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Amazon's profit falls as investment glut continues. Amazon's (AMZN) Q1 net profit dropped 37% to $82M as EPS of $0.18 beat forecasts and revenue jumped 22% to $16.07B but missed expectations. It's the same old story for Amazon, with the company continuing to spend prodigiously in order to fuel its sales growth. While shares dropped 3.2% premarket, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan says investors were encouraged by Amazon's comments that it's not suffering from weakness in Europe as much as eBay (EBAY).
Samsung's profit jumps 42%. Samsung's (SSNLF.PK) Q1 net profit jumped 42% to a record high KRW7.15T ($6.4B), while sales increased 16.8% to KRW52.9T as the company cemented its domination in the cellular phone market (see below). With the Galaxy S4 going on sale today in South Korea and tomorrow in other countries, analysts expect Samsung's profit to keep rising.
ADM to acquire GrainCorp for A$3B. Australian grain exporter GrainCorp (GRCLF.PK) has accepted an increased takeover offer of A$3B ($3.1B) from Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) following a six-month courtship. ADM has agreed to pay A$12.20 a share and a dividend of A$1 a share. Should the company buy GrainCorp - the deal is subject to due diligence - ADM will gain control of seven out of eight ports that facilitate the bulk shipping of grain from Australia's east coast.
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Japan to lift 787 ban. Japan's Ministry of Transport plans to lift the ban on commercial flights of Boeing (BA) 787s after the FAA officially signs off on the resumption of operations, which is expected later today. Japanese officials will ask Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways to carry out extra safety measures over and above those requested by the FAA, including the remote monitoring of battery data. Ethiopian Airlines will reportedly become the world's first airline to resume 787 operations tomorrow.
Starbucks' profit rises but shares fall as revenues miss. Starbucks' (SBUX) shares fell 3% premarket after the company's FQ2 net earnings rose to $390.4M from $309.9M a year earlier but revenues of $3.56B missed expectations despite growing 12%. EPS of $0.48 was in line. U.S. sales grew despite an industry-wide slump in February because of the increase in U.S. payroll taxes.
Samsung remains world's leading smartphone company. Samsung (SSNLF.PK) strengthened its lead as the world's top vendor of mobile phones and of smartphones in Q1, IDC estimates. The South Korean giant increased its market share in the latter category to 32.7% from 28.8 a year earlier and shipped more smartphones than the next four providers combined. Apple's (AAPL) share slipped to 17.3% from 23%. The global cellular phone market grew 4% on year to 418.6M devices.
Alcatel-Lucent makes fourth straight loss. Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) swung to a Q1 net loss of €353M from a profit of €259M a year earlier as revenues rose 0.6% to €3.23B and beat consensus, helped by a 4.2% rise in sales at the company's Networks & Platforms business. North American growth was strong, Japan showed good traction and China stabilized, but Europe slumped. Alcatel-Lucent plans to unveil details of strategic review by the early summer. Shares were -1.9% at midday in Paris.
Soros reports stake in J.C. Penney. What is about billionaire hedge fund titans and J.C. Penney (JCP)? The beleaguered retailer's shares were +7.15% premarket after George Soros' investment vehicle reported a 7.91% stake in the company, adding to William Ackman's 17.8%. Unlike Ackman, Soros doesn't look like he'll take an active role in JCP, as his holding is passive.
Honda's profit rises as recovery takes hold in China. Honda's (HMC) FQ4 net profit rose 5.8% to ¥75.7B ($765M) but missed consensus of ¥99.51B, while revenues increased 14% to ¥2.745T as the weakening yen helped exports. Honda forecast strong growth for this fiscal year and said its business in China is nearly back to normal after sales swooned due to anti-Japan sentiment in the nation. The claim is a bit of a surprise, as most indicators have shown that Japanese automakers are still suffering in China.
Yahoo Chairman Amoroso steps down. Yahoo (YHOO) Chairman Fred Amoroso has resigned and will be replaced on an interim basis by Board member and bestselling author Maynard Webb while the company searches for a permanent successor. Amoroso said he told Yahoo that he would only serve for a year when he became Chairman in May 2012 "in order to help Yahoo during a critical time of transformation." Since then, the company has hired Marissa Mayer as CEO.
Judge sets payment standards for mobile industry standard IP. The latest victory in the global technology IP wars has gone to Microsoft (MSFT) after a Seattle judge ruled that it only has to pay $1.8M a year to Motorola for its industry standard media-streaming and WiFi patents rather than the almost $1B that the Google (GOOG) unit was demanding. The decision has established for the first time how much a patent holder can charge for industry standard IP.
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U.S. economy seen growing 3%. GDP data for Q1 is due out this morning, with economists expecting that the U.S. expanded by a 3% annual rate after almost coming to a halt at +0.4 percent in Q4. A major factor that is expected to show up in the data is farmers filling up silos following the drought last summer, which badly damaged their crop output. Without farming inventories, growth may well have been just 2%.
Senate Oks bill to pay for air traffic controllers. Moving faster than a speeding plane and foregoing debate, the Senate last night unanimously voted to approve a bill that allows the Department of Transportation to bypass the impact of sequestration by using unspent funds to cover the costs of air traffic controllers and end the furloughs that have caused widespread flight delays. The House could take up the legislation today and is expected to approve it.
Japan remains firmly stuck in deflation... Japanese consumer prices dropped in March for the fifth consecutive month, with CPI falling by a slightly greater-than-expected 0.5%. Prices for furniture, culture and recreation, and food showed the largest drops.
...but BOJ holds off from further easing. As expected, the Bank of Japan held off from adding to its liquidity blitz at a policy meeting today, having announced a plan earlier this month to increase its monetary base by ¥60T ($607B) to ¥70T a year. In its semi-annual economic outlook, the BOJ forecast that inflation won't hit 2% in the next two years, as Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has predicted, but could reach that level by March 2016. At the time of writing, the dollar was -0.6% at ¥98.69.
China well aware of risks. China's Politburo Standing Committee has warned that the country needs to "guard against potential risks in the financial sector" but still "cement its domestic economic growth momentum." Concern has increased about rising loans in the shadow-banking industry and the "explosive" expansion in municipal debt. China "isn't going to pursue the old way of stimulus to push up growth at the expense of long-term structural reform," says Citigroup's Ding Shuang.


