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Part One: September
Our spread starts off with a collection of cast-offs, creative risks, and the contractually obligated releases. While there may be a substantial helping of something entertaining during this hefty four-week first course, don't be put off by such a portion size. To paraphrase an old saying, too many mediocre movies can definitely spoil the season-ing.
Film: Gamer
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Logan Lerman, Ludacris, Kyra Sedgwick
MPAA rating: R
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Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are the Michael Bay of skaterat sleaze. Never content to deliver the standard action movies to the big screen, they bloat their titles with excess unknown to even the celluloid papa of the already tired Transformers. After leading musky man machine Jason Statham through two installments of the sensational cinematic crack known as Crank, the boys have wandered over into the sci-fi arena with this confounding combination of future shock, video games, and Running Man like social commentary. While few outside the studio have seen the effort (Lionsgate is treating the film like a late Summer blockbuster, though they won't screen it in advance), what's clear is that Neveldine and Taylor may have dropped most of their camera crazed gimmickry to deliver a straight ahead bit of thrills. With 300's Gerard Butler on hand as the hero, they could very well succeed.
Film: Extract
Cast: Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons
MPAA rating: R
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Hopefully, the third times the charm for animator/filmmaker Mike Judge. After two less than successful attempts at making his live action efforts as popular as his cartoon titles (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill), he's back with another satiric slice of life, this time featuring Jason Bateman as a small businessman with a world of problems. His wife won't sleep with him. His extract plant employees are shiftless and angry. One has been horribly injured in a freak accident, and though he doesn't plan on suing, a temp girl named Cindy (Mila Kunis) is stirring up trouble. While Office Space and Idiocracy went on to be cult hits on home video, Judge is hoping for a little more mainstream love this time around. With his Coen Brothers Lite approach, he might just get it.
Film: Carriers
Cast: Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Christopher Meloni
MPAA rating: R
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Alex and David Pastor are a couple of Spanish filmmakers making their American feature film debut with this tale about a deadly virus, a group of traveling young people, and the moral dilemmas they face when they realize there's no avoiding the oncoming pandemic. Designed as a pre-Halloween fright film but clearly imbued with a strong sense of character and conscience, many have hailed it as a clever complement to Danny Boyle's brilliant 28 Days Later. With Star Trek's Chris Pine as one of the leads and some favorable festival buzz, this could be a genre-specific sleeper. It could also be the kind of well meaning movie that gets lost in the post-Summer stumble to refocus the industry landscape.
Film: All About Steve
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong, DJ Qualls
MPAA rating: PG-13
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Sandra Bullock remains an amiable acting enigma. She seems to excel at Romantic Comedies, delivering laughs and heartfelt fun with such titles as The Proposal, Two Weeks Notice, and Miss Congeniality. But she's really known for her more accomplished work with turns in that 'other' Truman Capote film Infamous, Oscar winner Crash, and chick flicks like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Now comes what is perhaps the most bizarre performance of her entire career. Playing pseudo-psycho dorkette Mary Horowitz, self-proclaimed crossword freak and puzzle creator, Ms. Bullock drops all pretty girl pretense to play blatantly awkward, ditzy, and dense. Paired up with The Hangover's Bradley Cooper, the results are a surreal satire in which stalking becomes an excuse for possible soulmates. It will be interesting to see if the same audience that embraces her wistful side buys a more farcical façade.
Film: Tickling Leo
Cast: Eli Wallach, Annie Parisse, Lawrence Pressman, Ronald Guttman Victoria Clark
MPAA rating: R
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It's Holocaust time again, about 10 months too late. Last year, the Cineplex was swarming with stories based in and around Hitler's heinous Final Solution. Now filmmaker Jeremy Davidson wants to focus on a footnote to said genocide - the tale of Hungarian Rudolph Kasztner's collusion with Adolph Eichmann to save several hundred Jews in exchange for his silence and support. Tying it to a modern story featuring Eli Wallach as an old man suffering from dementia, and the troubled family that uncovers the truth about their dad's involvement with Kasztner, Davidson hopes the horrors of such a revelation will lead to a more universal sense of understanding and healing. Some critics believe his film succeeds. Others believe it's an important facet of history homogenized by an unnecessary update.


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There's very little time to bone up on the Tigers ahead of the start of the ALCS, so we're going to do our best to get you the stuff you need to know as quickly as possible.
1.Who has the offensive edge? On paper, it would be the Yankees. They scored more runs than the Tigers this season and have a much deeper lineup than Detroit, which relies heavily on Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder in a very top-heavy lineup.
But we just watched the Yankees score 16 runs in five games (nine in the final four) against the Orioles, so it's not like the depth of the Yankee lineup is going to be a huge factor if the slump continues. Curtis Granderson's home run late in Game Five on Friday provides some hope that things will turn around for the Yankees.
2.Who is hurt more by the length of the ALDS? The Yankees and Tigers each got complete games from their aces in Game Five to advance, which means neither Justin Verlander nor CC Sabathia will pitch until Game Three of this series. That sets up an epic Game Seven should things go that far, but it makes earning at least a split in the first two games essential if you don't want to be staring at the abyss come Tuesday.
Andy Pettitte faces Doug Fister, who eliminated the Yankees in Game Five of last year's ALDS meeting between the teams, and that's about as even a matchup as you could find. Hiroki Kuroda has an edge over Anibal Sanchez in Game Two, though, which puts the Yankees in good position to take control of the series before leaving the Bronx.
3. Who is best equipped for close games? This might be the biggest Yankee advantage in the series. Detroit's bullpen was shaky in the regular season and terrible in the Oakland series while the Yankees have not missed a beat without Mariano Rivera so far this season. If games get to the late innings tied or close, the Yankees will have an advantage.
4. How banged up are the Yankees? Both Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira looked positively spry scoring runs in Game Five, but the grind of the schedule (five straight games) could wind up taking a toll on their respective foot and calf injuries. Older teams always have to worry about these issues and the Yankees are no exception.
5. What's A-Rod's role? The Tigers will be starting four right-handed pitchers this series, which suggests a lot of time on the bench for Rodriguez based on Joe Girardi's decision to bench him in Game Five. It's hard to imagine he won't start at least one of the first two games, but a continuation of the awful at-bats from the Orioles series will likely leave him as the best-paid pinch hitter in history.
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The Metropolitan Opera has expanded its "Live in HD" series by 300 theaters, now bringing the series to 1,500 theaters in 46 countries for its 2010–2011 season. The program, in its fifth season, brings Met Opera performances into theaters, which last season resulted in $48 million in ticket sales. The expansion brings the program for the first time to Egypt, Portugal and Spain, and grows the U.S. theater base by 100 to 620. (9/1)
Lambert Earns Record Nine CMA Nods
GRAMMY-nominated artist Miranda Lambert received a record nine nominations for the 44th Annual CMA Awards, the most ever for a female artist, when the second round of nominations were announced today. Lambert's nominations include Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, Video of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year, among others announced yesterday [link to: http://www.grammy.com/blogs/first-round-cma-nods-announced]. GRAMMY winners Lady Antebellum earned the second most nominations with five, followed by the GRAMMY-winning Zac Brown Band and Blake Shelton, who tied with four. The 2010 CMAs will take place on Nov. 10 in Nashville, Tenn. (9/1)
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Universal Music Group has reported revenue of $2.4 billion for the first half of 2010, down 5.4 percent compared to the same period last year, and a 24.6 percent drop in EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization) to $203.6 million. The company lists releases from Justin Bieber, the Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, and Lady Gaga, among others, as the big sellers in the first half of the year. (9/1)


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Mr. Newhouse will make three Peninsula book-signing appearances: Kepler's Books in Menlo Park on Thursday, Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m.; the Oasis in Menlo Park, Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 5:30 p.m.; and Border's Books in Palo Alto, Saturday, Aug. 25, at 4 p.m.
