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- On Tumblr, the random and humorous win the day
- Top blogs include pictures of kids crying for silly reasons, actresses with no teeth
- "Humans of New York" is more poignant, creating a sort of photo census
- Then there's a coloring and activity book -- of rappers
Sure, serious-minded folks from the White House on down have taken to Tumblr, the popular blogging platform that Yahoo announced it had purchased this week.
When you host 105 million blogs, you're bound to have all types. But since hitting the Web in 2007, the blogs that have emerged as hits on Tumblr have tended to be silly, snarky or both.
With its quick and easy tools for posting and image-friendly layouts, Tumblr has become a natural landing spot for folks in the entertain-me-now world of the Web.
With lots of folks giving the site a look for the first time since news of the $1.1 billion deal was announced, here are 10 fun Tumblr blogs you might want to check out:
This one will probably resonate the most with parents who will likely recognize those moments where frustration meets hilarity.
Greg Pembroke of Rochester, New York, started the blog to find the humor in those out-of-left field toddler meltdowns, as practiced by his sons William and Charlie. Among the captions on his photos of weeping wee ones:
"He can't climb into the sea lion tank."
"I touched his foot with my foot."
"We helped him put on the boots he loves to wear."
He's since opened the blog up to reader submissions -- meaning there are now daughters crying, too.
This blog, like the Dear Leader himself, is no longer active. But scrolling back through its hundreds of photos is still pretty hilarious.
Say what you will about his anti-West rhetoric and dictatorial tendencies. Kim Jong Il knew how to rock a pair of giant sunglasses. And he loved looking at things.
Among the North Korean propaganda shots are images of Kim stoically examining such items as fish, snack food, pizza dough, soy sauce and a juice box.
"Why is it so funny?" wrote Joao Rocha, who ran the blog from Lisbon, Portugal. "I have no idea either."
Once you've inspected Kim's inspections, don't give up hope. As a self-described "shameless knock-off" shows, his successor, Kim Jong Un, likes to look at things too.
Even if you don't follow the blog, you've probably seen some of its posts crop up on Facebook, Twitter and other sites.
Tumblr probably played the biggest role on the Internet in reviving the animated GIF -- those looping snippets of video that, when done right, are strangely entrancing.
This one takes scenes from movies and TV and uses them to describe everyday situations.
If most of these are silly, HONY is captivating and, at times, poignant.
In 2010, having just lost his job in finance, Brandon Stanton set out to create a sort of photographic census of New York City. Three years later, he's approached more than 10,000 people, taken 5,000 photos and, in the process, showcased the diversity of a city and a world.
He interviews each subject and usually captions the photos with a choice quote or detail from that interview.
It's actresses. Photoshopped. Without teeth. (Warning: Once these images are seen, they cannot be unseen.)
OK, folks. "Literally," according to Merriam-Webster, means "in a literal sense or manner; actually." So when you say something is literally unbelievable, it means no one should believe it.
If only some folks on Facebook could take their own advice.
This blog rounds up public Facebook posts in which people share articles from The Onion, a satire site, thinking they're real. Its name comes from one reaction to "news" of Planned Parenthood's "$8 billion Abortionplex," complete with coffee shops, bars and a 10-screen movie theater.
"My favorite posts are the ones that express complete shock but not an ounce of doubt," Hongo told CNN in 2011. " 'I can't believe this!' is a pretty funny response to something you should not believe."
"They have more money than you, and this is what they do."
This round-up of shots from the Facebook-owned photo app is enough to get even the biggest supply-side economist a little steamed.
Posing in front of their yachts. Partying in The Hamptons. Showing off their birthday-present Porsches or sipping Dom Perignon through a straw.
Each of those, and so much more, is on display for all the propaganda your class-warfare inclinations will ever need.
If you want to see famous people on the Internet, there are millions of places to find them.
But there's something cool about the often-surprising meetings chronicled here that makes you wish you could be listening in.
Like President Gerald Ford kicking a soccer ball with Pele. Or Jack Nicholson listening to The Monkees warm up. Or CNN's own Anthony Bourdain cooking something with a lot of tentacles while a horrified Christopher Walken watches.
From vintage images to glossy publicity shots, these are guaranteed to draw you in.
A new entry to the Tumblr-scape, this one highlights, without words, an issue Google will face while pushing its innovative new piece of wearable tech. If you looked a little dorky before, you'll look a lot dorky with these things strapped around your head.
Who among us has never wanted to color a picture of Vanilla Ice? Or do a connect-the-dots to put a crown on The Notorious B.I.G.'s head? Or pencil their way through a maze to help Humpty Hump find the Burger King bathroom (to get busy, obviously).
Almost all of us, I'm betting. But that's what you get on this Tumblr, from the wonderfully twisted mind of rapper Bun B.
The mashup of childhood memories and hip-hop stars doesn't make any sense. Which, in its way, makes perfect sense.
In other words, it's perfect for Tumblr.

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From Gasparino, news that makes a lot of sense.
Here's a release obtained by Business Insider:
The NYSE will invoke contingency plans for trading away from the NYSE facility on Monday, October 29, 2012 and all NYSE listed securities will trade on NYSE Arca, from 9:30 a.m. though 4 p.m. ET.
The decision to NOT open the NYSE Trading Floor for trading is being made due to the increasing potential severity of Hurricane Sandy and the fact that the MTA has announced the suspension of all commuter train, subway and bus service beginning at 7:00 PM tonight. Bridges and tunnels may be effected as well as the storm impact develops. NJ Transit has also announced system wide suspensions of service including PATH service and all NYC public schools have been ordered closed as well.
The contingency plan mentioned , known as 'Print as N', was most recently tested by the industry on March 31, 2012, and allows for uninterrupted trading in NYSE-listed securities in the event trading is unavailable on the NYSE Trading Floor. In this scenario, pursuant to NYSE Rule 49 and NYSE Arca Equities Rule 2.100, NYSE-listed trades would be identified on the Consolidated Tape with the NYSE exchange designation 'N', and quotes would be identified as NYSE quotes on the Consolidated Quote stream.
During such a contingency plan, NYSE member organizations will be permitted to enter orders in NYSE-listed securities directly on NYSE Arca, even if not approved as an NYSE Arca ETP Holder.