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After the Rain
Robert R. Goodman 1/7/2012 7:35:43 AMHi Patricia,You can send a little our way.We need it for the wildflowers.Absolutely beautiful my riend!!! #1434977
Patti Coblentz 1/7/2012 8:11:59 AMHi Bobby...nice to hear from you, and thank you! This was taken in your part of the world, actually :) #9907193
Kathy Salerni 1/10/2012 7:37:22 PMLove the lines in this shot, Patti! Good eye! #9913656
Heather Loewenhardt 1/11/2012 12:31:05 AMBeautifully framed like a separation of two divides. #9913879
Steve M. Harrington 1/14/2012 9:33:54 PMA really well thought out composition, Patti! Shooting into the light is always a challenge, but you captured the varied elements and textures nicely.
Patti Coblentz 1/15/2012 2:42:06 AMThank you Kathy, Heather, and Steve! #9920933
Reynaldo D. Reyes 2/10/2012 5:06:23 PMColors, Contrasts, Textures and the composition makes for a awesome image. Very well done Patricia. A favorite for me. #9976101
Emile Abbott 2/11/2012 12:21:18 PMWe need the rain in Texas Patricia so send it our way. Excellent composition #9977438
Deborah C. Lewinson 2/26/2012 4:20:24 PMCongratulations on your fabulous Finalist, Patti!
Debby #10003462
JO ANN CLEVELAND 2/26/2012 4:46:53 PMWay to go Patricia!
Congrats on your awesome finalist!
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Nikki McDonald 2/26/2012 5:00:55 PMLink worked fine for me, Patti LOL Congratulations on the finalist and good luck in the next round! #10003783
Terry A. Stoa 2/26/2012 5:02:25 PMCongrats, Patti. Very lovely image. #10003796
Kathy Salerni 2/26/2012 5:03:47 PMHuge congrats on your well deserved Finalist and good luck in the next round, Patti! #10003809
Dr Silly 2/26/2012 5:11:04 PMCongratulations Patti on your Finalist. :O)
Patti Coblentz 2/26/2012 5:15:44 PMThank you very much!
Robert R. Goodman 2/26/2012 5:18:24 PMHi Patricia,Big Congratulation on this beautiful finalist!!!! #10003978
Amy M. Wilson 2/26/2012 5:18:54 PMBig congratulations on your wonderful Finalist, Patti!! #10003986
Monnie Ryan 2/26/2012 5:43:32 PMWTG Patti! Congratulations! #10004265
Tammy Espino 2/26/2012 5:51:32 PMCongrats on your finalist!! :) #10004351
Ellen Hodges 2/26/2012 5:54:08 PMCongrats and best luck with your fantastic finalist, Patti!! #10004376
Sonya L. Hatfield-Hall 2/26/2012 5:56:53 PMCongratulations. This is a stunning image.
Good Luck #10004400
Joanna Madloch 2/26/2012 7:19:22 PMCongrats, Patricia. Great image indeed.
Phyllis H. Burchett 2/26/2012 8:17:24 PMCongrats Patti! #10005242
Heather Loewenhardt 2/26/2012 8:19:03 PMCongrats on your finalist award Patti. Good luck. #10005254
Reynaldo D. Reyes 2/26/2012 9:44:19 PMSo glad to see my favorite images get the finalist commendation. Hope to see this in the Winning circle. Congratulations Patricia...rey #10005495
Val Feldman 2/26/2012 10:02:09 PMHey, Patti! WTG! Congratulations on your beautiful Finalist! #10005518
Usman M. Bajwa 2/26/2012 10:40:09 PMCONGRATULATIONS on your terrific Finalist, Patti!!!
Stefania Barbier 2/27/2012 1:59:41 AMcongratulations on your beautiful finalist Patti!!! #10005953
Marijana Fajgl 2/27/2012 8:29:47 AMWhat a great capture, Patricia! Big congratulations! #10007112
Amanda D. Austwick 2/27/2012 9:06:43 AMCongratulations Patti on your beautiful Finalist!!! #10007345
Lorna Shutter 2/27/2012 9:12:09 AMWoo Hoo!!! HUGE CONGRATS on your FABULOUS Finalist, Patti!!!!! WTG!!! :)
Bojan Bencic 2/27/2012 9:50:24 AMCongratulations on your finalist, Patricia! #10007650
Emile Abbott 2/27/2012 10:48:30 AMWTG Glad to see this one again Patti, Congratulation on awesome composition and finalist. #10007942
Christopher Budny 2/27/2012 11:39:25 AMCongratulations, Patti! I like the stream of water leading out the top. #10008072
Patti Coblentz 2/27/2012 12:01:20 PMThanks so much! #10008130
Nancyj E. Hovey 2/27/2012 12:49:36 PMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
Carol L. Fowler 2/27/2012 3:01:06 PMBeautiful! Congrats! #10008902
Michele Peterson 2/27/2012 4:18:21 PMBeautiful! I like how you composed it with the fence! Congratulations! #10009180
Patrick Rouzes 2/27/2012 5:31:28 PMCONGRATZ & good luck, Patti! WTG, my friend!
Thomas E. Hinds 2/28/2012 5:13:35 PMWonderful POV! Love that familiar earthy color! Great job, Patti! Congratulations on this Finalist!! #10012534
Patti Coblentz 2/28/2012 7:02:59 PMThanks guys! #10012757
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Style: Variegata
Height: 43.0"
Color: Yellow & Brown
Originator: Schreiner
Year: 2015
Bloom Season: Mid
Fragrant: No
Rebloom: No
Price: $30.00
An absolute siren, High School Honey alluringly beckons, lighting up any garden with its warm pastel tones. The clean separation between the dandelion yellow standards and the earthen-orange falls, places this tall, debonair sweetheart a step ahead in her class. A bright zonal pattern bridges the sun and the earth, as shown in our photo. Each sturdy stalk has 3 branches, yielding 9 buds per stem.


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17th century farmhouse, now completely modernised, in about an acre of garden, largely laid to grass and completely fenced in. Though not isolated, it is very peacefully situated on a quiet country lane well away from the nearest main road. There is an open-fronted barn overlooking a courtyard which has been set up with table tennis and other games. New for 2016 - games room in our converted attic including pool table, table tennis and darts. Games consul also available.
This is a 17th century farmhouse, now completely modernised. Though not isolated, it is very peacefully situated on a quiet country lane well away from the nearest main road.
What is unusual and pleasant about the house is that you drive in from the lane through high gates into a courtyard surrounded on three sides by the house and its barns. On the third side it opens out to the garden - about an acre in all, largely laid to grass and completely fenced in, making this an ideal and safe area for children to play. There is an open-fronted barn overlooking the courtyard which has been set up with table tennis and other games.