Below is a column Dave wrote for the Almanac on his new book.
By Dave Newhouse
Summertime is reunion time, a season to recapture what we've lost, or gained, many years ago, with people we've mostly lost contact with or hardly knew.
A 50th high school reunion takes on a different magnitude than those alumni gatherings of a much shorter duration. That's because the 50th signifies senior citizenship, a gentler way of saying old age, and a full live lived.
I graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School in 1956, the second class to complete a four-year cycle at the school. When our 50th reunion was approaching in 2006, I, the curious journalist, wondered about my classmates.
We were described later on as the ''Happy Days'' kids, but did our lives turn our happily? So I began a three-year search in 2004 to track down certain classmates, looking for diversity.
And -- wow! -- did I find diversity. The end result is ''Old Bears'' (we were the Menlo-Atherton Bears), a book published by North Atlantic Books in Berkeley that contains 30 first-person interviews with classmates, a faculty member (there aren't many left) and a 2006 M-A graduate to see how the school has changed (immensely) in 50 years.
One of my classmates was Jim Henson's first hire on ''The Muppets.'' Another is the nephew of the man who invented television. A third worked for farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez and wrote a book about that experience. A fourth, our senior class president, was the younger brother of 49ers quarterback John Brodie.
A fifth is the bishop in Fresno who has caused a firestorm both within and outside the Episcopal church with his opposition to the ordinations of a gay bishop in New Hampshire and the woman who now runs the national church.
There are inspiring interviews with the female classmate who passed the bar at 63 and began practicing law; the pompon girl who was institutionalized; the class clown whose humor was a defense mechanism to the physical abuse suffered almost daily by his parents.
I wrote my own chapter -- the hardest thing I've ever had to write -- about my own insecurities and frustrations as a high school student of no great promise.
I've been a working journalist for 48 years, most of that time at the Oakland Tribune, where I'm now employed as a news-side columnist after shifting from a lifetime of sports writing in January.
I grew up in Menlo Park, my 95-year-old mother is in a Woodside rest home currently, and my sister, Phyllis, an M-A grad in 1953, now owns a popular boutique in Palo Alto under her first name.
''Old Bears'' is my seventh published book, and the first in a non-sports capacity. I've written the autobiographies of football greats Jim Plunkett and Jim Otto.
''Old Bears'' also explains how the 1950s are misrepresented as an insignificant decade, when the popularity of television and rock 'n' roll, not to mention the birth of civil rights and the space program, occurred in this decade along with the invention of the Salk polio vaccine.


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By now you've seen the video of Jets coach Rex Ryandressing up like his twin brother and placing a bounty on his head before the Jets play the Browns. There was also this fantastic profile of the two brothers done by the Times earlier this week that featured the quote, "His bat's tardy," which is great on at least two levels. When you get Rex Ryan, you get a little extra showmanship for your dollar.
Now, we media folks are often deluded into loving any coach or player who has a personality and gives us fun things to write about. We're willing to overlook their defective qualities because we just LIKE them so very much. Lord knows Matt Millen got off light from the likes of Kornheiser and Wilbon because he was buddy buddy with them.
But Rex Ryan is different. Ryan personality isn't just some ruse designed to distract you from criticizing him. I'd argue that his personality and willingness to make an idiot of himself are part of what makes him a great coach.
Conversely, I think Bill Belichick has kind of ruined coaches for the past decade. Coaches see Belichick succeeding with a stoic demeanor and virtually no traces of any human qualities, and they assume that is how EVERY coach has to act in order to succeed. Don't get cute. Don't give the other team things to work with. Don't make yourself a target.
What I like about Rex Ryan is that he has deliberately gone the other way and spit in the face of those conventions. You CAN say what's really on your mind. You CAN occasionally goof off. You CAN be something more than a humorless coaching android.
When Ryan decided to do "Hard Knocks" for HBO before this year, he did it with the goal of wanting every player in the NFL to come to New York. He made himself into the star attraction.
And you know what? It worked. He's beloved by his players, and the Jets are clearly now one of the best teams in the AFC. Ryan has screwed up plenty this year – a bad time management sequence against Minnesota, that bizarre fake punt by Steve Weatherford that he apparently was free to try – but he's admitted as much. He hasn't given overly elaborate and dopey explanations, as Mike Shanahan did when Donovan McNabb got benched.
He's been, frankly, human. And it's a quality I think many coaches lack, often purposefully, as if being human is somehow an impediment to success (Hi, Josh McDaniels!). With Rex Ryan, we may be on the verge of a whole new generation of great coaching characters in the NFL. I can't wait.


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Seems like it's done (as done as it can be before July 10)
Seems like it's done (as done as it can be before July 10)
New York got knocked out in the 1st round. Was he chasing championships? really?
soon to be no more jr smith
no more jason kidd
k mart got no more hops and amare is also injury prone
that team is done and he's just trying to cling onto glory.
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Seems he peaked in 03 and then missed a shit load of games.
13 years in the league and played 792 out of a possible 1050 games he started in under half of them
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Likes to shoot from beyond the arc... Good rebounder despite his size... Good defender when he's into it... Doesn't pass the ball much.
Wow, somebody got issues.
I got issues w/ Camby and no respect for someone that gets paid THAT much money, who doesn't do his due diligence in a professional manor when playing in the game. Trades are part of the game.
You bitch about that stuff to your agent. Hell fire your agent. You don't publish something like that in public and complain about it. Man up, in the NBA, u ain't no body ne more.
You don't see Bargs making a presser saying Toronto didn't give me a chance 2 minutes after being traded.
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So if it is a Sign and Trade then he was willing to come play in Toronto. Interesting.
Onto Masai....
This guy can do wonders with big contracts... I mean.... What did we get for Bosh and Vince when they left? squat in return.
3 picks and 3 players back with more room to negotiate, wheel and deal. So impressed right now. I've been touting #MessiahUjiri all day long.
2- Its his life, he can make his own career decisions, he can express displeasure with his job as much as he wants.
3- Its an NBA contract, he didn't sign his life over, he's been in the league for almost 20 years, he can go ring chasing if wants
4- you need to chill
5- Slavery's been over for a quite a while now, look it up.
Just check my calendar and it says 2013... is it 6 decades to fast?
Novak does make threes, unfortunately, that's all he does. He has a 110 DRting and his FG% is even worse than his 3PT%. He attempted 33 FTs in 81 games. and his only other stat thats not in the decimal place (besides pts) is his rebounding which is at 1.9 in 20mins.
I have no illusions about Novak. I know he is a corner three specialist and defensive liability. At 3.5m I know he is an easily tradeable one should he not fit here. Either way he is an asset.
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Tertzakian: Look for oil price between $80 to $100 per barrel in 2011
Peter Tertzakian, Calgary Herald
… With improving market sentiment it's not surprising to hear calls for $100-a-barrel being reiterated by analysts; it's like listening to a chorus singing the same refrain from early 2008, the year when oil price last breached triple digits. The prophecy of the choir is somewhat self-fulfilling, and I too believe that price will cross the century line again, as early as next year. But when the herd mentality sets in it's time to reflect on the fundamentals and consider if the indicators listed below justify the higher prices.
Demand growth: Right now demand for oil is one of the biggest factors that is in the market spotlight. Global growth this year has exceeded expectations: year-over-year demand has risen a whopping 2.3 MMB/d, to 86.7 MMB/d. The impressiveness of that jump is not completely ingenuous, because it's a rebound off the bottom of the Great Recession. New oil consumption is heavily weighted to emerging economies, in particular China, but there has also been a bounce-from-the-bottom in the economically-challenged OECD countries.