NYSE MKT member organizations that are also Arca ETP Holders may send orders in NYSE MKT-listed securities to NYSE Arca. Quotes and executions in Tape B and Tape C securities on NYSE Arca will continue to be reported as 'P' and there will not be a primary print for NYSE MKT-listed securities.


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How to Include your Site Name in your Joomla 3.1 Page Titles
The next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting we will look at is Include Site Name in Page Titles. This setting will allow you to adjust whether or not your Site Name is included in your site's title.
Many users like to include their website's name in all of their title tags. For example, in the screenshot to the right you can see that | InMotion Hosting is added to the end of all page titles for our Support Center content.
In this screenshot, we specifically showed example Google search results to also pinpoint the fact that it is your page titles (which we are modifying in this article) that show in most search engine search results. Besides there, your page title will also show in a user's browser, and will be displayed as the title of the tab they have open.
To add your site name in your page titles:
- Log into your Joomla 2.5 admin dashboard
- In the left menu, click the Global Configuration link under the SYSTEM header
- You should see several tabs towards the top of the page. Ensure you are on the Site tab
Towards the right side of the page, under the SEO Settings header you will see the Include Site Name in Page Titles setting. You can set it to any of the following settings:
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You can see in our screenshot at the top of the page, our Site Name is currently set to Joomla 3 Testing. Below are examples of what our site title will look like when we toggle the different settings available:
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Thanks. Very useful info.
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Very nice and interesting article, Joomla's strength is in complexity. Deep level navigation, sections in sections, posts Great for community sites, you can create a regular site with it but I would regard that as overkill.
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I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems with the site name. I did attempt to find an account for you with our hosting services, but it appears that you do not have one with us. So, I couldn't look at your installation. We need a little more information in order to try to troubleshoot the issue. Mainly, version number of Joomla you're using and a URL or screenshot of the issue.
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She is a prolific writer on nanotechnology investing, business, management and social issues. Her articles appear in Nanotechnology Now and the Nanotechnology Law and Business Journal. She is actively sought out to speak about and be interviewed on these diverse nanotechnology related topics.
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Dr. Chin has an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management (JGSM), a Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials, and a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City.
Dr. Chin was a former President of Foresight Nanotech Institute and a Project Management Team and Steering Committee member of the Foresight Productive Nanosystems Technology Roadmap. She is also Managing Director of Seraphima Ventures and Seraphima Consulting. She has also founded Seraphima Academy, focusing on education in math and science. She is Board Treasurer of Episcopal Relief and Development and she is a native New Yorker, based in downtown Manhattan, New York City.
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by Wesley Ratko
Approval to support a use variance that would allow Balance Chestnut Hill to relocate their facility to 18 West Willow Grove Ave. took a surprising turn at the Chestnut Hill Community Association's March Board meeting Thursday night.
The matter had been sent to the board from the Development Review Committee following their unanimous approval to support the variance two days prior. The Board, however, tabled the motion to support the variance after a lengthy and, at times, contentious discussion that left many board members with unanswered questions.
Board member Richard Snowden, whose Bowman Properties owns several neighboring buildings along Germantown Avenue, sparked the controversy by insisting that a proviso be attached to the motion supporting the zoning variance to make it contingent on the successful completion of an agreement between Bowman Properties and the owner of another property adjacent to 18 West Willow Grove – Senior Care of Chestnut Hill at 7926 Germantown Avenue.
The Senior Care property is now owned by Iron Stone Strategic Capital Partners, which also owns 18 West Willow Grove. Snowden told the Board that access to the Senior Care property is provided via a narrow driveway that runs between two of Snowden's properties. According to Snowden, seniors are brought to the center by buses that, due to a lack of turnaround space, are forced to back out onto Germantown Avenue. Over the years, Snowden said, these reversing buses have collided with Bowman-owned buildings and caused $30,000 in property damage.
"You can't grant a variance when traffic at the south end of the property is so poorly managed," Snowden said. He added that he wants a new agreement from Iron Stone Capital that pledges to better manage the traffic on and off the site, as well as pay for damages caused to Bowman buildings.
An original agreement made between Bowman Properties and the building's former owner back in 1992 required that a turnaround space be provided on the property. To date, no such space has been provided. At the time, the CHCA was also party to the 1992 agreement. Because of that, Snowden is asking that the Community Association enforce it.
Snowden repeatedly stated that he was not opposed to Balance Chestnut Hill moving into the new location and did not want to hurt the business.
"I will be down at the zoning board, either by letter or in person, in support of this variance if we get these things resolved," he said. "This is not a Balance issue."
Board member Elizabeth Bales voiced her objection to the proviso.
"I can't support holding Balance hostage over this," she said, but added that the CHCA needs to enforce its agreements.
Snowden rejected the word "hostage," but suggested the word "leverage" was more appropriate. "Your moment is now," Snowden told the Board, saying that if support for the variance was granted before an agreement was in place, there would be no incentive to honor the existing agreement.
Board member Joyce Lenhardt expressed dismay that the issue wasn't brought before the Development Review and Land Use Planning and Zoning Committees when the project was undergoing review by those bodies.
"We shouldn't be doing this here," she said. "It's not the way we're supposed to operate."
Her sentiments were echoed by Larry McEwen, co-chair of the DRC, who added that the issue should have come before those committees and been settled there before moving on for Board approval.
"Had it come there, and we as a committee felt that it was not appropriate because it didn't have to do with Balance, at least we would have known."
Board member Stephanie Chomentowski told Snowden that he'd put the Board in a difficult position and asked him what steps he had taken to rectify the disagreement.
"I have had endless conversations with the property owners," Snowden said. He added that his grievances were being expressed as a near neighbor.
All of the parties involved disagreed as to the reasons why the matter hadn't come before the DRC for review. Snowden told the Board that he'd been asked by retail recruiter Eileen Reilly to keep his concerns quiet so as not to "muddy the waters" in getting the variance for Balance.
Reilly disagreed, saying she didn't intend to tell him not to speak. She said that she recognized Snowden's right to protect his property but said that her job was to protect new business, something she takes very seriously.