The house is very comfortable and well furnished, though with an eye to making it suitable for families with children. The house has 3 double/twin bedrooms, a bathroom and a shower room, large living/dining room with log fire, tv, dvd and hifi. Free Wifi
About the village - Vieil Hesdin, as its name implies, was the site of the old Hesdin before it was sacked by the Spanish in 1553. Hesdin was rebuilt at its present site, but today Vieil Hesdin remains a pretty, peaceful village situated on the banks of the river Canche, just a short drive from Hesdin. Plenty of quiet roads and tracks for cycling or walking along the river or in the nearby woods.
About the area - Le Pays des 7 Vallees is a tourist area within this region having the old market town of Hesdin at its heart. Situated at the confluence of the rivers Canche and Ternoise Hesdin has an impressive central 'Grande Place' dominated by the 16th century town hall. Market day is Thursday, but the boutiques, restaurants and bars, its historic church and buildings, and its status as a 3 star 'ville fleuri' (flowered town) make it a town pleasant to visit on any day. North of Hesdin is the 'Foret d'Hesdin' extending to over 1000 hectares.
15 km of forest roads and 5 km of one of the national Grande Randonnée footpaths make it ideal for walking, cycling and picnics.
Just a quick mail to thankyou for allowing us to stay in your beautiful farmhouse. We had a wonderful time there. Your house is so welcoming and homely. Home away from home. By far the best rental property weve ever had.
We will definately recommend this wonderful house to our friends and we wil certainly be booking again.
This is the second time we have stayed at Maison St. Collette. I had a week on my own, pure joy, and was then joined by my son and his P.A. The property is spacious and ideal for my son, who is a full time wheelchair user, it allows him total independence both inside and outside the property. The new shower, with seat, is ideal as he has no real balance, and having a bath also is great for him to relax when he has muscle spasms. For me, the peace of this property is an ideal setting from the continual hubbub of London and hospitals. It has everything you need and more. Hesdin has some good restaurants, supermarkets, local bakeriers (the one opposite La Choppe is superb) and butchers. L'Allouette on the main road serves good food open Wed and Sun Lunch, and Friday and Saturday evening only. La Belle Epoque and La Garenne are also well worth a visit. The owner's are extremely helpful and I would highly recommend this property. We will no doubt stay here again, just trying to work out my son's timetable. Thank you so much Janet and Iain.
Our second visit to Maison Colette has confirmed the very positive impressions we had of our first one.
The house remained clean and comfortable with every desired convenience and even in mid-winter the surroundings were a pleasure to spend time in.
So pleased we decided to stay here, it was just what we needed. Plenty of space for the dogs, brilliant location and nice and peaceful too. Will definitely be back when it's next possible, and will thoroughly recommend house to anybody else
We can do little more than echo the many positive comments made by other people who have stayed here. In respect of its position and surroundings, its facilities and spaciousness both inside and outside, its comfort and cleanliness, it would be a hard act to follow.
In our experience of holiday homes in France, stretching back over many years, it would rank easily in the top three and, after any careful consideration, would most probably elbow its two nearest rivals out of the picture.
We have enjoyed a really wonderful week in this beautiful house and were most pleasantly surprised to see the spacious accommodation and garden area.
The house is very well equipped with dishwasher, television, internet access and numerous games and pastimes, including a superb ping-pong table which we all used a lot!
Vieil Hesdin itself is very peaceful but is in easy reach of Hesdin, Montreuil, Abbeville, Arras, Azincourt and, of course, the beaches. The Carrefour at Hesdin is just a few miles away and the Thursday market seems to cover much of the town and is quite an experience.
We would really recommend Maison Sainte Colette for a memorable taste of France in lovely surroundings. We will be returning!!
Our visit to this property could not have been better. From the moment we made the booking through Janet the owner, everything went like clockwork and was exactly as described in the details. On arrival we were faced with large gates that revealed an oasis in the French countryside and plenty of space for parking cars.
The farmhouse was spotless and met our requirements perfectly with a double en suite and 2 twins along with plenty of living space if the weather prevented us from being outside. One of the twins is up stairs and has a fantastic view of the local convent. The stairs are quite uneven so care was needed when using them. Having wifi in the property was a bonus.
In the kitchen there is every possible utensil/pot etc that you could ever want and having a dishwasher meant that the washing up was taken care of - once we worked out that the big plates have to be put in backwards! A washing machine in the main bathroom also came in handy.
The gardens are massive with barbeque areas at both the front and back of the house with enough seating for 6/8 and a'ping-pong' table that saw many a heated competition! With fruit trees providing plenty of plums and a herb garden to use we were in our element. However, there is no boulangerie/patisserie in the village so a trek to the nearest town was required every morning by car to get fresh bread - it is not walking distance! Bikes are also provided but these would propbably not have been suitable for bread collection - they are for exploring the area though.
The property is excellent as a base for visiting the area and is only 30 minutes from the many beaches and golf courses around. There are many restaurants in the resorts which we tended to use before returning to the farmhouse. There is a bar/restaurant within walking distance in the village however we did not use it.
Overall, we had a fantastic holiday and would thoroughly recommend this property. It is less than an hour from Boulogne ferry port and provided a very good base for exploring northern France.
Battlefields: Agincourt is about 12 km away, and the battlefields of the Somme are within easy reach, as is La Coupole.
Beaches: Berck Plage is about half an hour's drive as are the quieter resorts of Merlimont and Stella-Plage. Le Touquet is a little further.
Superb new Aquatic and Bowling Center in nearby Hesdin comprising an indoor pool, an outdoor pool, water shutes and slides, a cafe and bowling alleys. Situated on the southern side of Hesdin, near Lidl shop. Plenty of easy parking.
Markets: there are markets in most main towns, e.g. Fruges (Saturday morning), Hesdin (Thursday morning) and a fish market in Etaples.
Museums: Many museums including a ceramic museum at Desvres, an ancient Abbey at Valloires with beautiful gardens and a mining museum
Sport: Superb golf courses, horseriding, walking, cycling, an aerial adventure course at Guines, boating on the rivers, kayaking and rafting.
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For groups of 4 persons or less, deduct £105 from weekly rate, £10 from nightly rate. Changeover day is Friday and short breaks are available from Friday to Monday or Monday to Friday. Charge of £40 for heating and logs from October to April. Linen and towels available on option at £8.50 per person. Cot available.


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ArcelorMittal says Chinese steel game changer 'good news'
ArcelorMittal SA, the world's largest steel maker, welcomed the potential removal of a near 10-year block on overseas takeovers in China's steel industry.
ArcelorMittal is one of the few foreign steelmills with investments in China since the ban on overseas control was imposed in 2005. The world's top producer and consumer is considering scrapping the ban which may be a catalyst for global mills to revive a push into China's $423 billion steel sector where demand is seven times greater than in the US, the next biggest market.
