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Dearest friends, it is once again I, the Duke of DVD, scurrying forth to disrobe the overweight ham-beast of cinema, cutting away the stained undergarments of Oscar-winning films, to finally begin chiseling at the waxen crust caked into the ass-crack of movie horror, revealing the hidden nuggets of awesome that we so crave. This night I bring you the masterpiece of horror known colloquially as Paura Nella Citta dei Morti Viventi, or City of the Living Dead, or perhaps The Gates of Hell if you prefer. The list goes on. No matter what you call it, however, one fact remains: Lucio Fulci knows how to make a zombie movie!
Consider the facts: Fulci zombies crush skulls. A lot of skulls. Fulci zombies levitate. They kill with their minds by causing people to literally vomit their guts up. They fucking teleport. Yes, in Lucio Fulci's twisted world, no one is safe. Blow their heads off, they respond by sending a hurricane of maggots at you. Try to run, they just teleport in right behind you and, with one hand, crush your skull, your brains oozing between their ripe fingers. Part H.P. Lovecraft, part Italian horror, but all Fulci, City of the Living Dead has much to offer even the most jaded Madite (That's right, you're all Madites now. See the Vicar for your "I fucked the Vicar and all I got was this t-shirt (and syphilis)" shirts and membership cards.)
Let us explore, shall we?
Our movie opens with a creepy cemetery. The wind howls, dust and leaves billow, and fog drifts around, revealing mold-ridden tombstones. A priest walks among them, looking for something. Turns out it's for a sturdy tree limb on which to hang himself. We cut to New York City, to a séance being performed by a frizzy-haired medium and a few of her acolytes, one of which is the beautiful Mary Woodhouse, played by the stunning Catriona MacColl. Just as the contact with the spirit world is reaching a crescendo, Mary sees Father Thomas hang himself. This sends her into a frenzy of fear, whereupon she collapses and appears to expire.
The cops show up, which include a smarmy detective who grills the frizzy-haired medium. She informs him that they were employing the use of a 4000 year old book and that this book portends great evil that is to come. A reporter named Peter Bell (played by Christopher George) shows up, trying to get a scoop. Rebuffed by the police, he changes tactics and instead visits the grave site where Mary is being buried. It's a good thing for Mary that the state of New York apparently doesn't embalm their dead (who knew?!), because she's still alive! Hearing her screams, Bell uses a nearby pickaxe to rip open the lid of the coffin, hilariously nearly impaling the screaming Mary in the process. (seriously, this was the only thing he could think of doing? Hah! I chortle)
After being rescued, Mary tells the reporter and the medium what she saw. A town named Dunwich (which she gleaned from a tombstone during her vision) is about to become ground zero for the zombie apocalypse. The death of Father Thomas by hanging has sprung open the gates of Hell, and unless they are closed before All Saints Day, the dead shall never rest and instead invade our homes and shopping malls and generally make nuisances of themselves.
We flash back to Dunwich, to the hapless Bob, played by Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Seems Bob is the local bad boy, hitting on all the young girls of the town and being a punk, basically. Bob is wandering around and happens upon an abandoned home. Going inside to investigate, he finds an inflatable blow-up sex doll, which looks suspiciously like the one hanging from the Vicar's bell tower. He tosses it into a corner, where it auto-inflates for some reason. Overcome with plastic lust, he oozes up to it and caresses a vinyl breast. Suddenly he sees a rotten baby corpse laying a few feet from him on the floor. Covered with worms and general filth, he's repulsed enough to not hump the doll and instead flees.
I'm trying really, really hard to understand the point of this scene but I can't. Why is he in this house? Why is there a blow-up sex doll here? Why does it auto-inflate? We don't know. We can only surmise that Fulci was high on 'shrooms this particular day of shooting and thought that this would work, somehow. I suppose the real purpose is the rotten corpse, which is the first of many strange happenings in Dunwich. We cut to the local bar, where 3 men are discussing the strange happenings of late. Suddenly, the large mirror over the bar cracks and the wall on the other side of the room suddenly cracks as well. Full of fear, the bar patrons flee.
We then cut over to a psychiatrist's office. Gerry, the good doc, is giving therapy to Sandra, who has brought her cat in with her. They are interrupted when Gerry's 19 year old girlfriend Emily shows up, looking hotter than the sun. Played by the scrumptious blonde Antonella Interlenghi, she is very much in Duke's Pantheon of Italian Hotness. Emily announces she's going to go find Bob, who she has been attempting to help somehow or other. After she leaves, Sandra's cat goes apeshit, biting Sandra's hand fairly severely. Yet another strange happening!
It's night now, and Emily finds Bob in an old garage. Before any "therapy" can take place, unearthly howls fill the night and Bob runs like a little girl, leaving Emily alone. Suddenly, zombie Father Thomas appears, and begins rubbing worms and dirt into Emily's face, apparently suffocating her. Emily got off easy, as we'll soon see. We cut to a young teen couple parking in a truck, making out. The boy is rounding second base, heading for 3rd, when the girl pulls up, suddenly frightened. She looks out the window and is transfixed by the ghastly stare of zombie Father Thomas. Suddenly her eyes begin to bleed and, while the boy watches in horror, she begins puking her guts out. All of them. The scene runs for several minutes as the chick vomits more and more bloody guts. Finally, an undead hand reaches in behind the boy and crushes his brains out the back of his skull.
The next morning, Emily's body is found and brought to the local morgue. A ragged medical examiner (played by Fulci himself!) examines her and concludes she died of fright. The sheriff and Gerry think that Bob is responsible. Meanwhile, Mary and the Reporter Bell (remember them?) leave New York, heading to Dunwich. In Dunwich, things are going from bad to worse. Bob returns to the abandoned house, presumably in hopes of scoring with the plastic chick, but instead he runs straight into a hanged zombie Father Thomas. Elsewhere, at the morgue, an attendant trying to steal jewelry gets his hand bitten by the cadaver.
At Sandra's house, a corpse appears in her kitchen. Distraught, she calls Gerry over, who tries to explain away the happenings but isn't very convincing, to himself or Sandra. At Emily's house, her zombified self visits her younger brother John-John. At Sandra's house, as she's getting consoled by her psychiatrist, the walls begin to bleed, so her and Doc Gerry flee. Meanwhile, Bob seeks refuge in a townsperson's garage. Lucky for him, the teenage daughter of the house comes to console him. Unlucky for him, her dad discovers them. Thinking Bob is trying to have a go, he grabs him and fucking impales his head on a drill press! Seriously, that's a bit extreme isn't it? Well, not in Fulci's world I suppose. The effects work here is masterful, even if the scene serves little purpose and has no zombies.
The next day, Bell and Mary arrive at Dunwich finally. They immediately head to the graveyard, and meet Gerry and Sandra, who also are trying to get to the bottom of things. The two couples talk about their collective issues, with Mary revealing that the Gates of Hell have been opened. Gerry agrees that this explains much. They head back to Gerry's office to get further acquainted when suddenly a storm whips up outside, blowing the window open. Only, this isn't a normal storm! It's a Fulci-esque storm, which blows maggots instead of rain in through the open window. After nearly 5 minutes of maggots flying in, the floor, the people, everything is covered in a snowy white, writhing mass.
After the storm is over, the John-John calls, informing Gerry that zombie Emily showed up and killed their parents. Sandra heads over to collect him while the others hunt for the sheriff. As Sandra and John-John are leaving, zombie Emily teleports in and skull-crushes Sandra's brains all over the stoop! The boy runs for his life, through a gauntlet of zombies, until he's rescued by Gerry and ultimately given over to the cops for protection. Meanwhile, back the local bar, the patrons we met earlier finally get their due as several zombies shamble in and massacre them.