Addressing the Board, she added: "I respectfully ask that this board honor Balance's efforts to work through the system. They did everything that you asked them to."
Reilly said that a delay would not only harm Balance, which has plans in place to hire more trainers for the larger location, but would jeopardize a plan to move a frozen yogurt vendor into the spot Balance currently occupies at 5 E. Highland Ave.
Andrew Eisenstein, managing director of Iron Stone, told the Board that the matter was just a misunderstanding.
"Senior day care is an important use in the community," he said. He told the board he and his partners had owned the property at 7926 for close to seven years now and during that time he had met frequently with Bowman Properties officials.
Eisenstein added that the damage to buildings was caused by SEPTA Paratransit buses, which he does not control. He said Bowman officials had approached him within the last two weeks with a request to "reinforce an agreement." Eisenstein said a new agreement had been e-mailed to him at the end of the business day on Thursday and that he hadn't had time to review it.
"We have something to work out here and I'm happy to work it out," he said. "Maybe there is some 'dollars and cents'… but at the end of the day this has nothing to do with Balance."
Despite Reilly's plea for urgency, the board voted to table the project. The matter will return to the DRC next month for further discussion.


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Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has some cautionary advice for seniors: Cyberspace can be a dangerous and expensive place.
And to hammer home the point, his office, along with the city's Department of Aging, has initiated a public awareness campaign to empower and protect the elderly from scammers who troll the Internet looking for easy cash.
The campaign, called "Take Off Your Rose Colored Glasses: Things Are Not Always What They Seem," is anchored by a series of cybersafety seminars. The first was Friday at the Bernardi Senior Center in Van Nuys, and 15 others are planned across the city into next month.
"With seniors using computers and smartphones with more and more frequency, it's imperative to train them how to avoid being the victims of scams," Feuer said Friday. "It's so much more effective for all of us to pre-empt these kinds of scams in the first place rather than have to deal with them later and prosecute after the fact.
"And how much nicer is it for seniors not to be a victim in the first place."
Laura Trejo, general manager of the Department of Aging, noted a recent survey of Los Angeles seniors showed 84 percent agree they need to be using technology.
"Many cite how the Internet is important in helping them stay connected to family, friends and the wider world," she said in a statement. "However, emerging technologies also require that seniors be vigilant to prevent being victimized."
Officials said that each year millions of Americans become victims of financial exploitation through telephone and mail marketing schemes, investment scams and unscrupulous individuals abusing positions of trust. As more older people make use of smartphones, laptops and tablets and some 400,000 people over the age of 65 living in Los Angeles, opportunities for fraud abound.
Rounding out the outreach are brochures, posters and video messages being unveiled throughout the year to increase awareness of the dark side of cyberspace, and in January, the City Attorney's Office will host an Elder Abuse Prevention Symposium.
Feuer himself said he will attend some of the safety seminars, including one at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at One Generation Senior Center, 18255 Victory Blvd., Reseda.
In the meantime, he and Trejo offered five cybersafety tips:
• If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
• Do not give out personal information unless you know who you are dealing with.
• Don't be obvious with passwords — and change them often.
• Be cautious on email, even if it appears to be from a friend or relative, because it may not be.
• Report suspicious activity.
The campaign is funded in part by a grant from the California Attorney General's Privacy and Piracy Fund.


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Live Review: Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet at SFJAZZ
The lights have dimmed, the group on stage has started playing, and the place is quiet. Dave Holland begins playing a soft note on his upright bass, repeating it, while drummer Eric Harland rattles out delicate, precise, quiet snare rolls. Over on the piano, Jason Moran listens intently, forming long, resonant chords. By the time Chris Potter starts blowing, the tone has been set.
This is Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet, a pleasant surprise to those expecting anything close to the jazz giant's past glories. Though Holland played bass on Bitches Brew, and led the avant-garde hallmark Conference of the Birds, his Overtone Quartet is a different creature entirely—it balances on intuition and interplay, bordering on ESP.
A better cast for this particular approach would be hard to imagine. In front of a sold-out SFJAZZ audience at the Palace of Fine Arts on Friday night, Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet exhibited a collective mastery of the art of listening to one another in jazz. In fact, the set's first two selections, "The Outsiders" and "Walkin' the Walk," nearly focused more on input than output.
Then, during Harland's tune "Treachery," a thundering Jason Moran solo opened the floodgates. With his arms bouncing off the keys, Moran's vivacious invention took center stage, and Potter came back in clearly energized.
From that point forward, the band clearly came together. Moran opened "Blue Blocks," the opening track from his most recent album Ten, with a pensive melody; the full band hopped in and fluidly turned it into an earthy, swinging spiritual. "Trail of Tears," a Holland composition, opened with a lovely bass solo, then reimagined the spirit of Henry Mancini's "Charade" as a noir-esque spectre. Chris Potter, who ranges from lilting soprano saxophone to sheets-of-sound tenor, was a weak link on Friday night, but shined here, blowing breathy, low-register Ben Webster notes.
But it was Holland's "Patterns" that brought the night's highpoint. As Moran and Potter settled into a cyclical, repeating figure, with Moran on a Fender Rhodes, Harland worked his magic. First, he jumped schizophrenically from one quiet hip-hop pattern to the next, playing out of rhythm, like a needle being dropped at various places on a record. But he slowly increased the volume and pace, aiming at the sides of his drums, his hi-hat stand and his mounted tambourine. He built to such a point that his cowbell fell off its stand and onto the floor, and by the end of the passage, Harland was exploding all over the kit, the pieces of the previous eight minutes' soloing pouring forth ferociously.
Because of moments like this, it's no wonder the sold-out crowd moaned their disappointment when Holland announced the last song, "Ask Me Why." Naturally, the group was cajoled out again for an encore, and the standing ovation that followed brought the close to a memorable night of jazz played by the best.
(Note: Jason Moran and Eric Harland return to SFJAZZ with Charles Lloyd at the Herbst Theatre on April 22; it's a stellar band that I've raved about before.)
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Millennium Cooking Class: July 2009
From one o'clock: Rice crepe with marinated tofu and vegetables;corn-potato cake with spicy cilantro sauce; potato cake with cashew-cream shiso sauce; sauteed fresh chickpeas; yellow curried vegetables and, center, Indian-stuffed okra.