"It's good news that the government is moving forward on reforms and liberalization on foreign investment," Lakshmi Mittal, the billionaire chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, said in an interview in Loudi, in China's Hunan province. "Whether we will like to invest more in this country or we will not, will depend on the future development of our various projects."
China's steel output may reach 1.1 billion metric tons in the next 10 years driven by urbanization, BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's biggest miner, said this month. That would be 41% more steel than it made last year. It consumed about 700 million tons of the alloy last year, eclipsing the 95.6 million tons used in the US.
"Automobile production in China, already the world's biggest market, may climb about 60% in the next eight years," Mittal said on Sunday, adding his company is focusing on making steel for industries including vehicles and white goods in China.
"Chinese mills, which produce about half the world's steel, have been plagued by challenges and are seeking better technology and higher-value products such as autosteel to help stem losses and improve productivity."
Game changer
"Talks over the near-decade long ban come amid a wider push by China's leadership to boost foreign investment and to open up its state-owned industries. The nation has already announced plans to seek private capital for its top energy companies.
It can be a game changer," Tom Price, a global commodities analyst with UBS AG in Sydney, said by phone. Mills with their own iron ore reserves may be more attractive to companies such as ArcelorMittal and South Korea's Posco.
About 80 of China's major steel makers had a combined loss of 2.3 billion yuan ($370 million) in the first quarter in what's been described as the harshest operating environment in history. Steel futures in Shanghai are trading near the lowest since their 2009 debut and some mills have faced a credit squeeze as the government moves to curb overcapacity, worst in construction steel, and to protect the environment.
The glut of unused capacity reached 300 million tons last year, according to the China Iron and Steel Association. The nation's capacity utilization rate dropped to 74% in 2013, the lowest in more than a decade.
Wait and watch
"China already has built overcapacity and this capacity needs consolidation," Mittal said in Loudi at the opening of the company's $832 million venture in the Asian nation. "Some of the foreign investors would like to wait and watch what's going to happen to these over capacities."
"Smaller mills with 5 million tons of annual capacity may be the first targets for foreign investors as they are usually more efficient and have expertise in specific products," said Wu Wenzhang, chairman of researcher Steelhome.cn. Investors may not rush to take control of state-mills, according to BOC International Ltd., Bank of China's investment banking unit.
"State-owned mills may not be appealing to foreigners unless China has clear policies to help improve their efficiency by slashing the redundant payrolls," Le Yukun, head of metals and mining with BOC International, said from Shanghai.
Opposing views
"Still, talks over the deregulation of foreign ownership of steel mills may take time because there are opposing views on the issue," Li Xinchuang, deputy secretary general of the China Iron and Steel Association, said last month. A call and fax to the Ministry of Industry and Technology in Beijing last week weren't responded to.
For foreign steel makers such as ArcelorMittal, their ambitions in China have been curtailed amid the ban. Luxembourg- based ArcelorMittal in 2008 shelved a plan to take majority control of non-state China Oriental Group Co. after failing to win approval. China in 2009 rejected a plan by Russia's Evraz Group SA to take 51% of Delong Holdings Ltd. Evraz currently has 15% in Delong.
"Automobile output may rise to 30 million units to 35 million units in the next seven to eight years, from 22 million units now," Mittal said on Sunday. The new auto venture with Hunan Valin Steel Co. Ltd has annual output capacity of 1.5 million tons. "At this time our agenda is to participate in this niche market," Mittal said. Bloomberg


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TV show trailer for CBS' Under the Dome episode Plan B. If Big Jim (Dean Norris) & the rest of the resistance thought they knew what was coming… well, Jim already kinda got a taste, so maybe they do. Alright, well if the Kinship had any idea what the Christine (Marg Helgenberger) heir, growing within Eva (Kylie Bunbury), would cost them – except, Junior (Alexander Koch) already seemed to know why his free-pass-girl of choice was off limits….
Okay, let's just say that somewhere between Rosemary's Baby, and Jasmine (from Angel), lies 'Legacy.'
Nothing like an expected birth to bring out the crazies, guns, torches, and the very oddest of food cravings; so, yeah – UTD will be taking another sharp turn, to make sure we keep from building a tolerance.
Not that I've had much tolerance, for a while now; but there's always bemusement. Adequate, and adequate amounts of bemusement….
In any case, where there is the prospect of the herd being thinned, there's also the likelihood of fresh bodies showing up; so maybe Eriq La Salle (aka Muppet Man – previously only seen onscreen) actually shows up, for this one.
'Legacy' also features Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Eddie Cahill, Colin Ford, Mackenzie Lintz, Max Ehrich, Vince Foster, Hannah Jelinovic, Megan Ketch, Allie McCulloch, and Gia Mantegna, and airs Thursday, Aug. 20, at 10:00pm, EST, on CBS.
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It looks like the nation's drivers are going to be feeling more pressure at the pump. According to a survey published Sunday, the average price of gas in the United States has hit $4.
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According to the nationwide Lundberg Survey, the national average for self-serve, regular unleaded gas was $4 per gallon on May 6. That's 11.98 cents more than on April 22, reports Reuters.
If this all sounds like deja vu, it's because we've already heard similarly discouraging news back in April when gas hit $3.84 a gallon.
The most expensive gas in the nation can be found in Chicago, at $4.50 per gallon for regular unleaded. Folks in Tucson have it easier, gas there is the cheapest at only $3.62.
But, prices have yet to surpass the all-time high of $4.11 set on July, 11 2008. And, we might not get there.
"We may see a drop of a dime or more before Memorial Day," Trilby Lundberg, the survey's publisher, told CNN.
Evidence of a price drop can be seen in the wholesale market where prices are already down – 21 cents per gallon for unbranded gasoline and 14 cents per gallon for branded gas.
There are factors at play, however, that could push prices back up. Demand in developing countries as well as the weakening U.S. dollar have caused crude oil prices to rise. Also, the loss of production out of Libya has played a part in increasing prices.
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I spent yesterday morning at a clinic in Surrey examining my four-year-old daughter Pollyanna's new right leg. This will be her fifth since she lost her leg below the knee in a bus crash just over two years ago.
You will not see a better example of British engineering. The foot is made of wood and foam, attached to a socket by a titanium adaptor, which is all designed to mimic the function of a real leg.
The workings are all hidden, of course. Her prosthetist, Richard Nieveen, covers her leg with a silicone skin, creating a carbon copy of her real leg, from the tiny pink toe nails to the minute creases on the heel. Richard's legs are nothing less than a work of God-like genius. The only giveaway is the small seaside scene, complete with pink starfish, that he has applied around the top of the calf.