Mary, Reporter Bell, and Gerry finally arrive at the graveyard for the final confrontation. It seems that Father Thomas had been interred in his family crypt. They lift off the lid, revealing a subterranean chamber. Featuring masses of cobwebs, not to mention a pantaloons-filling amount of dead bodies, the crypt is of the type that only the bravest of adventurers would enter. Knowing they have no other choice, for All Saint's Day is upon them, the 3 descend into the darkness.
Zombie Sandra suddenly pops up. The three recoil, when suddenly she teleports in behind Bell and crushes his skull! So much for getting that Pulitzer! Before she can teleport away, Gerry sticks her to the wall of the crypt using a handy pitchfork. He and Mary journey onward, finally entering a chamber of sorts. Zombie Father Thomas confronts them in all his undead glory. He begins death-staring Mary, whose eyes begin to bleed. Other corpses come to unlife around them, shambling about, covered with cobwebs and filth. Before Mary can begin vomiting her guts out, Gerry grabs a nearby wooden cross (which has a pointy end, handily enough), and impales zombie Father Thomas with it, tearing a hole through his torso!
Suddenly, zombie Father Thomas, and all of the other undead, burst into flame, burning up fairly quickly and dissolving into nothing. The Gates of Hell have been closed, we think! Mary and Gerry emerge from the catacombs. They climb from the tomb as two cops show up, John-John in tow. The couple beam smiles as an excited John-John scampers across the graveyard towards them. Suddenly, their smiles turn to ash as they recoil in horror. Mary screams bloody murder as we freeze-frame on John-John's smiling face.
Ok… what the fuck, Fulci? I guess we're to surmise that John-John is now invested with zombie-leanings? He doesn't look undead. The cops he's with don't look like their moldering. One thing is for sure, Mary and Gerry both are horrified. Perhaps they hate children. After all, they do make outrageous demands like "I'm hungry!" and they also say silly things like "I don't want to play 'Let's take a ride on Uncle Vicar's lapbone' again!" Yes, that's it, they hate children and suddenly they realize that John-John's entire family has been wiped out, and that they are the only reasonable guardians for him in a town filled with sex-doll fuckers and inbred skull-crushing zombie hicks.
No matter how confusing the ending is, City of the Living Dead is a great movie. It moves at a brisk pace for the most part and features some truly scary zombies. For wicked kills, Fulci excels. Vomiting one's own guts out, skull crushing, worm smothering, even a drill through the head. It's all here, folks. I also really liked Fulci's use of sound. Sure, it might sound like a Fulci recorded a bunch of cats being stuffed into a sack and then tossed around, but it works when a zombie makes that sound. The music by Fabio Frizzi is also spectacular and moody.
I could only fault this movie for not having any woman get naked except for one made of vinyl. However, for some reason, I didn't miss it much. This could have been because I was in a naked serving girl sandwich during the entire length of my viewing, or it could have been because I was transfixed by teleporting, skull-grabbing zombies. Either way, I was strangely satisified. City of the Living Dead is a movie all of our readers should immediately rush out and get. Trust me, you'll love it just as much as a self-inflating sex doll.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
City of the Living Dead (1980); Or How I Really, Really Want To Acquire A Self-Inflating Sex-Doll (For Research Purposes Only)
Dearest friends, it is once again I, the Duke of DVD, scurrying forth to disrobe the overweight ham-beast of cinema, cutting away the stained undergarments of Oscar-winning films, to finally begin chiseling at the waxen crust caked into the ass-crack of movie horror, revealing the hidden nuggets of awesome that we so crave. This night I bring you the masterpiece of horror known colloquially as Paura Nella Citta dei Morti Viventi, or City of the Living Dead, or perhaps The Gates of Hell if you prefer. The list goes on. No matter what you call it, however, one fact remains: Lucio Fulci knows how to make a zombie movie!
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 3:20 PM
Labels: '80s, 2-3 thumbs, Lucio Fulci, Self-inflating Sex Dolls, Zombies
2 comments:
- Samuel Wilson said...
Dag, Duke! This sounds more like some kind of Asian film from around the same time. You know, the kind with all the supernatural puking. Except one of those films would probably have an actor puking maggots instead of catching them in the face. Nor is a teleporting zombie quite the same as a witch's head lifting off from her body for a jaunt about town with her vital organs attached. On the other hand, the likes of The Boxer's Omen might have been more reticent about the use of sex dolls. Nevertheless, from your account it looks like Fulci might have been absorbing some Asian influences, if not some artificial compounds, and teleporting skull-crushing zombies are quite mad in their own right. You've made me interested in seeing this film.
- August 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM
- Michael J. said...
I dunno, Duke. This thing sounds like a mess. I mean -- what with the self-vomiting guts, the skull crushing, the worm smothering, and the cranium drilling -- it sounds like a mess of messes. A don't-watch-without-first-wrapping-yourself-in-a plastic-sheet kind of movie. (Although you wisely went with the preferred serving girl wrap option.) But then zombies have never been my cup of tea for that very reason. I'm more of a dapper vampire or well-groomed werewolf kinda guy. Then again, teleporting zombies... That I might have to check out.
- August 20, 2009 at 11:54 PM

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VERONA - Vernon-Verona-Sherrill's boys volleyball team has won 12 league and nine Section III titles during Jim Burton's tenure as coach. One of the few programs to thwart the Red Devils many times in the Burton era has been rival Oneida.
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"The most important thing is we beat Oneida," said Burton, downplaying the milestone set in a career that started in the 1987-88 season. "We're back in the league hunt and in contention for a number one seed in sectionals. We needed this one."
What Oneida needed most in the match was to rebound from a controversial call revolving around Oneida's attempt to substitute at the end of the first game. It went VVS' way with the score 23-23 and seconds later Jarrett Durant had a kill to give the hosts a 1-0 edge.
Oneida hurt itself in the first game by giving VVS six points due to missed serves. The hosts missed just one during that stretch and the trend continued to a lesser effect in the next two games. But that wasn't the difference down the stretch. The Red Devils (5-1, 9-3) were more efficient hitting and played better defense.
"We didn't recover," Oneida coach Rik Ano said. "It's high school volleyball. They started pressing, trying to hit on the lines."
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"Congratulations to coach Burton on his 400th from Oneida," Ano said," but we didn't want it to happen this way."
Oneida (4-1, 8-3): Tyler Colvin 3k, 23as; Kyle George 2k, 1b; Dylan Dibble 3k, 1b; Derek Connolly 7k, 1ac, 7d; Jessie Morrison 4k, 2b, 1ac, 1d; David Kann 9k, 6d; Dan Keck d.
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Let's look at a recent Time Magazine article about the Amazon Kindle.
Here are the two things I picked out:
First, Amazon is selling ebooks at $9.99 for Kindle, and is taking a loss on this because publishers are charging them standard hardcover rates.
Second, according to small press publisher Dennis Johnson, nobody can make a book that sells for $9.99. You can save on shipping and printing, but that's only a small fraction of what it costs to make a book.
Now, at the risk of annoying print publishers everywhere--and print publishers have been very good to me and I consider myself grateful to have worked with some wonderful publishers--I'm going to politely disagree with the above statements.
The music industry, for all who have been paying attention, has never recovered from the digital mp3 revolution. I doubt the skewed tales of loss from the RIAA are accurate, but I have heard that iTunes is now selling more music than the Walmart, the world's largest music retailer. I also know, anecdotally, that my friends with iPods have managed to fill them with music, and very little of this music was bought. Rather it was borrowed, shared, or stolen.
