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HAHA! I love the Drafthouse!. Are they actually producing films or just distributing them? That looks like a genuine 80's flick.
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Thirty minutes into the movie "Miami Connection" the audience sees a classic '80s montage scene, except there's something a bit off.
The film's heroes, a group of five University of Central Florida students who are martial-arts experts (and orphans), hit up the beach for some much needed fun in the sun. (They're in a band called Dragon Sound, which serves as a vehicle for their tae kwon do-inspired songs). As the band members drive along the shore, they catcall out to women with painful lines such as "they don't make buns like those down at the bakery," trying to pick them up using phony French accents.
The dialogue hardly matches up with the characters' mouth movements, and the scene ends with two characters making out in the tide, waves crashing down around them. In the context of the film, nothing about this scene really drives the plot, furthers the character development or makes much sense at all. Which is exactly why some fans consider it great.
But the term "great" is relative. Originally made in 1987, "Miami Connection" was rediscovered in June 2009 when Zack Carlson, a programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, came across it on eBay and made a blind bid on it. He won it for a mere $50, having no idea he was the first step in the film's unlikely comeback.
"We played a reel in the (Alamo Drafthouse), and the few people that were in the theater went bananas," Carlson said. "We instantly scheduled the movie to play during our weekly exploitation series."
Though it's not always easy to figure out what exactly is going on in "Miami Connection," the story follows members of Dragon Sound as they find themselves mixed up with a group of ninjas linked to the bubbling cocaine trade out of Miami. It stars Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, a central Florida martial-arts expert, who was pitched the idea of a feature-length film after director Richard Park saw him in the mid-'80s on the South Korean talk show "Meet at 11 p.m."
Most of the actors and crew were Kim's tae kwon do students. With the assistance of funding from Kim and some investors, "Miami Connection" was filmed in Orlando and Miami. Kim said he had high hopes that his creative work would find a distributor and explode onto the national scene.
"When I finished the movie, I showed this to hundreds of different studios and distribution companies," Kim said. "They all said, 'This is trash. Don't waste your time.' "
Still, Kim pressed on. The film opened in September 1988, limited to eight theaters in the Orlando area. He continued trying to get major distributors for a national release and even tried to rally Hollywood bigwigs at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. But the film bombed, and Kim saw his endeavor slip into obscurity (along with the roughly $1 million it cost to make).
When Carlson got a hold of it, enough time had passed so that it was received as something wholly different. He screened it around Austin and noticed a huge, positive response. Moviegoers ate up the bad dialogue, laughed at the bad special effects and staged ninja fights, and reveled in a heavy dose of '80s cheese.
Carlson pushed the film to Evan Husney, creative director for the Alamo Drafthouse's distribution arm, Drafthouse Films. In December, Husney called Kim and told him he wanted to rerelease the movie. Thinking it was some sort of cruel joke, Kim hung up several times. Husney courted him for months before the deal to resurrect "Miami Connection" was made.
Now, decades later, thanks in part to the current love of irony and an enduring fascination with all things '80s, the film is enjoying an impressive victory lap. It screened at the New York Asian Film Festival in July and Los Angeles' Everything Is Festival in August, where the reaction was largely the same as Carlson witnessed when he first discovered it.
"What I'd like to think is that people really get enthusiastic about the sincerity in the movie," Carlson said. "They initially get pulled in by the irony, the '80s fashion, but what's underneath it is very entertaining. People respond to many different things, but they start to like the characters."
"Miami Connection" is seeing the national rollout in theaters that Kim had always hoped would happen. DVDs, Blu-rays and soundtracks are available -- even vinyl singles for those wanting to keep things fittingly retro. Kim is going to a handful of showings and providing a martial-arts demonstration for moviegoers. The experience has taught Carlson that "bad movies that people respond to aren't actually bad."
"There's a sincerity within them that people latch onto," he said. "There's not a lot of technique or talent behind 'Miami Connection.' But there's so much initiative and dedication behind it, even if they failed at what they were trying to do. They were really into it and really trying. That's why people are responding to it now."
"Miami Connection" opens November 9 in Los Angeles and New York, with a nationwide release in other cities scheduled through December.
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A Moleskine notebook turned into an illuminated manuscript. Its shiny exterior glistens with gold foil embossing as the geo-calligraphic art deco motifs catch the light; a little black rectangle that is the keeper of voyages, encounters and adventures.
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This precious object acts as a physical representation of the things that cannot be seen but are rarely forgotten: personal stories, travelling memories and shared moments that occur when we travel.
Six individuals that are changing the way we think about travel and the world around us recently came together to share a personal story about an adventure or a journey they took, that involved either a sidestep or a serendipitous outcome. Each storyteller presented an image or an object that acted as the foundation of their story.
A rope. A bottle of wine. A sheet of paper inked in Japanese script. A journal entry. A cassette tape. An artwork. Tangible memories, conversation catalysts. Idea generators.
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Stunning collection of rarely seen German art
Fred Ebbs personal art collection willed to the Morgan Library
Self-Portrait, 1910, by Egon Schiele, part of the Fred Ebb Bequest to the Morgan Library.
By Jerry Tallmer
The branch on the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
In all the musicals that ever played on Broadway, there are few moments scarier than when an assemblage of beautiful blondish well-scrubbed pink-cheeked young men and women in their pastoral tree-lined beer garden rise to their feet during this harmless little nature-loving song and suddenly, as one verse follows another, clench it with tiger jaws into what it is really saying which, less disguised, is Today, Germany, tomorrow the entire world.
Fred Ebb wrote the lyrics of that song, and of all the other songs in his and John Kanders Cabaret, but not until now, one year after the death of Fred Ebb, 39 years after the first performance of Cabaret, 60 years since the end of World War II, 75 or so years after young Christopher Isherwood first arrived in Berlin, has anyone but Fred and perhaps a friend or two known of his stunning collection of the works of several dozen German (and two Austrian) artists whom another artist named A. Hitler would gladly have exterminated had he ever got his hands on them.
They were what have been through the years loosely classified as German Expressionists (Beckmann, Dix, Grosz, Heckel, Hofer, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Nolde, Pechstein, et al.) or Austrian Secessionists (Klimt, Schiele).
That collection of 40 drawings by 22 artists was willed, by Ebb, out of the blue, to the Morgan Library, one of the jewels of New York City. Most of the stuff what stuff! hasnt been seen outside Fred Ebbs Central Park West apartment for more than 30 years. Now, one day in the foreseeable future some time after the renovated and enlarged Morgan reopens this coming spring they will go on exhibit there for everyone to see.
But first there will be a full-spectrum re-opening show of the Morgans best drawings of the 15th to 21st centuries, and in this array, Jennifer Tonkovich tells us, one of the Fred Ebb pieces will have a place of honor. I hope the one they pick is Zuhalter und Madchen (Pimp and Girl, ink, lithographic crayon, and watercolor on Japan paper, 20x15 inches), by Otto Dix (1891-1956).
