the Queen to install the bishop.
But outside the official meeting, Mayor of Whitby, Coun John Freeman said funding clergy was not within the remit of the town council.
He said: "I don't have a problem with a woman bishop and I don't think any of us do but if you mention to the population of Whitby would it put 10 per cent on the precept to pay for a bishop I think the answer would be no."
Prior to that the entire town council, with the exception of Couns Steve and Amanda Smith, had voted in favour of the proposed budget in front of them.
The main costs to the council are set to be £90,000 on salaries alone, £6000 on electric bills and £12,000 on gas and a further £12,000 on maintenance. Income will come primarily from the precept and admission fees into the museum and art gallery.
With the precept set at £227,500 it means the town council costs the average band D tax payer £45.18p per year.
But couns Amanda and Steve Smith said the budget was "intolerable" after claiming it showed a rise in staffing costs of £17,525 in two years yet just £13,850 was being spent on services.
At a previous meeting they had said: "We cannot vote for a budget which increases staffing costs, nor can we vote for a budget where the percentage spends on provision of services to the residents is so pitifully meagre."
But at Tuesday night's meeting the budget was passed.
Coun Phil Trumper said: "Whitby Town Council are proving we can freeze the precept without cutting staff and servicing and have set an apprentice scheme which will give an opportunity for a young Whitby person to come off the dole and get a job."
Afterwards, Mayor John Freeman paid tribute to town clerk Pam Dobson and the finance committee for for their hard work in making sure the precept stayed the same.


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I had their lunch special, which was an open-face tuna melt topped with asparagus and a side salad. Excellent.
The rice pudding and coffee were also very good.
They also have wireless Internet. The only downside is that it is a bit on the expensive side: lunch, dessert, coffee, and a diet coke came to $18. They have some really good looking dinner specials, but they close at 6.


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When it's time to live in color, this phone delivers. The Motorola C650 has a large, brilliant color display, backlit keypad and a joystick featuring different lighting patterns. Capture the moment with the integrated camera, and then image it to share with friends and family in a multi media message. Put MP3 ringtones through MotoMixer for your own ringtone sound. Best price at welectronics.com .Plus, game like you never have before. The C650 makes mobile communication as colorful as the people who use it
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TabeauTabeau is a 3D composition of volumes and materials that is blindly connected by magnets. It is used as an instrument which stands for personal comfort so women can reflect their own personality into the piece. It gives them a place to perform their daily beauty routine and store their personal belongings. The little suitcase is detachable and can be taken to other destinations. It's made of four solid volumes, that can be used in both horizontal and vertical ways.
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Hoards of "Twilight" fans will be lining up outside select theaters this weekend to watch Robert Pattinson sleep with Hollywood's finest leading ladies in "Bel Ami."
Unfortunately for RPatz, however, "Bel Ami" didn't win over critics. With only a 30 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant's 1885 French novel isn't quite the launching pad Pattinson needs to be taken seriously post-"Twilight."
"With that cast, we rightfully expect fireworks," wrote Rolling Stone. "What we get is the film equivalent of a wet blanket."
Over in TV Land, Fox's new celebrity dating show "The Choice" -- a rip-off of NBC's "The Voice" -- may have debuted to solid numbers, but The New York Times wasn't so impressed.
But that wasn't all -- take a spin through the gallery below for more.
Can these harsh critiques all be right? Or do these writers simply need to take a chill pill and relax? Let us know which critical torpedoes landed on deserving targets and which fell wide of the mark in the comments.


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According to an article published by PRNewswire on May 12, 2016, Nick Hughes had no idea of the career he wanted to take when he left the United States Navy about three years ago. Nick admits that transition to civilian life was not easy. The best part is that today, Nick is three weeks away from graduating from College of Southern Nevada. Nick is taking an applied science in air conditioning technology program that takes two years to complete. Nick Hughes is a beneficiary of the Post 9/11 Veterans Tools Award. Ken Goodrich, the owner of Goettl Air Conditioning, sponsors the Veterans Tools Award.
The Tools Award gave Hughes the chance to choose $1000 of tools that he would take with him to the next step of his career. Ken Goodrich also sponsors the J. Duncan Goodrich Air Conditioning Technology Lab and the Son of a Gun scholarship. The Tools award is the second donation given by Ken. The Son of a Gun scholarship is usually awarded to a current student from various generation families in the air conditioning sector.