There are several causes for the profits being down in the music industry. CDs cost too much money, especially when consumers often only wanted one or two songs on a disc. iPods and digital equipment have replaced stereos as the preferred method of music delivery. When fans set up distribution networks, like Napster, to share music, the RIAA tried to shut down these networks rather than learn to use the new technology to their advantage.
Apple finally figured out that 99 cent songs and no DRM is the way to go. But it took them way too long to get to that point, and as a result, we have a healthy, active piracy community. In fact, 13 of the top 100 most visited websites are file sharing sites, and that doesn't include Usenet, Limewire, or eMule.
So let's recap on the things the music industry did wrong.
1. High price.
2. Not adapting to the new method of delivery.
3. Not adequately dealing with piracy.
Hmm. Now if we look at what publishers are doing, we can draw some parallels.
First, in this economy, $27.95 is too much for a hardcover work of fiction. Why do they cost this much?
I've done other posts about the cost of books, and why publishing uses an archaic business model. To recap:
1. Only one out of five books makes a profit (two break even, two lose money.)
2. A fifty percent sell through (books printed vs. books actually sold) is considered by many to be the industry average.
3. The books that don't sell are remaindered (sold at a loss) or destroyed.
4. Retailers take books at a 40% to 60% discount. (we'll include the distributor cut in here as well.)
5. The author earns between 10% and 15% of the cover price.
6. Printing and shipping and corrugation (making boxes and displays) can cost 10% or more of the cover price, depending on the number of returns.
7. Marketing, advertising, and coop all are factored in to P&L.
8. Books have certain set up costs; typesetting, line editing, artwork, etc.
9. That means a publisher earns perhaps 15% to 20% of a book's cover price, and they have to run their entire company on this small amount.
So it seems that maybe it is impossible for publishers to lower their prices.
And yet...
No printing, no shipping, and no distribution (warehousing) costs, along with no returns, actually can save a big chunk of money. The way these costs are broken down make it seem like this is a very small part of a book's price. But, in fact, these are the only set costs, and these are the costs that all other costs are based on.
All the other costs are negotiable.
Publishers make money on paperbacks, which sell for $6.99 to $10.99. So it isn't about price, it's about profit per unit.
Print publishers are basing ebook prices on the profit per unit figures of print books. They have to do this, because if they sell ebooks for less and don't make up for the loss in volume, they will lose money.
But if a major publisher switched completely to ebooks (which may be what the future holds) a new pricing and profit structure will evolve. Costs to the publisher will be much less, and the cost of running a company will be much less.
When the cost of printing, shipping, and warehousing is eliminated, a lot of jobs are eliminated. This saves money.
When the cost of returns no longer figures into a book's profit margin, this saves money.
When books no longer go out of print, this earns money. In fact, every book, rather than one out of five, can be profitable.
When gigantic marketing and advertising budgets aimed at moving print books are slashed, this saves money.
No coop in bookstores, no author book tours. This saves money.
"But what about author advances?" publishers may ask. Tell you what--double my royalty rate for ebooks, I won't take an advance.
What we actually have isn't a situation where ebooks cost as much as print books. It's a situation where publishers must charge the same for ebooks as they do with print books if they want to keep their infrastructures intact.
But the fact is, consumers don't care about publishers, or their infrastructures. They care about books. And they want to pay less for ebooks.
They also want to be able to get ebooks without copy protection, just like they want their songs without copy protection. ITunes dropped DRM because their customers hated it. Will publishing adopt a similar stance?
I just got this newsletter from a large publisher:
We have engaged Attributor, a leading anti-piracy protection service, to monitor the web for instances of unlawful use of its authors' books and content.
How much do you think that is going to add to the cost of ebooks? And how well do you think it will work, considering DRM and Macrovision and RIAA lawsuits and every other form of anti-piracy protection has failed miserably? And of course, Attributor will be used in conjunction with DRM.
I'd love to see Attributor take on Usenet, which has billions of illegal downloads per day and no way to track them. Or Rapidshare, which is based on password-protected private uploads and downloads using encrypted file lockers. Or any torrent tracker, for that matter. Pirate Bay and Mininova have been sued a gazillion times to no effect. And the private trackers are invite-only---good luck Attributor in getting an invitation.
Do you really want to know how to get rid of piracy? Here's how:
The rules of supply and demand don't work in a digital world, because the supply is unlimited. You don't fight piracy with weapons. You fight piracy with cost and convenience.
Let me state that again, because no one seems to get it.
The rules of supply and demand don't work in a digital world, because the supply is unlimited. You don't fight piracy with weapons. You fight piracy with cost and convenience.
If there were a central hub, where you could easily search for ebooks and get them at a reasonable price, there would be no need to pirate books.
Amazon is not that central hub. The Kindle is too expensive, their ebooks are too expensive, and the Kindle uses DRM and a proprietary format that is difficult to convert. Proprietary exclusive formats don't work. That's why Betamax and DAT failed.
Publishers, if they truly were looking toward the future, would make themselves into these hubs, eliminating the need for Amazon. But they're still focused on dead trees.
Here are some possible future scenarios:
--Publishers learn from the mistakes made by the music industry regarding digital content, and lower the prices for digital books. This could result in more inexpensive digital books than expensive print books being sold, leading to a decline in print sales, and an overall drop in the gross profit of the industry, even if there are a greater number of books sold. But they would survive, and after restructuring, possibly thrive.
--Publishers keep the price of digital books high, in which case more and more people boycott expensive books and support newer and cheaper authors. Readers also begin to illegally download books in larger numbers, as they do with music. Publishing dies.
The goal is to figure out what readers are willing to pay for the ease of downloading a book at a central distribution hub. Will they pay $5.99? Will a percentage of them buy it from another site for $2.99 and then convert it to their desired format themselves? Or will some of them just pirate it?
--Publishers realize their business model is based on printing and distribution, and they radically alter their companies in order to succeed in a digital world. That means becoming their own stores/distributors like Amazon, offering exclusive content.
Wal-mart has proven that "one stop shopping" is what America wants. Why go to a mall, with 50 stores, when one store carries everything from milk to tires to pants to books?
And yet, Green Day didn't release their latest CD with Wal-mart, and it was still a smash hit. People will go elsewhere for exclusive content if they want it bad enough.
If I were a publisher, I'd consider what books I have under contract, and figure out how to sell them without splitting the money with a distributor/retailer such as Amazon.
--Authors realize that they don't need publishers. Why should they split revenue with a publisher when they can upload it to the world themselves?
Currently, I'm making $110 a day on books NY publishing didn't want. That's not a lot of money, yet. But the average advance for a novel is still $5000. Between April 8 and June 30, I'll have earned $5000. And my numbers are going up.
--Amazon realizes it doesn't need publishers, and deals directly with authors. They've already begun publishing print titles, and they've allowed for authors to publish print and ebook titles on their own. Eventually, Amazon is going to start getting some big download numbers for their ebooks, and they'll approach a big author with an exclusive royalty deal.
--A third party ereader is created by a company to compete with the Kindle. It will be inexpensive, able to read a variety of ebook formats, and have upgradable software and memory. This will lead to ereaders becoming as commonplace as iPods, and be the beginning of the end of print.
--Ebooks will become multi-media experiences like DVDs. Books will have author annotations and interviews, be bundled with audio versions, and contain extras such as short stories, early drafts, dictionaries and glossaries, and be directly linkable to forum discussions and book groups. Who would still want paper?
There's a lot to consider when it comes to e-book and the future of publishing. And I may be dead wrong on a lot of these predictions. Hell, I may not know what I'm talking about. Even with the economy, and bookstores losing money, and revenue down, publishers are still alive and kicking, just like they have been for hundreds of years.
But I do think e-books are the future. And I don't think print publishers know how to handle that.
