text: BUSINESS: Labs It's All About the Wearer, Now How Lens Personalization Changes Everything By Andrew Karp Monday, August 13, 2012 12:00 AM By Andrew Karp: Group Editor, Lenses + Technology View a pdf of It's All About the Wearer, Now How Lens Personalization Changes Everything Purchasing a new pair of eyeglasses has always been a personal experience. Each step in the process—having an eye exam, selecting a frame and lens, receiving the finished glasses and having them properly adjusted—reinforces to the patient that they are buying a product made especially for them. In the past few years, customization in eyeglasses has taken on exciting new dimensions. This has been most evident in eyeglass lenses. The advent of free-form manufacturing technology has enabled lens designers to create lenses that offer sharper vision with greater degrees of personalization based upon the patient's prescription, frame and lens choice, position of wear, viewing activities and visual behavior. These enhancements give patients an unprecedented amount of flexibility in choosing a lens that is tailored to their individual requirements. In short, today's lenses are adapting more to the patient, rather than the patient having to adapt to the lens. In this exclusive VM feature, a diverse group of lens manufacturing executives give their take on the current personalization trend in lenses and explain why it's all about the wearer, now. ■ David Chute – Adlens Claude Labeeuw – Carl Zeiss Vision Carl Bracy – Essilor of America Barney Dougher – Hoya Vision Care, North America Alexandre Bouin – Indo Daniel Crespo – Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) Mike Rybacki – Seiko Optical Products of America Raanan Naftalovich – Shamir Insight Rick Davis – Nikon Optical USA Rudolf Suter – PFO Global Brian Hauser – Transitions Optical Dave Delle Donne – VSP Optics Group David Rips – Younger Optics David Chute Global Managing Director, Adaptive Lens Technology Adlens Lens designs have improved with time, but the underlying paradigm is still the same—merging one or more fixed powers into a single lens. Given the nature of light and lens architecture, multifocal lenses have inherent drawbacks. The optical industry has been built on fixed power lenses. When we are young, the crystalline lens in our eye does the focusing for us, and fixed power lenses are adequate for most purposes. As we age and our ability to accommodate declines, fixed power lenses (single vision) are no longer adequate. All the innovations around bifocal, multifocal and progressive lenses have been trying to figure out how to build two or more powers into a single lens. Lens designs have improved with time, but the underlying paradigm is still the same—merging one or more fixed powers into a single lens. Given the nature of light and lens architecture, multifocal lenses have inherent drawbacks. Adlens uses fluid-filled lens technology to enable the entire lens to change shape over a prescribed range. This enables the user to focus a single lens so that the entire field of view can be focused on a near or intermediate or distant object. Adlens will be launching the Hemisphere collection at Vision Expo West, a first-generation product incorporating fluid-filled lens technology. Hemisphere instant prescription eyewear allows dispensers to 'dial, set and seal' the wearer's prescription by adjusting fluid-filled lenses in each eye. The refractive power of each polycarbonate lens is set by adjusting external reservoirs of optically-clear silicon fluid. Once the prescription in each eye is set, the dispenser can remove the reservoirs and seal off the fill port with color-matched tabs. Hemisphere adjustable prescription sunglasses and computer glasses provide instant vision correction and immediate dispensing. Instant prescription eyewear can be customized for different activities: prescription suns for outdoor use, clear lenses for intermediate computer vision. This is the first application of its kind in the optical industry. The Adlens R&D team in Oxford is working on more sophisticated applications of fluid-filled lens technology to enable the wearer to control the focus of their eyewear after it has been dispensed. Claude Labeeuw Vice President, Marketing Carl Zeiss Vision We can think about lens personalization as having multiple dimensions. One relates to the physiology of the eye itself… another involves the interaction of the patient with the eyewear. The lens personalization trend continues to evolve as we find more ways to capture data about the patient and translate it into a better, more personalized lens. We can think about lens personalization as having multiple dimensions. One relates to the physiology of the eye itself. By designing the lens for one specific prescription, we overcome the compromises inherent in traditional base curves. Our improved CORE (Center of Rotation Evaluation) technology, available in the new Zeiss Progressive Individual 2, customizes the lens based on a very accurate calculation of the patient's center of rotation, without the need for measurements. And with i.Scription by Zeiss, we stretch the bounds of what a lens can do by accounting for