Otto Dix has been terrifying me since I first, as a kid, glaumed his painting in the old, pre-expansion Museum of Modern Art of a fat, menacing Herr Doktor somebody with a big round enlarging mirror strapped to his forehead.
His drawings ARE terrifying, they really are, said Jennifer Tonkovich, the Morgans charming associate curator of drawings and prints, as she escorted this viewer to a layout on some tables of a sampling from the Ebb collection.
What jumped up and out from the tabletop were a 1910 self-portrait in watercolor and black chalk by Egon Schiele (1890-1918) just his face as a skull floating in space and that acid 1923 Pimp and Girl by Dix.
Otto Dix is an artist of consequence while Schiele was of course a genius, but the Dix in this instance is all the more riveting because its Zuhalter, the pimp, has Hitlers moustache, Hitlers eyes, and Hitlers swept-to-theside forelock.
Consider the year: 1923! In November 1923, Adolf Hitler, age 34, Mr. Zero to the rest of Germany, and presumably to Otto Dix, was fleeing through the streets of Munich with his SA buddies from a police-blocked Beer Hall Putsch against the piss-ant provincial government of Bavaria.
Who could know? What did Otto Dix know? Or intuit? Or hit upon by chance? One pimp equals all pimps; one killer may multiply into a million-leaved linden tree of future killers. Tomorrow belongs to us.
We had heard Fred Ebb was a collector, said Jennifer Tonkovich, but nobody at the Morgan had seen the collection or knew what was in it. A close friend of his, Joan Fisher, the widow of Carl Fisher [general manager of Cabaret and many another Harold Prince show], said: If youd like to see some of it sometime
So we went one day [with Ebbs approval] to his apartment. William Griswold, the Morgans [former] head of drawings, came along, Fred was away. We entered the first room on the left and there they were, on the walls! The size of the collection, and the quality of it, was exciting. We never did meet Fred, who was ill indeed, terminally ill.
She believes that Joan Fisher suggested to Ebb he should leave the collection to the Morgan Library. His death came on September 11, 2004.
Has Jennifer Tonkovich Chicago-born, Rutgers Ph.D. ever seen Cabaret?
Oh, my God, Ive seen them all, on stage, in film, and in several different countries. The first musical I ever saw in my life, when I was 12, was Kander & Ebbs Zorba.
Shes also read, and loved, Isherwoods Berlin Stories, from which John Van Drutens I Am a Camera was wrought, from which Cabaret was wrought, and remembers that when the Morgan had an exhibit of the great Al Hirschfelds theater drawings, one of them was of Broadways 1951 I Am a Camera starring Julie Harris as Sally Bowles.
All of which isnt going to soften Schieles skullhead or Otto Dixs toothbrush-moustached pimp or anything else in the Fred Ebb collection.
Or soften the following irony:
In search of the lyrics with which to start this piece, I went first, of course, to Google. I typed in: fred ebb tomorrow belongs to me. And what popped up, No. 2 of all the 10,300 entries, was, yes, the complete text of that chilling song. As a piece of persuasion underneath a Cross-and-Circle insignia, the words White Pride World Wide
Stormfront.org, and the advice that white-supremacist David Duke would be on the radio that day at 3 p.m.
Ah, Fred, Otto Dix couldnt have rendered it better.
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ARKOMA — The good news for Arkoma coach Mark Weatherton,:his Mustangs played their best game of the season. Unfortunately for them, they're still seeking their first win.The Kinta Eagles scored twice in the fifth inning to snatch a 4-3 win away from the Mustangs.Hackett, Ark., 5, Pocola 1: In Hackett, the Indians committed seven errors on the day, aiding Hackett to its five runs — scoring once in the opening inning and twice in the third and fifth innings.Editor's note — Heavener's home game Friday with Hartford, Ark., Leflore's home game with Battiest and Spiro's road game Saturday at Sallisaw were rained out. The Hartford-Heavener game will not be rescheduled, while no make-up date has been set for the Battiest-Leflore game or the Spiro-Sallisaw game.


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People inside the home were able to get out of the house safely, fire officials said.
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RICHFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Leadership and communications failures led to the chaotic police chase in Cleveland last fall than ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds and killing two people who were likely unarmed, Ohio's attorney general said Tuesday in reporting the results of an exhaustive investigation.
"It was total lack of control," Attorney General Mike DeWine said during a news conference at the state crime laboratory.
He turned over the report to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, who said he would take the case to a grand jury to determine if any of the officers should face criminal charges.
Officials didn't announce a timeframe for the grand jury review, and McGinty said he hadn't dawn any conclusions about charges.
The report did not assign blame on any of the officers but said "systemic failures" in the Cleveland police department led to the escalation of the Nov. 29 chase and the fatal shootings of the car's driver, Timothy Russell, 43, and his 30-year-old passenger, Malissa Williams.
"Command failed, communications failed, the system failed," DeWine said.
Patrick D'Angelo, the police union attorney, said the shooting would be found to be justified. The chase reflects the risks officers face daily, he said.
"The driver of the car tried to run over numerous police officers, he intentionally rammed other patrol cars and officers were in fear of their life, and they did what they were trained to do," D'Angelo said.
A key question remained unanswered: Did the two people fleeing in the car have a weapon that was tossed out during the chase? DeWine said tests on the two and their vehicle showed traces of gunpowder but it wasn't conclusive on whether they had been armed or on whether the residue came from the extensive gunfire.
Some community leaders called the shootings racially motivated, since Russell and Williams were black, but D'Angelo said race wasn't a factor in the chase.
DeWine described a confusing scene where dozens of police cruisers from multiple jurisdictions became involved in the chase without permission from superiors and little direction after some officers thought someone from the car had fired shots.
Then, at the end of the chase, officers positioned on both sides of the suspect's car began firing, the report said. The crossfire led other officers to believe they were involved in a shootout with the two people in the car.
Many of the officers told investigators they were frightened and feared for their lives.
Officer Michael Brelo, according to his account, climbed onto the trunk and then the top of a patrol car and reloaded his gun, firing rounds. An Iraq war veteran, the officer said he saw "the suspects moving and I could not understand why they are still moving, shooting at us. Even through Iraq, I never fired my weapon. I never have been so afraid in my life."
Another officer, David Siefer, radioed fellow officers to be careful because the passenger was armed.
"He's pointing the gun. He's pointing the gun out the back window. Heads up. Heads up. Passenger is pointing a gun out the back window. Everybody be careful," Siefer said.
Siefer later told investigators he didn't actually see a gun. "Despite not actually seeing a gun, Siefer broadcast on the radio that the passenger has just pointed a gun out the rear window," the report said
Mayor Michael Frank Jackson, who has said officers who violated department rules in the chase would be disciplined, and police Chief Michael McGrath said the state's report is among factors the city will consider as it continues its own review.
