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The holiday's were good to Disney's animated musical "Frozen." After a big weekend, the loose retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" will pass the $500-million mark in worldwide ticket sales on Monday, the company said.
In the U.S. and Canada alone, the film grossed an estimated $28.8 million in its fifth weekend in wide release, almost matching the tally from the 3-week-old No. 1 movie "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." That's a 47% jump from its take during the previous weekend, indicating that "Frozen" was a leading pick for families trekking to cinemas over the holiday weekend.
The total gross for "Frozen" is essentially split between domestic and international at around $250 million for each. Releasing the film, which features the voices of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel, at the end of November was clearly a sound decision, especially with no serious animated competition. Fox's "Walking With Dinosaurs," a 3-D computer-animation/live action hybrid, grossed around $7 million over the weekend.
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The movie won over critics and audiences, generating a 89% "fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes and a grade of A-plus from moviegoers, according to the polling firm CinemaScore.
Starting off strong, "Frozen" scored the biggest wide opening ever for the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, grossing $93.6 million to beat the previous record-holder "Toy Story 2."
Disney's timing for "Frozen" was similar to its 2010 offering "Tangled." "Frozen" has already surpassed the total domestic gross for "Tangled," which was nearly $201 million. "Tangled" made almost $391 million overseas, bringing its worldwide total to about $592 million.
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SOCORRO, N.M., February 15, 2000 -- "What's in a name?" For people who are already familiar with it, the name "New Mexico Tech" invokes certain images and notions of what the state-supported research university is really like.
However, to individuals who are less familiar with New Mexico Tech -- many of whom may be potential students -- the name "New Mexico Tech" often suggests a whole range of inaccurate, and
often negative, preconceptions of the type of education the school provides -- or of what the institution actually is.
Recruiters from the New Mexico Tech Admission Office are frequently asked by those unacquainted with the science and engineering university, "Is that some sort of 'vo-tech' school?"
Oftentimes, those same potential students who ask such questions are surprised to learn that not only does New Mexico Tech offer several different baccalaureate and graduate degree programs, but many of them also lead up to a doctorate-granting level.
"Our Admissions representatives -- those who make a living trying to sell people on New Mexico Tech -- will tell you, that among the uninitiated, our name reflects a place where somebody might go to learn to become a mechanic," says Richard P. Ortega, director of Tech's Office for Advancement, one of university's leading proponents for changing the school's name.
"Would we attract more students who are looking for a quality science and engineering school with less effort if our name better reflected those qualities?" he asks.
"A New Mexico Tech alum might point out with pride that they completed a degree at Tech, but does the person who's in charge of hiring wonder if a graduate of New Mexico Tech might be able
to fix their Dodge?" Ortega continues. "Or, are recent Tech grads who send their résumés out-of-state being screened out after a casual glance at their educational credentials because of
mistaken assumptions that New Mexico Tech is a vo-tech school?
"I have sat at the New Mexico Tech table at college fairs and have had to respond to blank stares or expressions of 'What's a New Mexico Tech?'" Ortega relates. "On our college banner, we have had to put 'New Mexico Tech,' followed by 'Science and Engineering,' precisely because our name in itself does not tell the whole story and requires a tag line."
Ortega adds that the name "New Mexico Tech" is not well recognized in areas outside of New Mexico, even though some alumni from the university, as well as some current students and faculty, mistakenly assume that New Mexico Tech's name is as recognizable as a "Cal Tech," "Georgia Tech," or even "MIT."
"Two years ago, we hired a national marketing agency to conduct a limited marketing campaign for Tech, and one of the first suggestions they came up with was for us to change our name and include 'university' in the new name," Ortega points out.
And, the four-year university's legal name -- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology -- in addition to being excessively lengthy and cumbersome -- isn't much help in conveying an accurate, attractive, and up-to-date portrait of the 111-year-old university.
Although "mining" was allowed to remain in the school's title the last time the university went through the channels of required state legislation to change its name in 1951, the emphasis on providing a mining curriculum at Tech has withered since then.
Likewise, the number of students who actually graduate with a mining engineering degree from New Mexico Tech has steadily declined.
And, the number of prospective students who are attracted to schools that specialize in mining engineering has dwindled, paralleling the domestic mining industry's general downswing into
economically dire straits.
"Most of the offices at Tech that have a primary responsibility to interact with outside constituents strongly support changing the name of the Institute to reflect the true nature of our endeavors," Ortega maintains. "The Tech Admission Office representatives, for instance, have adamantly stated that we need a name with 'university' in it to accurately portray ourselves as an institution of higher learning which awards bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees."