Goodrich said that throughout his career, he has observed that people who come out of the military become good employees. The scholarship according to Goodrich aims at giving people the opportunity to start out strong in the air conditioning industry. Dennis Soukup, the chair of applied science department at the college said that he collaborated with Goodrich when the award was established, and based the benefits on personal experience. According to PRNewswire, the award is now its second year and it will be given to a graduating student each year.
Hughes was a cook for seven years in the Navy. He is from Northern California, and he did well at the two-year program. Currently, Hughes is working at a local heating and air conditioning contracting firm. Hughes, who is 28 years old said that the tools required are costly and one requires so many of them. Nick was excited, and he expressed his gratitude to the award saying that the support was amazing and awesome.
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Goettl was originally established in 1939 by Gust and Adam Goettl. It came to Las Vegas Valley in 1968. However, it left Southern Nevada in 2007 due to the recession. Ken Goodrich later purchased the firm in 2013. In April 2016 Goodrich opened a branch in his hometown of Las Vegas, as a symbol of where his love for Goettl product started. Goettl has able technicians and staff that meet not only your needs but also exceeds them. Goettl offers various services including installation central air units, air cleaners, radiant heating systems and furnaces among others.
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Many people automatically associate the gift of a diamond ring with an engagement or wedding, but it also makes great gift for many other special occasions. Nothing makes a woman feel more special or luxurious than diamonds, so here are some suggestions for occasions to give such a meaningful gift.
Birthdays are a great time to give a diamond ring – especially if it's a "milestone" birthday such as turning 21, 25, 30, 40 and beyond! It is a great gift to make her feel even more special on the one day of the year that is all about her. A simple and dainty ring such as the Diamond Bar Heart Stackable Ring is a great choice for a birthday gift.
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What better way to celebrate the birth of a child than with the gift of a diamond ring. Just as a wedding ring is an everyday reminder for the love you have for her, a diamond ring for the birth of a child will be a beautiful reminder of the life you brought into this world. Few gifts are ones that she can cherish for the rest of her life, which makes a diamond ring a great choice for this occasion. The Double Row Eternity Band Right Hand Ring is a great choice and can be stacked with other diamond rings for a gorgeous look.
Your wedding anniversary is the perfect occasion to give a diamond ring and celebrate the years you have been with her. It is also a great gift because anniversary bands can be stacked with a wedding ring as a reminder of how much your love has continued to grow. The Envelop Wedding Band is a popular choice that looks beautiful worn alone or stacked with other rings.
Whether it's high school, college, or graduate school, many people purchase graduation rings from their schools to represent their time spent there, but the offerings of styles can definitely be slim. Purchasing a diamond ring is a great alternative, as it is the perfect opportunity to pick a graduation ring that truly suits her style. It can also be engraved on the inside with a special message, which would make her graduation even more personalized.


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Believing Jesus Christ is the Light of the world, we envision a reality where every person on the planet has access to clean, sustainable, life-changing energy.
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The Future is Bright with Solar!
By Ann Owen, SUS Board Member
Connections were made on so many levels recently when SUS supporters from three U.S states partnered with many others in country on February 20-28 to continue lighting up several small communities in southwestern Honduras. As a result, many more families in the beautiful, coffee-covered mountains near Comayagua now have clean, sustainable power in their homes for the first time – transforming their lives in significant ways.
Arquimidez was one of the 14 homeowners that had solar installed during this SUS trip. As is required by the SUS covenant, Arquimidez made a financial investment in his system, but he also contributed a great deal of sweat equity during the week, helping with many others' installations. He was a joy to work with, and helped many on the trip expand their Spanish terminology (martillo = hammer), while enhancing his own English vocabulary in the process!
Elida was another amazing member of the Honduran team, and her grandmother's home was the first solar installation this trip. Elida, who had participated in previous SUS installation trips to El Horno, El Sute, and Agua Zarca, assisted with many of the other homes in February. To help install the solar systems this trip, leader Megan Rubio, of Spring Hill Presbyterian-Mobile, was joined by graduates of SUS Solar Schools from several Presbyterian churches: Second-Little Rock, Broadmoor-Shreveport, and First-Jacksonville.
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The UK Trade Balance: Good and Bad News
Tony Dolphin has a good post up at Left Foot Forward highlighting the UK's diminishing prospects for export-led growth. He notes that:
A year ago, there appeared to be a decent chance the UK would enjoy an export-led recovery. Export volumes, excluding oil and erratic items, were up 18% on a year earlier, boosting growth in manufacturing. RealGDPwas increasing strongly.