Pollyanna needs at least two of these legs a year. Richard makes these extraordinarily lifelike limbs for clients who don't want to tell people about their disability. Yet many people know about Pollyanna after I wrote an article about the bus crash in April.
The piece told of how a bus smashed into Pollyanna, my wife Sarah and her mother Elizabeth near our home in London in April 2007; of Elizabeth's death, and the appalling injuries Sarah and Pollyanna suffered; of Pollyanna's 14 operations in six weeks; and of how I had to leave Pollyanna sleeping to soothe Sarah, who, in a ward two floors above, was screaming for her mother and asking doctors to cut off her leg.
The piece was an extended thank-you note to the colleagues, friends and family who stepped in to help; to the local mothers who ran a hot meals service for our family; to the dads who built us a new garden; and to everyone who sat with us in hospital.
It ended on a positive note. Sarah, despite a major injury to her left calf, was training for a run in aid of the Limbless Association, a charity that provides advice and support for amputees. I invited readers to sponsor her.
To my great surprise, in the days and weeks that followed thousands of pounds for the charity arrived in the post. I wrote a follow-up piece for The Daily Telegraph. Then one for the Daily Mail. This prompted more donations, in £5, £20, £200 and £1,000 cheques. Unbelievably – in a recession – by yesterday, more than 1,500 readers had donated £67,893, the biggest single figure ever raised for the charity.
The money came from teenagers, mothers, vicars, peers, MPs, knights, a brigadier and a countess. The Skelmanthorpe Methodist Wives Group sent in £50, while Bramhall Methodist Thrift Shop raised £250. Money came from the Ladies Section of Market Drayton Golf Club (where Elizabeth played) and the Market Drayton School of Dance (where Sarah learnt ballet). One man from Slough donated £2,500, while Ellen Bench (aged 12) sent in £10. Most of the cheques arrived with letters and cards. We read them all. "I was on the tube train when the bomb went off between King's Cross and Russell Square on 7/7," said one woman.
Sarah is now gearing up to run two races – the Run To the Beat half-marathon next month, and the 10-mile Great South Run in October. At least 10 friends will be running with her.
Pollyanna is blissfully unaware of all this fuss. When asked about her disability, she says simply that her right leg has gone to heaven, where "Gran Gran" looks after it. She starts primary school next month, loves drawing and is great at clambering around in PE. She even won a hopping contest at her school fete. "Why couldn't you take off my leg so I could hop more?" she said crossly. "That would not be fair on the other children," I told her.
If you would like to sponsor Sarah, please send a cheque payable to the Limbless Association, to: Christopher Hope, The Daily Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. Or go to www.justgiving.co.uk/sarahhope


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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy & Law at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. My overarching research agenda – at the intersection of immigration policy, political behavior, urban politics, and racial and ethnic politics – uses quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how and when communities engage to address critical societal issues. My book Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press) focuses on municipal responses to immigrants and how these policies shape social and political incorporation. I have authored articles, chapters, and reports, and am a co-editor of the 2017 volume, The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations: Transatlantic Perspectives (Temple University Press).
My research has received funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Ruth Landes Memorial Fund, Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), the Zeit Foundation's Bucerius Scholarship in Migration Studies, and Harvard University's Center for American Political Studies, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement, and Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
From 1998-2001, I worked for the Eurasia Foundation in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, ultimately as Associate Country Director for the Foundation's Tbilisi, Georgia office. After completing a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, I served from 2003-2005 as a Research Associate and then as Associate Director of the Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement. I received a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2011.


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No wonder they're hiking tolls and fares — the Port Authority is a multimillion-dollar money pit.
The cash-strapped agency routinely loses tens of millions of dollars each year on facilities — from bridges to bus terminals, to obscure office spaces.
Just a selection of those properties and services puts the PA about $131 million in the hole each year. The amount represents 13 percent of the $1 billion the agency would raise with its massive toll-hike proposal.
The public can sound off on the proposed toll increases at public hearings tomorrow. The agency's full board will vote on the plan on Friday.
Topping the list of losers in the agency's portfolio is its bus terminal in Times Square, which is projected to lose $99.7 million this year, according to budget figures.
Other losing endeavors projected for 2011 include:
* Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, Orange County, which is expected to lose $11.8 million this year, up 6.8 million from 2009.
* The Goethals Bridge, pegged to lose $5.5 million this year.
* The Newark Legal Center, a 20-story office tower that is $1.6 million in the red this year.
* The Teleport, a 100-acre office and business park in Staten Island managed by the PA that is projected to lose $1.8 million this year.
* The agency's ferry services, projected to lose $10.6 million this year.
This branch of the PA funds ferry terminals like the 2-year-old Battery Park City stop — which skyrocketed nearly three times over budget to $91.5 million — as well as several other water-commuting services in the region.
Roughly 9.7 million people use PA ferry facilities a year — peanuts compared with the city's subway system, which moves some 8 million straphangers a day.
The agency has said it needs to hike tolls to raise revenue to complete the massive redevelopment of the World Trade Center, which The Post has revealed is way over budget.
For E-ZPass drivers, tolls would increase by $4 in September and then $2 more in 2014.
Cash-paying motorists would see their tolls increase $7 to $15 total next month, and then to $17 total in three years.
PATH fares would increase by $1 to $2.75, more than the price of an MTA subway ride.
Unlike the MTA, the PA does not receive money from the state but is funded by revenue generated by its facilities.
The authority was created to provide infrastructure to the region, important undertakings that are often unprofitable, according to officials.
"The Port Authority's key missions are to move people and goods throughout the region and help spur economic growth," said agency spokesman Ron Marsico.
Locations for Port Authority public hearings tomorrow:
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Newark Liberty International Airport
1 Conrad Road
Building 157, Bay 3
Newark, NJ 07114
Port Authority Technical Center
241 Erie Street, Room 212
Jersey City, NJ 07310
Port Ivory/Howland Hook
40 Western Ave.
Staten Island, NY 10303
Port Authority Bus Terminal
625 8th Avenue
Times Square Conference Room – 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
6 p.m. hearings
George Washington Bridge Administration Building
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Holland Tunnel Administration Building,
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George Washington Bridge Bus Station
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Stone Hanukkah lamp with remnant of early handle (?)