(6 December 2010)
Analysis – Colombia defies "peak oil" but for how long?
Reuters via Forexpros
Half a century ago, Colombia helped plant the first inklings of a theory that became known as "peak oil" — the idea that conventional oil extraction has crested.
Today, Latin America's No. 4 crude producer is defying expectations by increasing its output. But experts say the Andean country must now find new reserves to keep up production levels and sustain its ambitious growth targets.
The cause of Colombia's rebound has less to do with geological maturity than with politics and security — which, in many emerging markets from Iraq to Nigeria are perhaps a greater constraint to boosting production.
The story plays out in miniature at the remote Rubiales oilfield in eastern Colombia's Llanos Basin, at a now-bustling camp torched by Marxist guerrillas a decade ago.
After languishing for years with production at a trickle, the molasses-like crude output from the field — run since 2007 by Pacific Rubiales — is set to hit 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the year, a 5,000 percent rise since 2003, company data shows.
(6 December 2010)
Black Hole For Oil Price Policy
Andrew McKillop, Raise the Hammer
The 2004-2007 petro growth cycle showed that oil prices close to or above $125 a barrel can be absorbed, and these energy prices, with related non energy commodity prices, drive global growth.
… Basic Keynesian theory is you can borrow money from the future and hope economic growth is strong enough, and concern about money depreciation and stability is low enough, to repay that debt, or absorb rising debt, later on. The official hope is that debt will not grow, due to growth.
If that fails, however, money depreciation or a change of currency, tricking the CPI figures, austerity cures and other weapons can be wheeled on stage, when public and political opinion gets too roused by rising public debt, higher taxes and austerity to pay for it.
One problem is very simple to state: maybe Keynesian deficit spending works, and maybe it does not. The jury is out to lunch on this one, and arguments on the subject stretch back more than 70 years.
Petro Keynesian growth stimulus to the global economy is different. Sometimes it works too well. Its outright and unambiguous success through 2004-2007 was quickly followed by failure. As we know, and Bernanke reminded us in August 2009, global growth turned south when oil prices went far north in 2008 – but were the two events linked?
The basic reason we don't know is unpalatable to those, like Trichet and Bernanke who hope growth will soon return, to trim the soaring peaks of national debt. Due to another kind of peak, peak oil braking world oil supply growth and also slowing OPEC export supply growth, and exuberant Wall Street oil traders, it is simply not possible to stop oil price growth – totally unlike natural gas price growth.
High oil prices are driven by the same supply-side factors that trim world grains and food output growth. More bad news for inflation and consumer spending potential outside food and energy basics, is delivered by shortage inducing factors affecting supply of most metals and minerals. Through 2004-2007, peaking in 2008, even such basics as cement aggregates, iron ore, alumina and world bulk shipping charges climbed smartly in price.
What Jim Rogers calls the Commodity Super Cycle, now with an Asian resource demand turbo effect, in fact stretches back to well before Keynes invented his theories, including his debt based remedies for fighting recession. Long-term read outs from commodity price peaks and crashes, and global growth trends, is that higher prices for commodity resources have certainly levered up the economy, in most periods through the 20th century, if not in others.
Bernanke may be right to fear higher oil prices, but he can only claim to be right about 33 percent of the time. With present stakes so high, is that enough?
Oil Prices And Growth – The Twin Spiral
The simple answer is that higher oil prices can and likely will boost and bolster growth, but not for long, if we look at 2004-2007 performance. The Petro Keynesian growth driving paradigm and process is easy to set out. Wealth is transferred from global consumers to energy and resource producers, most of them lower income, who then rapidly spend more.
Classic debt based Keynesian programs in high income economies tend only to shift more spending power to the already rich, who spend a lower percent of their revenue gains, received through government tax cutting largesse and printing press activity.
OPEC ability to spend more when revenues rise is easy to forecast: not many OPEC states are in the Qatar or Saudi camp, where more personal consumption, at least for national citizens and not low paid economic migrants presents challenges for the imagination. Most oil exporter countries are in the Nigeria, Algeria, Iran or Venezuela camp.
The same quick reinjection of revenue gains, or windfalls to the global economy applies for revenue gains for exporters of iron ore or bauxite, rubber, coffee, sugar, or cotton exporting countries …
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics of Synthetic Drug Users in San Diego and Washington, DC, 1990 (ICPSR 9737)
Principal Investigator(s): DuPont, Robert L.; Saylor, Keith E.; Wish, Eric D.
This data collection offers information on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of synthetic drug users, characteristics of synthetic drug use such as frequency and method of intake, and factors that prompt drug users to begin to use synthetic drugs or to switch from agricultural drugs to synthetic drugs. Synthetic drugs investigated in the collection include PCP, ice, ecstasy, and speed, while nonsynthetic drugs include alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and crack. Patterns of use for all of these drugs are explored. Questions about specific drugs include whether the respondent had ever used the drug, age first used, number of days in the past 30 days the drug was used, whether the drug was used more than two times per week, method of drug intake, and the drug used most often by the respondent and by the respondent's friends. Additional variables include reasons for preferring synthetic or nonsynthetic drugs, reasons the respondent would discontinue use or switch to another drug, availability and cost of certain drugs, and extent of involvement in selling, money handling, and protection. Finally, demographic variables such as sex, ethnicity, age, highest grade completed, employment activity in the past month, geographical location, and subject source (criminal justice system or drug treatment center) are included in the file. The unit of analysis is the individual drug user.
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
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DuPont, Robert L., Keith E. Saylor, and Eric D. Wish. SOCIOECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SYNTHETIC DRUG USERS IN SAN DIEGO AND WASHINGTON, DC, 1990. 2nd ICPSR version. Rockville, MD: Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. [producer], 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09737.v2
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: demographic characteristics, drug use, social influences, socioeconomic status
Geographic Coverage: California, District of Columbia, San Diego, United States
- 1990
- 1990-06--1990-09
Universe: All drug users in San Diego and Washington, DC, during 1990.
The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
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Simon Cowell Votes Himself Off American Idol
Season one-billion of American Idol hasn't even started yet, and already we're thinking about the end. Simon Cowell, beloved grumpy crumpet judge, will leave at the end of the season to judge the similarly-themed British import, The X Factor.
The show has the same basic set-up — young unknown singers compete for audience votes and get lambasted by a panel of three — with Cowell himself serving as a judge during his Idol-free downtime. The X Factor will premiere fall 2011, then move to the summer for subsequent seasons, with Idol still dominating the winter/spring. Cowell's departure was long-rumored, as fellow original judge Paula Abdul left the show earlier this year and ratings had begun to gradually (very gradually) slow down. Cowell is also said to have had major disagreements with Idol producer Simon Fuller, so presumably X Factor offered him the opportunity to be a bit more sovereign. Whatever Cowell's reasons, the real questions are 1) whether Fox really has room for two singing competition shows (will the presence of both will split the vote and dilute the programs' influence and ability to actually create pop stars?), and 2) what the heck is Randy Jackson going to do all by himself next year? Sad, dawg. [NYT]
Update! TMZ is saying that gurgling hair-mound Paula Abdul has been in talks with Cowell to join him on X Factor. Once again, poor Randy.


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"They figured out a very clever way to get Edward back in the film much more than he is in the book," revealed "Twilight" series star Michael Welch when he stopped by the MTV studios recently, acknowledging that Weitz and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg have devised a plan to work around the "New Moon" plot — which has Edward breaking up with Bella (Kristen Stewart) early in the story and fleeing to Italy. "It's more of, like, a hallucination kind of thing."Read about it at MTV.
