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Enchanted (US - DVD R1)
Gabe is at once captivated, enraptured, even a little spellbound by Amy Adams...
In the animated fairytale world of Andalasia, soon-to-be Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) is destined to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden) and live happily ever after. Problem is, Edward's evil stepmother Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) doesn't want to give up the throne and will do anything to get Giselle out of Edward's life. Queen Narissa's tricks Giselle and shoves her into a wishing well that transports her to Times Square in New York City. Giselle finds herself alone and confused in the rain, and is rescued by non-believer Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his princess-loving daughter Morgan (Rachel Covey). Meanwhile, Price Edward is close behind looking for his lost bride to be.
Enchanted was not a movie I particularly wanted to like. The concept of poking fun at Disney fairytales is pretty tired after three not very good Shrek movies and their various low budget knock offs, not to mention Fractured Fairytales and various popular and subversive kid's books. I'm not admitting to my heart melting or growing six sizes bigger, but I was more or less captivated by this exceedingly sweet and silly movie.
I really thought I'd hate Amy Adam's Best Actress nomination (edit: Jesus Christ I fumbled my facts on this one, that should read Golden Globe nomination.), but she's really quite great. She embodies a Disney princess without simply impersonating one, which is a lot harder then it looks, and she has an arc. James Marsden (an actor I like very much, by the way) doesn't fair quite as well, but yanks a couple giggles no the less. Broad comedy is only as good as its straight man, and Patrick Dempsey had years of practice when he starred on television's Northern Exposure (Edit: Nope, that was Rob Morrow. I just now found this out. They're like twins!). His reactions to the total absurdity of Giselle and Edward's cartoon wackiness sells the jokes better then the jokes would've been sold on their own. Though the entire plot is, of course, ludicrous, Robert's narrative choices are actually pretty understandable, and even a little bit realistic.
The real subversive stuff comes a little bit too late, when Giselle starts to accept the real world at the worst possible moment. There's a great scene where she experiences her first ever bout of anger, and is thrilled by the sensation. The writers could've easily made Enchanted another movie about another straight laced grinch finding love and joy, but instead the grinch and the sap sort of meet emotionally half way. Though I suppose I'd categorize the film as a children's movie overall, Enchanted plays it just mature enough to strike a nice kid/adult balance. Adams and Dempsey anchor the film in a tangible enough emotional place that I can picture plenty of grown-ups leaving the theatre a bit weepy.
All is not perfect in the land of Andalasia, however. Sometimes the spoof is too obvious and broad for its own good, grating against the genuine substance of Adams and Dempsey. The climax is fun, especially for its gender twist and Disney greatest hits package, but feels rushed and doesn't strike the same melodious chords as the rest of the film. Susan Sarandon's wicked witch character is merely an after thought to Michele Pfeiffer's more meaty take on the character in last year's truly magic adult fairy tale, Matthew Vaughn's Stardust. The villain's turn is left to a secondary character in this case, and Sarandon's fall is simply a moment of spectacle (and no, that isn't a spoiler, we all know how it was going to end).
I tried to score a Blu-ray copy of Enchanted, but this DVD version isn't a pushover. The animated section of the film is quite crisp and colourful, with minimal compression damage, and framed at 1.85:1 so that the sides can widen to 2.35:1 when Giselle enters the real world. The real world doesn't fair quite as flawlessly as the animated world. Minor blemishes and edge artefacts are noticeable throughout, and some flesh tones swim with minor noise. Overall colours are gob-smackingly bright and full, especially the cool greens of Queen Narissa's magic. The transfer's clarity actually hurts some of the less convincing computer animation, which doesn't quite blend into the real life sets and set pieces.
Nominating three songs from Enchanted for best original song was a massive faux pas for the Academy this year, especially when Eddie Vedder earned it. The actual songs are half good. Two are entertaining subversions, and one acts as a good introduction to the cartoon universe, but the two poppier tunes towards the end of the film (when reality and cartoonishness fully merge) are dreadful, early '90s easy listening trash.
The clean and strong DTS surround track devotes the majority of its attention to the film's old school and swollen score. The critters of the cartoon world and people and cars of the real world are both mixed effectively, and both embody their unique universes quite impressively. Whether it be giant ogres or cramped city buses, creatures moving from front to back or side to side are effectively represented in space and movement. The dialogue is clear without inconstancies or hiss, and the bass levels are healthy, but not so heavy that they'll scare the kids.
Under the 'Fantasy Comes to Life' heading are three featurettes covering the production behind the three big live-action song and dance numbers. The first, running six and a half minutes, covers the 'Working Song', a digital creature fest number. This briefly covers the song writing, the on set filming (including animal training), pre-vis, and the physical and digital effects. The second featurette pertains to 'That's How You Know', a more traditional, big musical production. This number requires a whole lot of choreography and the number of people involved is sort of mind boggling. The whole scene is a rather magical throw back to Hollywood's Golden Era, and the featurette runs about six minutes. The final featurette concerns the final sequence, which is a sizable amalgamation of several Disney classics. This section places more focus on the art department and technical stuff, and it runs 5:30. Directors, actors, producers, technicians, editors and artists are all interviewed for all three featurettes, though not in any particular depth.
Enchanted does have some iffy cuts throughout, leading one to assume there were quite a few deleted scenes. Here there are less then I assumed there would be; only six, each with an introduction by director Kevin Lima. These start with an alternate animated opening (presented in storyboards), which runs too long and doesn't put enough instant focus on Giselle. Next is an alternate introduction to Dempsey's character, which is a very minimal change. Then we get a brief glimpse into Dempsey's girlfriend in the film, which sets up her character's ending, which is followed by another unnecessary scene that sets up Giselle's ending. The rest of the scenes are just snippets of action from the finale. In all the scenes and intros run just over seven minutes.
'Pip's Predicament' is an animated pop-up book adventure staring Giselle's chipmunk friend. The whole pop-up thing is kind of an excuse for less then spectacular computer animation, but I'm sure the little ones will still enjoy this fluffy, six minute little 'toon. Carrie Underwood's 'Ever Ever After' (a truly grating song) is given the Disney treatment in the form of a partially animated music video that sort of replays the ideas of the film with different actors. The bloopers are amusing enough, the promo for the Blu-ray release is a cruel tease, and the trailers are almost all for not very interesting looking features and specials.
Simply stated, Enchanted is, *choke*, enchanting. The original songs are hit and miss, but the hits are dead centre and the misses are excusable. The story is kid friendly without placating, and I'm positive adults will enjoy themselves almost as much. The clincher is Amy Adams' affecting performance, which is so good I fear she'll find herself typecast for the rest of her life. The DVD looks good, sounds great, and the extras are half-decent.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Justin Johnson2 Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: United States Posts: 10
Patrick Dempsey did not star on Northern Exposure. That was Rob Morrow. But I could see how you might mistake one for the other.
Eraserhead Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: United States Posts: 77
damn... I was just going to make the same comment.
Patrick Dempsey did, however, star in the classic film, "Loverboy".
Patrick Dempsey did, however, star in the classic film, "Loverboy".
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
I'm going to see Enchanted pretty soon.
Blue-Kal-El Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United States Posts: 602
I sooooo wanted to see this one (no kidding!) and missed it at the theatres...if only I had a blu-ray player, it would've been nice!