To add further confusion to the issue of the small university's identity imbroglio, in recent years a vocational school, specializing in training card dealers for the state's Indian casino gaming industry, set up shop in Albuquerque under the similar sounding name, "New Mexico Institute of Technology."
In an effort to circumvent some of the inherent problems associated with New Mexico Tech's current name, or names, a prescribed course of action has been initiated by the university's board of regents.
The Tech regents currently are gathering data and seeking input from "stakeholders," which will allow the university's governing body to thoroughly examine the repercussions and consequences of changing the school's name before a decision as to whether or not to proceed with a name change is made.
Should the process eventually progress to the point of changing New Mexico Tech's name, it wouldn't be the first time that has happened in the university's long history. In 1951, at the urging of school administrators, the New Mexico State Legislature voted to change the name of the New
Mexico School of Mines to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, a name which eventually got shortened in common parlance to the more manageable "New Mexico Tech."
Changing the name of any of the state's universities, however, requires an amendment to the state constitution; and, it wasn't until the 1960 general election that a majority of New Mexico voters officially okayed New Mexico Tech's new name, along with approving new names for New Mexico State University, Western New Mexico University, and New Mexico Highlands University. Whether a new proposal to change New Mexico Tech's name can garner as much statewide support as the last effort remains to be seen since none of the other state universities are consolidating efforts to lobby for respective name changes as they did for the 1960 general election.
New Mexico Tech Board of Regents and university administrators have already begun making initial contacts with some of the state's legislators to begin gauging the level of support or opposition a proposed name change for the institute is likely to encounter among the lawmakers.
"There have been no major objections [to changing the school's name] voiced at any of the meetings," says Tech Board of Regents Chairman Robert E. Taylor, "and we assured the legislators that we are not working toward changing the mission of the institution."
The task of gathering data related to the name change issue also has been assigned to New Mexico Tech's vice presidents; and market surveys of Tech alumni and New Mexico citizens have either already been done or are in the planning and development stages. A campus committee, which was convened in 1997 to address the name change issue, was specifically given the task of compiling related comments and suggestions from New Mexico Tech alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and it has submitted a summary of its findings -- both pro and con -- to the university's board of regents for the governing board's consideration of the matter.
In addition, the name change committee has suggested a few new monikers for the university to consider, including the committee's consensual favorite, New Mexico Tech University, as well as New Mexico Technological University, New Mexico Science and Engineering University, New Mexico University of Science and Technology, and New Mexico University of Science and Engineering. New Mexico Tech alumni who favor a name change also have proffered a few suggestions, among them "Science and Technology University of New Mexico," which, the contributor pointed out, could be shortened to the somewhat tongue-in-cheek acronym of "STUN M."
The university's Board of Regents and administration, meanwhile, have set up a rigorous game plan to further consider and evaluate changing New Mexico Tech's name.
According to the provisional schedule which was drawn up in previous regents meetings, during the recently held 2000 state legislative session, key legislators were approached to inform them about the name change issue and, once again, to gauge whether there is sufficient support or opposition to either proceed with or squelch additional lobbying efforts. In particular, state legislators from districts that have had historical connections or current economic ties to New Mexico's mining industry were solicited for their opinions on the matter.
After the end of this year's legislative session, a series of public hearings concerning New Mexico Tech's name change proposal are planned for the ensuing three months. The first of the hearings will take place in Socorro, on Monday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in the Tech Library, room 212. The second is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, at 5 p.m. at the Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute's Smith-Brasher Hall; and the third is planned for Monday, May 15, at 5 p.m. at the Eastern New Mexico University branch in Roswell, in the school's Campus Union Building.
After the hearings, a "quiet campaign" during the summer months is scheduled to be mounted to garner support for a name change if prevailing support for such a cause warrants it. In September, a formal decision will be made by New Mexico Tech administrators whether or not to recommend to the Board that the university proceed with formally proposing a name change for Tech at New Mexico's 2001 legislative assembly.
If a decision is made to go forward with the change, then the proposal will be presented to the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents for formal approval of the matter. A vote on the name change is tentatively scheduled to take place during the September 2000 board of regents meeting. A formal announcement of the board's decision will be issued immediately after the meeting to properly notify all interested parties.
If the Board of Regents approves the proposal to change Tech's name, according to the regental schedule, the remaining months of 2000 will be dedicated to mounting an active campaign to garner further backing from Tech alumni, students, faculty, and staff, citizens of Socorro and New Mexico, and state lawmakers to bolster support for the proposed change.
Thereafter, once the state legislature convenes for its 2001 session, a vigorous lobbying effort would be mounted at the State Capitol to facilitate the passage of the proposal which would change New Mexico Tech's name.