In a City Hall news conference after DeWine's report was released, the mayor and chief emphasized that it's not the city's role to determine whether police were justified in using deadly force.
A separate federal review is continuing.
The chase went through residential neighborhoods and onto a freeway before ending with the car blocked in at the rear of a school in neighboring East Cleveland. It reached 100 mph and lasted 25 miles and 22 minutes.
The report noted that Russell was legally drunk when he became involved in the chase, and he and Williams also tested positive for cocaine. DeWine said they likely had been smoking crack. It wasn't clear why Russell didn't stop for police. He had fled an earlier traffic stop.
Associated Press writers Mitch Stacy and Kantele Franko in Columbus contributed to this report


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HOOKSETT — After a decade away, Joanne McHugh returned to the Hooksett School Board Tuesday night and reassumed her former seat as chairman after the new-look seven member board voted unanimously to support her taking the gavel.
The school board, which has five new members, met for the first time Tuesday night. The meeting was delayed a week due to a recount, on Saturday, March 22, in which Amy Boilard maintained a seven-vote edge over challenger Jack Sweeney for a three-year seat.
Boilard was elected vice-chairman by a 6-1 vote, and Todd Lizotte, another new board member, accepted the clerk position, earning the nod by the same tally.


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A$AP Rocky Says 'Cheese' For Terry Richardson
A$AP Rocky smiles wide for Terry Richardson's camera once more as the pretty mutherfucker skidaddled his way over to the legendary photog's studio for a black-and-white shoot. After swinging his chains and picking his golden grills in A$AP Ferg's "Shabba" video released earlier today, the Harlemite lets his body language do the talking. Peep the flicks above.


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mea merone
wow nice fuck..........girl your the best .
Wow, she is amazing. This is the best porn video ive ever seen.
Yes they are speaking Czech. The girls name is Mea Melone.
I swear theres a full version somewhere...
Caution: Wet Floors :) This was a hot vid :)
okay so this was a good video, but not as good as the comment a little further down who reckons "he" looks like Katy perry.. lmao
she is very wet,has a great body,she should do more movies
Hahaha old mate is a boss
Hot chick
Mi Scusi
katy party
What I Wanna Know Is How Does He Get Away By Pulling That Off & More To The Point How The Chicks Fall For It?
Best vid in the publicpickups-series! Loved it :D Beautiful spontaneous girl btw!
This is one of my favorite fantasy too. great vid. wow
Obviously I need to book some travel to eastern European countries because with just a little cash in hand a guy can get some seriously hot tail. In public. At random. They must be real desperate to so willingly give it all up for a stranger flashing korunys at them.
Where is the full video ?
Katie Perry
At the one who wrote "all his videos are FAKE - and he met this girl in 3 or 4 videos at least." Who the fuck cares? Even if it isn't true that she's a stranger, they still had sex in that train, or are you really that stupid and thinking, that the sex in this video was fake? Retard.
50 euro is something like 1250 koruna
I jack hard on this he looks like Katyperry
he probably paid with Czech koruna. 1 € is about 25 CZK. So alltogehter he paid 6000 CZK = 240€.
Katy Perry Doppelganger
doc: yes, they speak czech
katy perry look-a-like.
How the fuck he have soo much money like that? Fucking shit!
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Katy Perry
4000k czech money is about 150Eur she is the sexiest woman ever !!!!!!!!!!
Nice powerful cumshot on her eye
so...did she became a model?
seen full version
Would love to meet her on a train!
titties sweet titties
Very hot. Loved it.
That was hot
This girl is stunning!
DaMn it Iwished i rode with her
I'm a minor .……………............not rely
i would love to eat her out!!!
After the fellatio, the next scene, at 2 minutes and 58 seconds, could have shown HER putting HIS erect penis into HER warm moist vagina. That did not happen.
faq u
Next time I travel on Czech train I will remember this video
One word. HOT, I would love to fuck the dirty slut
i love this video , i would love to go to Prague and just take the train :D for sure ...
thanks great video,,can i download
Great video!! This already happened to me!! :DD
wat is her name
lucky bastard
all his videos are FAKE - and he met this girl in 3 or 4 videos at least.
^ If only that were true, I'd be laughing my ass off right now.
she's beautiful looks like Katy Perry and makes him cum HERSELF and no boring nasty man wanking using his own hand crap the end wahooo :D
I wouldn't pull out.
WiSh!!!! I get another viRGIN sexy girlsss.... fuck
Crazy. guys really like this? cause i can do this everytime i fuck:)))
anyone got a name for her?
Very nice! :D
aww i want fuck her
yes, this is from czech republic.. here its called "rychly prachy" - quick money :)
i want to kiss her pussy .
She is sssoooo hot! Stunning! Horny! And oh so wet!
busty brunette student is getting aids while riding the train
Here's the sum-up: Public indecency, solicitation and paying for sex. How many years can you get for those in the Czech Republic?
Very hot
yeah czech girl....
yeah they are in the czech republic, or at least on a czech train.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb
Magdalena Pederin: Contagion
A Holographic Installation
Contagion is a multimedia work in which the artist examines the phenomenon of perception and simulation, researches the symbolic space of the real and the virtual, as well as their reciprocal influences. With this work, Pederin further thematizes a dystopian vision of future in which the human matrix is a "simulated reality", created by machines endowed with artificial intelligence. As well as in her previous works, the artist is also a protagonist, i.e. her avatar that is identical with the artist's person in reality.
The holographic installation consists of an interface, a video, and a holographic projection. Using the interface, visitors choose options containing excerpts from texts, such as: Plato's Republic, Debord's Society of the Spectacle, Baudrillard's Simulation and Reality, McLuhan's Medium is the Message, and Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
The software then applies random choice to phrases taken from these texts and joins them into a unique combination. The mixed texts that form a new whole are projected onto the wall of the exhibition hall, and the other projection, a holographic one, shows the author declaiming them. The selected texts are known as superior examples of analysis, as well as accounts of changes in perception in their respective fields: contributing to political theory (Plato), exposing the mechanisms of media manipulation (Debord), analyzing how technology influences art (Benjamin), or differences and similarities between reality and its image (Baudrillard). The newly created texts are cybernetic constructs whose purpose is to stimulate the potentials of cognition and perception that we have, but, being exposed to the technological information overload, use them less and less.
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There have been many reboots over the past number of years, and I cannot remember a time when there was such an uproar from fans of a series as there was with the announcement of DmC. Initial response was very negative towards the new look and design of the game, mainly with the emo-esque redesign of Dante.
I thought DmC was OK, not as good as the Devil May Cry 1 and 4, but not a bad game overall.
Whenever a reboot comes out the first question people ask is "why?". A lot of people asked that about the new Spiderman movie. I saw it, absolutely loved it. Sometimes Reboots are good and sometimes their terrible. Depends.