Do you think a double dip is along the way??
Do you think a double dip is along the way??
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,713
Ha hahaha. That's embarrassing. I corrected it in the review, but I didn't erase it. I've got to keep myself humble. Thanks everyone.
Tricky Dicky Member Join Date: November 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 121
Ok movie, she was fantastic though.
Maladroit Member Join Date: December 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 468
Definitley one of those movies I'd never want to sit through.
knight d Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 221
I saw this with my mom and it was painful. At the end we just kinda said yeah that was cute but that's all. Everything has been done before and they reference all the Disney Princesses except Jasmine! shocking I know. Amy Adams was the best part about it but was way too similar to Will Ferrell in Elf. I was also reminded of the Shrek series. Atonement is miles better with a major anti Disney ending I recommend that to anyone who would find this cute movie painful to watch. 5/10
WeirdMeta Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 103
The best thing about this movie was Amy Adams because she was damn hot as a princess. THis also seemed way better then Elf.
SpielbergFan Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 130
I was going in expecting to hate this, but I really fell in love with it. Amy Adams is brilliant.
But another correction: "Amy Adam's Best Actress nomination (and Golden Globe win)" - Amy Adams was not nominated at the Oscars. She was nominated for a GG, but did not win.
But another correction: "Amy Adam's Best Actress nomination (and Golden Globe win)" - Amy Adams was not nominated at the Oscars. She was nominated for a GG, but did not win.
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
My friend invited me to a screening of Enchanted at Symphony Space where I got to meet the director and some of the cast/crew of the movie. It was pretty cool. I thought this was a great movie.
Emil Ryderup Member Join Date: April 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 239
You are so right about Eddie Vedder been f**ked over by the acedemy. Nominating 3 songs from the same movie, come on...
JackJackMN Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 629
great movie, great songs, loved it. Have it on DVD.
Eddie Vedder is a turd, who cares.
Eddie Vedder is a turd, who cares.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,713
I care. He wrote three very good songs and nominating three songs (one of which wasn't very good at all) from the same film is stupid.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 18th March 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Extras: Pip's Predicament, Fantasy Comes To Life, Deleted Scenes, Bloopers, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kevin Lima
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Rachel Covey
Length: 107 minutes
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Song: "Monster" by Skillet
Okay, this is gonna be tough... But I like to listen to a lot of "dark" or "hard" music, so when I listen to it, it helps me vent in a way. All of us have secrets, and listening to music like this helps me get that out in a roundabout way. We all have something dark about us we don't want to talk about, our own "monsters" that we want to confess we have. I'm put in a position where I can't normally do that. So listening to this song especially helps me do that.
These specific lyrics are a bit cut off, if I could, I would have used the entire chorus:
"I must confess that I feel like a monster."
"I must confess that I feel like a monster."
However, I prefer it just like this.
I may do another with with a brighter theme, but my muse isn't letting me right now. So maybe later~
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Romney, Obama come out swingingBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 17. 2012 12:36AM
President Barack Obama, seeking to rebound from a lackluster debate performance earlier this month, went on the offensive early during Tuesday night's debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
'Governor Romney says he has a five-point plan,' Obama said, referring to his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. 'Governor Romney doesn't have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan to make sure the people at the top play by a different set of rules.'
Romney, at each turn, fought back with jabs at Obama's policies on jobs and energy, then later challenged Obama's reaction to the attack on the American consulate in Libya, in which four Americans were killed.
'The President's policies have been exercised over the last four years and they haven't put Americans back to work,' Romney said.
Obama said he would look to save and help businesses create jobs, similar to the bailouts of the auto industry that are credited with saving General Motors and Chrysler.
'When Governor Romney said we should have let Detroit go bankrupt, I said I'm going to bet on the American auto workers and American auto industry and it's come roaring back,' Obama said.
Later in the debate, Obama and Romney went back and forth over how the administration handled the attacks in Libya.
Romney accused Obama of either misleading people about or not knowing the cause of the attack, saying administration officials initially blamed the attacks on a protest over a video demeaning Muslim people, then later called it an act of terror.
Obama said he spoke at the Rose Garden of the White House the day after the attack and said, 'that this was an act of terror.'
Romney sprang out of his seat and challenged the President's claim.
'You're saying that you called it an act of terror the day after? I just want to be sure we have that on the record,' Romney said.
Obama encouraged the debate moderator, Candy Crowley of CNN, to 'check the transcripts.'
According to the official transcript of the speech on the White House website, Obama said in the speech: 'No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.'
The two mixed it up directly at several other points in the debate, including when they argued over the administration's energy policies.
After Obama said energy production has increased in the United States, Romney said the growth was in spite of the President's policies.
'None of it happened on federal land,' Romney said. 'The administration has cut permits in half.'
'Very little of what Governor Romney just said is true,' Obama said.
'How much did you cut permits on federal land?' Romney said, turning to the President.
When Obama started speaking, Romney interrupted him, asking the same question.
'Do you want me to answer the question? I'll answer the question,' Obama said, facing his opponent directly.
'Production on government land is down,' Romney said later.
'That's not true. It's just not true,' Obama said.
'I don't think anyone believes that you would fight for oil, coal or natural gas,' Romney said.
The two also disagreed on taxes and immigration reform.
Obama said Romney wants to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent, but won't specify how he'll make up for the lost revenue, except for targeting cuts in federal aid to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and to Planned Parenthood.
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The debate had at least one light-hearted moment.
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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
The butler, Cecil Gaines, is a fictional creation, an African-American Forrest Gump who bears special witness to the civil-rights movement while serving on the White House staff under seven presidents. The contrivance is stretched to its breaking point over a running time of 132 minutes; some of the episodes cross a different line from almost plausible to downright silly. That's not the whole story, though.
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Inspiring if not inspired, Lee Daniels' The Butler is a sort of Readers' Digest overview of the 20th century American civil rights movement centered on an ordinary individual with an extraordinary perspective.
The Butler tells a lot of different stories, some more effectively than others.
There's no denying, though, that Daniels knows how to push an audience's buttons, and as crudely obvious as The Butler can be...it's also genuinely rousing. By the end, it's hard not to feel moved, if also more than a bit manhandled.
Authentic emotion competes with manufactured sentiment for the heart of Lee Daniels' The Butler.
Daniels is that rare contemporary filmmaker who's not afraid of melodrama. The Butler is so old-school it feels modern: Stylistically, it could have been made 30 years ago, but its time is now.
As Cecil, Whitaker is mesmerizing. The actor seems to shrink into his imposing frame, summoning a performance of quiet, bottled-up force.
This is an important film presented as mainstream entertainment. It's a great American story.
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OK for kids 13+
Well-acted civil rights tale is moving but too formulaic.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Lee Daniels' The Butler is a sweeping look at the history of African-American life in the United States, as witnessed by a black butler (Forest Whitaker) who spent three decades working in the White House. Since the movie chronicles the history of the civil rights movement, there are many scenes that portray hate crimes -- like two lynched men hanging from a tree and a black sharecropper being shot for saying one word to his white boss. White Southerners are also shown raping, killing, shooting, burning, intimidating, and otherwise terrorizing black protesters. Adults smoke cigarettes and drink; one character is an alcoholic who has a drink in most of her scenes. There's also some language (one "f--k," plus "s--t" and many racial epithets) and kissing, as well as the suggestion of an affair. Audiences will get an overview of how various presidents felt about race relations, as well as the methods and ideologies of the civil rights movement.