a patient's higher-order wavefront aberrations for better night vision, contrast and color perception. Another dimension involves the interaction of the patient with the eyewear. Carl Zeiss Vision pioneered the idea of customizing lenses for the wearing position, by compensating for back vertex, panto and frame wrap. This customization delivers the prescribed powers more accurately to the patient for better visual acuity. Some of our progressives also include a variable corridor that automatically sizes the lens optics for the patient's frame. Zeiss Progressive Individual 2 with Eyefit technology takes personalization into a new dimension: the patient's visual activity profile. The "ideal balance" of viewing zones varies based on the individual's visual activities, so we have given eyecare professionals the flexibility to alter the zone balance accordingly. The baseline Individual 2 option has no "bias" toward a particular zone. Option 2N provides up to 30 percent more near vision, while Option 2I provides up to 25 percent more intermediate and improved dynamic vision. This allows the eyecare professional to retain full control over the design, while keeping the personalization simple, straightforward and patient-needs-based. More advanced personalization also requires improved tools for the practice, which we address with our i.Profiler wavefront aberrometer/autorefractor/ corneal topographer, and our new i.Terminal2 by Zeiss advanced centration and demonstration device. Carl Bracy Senior Vice President, Marketing and New Business Essilor of America Every lens design rolling out to market in the future is touting customization. However, the best products will be differentiated by how meaningful that customization is to the wearer. Every lens design rolling out to market in the future is touting customization. However, the best products will be differentiated by how meaningful that customization is to the wearer. Ultimately, lens innovation and customization must ensure the wearer sees better longer and address the unmet needs of the patient. When Essilor develops new products, we take into account three specific segments of customization: optimization of the prescription, usage/activity, and wearer protection. Essilor products are customized through additional measurements that optimize the patient prescription. For example, eyecode lenses are based on real, dynamic 3D measurements of the eye, the frame, and visual behavior of the wearer. They use the wearer's real eye rotation center and natural head posture data to perfectly calculate the design for each eye, of every wearer. We have taken that a step further with the Varilux S Series lenses. The most sophisticated level of advancement in the Varilux S Series is the Varilux S 4D lens. Just as people are right handed or left handed, they also have a leading dominant eye—the eye that reaches the object being viewed first when we change gaze direction. Only 4D Technology factors in the leading dominant eye and other personalized measurements to deliver faster visual reaction time. Essilor takes activity/usage of the lens into account as well. Through products like computer lenses and developing wrap lenses for sports, we create an optical optimization that benefits both the wearer's vision and the cosmetics of the lens through adjustment to the frame, including thickness. When discussing protection as a part of customization, most people think of the physical protection of the lens, like anti-scratch, anti-smudge, etc. With Crizal UV products that provide all the lens protection benefits plus take into account the protection of the wearer's vision over time, Essilor realized an unmet patient need. This customization has moved the need for UV protection around the eyes and Crizal into the health discussion with the patient. For Essilor, Crizal UV is just now grazing the surface of health benefits that lenses can provide. Through customization of lenses now and in the future, Essilor is and will continue to change the way people look at wearing glasses. Barney Dougher President Hoya Vision Care, North America The ability to serve patients in the new media landscape offers a great opportunity for independent practices to differentiate themselves from competitors. At one time, the holy grail of optics was to find a way to provide presbyopes with one pair of glasses that would serve all of their needs. With digital surfacing equipment, free-form designs and precise measuring tools we have come very close to doing just that. However, along with advances in lens technology came changes in the way we consume media. Cell phones, iPods, laptops and e-readers have made our consumption of media vastly different than it was just 10 years ago. The effects of back lit screens on blink rate and other physiological factors call for more customization in vision correction in order to add comfort to our overall visual experience and avoid Computer Vision Syndrome. In short, new media requires new vision correction solutions. That's why we developed our New Media Optics line of lenses, which includes Tact and Sync. These lenses are designed for patients who are heavy users of digital media. The