July 2, 2009
Mikey Welch Dishes on How Edward Got More Screen Time in New Moon
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Is Michael Welch jealous about Rob's fame , his sexy body , he being the sexiest person in Earth?And his character Edward Cullen?ReplyDelete
OK, I'm happy we'll get to see more Robward in an "authentic" to the book as possible way - but how is extending Bella from hearing him to seeing him so very clever?ReplyDelete
No complaints though ;)
who would be jealous? Robs life is too crazy now, i wouldnt want to be that famousReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
he dosn't sound jealous at all. And why would he be jealous. Im sure he is happy that Rob is doing really good and probably glad that he doesn't have million people aroound him 24/7 like Rob does.ReplyDelete
I like Mike, he is really sweet. <3
Mike's a good actor and very sweet!! Does alot for charity too. Wonder why is was afraid to say how rob was going to be in the movie more. We have heard this in other interviews, from weitz, rob and kristen themselves have said his is a vision along with Bella's thoughts and scary at times too. They probably are so busy with their own lives and other projects that they don't know everyone elses PR stuff.ReplyDelete


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The closest species I can find is Zenithoptera lanei ,found in the Amazon region.
Great picture of a beautiful creature,by the way.
I can give you a few suggestions for some of your pictures ,just from the little info Iv'e found .
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No1 I am afraid there are too many similar species of Damselflies .
No2 possibly Anatya sp.
No3 Micrathyria sp maybe M. ocellata.
No4 possibly Sympetrum gilvum or same family.
No5 Erythodiplax sp ,I can't find the exact species.
All these species occur in the Amazon region ,but I don't know if specifically
about Columbia.
Good luck .
Hi Aullador ,what a fabulous beetle ,I think it is a Fungus Beetle -Erotylidae- (Cypherotylus species).
The golden dragonfly is probably Perithemis mooma and the other dragonfly could be Orthermis aequilibris
or O.discolor.
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"Well, we made it through another one. Can't wait to see what's next."
So says Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder at the end of 'Lightning Bolt,' a short film from director Danny Clinch that offers fans a behind-the-scenes look at the band's upcoming album of the same name by sitting the members down in the studio with a passel of famous fans, including Judd Apatow, musician and actor Carrie Brownstein, surfer Mark Richards and former NFL player Steve Gleason.
While any of them could be the subject of a documentary in their own right, they approach the band as fans, and ask questions anyone might want the answers to — especially Gleason, who kicks things off with, "It's been five years since 'Backspacer.' That's the longest space between records. What the f—?'"
According to the band, they were waiting for the right time and the right message — although as Vedder admits when it's pointed out that the new record is fairly dark, "If you're paying attention to what's going on on the planet, I feel like we can find something to be angry about pretty quick."
Lack of material doesn't seem to have been a problem; in fact, everyone seems to be writing as much as ever. Vedder compares the process to surfing at one point, saying, "Surfing is pretty easy when you're on the wave, and so is songwriting — when you're on the wave. But you can spend a lot of days out there, paddling around and not getting anything." He later adds, "With everything you think you figure out, it's another path to another set of questions, you know?"
The short film also includes snippets of cuts from the new album, including 'Mind Your Manners' and 'Sirens,' as well as the usual pre-album promises, such as "Everybody's kind of playing out of their minds on this record." We'll all have a chance to hear for ourselves when 'Lightning Bolt' arrives in stores on Oct. 15.
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Vans World Cup Of Surfing: Day 2 Photo And Video Highlights
South Africa's Beyrick De Vries Tastes Perfection In Giant, Barreling Surf At Vans World Cup Of Surfing
HONOLULU – (Friday, Nov. 29, 2013) — South Africa's Beyrick De Vries, 20, will be riding high for days after living a moment of perfection at Sunset Beach during the Vans World Cup of Surfing today. In a late afternoon heat, on a triple overhead wave, De Vries scored the event's only perfect 10 to date for a huge, deep tube ride that has been tagged the best barrel ever surfed on Sunset's west peak during competition. The surf was absolutely perfect for most of the day, peaking with wave face heights of up to 25 feet and light offshore winds. The Vans World Cup of Surfing is the second event of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing hydrated by vitaminwater®.
Two weeks shy of his 21st birthday, and having invested more than half of his budget to be here, this was a gift that De Vries will long remember. Along with his perfect 10, De Vries also posted a 7.5 for a heat total of 17.5 points out of 20. Worth a mention was Brazil's Peterson Crisanto who was right behind De Vries on 17.03 points.
"It's pretty much a 55 hour travel here on a plane and costs you pretty much half your budget," said De Vries. "Living here is expensive and you kind of doubt it all, but then you get one wave like that and everything's worth it. It's all worth it, I'm stoked!"
"I just saw blue out there and it was a heavy take off. I just tried to dodge the foam ball, stood up and looked down the line and I just saw this thing that was perfect. I just stood there and kind of looked at the scenery. It's one of the best places to be on earth, in the barrel. I'm just living in the moment and it paid off and I'm so happy. I'm pretty set for a while, I think."
Giant set waves washed through periodically throughout the day and required a fearless and committed approach. For every memorable ride there was an unforgettable wipeout, the worst of which was sustained by local teenager Kalani David, 16. David's heat was held early in the day during the peak of the swell. Conditions were giant and intimidating to say the least, but he threw it all on the line in a bid to prove his place in the lineup.
David's worst wipeout came after a late takeoff that saw him lose his footing before getting absolutely pummeled by a cascade of water. Local ocean scientist Pat Caldwell, of Honolulu's NOAA office, took a look at imagery of David's wipeout and estimated the volume of the wave above him to be at 180 cubic feet. At 64 pounds of pressure per cubic foot, that equates to more than 11,000 pounds of water unloading on the youngster. While it spelled the end of the road for Kalani in this event, he gained major credibility and can rest easy knowing he never cowered.
"No words can describe how worked you get," said David. "There's no words to describe it. You get tumbled and held under and your back starts to hurt. I'm still breathing hard. I'm dizzy. I just took off underneath the lip and my front foot slipped and I never had that happen before. Right when I fell it was like 'no, this isn't about to happen'… I was actually more embarrassed than I was scared because I face planted and my jersey ripped off. So embarrassing," he added.
"Not too many 16-year-olds get to do this contest and just to be in it is an honor – a lot of experience and a lot of getting held under. I feel good, I just needed that one wave but I fell. But I'm stoked with how I surfed."
There were so many highlights today: The highest individual heat score went to Kiron Jabour (Hawaii) – 18.33 points out of a possible 20 (9.33, 9.0). Posting waves in the excellent category were Torrey Meister (Hawaii), Ezekiel Lau (Hawaii), Peterson Crisanto (Brazil), Caio Ibelli (Brazil), and Tanner Gudauskas (USA).
Of the 16 heats surfed today, Hawaii surfers accounted for the overwhelming majority of heat wins. Their intimate knowledge and experience with riding Sunset in these conditions was hard to match. Along with Jabour, Meister and Lau, other standout locals included Ian Walsh, Makuakai Rothman and Gavin Gillette.
Organizers anticipate a drop in swell for tomorrow, but expect competition to continue for a third day. Coming up when competition resumes: Kelly Slater (USA); Mick Fanning (Australia); Dane Reynolds (USA); Josh Kerr (Australia); John John Florence (Hawaii); and Adriano De Souza (Brazil).
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing hydrated by vitaminwater® is the world's premier series of professional surfing events that will culminate with a 2-man battle between Kelly Slater (USA) and Mick Fanning (AUS) for the 2013 men's ASP World Title. From November 12 through December 20, on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, $960,000 in prize money and a number of highly coveted titles will be offered across three ASP sanctioned events, including the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing series champion.