If state legislators decide a name change for the university is warranted, a ballot initiative enacting a name change will then be forwarded for inclusion in the next general election.
After that, it's up to the voters of New Mexico to approve or reject a required constitutional amendment that would officially and legally change the name of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.


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Sadly, at least for Sony - and this will be heartening to anyone who doesn't own a PS3 - the developer of both those games, thatgamecompany, may be about to broaden its developmental horizons a little.
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"Right now we are very much exploring ways to bring our games to a bigger audience, beyond just PlayStation. We are still in the process of negotiating, but I hope that we can announce it [soon]. But right now it's still in the process."
Note this in all likelihood wouldn't mean you'd see games like Flow and Journey appear on the PC and Xbox 360. It'd more likely mean their future projects could be multiplatform. Just like their past ones were; if you've never played Cloud on the PC, you probably should.
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When discussing the flu, "same old-same old" means over 40,000 people will die in this country of the flu this winter.
That's as many people as will likely get killed on U.S. highways this year. It would be nice to vaccinate against getting killed in a car crash, wouldn't it?
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Those who were vaccinated had 25 percent fewer respiratory illnesses than people who weren't. The vaccinated group had 43 percent fewer sick days that winter, 44 percent fewer doctor visits, and saved almost $47 per patient.
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Donald Bucklin, MD (Dr. B) is a Regional Medical Director for U.S. HealthWorks and has been practicing clinical occupational medicine for more than 25 years. Dr. B. works in our Scottsdale, Arizona clinic.


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You'd expect a Harold Ramis memorial to be funny given that the guy basically invented modern American comedy in his work from Second City and "SCTV" in 1960s and '70s through "National Lampoon's Animal House," "Caddyshack," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters" and "Groundhog Day."
You'd expect it to be sad because a) it is a memorial, and b) Ramis had a tough go of it over his last four years as he struggled with autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels and had taken a significant physical and mental toll by the time he died Feb. 24 at age 69 in his North Shore home. Plus, a lot of people really miss him.
You'd also expect it to have a strong spiritual aspect because Ramis, who was raised Jewish and practiced Zen Buddhism, was constantly searching for meaning and enlightenment, the type of quest dramatized in his later films such as "Groundhog Day," "Stuart Saves His Family" and "Multiplicity."
And you'd hope that all of these elements would somehow make sense together as they no doubt would have had he been in the director's chair.
His own multiplicity of talents, interests and gifts certainly provided inspiration Tuesday night in Hollywood's Montalban Theatre (named after, yes, Riccardo) as colleagues, friends and family paid tribute to the man who, repeatedly, was remembered for his warmth as much as his intelligence and comedy chops.
Second City presented the memorial in cooperation with Erica Mann Ramis, Harold's widow, and other family members. Second City co-owner/CEO Andrew Alexander said about 600 people had RSVP'd yes, and the packed auditorium included Second City performers from Ramis' era (among them Betty Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brian Doyle-Murray) as well as some in earlier (Fred Willard) and later (Mary Gross, John Kapelos, Jack McBrayer, Chris Witaske…) casts.
Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron, who played the kids in Ramis' 1983 comedy "National Lampoon's Vacation," were there. So was Ted Danson. So was Chaz Ebert on the eve of her late husband Roger's birthday. So was Jonah Hill, fresh off the huge opening weekend of his new comedy "22 Jump Street," as he grabbed a seat toward the back of the theater. Hill never acted in a Ramis film but said before the program that he did a table read for "Year One," Ramis' last film (2009), and Ramis thanked him by sending him a big box of frozen Chicago pizzas.
"I've never gotten anything as thoughtful as that from a director before or since," Hill said, noting that his debt extends beyond pizza. "No one would be funny from my generation without Harold."
Martin Short, who had been friends with Ramis for four decades, emceed the program with a keen feel for balancing wisecracks and sorrow. After milking the applause upon his introduction, the former "SCTV" cast member mock-deflected the attention, saying, "This is about Harold, and you know how competitive he could be. Sweet, funny, clever, lovely Harold. How is it possible for any of us this evening to put into words what we've been feeling these last few months?"
Later he put it this way: "I adored Harold. I don't think anyone didn't adore Harold. You couldn't have a soul or an understanding of the human condition and not adore Harold."
This is a common theme for Ramis testimonials. He was a notorious mensch, a nice guy in a field that produces its share of not-nice guys: comedy. He'd tell you if something wasn't working — and you might be crushed, because you knew he was right — but he'd also help.
He wrote sketches spotlighting other people; "SCTV" castmate Andrea Martin performed snippets of two of them, including Dr. Cheryl Kinsey's twitchy talk on fake orgasms. And, Second City/"SCTV" castmate Flaherty said, if you needed a good joke or two in your scene, Ramis, who cut his teeth writing Playboy Party Jokes, would give you one of his.