ability to serve patients in the new media landscape offers a great opportunity for independent practices to differentiate themselves from competitors. It is part of the trend toward personalized lenses that the Hoya Free-Form company is leading. For example, Hoya's MyStyle lenses, first introduced in 2008, are personalized. They take into account 35 different factors including direct input from the patient. Patients can tell their independent ECP about their activities, hobbies, habits and even the things they liked and disliked about their previous prescription in order for our free-form software to design unique lenses for them. We start with a blank slate and then practically embed the patient's DNA. It's important to note, though, that personalization is more than just capturing frame measurements. To create a truly personalized lens design that delivers a unique vision correction and a 'wow' experience, you have to incorporate the patient's lifestyle, and that's Hoya's approach. Alexandre Bouin International Manager Lens & Free-Form Solutions Indo We see clearly… a shift of concept: instead of the patient making efforts to adapt to a lens type, the lens is adapting to each individual's visual strategy. Most of the ophthalmic lenses and frames offered today under the tag "personalized" are in fact mass customization. They adapt to particular needs but are not comprehensively taking into consideration all unique parameters of the patient. Personalization goes far beyond mass customization in order to provide a product made only for individual buyers and is uniquely usable by them. In the early 2000s, Indo developed a breakthrough technology in lens personalization. Named "Visual Strategy Mapping," it simulates in a 3D environment the combined movements of head and eyes in order to establish a behavioral pattern. The device used to capture this information is called the "Visual Map Developer." Data obtained is translated into a lens design as unique as a fingerprint. Each individual has a different visual map that must be considered in order to maximize the probabilities of adaptation. We see clearly that it is a shift of concept: instead of the patient making efforts to adapt to a lens type, the lens is adapting to each individual's visual strategy. This development has coincided with the birth of free-form cutting technology, which has enabled lens manufacturers to realize those unique designs that are impossible to make with conventional surfacing. Recently, Indo pushed the limits again with the development of FreeMax technology. FreeMax includes frame shape into the calculation of the lens design in order to obtain a dynamic relocation of the aberration outside the useful shape that will be cut during edging. Another "collateral" advantage of FreeMax technology outside of the personalization is that it offers a much higher grade of thickness optimization that is impossible to reach with free-form technology. We have concentrated this cocktail of innovation into two lenses that have been finalists at the innovation contest of "Silmo d'or" in 2011: Eyemax and Maxima. We have also launched an ambitious program called Made4U. This program is aiming at transposing the concept of integral lens personalization to the entire spectacle and being able to manufacture personalized frames as well. It compounds all the technologies explained here and includes face morphology indicators that allow the creation of a 3D frame, providing optimum comfort to the user. Daniel Crespo President Indizen Optical Technologies (IOT) In the near future, we believe that aberration reduction and lens performance can be further improved with combinations of special lens blanks, materials and digital lens design and IOT is moving in that direction. At IOT, we believe that two main factors need to be considered in lens customization: aberration reduction and lifestyle customization. When computing a digital lens' surface, we can calculate the aberrations that the eye would perceive in every direction of sight, then compensate the lens power at each point in order to reduce those aberrations. This results in much larger areas of the lens that the wearer can comfortably use with sharp vision. This type of customization requires information about the lens position and orientation, like pupillary distances, panto, wrap, etc. Aberration reduction is important not only for progressives, but also in single-vision wraps and high prescriptions. Most of IOT's lenses today include this level of customization. In the near future, we believe that aberration reduction and lens performance can be further improved with combinations of special lens blanks, materials and digital lens design and IOT is moving in that direction. Another complementary path toward customization is based on wearer lifestyle. For progressive lenses, we need to decide how to distribute the distance, intermediate and near zones on the lens in order to meet the specific wearer's demands. Each wearer's lifestyle presents unique visual needs that can benefit from a personalized progressive design. This is a field that still requires a lot of research if we want to go beyond the most trivial