Round of 96 (1st & 2nd advance; 3rd=65th; 4th=81st)
H1: Ian Walsh (HAW) 14.17pts ; Hodei Collazo (EUK) 11.27pts ; Charles Martin (GLP) 9.83pts ; Conner Coffin (USA) 9.70pts
H2: Makuakai Rothman (HAW) 13.53pts ; Jay Thompson (AUS) 13.16pts ; Jesse Mendes (BRA) 11.06pts ; Makai McNamara (HAW) 9.53pts
H3 : Ryan Callinan ((AUS) 14.33pts ; Hank Gaskell (HAW) 10.76pts ; Pancho Sullivan (HAW) 10.60pts ; Dion Atkinson (AUS) 9.43pts
H4: Carlos Munoz (CRI) 15.50pts ; Ian Gentil (HAW) 14.23pts ; Kalani David (HAW) 10.97pts ; Stu Kennedy 9.23pts
H5: Caio Ibelli (BRA) 14.90pts ; Frederico Morais (PRT) 14.oopts ; Yadin Nicol (AUS) 8.90pts ; Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR) 3.17pts
H6: Mitchel Coleborn (AUS) 13.07pts ; Joshua Moniz (HAW) 10.70pts ; Marco Frenandez (BRA) 10.57pts ; Seth Moniz (HAW) 6.56pts
H7: Brian Toth (PRI) 12.87pts ; Kaimana Jaquias (HAW) 12.40pts ; Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 12.27pts ; Cooper Chapman (AUS) 6.36pts
H8: Gavin Gillette (HAW) 15.16pts ; Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 15.07pts ; Chris Ward (USA) 10.06pts ; Matt Banting (AUS) 8.86pts
H9: Heitor Alves (BRA) 12.77pts ; Krystian Kymerson (BRA) 11.00pts ; Dale Staples (ZAF) 10.63pts ; Maxime Huscenot (FRA) 9.00pts
H10: Torrey Meister (HAW) 15.33pts ; Joan Duru (FRA) 15.24pts ; Alex Smith (HAW) 12.60pts ; Marc Lacomare (FRA) 12.37pts
H11: Ezekiel Lau (HAW) 14.00pts ; Willian Cardoso (BRA) 12.27pts ; Keanu Asing (HAW) 9.50pts ; Thiago Camarao (BRA) 6.53pts
H12: Kiron Jabour (HAW) 18.33pts ; Wade Carmichael (AUS) 14.97pts ; Davey Cathels (AUS) 13.33pts ; Marcus Hickman (HAW) 8.16pts
H13: Beyrick De Vries (ZAF) 17.50pts ; Peterson Crisanto (BRA) 17.03pts ; Tom Whitaker (AUS) 13.42pts ; Koa Smith (HAW) 12.53pts
H14: Tim Reyes (USA) 15.50pts ; Olamana Eleogram (HAW) 13.87pts ; Aritz Aranburu (EUK) 11.33pts ; Nathan Florence (HAW) 11.03pts
H15: Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 15.67pts ; Joel Centeio (HAW) 14.33pts ; Ian Gouveia (BRA) 7.23pts ; Nathan Hedge (AUS) 6.50pts
H16: Nathan Yeomans (USA) 11.90pts Ricardo Christie (NZL) 10.93pts ; David Do Carmo (BRA) 7.24pts ; Tomas Hermes (BRA) 2.63pts
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is made possible with the support of vitaminwater; Truth; Firefox; Samsung Galaxy; GoPro; Turtle Bay Resort; Hawaiian Airlines; Clif Bar; WaveJet; JN Automotive Group; Oceanic Time Warner Cable; Surfing Magazine; Surfline.com; the Association of Surfing Professionals; Hawaii Tourism Authority.
About Vans
Vans®, a VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) brand, is the original action sports footwear and apparel brand. Vans collections include authentic footwear, apparel, accessories and snowboard boots that are sold globally in more than 170 countries through a network of subsidiaries, distributors and foreign offices. VF Outdoor, Inc. owns and operates more than 300 stores of the Vans brand in the United States and internationally, each offering a wide range of Vans footwear and apparel while communicating the brand and athletes' rich stories. The Vans brand promotes action sports lifestyle and youth culture through support of athletes on boards and bikes all over the globe and through progressive events such as the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing®, the Vans Downtown Showdown, the Vans Pool Party, the Vans Warped Tour® and the Vans US Open of Surfing. More information about the Vans brand can be found at www.vans.com, Twitter @vans_66 and www.facebook.com/vans.


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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Jenks
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Business travelers will enjoy direct access to the Creek Turnpike. If your business or training meeting is in downtown Tulsa, or Broken Arrow, Glenpool, Bixby or Sapulpa you are within minutes to your destination.
During your stay at our hotel in Jenks, we hope that you take time to relax in the indoor pool, whirlpool and sauna. You can also work out in the fitness center, enjoy the free high-speed Internet access and start your day off right with the complimentary, hot breakfast bar featuring our signature cinnamon rolls.
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Asus ROG STRIX B250i Gaming (Intel® B250 Chipset)
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Asus ROG STRIX B250i Gaming (Intel® B250 Chipset) Link: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-B250I-GAMING/ Full retail package, price reflected is for 1 unit. Price is fixed, discounts will only be considered for multiple purchases. 36 months local distributor warranty applies from date of purchase. Onsite assembly or installation can be provided at a nominal fee. Enquire through PM for specifications or similar concerns, including pairing with compatible or relevant hardware. Payment options: COD or FAST Transfer (DBS 120 077569 8) Paypal Alternative: firstname.lastname@example.com Credit/Debit cards 2% Surcharge (Click link on mobile, copy/paste on desktop browser): https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BL96HSCV64C9U *Add: Intel® Core™ i7-7700K +$510.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i7-7700 +$460.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i5-7600K +$360.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i5-7600 +$330.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i5-7500 +$300.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i5-7400 +$280.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i5-7350K +$271.00 *Add: Intel® Core™ i3-7100 +$180.00 *Add: Intel® Pentium® Processor G4560 +$90.00 *Bundle purchase with Credit/Debit Cards is not yet possible, please inquire through PM for tailored payment option. Free delivery for purchases above $150.00, otherwise refer to transaction or dealing details reflected on the ad to complete your purchase interest. Do make your purchase interest before 2PM on weekdays and/or before weekends to benefit from same day delivery or transaction. However, interested parties are advised to enquire for earliest delivery or transaction date for bulky/large/fragile items such as enclosures, chairs and monitors. Otherwise prevailing conditions still apply. For Noble Gaming chairs, item will only be assembled and drop-shipped once payment is received, interested parties are required to request for payment details. PM me with contact details (email address and contact number), preferred location and collection or delivery intervals (in 3 separate or preferred time-slots of not less than 90 minutes separating each time-slot) for collection to make your purchase. These terms and conditions are non exhaustive. Item is still available unless otherwise marked as "Sold". Type: Others Brand: Asus ROG STRIX B250i Gaming (Intel® B250 Chipset)
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NCUA Reports Improved Financials at Conserved Texans and Keys
The NCUA said Thursday that two credit unions under conservatorship reported improved financials as of Dec. 31, 2012.
First, the $1.4 billion Texans Credit Union of Dallas reported a capital gain of 161 basis points during 2012, ending the year with 2.68% net worth. The credit union also posted year-end 2012 net income of $24.17 million.
Loan quality has improved over the past 12 months. As of year-end 2011, delinquencies were 8.69% of total loans, and charge offs were 4.42% of average loans. Delinquencies improved to 0.94% as of Dec. 31, 2012; however, charge offs remain high, at 4.89% as of Dec. 31, 2012.
Net margin to average assets fell during 2012, from 5.48% at 2011 year-end to 4.44% one year later. However, operating expenses were substantially reduced during that time, down from 4.36% of average assets as of Dec. 31, 2011 to just 2.85% one year later.