"He was so sweet, so smart, so brilliant and yet so kind," Flaherty said. "Everybody fought to be in a scene with Harold. We all wanted to work with Harold. We loved him."
Flaherty also painted this vivid picture of the young Ramis: "skinny as a rail, hair out to here, made Bob Dylan look like a G.I."
"To say Harold Ramis was a smart guy is a gross understatement," "SCTV" performer Dave Thomas said. "He was about as intelligent as anyone could be without being clinically insane."
Steve Carell, whom Ramis directed in "The Office," began his testimonial with a zinger: "When I heard that Harold Ramis was going to direct an episode of 'The Office,' my immediate thought was, wow, Harold Ramis. His career really must be in trouble."
But Carell said he and the cast actually were grateful for and transformed by his work. "He was a man who loved to make people laugh and who loved to laugh himself, which isn't always the same thing," Carell said.
Ramis' early affinity for pot and other drugs was recalled by a few speakers. Ross-Leming said she still isn't sure whether Ramis was joking when, after they each ingested "a popular pharmaceutical" before a Second City improv set, he whispered to her on stage, "Are we standing?" and, following her affirmative response, added, "But on the ceiling, right?"
Laurel Ward, who worked alongside Ramis in his production office for 16 years, testified that he maintained his sense of humor even amid his medical challenges; when a nurse inquired "Are you comfortable?" he responded, "I make a good living." Ward also read a heartrending essay in which Ramis, mid-illness, envisioned an idealized future that would not come to be.
Actor/friend Steve Kampmann discussed Ramis' spiritual side and a trip to the Harris Theatre where the Dalai Lama whispered to Ramis, then in a wheelchair, "I will pray for you." Judith Kahan Kampmann, Steve's wife, paid special tribute to Erica Mann Ramis and her "tigress"-like work on her husband's behalf after his illness began.
Family, all agreed, was most important to Harold Ramis, and his wife and children were at the heart of Tuesday's program. Violet Stiel, Ramis' adult daughter by his first marriage to Anne Plotkin, recalled that she and her father had discussed co-writing a parenting book with the working title "We're All Going To Die, Now Go to Sleep."
She affectionately related how she and her dad shared a mutual interest in talking about him and how he liked the idea of affecting other people. "My dad made the world a better place, and if we can't keep him physically in this world, then we'd better do our best to fill up the space he left behind," Stiel said.
Erica Mann Ramis took literal support from her two sons, Julian and Daniel, crowding them in behind her as she gave an emotional, sometimes halting account of how she "wasn't ready to let go" of her late husband but now has "to learn to live in a world that is shaped entirely differently without him by my side, to learn to step into this new relationship with my invisible best friend."
"He was my Google before Google existed," she soon noted to appreciative laughter.
There was also Billy Crystal recalling how Ramis was "the conductor" of his "Analyze This" duet with Robert De Niro, "making sure we were hitting the high notes with perfect pitch." "SCTV" co-stars Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara offered video testimonials, as did "Year One" star Jack Black, "Knocked Up" star Seth Rogen (Ramis played his dad, and Rogen recalled sharing a joint with him) and "Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman.
Director Judd Apatow and actor Bill Hader, who are currently out of state shooting a new movie together, submitted a bit in which they riff on Ramis — and crack wise on Bill Murray, wondering whether he's crashing a bachelor party instead of attending the program — while fruitlessly searching for Ramis' memorial in a cemetery.
And Al Franken showed he's still got it as he introduced himself as "U.S. senator from the state of Minnesota and the screenwriter and star of Harold's least successful movie, 'Stuart Saves His Family.'" He heralded his former director as "wise, calm, hilarious and a giant in the industry that I was once part of and that so many of you are still doing, and I think that's great," and he added with mock humility: "Do not think for a moment that what you do in comedy is less important than what I do in the United States senate."
Short also read a letter from John Cusack, star of Ramis' "The Ice Harvest," in which the Evanston-raised actor wrote: "I always remember being acutely aware of feeling lucky to be at a table with him…All that talent and all that soul, always the smartest guy in the room, he was also the most decent and the most kind. No small feat."
The program ended with Ramis' friend Kate Taylor singing "Auld Lang Syne" followed by a performance of 11 members of the Road Kill Men's Council drum circle, with whom Ramis was said to have performed and sought "sacred space" every Monday night for six years. The audience retreated to the lobby amid those complex beats.
"I think everyone's so deeply confused with this ongoing emotion of trying to figure out a joyous celebration of Harold and hearts that are broken," Short said afterward. "What would he like? What would he want? What do we feel? It's a high-wire act….