factors such as 'playing sports requires less near vision.' At IOT we have embarked on a long term research effort to assess empirically the relationship between progressive design features and a wearer's proclaimed lifestyle, which is very subjective. This will take us closer and closer to the goal of selecting the best lens for every wearer, which is the ultimate goal of customization. Mike Rybacki Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing Seiko Optical Products of America We see significant expansion in the private label category, which we feel will gain market share from conventional, front surface PALs at a faster pace than anyone could anticipate because of their value proposition. There are varying degrees of lens personalization available today. Some are more about marketing than delivering actual real benefits to the patient. As a result, the U.S. market in general, meaning traditional ECPs, are not quite ready for using free-form lenses with designs that require sophisticated measuring devices until they become more familiar with dispensing standard free-form (FF) products. There have been several attempts to introduce fitting devices to achieve the so-called highest levels of customization, and these have had limited success. I have seen these devices rolled out at many ECP offices and even some national chains. For the most part they go unused or have been pulled back. There is also a smoke and mirror situation taking effect here on the supply side with the real intent to keep FF price points artificially high while at the same time trying to lock-up the ECP's business with the commitment to use these devices. Because not everyone has access to these devices, I see a much bigger trend toward private label FF designs this coming year. At Seiko, we see continued growth in several areas of free-form lenses. We are confident brands for PALs will continue to be important to support premium products, especially for the more sophisticated, advanced and newest design technologies. However, we also see significant expansion in the private label category, which we feel will gain market share from conventional front surface PALs at a faster pace than anyone could anticipate because of their value proposition. This trend is being fueled by both independent labs producing their own brands in-house and also larger manufacturers utilizing offshore labs via both wholesale and direct distribution channels. Seiko will provide product solutions in all these areas. However, there is still plenty of room for dispensing more specialized types of designs that are not so much customized, but designs that are task- and user-specific. Recent examples of these products include Seiko Surmount/Ws, PCWide, Wrap-Tech Thin and Super MV. This is where Seiko believes the real benefits of FF technology are, and this is apparent to the ECP who can more easily understand when and how to use these lenses. Raanan Naftalovich President Shamir Insight We are now moving past [general purpose lenses] and focusing on 'task-specific' lenses, as we see the market moving more toward individual personalization at the task level. The trend toward customization in all products is widespread. Shamir realized this trend and developed Autograph II, launched in 2008, which incorporated two significant personalization technologies into it. The first was As-Worn Technology, which provided patient customization down to the level of the position of wear for each patient. The second was Freeframe Technology which incorporates features into our lens calculation software that allow each patient's lens to be optimized for whatever frame the patient chooses. However, Autograph II is a general purpose lens. We are now moving past that and focusing on "task-specific" lenses, as we see the market moving more toward individual personalization at the task level. A case in point is our newest lens which we are launching at Vision Expo West: Shamir InTouch. Today's modern lifestyles are changing as fast as new technologies hit the market. Use of digital devices and screens has become an increasingly frequent part of everyday life. This presents our patient's eyes with special challenges as they switch back and forth between distant and mid-range viewing and reading small print on smartphones, tablets or other handheld digital devices. The reason we created this lens was to provide our patients with the clarity they need to stay connected and see clearly while doing the task-specific activities of using their smartphones, tablets and e-readers. By looking at the millions of people holding their smartphones and tablets (along with extensive clinical studies), we found that handheld devices are held higher and closer (between 15" to 27") than a book would be. So we designed InTouch based off those findings. Another task-specific lens that we recently launched is Shamir Golf which resolves the problem of golfers not being able to see through the intermediate zone clearly enough to see the ball at their feet. In the future, we see this trend of personalization in the task-specific categories growing. Shamir will continue to be on the cutting edge of designing lenses