I think that this reboot seems to be well done. I think that reboots are getting a bad rap because they seem to be the popular thing to do bot in video games AND Hollywood. Many are unnecessary and improve on nothing and are just cash-grabs. DMC seems to be on the right track though.
Besides that, I think that Ninja Theory is a vastly underrated development studio. I LOVED Enslaved and it went largely unnoticed.


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This started out life as a second muslin for my T-Shirt Block based on Burda 2012-09-123. It was wearable, but not flattering as the fabric was too thin so I looked like an overstuffed sausage. Not one to waste fabric I decided to cut a new front that has more ease and reuse the rest. Burda 2013-02-113 was perfect: Interesting front with plenty of drape & ease and a back that was fitted like a basic T.
I experimented a bit with adjusting the fitting and the sewing techniques, some of which weren't quite successful. I'm not sure about the end result either. The color doesn't really go with anything else in my wardrobe and the boob area isn't as flattering as I'd hoped. If I were to remake this I'd lower the CF – a deeper V, and pleat instead of gather the bust ease.
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Game of the week winner: Week 9
Game of the week winner: Week 9
Every football season, WYFF News picks at Game of the Week.
We pick a big match-up and broadcast live from the pre-game festivities each Friday night. This week voters chose the Easley at Greenwood game.
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PechaKucha–no you don't need to say it 10 times fast, but you should be able to understand just how cool this event is.
Basically, PechaKucha is an event where you can connect and listen to creative minds in Toronto sharing their work, passion, inspirations, collections, and ideas. (Images taken from last month's PechaKucha Night Vol. 21).
But what really makes PechaKucha Night unique is the way this creativity is disseminated in a 20×20— 20 images x 20 seconds slide format. This means that each creative has only 20 seconds per slide and only 2o slides in total to precisely present their idea. And the results are always very entertaining.
Ok, so you still probably can't say PechaKucha 10 times fast, but hopefully you're excited by the event and looking forward to Vol.22 happening TOMORROW NIGHT. You can find out more about the upcoming PechaKucha Night Vol. 22 HERE and join us in the Melody Bar tomorrow at 8pm (cover is $5) for some 20×20 creative fun.


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By Kiki Keane
As I have stated many, many times before, I am currently unemployed. You would think that I would use all this extra time in a productive way. Read more, perhaps. Study Arabic. Learn a little French. Maybe write a novel (why not, right?) or a short story or an essay. Sadly, I have not left my bed today except to make popcorn and get a cup of coffee. I watched CSI and then Bones and then Frasier and now Golden Girls. That is my life. One long parade of crime dramas and sitcoms.
Okay. Maybe that's an exaggeration. I did do a little reading today. A few days ago I got a bee in my bonnet. The bee is stolen artifacts and archeological looting. I went to library and got a couple of books on the subject (Stealing History and Loot) as well as the memoir of Egyptologist, Donald P Ryan, Ph.D, called Beneath the Sands of Egypt.
I've only read about 30 pages of Stealing History, but I've already learned a lot, though most of it is depressing. As someone who values history and believes that the only way to understand who we are is to understand where we came from, I'm disgusted by the looting and damage done to historical sites, by those who buy and sell looted pieces and the governments and agencies who do little to stop it. However, I can kind of, sort of see why the looters do what they do. I mean, if I lived in a country in which the average person lives on less than a dollar a day and I saw how willing the wealthy are to pay thousands of dollars for a tiny statue I could dig out of the ground, I might risk being a grave robber too. Also, I find myself strangely drawn to the argument one seller made about how antiquities move those who collect them and are therefore better able to take care of them than the elitist archeologist who hoard them away where they collect dust. Don't get me wrong. I will always be on the side of the archeologist, elitist hoarders or not. I'm just saying I understand the various reasons people have for looting antiquities. I can understand the need to feed one's family and the pull of "easy" money ($50 for a days work in a place like Mali is an awful lot of money). I understand how a piece of history–of art–can move a person. When I was a History grad, my professor gave us photocopies of letters written by British writer Stella Benson. My knees went weak when I saw her actual hand writing. And that was over photocopies! I can only imagine what it would be like to actually possess a piece of the past, particularly the ancient past. But I'd rather have my history lesson. History belongs to everyone.
Okay, I'll get off my soap box now.
I also started The Foreign Correspondent, which is a historical suspense novel by Alan Furst. The first few pages feature an affair and an assassination. Pretty exciting stuff.


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Alan D. Solomont, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, will speak to undergraduates, and the Hon. Fernande R.V. Duffly, who serves on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will speak to Law School graduates as more than 2,400 students receive degrees at Suffolk University commencement exercises on May 19 and 20, 2012.
Duffly will speak at the Law School ceremonies, which will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Bank of America Pavilion at 290 Northern Ave. on Boston's waterfront.
Solomont will speak at the undergraduate commencement, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Bank of America Pavilion.
Graduate student commencement ceremonies will take place on Saturday, May 19, with Jeffrey Taylor, founder of Monster.com, speaking at the Sawyer Business School graduate commencement at 9:30 a.m. at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Newton, delivering the address at the College of Arts and Sciences graduate student commencement beginning at 1 p.m., also at the Westin Copley Place Hotel.
Honorary Degrees
The Law School will award the following honorary degrees:
•Duffly, honorary Doctor of Laws
•Sarah M. Buel, honorary Doctor of Laws
The College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School will award the following honorary degrees:
•Solomont, honorary Doctor of Public Administration
•Frank, honorary Doctor of Public Service
•Taylor, honorary Doctor of Commerce
•Dr. Augustus A. White III, honorary Doctor of Science
Biographies of honorees
Sarah Buel is a clinical professor and director of the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is known as a leader in advocacy for battered women and children. Buel served six years as a prosecutor in Boston and Quincy, where she helped establish award-winning domestic violence and juvenile programs in the Norfolk District Attorney's Office. She went on to be a clinical professor at the Texas School of Law, where she founded and co-directed the institution's Domestic Violence Clinic, co-founded the University of Texas Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and served as special counsel for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. Buel earned a J.D. at Harvard University and a B.A. from Harvard Extension School.
Fernande R.V. Duffly is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who also has served on the Probate and Family Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. As an attorney, she provided pro bono legal services to indigent clients through the Volunteer Lawyers Project. Duffly is a member and past president of the National Association of Women Judges. She is a native of Indonesia who was honored with the Trailblazer Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and she has received the Probate Judge's Association Distinguished Service Award. The ABA Business Law Section honored Justice Duffly in 2011 for contributing to the advancement of other women in the legal profession. Duffly holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She will speak at the Law School ceremonies, which will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Bank of America Pavilion at 290 Northern Ave. on Boston's waterfront.