"He was too enamored with comedy to want it to be too sincere, but it's awfully raw for everyone who loved him so much. And you can see that no one didn't love him."
For Erica Mann Ramis, the event was kind of a blur. "I worked so hard to put it together, I put my heart and soul into it," she said. "I know it happened, and I was very focused on the images of Harold, and I loved just being with him, and I don't remember anything else. That's the truth."
But she did see the evening as a sort of milestone.
"I feel like I'm on a cliff and someone's putting hang-glider equipment on me, and it's time to jump and I don't know where to jump," she said. "And I'm taking Harold with me wherever I go."
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May 25 Marks International Towel Day [VIDEO]
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Notice of Revised Automatic Adjustments to Dollar Amounts
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Interesting series of tweets from Brian Smith (who is a must-follow) this morning regarding George Springer and the look he's getting this Spring.
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#Astros prospect George Springer said he's making his first legit spring training start today against #BlueJays. #Astros are very high on George Springer right now and his start isn't a random occurrence. Club wants to give him a full look during ST. There are several options for Springer in 2013. Could start at AA CC and move to AAA OKC. But if he's ready for AAA, he might begin there. #Astros are going to let Springer dictate his immediate future and aren't going to hold him back. When he's ready, they're ready.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
It's almost Springer Time!
2 comments:
Nice debut by Mr. Springer!
- February 28, 2013 at 11:24 AM
- Reuben said...
I love Springer, but I see absolutely no reason to start him at AAA this year. He struggled in his AA cameo last August, and struck out a ton even in LAN. Let him develop at his appropriate pace, folks. If he absolutely tears up AA pitching, sure, promote him, and maybe even give him a September call-up. But I think the more likely ETA for him in Houston is August or Sep 2014.
- March 1, 2013 at 5:48 PM
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Hypedown: 2010
If so, who wins and who loses?
-Frank Ingiosi
Senior Writer, Pro Wrestling Illustrated
4 comments:
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated said...
Frank Ingiosi's report on tonight's Raw-Impact showdown will be posted tomorrow morning at pwi-online.com.
Frank's "The Turn" column is posted every Friday. I'd recommend bookmarking it.
Stu Saks/Publisher
- January 4, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Bring back Eddie Ellner!
- January 5, 2010 at 3:41 AM
- Potsy said...
Frank, you forgot to take points away for Hogan getting the Nasty Boys a job...and then saying they didn't mention Raw while technically true, Hogan did mention "going up north."
Who wants to se Knobbs and Saggs "wrestling" anymore? I'd rather see another Eric Bischoff karate match...or David Arquette.
Just me, I guess...I think Jarrett ought to come out and show the video of hitting Hogan with a guitar, and then say, "I don't know why he's so upset...it isn't like I was sleeping with HIS wife..." Wow...yeah it should go there.
- January 5, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Give it some time. If history has taught me anything, it's that Hogan and Bischoff are equally as capable of winning the race to the bottom as McMahon.
I don't think I phrased the reference to TNA not relying on WWE-bashing clearly enough. There have been nights where TNA just rehashes old WWE storylines as if it were TNA history. There were a few veiled shots throughout the night, but not the anti-WWE crutch that tended to appear far too often.
Finally, I think we'd all like to see another Eric Bischoff karate match. That was the epitome of cringe television.
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It's clearly a general consensus that you must improve your dream recall to have lucid dreams, and that it is possible to have a lucid dream and not remember anything about it.
Something that I've been wondering since I had another LD last week is this: if you have a truly lucid dream in which you have perfect consciousness and awareness, shouldn't you always be able to remember them regardless of how developed your dream recall is because it is a conscious memory?
Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
If you're new to lucid dreaming, browse this forum for answers to your questions, or post and ask for specific tips on getting started.
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Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
"The madman is a waking dreamer." -Immanuel Kant
Re: Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
Dream recall is practiced to help induce a DILD. Doing WILDs one remembers the dream as well as one remembers any experience; but mundane dreams tend to be forgotten with time even if one is lucid. One tends to have long term memories of the ones that were emotionally intense or curious.
"There is only one God and his name is Death.
And there is only one thing we say to death "not today"
- Syrio Forel
And there is only one thing we say to death "not today"
- Syrio Forel
Re: Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
You'd think, but sometimes all I will remember about a lucid dream is that I had one, but might not recall what happened during it.
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Re: Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
I think you can forget a lucid dream just like you can forget something that happened in waking life, but I think forgetting a lucid dream is less likely than a regular dream. Lucid dream recall is more similar to waking life recall for me.