to meet this trend. Rick Davis Executive Vice President Nikon Optical USA Nikon's Seecoat Blue is the first in a new category of functional anti-reflective coatings that reduce blue light, improve contrast and reduce eye fatigue. Americans, on average, spend over half their waking hours in front of digital screens, such as computers, smart phones, tablets and televisions. These devices emit strong blue light which scatters easily, reducing contrast and adding to eye fatigue. Nikon's Seecoat Blue is the first in a new category of functional anti-reflective coatings that reduce blue light, improve contrast and reduce eye fatigue. Japan is a highly evolved ophthalmic lens market where 99 percent of all lenses are AR coated. Since it was introduced in Japan over a year ago, Nikon Seecoat Blue has received the prestigious Japanese "Good Design Award." Nikon Optical USA is proud to bring the benefits of this technology and important category to the U.S. market. Rudolf Suter Chairman PFO Global In the future, we will see even more designs for different lifestyles, frame shapes and facial customization. For the definition and calculation of this kind of lens, additional patient measurement information and data is required. All lens designs, single vision or multifocal, which are produced by digital surfacing, are software driven. The limit on the number of different lens designs is the sky. That's why in the future we will see even more designs for different lifestyles, frame shapes and facial customization. For the definition and calculation of this kind of lens, additional patient measurement information and data is required. That's why, over the last two years, PFO Global has been working on tablet and desktop patient facial measurement units. Our SmartEyePix measures monocular and binocular distance and near PD, vertex distance, wrap angle, and pantascopic tilt. It does frame try-on, contact lens consulting, lens and lens treatment consulting. It is the most complete system available in the market. It is also the only system worldwide which measures these parameters without an awkward template. This is done with PFO's patented facial recognition system. The system is connected to the EyeCloud in order to transmit all this technical information along with the user or lifestyle data of the customer. All this information is used to calculate the tailor-made lens. The PFO "identity" lenses fulfill these requirements. These types of lenses should become the standard. We are also working with several sunglass companies to provide the lenses for their launch of Rx sunglass and wrap Rx sunglass lines. New lens materials combined with this calculation technology are the trendsetters in the sunglass industry. All the AR coatings available on the market are at the top of the transmission with ratings of over 99.5 percent. However, there is a differentiation in the available topcoats in terms of lifespan and cleanness performance. PFO just offers only one quality, the top of the topcoats on its lenses. Brian Hauser General Manager, North America Transitions Optical All of our products reflect the inherent understanding that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution for consumers, but rather different products—often multiple products—that can meet their needs at different points in time. Finding out what is right for each and every patient is at the heart of Transitions Optical's product development. It drives the direction of our research and development and motivates us to continually push the limits of photochromic technology to increase category growth. We have always focused on providing the best possible photochromic technology to consumers. Increasingly, that's meant more directed efforts targeted to meeting the specific needs of different groups of consumers. When photochromic technology was relatively new, our primary goal was to advance the technology to provide the optimal balance of all photochromic properties for all wearers. That's the foundation of our business, and still our starting point for all our products. However, we recognize that different wearers have different priorities. For example, some wearers who spend a lot of time outdoors prioritize superior darkness over indoor clarity. Many are looking for specific sunwear products that can help them perform better in outdoor sports and activities. Others want an everyday lens that can help to minimize glare to ensure the sharpest, crispest vision. In order to meet all consumer needs we've evolved our product development to push the technology in new directions. Understanding what the wearer wants—and the way they actually experience vision wearing our products—helps us continually break new ground in product development. Perfect examples of this include our darkest everyday lens—Transitions XTRActive lenses; our newest breakthrough product—Transitions Vantage lenses, which darken and polarize outdoors; and our line of Transitions performance sunwear products—all designed for outdoor use during a specific sport or activity. All of our products reflect the inherent understanding that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution for consumers, but