Messages: Cecil and Louis both show how necessary it is to stand up to injustice, even if it's risky or dangerous. The movie chronicles how each president dealt with issues of race and equal rights and stresses that there's dignity in a job well done.
Role models: Cecil and his son, Louis, exemplify two archetypal figures in African-American history: the hardworking black domestic (as Martin Luther King Jr. calls Cecil in the movie) and the civil rights activist who defies inequality with non-violent protest. MLK gives a heartfelt tribute to the importance of African-American service workers. President Kennedy tells Cecil that he never knew how hard African Americans had it until he saw televised scenes of Southern terrorism.
Violence: Many race-based hate crimes, including scenes that show two lynched black men hanging from a tree; a black sharecropper who's shot point blank for saying one word to his white boss; several scenes of white Southerners (including civilians, police officers, and the Ku Klux Klan) beating up, setting fire to, and otherwise terrorizing black civil rights activists; and the notorious D.C. riots of 1968. A cotton worker is raped (off camera). Jackie Kennedy is shown with blood covering her suit after her husband's assassination. Civil rights workers are shot at, burned out of their freedom ride bus, arrested, and ridiculed.
Sex: Married couples kiss and embrace on several occasions -- sometimes in bed. It's suggested that Gloria is having an affair with Howard, who kisses her. Louis is in love with Carol, but they're never shown doing more than kissing briefly. President Carter tells an off-color joke.
Language: Occasional strong language includes "s--t," "a--hole," "bitch," "ass," "damn," "hell," "son of a bitch," "goddamn," "oh my God," and many uses of racial epithets like the "N" word, "coon," and more. One use of "f--k."
Consumerism: Not too many brands are shown, except for Budweiser beer and a Lincoln Continental.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults drink a lot (particularly Gloria, who's an alcoholic) and smoke cigarettes (accurate for many of the time periods the movie passes through).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Robert Menendez defended his actions on behalf of a top campaign contributor, saying that being a donor doesn't disqualify someone from getting his help.
"The fact that someone is a donor does not do away with the right or the opportunity to consider whether something is correct or incorrect, to ask questions, raise concerns," Menendez said Thursday in an interview with the Spanish-language television network Univision, which is to air Sunday. Menendez expressed similar sentiments to another Spanish-language network, Telemundo, in an interview set to air the same day.
"It doesn't matter if it's someone who's a contributor or not a contributor, a minor contributor or a major contributor," he added.
Menendez's comments came in response to a question about whether actions he took benefited Dr. Solmon Melgen, a Florida doctor and one of Menendez's top campaign supporters. Menendez's ties to Melgen have come under scrutiny after an FBI raid last week at the physician's West Palm Beach, Fla., office.
Menendez said his longtime friendship with Melgen and the doctor's political donations hadn't prompted his actions.
"No one has bought me, No. 1," Menendez said. "No one. Ever. In the 20 years I've been in Congress, never has it been suggested that that could even be possible. Never in 40 years of public life. So I'm not going to reach this moment in my life to make that a possibility."
Menendez defended two instances where actions he took seemed to benefit Melgen.
He said he contacted the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to question the agency's billing practices and policies. At the time, Melgen was in a dispute with the agency over some $8.9 million in payments.
Menendez said in the Univision interview that in another instance, he was merely complaining about U.S. policy, not weighing in on behalf of one of Melgen's companies.
Menendez complained in July during a Senate subcommittee hearing about several instances of Latin American governments not honoring obligations to U.S. businesses. Menendez pressed two Obama administration officials about an unidentified company that provided cargo screening services at Dominican Republic ports. Media reports in the Dominican Republic have highlighted a contract feud between the Caribbean country's government and a port security firm, I.C.S.S.I.
The company was hired to provide X-ray screening at Dominican ports starting in 2002, according to a 2003 document reviewed by the AP. In recent years, the Dominican government had begun to balk at continuing the contract, citing high costs. In 2011, I.C.S.S.I. was bought by a Florida firm, Border Security Services LLC, which records show is managed by Melgen.
Menendez, who has acknowledged flying on Melgen's private plane to the Dominican Republic twice and failing to initially properly pay for the trips, once again denied allegations he had relations with prostitutes in the Caribbean country.
"Those are lies intended to slander me, and they're completely... not only absurd, but completely false," he told Univision.
Menendez has reimbursed some $58,500 from his personal funds to pay for the trips. Melgen has recently requested that online flight-tracking services block records showing the history of his plane's travel.
Melgen has been a friend and political supporter of the senator's for many years. Last year, Melgen's practice gave $700,000 to Majority PAC, a super political action committee set up to fund Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate. Aided by Melgen's donation, the super PAC became the largest outside political committee contributing to Menendez's re-election, spending more than $582,000 on the senator's behalf.


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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Hold off on the confetti making. Don't start looking for a good seat along the Stanley Cup parade route. Don't bother trying to pick a spot in the Consol Energy Center rafters for the next championship banner to hang.
For all their talented parts, the Pittsburgh Penguins remain very much a work in progress.
And while the Penguins knew not to overreact to a 5-2 drumming at the hands of Toronto on Wednesday night, a victory that quickly took some of the steam out of Pittsburgh's 2-0 start, they also understand they've can't simply rely on talent every night to get the job done.
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Coach Dan Bylsma anticipated an emotional letdown after his team opened the season with emphatic road wins against rivals Philadelphia and the New York Rangers. He hoped the excitement of playing a home game for the first time in nine months would make up the difference.
Instead, the Penguins crumbled over the final 30 minutes, taking a series of penalties that eventually snowballed into a series of uncharacteristic mistakes the NHL's second-youngest team had no trouble pouncing on.
Toronto scored the last three goals, all of them relatively easy tallies following a Pittsburgh miscue. The most glaring came on a botched clearing attempt by Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin that went right to the stick of Toronto's James van Riemsdyk at the top of the left circle. The wrist shot whizzed by Marc-Andre Fleury to give the Maple Leafs a lead they would not give back.
And just like that, the aura of invincibility the Penguins showed while drumming the Flyers and Rangers evaporated and the ghosts of last spring's playoff meltdown against Philadelphia returned.
Not that Sidney Crosby is quite ready to go down that road. The superstar chalked Pittsburgh's poor performance against the largest crowd ever to see a hockey game in the franchise's history to a bad night.
"We know what we need to do, we just weren't as sharp as we needed to be," said Crosby, who collected his first goal in 280 days on a breakaway in the second period that tied the game at 2.
The Penguins weren't as calm either. Crosby picked up a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct in the third period while Malkin earned a game misconduct at the final horn after losing his cool with the officials following a frustrating 60 minutes in which the league's reigning MVP looked a little bit off.
"I was really mad," Malkin said. "But it was my fault."
There was plenty to go around. The Penguins turned the puck over seven times, five of them coming from either Crosby (three) or Malkin (two). The giveaways left the defence woefully out of position at times, something that happened all too often in the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Shoring up things in their own end will be a point of emphasis all season, and with only a week to get ready after the end of the 119-day NHL lockout, practice time devoted expressly to defence has been tough to come by.