"We've restructured Texans, while continuing our focus on member service and attracting top-notch talent," said C. Keith Morton, NCUA Region IV director. "As we begin 2013, we are encouraged by the credit union's positive financial results and look forward to many new product and service enhancements, such as remote deposit capture, online account opening and debit card purchase rewards."
NCUA placed Texans into conservatorship in April 2011 after commercial loan losses drained net worth. The NCUA filed a lawsuit in December 2012 against former CEO David Addison, accusing him of breach of fiduciary duty and gross negligence in his role in the credit union's failure.
In Key West, Fla., the $124 million Keys FCU also showed financial progress in 2012, reporting a net worth ratio gain of 80 basis points in 2012 to end the year with 3.70% net worth.
Keys reported a year-end 2012 net income of $965,714. The NCUA also drastically improved the credit union's loan quality over the past year, with delinquencies down from 3.03% as of 2011 year-end to 1.30% at 2012 year end. Charge offs fell during that same period from 3.49% of average loans to just 0.44%.
Keys voluntarily entered into conservatorship by NCUA in September 2009.
"We've restructured Keys to provide the members greater access to services and products," said Herb Yolles, NCUA Region III director. "As we begin 2013, we are encouraged by the credit union's positive financial results and look forward to adding many new product and service enhancements, such as mobile banking and credit cards."


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High school athletics professional and school officials are investigating the death of high school football player, Deantre Turman who collapsed following a tackle which caused trauma to his spinal cord. The suburban Atlanta high school football player died from injuries suffered during a scrimmage game, according to medical examiners in Fulton County last week.
Turman died after he made a tackle during a pre-season game, said Mike Alsip, a forensic investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office. The teenager broke his neck, Alsip said.
The accident happened at a school in College Park.
Turman's coach, Glenn Ford, said that Turman — a cornerback known to friends as "Tre Tre" — went immediately limp and unresponsive after the play.
Coaches and others tried without success to revive him during what Ford said was a 15-minute wait for an ambulance.
The young athlete was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour and 15 minutes after the accident, according to Alsip.
Tarsha Keller, the woman who raised Turman since his mother died when he was just 4 years old, told WSB that the teen died doing what he loved. "Being the competitor and playing different sports made him happy," Keller said.
Deaths from high school football are exceedingly rare.
Over the last 10 years, an average of less than three boys per year have died from on-field injuries playing high school football, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina.
CNN's Michael Pearson contributed to this report.
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I'm facing a learning curve here and hope folks can make suggestions...
I'm running WIN 7, SP1 with IE 8.0.7601.17514
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In ZAES, it says 'web security is on', and 'browser security is on'
However, in IE8, there is no ZA Toolbar displayed. [ I just did a clean install of ZA].
When I go to the menu View> Toolbars, there are two ZA items listed - unchecked.
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Do I need to select one or both of these? what will that do besides "display" the toolbars?
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id say Nash.. simply put, hes the better player... besides there was an article i read today were Stefanski told reporters that they hadnt even spoken to houston about Lowry.
id say Nash.. simply put, hes the better player... besides there was an article i read today were Stefanski told reporters that they hadnt even spoken to houston about Lowry.
http://blogs.canada.com/2012/06/25/t...r-the-raptors/David Locke@Lockedonsports
Reports Houston is offering #16 and Kyle Lowry to Toronto for #8 - if Jazz had gotten lucky they would have #8 would u do deal as Utah?
I think that sounds like a pretty good deal, there are a number of interesting players that would be in that range.
Whoever told you skies the limit is looking dumb because I'm 22 and i'm moonwalking on the sun.
How about both !
Trade with Houston -8th pick & 37th pick plus E.Davis & Bayless for 14th pick & 16th pick & Lowry
Sign & Trade acquire free agent Steve Nash & 13th Pick for Calderon & 14th Pick
Sign Free Agent Gerald Wallace for $30-$35 Million for 3 years
Select D.Waiters with 13th Pick
Select one of the following K. Marshall/J.Lamb/ P.Jones/Sullinger with 16th Pick
Team payroll ~ $60 million and a significant upgrade from last year.
I personaly think DC & BC/Stefanski have there sights set on Nash..theres been too much chatter around the league about Nash to the Raps for it to all be false... remember.. were theres smoke theres fire.. & theres been a giant mushroom ball of smoke hanging over this story for too long now.
i think the only way they move the 8th pick is for a top tier SG or SF
Nash may be a top 5 passer this league has ever seen. Lowry plays pg on a mediocre team so looks like an Allstar. You'd have to give up significantly less in a sign and trade with Nash than just trading for Lowry. He would help the development of our younger players a lot more aswell.
Is it possible to change my option? I have made a mistake...
Looks like the Raptors are saying Nash according to reports tonight.
tough call. Is a Lowry in hand worth more than a Nash in the bush?
If we don't want to trade the pick we should use the money we'd have to give up to get Nash on Dragic. Much, much, much better option in the long run.
I personally am not sold on Lowry or Dragic as long-term PG-of-the-future type of players for the Raptors. I'd much rather target Lillard in the draft for that sort of expectation. Nash/Calderon are short term (1-3 years max), Lowry/Dragic would be medium term (3-6 years), but only draft picks like Lillard (or possibly Marshall) can really be considered long-term (7+ years) solutions for a rebuilding/building team. That's why I don't really get the fascination with Lowry/Dragic type of players who are in their mid-late 20s and already beyond their rookie-scale contract. I'd rather go with a veteran (ie: Nash/Calderon) and a rookie (ie: Lillard), to allow the veteran to mentor the rookie and groom him to takeover the starting job, ensuring they are properly acclimated to the NBA and ready for the responsibility of leading a team for the long-term.
http://www.hoopsworld.com/nba-am-tra...r-of-draft-dayRaptors Front Runners for Nash? The Houston Rockets have been trying to pry away the #8 overall pick from the Toronto Raptors however their offer of Kyle Lowry and one of the picks in the teens that the Rockets hold apparently wasnt enough to get a deal done.
Sources near that process say that Toronto has been given serious signals from Steve Nash that they could land him in free agency, so much so that acquiring Lowry is not something the Raptors feel they need.
Nash has professed all week that he has made no Free Agency decisions and plans to listen to everyone on Sunday, however if the Raptors are turning away Kyle Lowry and a draft pick, either they really dont like Lowry or they have something more lined up with Nash.
This was written by Steve Kyler. I find he and Alex Kennedy to be the best for 'sources' in the NBA. Another HW.com writer, Bill Ingram, I think is a blow hard when it comes to 'sources' and rumours. However, one area where I listen to him is the Rockets as he is a professed Rocket fan and that is the #1 team he follows. When it comes to the Rockets I give him credibility - on nothing else though, lol.
I take Lowry every time, if these are my only choices. However, if you think you can get Lillard in the draft why would you give up your pick to get him? Either way, I would never replace a solid guard like Jose for an even older guard in Nash. May be great marketing sense, but horrible basketball sense.
Lowry will never be Nash, but come on. Do you think the Raptors are going to show anything while Nash is still a player? Who are you, Doug Smith?
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The Ocala City Council will be asked Tuesday night to approve two large land use changes, including the roughly 183-acre Ocala Stud property.
The Ocala City Council will be asked Tuesday night to approve two large land use changes, including the roughly 183-acre Ocala Stud property located at 4400 and 4404 S.W. 27th Ave. to low intensity, a change that was denied by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission.
"There is opposition from the Glen Hill Farms to the east and Westbury (subdivision) to the south," said Tye Chighizola, the city's growth management director. "They want single family."
The property, which is owned by Trinity Lane, LLC, was annexed into the city from the county in January. It is part of a 400-acre piece that includes Red Oak Farm. If council approves the change, it will open the door to a large, mixed use development that could include residential, commercial, office, industrial and retail uses.