The bounty of another fun and educational Sunday cooking class in the kitchen at Millennium, the gourmet vegan restaurant in San Francisco, with Eric Tucker, Executive Chef, presiding.
I was pretty focused on the recipes I worked on for this class. I was delighted to make two versions of the potato scallion cakes, as they reminded me so much of the potato cakes my grandmother used to make for supper from Sunday lunch leftovers. She'd serve them with a fried egg and salad.
The fluffier corn version were made with Little Farms Carolla potatoes, boiled then broken by hand with fresh corn kernels and scallions. The cakes were then pan fried and served with a green sauce was a combo of cilantro, serrano chili, pan toasted macademias, water and salt. Very easy and incredibly delicious. We used Yellow Fins for the potato only version, which produced a much denser cake.
I have to admit, I completely missed the making of these wonderful rice crepes filled with marinated tofu and vegetables:
My cooking buddy C tells me they were made with tapioca flour, rice flour, soaked white rice (8 hrs), minced scallion and coconut milk. Perhaps one of our classmates would care to post/email me the details? They were totally amazing and filled with marinated tofu and vegetables:
We also enjoyed a summer vegetable yellow curry:
and Indian-spiced stuffed okra with caramelized onions:
Stuffed broccoli leaf rolls filled with either broken up tempeh or walnuts with cooked brown rice, shiitake mushrooms and fermented black beans, wrapped like dolmas with a spicy lemongrass tomato chutney:
And several variants of this melon, tomato, and endive salad with a coconut-methi (fenugreek) vinaigrette ( with radish, with purslane, or with mint)
I regret that I missed photographing dessert: a peach flan (one version with pureed corn) with either rose geranium ice cream (one of my all time favs) or sungold tomato ice cream with basil syrup swirls.
This class had a particularly wonderful group of cooking students, who all adapted quickly to the format and were keen to learn and get their hands dirty. Many thanks to Thomas and Veronica for their assistance, to Ann for her encouragement, and to Eric for sharing his expertise.
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Best Product Awards for 2011
The SECRETS Editorial Team is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 Awards. This year we have added a new Media Category for 3D Movies, in addition to Blu-ray, CD and Vinyl Recordings. And this year we have two products winning the "BAD ASS" Award, and one Media "BAD ASS" for Audio. This year the Editorial Team is highlighting two technology areas for particular attention in 2012, so be sure to check out the "Technologies on the Rise Awards".
Congratulations to all of our 2011 WINNERS!!
Bad Ass Awards for 2011
In addition to our product Bad Ass Awards, we have added a Media Audio Bad Ass Award for 2011.
Best Media Awards for 2011
This year we have added a Best of Award for 3D Movies along with our Blu-ray, CD and Vinyl awards.
Technologies on the Rise
Technologies on the rise: Digital Audio
There was a spirited discussion among the Secrets Editorial staff as we worked to frame an award around the ongoing development of digital audio. Most of us agreed that the reproduced sound quality of digital sources continues to advance. The pace of progress in sound quality unfolds in fits and starts with the next major advances most likely taking place on the software side.
Meanwhile, high resolution audio is on the rise with more access and availability than ever before. It doesn't really matter whether you choose to get your high resolution music through physical media, downloads or through streaming. They can all be very good. And with any of these sources, control is in the hands of the user. This is not a "push" technology like traditional radio or television.
But it doesn't stop there. Current research and development on micro transistor architecture holds the promise of chips that will be smaller and faster with lower power demands than ever. Combine this with advances in Class D amplifier technology and one can expect more powerful and higher quality digital audio devices in the future.
There are lingering concerns about the future commercial viability of high resolution audio. These concerns center on the uncertainty of upcoming copy protection demands of the major labels and that a majority of consumers are still perfectly happy with the sound of their MP3's.
The Award Summary Statement…..
"High resolution music delivery is at an inflection point with enhanced quality, more variety, improved networking and component miniaturization."
It looks like we are entering a brave new era of digital audio with a bright and exciting future.
Senior Editors: Jim Clements, Dr. David A. Rich, Chris Eberle, Jason V. Serinus
Technologies on the Rise: Room-correction systems with PC control in the hands of the consumer
DSP-based room-correction filter coefficients are determined from microphone measurements during calibration. The ability of the room-correction system to enhance the sound of the system is heavily influenced by the quality of the algorithms that calculate the filter coefficients; these algorithms often represent 90% of the development time of the best products.
Computing the model's coefficients has typically fallen to a DSP chip on board the AVR. The DSP is designed for real-time signal processing, making it ideal for the signal processing aspect of this application. The DSP, however, falls short when tasked with off-line computations. To circumvent this issue, room-correction algorithms have often been deliberately simplified, thereby sacrificing the quality of the model's parameters for the sake of compute speed.
A PC is better suited to calculate the model's coefficients. In turn, as algorithms are improved, all that is required is a software update. The coefficients calculated by the PC are transferred to the AVR so the DSP can go about the work it was designed to do. The PC to AVR interface also transfers test tones produced by the speaker during calibration. Newer AVRs, with more powerful DSPs, perhaps from a different silicon supplier, are capable of more accurate real-time filter computations. Only minor changes must be made to the PC software to ensure compatibility. Time to market of the next generation systems is accelerated compared with an AVR that does not port calculations to a PC.
Visualization is a second advantage of the PC-based systems. For example, the PC can display frequency response data (before and after correction) and may offer numerous control options such as the ability to control the shape of the corrected frequency response (flat is often not optimal) and the ability to limit the frequency range that the system corrects.
Access to the PC software had been the sole domain of third-party installers. Anthem has broken this model, offering its best PC software on all products although higher priced Anthem Pre/Pros have more DSP computational power. Anthem provides a calibrated USB microphone, making practical PC-based room correction by the consumer. The need for analog mic cables, external microphone preamps, and ADCs has been eliminated. With the program in the hands of the consumer, there is significantly more time to listen and adjust in an iterative fashion
The Anthem system uniquely takes advantage of the PC to permit the user to optimize speaker placement and listening seat position. A real-time display of the room response updates continuously. One seeks to minimize response variations before correction to achieve better post correction results. Installers have separate expensive equipment to do this.