There was a recent announcement that Simon & Schuster was joining forces with Scribd, an ebook download hub, and offering their catalog of ebooks for 20% off print cover price.
I wish S&S much success, but I don't predict it. 20% off the print price is a insignificant discount. Maybe if they slashed prices to a few dollars each title it would catch on, but I don't believe Scribd is a big enough hub yet, and it doesn't get nearly the traffic Amazon does.
But because I'm a cutting edge early adopter who can predict trends (ask Barry Eisler), I offered my ebooks on Scribd 15 days ago, at the same price they are available for on Kindle, less than $2 each.
In 15 days, I've sold zero books. Compare this to over a hundred books a day I sell on Amazon.
Scribd is not the future of epublishing.
If I were Simon & Schuster, or any big publisher, I would digitize my entire backlist and sell it on my publisher website for $2.99 a book, splitting royalties 50/50 with the author, and advertising the hell out of it in print, radio, and TV. Scribd, Amazon, and other e-tailers could have the titles for slightly more, factoring in their mark-up.
I would also invest heavily in new ebook reader technology, perhaps partnering with Apple or Google or Sony, to make a cheap, better competitor to the Kindle.
But I don't predict either happening anytime soon. Publishers, like oil tankers, take a long time to change direction. That doesn't mean publishers aren't smart--they're some of the smartest folks I know. But being smart, and being willing to scrap a business model you've used for fifty years, are two different things.
It will be interesting to see what the future holds. But as an author, I'm emboldened that with enough titles under my belt, in the future I might actually be able earn a living uploading my own books digitally, rather than depending on someone else to sell my books for me.
And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who believes this.
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For weeks, we've all been fascinated by the Patriots' ability to withstand the loss of so many receiving targets.
What they've really decided to do is work around it, and set up the offense in a way you wouldn't think you'd have to when you have Tom Brady under center.
The Patriots decided to run early on, and body punch the Falcons into submission during a 30-23 win on the road. A frantic comeback by the Falcons' offense didn't change the fact the Patriots leaned on them throughout.
In the first half, the Patriots ran the ball on 15 of their 24 snaps, playing a game with a payoff that they had to trust to be cumulative, since they lack quick-strike targets in the passing game.
Ordinarily, if you have Brady and you let him throw it nine times in a half, you'd be sued for malpractice.
But the cracks started to show in the Falcons defense as the night went on, and LeGarrette Blount's 47-yard touchdown cannot be explained by his athleticism alone.
The Falcons have been thinned up front by injuries, so pounding on them isn't a unique approach. But it was an effective one.
Here are five more things we learned during Sunday Night Football:
1. The Falcons are now 1-3, defying reason.
If it doesn't turn around quickly (though their comeback indicates it might), they will have wasted a remarkable final year by Tony Gonzalez.
Despite not going through much of what you'd call training camp or preseason, Gonzalez hit the Patriots for 12 catches for 149 yards and two touchdowns.
His professionalism has allowed him to stay at this level at the age of 37. He's a mismatch the Patriots couldn't cover in the first half, and they're not the first team he's done this to.
2. Tonight was a night when the Falcons could have really used a reliable running game of their own.
When Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork left early with an ankle injury, there was a hole in the middle, but the Falcons aren't built to capitalize on it while Steven Jackson's out with a hamstring strain.
Jason Snelling's an acceptable backup option with some short-yardage skills, but not a long-term answer. They stuck with Michael Turner beyond his expiration date, and Jackson would be a perfect replacement. But only if he's on the field.
Of course, there are problems up front on the offensive line that keep it from being as effective as in the past as well, and those might be the bigger one. But Jackson's absence was evident.
3. Speaking of Wilfork, it sounds crazy to say he's under-appreciated, he's one of the best players in the NFL. But the impact he has on a defense is undeniable.
The Patriots have some clear issues on defense, and Gonzalez exploits many of them. They don't have the linebacker or safety to take away a pass-catching tight end across the middle.
Wilfork's not going to do that, but having him chewing up the middle of a line makes it easier for the Patriots to patch behind him.
If he's out for any amount of time with this right ankle problem, the Patriots have a major issue.
4. It's easy to wonder if Brady even bothers to learn the names of the people he's distributing the ball to.
All his normal targets are hurt (or elsewhere or otherwise detained), but he still spreads the ball efficiently enough, whether he's throwing it to Rob Gronkowski or Matthew Mulligan.
He's also not turning around and handing it to Adrian Peterson or anything, but they're still able to run play-action no matter who's behind him.
Quarterbacks are the great deodorant in the NFL, and if you have a good one, it takes care of a lot of other problems.
5. Great call, Greg Schiano.
Blount and Aqib Talib clearly couldn't help the Buccaneers right now.
Talib is working on making himself rich, with four interceptions in four games. He signed a one-year deal with the Patriots after coming over from Tampa Bay in trade last year.
Certainly the situation is more stable in New England, which allows them to take on somebody else's problem (see No. 4), but Patriots coach Bill Belichick fleeced his pal on those two deals, which netted the Bucs a fourth-rounder and track star Jeff Demps.


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Justin Timberlake Stops Concert So Fan Can Propose [VIDEO]
Justin Timberlake shows aren't just concerts. They are romantic events...at times. The singer stopped his show in Louisville, Ky., on Sunday, Dec. 15, so that a fan in the crowd could pop the question. Can we get an "Awww?!"
Josh, aka the future groom, contacted JT's camp last month to see if they could help him arrange a proposal to his girlfriend, Kim, during the concert.
JT, himself a hubby to actress Jessica Biel, is a romantic at heart and agreed.
After he delivered his rendition of 'That Girl,' he addressed Josh and Kim in the crowd and invited them onstage. "Josh called me earlier. He's got something he wants to tell you," the singer told Kim.
The twosome were in the middle of the stage, while JT fell in line, allowing them to take the spotlight and enjoy the huge moment in front of thousands.
Josh got down on one knee, presented the ring and popped the question. They kissed and hugged, and JT applauded.
Congrats to Josh and Kim -- since it's pretty obvious she accepted!


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Some impressions I formed during my visit to Singapore:
1) Like many big cities in Asian countries that are getting richer, Singapore hosts an enormous shopping mall scene. On a warm Thursday evening, the number of people, mostly young people, ambling along Orchard Road, the city's main upscale shopping street, rivaled the number one might see on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on a typical weekend afternoon. And on weekend afternoons, the crowds inside the malls resembe those in suburban American mall on the day after Christmas.
Does this translate into a retail sales explosion in Singapore? A business journalist here told me it does not. Many Singaporeans come to the malls for the free air conditioning, to window shop and to meet friends at the ever-crowded upscale food courts in these malls, which compared with their US counterparts have a larger number of quasi-destination locations. (Several malls have outlets of Taiwan's dumpling emporium Din Tin Fung, which boasts a Michelin star!). These malls also feature gigantic branches of the world's major luxury brands, such as Louis Vuitton (Asia's favorite – on Orchard Road there are two Louis Vuitton shops within a quarter-mile of each other, and there is another stupendously sized one in the mall next to the Sands casino downtown). Other popular brands include Cartier, Chanel, and Prada. These shops, often two stories high, front with big picture windows onto the street from major Orchard Road malls such as Ion. The luxury trade is still European-dominated; US-based Tiffany's has not been very successful in Asia outside of Japan, and at the Ion Mall their outlet is, as these things go, modest in size and has no street frontage.