The property currently has a county land use of rural lands and low density residential, and the city's low intensity use is being requested.
The proposed amendment to the land use was transmitted to various state agencies and the two water management districts, and to the Marion County's Growth Management Department and the Withlacoochee Regional Planning Council.
One of the considerations is what is known as the "Briar Cave," a major karst feature and important state resource that lies on the Red Oak property, which was a concern of the state Department of Environmental Protection. The applicant and city intend to reactivate the Red Oak 163 agreement to protect that cave site.
The Department of State recommended that a cultural resource assessment survey be done to locate any archaeological and historical resources.
Although there no longer is a state concurrency requirement for education, the Department of Education expressed concern that the assessment of the effects of the development on schools will not occur until the time of platting, a residential site plan or a planned unit development plan is submitted for review. But the Interlocal Agreement of Public School Facility Planning that is in effect in Marion County provides for the determination of whether there is enough school capacity.
The water management districts, the county and Withlacoochee RPC made no comments.
Another large land use change is being requested for 93 acres of property at the northwest corner of West State Road 40 and Northwest 60th Avenue.
The property, which is owned by Peggy T. Gehl: Silver Jet Services, LLC; TBP of Marion, LLC, and Dinkins & Dinkins, LLC, was annexed into the city from the county in November. The annexation was requested in order to obtain city water and sewer services for any future development. The city has received no development plans for this property.
"She's trying to get it ready for development," Chighizola said about Gehl, a retired judge from South Florida.
He said Gehl is looking to do some engineering work so the property could be marketed.
"I don't think she's planning on developing it," Chighizola said.
The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to approve the land use change from the county's Urban Commerce District to the city's Low Intensive designation.
This property is just south of the Ocala International Airport.
"Because of the airport, it's mostly going to be industrial, maybe some commercial, no residential," Chighizola said.
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I absolutely LOVED Linda & Harriett's booth, not just for her fabulous new ginormous quilt calendar (which is stunning by the way), but because I loved how she used simple black and white graphics & text to decorate it. I could totally see something similar working for a photo backdrop at a wedding, couldn't you?
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Discussion in 'General Trek Discussion' started by Admiral Pike, Jun 11, 2009.
Which would you have preferred to go into production?
Star Trek is and was a format for storytelling on tv.. And too many of the movies have been the not-too-compelling-anymore story, "Defeat the Bad Guy."
I would have liked to see Xon and Illia and some of the planned episodes. Judging from the script in the Phase II book, the Phase II version of The Child would have been a lot better than the TNG one.
yes...Season Three of TOS and Seasons 1-2 of TNG, some of Voyager and most if not all of Enterprise demonstrate just how good TV TREK can really be...
TOS movies were good, and in Khan's case, GREAT. PHASE TWO, based on what photos I have seen, would have come out about as silly as BUCK ROGERS did. Some of the so called 'script treatments' would have made THE NAKED NOW look like Citizen kane. Not doing Phase two, with GR running it, was what saved TREK; IMO
That is pure speculation on your part. I think you're wrong.
Well, it's my opinion, formed by reading the script and comparing it with the filmed version.
That's pure speculation on your part, I disagree.
Most of the scripts in development for "Phase II" were pretty bad.
I have read that script to. And knowing what I know about TV? That would not have been the final shooting script. The pictures that are in my PHASE TWO book are all the proof I need; that show would have blew chunks. It would have been very much like season 1 of TNG. TNG, despite what some people believe, was just PHASE TWO updated. Either version would have suffered because of who was running them; Gene Roddenberry. And back in 1975, or whatever, Roddenberry would have been younger and would have been given more time to make it work; but he was already the problem.
Harve Benette, Nick Meyer, pretty much saved TREK. The principle actors, Shatner - Nimoy, seem to agree. And TNG was heading down the path of oblivion until Roddenberry gave up control to Berman.
Had there been no 'evil' Harve, then there would not have been the success of VOYAGE HOME which gave TNG birth.
Agreed, Dennis some of them were awful (Tomorrow and the Stars) springs to mind, but some of them could have been good. Like all seasons of Trek, there's good and bad.
I would agree that Harve Bennet et al saved Trek from TMP (which I also know was born from Phase II). However, as you point out, the stuff in the Phase II book would not have been the final shooting scripts. Who knows how they would have developed.
What about the Phase II pictures suggests to you that the show would blow chunks?
The TOS movies, and I'd say the same if we only had got TMP and Khan. I don't know but I sense that Phase II wouldn't have lasted very long...
Phase Two; NO WAY
Every once in a while I pick up the PHASE TWO book that has the cool photos, and great behind the scenes stuff, and the script treatments for the episodes, and the more I read? The more I am glad they didn't do Phase-Two.
Phase-Two came AFTER All in The Family. For all this talk about how TOS changed the landscape for TV, All in The Family makes Trek's changes look like candy-store filler. Now, with all that said, I read the story treatments for Phase Two. With all due respect, with very few the exceptions, the stories were not that good. And some of them (Kirk Pearl Harbor story) were outright rip-offs. More importantly? They were far from the cutting edge stories of TOS. Some of the stories would have fit right in with BSG's fluffy stuff, or even worse, BUCK ROGERS,
But, and here is where I will lose most of you, the underlying problem with PHASE TWO would have been Roddenberry. And you can see the proof of this when he took most of his ideas, for PHASE-TWO and brought them to TNG and..well…season 1 of TNG makes TOS's season-three look like a masterpiece. Roddenberry's problem was that, IMO, TV had passed his way of telling stories by. It isn't until (GASP) Berman comes along, and with him Moore-Piller ect, does TNG really start to work. The less control Roddenberry had of TNG (and the TOS movies I might add) the better they got.
PHASE TWO might have worked, I guess, had someone else ran the show; but under Roddenberry, it wouldn't have lasted past one season (IMO) and STAR TREK would have faded away; for good.
That's my take on PHASE TWO. It died, got reincarnated as TNG, and flourished, for the most part, the further Roddenberry got away from it. Roddenberry was a man, IMO, who was trapped in the past.
Re: Phase Two; NO WAY
I'm pretty sure the writer's guide for "Phase Two", supposedly written by Roddenberry, specifically references shows like "All in the Family", "Hill Street Blues" and "M*A*S*H" as shows very much worthy of emulation. He championed the new, more naturalistic style of television, with its ongoing character development, ensemble casts, and the like. Roddenberry had many failings, but not keeping up with modern television storytelling wasn't one of them. In that regard, he was well ahead of the curve. TNG's early reliance on the older style of formulaic storytelling falls firmly at the feet of play-it-safe executives, who tended to cling to older, tried-and-true methods. And who was TNG's official studio bean-counter? Berman. Whose primary job was to keep Gene on a short leash. (Which wasn't necessarily a bad idea.)
That TNG seemed to improve once Gene was no longer at the helm, and Berman held the reins? Well Berman was holding his own leash at that point, and people rarely feel compelled to impose the same strictures on themselves as they do on others. They aren't usually all that distrusting of their own motives. Don't think their own ideas are at all harebrained. Simply put: When Rick was in charge, he gave himself a lot more freedom than he'd ever given Roddenberry. He stopped actively trying to limit production efforts, and finally began to facilitate them.
Re: Phase Two; NO WAY
Very few series find their "legs" the first season...sometimes not until the third season. So, I think it's unfair to judge what Phase II could have been by a few story outlines and a couple of scripts.
I think -- like TNG -- it would have picked up during the third year. I base this on my observations of many other series.
Re: Phase Two; NO WAY
Since there's already a Phase Two thread, I'm merging the two...
Yeah, but I thought the concept for Devil's Due was worse, so it balances out.