The AVR/PC interface is the first step towards shoe-horning the complete room correction into the PC for a computer-based music system. Modern PC microprocessors can handle real-time DSP computations. These systems are evolving rapidly, but they are not far enough along to approach the performance and ease of use currently offered in the Anthem PC / AVR system. Applications are limited to the space where AVR functionality is not required.
Senior Editor: Dr. David A. Rich Editor-in-Chief: Dr. John E. Johnson, Jr.


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Annual, biennial, perennial herb (rarely shrub, tree), often from taproot
Stem often ± scapose, generally ribbed, hollow
Leaves basal and generally some cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, sometimes compound
Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present (in involucres) or not; bractlets generally present (in involucels)
Flowers many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small, atop ovary; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally ± ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a ± conic, persistent projection or platform on top subtending 2 free styles
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Genera in family: 300 genera, 3,000 species: ± worldwide, especially temp; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); some highly toxic (e.g., Conium). Underground structures here called roots, but true nature remains problematic. Mature fruit generally critical in identification; shapes generally given in outline, followed by shape in X -section of 2 fruit halves together.
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Stem 0 or erect, simple or branched; base fibrous (from old leaf sheaths) or not
Leaf: blade oblong to triangular-ovate or obovate, ternately, pinnately, or ternate-pinnately dissected or compound, segments or leaflets thread-like to wide
Inflorescence: umbels compound, peduncled; bracts generally 0; bractlets generally present, 0 to conspicuous; rays, pedicels spreading to erect, often webbed at base
Flower: calyx lobes generally 0; petals wide, yellow, white, or purple, tips narrowed; projection atop ovary 0
Fruit linear to obovate, very compressed front-to-back; marginal ribs widely to narrowly thin or thick-winged, others thread-like; oil tubes per rib-interval 1several; fruit axis divided to base
Seed: face flat to concave
Species in genus: ± 75 species: c&s North America
Etymology: (Greek: bordered, from prominent marginal fruit wing)
Reference: [Schlessman 1984 Syst Bot Monogr 4:155]
Fr wing width expressed as width of 1 wing, not both together.
Plant 314 dm, glabrous to puberulent or minutely scabrous, ± glaucous; taproot stout, thickened
Stem rarely 0; base with 1 or more scarious sheaths
Leaf: petiole 330 cm; blade 1535 cm wide, triangular-ovate to round, ternate-pinnately dissected, segments 222 mm, linear-oblong; cauline leaves generally few, like basal
Inflorescence glabrous; peduncle 1.56 dm; bractlets several, > or < flowers, linear; rays 1030, 310 cm, spreading; pedicels 120 mm
Flower: corolla maroon-red or yellow
Fruit 1216 mm, oblong-ovate to elliptic, glabrous, pumpkin-seed-like; wings thick, << body in width; oil tubes obscure
Ecology: Wooded or brushy slopes
Elevation: 1503000 m.
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CENTRAL COAST –The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $101 million in funding to 90 projects to improve transportation statewide.
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- The City of Paso Robles will receive $350,000 for the Charolais Corridor Multi-Use Trail and Restoration Project. This project includes a multi-use trail and storm water improvements.
- The City of Pismo Beach will receive $125,000 for the beautification of U.S. 101. This project includes the planting of almost 300 trees adjacent to the highway.
- The Trust for Public Land in Santa Barbara will receive $350,000 for the Ocean Meadows Resource Lands Acquisition project. The project will include the acquisition of 63 acres within the Devereux Slough watershed for wetlands restoration, protecting oak trees and the planting of new trees.
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These Tech Companies Have the Most Loyal Customers
If you've walked around inside an electronics store like Best Buy recently, the sheer number of electronic choices with regard to tablets, computers, printers, smartphones, et al., can be overwhelming. Yet for all the consumer electronics we buy, certain brands stand out as clear winners among consumers.
Brand Keys, a customer loyalty research company, has been ranking 375 of the United States' top brand names into dozens of categories for the past 17 years. Recently, utilizing its Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, Brand Keys broke down six consumer electronics sectors into its respective peers and delivered a brand loyalty winner in each category.
Today, I want to not only give kudos to the winners of Brand Keys' loyalty assessment, but also examine what the factors were that helped these companies achieve their segment-leading success. Understanding what these companies are doing right could help us find the next groundbreaking tech sector investment.
Computers (laptops)
With PC sales dropping more in the first quarter than at any other time in their history, competition among laptop makers is getting fiercer by the day -- and margins thinner. This is a sector that requires constant innovation, so, as to be expected, Apple and Samsung tied for the top spot.
Apple certainly won't win any acclaim for its higher price points from consumers, but its thinner and lighter MacBook Air, sleek designs catered to millennials, and non-Windows-based operating system are enough to drive plenty of customer loyalty. In addition, it's Apple -- would we really expect anything less than perfection?
As a user of a Samsung laptop, I can tell you it has done a marvelous job creating eye-pleasing designs that are becoming lighter in feel, and are also geared toward a younger generation. With innovation being everything in the tech sector, these two companies are head of the pack.
It's getting tougher to differentiate the difference between an e-reader and a tablet these days, but Brand Keys did its best to separate the two when conducting its survey. According to the results, Amazon.com's Kindle topped the list.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, since Amazon's Kindle was the revolutionary technology that led the transformation away from the bricks-and-mortar bookstore and into the convenience of an at-home reader. As the innovator, I would have been shocked not to have seen Amazon atop the rankings. What's more interesting in this category was that Barnes & Noble's Nook took the No. 2 spot ahead of the Apple iPad. It's quite possible that few consumers think of the iPad in terms of being an e-reader, so I wouldn't read into that too much (pun completely intended), but it was nonetheless a surprise.
Flat-screen TVs
Samsung's dominance continues in the flat-screen television category, taking the top ranking ahead of Vizio. Just as we witnessed with laptops, Samsung is catering to a younger generation of consumers by relying on thin, but simple, designs, and actionable, but fun, advertising to reach this group of individuals. Samsung's price point certainly will be higher than many of its peers, but it's also delivering on the higher expectations by consumers of a crisper picture with more user-programmable options.