2) Efficiency and predictability are Singaporean bywords. I have never needed to walk as a short distance from my gate to the passport control counter as in the airport here. Airport management carefully tracks the time between a plane's arrival and the arrival of baggage in baggage claim. The mere breakdown of an escalator somewhere in the city's subway system prompted a long news story in The Straits Times. The flip side of high efficiency, however, can be low adaptability. Two foreigners, one a very long-time resident and the other a relative newcomer to the island, independently mentioned to me that Singapore restaurants are very poor at adapting menu items to special requests ("hold the onions"), and wait staff often almost seem to freeze up when such requests are made.
3) Cabinet ministers and senior civil servants in Singapore are also paid far more than in any country in the world –- at the highest level, it can be as much as a million dollars a year, including performance bonuses. This was originally introduced as part of the government's successful effort starting when the country became independent in the 1960's to uproot a deeply ingrained culture of corruption, and partly on the philosophy that if the government didn't pay top officials competitively with the private sector, it wouldn't get the best people into government. There have been periodic public backlashes against these high salaries. There was a stir when a senior civil servant wrote a newspaper article about attending a Cordon Bleu cooking course in Paris, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars, in the middle of the 2008 economic crisis, and more recently this question appeared again in the context of last May's election, where the government's share of the vote went down to 60% (Singapore's political system will remain a topic for another day).It looks like top salaries will be lowered, though perhaps only for ministers and not the senior-most civil servants.
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Maybe we need a deeper talk about the qu bie btw Singapore and Chinese social systems next time.
Well, you need to spend more time in Singapore and do your homework. Ask yourself why do they get richer? If people flock to the stores but do not buy is not the question, but rather, are their lives getting better? Relative to salaries of senior government officials, they have a different philosophy, acting as executives of a corporation whose motto is to make the lives of Singaporian's better. I suggest that you start your re-education with the book "From Silicon Valley to Singapore", which is about how in the midst of our pursut of low cost labor, they held onto the data storage industry and increased salaries, skills and ownership of a technlogy on which we depend. They have no debt, soverign wealth (i.e., investment funds made of 20% savings for retirement rather than social security), a commitment to clean activity (without corruption), care in placing their financial bets in education (either it supports the mission of the city-state, or it does not - you will not find grants to study something stupid, but openness to discuss why), etc. They attract wealth because with minimal regulation they have order and security. In the midst of economic downturn, soverign wealth allowed a stop to employer payments in exchange for not increasing un-employment, holding out for turn-around, and they did not miss a beat. Their little country is clean. Yes, they cain, but then we did not report in US media that the kid when he got beat up his father, hmmm. We have much to learn from Singapore, much to learn.
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The "American Idol" contestants are yet to be whittled down to the final 12, but one contestant already got a record offer — and he didn't even make it past the first cut.
William Hung's try-out, a spirited, if tuneless, rendition of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs," was icily received by the show's three-judge panel.
After suffering through Hung's 90-second tryout, during which he shouted the song's chorus and failed miserably at imitating Ricky Martin's gyrations,Hung was interrupted by famously acerbic judge Simon Cowell. "You can't sing, you can't dance, so what do you want me to say?" asked Cowell.
"I already gave my best, and I have no regrets at all," Hung replied. His hilarious effort — as well as his earnest response — quickly gained him fans. Although he was bounced from the show, the 21-year-old now has a cult following.
Inadvertent cult hero gets 15 minutes
Soon after his tryout aired on Jan. 27, Hung received about 150 e-mails from resourceful fans who looked him up in a student directory at UC Berkeley, where he is a civil engineering student. The first and most comprehensive of many Web sites spotlighting him, William Hung.net, sprang up and received 4 million hits in the first week.
Video files of his performance were uploaded and forwarded all over the Internet, making William the latest in a line of Web cult heroes, not unlike the "Star Wars Kid," the Quebec teenager who filmed himself twirling a golf ball retriever like a light saber.
Soon, audio mixes of Hung's singingwas arranged to OutKast's "Hey Ya!" and Howard Dean's infamous "I have a scream" speech. They're played all over the Internet and even have garnered play on some California radio stations.
Then came the apex of idolatry: Two weeks ago, Hung was spoofed on Saturday Night Live by Jimmy Fallon.
Now, Hung is basking in his goofy international fame: Enter "William Hung" on eBay and you'll get over 50 different items that bear Hung's image, from caps and notebooks to T-shirts — and people are bidding. His fan base stretches all the way to Asia, where he was invited to perform at the MTV Asia Awards. Don Chin, manager of William Hung.net says his site, which isn't associated with Hung, gets plenty of fan mail and even love letters meant for the singer. The Web site even has a special section called "Marry Me, Will!"
Hung is now keeping busy on the talk-show circuit. Entertainment Tonight took him to LA's Fantasy Studios for voice lessons with Eric Veto, voice-coach to stars like the GooGoo Dolls.
On the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Hung had the chance to perform four songs, adding Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" and Enrique Iglesias' "Bailamos" to his repertoire. DeGeneres even joined him on a duet of Elton John's "Rocket Man," helping out when Hung appeared unsure of the lyrics.
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Fox is capitalizing on Hung's popularity as well. Producers announced a special American Idol show "Uncut, Uncensored and Untalented," scheduled to air March 1, and is using footage of Hung's now-infamous audition to promote the episode.
Ovewhelmed with attention
On Wednesday, Hung performed at UC Berkeley's men's volleyball game, where he received a $25,000 check from the Fuse music channel and a record offer from Koch Entertainment. If he accepts, Hung will be in good company, the Koch Entertainment stable of talent includes Ringo Starr, Montell Jordan, and the Bangles. The deal reportedly includes a music video that will air on Fuse.
What is it about Hung that has caught America's eye? When asked this by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Hung said he thought people responded to his "attitude and charisma," regardless of the quality of his performance.
Fan site manager Chin thinks it's Hung's personality that people respond to. "He's just very real," Chin said. "He doesn't care whether he's fashionable or not. He has a really good time performing, and he really gives it his all, just for the love of it. I think his joy is really infectious."
Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of "American Idol," told Entertainment Tonight that it was great to see the nation embracing a loser. "That is fantastic to me because not everybody in this life can be a winner," Lythgoe said. "To celebrate a loser is fantastic!"
But some say Hung is walking a fine line between entertainment and mockery.
"About one percent of the e-mails I get are concerned that people are making fun of William," said Chin. "But I think he's happy with who he is, and he likes making people happy with his performance. It's just such a breath of fresh air how his video clip just makes people smile —young or old."
For now, Hung is overwhelmed by the attention. School is still his priority, and he has enlisted his father's help in managing all the media appearances.
Music is still his long-term goal, though. During the audition, Hung said that although his civil engineering studies are "totally not related to music," he someday aspires to make his living through the craft.
To that end, Hung is taking singing lessons and has joined a university choir. He's also reading Cowell's book about becoming a pop star, "I Don't Mean to Be Rude, But…"
Although his audition has led to all this attention, Hung still would have traded it all for a chance to have advanced through the American Idol finals.
"If I did get to the final and actually get to [perform] to the audience, to America, I think it would probably be more, not less, in terms of fame," he told MSNBC.
He may get his chance yet — petitions to bring Hung back as a wild card contestant are now at over 70,000 signatures.
Jesamyn Go is an associate Web producer for MSNBC-TV.


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- Thousands of previously classified documents about the wall are released
- Martin Luther King Jr. went to East Berlin without a passport
- Intelligence reports detail wall's construction, protection
Martin Luther King Jr. used his American Express card instead of a passport to get past the Berlin Wall.
Now, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this little known fact and thousands of previously classified documents have been released.
After an executive order issued by President Barack Obama called for the processing of classified records that are 25 years old or more, the CIA, in conjunction with the National Archives' National Declassification Center, announced it had made public more than 11,000 pages of documents detailing life and death in the shadow of the wall between 1962 and 1986.