Not that it matters to the team captain anyway.
"I don't think the excuse of a short camp is a really good one," Crosby said. "Other teams have had short camps to do offensive zone, too. It all evens out at the end of the day. We did it the first two games, we did a really good job of it. I don't think we can use that as an excuse."
Perhaps, but there was something unsettling with how often the Maple Leafs found themselves all alone in front of the net. It's a scene van Riemsdyk saw repeatedly while playing for the Flyers, who ushered Pittsburgh out of the post-season in six entertaining if somewhat frantic games last April.
Asked if he saw any significant change in the way the Penguins approached defence, van Riemsdyk was diplomatic.
"Tough to say, obviously they're a world class team over there," he said. "If you put a good forecheck on them and make them make plays, sometimes you're going to get opportunities."
The pressure up front seemed to rattle two of the world's best players, though Crosby insisted the Penguins were their own worst enemy on a night that proved a sobering reality check for a team listed as the Stanley Cup favourite by oddsmakers.
"There (were) some pretty, not routine (plays) but plays we feel like we should make and didn't make and it ends up big chances for them," Crosby said. "I think overall we know what to do. It's just that one play, you have to make that play."
The Penguins will get a chance to bounce back on Friday when they play in Winnipeg.
NOTES: Pittsburgh sent minor league defenceman Carl Sneep to Dallas for a conditional draft pick. The Penguins also acquired forward Chad Kolarik from the Rangers in exchange for centre Benn Ferriero.
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Hey all,
It's been a long time since I have made a thread. Being a mod of this forum I think that aint right, so here's my contribution lads. Its a good survey so we can get to know each other especially since there are so many new people here since I returned.
I think its from a chain e-mail, found it own my college forum so blame them for its length.
1. First Name: Paul
2. Were you named after anyone? Pope! (Irish thing)
3. Do you wish on stars? No, why the hell would I?
4. Which finger is your favorite? The thumb, for its uniqueness!
5. When did you last cry? I dont remember.
6. Do you like your handwriting? No, its scrawly but apparently bad writing is a sign of intelligence.
7. Fav food? Chips
8. Any bad habits? *cough*you know*cough*
9. What is your most embarrassing CD on the shelf? Limp Bizkit, so sad and young I was
10. If you were another person, would you be friends with YOU? No, have you talked to me lately?
11. Are you a daredevil? No, I let some one else do it then follow
12. Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell? I do it all the time, we all do
13. Do looks matter? Sadly I think they do, you cant be with someone your not attracted to it dosent work
15. Do you think there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? No, its a damn myth along with the leprachauns propagated by the Irish Tourist Board
16. Do fish have feelings? No, i did zoology
17. Are you trendy? No in the least
18. How do you release anger? See number 8.
19. Where are your second homes? The bar in college, near my house and my girl's house
20. Do you trust others easily? Not unless they give me things
21. What was your favorite toy as a child? Turtles figures
22. What class in school do you think is totally useless? Classical Studies!
23. Do you have a journal? No too revealing, survey covers enough
24. Do you use sarcasm a lot? I used to, grew out of it
25. Have you ever been in a mosh pit? No I'm a blues man
26. What do you look for in a boy/girl? Humour
27. What are your nicknames? Ennis by friends
28. Would you ever bungee jump? Maybe
29.Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? No, never
30. Do you think that you are strong? No, Im actually quite weak
31. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? Choccy
32. What's your favorite color? Blue
33. What is your least favorite thing? Ignorance, passiveness
34. How many wisdom teeth do you have? None
35. Are you in love with anyone? Falling in love but not fully yet
36. How many people have a crush on you right now? I would guess no more than five...
37. Who do you miss most right now? Really old girlfriend
38. Do you want everyone you send this to, to send it back? No, I robbed it
39. What color pants are you wearing? Blue jeans
40. What are you listening to right now? The Pixies
41. What are the last 4 digits of your home phone number? Hum, you want my address to?
42. What was the last thing you ate? King crisps
43. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Blue
44. How is the weather right now? dark and rainy Irish weather
45. Last person you talked to on the phone? Oisin
46. First thing you notice about the opposite sex? Cuteness
47. Do you like the person who sent this? No didnt i tell you I robbed it for a forum?
48. How are you today? Ok
49. Favorite drink? 7-Up
50. Favorite alcoholic drink? Guinness
51. Favorite sports? None they all suck
52. Hair color? Brown
53. Eye color? blue
54. Do you wear contacts? No used to wear glasses
55. Siblings and their ages: Lisa, 27 Colm 25 Niki 23 Ciara 16
56. Favorite month? September
58. Last movies you watched? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
59. Favorite day of the year? Not sure
60. Are you too shy to ask someone out? Not really depends on who it is
61. Scary movies or happy endings? Surreal absurd endings
62. Summer or winter? Summer
63. Hugs or kisses? Dirty kisses
64. Relationships or one-night stands? FMB
66. Who is most likely to respond? Some post whore
67. Who is least likely to respond? People who hate this forum
68. Living arrangements? Family
69. What books are you reading? Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Thomas Nashes Unfortunate Traveller
71. Favorite board game? Twister
72. What did you watch on TV last night? Questions and Answers being the Aristolitlian political animal that I am
73. Favorite smells? Chips
74. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? Feck Ive to get out of here
75. How do you feel at the end of this? Relieved
Ok so work away!


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Is it permissible to add non-mahram women to his list of Facebook friends for the purpose of da'wah and offering advice?.
Facebook has pros and cons. The benefits of Facebook and the harm it may cause are connected to the reasons why one signed up for it and how one uses it.
We have discussed this website in the answer to question no. 137243; please refer to it.
We do not think it is permissible for a man to add any women who are not his mahrams to his list of friends, and especially we do not think it is permissible to correspond with them and chat with them. What is more dangerous is when you can see them. That is because this opens the door to fitnah for those who get involved in it, and the tragic consequences that result from forming relationships between men and women are too many to list and too well-known to need mentioning. The Muslim should not be deceived by the Shaytaan's making these relationships attractive by claiming that they are for the purpose of da'wah, exhortation, advice and helping others. If a man really is keen to call people to Islam, there are millions of his fellow males who need that, so he should hasten to add them and help them. The same might be said to sisters who want to help others: they have to do that their fellow females and leave calling and advising men to other men.
We have discussed the ruling on correspondence and chat between the sexes in several fatwas. See the answers to questions no. 78375, 26890 and 82702.
In particular, see the answer to question no. 98107, where we mentioned ways in which the Shaytaan causes daa'iyahs to fall prey to the fitnah of women on the internet.
What we hope is that our brother will be sincere to himself and avoid all doubts and close the door to fitnah; he should refrain from adding any non-mahram women to his friends list. If he has done that previously, he should hasten to remove their names from his list ("unfriend" them). It is better for him and for them. And we ask Allah to protect the Muslims in their religious commitment and protect them against the temptation of women.