First of all, yes, people still use printers; and that's very good news for Canon , which topped the printer category yet again. The ease of use for Canon printers, and the amount of specialization they can provide in an enterprise work environment, makes Canon a logical choice to continue topping this category for years to come. As a leader in customer service and a provider of stylish designs to personal consumers, Canon is a leading gadget designer.
Try not to be too surprised here, but Apple is not No. 1! Samsung actually trumped Apple in smartphones with its innovative Galaxy S-series, as its touch-to-touch file sharing and bigger screen appear to be wooing consumers in greater numbers.
It's also worth noting that Samsung smartphones run off Google's Android operating system which is the dominant OS around the world by market share. In the U.S. the difference isn't that noticeable, but outside the U.S., Android is Goliath, with nearly 70% of global market share and Apple would be the equivalent of David with close to 20% market share. Consumers love to own dominant brands, plain and simple.
As I prefaced previously, there isn't a huge difference these days between an e-reader and a tablet, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Amazon took the cake here in brand loyalty. It's a bit disconcerting that the inventor of the tablet, Apple, only managed to take the No. 2 spot, but Amazon's functional Kindle Fire that dramatically undercuts Apple on price could be a key reason it takes the top honor.
What's the takeaway?
Now that we've had a closer look at which companies took this year's top honors according to the Brand Keys survey, let's examine what common themes exist among these consumer electronics that might help us recognize the next big winner.
To begin with, innovation is everything. Apple has been the king of innovators for years, but it hasn't truly changed the game since it introduced the iPad a few years ago. In the smartphone sector, BlackBerry has been even worse. It took countless delays and nearly two years to introduce its new BlackBerry Q10 and Z10, which run on its own proprietary operating system. Thus far, reaction to the new smartphones has been lukewarm at best, as BlackBerry brought up the caboose in terms of smartphone brand loyalty.
Secondly, design matters. Millennials are caring more and more about their own image and the design of the products they use, so functionality needs to extend far beyond just what the product can do and into the actual styling of the device. Samsung's thin and sleek TV designs and Apple's lightweight and colorful laptops are prime examples of hitting on this point.
Finally, price is important, but it's also not a breaking point if the higher-priced product can deliver added value to the consumer. Amazon's Kindle Fire, for instance, generates top-tier tablet loyalty because it's both a cheaper alternative to the iPad and possesses a strong brand name. However, in laptops, Apple and Samsung offer arguably the most expensive price points, but are generally regarded as the leading brands in terms of functionality and status. In contrast, Dell ranked dead last in laptops despite its cheaper price point, as its laptops are losing their brand identity and have failed to keep up with Samsung or Apple in design freshness.
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Craft / High End Brands ($$$$)
Jeni's Ice Cream: Out of New York
Also McConnell's, Salt & Straw, and Ample Hills if you don't mind shipping charges
Tea-rrific: Tea infused ice cream out of Connecticut
Ben & Jerry's: I'm going to have to give the top spot to B&J. They make top notch ice cream in all kinds of wonderful flavors, plus they're tree huggers, so it's all good! (I tend to be a little hard on Ben & Jerry but it's only because I expect perfection in every pint)
Favorite flavor: Milk & Cookies
Owned by: Unilever
Haagen-Dazs: B&J's very worthy competitor. H-D flavors tend to be a bit more "classic"...sorry, best word I can think of, but these guys are neck in neck in my mind.
Favorite flavor: Rocky Road (or Caramel Cone)
Owned by: Nestle
Talenti Gelato: Started in 2003 as a gelato stand, Talenti has grown to be the #1 gelato maker in the US and the #3 premium brand in the country. All natural has served them well. Oh, I compiled a list of all their flavors here.
Owned by: Unilever (announced 2014)
Graeter's: the "french pot process" has earned this company well deserved respect and loyalty
Owned by: Graeter's (since 1868)
Mainstream / Middle of the Road Brands ($$)
Breyers: I was raised on Breyers, but they have fallen out of my favor as most of their flavors are now "frozen dairy desserts".
Favorite flavor: dont have one anymore
Owned by: Unilever
Turkey Hill: Turkey Hill continues their expansion westward as the #4 producer of ice cream. They make a lot of great quality flavors.
Favorite flavor: Gertrude Hawke's Box of Chocolates
Owned by: Kroger
Friendly's: Friendly's is in the rebuilding phase with their restaurants, but they make good ice cream (and even better sundaes). They are all over the east coast.
Owned by: Dead Foods as of 5/9/16
Blue Bunny: Around here, Blue Bunny is found at Walmart and a few other select locations, but I think things are different in other parts of the country. I've learned to enjoy their ice cream and I adore their ever growing line of novelties.
Favorite Flavor: Bunny Tracks
Owned by: Wells' Dairy Inc.
Kemps has very limited exposure in my part of New England. They were at Walmart but I only really see their froyo at Market Basket and Roche Bros now. According to them: "[Kemps is] the leading marketer of frozen desserts, milk and other dairy products in the Upper Midwest". I don't care for their tart frozen yogurts, but I've had some success with their sweet yogurts.
Favorite Flavor: Denali Froyo
Owned by: HP Hood LLC (since 2004)
Dreyer's (Edy's): I was a pretty big fan of Edy's in college, but they fell out of favor when they ditched awesome flavors for terrible frozen dairy desserts. They have learned from these mistakes and their current formulas are pretty good. They were responsible for the now defunct Healthy Choice ice cream.
Favorite Flavor: Caramel Cone Crunch (retired)
Owned by: Nestle
Budget / Entry level brands ($)
Stone Ridge Creamery: Owned by the conglomerate that runs a bunch of grocery stores. They tend to be light on the mix-ins, but overall it's quite good considering the price point. (Stone Ridge is made at the same facilities as Kemps, but Kemps is not SR). Whatever store chain supervalu owns near you, that is where you will Stone Ridge products.
Favorite Flavor: Phillip's Truffle Shuffle
Owned by: Supervalu
Hood: Among it's collection of dairy products, Hood makes entry level ice cream...which is good if you're in college and can't afford anything better. They have operations throughout the country, own several other brands like Kemps, and have over 2 billion in sales annually. We didnt cover them much at first, but their New England Creamery line up has some fun stuff.