To prevent East Germans from getting into West Berlin, the border between West and East Berlin was closed by the Soviets on August 12, 1961.
Called the "Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart" by East Germans, 155 kilometers, or 96 miles, of wall encircled West Berlin, itself a West German island in the heart of East Germany. The central part of the wall that divided West Berlin and East Berlin was 43 km, or 27 miles long.
Intelligence reports and maps included in the document release details on the construction of the wall. What began as guarded barbed wire strung along the border quickly became barbed wire with guard towers and two high concrete walls, one on the inside, one on the outside of a no man's land. This "death strip" was littered with anti-tank barriers, signal wires, beds of spikes, sand --to see footprints, and guard dogs, all under the constant surveillance of armed guards with orders to shoot on sight anyone trying to cross.
"Ich bin ein Berliner," said President John F. Kennedy when he visited the city on June 26, 1963. Many of the US government memos outline the technical aspects of a presidential trip to the city only 22 months after the Berlin Wall was erected.
Dr. Hope Harrison, who helped with the project and spoke at a symposium at the National Archives on Tuesday highlighting the document release, said massive media coverage in the West highlighted every killing. "Cross and flowers" marked death sites. She compared that to the East German approach. Coverage of the killings of people trying to escape East Berlin was "taboo," she said. But a border guard killed at the wall was "turned into a hero of socialism defending the border, streets and schools were named after them."
Hundreds of West Berliners standing on the Western banks of a narrow canal witnessed 24-year-old Gunter Litfin's death when on August 24, 1961 he become the first person killed at the Wall by guards with machine guns who shot him as he swam in the water. The killing of Peter Fechter, 18, was filmed by Western media and broadcast live as he bled to death after being shot trying to cross the border zone near Checkpoint Charlie.
That infamous checkpoint, also known as Checkpoint C, was the one Martin Luther King, Jr. managed to cross without a passport. Diplomatic cables reveal how on September 13, 1964, after speaking to large crowds in West Berlin, he used his American Express card to get past guards in order to enter East Berlin. He conducted a church service there honoring President John F. Kennedy, who had visited Berlin two years earlier. Two thousand people overflowed St. Mary's Church, where he said "There is no East, no West, no North, no South, but one great fellowship of love throughout the whole, wide world."
The diplomatic cables also highlight President Ronald Reagan's trip to Berlin, when he implored Mikhail Gorbachev, the head of the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall." It fell two years later on November 9, 1989. The CIA hasn't released classified Berlin Wall material from that year.


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Lipitor (atorvastatin) 40 mg: Recall Specific Bottles
Audience: Family Practice, Patient, Pharmacy
UPDATED 12/23/2010: Pfizer announced a recall of one lot — 19,000 bottles — of Lipitor 40 mg tablets (atorvastatin calcium) distributed in the U.S. There were three earlier recalls of Lipitor, implemented in August, October and November of 2010, in response to complaints of uncharacteristic odor. The odor is consistent with the presence of 2, 4, 6 tribromoanisole (TBA), found at a very low level during the investigation leading to the first product recall. Research indicates that a major source of TBA appears to be 2, 4, 6-tribromonophenol (TBP), a chemical used as a wood preservative.
[Posted 10/10/2010]
ISSUE: Pfizer recalled specific bottles of Lipitor (40 mg only) due to a small number of reports of an uncharacteristic odor related to the bottles in which Lipitor is packaged.
BACKGROUND: A medical assessment has determined that the odor is not likely to cause adverse health consequences in patients taking Lipitor.
RECOMMENDATION: If you take Lipitor 40 mg and experience an uncharacteristic odor associated with your medication, please return the tablets to your pharmacist. If you have any concerns, call your doctor or pharmacist or call 1-888-LIPITOR (1-888-547-4867) if you need any further information.
[12/22/2010 - Press Release - Pfizer]
[10/09/2010 – Firm Public Notice – FDA]


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Project TeamKevin Bell AIA, Susan Crowe Knight, Laura Duncan, Shih-Min Hsu AIA, Hannah Jackson RA, Irene Kang AIA LEED AP, Matt Petrie AIA, Jared Ramsdell, Marley Wright RA
Project ManagerWinifred A. Stopps, Senior Assoc. AIA LEED AP
Area12270.0 sqm
Project Year2012
Text description provided by the architects. Leers Weinzapfel Associates' Paul S. Russell MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is now open to the public. Located on a prominent site at the entry to the hospital's downtown campus, this freestanding, purpose-built hospital museum is the first of its kind in the United States. Reflecting MGH's achievements, culture, and place in the community, it showcases the evolution of medicine and surgery at the hospital and the innovative science and research behind it.
The museum is an 8,000-square-foot gateway to a large ensemble of complementary MGH buildings. Representing the "human face" of the hospital complex, this two-story structure with a third level rooftop garden is a literal and symbolic hub with amenities that attract patients, researchers, interns, faculty, staff, and visitors alike. Its gleaming, high-performance, copper exterior enclosure is durable, maintenance-free, and recyclable. Copper-colored fritted glazing provides strong insulation yet allows natural daylight to penetrate the building.
The dynamic and flexible interior and exterior spaces within are designed to adapt to changing technology, exhibits, and functions, enhancing the user experience. Reception and orientation space, core and changing exhibition galleries, media and theater space, a hands-on learning and simulation lab, and adjunct support spaces are housed on its two floors.
Sustainability features permeate the building's design. The copper exterior is made from 80 to 95 percent recycled content. An occupiable green roof and pervious site paving and planting absorb storm water and reduce the heat island effect. The museum's two interior spaces interconnect to reduce heating loads, cooling loads, and artificial lighting. Meticulous site lighting design employs cutoff luminaires to minimize night sky light trespass while ensuring adequate safety and security lighting.
"The Russell Museum is a symbol of the hospital's educational mission. It is designed to be a cultural and educational portal," says Peter Slavin, MD, president of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Through the lens of the MGH, the museum aims to tell the story of the evolution of medicine and the innovations under way today that will shape the practice of medicine in the future. This museum also stands as a distinctive front door to MGH, welcoming patients, families, staff, and the community and the public to come in, learn, be inspired, and enjoy."


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Opening Sequence
Trump loses lawsuit challenging financials subpoena
White House to brief Congress on Iran
Trump tells ex-White House lawyer to defy subpoena
Chicago's first gay, black female mayor is sworn in
Palestinians say not consulted in U.S. peace push
Tech stocks drop after U.S. cracks down on Huawei
'Game of Thrones' reaches its epic end
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Builders Care, an organization devoted to helping families in need do some much-needed renovations on their homes, is at it again.
This time, it is helping a North Fort Myers family that has struggled with health issues and unemployment replace a roof that has been badly in need in repair for years.
On Thursday, Builders Care, along with Crowther Roofing, surprised the recipient, Christina Hunt, at her Gramac Drive home and announced they were going to repair her roof for free.
For Hunt, it was a tear-jerking experience and one more blessing for a family that hadn't felt much joy in recent times, but may now may be seeing the tide turn in their favor.
"I'm overwhelmed. I never thought it would happen," Hunt said, her voice quivering. "I've always been a more giving person than taking, and I think there's someone who deserves this more than me."
Builders Care Executive Director Heidi Taulman said she was happy builders like Crowther offer such amazing gifts.
"Any time you go into someone's home and make their living arrangements better, it's an amazing gift, and their house was falling in around them," Taulman said. "It's great they're getting the help because sometimes those who need the help fall through the cracks."
Kevin Kallans, president of Crowther Roofing said Builders Care led them to the Hunt family and that they have done these projects for years.
"We've been doing this since the '70s. We believe you have to give back to the community and the strength is in the community you're in," Kallans said. "That's why we're trying to give back."