Steatite (soapstone), carved
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Bequest from the Alexander and Lotte Baerwald Collection
Accession number: B09.1547 ; 118/297
The use of stone – a material "which is not susceptible to impurity" – in the making of Hanukkah lamps represents the vestiges of an ancient practice. Stone symbolizes time, tradition, and nobility. The choice of stone rather than shiny metal also stemmed from reasons of modesty, to avoid antagonizing the Arab neighbors. For the same reason, the exteriors of Jewish houses in Yemen were made to look humble, and Jewish women would wear jewelry mainly at home or conceal it under the folds of their garments. At times, the names of the owners or craftsmen would be inscribed on the lamps. These were in all likelihood made by a family patriarch, and were then handed down from one generation to the next. Such practices of inheritance were customary among Yemenite Jews, as well as among the Jews of southern Morocco.
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Variables work as a shorthand -- we use = to assign a value into a variable, and then use that variable on later lines to retrieve that value. In the simplest case, this just works to avoid repeating a value: we store the value once, and then can use it many times. All computer languages have some form of variable like this, storing and retrieving values.
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The best time to engage in snorkeling is probably before sunset, especially between 9am in the morning and 4pm in the afternoon when the sky is clear and there are bright lights surrounding you to view the entire Cozumel coral reef. For more information on cozumel snorkeling, click here.
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One benefit you will certainly enjoy about snorkeling tour is that you can take unlimited photographs. In addition to photographs, you can also take as much video footages as you can, therefore you will have unlimited access to all those memorable images and videos you can keep for decades. The cameras used for taking photos and video shots in the undersea of coral reefs are water resistant and they can withstand the pressure of underwater activities.
One last benefit you can enjoy with snorkeling tours is that you have the chance to visit the best reefs around. In Cozumel region for instance, the three best coral reefs are; Paradise reef, Villa Blamnca Gardens reef, and Dzul-Ha reef. Having multiple reefs to visit during your snorkeling activities will give you the opportunity to see as many undersea world animals as you can, and then you can share your experience to the world.
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Your reservation remains tentative until you provide us with all setup information and obtain any necessary approvals. As soon as you do, we will send you a written confirmation. All reservations are subject to university operating and rental policies.
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Bracken Bay Kitchens Limited v Office of Communications (1079/3/3/07)
This article lists documents that were on the Competition Appeal Tribunal's website for the case "Bracken Bay Kitchens Limited v Office of Communications (1079/3/3/07)" before the CAT's website was taken out of service.
The list has been constructed by a computer program using data from our automated backups; it may not be complete or accurate.
Most of the files can be downloaded from our backups. To prevent overuse of our computing resources, you will need to log in to Reckon Online (with a confirmed e-mail address) to download some files.
- Order of the Tribunal rejecting the appeal (19 Sep 2007) PDF
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Vera Farmiga on Her Directorial Debut Higher Ground and Her Advice for New Oscar Nominees
Also, directing her younger sister in an onscreen sex scene.
Most actresses would use an Oscar nomination as leverage for a bigger paycheck in a studio movie, but the spiky, intelligent Vera Farmiga isn't like most actresses. Instead, while riding the acclaim of her work in Up in the Air, which found her nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Farmiga decided to make her directorial debut with the Sundance competition film Higher Ground — and she did it while pregnant, too. Farmiga stars as a young mother who's spent the majority of her life living in a fundamentalist community, but is beginning to question everything she's familiar with at the same time as her marriage (to Humpday's Joshua Leonard) is falling apart. Vulture sat down with Farmiga earlier this week in Park City to talk about directing while pregnant, shooting a sex scene that starred her younger sister, and the then-imminent Oscar nominations.
You've been a Sundance juror here before, right?
Yeah, I've been here in so many different capacities. I think first in 1997 as an actress for the Director's Lab, and then a little film called Love in the Time of Money, and then in 2004 at Sundance, coming here with Down to the Bone was life-changing.
Having been here as a juror, what is it like to now have your film be judged? Can you imagine the conversations between the jurors taking place?
As a director? I don't feel judgment, I really don't — so far I feel respect and love and warmth. I think I have the support of this institute because they've been so nurturing to me in my career, and I also stand assured that the films that I've been here with are my most inspiring works and the most dimensional characters I've played. I get attention for other studio films, but I don't necessarily think that that's my greatest work, and I really do feel that about the films that I've been here with. Yes, I'm directing myself in a performance, but I'm really proud of this, so I don't feel judgment.
You finished shooting this movie fairly recently and at the same time, you had a baby. How did you find the time to complete it?
The film is still damp! It is dripping dry, fresh out of post. We made it by the skin of our teeth, and I know there are filmmakers who take a very long time to tell their stories, but with the energy of the Oscar nomination [for Up in the Air], financing came. When the script wasn't even 100 percent finished, [financiers] happened to be six miles from my house where I live in the country in upstate New York, and they were willing to shoot before my baby bump emerged, because I had just found out I was pregnant. So we did preproduction in my first trimester, production in second trimester, and postproduction in third trimester. And here I am! There were a lot of things gestating and being born.
Part of your lore as an actress is that you used to make these really incredible audition tapes —
So did I audition for myself? [Laughs.]
I wondered if that taught you a little something about directing yourself as an actress onscreen.
No, I don't think so, because you're always scrutinizing yourself. You're not privy to the editing room, but —
There are lot of actors who won't watch themselves on film.
Yeah, and there are some actors who watch them over and over. [Laughs.] With playback, I'm either-or. Sometimes you get a really excited director who says, "Come see what you've just done!" I don't get crazy about watching myself, and if I don't see it, I don't care — I'm pretty relaxed that way. But as far as not having playback [on Higher Ground] when you're directing yourself and other actors, you don't have the full periphery. You don't know that there's an extra with a shaved head, but we're supposed to be in the seventies. So it was really frustrating not having playback all the time.
There are several films addressing religion at Sundance this year, including yours. Is there something in the air? Why this, now?
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith. It's a really harsh, rude mess of a world we're living in, and 2012 is around the corner. [Laughs.] But why did the festival programmers choose all these movies? It's between God and them.
What was your own relationship with religion like growing up?
I hesitate to talk about it, just because it's such a personal thing for me. I also don't want people to know so much about what my path has been, because I've designed the film to be about what the character's journey is, hopefully. So I don't want that to taint what they draw from it, but I do think I'm on a guided tour of the universe, I really do. We're mates, God and me. We're working it out.
I have to say, I didn't realize until the movie was over that the girl you'd cast as the younger version of your character was your actual sister.
Taissa, yes. I'm so proud of her.
I couldn't believe that you'd found a talented actress who had such an uncanny resemblance to you. Did you always intend to cast her?
I always knew. And I just heard recently that my producers were freaking out that I cast her without auditioning her or putting her on tape.
Had she acted before?
No, with no intentions or any aspirations of it at all.
Have you turned her? Does she want to keep acting now?