Barney Frank represents the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts and is the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. He helped pass the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law that modified the nation's financial regulatory system in the wake of the financial crisis. Frank began his career in the Massachusetts Legislature, where he served for eight years before winning a seat in the U.S. Congress in 1980. He is widely recognized for his work on national issues, yet Frank also has been attentive to his constituents, making gains for New Bedford fishermen, fighting to bring commuter rail to the Southcoast region, providing affordable rental housing, and supporting many local organizations and businesses.
Alan Solomont, ambassador of the United States to Spain and Andorra, has been an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. He spent his professional career in the health- and elder-care arenas. He was chair of Solomont Bailis Ventures; co-founder of HouseWorks, a home care company for seniors; and founder and managing director of Angel Healthcare Investors. He served as chair of the bipartisan Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that oversees all domestic service programs, including AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, VISTA and Senior Corps. Solomont has been a longtime leader in the Democratic Party, serving as national finance chair in 1997-1998. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Urban Studies from Tufts University and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Solomont will speak at the undergraduate commencement, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Bank of America Pavilion.
Jeff Taylor, as the founder of the Monster.com, changed the way employers and job seekers connect when his concept of a giant online job search board evolved into a globally recognized brand for careers. He later founded two sites for older adults: Eons.com which connects adults in an online community, and Tributes.com, a national website for obituary and service information. Taylor serves on the board of the Berklee College of Music and is a board member of Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center/Wang Theatre. He is on the board of Year Up, where he acts as a mentor for high school students who don't plan to go to college. He also has worked for years in a jungle village in Guatemala, where he sponsored and built a road for the elementary school and a first-of-its-kind computer center. He also personally funds four teachers, in addition to operating expenses. He holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Dr. Augustus White, a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon, is a professor of orthopedic surgery and the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. He founded the academic orthopedic program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and for 13 years served as chief of the orthopedic surgery department at Beth Israel Hospital. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Vietnam, earning a Bronze Star. He is a graduate of Brown University and earned his M.D. at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received a PhD in orthopedic biomechanics at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and then worked as the first African American surgical resident at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. White is a noted author in his specialty. Among his many titles are Your Aching Back: A Doctor's Guide to Relief and Clinical Biometrics of the Spine, a standard reference book for orthopedists.


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Kate Winslet And 12 Other Celebrities Who Escaped Blazing House/Car/Hotel Fires
Another sign that Kim Kardashian's wedding is signaling the apocalypse: Early this morning, a tropical storm sparked a fire at Richard Branson's Caribbean mansion, where 16 guests were staying. (That's a photo of the fire, from Branson's blog.) Everyone managed to escape before the house burned down entirely; interestingly, the only celebrity mentioned by name was Kate Winslet, who was there with boyfriend Louis Dowler and her two kids.
The thing is, this isn't unusual at all! We can't tell you how many times we've seen the headline "[Celebrity] Escapes Fire" — so here's a round-up of all the actors, singers, and reality stars who've made it through the inferno to live another day.


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For many years now, EyeMasters has been servicing the eye care needs of residents in several different states, including Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas among others for many years now. As part of the Eye Care Centers of America family of nationwide eye glasses and contacts retailers, EyeMasters brings you exceptional customer service, a wide selection of eyeglasses and contact lenses, and convenient locations from which go get your custom frames.
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THUNDER IN GUYANA: When the filmmaker's cousin was elected Guyana's president seven years ago, Janet Rosenberg Jagan -- considered oneofthe founders of Guyana along with her husband, Cheddi Jagan --becamethe first American-born woman to lead a nation. Thisprograminterweaves family history and Guyanese history withtheextraordinary life story of one unconventional woman. 50/FIFTY: This short is a soulful requiem for a family's past. D
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The Joiners Arms - the only luxury 5 star inn in Northumberland; a haven for lovers of fresh, locally sourced food served up with a contemporary flourish and drinkers of all tastes, from crazy cocktails to comforting real ales. Plus, we're big into families, so kids get to eat, rest and play with everyone else.
The Joiners Arms Restaurant is lively, friendly and a little bit quirky, you will find a funky mix of raw panelling and old stone walls, with low-hanging lamps above the bar and a coal fire smouldering away. There are stripped floors, tables in bay windows, local ales, then cakes on the counter you can't resist. The restaurant comes in chic cabin style with raw wood walls and green leather banquettes,the perfect place to hang out when you're not engaged in spectacular coastal adventures or hiding out in your luxe Northumberland boutique bedroom. As for the food, come home to tasty gastro fare, perhaps smoked haddock chowder, a delicious Northumbrian steak, sticky toffee pudding with ginger ice-cream.
"The Joiners Arms is an inn and restaurant of which the county is justifiably proud. The quality of accommodation provided is amongst the best in Northumberland with wonderful, individually designed bedrooms that visitors won't want to leave, despite the Joiner's spectacular location on the beautiful Northumberland Coast set in lovely rolling farmland. Perfectly located for exploring the best of Northumberland's attractions including Alnwick Castle, the Alnwick Garden and Bamburgh Castle, the Joiners is also developing a reputation for good, locally sourced food with a menu that features the best Northumberland has to offer from fresh seafood plucked from the nearby North Sea, to Northumbrian beef, lamb, cheese and game. Northumberland Tourism is delighted to recommend the Joiners to residents and visitors to Northumberland alike."


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University of Vermont
2011-12 Online Catalogue
Educational Leadership (Master of Education)
The Master's Degree in Educational Leadership is a nationally recognized program by the National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE). The program is designed to cultivate leaders who can apply knowledge toward leading and building learning communities designed to make a positive difference in the lives of children, youth, families, adults, and communities. The program prepares public and private school leaders, curriculum leaders, teacher leaders, leaders of educational and social service agencies, and leaders for other educational organizations. The program is designed to prepare leaders to think and act creatively, responsibly, and effectively in leadership roles.
Conceptual Framework
The Masters Degree Program in Educational Leadership is guided by its Conceptual Framework which is grounded in respect for diversity, social justice, and democratic community. The program is committed to the preparation of leaders who are reflective practitioners, instructional leaders, and change agents who can collaborate with other professionals to make a positive difference in schools, human service agencies, communities and in the lives of all learners. The program is directed toward preparing competent and caring professionals who:
- have the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions to promote the success of all students and/or members of their educational and human service organizations.
- understand alternative perspectives on leadership that support the development of more just, humane, and diverse organizations.
- construct effective ways to demonstrate caring and collaborative leadership and understand how to partner with families and other community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and assets.
- create networks which support leadership and change and cultures of learning.
- advance educational and human environments that advance social justice, equity, and democracy.
The program's Conceptual Framework is guided by several principles which are aligned with the Vermont Standards for Professional Educators and the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) created by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration and the Educational Leadership Constituents Council (ELCC) Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership. The program is grounded in:
Knowledge is socially constructed through dialogue and community-based practice (constructivism).