Kallans said the projected cost of the project is between $8,000 and $10,000.After the ceremony the builders went to begin work, which was expected to be finished Saturday, weather permitting.
The Hunts fell on tough times after husband David lost his job and Christina came down with a rare form of pneumonia that almost took her life, and suffered two heart attacks in the hospital. She now deals with severe memory loss, balance and speech issues and brain impairment.
David Hunt was unable to attend, as his truck broke down and was stranded in Rhode Island.
But despite all these issues, Hunt said she is proud to live in a community where so many people care.
"I have valve leakage and I'm always tired. I sleep 20 hours a day, but I'm blessed that I live in Lee County," Hunt said. "I have the best cardiologist and the best neighbors in the world."
The family chose to pay off the house before doing the work that was necessary. All that was pushed back when the tough times started, and the roof soon deteriorated to the point where there was damage to much of the indoor drywall.
"We did the right thing and then I got sick and my husband laid off and it's been a struggle ever since," Hunt said. "We've been patching it, but it just couldn't do it anymore so we had to tarp it."
But better times may be coming, beyond the generosity of strangers.
"It took me three years to get where I am now. I'm going to see my cardiologist and maybe this will be another blessing," Hunt said. "Maybe fewer hospital trips and we're glad for that. It's been a week of blessings."
This is the 154th project Builders Care has done since its inception in 2005, to the tune of about $2.5 million.
The mission of Builders Care is to provide emergency construction services at no cost to needy homeowners who cannot obtain repairs through traditional means.


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Man Goes to Magic: The Gathering Tourney, Man Shoots Pics of Himself With Players' Asscracks
A rapper and Magic: The Gathering enthusiast has sent ripples throughout the Internet by releasing a wave of asscrack pics onto the unsuspecting masses. Sid 'OB1' Blair recently uploaded a batch of photos featuring the exposed gluteal clefts of different Magic players. Blair titled his photo album Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle.
A Reddit post suggests Blair's antics may have gotten him banned from the event. Many people on Twitter seemed to find the rapper's actions in poor taste, and according to the Reddit post, many of them "are people who are either official, semi-official or high-profile members of the Magic community."
OB1 responded negatively to accusations saying he was being the "fashion police." He said on Reddit, "I am not making fun of these people for dressing the way they are. Their asscrack is exposed. That has nothing to do with fashion."
No word yet on whether or not this has helped his rap career.


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If you're a Dynamo fan, you've probably been thinking about the 2010-11 offseason. There are a lot of uncertainties about the offseason, and we won't know a lot of answers until next year, but here are some things you need to know about the 2010-11 offseason:
Important Dates
November 24, 2010 MLS Expansion Draft
This year's expansion draft has two teams, the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps, making 10 selections each from the unprotected rosters of the league's other 16 teams. Once a player is selected, his team may protect one additional player. The Dynamo have 23 players on their roster, with Tyler Deric and Francisco Navas Cobo both exempted and Danny Cruz possibly exempted, depending on his Generation adidas status. Of Houston's five international players (Appiah, Hainault, Palmer, Obodai, Serioux), the Dynamo must protect at least three EDIT: two, according to league officials. In the past, the Dynamo have lost Adrian Serioux (Toronto FC), Ryan Cochrane (San Jose Earthquakes), and Nate Jaqua (Seattle Sounders) to the expansion draft, while Houston avoided selection from Philadelphia last year.
December 2, 2010 FIFA Executive Committee meeting
The FIFA Executive Committee is scheduled to meet on December 2 to vote on World Cup host countries for 2018 and 2022, of which the United States is a candidate for the latter. Recent news about potential vote-selling has led to rumors that this meeting may be delayed.
December ??, 2010 Stadium groundbreaking
The Dynamo are hoping to break ground on their new stadium by the end of the 2010 calendar year, with major work beginning in January and continuing until the stadium opens in 2012. After years of anticipation, this will be a memorable event for any Dynamo fan.
December 20, 2010 Dynamo Academy showcase, Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex, 7:30 p.m.
This annual game gives the top Dynamo Academy players the chance to impress the Dynamo coaching staff with the hopes of being signed to a professional contract in the spring. It traditionally pits a team made up mostly of college players – the Dynamo have 11 collegiate players on their home-grown player list – against the Academy U-18 team. Josue Soto (SMU) and Daniel Roberts (UNC-Wilmington) are seniors and are allowed to sign directly with the Dynamo to avoid being selected by a different team in the MLS SuperDraft. Soto trained with the Dynamo all this summer, while Roberts is currently sidelined and may receive a medical redshirt and one additional year of eligibility. Keep an eye on Alex Dixon (North Carolina) and Sebastien Ibeagha (Duke) as the top underclass prospects.
January 13, 2011 MLS SuperDraft, Baltimore
The league's annual draft immediately follows the player combine, held in Florida, and is the main mechanism to sign players from the college ranks. This year, the Dynamo hold the highest pick in team history with the No. 7 overall pick (the previous high was No. 8 in 2006), giving them their best chance ever to select a high-impact player, possibly from the league's Generation adidas program. The Dynamo have not selected in the first round since 2007, and that was the No. 13 pick. After the first round, however, Houston is not scheduled to pick until the fourth round due to trades with New York and Toronto.
February 1, 2011 Training camp opens
The Dynamo are likely to start training camp on February 1 and, as in previous years, will probably spend much of the six-week preseason in Texas, California, and Florida, playing scrimmages and friendlies against a mix of college and professional opposition. Last year, the Dynamo looked at six different central midfielders during preseason, and 2011 could see a similar revolving door of players trying to earn a spot.
March 3-5, 2011 Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic, Orlando FL
While it is not yet confirmed, there is a good chance Houston will return to the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic in Orlando the week of February 28-March 6. Last year, this two-game tournament against MLS opposition introduced Dynamo fans to a Jamaican midfielder named Lovel Palmer, who scored on a long-range screamer to bolster his case for a roster spot. Academy trialist Francisco Navas Cobo cemented his roster spot in last year's tournament.
Early March, 2011 Pre-season season ticket holder event
Although the date and format are still to be determined, the Dynamo plan to have an event exclusively for season ticket holders during the pre-season, either for a practice or a pre-season friendly, like last year's match against SMU. More details will be announced at a later date. 2011 season tickets, which include a priority number for seats in the new stadium, are on sale now.
March 19, 2011 MLS opener, Dynamo vs. TBA
There is no hard information yet available about MLS First Kick 2011, but it seems likely that Portland and Seattle will open the MLS season on Thursday, March 17 (just an educated guess), and the Dynamo will get into the action with a home game two days later.
2011 schedule
The Dynamo's 2011 schedule has not yet been released, but here's what we do know:
MLS regular season – 34 games (format TBA).
Dynamo Charities Cup – 1 friendly against an international opponent with proceeds benefitting Dynamo Charities and a cause to be determined
International friendly – 1 additional friendly against an international opponent to be determined, probably one from a major European soccer country
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup – The Dynamo will have to qualify for the Open Cup for the first time, likely competing against nine other squads for one of two spots in the tournament. Qualification is often broken up geographically, but most of the automatic qualifiers come from the 2010 Western Conference. Houston will need at least 2-3 games to qualify for the tournament, in which the Dynamo could play 1-4 games.
The Dynamo finished the 2010 season with 23 players. As in any offseason, there will be definite changes. The first variable is the expansion draft, which could see the Dynamo lose up to two players. Another variable is contract status, and only Corey Ashe and Dominic Oduro are out of contract, so the Dynamo will consider re-signing them while also evaluating the contract options for 2011 on a number of players, giving careful consideration to age and salary-cap cost. Another factor to consider is that MLS is likely to expand roster sizes to accommodate the return of the Reserve Division in 2011, so the supplemental roster is likely to include 8-10 players in addition to the 20-player senior roster. Dynamo Academy players will also be eligible to play in reserve matches.