Owned by: HP Hood LLC
Flavor King: Found this at a Price Rite -- do not eat this stuff.
Low Fat Brands:
Skinny Cow
Owned by: Nestle
Weight Watchers
Made by Wells' Dairy Inc. since 2004
Healthy Choice - defunct
Owned by: ConAgra (but made by Edy's)
Local Brands:
Brighams: It's only served in New England. They were sold to Hood in the summer of 2008 and the plan then was to keep the status quo. They make good ice cream, but I don't cover it much since their market isn't that big (not that we don't love our ice cream in New England).
Owned by: HP Hood LLC
Gifford's: Gifford's (of Maine) bought Gifford's (of Maryland) a few years back to expand their distribution along the east coast. They make some fun quarts but I only really see them at Roche Bros and Wegmans in my area.
Ownded by: Gifford's
Non-Local Brands:
Pierres Ice Cream Company: Pierre's products are sold in 10 states. They also own Hola Fruta and Yovation. It's very possible you are eating Pierre's ice cream, but under a private label name.
Owned by: Pierres ICC
Perry's Ice Cream: Is out of upstate New York. They have been nice enough to send over samples several times, most people find their stuff at Wegman's.
Owned by: Family Owned - 4 generations
Blue Bell Creameries: While Blue Bell creameries was the #4 brand in the country, though it's only available in 17 states. I don't happen to live in one of them, so we have CT from Nerd Lunch try them for us every now and then.
Owned by: Blue Bell Creameries
Non-Dairy Brands:
Tofutti :
Purely Decadent & So Delicious from Turtle Mountain
Brands I'm still trying to place:
Walmart also has their own brands of ice cream but we don't try it often
Starbucks ice cream was a limited selection, often coffee based (produced by Unilever).
Walgreens makes their own ice cream, making both standard and premium ice creams.
There is Green's and Hagan in the Pennsylvania area, but they are run by Kemps, which is run by HP Hood LLC.
There is Carolina based Mooresville ice cream which puts out pints of Front Porch ice cream.
Magnum makes premium ice cream bars in the states and is owned by Unilever.
Mars is responsible for any Mars or Dove ice cream (Dove pints are rare nowadays)
hmmm, did I forget anyone? other places might carry "store" brands, but deep down these are probably rebadged ice creams. As time goes, I will place them were I can. Feel free to leave a comment.


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Rated - NR
(Suggested for Mature Audiences only.)
DVD Features:
Widescreen Presentation
Theatrical Trailer
Alternate Clothed Sequences
Alternate English-Language Title Sequence
2 Inserts (1 chapter index card, 1 catalog)
Listed Running Time: 83 minutes
Cast: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans, Nadine Pascal, Youri Radionow, Burt Altman, Gilda Arancio, Marcia Sharif, Yvonne Dany, Jean Rene Bleu, Jean Rollin, René Douglas, et al..
Director: J. A. Lazer (Jean Rollins)
AKA: Le Lac des morts vivants/ El Lago de los muertos vivientes/ Lake of the Living Dead/ Zombies Lake
With few exceptions most everyone that appears in this film are transient characters who are never named. This includes the bevy of naked women (and zombies) that appear and disappear throughout the length of this shockingly absurd flick. Of those characters who are named (or are at least important enough to note) you will meet:
The Mayor - Typical uninspired bureaucrat played by Howard Vernon. Was his name ever mentioned? You wont care.
Chanac - I've not a blessed clue what this characters point or purpose is besides being the mayor's gopher, yet IMDB lists him as a named character! I'd ask why but I dont care.
Katya - Your friendly Russ, er, Parisian reporter. Why they named this character Katya is beyond me. Her character is pretty much irrelevant so, really, who cares?
Peasant Woman (?) - This is the French village girl saved from her virginity by a German soldier (who becomes the nameless leader zombie) in a flash back. There's no credits, IMDB doesn't list a name for her, and I didn't notice a lot of dialogue in her barn scene.
Helena - The strange girl-child offspring of Peasant Woman's summer of love. She's a preteen, the movie looks like it's set in the mid to late seventies, and the war occurred circa the forties. Do the math. The mind boggles.
Heralded by some as the worst zombie movie of the genre ZOMBIE LAKE is one of those rarified cult gems that next to no one will admit liking, yet every fan of bad movies has probably seen it at least once. And if they haven't then they can turn their Bad Movie Club Card in at the desk! So what's the story?
To begin with this is set somewhere in France, at least that is what the DVD jacket says. I believe that's also what the characters say but I am unconvinced. This looks like it was shot on location in the backyard acreage of some old European estate, probably someone's "friend of a friend's" rich uncle's manor house.
And the plot?
It's virtually incomprehensible. The movie opens on what looks to be a scenic country lake setting sometime circa the seventies. A single female wanders through an idyllic copse sheltering a secluded gazebo wherein she gets into her birthday suit and heads for the water. Before you can swallow that first fist full of popcorn Ms. Skinny Dipper is getting dragged to her doom by a zombie wearing a costume patterned after the regular army uniform of either the Wehrmacht or Panzergrenadiers. Let me repeat that: An innocent nubile young woman is attacked by an Aqua Nazi Zombie while skinny dipping, in broad daylight, in a country lake.
Are we being punked?
Sadly we are not. Worse, now aroused by the sweet taste of virginal woman flesh Mr. Nazi Zombie suddenly shambles forth from the murky depths and spastically attacks some hapless woman walking her cart over a bridge. Wait, rewind that. Theres a bridge with regular foot traffic over a lake full of Zombies?! A bridge? Over a lake!!!?? Talk about your exaggerating real estate agents turning log cabins into rustic country mansions. As if thats not bizarre enough get this: Hungry Aqua Nazi Zombie attacks Ms. Innocent Victims neck and proceeds to slurp up her blood!