Teachers and other school professionals work collaboratively to problem-solve with stakeholders (collaboration, inter-professional practice, reflective practice, excellence).
Human Development & Empowerment
Education facilitates development of human potential (developmentally appropriate practice, strengths perspective, empowerment).
All students can learn and have value in their communities (inclusion).
Multiculturalism/Culturally Responsible Pedagogy
Learning communities demonstrate respect for and honor diversity; pursue knowledge and affirmation of our diverse cultures (multiculturalism, culturally responsive pedagogy, equity).
Equity & Justice
Education should advance social justice and democracy (equity).
Program Areas of Concentration
While the program is designed within the broad concept of leadership, two major strands of concentration are available. The areas of concentration are:
STRAND I: School Leader with Administrative Endorsement
- Educational Administration
- Curriculum Leadership
- Teacher Leadership
- Leadership in Private or Nonprofit Educational Organizations
- Leadership in human service agencies and other community/public agencies
General Requirements
Specific Requirements
The program requirements include:
- 30-36 credits distributed among courses, summer seminars, independent study, action research, clinical field experiences, and internships,
- 15 of which comprise the core curriculum, with the remainder making up the students individual concentration. Students desiring the Vermont Administrative Licensure will take a majority of their electives in areas required through licensure standards as defined by Vermont Competencies for Administrative Endorsement and Vermont Standards for Professional Educators.
- a leadership portfolio which marks the final requirement of the program. Portfolios are presented as part of the Master's Comprehensive Orals at the completion of each student's degree program.
The M.Ed. program for administrative licensure requires thirty to thirty-six credits of courses including seminars, clinical field work, internships, and research experiences.
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News Story
Thousand Oaks - Man Arrested for Marijuana Cultivation and Sales
Nature of Incident:
Illegal Marijuana Operation/ Narcotics Arrest
Report Number:
3400 block of Calle Quebracho, Thousand Oaks, Ca
Date & Time:
1/3/2013, 1500 hours
Unit Responsible:
Ventura County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit
(S)uspects, (V)ictims, (D)ecedent
City of Residence
Tockerman, Joshua
Thousand Oaks
On 1-3-2013, narcotic detectives with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office concluded an investigation in reference to possible illegal marijuana sales from a residence located on the 3400 block of Calle Quebracho in Thousand Oaks. Detectives received information from 'WeTip' regarding the possible illegal operation. After some investigation, narcotic detectives were able to obtain a search warrant for the residence.
During the service of the search warrant, detectives contacted the resident, Joshua Tockerman. Inside the house, detectives located about three pounds of dried marijuana, some of which was packaged for sale. Detectives also located a small, but elaborate marijuana growing operation inside one of the bedrooms. The operation had several mature marijuana plants that were able to produce several pounds of marijuana. A large quantity of currency that was determined to be proceeds from the sales of marijuana was also seized.
Tockerman was arrested for cultivation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. He was booked into the county jail and is pending arraignment or the posting of bail.
WeTip is a service that provides an anonymous crime reporting resource to residents. Information received from anonymous citizens is then forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency for investigation. 1-800-78-CRIME and for more info visit web link www.wetip.com
Deputy Preparing Media Release:
Sgt. Jose Rivera
Media Release Date:
Follow-Up Contact:
Sgt. Jose Rivera (805) 797-6341
Approved by:
Captain J. Hernandez
Ventura County Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 reward for information, which leads to the arrest and criminal complaint against the person(s) responsible for this crime. The caller may remain anonymous. The call is not recorded. Call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).


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Nebraska lawmakers backed a plan Wednesday to have the state's Department of Environmental Quality conduct an independent review of possible routes the contested Keystone XL pipeline could take through the state, after developer TransCanada volunteered to reroute the massive project to avoid the environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.
The single-house Legislature voted 45-0 in favor of Speaker Mike Flood's proposal to task Nebraska's environmental protection agency with examining new possible routes. The Legislature would have to back the measure twice more before it could go to Gov. Dave Heineman.
TransCanada volunteered this week divert its proposed route for the Keystone XL pipeline so that it wouldn't pass through the Nebraska Sandhills. The offer followed the U.S. State Department's announcement that it would delay its decision on the transnational pipeline until at least 2013.
The proposed $7 billion pipeline would carry up to 700,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta's tar sands to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The route would cross six states _ Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma and Texas _ and had stirred fears about a contamination threat to the Ogallala aquifer, a key water source for eight states.
On Wednesday, Flood told his fellow lawmakers that he wants to allay Nebraskans' concerns about the State Department review of the project. Critics have questioned an earlier federal review because it was conducted by Cardno ENTRIX, a Houston-based environmental contractor that has identified TransCanada as a major client for other projects. Cardno ENTRIX has denied any conflict of interest.
"You can remove a lot of the concerns of citizens by having the state pay for it, to assure them that this is a straightforward, fair process," Flood said. "That report only belongs to the taxpayers of Nebraska."
Environmentalists and some Nebraska landowners said the pipeline would have disrupted the Sandhills' loose soil for decades, harmed wildlife, and contaminated the groundwater. Business and labor groups who support the project have said the environmental criticism is overblown and based more on opposition to oil than the project itself. They maintain the project would create thousands of construction jobs, although the exact number is disputed.
TransCanada has said the pipeline would use new technology that would make it among the safest pipelines in the world. Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada's president for energy and oil pipelines, has said the state study could be finished in six to nine months with cooperation from state and federal agencies.
Any new proposed route would go to Heineman, who would send his response to the U.S. State Department within 30 days. The Republican governor has said he backs the project but not a route through the Sandhills, which sit on top of the aquifer. The State Department still has to approve or deny the entire project, because it crosses an international border.
Some lawmakers asked Wednesday why the state, and not TransCanada, should pay for the environmental review. Lawmakers said the review could cost $2 million.
State Sen. Danielle Conrad of Lincoln said most other licensing requirements within the state, such as nursing or barber certification, require applicants to pay.
"Those applicants are assessed those fees to work through the process," she said. "It seems a little inequitable to me that we're waiving those kinds of existing models that have worked well, and worked free of any conflict or undue influence, for a large company."
Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln, who has opposed the initial pipeline route, said he disliked the state expense but called it "absolutely necessary" to rebuild public confidence in the environmental review.
"We need to have a process that is credible, free of conflicts," he said.


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New Orleans Reconstruction; a feeling of déjà vu
By Andrei Codrescu
People are coming back to check on their properties, mostly men. Women and families are staying behind in their places of exile. The town is still full of soldiers, and the returning populace has a slight feeling of déjà vu. Its an old déjà vu, the aftermath of the Civil War. A woman friend feels uncomfortable walking by herself. She knows that the soldiers are there to protect her, but they are young men and theyve heard about New Orleans. Last time it felt like that was after the Civil War when Creole women in New Orleans were forbidden to look at Union soldiers.