You know, she had so much fun, and she's been encouraged quite a bit. She's a cool cucumber. She says, "Let's play it by ear." She also is someone who goes after inspiration, even the few sixteen years of her life. I think she's extremely compelling and very unique compared to her group of peers. She's got something very special.
Was Josh Leonard flattered that you cast Boyd Holbrook, a top male model, to play the younger version of his character?
[Long laugh.] That's very perceptive, given Josh. That was Josh's choice, by the way. I gave him several options and I made sure that he was privy to the online audition tapes of young Ethans, and sure enough, he picked Boyd! But justly so.
Was it awkward to direct your sister at any point?
Not at all.
There is a scene, though, where you have to shoot her losing her virginity onscreen.
Yes, I know, and in the way we chose to photograph it, I think it's so sumptuous. It's really sensual, and they look like a couple of kids from The Blue Lagoon, and then that scene takes a turn into something quite the opposite, given how we twisted it and decided to put another fantasy sequence at that moment. So it had a sense of humor to it that just lightened it up a bit. There were 40 people around them, but she's got a sense of humor about things and she's very open and so bold. I was probably tougher on her than anyone else just because I'm her older sister and I can be, but she never buckled. She was never scared. I adore her. It was honestly a breeze to direct her, a breeze, and good fun.
The Oscar nominations are about to come out —
I know, fingers crossed for Debra Granik.
Whom you worked with in Down to the Bone. What did you think of her work directing Winter's Bone?
I think it's quintessentially Debra. It's just everything I admire about her as a filmmaker, and everything I've absorbed from her, which is hopefully being fully in the world and being authentic and not judging. She is a magnifying glass, and there's so much truth and honesty to the way she tells her stories. There's not one false moment, and you see it again in Winter's Bone, and in Jennifer Lawrence's performance, absolutely.
What's your advice to the women who will find themselves nominated for Best Supporting Actress, like you were last year?
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, "If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits." Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.


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How not to use apostrophe's
They're billed as 'aspiring tycoons'; entry criteria include being 'creative, sparky and bright'. So what led the candidates on this year's Apprentice to spend three hours deciding whether 'National Singles Day' needed an apostrophe and, if so, where it would lie?
It's a common mistake encountered in written English. Not only do many people struggle with the possessive apostrophe, as above, but also with the wider uses of the inverted comma. Were you born in the 1970s or the 1970's? Is it your responsibility to know or you're responsibility to know? (In case you were wondering, it's National Singles' Day, the 1970s, and your responsibility.)
Now, let's deal with the easy ones before getting on to the possessive apostrophe. When it comes to your versus you're, the inverted comma signifies a contraction, a missing letter. You're means you are, they're means they are, and so on. Should there be any doubt as to which to use, a useful piece of advice is to consider something in that pattern of words that could not possibly be anything else. For instance, here you might think of I'm; the apostrophe is used to bring together two words, so if what you're trying to write is 'you are', you need an apostrophe.
(Just slightly off-topic, but the word 'advice' can be used in a similar way to determine whether a word takes a c or s. Thus, advise and advice are rarely confused. Practise and practice, however, often are. Remember that s is for the verb and c is for the noun.)
Sometimes people use an inverted comma where none is grammatically required for aesthetic reasons, with the 1970's being one example. If you feel more comfortable writing that, there's no major problem. Correct grammar is primarily employed to eliminate ambiguity in language, with more fluent and more impressive writing side benefits. It would of course matter if you wished to distinguish the best-selling artist of the 1970s from 1970's best-selling artist, and that is where command of the possessive apostrophe becomes important.
Whereas the 1970's uses an apostrophe where none is necessary, talking of 1970s best-selling artist is grammatically incorrect. So what are the rules?
The contestants on the Apprentice attempted to resolve questions of apostrophe use by calling the editor of the Daily Telegraph. Unsurprisingly, this gambit failed. But if you're still in doubt:
'I've been doing one of my hobbies, which is to question shopkeepers and market-stall holders who persist in misusing the possessive apostrophe, like where it says "carrot's 30p". I find that stall-holder and say, "Oh, can I see the 30p that belongs to the carrot, and the carrot that is so sophisticated that it actually owns 30p? I'd like to see that, a carrot that understands the concept of accumulating wealth. Come on, where are they? Or shall I prosecute you under the Advertising Standards Act for advertising a product that doesn't exist? Oh, I see, I see, you didn't mean that. You meant that carrots cost 30p. Well, why didn't you say that?"'
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Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
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Love is Simple – Akron/Family
Love is Simple – Akron/Family (Young God 34)
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon – Devendra Banhart (XL 237)
The main thing artists who get called "freak folk" probably have in common is their dislike of the term. However, judging from these two CDs, Akron/Family and Devendra Banhart have one more thing in common, which is that they redefine "cult" music. Phish or the Dead are like baseball depending on how deep you want to go, they can be anything from a harmless way to spend hours in the sun to a source of endless statistical fascination. Love Is Simple and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon are experiences more along the lines of seeing compounds in the distance that look interesting, but leave you thinking you'd better not enter them without making sure first that you'll be able to get out.
The compound idea is especially relevant to Akron/Family since many of their lyrics assert some type of love-centric, sun-worshipping belief system. Unfortunately, their two primary ways of expressing this notion through noisy communal clamor and quiet campfire kumbaya lead to their least interesting music.
The side trips are better. "I've Got Some Friends" goes over the course of 3:08 from sounding sort of like the Incredible String Band to sounding sort of like Yes. The opening section of "Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms" sound like "Astronomy Domine" sung over Steve Reich, and "There's So Many Colors" gets into a stomping Crazy Horse groove in minutes five through seven. This hints at how many influences Akron/Family has on tap, and how manic they can be in embracing them. Perhaps next time they'll apply more of their mania to the music and less to the "go out and love everyone" preaching.
If Akron/Family is ceremonial, Devendra Banhart's disc is more like finding a mysterious radio station on a midnight drive in the middle of nowhere. A number of songs are sambas, and several are mixed in that murky, echoey early-70's Brazil style, when they had to bury the words so the censors couldn't make them out. Perhaps a similar strategy is at work when Banhart marries hippie lyrics to schmaltzy major-seventh music in "Freely." That's hardly all that he gets up to here, though, as the disc careens through dub, Brubeck, a "Spirit in the Sky" rewrite and a Jackson 5 pastiche.