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? Morpheus
Re: Shouldn't you always remember your LD?
i agree, sometimes i have a lucid dream, even though not vivid and last only a couple of seconds, and my dream recall was not really good, i still recall it. not right after i woke up, but a couple of minutes or hours i would have a flashback that i was lucid and i remember what i was doing in my LD. then i would go "oh my god i was lucid this morning!" something like that…
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RAE: Whatever their wrestling background, when performers get called up to the WWE, a certain amount of 'bedding in' takes place. And it's not exclusively reserved for the kids cherry-picked out of the thousands waving their arms in the air screaming 'choose me!'. Even big fish in smaller ponds are expected to transition into the WWE style. And why not? There's no point in having a global brand if you're going to say 'hey, just do whatever you like.' Easy, tigers. I'm not saying everyone has to look and wrestle the same way; just that there have to be recognisable notes that pull all the individuality together.
When Bryan Danielson morphed into a the initial Daniel Bryan character, he spent a short spell in developmental before playing out a season on NXT. Danielson had such a genuine, indie geek-boy persona that WWE played it up rather than trying to turn him into an out of place bronzed adonis. It was a smart move. Although, I'm pretty sure he's been dabbling with the Garnier Summer Body Creme lately and he definitely seems less of a quirky novelty than when he first arrived. He's put his roots down.
In Bryan's case, the tactic worked. Alberto Del Rio also managed the transition from Mexican hero to smooth talking WWE main eventer pretty easily. But for every success there are countless guys and girls who haven't gelled with the WWE house style. Sin Cara was the exciting signing who's stalled time and time again. I worry for my beloved Mason Ryan/Barri Griffiths who, despite bypassing NXT and jumping straight to the big leagues, seems to have dropped back into developmental. Maybe he needs a little more time.
There is, however, someone who seems to have gone from FCW to Smackdown with such ease it appears he was made for it: Claudio Castagnoli or, as he's now known, Antonio Cesaro. Impossible to mention either name without rapidly fluttering my hand against my chest and exclaiming that my beating heart should be still. Girly crushes aside, it's bizarre how quickly Claudio seems to have become part of the furniture. Even during his first fleeting Smackdown appearance as Aksana's rugby playing old pal, he seemed a natural WWE fit. Ah yes. Switzerland. That noble rugby playing nation. Hah! Still, you can't deny he looks beefy enough to have chased the egg.
Claudio/Antonio's match participation has been minimal so far, but those of us who followed his career before the magic phone call know his in-ring skills more than match his physical stature. And we know he pulls off a mean promo. That's what makes his steady ascent so finger-tremblingly exciting. It's like feeling the low rumble of an earthquake waiting for the right time to let rip.
The only question mark over Claudio's move to the big time was whether his unmistakable presence would transfer to the much bigger WWE arenas. Maybe it's difficult to separate giddy fan from logical thinker, but he certainly fills my screen every time he appears on it. So if it's all the same with you, I'll keep holding on to the walls. This one's for you, 'former rugby play'…
ANDREW: I've no doubt that it's been prompted by the Avengers film, but I'm going through a comic phase at the moment. I don't know if it works the same way for everyone but each of my more geeky interests seems to come and go in waves. Whether it's wrestling, video games, comics… I'll go for months showing hardly any interest then binge for weeks on end; endlessly devouring DVDs of obscure indie promotions, forcing myself to collect that one last memory fragment in Assassin's Creed: Revelations or (as was the case this month) ploughing through Marvel's expansive Civil War and Fear Itself storylines.
People much more knowledgable, intelligent and talented than me have written before about the glaringly obvious parallels between wrestling and comic books. Both looked on as lesser forms of entertainment. Both focussing for the main on interweaving, overly wordy storylines punctuated by periods of graphic violence. The masks… the starkly drawn good guys and bad guys… the improbable physiques… oh, and the ridiculously sexist costumes of course.
Another common factor is the distribution of power in both fields. Both the wrestling and comic book industries are essentially ruled (in the west at least) by two major companies, WWE/TNA and Marvel/DC respectively. Below them there are a number of smaller companies carving out their own share of the market. In wrestling you have the larger independents such as ROH, CHIKARA and PWG, while in comics you have companies such as Image and Wildstorm selling an edgier product to a smaller audience.