rather different products—often multiple products—that can meet their needs at different points in time. Our family of brands enables us to meet more consumer needs and help eyecare professionals increase patient satisfaction with photochromic lenses for all patients while continuing to grow the category. Dave Delle Donne Vice President, Business Development VSP Optics Group As advanced refractive and frame fit technology is developed, lenses will become even more customizable on both surfaces. Like it or not, we live in the age of customization. Today's consumers expect to be able to pick and choose options for the products they buy. From customizing their music playlists, to designing their latest pair of Nike shoes, to picking the options they want in their cars, consumers want products made just for them and the lifestyles they lead. And their eyewear is no exception. With the growing popularity of digital backside surfacing, we're now prepared to take lens customization to the next level. By incorporating the position of wear, frame wrap, pantoscopic tilt, and back-vertex distance, we can make lenses tailored exactly to any patient's needs. But this is only the beginning of our industry's path down the "customized" revolution; as advanced refractive and frame fit technology is developed, lenses will become even more customizable on both surfaces. Prior to the free-form revolution, VSP Optics Group always held the mindset that we are creating one-of-a-kind eyewear for each and every patient. It's easy to look inside any one of our labs and think of it as "mass producing" eyewear, but that's not correct. We're "mass customizing" eyewear. While we produce thousands of glasses every day, no two pair are alike. From unique prescriptions, to different selections in lens designs, materials and coatings, we're customizing lenses to fit the individualized needs of patients. This fall, VSP Optics Group will introduce: Unity UVR, a backside lens coating that protects the wearer's eyes and the skin surrounding the eyes from reflected ultraviolet ray exposure; and otto (one touch to optical), an iPad app that serves as a virtual optical assistant that simplifies the customized, digital lens dispensing process and enhances the patient experience. David Rips President Younger Optics Custom lens solutions that respond to individual customers' needs are a vital pathway to preserving the ECP/patient relationship, and thus the strength of the ECP's business. Customization is one of the most exciting and important developments in ophthalmic lenses today. In the past, many ECPs tried to find "one-lens-fits-all" solutions in their optical dispensing. The temptation to do this is great because of potential savings and ease in training. Of course, this approach leads to patient dissatisfaction, and the ECP's business suffers. There are more ways to customize than ever before when you consider materials, designs and lens treatments. While people may debate the strengths and weaknesses of a certain material, the fact of the matter is, a material that is right for one patient may not be well-suited for another. For example, polycarbonate lenses have advantages in terms of impact resistance and availability, yet some patients just cannot wear them because of chromatic aberration issues caused by polycarbonate's low Abbe value. To prescribe polycarbonate lenses to these patients would lead to dissatisfaction, which damages the ECP/patient relationship. One alternative is the Trilogy lens material, made from Trivex, which can solve your patient's problem with aberration, while keeping the desired impact resistance and light weight. Lens treatments are another way to provide a lens customized to your patient's needs. For example, Younger's Drivewear lens was designed specifically for drivers, and it's still the only polarized photochromic lens that darkens and changes color behind the windshield. It's important to note, however, that Drivewear lenses aren't just for driving. I think it's important not to "oversteer" designs toward one particular activity the patient may engage in. If we supply a lens to satisfy the patient's primary activity, we don't want to make the design worse for all the other activities the patient engages in. Drivewear lenses are versatile in that way. They are a great polarized lens for outdoor activity as well, because they reach their darkest state in direct sunlight. ECPs should resist falling prey to the lure of a one-lens-fits-all solution, which causes ECPs to give up their most important tools—their judgment and professional creativity. Custom lens solutions that respond to individual customers' needs are a vital pathway to preserving the ECP/patient relationship, and thus the strength of the ECP's business. firstname.lastname@example.com


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World Series champs ready to begin quest for encore
Sox determined to win MLB's first consecutive titles since 1998-2000 as spring dawns
The surreal journey the Red Sox took to win the World Series last season would seem hard to top. Then again, simply by defending their title, the 2014 campaign could be even more special.