I liked TWOK-TSFS-TVH trilogy. That allowed us to get TNG and following spinoffs. If Phase II had been born, I don't think we would have seen anything else afterwards, which would be a shame.
I liked the movies too.
Who knows how Phase II would have turned out? TNG's first season seems to be generally disliked, but there were another 6 seasons after that.
Seeing how Spock's my favorite Trek character, I went with the movies since he wouldn't have been a regular in Phase II. Ideally, I would have loved ST:TMP as the 2-hour premiere of Phase II followed by the series which included Spock exploring his newfound acceptance of emotions. They could have left Xon in as a backup science officer and used him to show the contrast between Xon as a Vulcan and Spock as accepting his human side more.
When I think of how many more hours of Trek we'd have had, I have to go with Phase II because instead of 5-10 hours of movies, we would have had more than that in a TV season.
On the other hand, the amount of money they were able to spend putting together the movies makes this a quantity versus quality issue.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the movies immensely, with The Wrath of Khan my favorite of the bunch. I just would like to have seen more with the original crew. When you look at Trek, the Classic series gets the least amount of time and episodes.
And I wouldn't have minded seeing more of Ilia. I mean, more appearances.
In a sense I think we eventually did get Phase II, only it was as TNG particularly in the early seasons. Echoes of Phase II are right there in the series. Even the 1701D is conceptually similar to Ralph McQuarrie's paintings of a redesigned Enterprise.
For me part of the problem is that I look at TMP and like to imagine a series built on that and Phase II wouldn't have been that.
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We're gonna talk about both episodes today, just cuz I'm feeling lazy. But both episodes sorta jumped out at me because of the use of newspapers and court records to flesh out the stories of certain ancestors of both Marisa and Blair - Marisa had questions about the murky circumstances and official records regarding her great-grandfather's death and Blair was intrigued by the fact his 3rd great grandfather ended up in a mental institution, and I think these episodes highlighted the importance of finding out the stories, not just the facts. Plus, I have that same kind of relative in my family - the brothers Ricklefs, John and Charles - where you find out one little factoid - in my case, that they were in jail - and it snowballs into a mountain of information that not only tells you they were criminals, but gives you this amazing insight into their character and personality and makes you think about their motivations and what influenced and drove them. So that also made me think again about the Martin Sheen episode, where I noted that it didn't really speak to me - but I think maybe I was a little harsh in not liking it, because we all have that particular story or that particular relative who speaks to us, who fuels our genealogical curiosity, and even though Martin's uncles didn't do it for me, they did it for him, and that's what matters.
In the Marisa Tomei episode, I liked that she was able to alleviate some of the stigma her mother had attached to their murdered predecessor, that he hadn't been a philanderer, that he didn't deliberately break up the family. Because that kind of legacy can weigh on a person. And I thought it was just wonderful that a relative and friend of Marisa's great-grandmother was found and wrote her a letter who was able to give her a firsthand account of what her great-grandmother was like in life, and how broken up she was by her husband's death, but how happy she became with her second husband. And it's true - if the great-grandfather hadn't died, his wife wouldn't have remarried to a fisherman, and her son maybe wouldn't have taken up the trade and emigrated to America. It's all the little things that come together to bring us to where we are today.
I thought Blair's story was interesting - I wasn't really into the whole cousin reunion thing but for African-Americans, I think it's definitely great to be able to find a country or tribe in Africa that you're probably descended from, since so many of them really hit an unbreakable brick wall before the Civil War. But a 10th-cousin is almost no relation at all - I don't know this offhand, but Cousin April and I are related somewhere way back when that's so far back that it almost doesn't even matter. We feel related because we have that common ancestor we're both chasing, but I'm probably just as closely related if not more closely related to half the people in my town, half of whom I've probably never even met.
But I did like, as I said before, all the story he was able to find on Sonny Early, and how he was actually able to get both sides of the story when it came to why Sonny was shot. But not everybody has that colorful character in their family tree, and someone like that is always a good hook to get people interested. But my absolute favorite part about the Blair Underwood episode was his discovery that he had free black ancestors living in this country as far back as 1790 - what an incredible find. There are so many African-Americans who are more American than so many white Americans, if their family came here as slaves in the 1600, 1700s, except they can't prove their ancestry back that far. But for a black American to be able to look at an 1840 census and see his relative's name, or original records from even earlier in the 19th century proving that his relatives were free more than half a century before slavery was officially abolished in the U.S. - well, I'm not black, but for many who are, they know deep down that someone, somewhere down the line, was enslaved, and that has to be a terrible realization, especially when these people start to become three-dimensional, real, and well, alive to you. So to be able to say your family was free - I would be proud. Relieved and proud.
Anyway, I enjoyed them both. I think I really enjoyed Blair Underwood's episode because Blair turned out to be so nice when I went to see him at the Paley Center. And if we're keeping count, I'm three for three with the tearing up this season. Closest to crying while watching Blair's episode. And that was in public, surrounded by 100 people in a tiny theater. Embarrassing...what can I say...when I see people blown away and emotionally affected by the genealogical discoveries they make, I'm a total sap.
Enjoy your weekend, everyone!
Sharing my love of genealogy and my experience as a genealogist to inspire everyone to search out their family trees...the past, present, and future are all connected. Researching your family tree is like looking for a bunch of needles in a whole lot of haystacks, and then threading those needles together to tell your family's story. If you know where you come from you can know who you are and where you're going!
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I've been wanting to learn how to make a quilt for a couple years now and after looking around the web for info and techniques, I'm ready!
If anyone knows of some great local quilt/ fabric shops in the SeaTac, WA, can you give me a heads up as to where they are? The only places I know of are, of course, JoAnn Fabric and Hancock Fabric in Tacoma (which is closest to me).:D


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"Gear" Pro camera, first time out with it today...
My new wakeboarding buddy and his very beginner (never done any water sports) cousin came out on my boat this morning. They've been out twice and are kind of becoming my go-to riding buddies since I just moved to my area and don't know anybody. He actually mows grass for a living and mows my neighbor's lawn, saw my boat, and left a business card on my truck asking to wakeboard for gas money and free mowing lol!
Anywho, I bought a sweet little camera on Woot a few weeks back called a "Gear Pro". It's a cheapy GO-Pro apparently. It looks pretty nice though for the price I paid (maybe $30?). Anyway, got it all charged up and set up last night. Mounted it to my nav light on top of the tower with the handlebard mount that was included. Recorded some good video, I was pretty impressed with it! Only watched on it's touch screen while on the boat, but looked good on a 1" screen lol!
I was in the water waiting to go, the cousin was messing with the camera, and my buddy was driving. Waves came, and all of the sudden there goes the camera right into the water! It slipped out of his hands and sunk to the depths!
Oh well, time to find another. But if anybody wants a cheap "go-pro", this one looks pretty acceptable and seemed to work well! I don't know where else to get them though for that cheap since I got mine on Woot. Looks like there's some on Amazon for $40-60.Boats previously owned - 2000 Supra Launch, 2003 Outback, 2006 Mobius LSV


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Betty isn't an actual client of ours, she's the culmination of several of our clients that have misconceptions of what Digital Marketing, and in particular what Social Media Marketing is all about.
Conceptually search engine marketing is pretty straight forward in terms of how it benefits you. Social Media Marketing? Not so much.
Even in a pretty sophisticated place like Orange County California, we occasionally run into the business man or woman who knows that SMO (Social Media Optimization) is essential to their marketing efforts, but is satisfied that just having a Facebook page or a Twitter account meets the minimum requirement.
Combined with search engine optimization, social media technologies are now the most significant advertising opportunity in recent history. It is the great equalizer...equally available to everyone. The problem is that it is that it doesn't actually work without a strategic plan.
Betty's plan is a little weak...