The new Reconstruction has other familiar aspects. The towns swarming with carpetbeggars, my friend Jimmy, an old New Orleanian, tells me. Indeed. Contractors from everywhere and workers are pouring into the city for ready, well-paying jobs. There is years worth of debris to be moved and much of it is personal stuff: peoples belongings ruined by water, everything from baby pictures to travel souvenirs. Its better that out-of-towners do that.
There is a housing crisis as basic institutions start kicking back in, and the real estates gone through the roof. Uptown stayed dry, but is returning to jungle. Thats where the finer houses are and where the wealthier citizens employed armies of servants from the other side of the tracks to babysit their children and keep their gardens and lawns. Many of those servants lived in neighborhoods that dont exist anymore. Some of them are still in shelters elsewhere; others have already started lives in other towns. Landlords cant evict because their scattered tenants havent returned: there are leases and there is a freeze on evictions.
Many young professionals whose tax dollars kept the city running wont be coming back either: theyve already bought houses elsewhere and taken jobs in other cities. All that distress isnt stopping real estate investors from as far as California from buying tracts of flooded land unseen. Speculation is feverish. The only thing holding back speculators is that most property titles are in freezers in Boston drying out after being flooded in the basement of City Hall. Some transactions might take years to unravel.
Civil cases and malpractice suits have been frozen too, so the backlog in the courts will be phenomenal. Right now, a municipal court functions in the Greyhound bus station, which was also a jail during and after the storms. Jimmy predicts that the population will return to 1870 levels. Thats where it stood after the Civil War. The sturdiest pioneeers determined to keep the embers of the New Orleans spirit going are the artists. The Gold Mine Saloon is holding defiant open mikes every Thursday and serving free red beans and rice.
The secret of New Orleans is that it has never depended on the kindness of strangers: it has always held its psychic wealth secret in the night. America was never too keen on this city: built by the French, shaped by the Spanish, divided by a neutral ground that kept Creoles and Americans apart, the city was more poetic and less rational than any other. It would have been nice for its history to march progressively forward. Instead, the history of New Orleans moves in circles inside a mirror.
Happily, the curfews been pushed back from midnight until 2 a.m., and it wont be long before the all-night life returns. After that, it will be the Reconstruction, the Great Depression, the W.P.A. and the Golden Age of the artistic malcontent.
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Introducing: Pusser's Rum Cake
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 1, 2011
For a good part of the last three centuries, it has been a tradition of sorts for the British Royal Navy to bake cakes for special occasions and events. These cakes (including incidentally, the traditional Christmas Cake), typically use the Rum associated with the British Royal Navy, Pusser's Rum, as an integral part of the recipe.
With that tradition as the starting point, Pusser's has introduced their own Premium British Navy Pusser's Rum Cake. Each of these rum cakes contains three ounces of Pusser's Rum, and it is this rum which is at the forefront of both the aroma and the flavour of the cake.
About three weeks ago I received some emails from a couple of representatives at Pusser's asking me if I would like to receive one of their Famous Rum Cakes to review. I thought the trade-off was fair, a review for a cake, especially as I have been somewhat curious about these rum cakes for a while now. So I agreed and my rum cake arrived last week.
The resulting review can be found here:
Review: Premium British Navy Pusser's Rum Cake
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FENDI'S "IT" BAG: Silvia Fendi was the busiest person at her own party Wednesday night celebrating the newly redesigned Fendi boutique on Rodeo Drive and the auction of 10 artist-embellished baguettes to benefit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Fendi and her friends were locked in a fierce bidding war for the Jeff Koons version. "We are all sticking close by because it's like a competition," she said. "But if either of us wins it, we will take turns wearing it." Alas, the Koons sold for nearly $20,000 to a private client, but Fendi did win the Tom Sachs creation. Despite the tussle for baguettes, the fete was not the usual store party madhouse. In fact, the huge white tent erected behind the store was, like the auction, mostly silent. "I don't like marketing parties, and that's not what this is," said Fendi. "It's a gathering of artists, friends and very good clients. I'm shy, so I prefer sitting down and talking to friends." Of course, champion shopper Lindsay Lohan made an appearance, as did starlets Mandy Moore, Kate Mara and Rose McGowan. But LACMA director Michal Govan and wife Katherine Ross reserved the VIP treatment for Fendi, treating her to a private midnight walking tour of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum after dinner at Peter Morton and Linda Evangelista's house.
SPICE MILL: Much to the delight of the fashion crowd, the Spice Girls have hit the Tristate area and, in the past week alone, Glenda Bailey, Roberta Myers, Nina Garcia and Hamish Bowles bopped along to the group's tunes. On Wednesday, Michael Kors and CFDA executive director Steven Kolb took in the Spice spectacular at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., where they had a chance to meet the group backstage. "Of course I am a Spice Girls fan," Kors said. "I love everything that teenage girls love. I am the oldest teenage girl."
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Victoria "Posh" Beckham had her son Cruz in tow, who impressed Kors backstage with a perfect song and dance rendition of "High School Musical's" "Get Your Head in the Game." "Stand on your head, Cruzy," Beckham, dressed in a fierce stretch copper bodysuit, told her son, who quickly complied. "He's ready for it," Kors said of Cruz's star potential.
"He will be a soccer player with rhythm," Beckham said. "Trust me, there's not many."
When Kors stepped into the arena, the crowd cheered and applauded and, after the show, the designer was mobbed by teenagers asking to have their picture taken with the "Project Runway" judge. With the Spice Girls dissolving once the tour ends later this month, Beckham will be focusing on growing her dVb fashion business, which, as reported, will extend with dresses this fall, and is said to be offering some men's wear looks soon as well. While on tour, she also has been doing personal appearances at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston last week, Saks in Chicago today and Holt Renfrew in Toronto at the end of the month.
STILL GOING: Throwing a dinner party the first work day after fashion week requires some chutzpah. But Stephen I. Sadove and Ron Frasch of Saks Fifth Avenue knew even the most exhausted fashionista couldn't turn down a free meal at Le Cirque, where they hosted an extremely intimate (30 or so person) dinner in honor of Peter Som and Bill Blass Monday night. Marjorie Gubelmann, Carlos Mota, Andrew Saffir, Daniel Benedict and a group of editors sipped wine and nibbled on hors d'oeuvres, as Som enjoyed his postshow glow. "I baked apple pie and made split pea soup," he said of his weekend R & R activities. "And I dragged my carcass back to the gym."
Unlike the shenanigans of a week ago, this meal started promptly, so much so that Lauren Santo Domingo made it just in time for the first course. "I'm sorry I'm late," she apologized, explaining she had just returned from her honeymoon on Saturday. "I am still on Tokyo time." The newlywed also was adjusting to her first New York social outing with her married name — her place card read "Lauren Davis Santo Domingo." "My initials are LSD," she joked.