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On July 15th the latest Android super-phone was released by Motorola and Verizon Wireless. All hail the Droid X. The release was not without controversy though. The Droid X, while greatly raising the bar for Android phones in general, does so at the expense of the very power users and community that made the original Droid the gotta-have phone it became. Alienating this group may have far reaching consequences for Motorola.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — With California facing a drought emergency, some communities have taken steps to increase their local water supplies.
Here are some ways water is being squeezed out:
GROUNDWATER WELLS: Limited local groundwater supplies can be maximized by ridding contaminants before being used for drinking water or irrigation. In cases where groundwater rights are determined by a court order, communities can challenge to allow more pumping. Proper management is essential to avoid overpumping and depletion.
WATER STORAGE TANKS: Instead of rainwater dripping off roofs, it flows into barrels or cisterns. Homeowners use the captured rain to water their lawns and gardens. Some cities such as Santa Monica have industrial-size underground water storage tanks in libraries that are used to water gardens or fill toilets.
RECYCLED WATER: Water treatment plants purify stormwater, urban runoff and sewage water that can be used to irrigate golf courses, highway medians and other landscapes. Orange County has been a leader in the "toilet to tap" technology that can turn wastewater into drinking water through a process that includes filtration and reverse osmosis.
DESALINATION: Desalination plants remove salt and other minerals from ocean water or seaside aquifers through different methods. The San Diego County Water Authority looked to diversify its water supplies that included the construction of the Western Hemisphere's largest desalination plant in Carlsbad, expected to be completed in 2016.


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TUSCALOOSA | Her mother, more than 500 miles away when she got the news, cried.
Her sister missed it, too, circling around the lot looking for a parking space when it happened.
TUSCALOOSA | Her mother, more than 500 miles away when she got the news, cried.
Her sister missed it, too, circling around the lot looking for a parking space when it happened.
Jordan Patterson, junior catcher for the No. 1 University of Alabama softball team, hit her first career home run Friday, one of three for the Crimson Tide, in a 21-0 mercy-rule victory over Western Illinois in it's home opener in the Bama Bash tournament
The defending national champion Crimson Tide (13-0) defeated Iowa 5-0 in its second game.
Patterson's mother, Sarah Patterson — head coach of the No. 4 Alabama gymnastics team — couldn't be at Rhoads Stadium because she was at a road meet at Arkansas.
Jordan Patterson hit the ball on the nose in the first inning, driving it over the fence in center field for a three-run shot. It was also her first hit of the season.
While she had no family on hand to witness the shot, word spread fast.
"I was walking into Barnhill Arena when I heard about her home run," Sarah Patterson said via text message. "So proud of Jordan. She is living her dream as a member of our championship UA softball team.
"For all those little girls who love Bama softball, dreams can come true!"
Jordan's sister, Jessie Jones, was still in her car. The game started 20 minutes early due to weather concerns with rain coming into the area.
"How did I miss that?" she said, entering the stadium just moments after the big knock.
Jordan Patterson knew the homer was a long time coming.
"It felt great to carry over to the game what I do in practice," she said. "It's a credit to the coaches. They work with me every day."
Alabama coach Patrick Murphy believes Patterson has carried a heavy load due to her family ties to UA athletics.
"I think she probably thinks the weight of Tuscaloosa is on her shoulders with her mom and her dad (a longtime member of the UA gymnastics coaching staff)," Murphy said. "We try to remind them that it's not all about you or your at-bat."
Jordan Patterson wishes her family could have been there.
"It's OK," she said. "I'll just have to do it again."
Freshman outfielder Haylie McCleney hit a home run and went 3-for-3 with six RBIs and four runs scored against Western Illinois. Kaila Hunt was 2-for-3 with a double and a homer, driving in four runs.
Leslie Jury (4-0) gave up two hits in five innings with six strikeouts for the win.
Crimson Tide ace Jackie Traina (7-0) threw a five-hit shutout against Iowa, striking out six. Kayla Braud went 2-for-4 with an RBI, freshman first baseman Leona Lafaele was 2-for-2 and outfielder Keima Davis went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored.
In other games, Winthrop beat Western Illinois 2-1 and Iowa beat Winthrop 2-1.
Alabama will play Iowa today at 1:30 p.m. and Western Illinois again at 4.
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EHR Technical Breaches, Great Human and Computer Collaborations, and EMR in India
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
We're getting close to entering the summer slow period. Although, last year my sites still did very well during the summer. Maybe this summer won't actually slow down if many of them are rushing to EHR to meet the meaningful use deadline. Also, for those that mostly just read EMR and HIPAA, I've started doing a short "Around Healthcare Scene" blog post on EMR and EHR that highlights some of the posts from around the network.
One thing I think won't slow down is the number of people tweeting about EMR and healthcare IT. In fact, vacations might mean that we see more tweets coming out. On that note, time to look at some of the tweets from around the EMR and Healthcare IT twittersphere.
Technological Breaches with EMR/EHR will escalate in the cloud. Imagine! Especially when MasterCard can't keep client data sacred. #hcsm
— PDara MD, FACP (@JediPD) May 21, 2012
I don't think the cloud will increase the number of technical breaches. In fact, the cloud will probably decrease the number of technical breaches as compared with client server EHR. However, the size of the breaches will be much larger. Technology is great at moving a lot of data very quickly. Used properly it can do amazing good, but the same is true if it's used improperly.
Six Great Human and Computer Collaborations, one is #EMR del.ly/6015rZrc
— Dell Healthcare (@DellHealth) May 18, 2012
I'd have to think a bit more on this one. Although, I think that EMR deserves to be considered for the list, because an EMR is basically nothing without a doctor. It requires the human to be of use and will be that way for the foreseeable future. I guess my largest concern is that we're just at the beginning of the potential of EHR to access the real value of human and computer interaction.
Jokes apart, doctors in India need to switch to Electronic Medical Records! #EMR – at the very least for writing/recording prescriptions!
— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 21, 2012
This was an interesting tweet. I love stuff with a bit of an international flair. I think the jokes this tweet references was a joke about what I believe is a med school in India requiring yoga and sports. Although, I was also intrigued by his request for India to at least start ePrescribing. Often I think many try to bite off more than we can chew and if we can't do it all then we do nothing. That's unfortunate most of the time. Incremental improvement usually ends up with better results than big bang changes.


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Today, CNET and other U.S. mobile reviewers got a chance to gush over AT&T's HTC One X superphone powerhouse. It boasts a stunning 4.7-inch display, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and 4G LTE muscle. But the spec that's tripping up many is the processor: a dual-core Qualcomm chip in the U.S. instead of a quad-core Nvidia chip abroad.
On the surface of things, the change within seems like a step down for poor U.S. customers. After all, four cores (and Nvidia's fifth, "power-saving core") are better than two, right? Not necessarily.
The U.S. version for AT&T and for Sprint's forthcoming HTC Evo 4G LTE (the One X by another name) both use Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor, a dual-core chip that's a strong contender in its own right.
In fact, the notion that four cores are automatically faster than two is one of .
Far more than just the core count goes into the overall performance, from the processing architecture upon which the cores are built, to the software that ties it all together.
On a side note, it's interesting that HTC and Nvidia are allies on the global version of the One X. HTC has historically partnered with Qualcomm on its handsets, so this departure spells nothing but win for Nvidia, even if its chip isn't featured in the U.S. If you're itching to see Tegra 3 on an American model, don't worry. I'm certain that phone manufacturers will reward your patience soon enough as the core war heats up.