Blood? Zombie? Aqua Nazi Blood Drinking Force? Nubile skinny dippers? What the BLEEP!? I swear this is how this movie starts. I am not making this up. On the bright side you know the cameraman and crew probably had fun filming those scenes. And bless them for the close ups! The downside, it looks like the scenes were only shot once and the editors had to take the good with the bad as thats all they had. Speaking of which there is a flashback sequence later in the movie that attempts to fill in some back story but all it manages to show are that the German soldiers, meaning the Nazi zombies, were part of an stock footage mobile armored column.
Considering the uniforms thats a nice bit of detail, if accurate. And the point is, that, uhm, well. .
The story, as I see it, is this: During World War II French (?) resistance fighters ambush a German column- actually a single armored vehicle, this is a ultra cheap quikie flick after all- and dispose of the bodies in a nearby lake. Wasn't that lucky? A lake was right there for them to dump all those bodies in! Alas, deprived of proper Christian burials, the spirits of the dead become restless. Now skip forward to the relative present of the movie and, behold, peculiar happenings and mysterious deaths abound around "Ghost Lake". (Thats the actual name for the lake used in the movie.) Apparently this is big news, big enough to bring a journalist from Paris to the otherwise quiet French village to investigate. Thats when things really start to happen!
Confused? Join the club.
If you can knock over a no swimming sign there's no reason not to go swimming.
The bodies of naked women have the power to summon Nazi zombies.
Below the lily pads and murky water lakes look like swimming pools.
Pretty girls shouldnt go skinny dipping in lakes because vicious lust crazed aqua Nazi zombies might rise up out of the muck and eat you!
Zombie Lake was made in 1980, a time when the main films that formed the cultus of the zombie movie genre were Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978). While there were numerous imitations and low budget knock-offs produced prior to the release of Zombie Lake the next real cornerstone film of this horror sub-genre, Return of the Living Dead, would not be released until 1985. This being the same year George A. Romero's cult classic Day of the Dead would be released.
However what sets Zombie Lake apart from the usual run of the mill quickie imitations is the presence of Nazi zombies. A trope that, prior to this, was really used to effect only once in Shock Waves (1976). A movie that is really more of a mad scientist film with zombie undertones. In the interim since Zombie Lake first appeared there have been dozens of zombie films released, though only a handful have centered on Nazi zombies. One of the more notorious being Oasis of the Zombies (1983), which was filmed by infamous sleaze auteur Jess Franco (Sadomania, Vampyros Lesbos). By comparison Zombie Lake lacks the obvious exploitation elements favored by such film makers. This of course being gratuitous gore and excessive violence, both of which have become hallmarks of the zombie movie genre.
However, in the final analysis, the real judge is the audience. This movie is often cited as being the worse zombie movie ever made, but in truth it is not. Zombie Lake is not meant to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre with zombies. Nor is it an attempt to recreate Night of the Living Dead. If that is what you are expecting to see in a zombie movie youll be sorely disappointed.
1 min - Woman begins to strip during title scroll!
1 min 16 sec - Houston we have FULL FRONTAL FEMALE NUDITY!
1 min 37 sec - Should I wear this bikini?
1 min 54 sec - Nude sun bathing.
2 min - Scrolling close-up shot begins languidly moving up her nude body as titles continue to scroll.
2 min 28 sec - Nude woman knocking down no swimming sign.
2 min 38 sec - Nude woman gets into the lake.
2 min 30 sec - Great underwater shot.
3 min 38 sec - The Aqua Nazi Zombie awakens.
5 min 26 sec - The Aqua Nazi Zombie rises from the murky depths.
5 min 44 sec - The Aqua Nazi Zombie attacks!
22 min 46 sec - It's a barn, there's hay, let's do what comes naturally.
39 min 37 sec - All female vollyball team arrive at the lake for some skinny dipping fun. (Count them by the bus and pay close attention to how many get into the lake and how many are attacked by zombies.)
40 min 26 sec - Splash fight!
40 min 52 sec - Go, go Aqua Nazi Zombie Force!
41 min 18 sec - Everyone into the water for a Group Splash Fight!
42 min 12 sec - Aqua Nazi Zombie Force attack! (Interesting underwater shots, bet you never notice the pool walls.)
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No offense but this movie has been reviewed to absolute death. I've seen it on nearly every single bad movie site ever. And why, oh why, does everyone call them Nazis? They appear to be regular German infantry as opposed to goosestepping, arm band-wearing, book-burning full-fledged Party members. They aren't even the SS. But then again, I supposed "German soldier zombies" doesn't sound as cool as "Nazi zombies."
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A little harsh, Koosh. I thought it was a quality review. I don't see why the fact that something has been reviewed on other sites means it shouldn't be covered here. Then again, I don't read other bad movie review sites.
As for the Nazis, you guys both seem to know more about German military uniforms than I do. Even though there appear to be no swastikas or little ss lightning flashes, I think it's likely the filmmakers meant to evoke Nazism with those uniforms, though; it worked on me.
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a quality review, I was just saying...well....blah, I guess I kind of put my foot in my mouth didn't I? My apologies.
And, they
have the Swastika, on the little eagle symbol on the right breast I believe, but all German soldiers had this and it's barely visible unless you really look, and anyway these guys are story-wise portrayed as regular soldiers for the most part, and their killing unjustified especially after the one guy saved that woman's life.
WWII German characters are always tricky to do anyway. They can either be outright villains like in the Indiana Jones films and The Sound of Music, or ambilvalent in-betweeners, which only really happens if the movie's aim is to show the war from multiple sides such as in The Longest Day, or even in A Bridge Too Far where the German soldier dies trying to save his commander from his burning halftrack. And occasionally one will even be the protagonist, like Omar Shariff's Colonel Grau in The Night of the Generals and James Mason's Rommel in The Desert Fox.
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Quote from: Kooshmeister on March 17, 2008, 01:27:03 AM
I supposed "German soldier zombies" doesn't sound as cool as "Nazi zombies."
Ahem that's "Aqua Nazi Zombie," if you please.
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As for the Nazis, you guys both seem to know more about German military uniforms than I do.
Kooshmeister has a valid point about identifying insignia. I did my best to identify the uniforms and the closest thing they resembled in my print references were regular army uniforms. I mentioned that in passing so calling them "Aqua Nazi Zombies", well, it just has a nice ring to it.
Go ahead say it outloud really fast a couple times.
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