The 2011 season is less than five months away, and Dynamo fans can look forward to a busy offseason and a fresh start in February.


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Fred.trotter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
I write software to enable social change. I am a hacktivist.
I do not think this is the first facebook application to support a political campaign, but I want to make it the best.
I am working with a particular campaign, but I want my application to function for any campaign anywhere in the world, for any party.
I have a considerable reputation for doing what I do, and I will be creating a blog post giving credit to the artist who wins the challenge. I cannot pay much but I can help with some reputation gain.
This is going to be a facebook application. Like so many facebook applications there will be a "badge" system. This badge system will be the basic marker for what real-world political support a particular facebook user or group of users gave to a given candidate. I need unique badges supporting a 'key' theme.
At this point I am only looking for a key design template, for 'Just a key' and 'key on a key ring'
I should be able to use the key template to make keys with words or simple images on the face. If you want to help design some of my specific keys.. that is great... but not required at all. I hope to hire the winning designer to work on specific keys after the contest.
The badges should be capable of supporting the notions of both degrees and group fulfilment.
So if for instance I earn the "forget me not" badge, then I get an image of key with the face of the key having a symbol about memory (not an elephant for obvious reasons, its a loaded image ;D ) but if I earn that badge -and- a facebook friend also earns the badge, then I get a new badge: the same key, but this time on a key ring.
Sometimes there will be badges with levels. Like bronze, silver, gold. So the key color should be easy to change if possible. This is for things like "registered 10 voters, registered 50 voters, registered 100 voters" etc etc.
I need the following items made into badges that look like keys. Its ok if you do not want to do all of them, but I need to have a key template for at least A: 1 key and B. one key on a key-chain that has enough room on the 'face' of the key for me to add these concepts myself.
FAE means "a facebook friend also earned". For each "key" below there should be a version of the key on a "ring" to symbolize that someone else in the persons social network has also earned the key.
The keys>
forget me not: Sign up for a 'remind me to vote' call
motivated buddy: A friend joins with supported candidate political affiliation
buddy: A facebook friend joins
converted buddy: A friend joins with opposite political affiliation
your voice: Write an endorsement
get the picture: Take a picture with a candidate sign (handmade or official) on election day (this is a "supporter photo")
buddy photo: friend tagged in supporter photo
vote party: (supporter photo with 5+ people)
big vote party: (10+ people)
huge vote party: ( 20+ people)
ultimate vote party: ( 50+ people)
voted here: use facebook places check-in at the voting station on election day
handshake: tagged in a photo with candidate
volunteer: volunteer at candidate headquarters
man the phones: call people for the campaign
paint the canvas: canvas for the campaign
at the rally: use facebook places check-in to show that you attended a candidate speech or rally
registrar: help the campaign register a voter
registrar master: help the campaign register 100 voters
carry the sign:
met the challenge:
financial supporter: donate


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Last week, Michelle and I went to Arnold's Bar and Grill, one of my favorite places in Cincinnati for spaghetti and meatballs, for a tasting of Jameson with Gerry Murray, the U.S. East Coast Jameson Ambassador. The atmosphere was overly social with a few great stories from Gerry to keep the tasting moving along.
We learned that all Jameson is triple pot distilled and will age in a combination of barrels that previously contained sherry or bourbon. The percentage of each as well as the age are what lend to the different flavors and colors.
Over the course of our hour long conversation, we tried 4 whiskey samples:
Jameson: 5-7 year old whiskey with 90% from bourbon barrels and 10% from sherry. A very nice toasted oak flavor with hints of orange and vanilla. Both Michelle and I enjoyed this one and surprisingly, it was Michelle's favorite. The bourbon barrel seemed to impart a lower acidity than the other options and this was a nice smooth flavor similar to the bourbon we have at home. Gerry was coy on letting us know which distillery provided the barrels.
Jameson 12: 12 -15 year old whiskey with 75% coming from bourbon barrels. The tartness was higher on this one providing a slightly longer finish and a more abrupt mouth feel. Smokeless fuel is used to roast the barley which is one way that Irish whiskey differs from most Scotches. Overall, this one had a more present crispness.
Kevin: Michelle:
Jameson Gold Reserve: 14 – 20 year old whiskey with an added twist. This adds in a small percentage of whiskey aged in virgin American white oak. This adds a creaminess to the initial taste while maintaining very strong honey and vanilla flavors. The end has a little bit of pepper. This was my favorite of the night.
Kevin: Michelle:
Jameson 18: A flip of percentages from the first one: 75% 18 year old sherry aged and 25% 20 year old bourbon barrel aged. This one had a very heavy grassy flavor along side apricots and toffee. The finish was a bit much for Michelle, but I found it well rounded with the intensity of the rest of the flavors.
Kevin: Michelle:
A few of the interesting things that I learned were that Michelle likes a whiskey that has been aged primarily in bourbon barrels without smokiness in the roasting of the grain. I think that was one of the reasons she preferred the earlier samples we tried. I enjoyed the whole range and appreciated the differences that were apparent in the different selections. Our current bar has a bottle each of Redbreast and Powers, but Jameson has earned a place as well at any of the levels.
Don't forget, in addition to liking Jameson on Facebook, you can also now follow My Wine Education as well.
Let me know other thoughts on Jameson or other Irish whiskeys in the comments. Here's the rather popular "Lost Barrel" commercial for Jameson as well:
[…] today at a very high price point. Believe it or not, you can read more about scotch on our site: Jameson, Laphroaig, and Johnnie […]
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Raising money for a scholarship fund in memory of Michelle's little sister who passed away in 2007


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Human resource functions in organizations are currently going through a transitional phase. Moving beyond the service provider role, HR is now focusing on delivering an integrated effect by searching and building talent, addressing organizational road blocks with administration and resources, engaging employees with innovative ideas, and gauging the drive of growth and success in an organization.
We are all aware that employee engagement is one of the most crucial elements in a workplace. In simplest terms, engagement is about an employee's emotional commitment toward the organization. Gone are the days when employee engagement was considered a minuscule part of HR strategy. Today, a successful company needs passionate employees who give 100 percent effort and work to further develop their capabilities and skills. Low engagement often leads to low productivity, lack of collaboration and poor work quality. As per a 2015 Deloitte survey of about 3,300 business and HR executives in 106 countries: A whopping 78 percent believe that culture and employee engagement is the most important trend for HR function today and in the future.
Therefore, it is critical for organizations to find ways to keep employees engaged. How can we achieve the highest level of engagement from employees? Next-gen HR executives realize that employee engagement is much more than fun, cultural events and occasional celebrations. It is both an art and science that must be utilized in the right balance. Analysis and understanding of the data collected from exit interviews, appraisal interviews and general surveys provide some valuable insights that can be helpful in creating an action plan to be executed in a stipulated timeframe. Regular feedback — both formal and informal — helps in fine-tuning the action plan and execution.
In this slideshow, Deepti Moolya, Happiest Minds, outlines the 10C framework that organizations can strategically utilize for driving employee engagement.
Deepti Moolya is an HR business partner for the Digital Transformation & Enterprise Solutions business unit at Happiest Minds. She has 9+ years of experience across a variety of HR roles in IT, ITES, KPO consulting, and financial sectors. She has worked in the past with HSBC, Evalueserve, Blueocean Market Intelligence & Duestche Bank. Her core expertise lies in an HR business partnership role, talent management, talent planning, talent acquisition and employee engagement.
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