One thing we can tell you, though, is that the HTC One X is plenty fast. Just how fast? Check out Brian Bennett's full HTC One X review for the lowdown.


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Current list of TBTF Action Items SW to speak on 131 at WG telcon this week in NM's absence DF to put 12 69 131 on WG telcon agenda this week for resolution SW to send email describing differences between 2 formalisms with special focus on internal process of a node, and including fragment illustrating this (due in time for Jan 18 telcon) SW will identify received comments that have not yet been covered in our work (due in time for Jan 18 telcon) CF will prioritise list of issues (due in time for Jan 18 telcon) Agenda *****Minutes from Monday, 14 Jan meeting***** 1. DF change of status as chair/scribe of TBTF + discussion about amount of work left to the TBTF and concerns expressed about how volunteering for chair of TBTF affects ability to do this work, especially given that many people on TBTF are primary contributors to WG's work effort; some support for a relvolving chair position; discussion postponed 2. Summary of current situation. The purpose is to identify items for the TBTF to consider. Current items to consider are: -- text in spec + the following items were identified: security considerations in (i) binding framework Pt1 5.4 & 5.5, (ii) HTTP binding (Pt2 sec 8) ed. note in Pt1 5.1 ed. note in Pt2 8.1 ed. note in Pt2 7.1.6 general proof reading and completion of Pt1 sec 5, Pt2 secs 6, 7, 8 -- issues [3] + amended list, see also action list 33 50 57 58 102 103 105 133 178 -- another transport (HMM) + discussion of motivation for providing another transport; we recalled that it was to (a) validate our framework, (b) meet some concerns that SOAP appears to be HTTP-binding specific; suggestion that people be encouraged to document another binding in a W3C Note - downside is that the WG would likely be asked to handle it; suggestion that we document enough of a second binding in the SOAP Primer to satisfy (a) and (b); TBTF did not decide on which approach to take
*****Minutes of Tuesday, 15 Jan meeting start here***** + Chair suggested, and those present agreed, that at the previous TBTF telcon, the lightweight/Primer approach was generally favoured -- "wire trace variant" proposal [1] (SW) + need to understand how much this proposal overlaps/underlaps with existing state machine description; those present on call generally positive (SW joins call) + NM formulates question: currently describe state machine at each node; do the trace descriptions replace state transitions at each node and how would you represent semantics like timeouts? + SW response: the trace formalism motivated by (i) an early comment on TBTF work which asked for a wire description, (ii) desire for a more formal description + discussion followed + DF summary: SW asserts that the proposal can describe everything currently covered by the state machine descriptions, and the representation in the proposal is more 'usable' than the current transition diagrams and their accompanying tables. The onus is currently on proponents of the proposal to show that it does indeed provide the same coverage. -- response to public feedback [2] (SW) + WG had asked for public feedback on TBTF material (pre-WD). SW has catalogued some of this, he notes that it was mostly questions of technical interest rather than criticism of style or content. He will continue to work on the feedback. -- any others? + none 3. Assign people to work on items + At the next TBTF telcon, DF will (a) propose CF & HFN write the security consideration sections listed above, (b) propose HMM generate a SMTP binding description for Primer, (c) ask for volunteers to generate proposed resolutions to issues on list (above). 4. Next TBTF telcon is Friday Jan 18 9-10a PST, DF has already sent out call details [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Jan/0089.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Jan/0163.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/xmlp-issues.html


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MOTW: The Many Movies of Tim Robbins
MOTW: The Many Movies of Tim Robbins
Although he is perhaps best known for his role in "Bull Durham," Tim Robbins has cultivated a long career based on work that is often characterized as character driven. After beginning his career as a stage actor in New York, Robbins landed what proved to be his breakout role in Hollywood in the 1988 film in "Bull Durham." The film was actually not that much of a stretch for Robbins, who had been a fan of baseball for a number of years. Portraying the character of Nuke, a minor-league ball player who is being coached toward making the majors by a veteran player while simultaneously being wooed by a groupie, Robbins managed to pull off the role with aplomb. Beyond his acting ability, the film also allowed Robbins to demonstrate his exceptional pitching abilities with a rapid-fire fastball. Initially, the film was released with low expectations due to its low budget. However, it quickly became apparent that the combination of Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Kevin Costner was a recipe for success. "Bull Durham" went on to become an iconic sports film and quickly launched Robbins into the stratosphere of the Hollywood elite.
While "Bull Durham" was wildly successful, Robbins seemed intent on proving that his contribution to the film was anything but a one-off. Within five years, Robbins had managed to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with when he not only wrote but also directed the satirical film "Bob Roberts." He was later nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on the film.
That film was quickly followed up with "The Player," a movie in which Robbins starred as a film executive who is completely without morals. His performance earned him not only critical acclaim but also the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The following year, he once again teamed up with the director of "The Player," Robert Altman, for a film titled "Short Cuts," which was based on the writing of Raymond Carver. Robbins was largely responsible for the movie's humor, as he portrayed a police officer in Los Angeles with a penchant for manipulative and inappropriate behavior.
In 1994, Robbins continued to prove that he had what it took to bring audiences to the theater when he appeared in "The Shawshank Redemption" with Morgan Freeman. Based on a short story by Stephen King, the film received critical acclaim.
Throughout the next few years, Robbins was continually the star of choice for films such as "Human Nature," Arlington Road," and Mystic River." It was "Mystic River" that would finally land Robbins a much-coveted Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also received a SAG award for his portrayal of an adult who is coping with the trauma of having been molested as a child.
While Robbins was clearly continuing to hone his incredible acting talents, he was also working on cultivating his directorial skills. He even directed his romantic partner, Susan Sarandon, to an Academy Award in "Dead Man Walking," a death penalty drama that also starred Sean Penn and went on to receive critical acclaim. That film was later followed by "Cradle Will Rock," a musical set in the Great Depression that provides viewers with keen insight into the social and political issues of the time.
In 2005, Robbins provided a compelling performance in the remake of "War of the Worlds" as a shell-shocked survivalist. The film also starred Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Over the course of the next few years, Robbins shifted his focus and began to concentrate more on smaller, international films, including "The Secret Life of Words," a film in which he stars as a man who is temporarily blind and is nursed back to a health by a young woman who is fighting her own demons. That film was followed by "Catch a Fire," in which Robbins portrays an apartheid torturer, a surprising departure from earlier roles. In 2008, Robbins teamed up with Rachel McAdams for "The Lucky Ones," a film that was shot on location in Illinois. Following his surprising split with Susan Sarandon in 2009, Robbins kept a somewhat low profile before emerging to appear in the made-for-television film "Cinema Verite." He was later nominated for a Golden Globe award for his role as the Loud family patriarch in that film. Since then, Robbins has also appeared as the father of Dr. Hector Hammond in the blockbuster film "The Green Lantern."


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MILFORD — Limited facilities and federal regulations prompted Lull Farm to build a poultry-processing plant on its 100-acre farm on Spaulding Lane.
"We raise 3,000 meat birds throughout the season plus 500 turkeys. We have fresh products every week," said Kristen Bennett of Lull Farm.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture no longer allow spoultry to cross state lines for slaughtering anymore.