While these smaller companies are generally happy to share talent the big two in each field are usually more exclusive. Indie wrestlers are, for the most part, free to work in whichever promotion they like, and while they may change it slightly they are able to take their character with them. The same happens with smaller comic companies, where crossover events and guest stars from another companies line aren't seen as a rarity. However, when it comes to Marvel (owner of the Avengers, Spider-Man and the X-Men to name a few) and DC (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman etc) this is a much less exected occurence, as indeed it is with the WWE and TNA…
Yes, the big wrestling story this week was Christian's appearance at TNA Slammiversary. Apparently a reciprocal deal for Ric Flair's involvement in the 2012 Hall of Fame ceremony, the idea of a current WWE title holder being allowed to appear at a TNA PPV is quite amazing. As a fan it's great to think that this is even possible, and the temptation is to wonder whether this could mean anything going forward? Will there be a new working relationship between the two companies? Will we see more TNA stars on WWE shows and vice versa? Will we finally see Sting recognised in the WWE Hall of Fame?
Yep, that's TNA's official YouTube channel showing that they don't listen to nasty roomers like that. In the long run this means nothing, but it happened, and we were there to see it. Well, when I say "we" I don't mean Rae and myself. We're not going to sit around watching TNA when there's some paint drying in the south wing of the WrestleBunker. What do you think we are? Masochists?
Anyway, in the spirit of harmony and coexistence here's to you TNA and WWE. It's always nice (if disappointingly rare) to be surprised by wrestling, but the fact that the two of you could do something like this show's a side of you that isn't as petty and childish as we have come to expect. And that was a surprise…


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Friday, February 22, 2008
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"The principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the twentieth century." -- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
This blog is an ongoing exploration of issues related to copyright and fair use in our contemporary digital culture. The blog began and continued through April 2008 as a class project in Peter Friedman's Legal Analysis & Writing classes at Case Western Reserve University of Law during the spring 2008 semester. The students wrote cross-motions for summary judgment in a fictional lawsuit brought by the owners of the copyright to "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." The Plaintiffs (represented by half of my students) alleged infringement of their copyright in Que Sera, Sera by the KLF, the real-life creators of an actual recording entitled "K Cera Cera." K Cera Cera (mp3) is a recording of the Red Army Choir singing an amalgam of Que Sera, Sera and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Happy Xmas (the War is Over). The second half of the students, of course, represented the Defendants. In the course of the students' work in researching and writing their summary judgment briefs, the professor and the students posted items here that raise and explore the legal and policy implications implicit in and related to the infringement claim and Defendants' fair use defense. The relevant documents the students had to work from were the following:
(1) Plaintiffs' Complaint filed in the fictional action.
(2) Defendants' Answer filed in the fictional action.
(3) Excerpts from the deposition of Joyce Hatto, Senior Director of A&R for Defendant Arista Records.
(4) Excerpts from Plaintiffs' Responses to Defendants' Requests to Admit.
(5) A discussion regarding ASCAP's standing as a plaintiff is contained in the comments to William Patry's blog post here.
In light of the timeliness and open-endedness of the issues raised by the fictional lawsuit, the blog will continue despite the completion of the project and of the school year.


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-21-4496. Tue Nov 09 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875. Subject: 21.4496, Calls: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, General Ling/USA Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison <reviews at linguistlist.org> Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssa at linguistlist.org> ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! ===========================Directory============================== 1) Date: 07-Nov-2010 From: Carrie Bramlet [Carrie2044 at aol.com] Subject: 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Linguistics -------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:32:16 From: Carrie Bramlet [Carrie2044 at aol.com] Subject: 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-4496.html&submissionid=3530874&topicid=3&msgnumber=1 Full Title: 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Linguistics Date: 17-Feb-2011 - 19-Feb-2011 Location: Gainesville, USA Contact Person: Ana Diaz Meeting Email: coloquiouf at gmail.com Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa) Portuguese (por) Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat) Call Deadline: 03-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: The graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida cordially invite submissions for their 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures on February 17-19, 2011. The colloquium will bring together graduate students and professors from a wide variety of disciplines.The colloquium is focused on linguistics and literature of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan languages, and Latin American Studies, but is open to other fields of humanities, including the following: Anthropology, Psychology, Art History, Business, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Music, Political Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Telecommunications, Geography, Women's Studies, and film. The colloquium will have the honor of featuring five distinguished keynote speakers: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Ph.D Associate Professor (Reader) in Spanish University of Plymouth Plymouth, UK Marío Bellatin Mexican writer Xavier Villaurrutia Poetry Award (2000) Mazatlán Literature Poetry Award (2008) George Esenwein, Ph.D Associate Professor Department of History University of Florida Pepa Úbeda Catalan Poet Miquel de Palol Award (2010) Benet Rivas Award (2009) Alfredo Suppia, Ph.D (tentative) Professor of Film Institute of Art and Design Federal University of Juiz de Foras Minas Geráis, Brazil Call For Papers Please send your one-page, single-spaced abstract of approximately 250 words with title attached as an MS-Word document to coloquiouf at gmail.com by January 3, 2011. Abstracts and papers can be submitted in English, Spanish, Portuguese or Catalan. Specify in the subject line whether your abstract is intended for Linguistics, Literature, or Humanities in general, and whether it is written in English, Spanish, Portuguese or Catalan. For example: Submission Linguistics Catalan. Please be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation and email address. The selection committee will respond to proposals as soon as possible. All presentations will have a 20-minute limit. A $30 donation would be greatly appreciated to help offset the costs of the colloquium. ----------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-21-4496


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Chicken Korma
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 teaspoon julienne ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 pound chicken, cooked
1 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala, or to taste
1/4 pint heavy cream
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Heat oil in a large deep frying pan adding chopped onions and fry for 4 to 5 minutes on a medium heat until the onions are slightly brown. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for a further 1 or 2 minutes. Add the salt, turmeric and ground cumin.