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Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers
We like turtles
- Teach programming basics to kids while playing a fun game
- Kids will learn to write code, debug, and use functions
- Multi-levels of complexity so kids can do more as they learn
The most backed board game in Kickstarter history!
The key to getting children into programming is this: hook 'em while they're young. And the best way to get a child addicted to programming is to introduce it in a fun way. That's why an entrepreneur programmer created a game to instruct his children in the basics of programming. One massive Kickstarter campaign later, and we have Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers!
Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers isn't just to toss to your kids and let them have at it. You play as the Turtle Mover (think Dungeon Master), guiding your little Turtle Masters (the kids) into chaining together a string of moves to get their turtle to their jewel. If they mess up, they are allowed to debug (it's literally a bug token) their programming to find the error. Robot Turtles allows players to level up and access various "unlockables" as they advance, so the challenge stays fresh. The possibilities for game board setups are endless making each game of Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers an exciting new experience.
Product Specifications
- For Ages 4 and Up
- A wonderful game for parents to play with their spawn and teach them a love of programming
- Perfect for any coder who wants to pass a love of coding onto their children
- Includes instructions for more advanced game play (for older kids and adults)
- Inspired by the Logo programming language and developed by a software developer to teach kids how to code
- Includes: Game Board, 4 Bug Tiles, 36 Obstacle Tiles, 4 Jewel Tiles, 4 Robot Turtle Tiles, 4 Code Card Decks, and Instructions
- Players: 2-5
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Downloads failing to complete for the last few days
I picked up a couple of items that were on sale/special offer (the Unshaven Body Hair for Genesis, and the Steam Aircraft Dragon), and I've been unable to download them; in fact, I've had to reset the downloads several times to no avail.
Every time, and this happens in both Firefox and Chrome, the download gets part way then stalls and won't continue. Firefox comes up with an error along the lines of "[Filename] could not be downloaded because the source file could not be read."
Are there some server issues going on? I've not had a problem downloading from elsewhere, and have bought downloadable items from other sites with no trouble, so I don't think it's on my end.
When a download has started. what ever part has already downloaded will be in your cache. So once you have had a download fail clear the cache befroe attempting to download again, as otherwise it will keep stalling at roughly the same place in the download.
Finally managed to get this to let me reply.
Anyway, I've cleared the browser cache, and the file downloads just stall at a different point. This is on both Chrome and Firefox, latest versions.
It's been like this for a week now and I haven't had trouble downloading from any other site, even files of several hundred meg. Given that I've not had problems anywhere else, this would lead me to think it's something wrong with Daz's site, and there's stuff I need to download for contests I want to enter that have a deadline.
I've had a support ticket sitting there but nothing's apparently been done. I can't download ANY of the content I've paid for.
Richard Haseltine Posts: 45,488
Are you using any kind of download accelerator?
Nah, no download accellerator here. I'm not sure if it still says not to use them on the downloads page, but I remember that being a notice on the old site. Not that I tend to use them anyway, but still.
Puzzled why the downloads invariably stall, at seemingly random points. Maybe a network error somewhere between here and Daz? I'll see if I can do a tracert but there's not likely to be much anyone can do if there's a problem at some midpoint.
It is really very strange. I have prurchased and downloaded several items today, including one which was 99mb, and I am using a rather elderly and underpowered machine and live in a part of the UK where the broadband is not all that brrlliant 1mb/s if I am lucky.
patience55 Posts: 6,986
I'm finding them to be VERY slow. They do complete ... about 1/2 hour later ... which is about 27 minutes longer than it should take. FF
[and to remember there could still be some power lines down here and there ... those were some very nasty storms across the continent that happened]Post edited by patience55 on
frank0314 Posts: 10,803
Are you sure it isn't your ISP? My downloads are only taking about 10 sec each.
patience55 Posts: 6,986Frank0314 said:Are you sure it isn't your ISP? My downloads are only taking about 10 sec each.
Actually I had called them to check, and no it's not them. Nothing wrong with their connections, etc. I know a downed powerline can wreak havoc with these things though and quite possible there's still one to fix "someplace" south of the border. [presumably my ISP would know of any north of]
When I get a slow down it is usually a general slowdown on everything, not just on downloading. As I said I am in an area where the broadband is not of the best quality.
Have you tried resetting your router or modem. I had a real slowdown a couple of days ago, and I reset my modem and then forced a reset on my IP as well., having first checked with my ISP that there were no known issues in my area.
I have a dynamic IP. I have to admit I am not sure if you can do a similar forced IP change on a static IP., but this did speed my internet connection up on everything.
boobunny Posts: 0
I am having the same problem. They stall and do not complete the download. I even ran out of downloads attempts trying to get them to download the other night.
And now it is doing it again with other products that I purchased tonight.
Not sure if it matters, but the ones I had problems with are Saba'a AlKair and Sultan for Classic Fantasy: Persian Fable.
I have not had this happen anywhere but here.Post edited by boobunny on
Kendall Sears Posts: 2,992
The problem is in the cache provider. If you are able to get the file down fast enough you won't have a problem. As an example, I was trying to download "Ashley for M5" which is in the 195M range. On a standard DSL it would crap out at anywhere from 65-120M. This was on several (7 to be exact) ISPs and Providers in several cities on seven different computers running OS's ranging from Windows through MacOS to Linux. I went though 2 reset series. On the last attempt I used an ultra-high speed connection and was able to download the file on the first try.
It seems that the refresh time on the cache provider is not long enough for larger file sizes. If you happen to hit the refresh interval during your download, it will end. Sometimes it will act as if it is the end of the file (no error), sometimes you will get a failure that the file no longer exists at the source, and sometimes you will get a timeout.
I blame cloudflare. They've been having problems: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/15/its-outage-week-cloudflare-went-down-this-morning/
erostew Posts: 214
Apparently they started using Cloudflare to help with other issues and for a lot of people it has just made it worse. I've been trying to download the beta of 4.5 for 4 days now with no luck. I even tried Taozen's downloader thingy and just get errors like this: ERROR!: -2146232800 = System.IO.IOException: Received an unexpected EOF or 0 bytes from the transport stream. at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at ContentDownloaderDAZ.frmMain.DownloadFile() - file not saved
There is a post from DAZ_BFurner here. http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8818/#117690 if you are a PC member, if not I have copied it over here http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8784/#117701
Mari-Anne Posts: 361
I've purchased quite a few items in the last couple of days and was tearing my hair out in frustration as none of the files downloaded properly. Finally, I got wind of Taozen's wonderful fix:
Worked like a charm the very first time! Highly recommended!!
ameliap12_bf206cb00b Posts: 0
I cant finish a single one.....anyone else having this problem?
THere are threads all over the place about this issue. see this one http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8784/#117701
I am going to merge this post with the other thread in this forum about download problems , which was just below your post.