Banhart goes many places, and he sounds like a fair amount of old people but like none of his contemporaries. Unfortunately, he rarely works up much energy (think of early 70's George Harrison albums if you're wondering how slow the pace is here) and although his lyrics make mildly compelling cases for a nonconformist life and his melodies achieve mild beauty, that's about as far as Smokey Rolls goes. It speaks well for Banhart's generation, not known as a patient lot, that we seem to be making him into the new misfit poster boy now that Beck is starting to age, but I find myself wishing for more of Beck's immediacy.
Of course, now that I have put in several listens to try to come to terms with these CDs, certain melodies, primarily Banhart's, have started cycling through my head. And I suspect there may be an e-mail or two taking exception to my reservations about both artists. Such is the way of cult music.


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Open Thread: Everything You're Reading, Watching, Listening To and Looking At
This is your place to talk about the TV, movies, music, books and art that are thoroughly entertaining you.
My cat is sick.
This post is not about my cat, but my cat does factor into it. My companion of nearly 14 years is slowly being felled by kitty cancer. Though I've lost pets before, I have been particularly close to the cat in question over a significant portion of my adult life, and so basically being on cancer-cat-caretaker duty for a few months now has been incredibly draining.
Also depressing. It used to be that when depressed, I'd bury myself in a good book, but these days it seems like all the books I prefer are themselves incredibly bleak. There is nothing soothing nor relaxing about working my way through Shirley Jackson's oeuvre, for example. Quite the opposite.
As a result, I've come to rely on my television when depressed. I don't watch a whole lot of television in general, and I don't mean this in a snobbish "I don't even own a television!!" sort of way. I own three televisions, in fact. (Well, part-own, as technically my marriage means I have to share them.)
I don't watch a lot of live television because I am really bad at remembering when shows are on. Even with the advent of DVR, I am equally as bad at remembering to set the DVR to record the shows so I don't have to remember when they are on. There is always something to schedule, with television.
Not so much with streaming services.There have been periods in which I think Netflix's live streaming service -- well, it may not have saved my life exactly, but it certainly prevented me from sobbing incoherently through a few evenings.
I have certain go-to selections I watch (over, and over, and over) when I need an escape, stories that help me forget, for a while, why I am feeling so sad. And thus I present: my three favorite things to watch when inconsolably depressed.
1. North & South:
Richard Armitage is currently playing a really important dwarf in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit," which is filming as we speak, but I think most of us who know him -- at least those of us who fancy the darkly brooding and winsome mens -- remember him best as John Thornton, the short-tempered and socially inept factory owner with mommy issues in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel.
Certainly, there is a hotness pouring off this man in thick rivers (don't go by pictures, kids; you have to see it in action) but that's not necessarily why I love this miniseries.
I really love it because the female protagonist, Margaret Hale, is smart and stubborn and political and everything I like to see in a 19th century lady. I won't call her a "strong female character" because I deride that expression as meaningless, but I will note that she can hold her own, even in the midst of a riot, while wearing a corset.
And yeah, I also love it because Richard Armitage is really really freaking attractive.
2. Downton Abbey:
People have FEELINGS about Downton Abbey. Another UK period drama, this time set in 1912, Downton Abbey first aired in the US last January and it seemed like everyone I knew was losing their minds over it.
Even given my fondness for British TV, I resisted, because I'm stubborn and tend to be automatically suspicious of anything everyone else likes. When I finally did sit down to watch it, I spent the first half of the first episode in a continual state of mid-shrug. But then something happened. Something MAGICAL happened, and I fell under Downton's obsession-inducing spell.
Downton Abbey mostly sticks to the classic Upstairs, Downstairs formula by portraying the differing lives of the aristocratic family who owns the titular Abbey, and their servants, and also showing how these unique experiences frequently intersect. It is not a perfect show by any means, having a few problematic moments, but the depth of the characters and the quality with which they are acted (it has Dame Maggie Smith in it -- I typed that as DAMN Maggie Smith the first time, which also works -- for heaven's sake, and you don't even remember that she's also Professor MacGonagall) make it incredibly engrossing to me.
3. Sherlock:
Are you noticing a trend? These are all British TV shows! Surprise!
Sherlock is a modern-day reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's sociopathic genius detective, in this case played by the improbably named Benedict Cumberbatch, who appropriately has a face that looks not of this world.
The first series of Sherlock consists of three film-length episodes; the first and the third are the most compelling, mixing horror and humor and featuring some thoroughly confusing twists, as a good mystery should. The terrible cliffhanger at the end is only slightly less torturous in light of the fact that new episodes are currently being filmed. Of course, I want to see them NOW.
But the best thing about Sherlock is the relationship between Sherlock and Watson, full of sweetness and frustration, as we can be with the people to whom we are most connected. It reminds me of all my best friendships in that way.
So now you know my three favorite escape routes from reality, and owing to recent events I have to say they're losing their efficiency from being re-watched so many times.
Do you have special Despair TV you turn to in troubling times? I want your recommendations. When I'm starting to get bored with Richard Armitage's face, drastic measures must be taken.


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Ellen Page
Ellen Page landed her first role as Maggie MacLean in the popular Canadian family television movie, Pit Pony (1997), as well as a part in the 1999 spin-off television series of the same name. Just 10 years old, her performance garnered her a Young Artist Award nomination, as well as a Gemini (the Canadian equivalent of an Emmy) nomination.
2002 was a busy year for Page. She appeared in the Canadian TV series, Trailer Park Boys, which received a Gemini nomination for best ensemble cast, and Rideau Hall, as well as the Canadian feature films, Marion Bridge, and The Wet Season. The following year, after appearing in Touch & Go, and the Canadian TV movie, Mrs. Ashboro's Cat, she made her US television debut on the Lifetime Network's Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
For her performance as Emily Anderson in the 2004 film, Wilby Wonderful, Page won a best actress award at the Atlantic Film Festival. She also appeared as a regular that year in the popular Canadian sci-fi series, ReGenesis.
Ellen Page's next film brought the young actress her first major American publicity – Hard Candy (2006), a provocative film in which she portrays a strong-willed 14-year-old who is targeted by an internet predator, but who turns the tables, exacting revenge on her would-be attacker.
Her searing performance caught the eye of Brett Ratner, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand, who called her up to offer her the part of Kitty Pryde, a.k.a. Shadowcat. Reluctant at first, Page accepted the role of the beloved mutant who has the uncanny ability to walk through walls and "phase" through solid objects. The character had appeared briefly in the previous two X-Men films, but was played by two different actresses.
Recently Ellen Page has appeared with Catherine Keener, James Franco and Bradley Whitford in An American Crime, and opposite Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera, and Allison Janney in Juno. 2008 has been a breakout year for Ellen as she won Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards and she was nominated for Best Actress Academy Awards. Both awards were for her role in Juno.