Turn up the heat and further cook for another 1 minute then add the chicken. It is very crucial that spices are mixed within the pan at this point and stirred to ensure that the chicken cooks with texture and flavor. Add water after stirring the chicken into the spices. Turn down the heat slightly and stir in the garam masala and cream cook for a further 5 minutes. Serve sprinkled with green coriander or cilantro.
Tonight, I'm serving with rice, side salad, naan garlic bread and fruit compote.


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What happens when you get together 6 people, a banana suit, and some hardware? You get a really creative project known as the LED Wall. The crew built a giant LED Wall made up of a matrix of 350 LEDs. Over a weekend they painstakingly soldered and glued the lights to a pegboard and connected them together using MAX6953 LED driver chips. The result was a matrix of LEDs that they could control by turning each LED on and off like pixels. They took that a step further and connected the LED Wall to the Internet via the ioBridge IO-204. With a web interface, anyone can draw their own messages and send them to the LED Wall with a web browser. You can see your messages being displayed by watching the live video feed on LED Wall website. So far, 119700 pixels have been sent to the LED Wall through the web — everything from "Hello World" to Mario and Space Invaders have been submitted.
You can draw your own images on the LED Wall yourself and also look through other people's messages by visiting the project website at wall.elnormo.net. If you visit the project site, you will also see how they created the LED Wall. Here's a time-lapsed video of the project build.


text: Hi all. I'm hoping to pick somebody's brain. I am trying to install APF on a ubuntu karmic vps. I do not have access to the real server, just the vps. I have :- Code: IFACE_IN="venet0" IFACE_OUT="venet0" set in the config file which I belive is correct BUT when I start the server it says Code: apf(31804): {glob} flushing & zeroing chain policies apf(31804): {glob} firewall offline apf(31839): {glob} activating firewall apf(31879): {glob} determined (IFACE_IN) venet0 has address 127.0.0.1 apf(31879): {glob} determined (IFACE_OUT) venet0 has address 127.0.0.1 apf(31879): {glob} loading preroute.rules ......... venet0 has address 127.0.0.1 ??? Should this not be my static public ip address for the server ? APF continues to load and all looks good except I can now no longer access the website. I seem to be able to ssh to the server ok. # ip addr gives Code: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: venet0: <BROADCAST,POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/void inet 127.0.0.1/32 scope host venet0 inet my.stat.ic.ip/32 scope global venet0:0 I have also tried IFACE_IN="venet0:0" which reports could not verify that interface venet0:0 is routed to a network, aborting. Is it my IFACE settings or should I be looking at my rules ? I still have the "DEVEL_MODE="1" safety net out and the web page pops up after the time out. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Rob


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Lenovo unveiled two new Android tablets at an event in China today. The LePad S2007 and the LePad S2010 run Android 3.1 Honeycomb, and will likely get an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich eventually.
The LePad S2007 comes with a 7 inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, while the LePad S2010 comes with a 10.1 inch display with the same resolution.
Both these tablets are powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core Qualcomm processor, and 1 GB of RAM. They offer dual mode 3G connectivity (EVDO & WCDMA), so they will work with both China Telecom and China Unicom. Both also come with an 8 MP primary camera and a 1.3 MP secondary camera.
The LePad S2007 comes with a 3780 mAh battery and weighs 360 gms, while the LePad S2010 comes with a mammoth 7560 mAh battery and weighs 670 gms.
Both devices will be available in China, next month, along with the 5 inch Lenovo LePad S2005, which was also unveiled today.
Here's an image of the trio – LePad S2005, LePad S2007 & LePad S2010 – posing together.
Everyone seems to be focusing on the largest smartphone market in the world – China – these days. Hopefully, we will also see Lenovo launch variants of these devices globally.