"We can't have our animals slaughtered in Massachusetts, then sold retail in New Hampshire, so we decided to open our own slaughterhouse," said Bennett.
They had used a facility in Groton, Mass.
Lull Farm's facility is called Granite State Poultry and Processing and is run by Lionel Lavoie and Jennifer Bourlier.
"We started because there are so many people that want to raise backyard chickens. We raise them for our families. … Then there is no one around to process, so we started this," said Bourlier.
More and more families are growing their own food and raising their own cattle, pigs and chickens, and with limited facilities in the state, more are needed.
"We talked to a USDA investigator who told us this area could handle two or three slaughterhouses because there are so many people who need them," said Bourlier.
Granite State Poultry and Processing went from 50 customers to hundreds in a short amount of time.
"People raise their own chickens, and we hand them back a bird properly processed and wrapped ready for the freezer for $4.50. We want to make it affordable for people to raise their own food," said Bourlier.
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Their USDA status is pending and will be approved after the required break room for employees and an office for the USDA inspector are completed.
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You may have noticed two big omissions from the list of characters the narrator introduces: Speedy Gonzales and Tweety. Tweety was oddly absent from this initial season, he returned the following year to share top billing with Bugs when the show was retitled The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (which, of course, had a very successful run on ABC... lasting until the fall of 2000). Speedy's cartoons never showed up on ABC during the entire run of the show (aside from his cameo in the 1979 made-for-TV short "The Fright Before Christmas").
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I just thought it was funny how derivative the roll call was of the one from the "cartoon gold" "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" opening, right down to using the same sound bites from "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie."
At least the "cartoon gold" opening made an attempt to make it look like something new instead of just dubbing the voices over clips. The "Comedy Hour" opening looks like something a local station would have whipped up for weekday afternoons.
- May 8, 2007 at 3:55 PM
- David Gerstein said...
Most transcriptions of the "cartoon gold" theme song have the narrator naming Sam as "that cad in the hat," whereupon Sam replies "That's Sam, you varmint."
Shouldn't it be "and Sam in the hat," with Sam replying (both here and in the "Comedy Hour" opening) "You snaggle-toothed varmint"?
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DX10: Far Cry 2
Ubisoft has developed Far Cry 2 as a sequel to the original, but with a very different approach to game play and story line. Far Cry 2 features a vast world built on Ubisoft's new game engine called Dunia, meaning "world", "earth" or "living" in Farci. The setting in Far Cry 2 takes place on a fictional Central African landscape, set to a modern day timeline.
The Dunia engine was built specifically for Far Cry 2, by Ubisoft Montreal development team. It delivers realistic semi-destructible environments, special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storms, real-time night-and-day sun light and moon light cycles, dynamic music system, and non-scripted enemy A.I actions.
The Dunia game engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX-10. Only 2 or 3 percent of the original CryEngine code is re-used, according to Michiel Verheijdt, Senior Product Manager for Ubisoft Netherlands. Additionally, the engine is less hardware-demanding than CryEngine 2, the engine used in Crysis.
However, it should be noted that Crysis delivers greater character and object texture detail, as well as more destructible elements within the environment. For example; trees breaking into many smaller pieces and buildings breaking down to their component panels. Far Cry 2 also supports the amBX technology from Philips. With the proper hardware, this adds effects like vibrations, ambient colored lights, and fans that generate wind effects.
There is a benchmark tool in the PC version of Far Cry 2, which offers an excellent array of settings for performance testing. Benchmark Reviews used the maximum settings allowed for DirectX-10 tests, with the resolution set to 1920x1200. Performance settings were all set to 'Very High', Render Quality was set to 'Ultra High' overall quality, 8x anti-aliasing was applied, and HDR and Bloom were enabled.
Although the Dunia engine in Far Cry 2 is slightly less demanding than CryEngine 2 engine in Crysis, the strain appears to be extremely close. In Crysis we didn't dare to test AA above 4x, whereas we used 8x AA and 'Ultra High' settings in Far Cry 2. The end effect was a separation between what is capable of maximum settings, and what is not. Using the short 'Ranch Small' time demo (which yields the lowest FPS of the three tests available), we noticed that there are very few products capable of producing playable frame rates with the settings all turned up.
Cost Analysis: Far Cry 2 (1920x1200)
Test Summary: The Dunia game engine in Far Cry 2 appears preferential to NVIDIA products over ATI, which allows the ASUS GeForce GTX-465 to dominate performance from the Radeon HD 5850, and even matches the Radeon HD5870. In Far Cry 2, the GeForce GTX-465 (and GTX-470) offer the best performance and cost per FPS of any DX11 video card.
Then, the HD5770 is not 256-bit but 128-bit!
I count 5 clear wins for the 5850, 3 for the 465 and one wash (Resident evil 5). From the 465's point of view, thats a staggering 67% more wins for the 5850!!
And by the way, I don't count the two parts of 3D vantage as separate tests.
So not only is the 5850 the faster card with over half the tests won, more importantly, it also offers the most bang for your buck! All according to your own figures!
At least to me, this would count as a clear win for the 5850, but that is hardly what I see in the summary.
Also worth mentioning i think: Having been on Newegg on a few occasions, $305 seemed a bit steep for a 5850, and for aspiring customers for a graphics card, I can tell a 5850 can be found for $285. Only $5 more expensive than the price for the 465 you are quoting, and with that small difference I think the value numbers throughout the test would look a bit different.
You should also check your math on the cost per FPS, because the GTX-465 beats the Radeon 5850 in nearly all of them.
I thank you and congratulate you for your response to the commenter.
I sit here absolutely STUNNED. I can't believe that somebody didn't just "take it" and nearly agree with the ati fan fraud.
My faith in humanity has been renewed.
Believe me, I really, really appreciate it.
Sincerely sick of the rampant red bias,
Did you just report the AC Power differnence between no graphic card in the system and with the Graphics card installed? Did you try to take into account the PSU efficiency?
Power supply efficiency is not taken into consideration for any of our reported results. Only the motherboard, processor, memory, SSD, and video card are drawing power. The math is simply idle/load result minus baseline.
And I don't get your pricing figures. I found a 5850 for $285 and another for $305 in Newegg... the ones you mention beyond $325 include special cooling designs.


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I was on the lookout for projects where I would be able to contribute to my society. When I first saw by chance the Lokalizo page online it looked amazing to me. After reading about this project I understood they were looking to increase the awareness of community members, civil society and government about the social issues which affect our community. The best part of the objectives of Lokalizo are to explore ways to empower small groups of citizens or young people to contribute positively in the community where they live.
I was thrilled by the idea of being part of the project, and I was very happy to receive the news that I was accepted to become one of the first youth mappers of Lokalizo in the city of Prishtina.