Now the picture is far less positive.
The latest figures on trade, released by the Office for National Statistics, show export volumes increased just 3.7% over the last year, and were down 2.8% comparing the latest three months with the previous three.
Import growth was 3.6% over the last year – just about matching export growth – and 1.1% over the latest three months. The export boost to growth has faded away.
Export growth is currently running at 3.7% per year and import growth at 3.6%. This compares to the OBR forecasts for the full year of 7.9% and 5.0%.
Whilst export growth is no where near as strong as predicted by the OBR, import growth is also weaker than it anticipated. The end result is that the trade balance is actually in better shape than the OBR forecast back in March. Back then it expected the Q1 trade balance to come in at -£13.1bn and Q2 at -£13.7bn.
The actual outturn (-£8.5bn & -£11.3bn) is therefore better than anticipated. That's the good news.
The bad news is that this isn't being driven by better-than-expected exports but by lower-than-expected imports and the reason we are importing less is because domestic demand has collapsed.
This is why the consensus view of the independent economic forecasters surveyed monthly by the Treasury is that the economy will now growth by only 1.2% in 2011. And the entirety of that growth will come from net trade. Domestic demand is expected to contribute zero per cent to GDP growth.
So the better performance in net trade is actually driven by domestic weakness and isn't enough to offset the fall off in domestic demand. I'm not sure this is how George Osborne saw 'rebalancing' panning out.
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I can't recall where, but I read someone making a very cogent point that in the era of international supply chains, increased export volume tends to require increased import volume. Things improve to the extent that you're "adding value" in the manufacturing/assembly process, but it's a much smaller effect than the model of "boosting exports to fix the balance" we've inherited from the post-war years.
This is probably true – certainly July 2011 was a record month in terms of both exports and imports. This is the result of the globalised world in which we live in but as you say it does make things harder when relying on an export led recovery (not helped by lack of incentive from UK government and in some cases no help at all eg Crossrail train procurement).
Retail sales (yes, a small part, but we get timely figures) are still showing above-trend demand growth, I maintain this "collapse in domestic demand" is a misread of the stats, or at least over-egged. 4.7% increase in nominal spending yoy to August. Supply-side disaster gives 0% volume growth. Astounding to see that split. The retail sales deflator has only been higher in the Summer '08 oil shock over the last decade; it's that graph which people should look at to understand the nature of the squeeze on consumers.
Yes, more demand would certainly help (QE please, Sir Merv), but given that the demand growth we are seeing this year is showing up entirely as higher prices I can understand the MPC holding back a few months.
GDP(E) figures for Q2 soon, so we'll have a broader picture of the nominal/real split…
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This page will be used to collect comments about PDE and our development process that were noticed during 3.5. What did we do well? What could be better? What should we do next release?
Coding Best Practices
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MORF Technologies aims to disrupt the aerobar market with their clever and innovative hinged bar system. We take a close look at their work.
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Our first pass around the showroom floor at Interbike 2017.
I bumped into Cervelo co-founder and aero Godfather Gerard Vroomen at Outdoor Demo. Here is a look at his newest creation, the Strada.
Selected bits of the goods and glory from the outdoor products at Interbike 2017. Check back tomorrow for the first day of indoor coverage.
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More goodies from the showroom floor at Interbike 2016.
Our first catches from the showroom floor at Interbike 2016.
This year's gallery of goodies from Interbike Outdoor Demo. Enjoy!
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Pinarello had Sir Bradley's record-setting Pinarello Bolide on display, and we think the ultra-custom bike is worthy of some individual attention.
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Great Giveaway: Adapt-a-Cut and Adapt-a-Hold
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There are two things we love here at AOE: Art teachers and innovation. Today our giveaway brings the two together in the coolest of ways. I want to tell you about an art teacher who saw beyond what existed and created her own art room tools. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kathy Ruilen-Bareis, art educator and founder of B Able To, Inc. I thought her message was important to share, I want to tell you about it today.
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After years of working with a wide variety of students in the art room she noticed a few issues, which I am sure you have encountered as well. The first – Some students were not able to use a traditional scissors to cut paper using the grasping motion, but this didn't mean they shouldn't be able to cut paper independently! Using Kathy's first invention, Adapt-A-Cut, students can easily cut using a simple push motion.
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