Everything about Lokalizo looked interesting and fun. We were
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N-4: Interface Stability between Yb14MgSb11 and Ni Electrode: A Combined Study from First-principles Phonon Calculations, Thermodynamic Modeling, and Experiments
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Maintaining stability at the interface between thermoelectric materials and nickel electrodes is a key to enhancing the lifespan and efficiency of radioisotope thermoelectric generators, such as those used in satellites and rovers. Recently a new Zintl derivative discovered, Yb14MgSb11, has shown an improved figure of merit over the Yb14MnSb11 compound. The Mg-Ni-Sb-Yb thermodynamic database was constructed in order to quantitatively evaluate the phase stability of the thermoelectric compound when exposed to a Ni electrode at high temperatures in order to determine whether it should be considered in future RTG designs. This task required the investigation of the thermodynamic properties and phase relations of the nickel-antimony-ytterbium (Ni-Sb-Yb) and magnesium-antimony-ytterbium (Mg-Sb-Yb) ternary systems aided by the CALPHAD method, first-principles calculations based on DFT. The results were then compared and optimized to the compositional measurements obtained from scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) techniques across the Yb14MnSb11/Ni diffusion-couple interface.
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French video-sharing site Dailymotion is searching for a U.S. partner to acquire roughly 50% of the company as it attempts to gain ground on rival YouTube and seeks to make a name for itself.
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The Paris-based company, which technically started just weeks after market leader YouTube, isn't ruling out an initial public offering but is wary of the turbulent capital markets in the wake of Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) IPO last May.
Thanks to rising revenue and shrinking distribution costs, Dailymotion has recently become profitable and is now striving to increase its footprint in the U.S., which accounts for roughly 33% of its revenue.
"The next step for us is to find a new partner in the U.S.," Dailymotion CEO Cedric Tournay told FOX Business in a recent interview.
Dailymotion hadn't previously disclosed the search for a U.S. partner.
IPO Unlikely
In 2011 France Telecom's (NYSE:FTE) Orange acquired 49% of Dailymotion for 60 million euros. The European telecom then bought the remaining 51% over the summer for another 60 million euros after the second part of the contract automatically kicked in.
It's not clear if Orange is seeking to sell either the majority or minority stake in Dailymotion.
While a U.S. telecom company could be a good partner, Tournay said his preference is either a "big web player" or a "financial partner because we do know we need to invest more on distribution, content and marketing."
Despite the need for capital, Tournay sounded skeptical about the chances Dailymotion will launch an IPO any time soon.
"It could be an opportunity, but depending upon market conditions," he said. "It's going to be tough for tech and Internet companies in the near future to be listed. Everybody now is becoming a bit skeptical again of Internet companies."
YouTube Still the Leader
Either way, increased investment could help Dailymotion further close the gap with Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube, the industry's reigning champ.
Dailymotion comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR) stats show its total number of servers views in July was 1.8 billion.
Viewers watched about 452 million videos on Dailymotion in July, putting the site 8th in that category among all video properties and above Facebook and Walt Disney's (NYSE:DIS) ESPN, according to comScore.
Dailymotion also averaged 5.2 minutes per video in July, besting the average of 4.2 minutes per video of Google sites.
However, Google sites towered over Dailymotion with a whopping 19.59 billion video views in July.
Dailymotion also doesn't crack the top 20 in terms of total unique viewers, bringing in 13.29 million in July, compared with a 157 million on Google sites and 48.69 million on Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), according to comScore.
"YouTube is the behemoth. Once you establish yourself like YouTube, it's very hard for another company to move in," said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.
"The onus is really on [the challenger] to explain to a potential audience why they have something to offer that is different or better than what's out there already," Kay said.
Trying to Close the Gap
Even though Dailymotion and YouTube started around the same time in 2005, Tournay concedes "they were better than us."
Today Tournay said he doesn't really see YouTube as a direct competitor and credits the company with helping to drive advertising dollars around the world into this space.
Roland Hamilton, U.S. managing director at Dailymotion, sounded a bit more ambitious about catching up with YouTube.
"I think we want to close the gap a bit, for sure. We've made a ton of progress against huge players," he said. "There's room in the marketplace for more than one player, and we're one of them."
Unlike some other fields, there still appears to be an enormous amount of demand for online video with new users tuning in all the time.
"The percentage of overall video being consumed globally is radically increasing every single month, week and quarter," said Jay Fulcher, CEO of Ooyala, which powers videos watched by almost 200 million unique viewers each month.
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So how can Dailymotion and other players try to take a bigger piece of that growing pie?
Leszek Izdebski, a managing director at Cisco Systems' (NASDAQ:CSCO) Internet business solutions group, pointed to a trend favoring professionally-produced online video.
"That shift towards quality is something that definitely creates opportunity for many players," said Izdebski.
With an eye on those trends, Dailymotion is planning to open film studios for its Motion Makers and other videographers in New York and Paris early next year.
Of course, a race to quality with deep-pocketed Google could prove to be an uphill battle.
Izdebski said there's also an opportunity for any player that successfully "takes advantage" of the ongoing battle between Facebook and Google+ by becoming a preferred video provider for a social network.


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On Tuesday, Thandie Newton returned to the spotlight in an eye-popping (literally!) Osman LBD paired with a Christian Louboutin navy clutch and gold heels to the U.K. premiere of Half of a Yellow Sun.
And the new mom-of-three, who welcomed son Booker Jombe on March 3, looked amazing.
The actress kept her hair (worn cascading down her shoulders) and makeup simple, but her ensemble was anything but.
We love the bold eye motif, a signature of the London-based designer. We also love how the simple silhouette hugs all of the star's new mommy curves.
Digging her style as much as we are? Newton shared a "how to get her beauty look" tutorial via her makeup artist, Kay Montano (she's also worked with Lupita N'yong), on her website.
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Since the 2008-09 financial crisis and the central bank's response of near zero interest rates, financial markets have been vacillating violently between risk-on and risk-off periods. This bipolar attitude toward risk has increased asset class correlations, negating the effective benefit of many traditional equity diversifiers. In this unpredictable climate, investors are focused on seeking strategies that offer downside protection but also upside participation.
One solution to achieving both of these often mutually exclusive desires is an option-based equity collar. A long collar strategy involves owning the underlying, while being long a put option with a strike price below the market and short a call option with a strike price above the market. This orientation of the strike prices makes each put and call option out-of-the-money (OTM). An option collar can provide portfolios with greater downside risk protection than standard multi-asset diversification programs, but they also allow for profits during risk-on rallies.
Recent research has examined the performance of the collar strategy against a range of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) across multiple asset classes, including equity, currency, commodity, fixed income and real estate. The resulting book, "Option-Based Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World," was authored by Research Analyst Edward Szado and University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management Professor of Finance Thomas Schneeweis. Their analysis shows that for most of the asset classes considered, an option-based collar strategy, using six-month put purchases and consecutive one-month call writes, provides a holy grail of investing of improved risk-adjusted performance and significant risk reduction.
"Collar growth" (below) illustrates the benefit of an equity collar strategy on the popular SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) ETF. Over the 55-month study period ending Dec. 30, 2011, the 2% OTM passive SPY collar returned more than 22% (4.5% annually), while the long SPY experienced a loss of more than 9% (–2.1% annually). The collar earns its superior returns with less than half the risk as measured by the standard deviation (8.4% for the collar vs. 19.5% for SPY).
One of the most telling statistics supporting the potential benefit of equity collar protection is the maximum drawdown. During the study period, SPY experienced a maximum loss of 50.8% while the 2% OTM collar reduced this negative performance by four-fifths to a maximum loss of 11.1%.