Baseball hasn't had a repeat champion since the Yankees won it all three times in a row from 1998-2000. Before that, the Blue Jays went back to back in 1992-93. Nobody repeated in the 1980s.
The Red Sox know it will be difficult. But they will have a determination this season to prove it can be done. It all starts later this week, when pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in Fort Myers, Fla.
"That's our goal," said ace Jon Lester. "Just because we won last year doesn't mean we're going to show up to Spring Training and go, 'Oh, we had a good year. Let's just go play this one out.' Every year, you walk through those doors and your goal is to win a World Series."
Though the path to every championship season is different, the overall character of the Red Sox should be of help in their quest to repeat.
"That was what was so impressive about that team last year -- we never wavered from our task," Lester said. "We'd find ourselves looking ahead and the next guy would bring us back to the task at hand that day. But like I said, you walk through those doors, that's going to be our goal. I don't know about chances, I don't know about percentages, but I like our chances against any team."
The main changes from last year's core are the subtractions of Jacoby Ellsbury and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who signed with the Yankees and Marlins, respectively.
The key new faces are catcher A.J. Pierzynski, reliever Edward Mujica and erstwhile superstar Grady Sizemore, who is trying to get on a Major League field for the first time since 2011.
Pitchers and catchers report
Feb. 15
Full squad reports
Feb. 18
First Spring Training game
Home vs. Twins, Feb. 28, 1:05 p.m. ET
Opening Day
Away vs. Orioles, March 31, 3:05 p.m.
Triple play: Three questions that need answers
1. Can Sizemore rebound?
All eyes will be on Sizemore, who will try to at last stay healthy. Sizemore was once an elite all-around center fielder. If he can be anything close to what he was in the past, Boston could have one of the best finds of the offseason.
2. Who will be the odd man out in the rotation?
Elementary math skills tell you that the Red Sox have six established starters for five spots in Lester, Clay Buchholz, John Lackey, Felix Doubront, Jake Peavy and Ryan Dempster. It remains to be seen how manager John Farrell will clear up this logjam.
3. Will Stephen Drew resurface?
Until Drew signs with someone, there will be rampant speculation that he could wind up back with Boston. This would have an impact on both Xander Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks, who would suddenly be in competition to be the starting third baseman if Drew returns at shortstop.
2013 record
97-65, first place in the American League East, won the World Series
Projected batting order
1. LF Daniel Nava:
.303 BA, .385 OBP, .445 SLG, 12 HR, 66 RBI in 2013
2. 2B Dustin Pedroia:
.301 BA, .372 OBP, .415 SLG, 9 HR, 84 RBI in 2013
3. DH David Ortiz:
.309 BA, .395 OBP, .564 SLG, 30 HR, 103 RBI in 2013
4. 1B Mike Napoli:
.259 BA, .360 OBP, .482 SLG, 23 HR, 92 RBI in 2013
5. C A.J. Pierzynski:
.272 BA, .297 OBP, .425 SLG, 17 HR, 70 RBI in 2013
6. RF Shane Victorino:
.294 BA, .351 OBP, .451 SLG, 15 HR, 61 RBI in 2013
7. SS Xander Bogaerts:
.250 BA, .320 OBP, .364 SLG, 1 HR, 5 RBI in 2013
8. 3B Will Middlebrooks:
.227 BA, .271 OBP, .425 SLG, 17 HR, 49 RBI in 2013
9. CF Jackie Bradley Jr.:
.189 BA, .280 OBP, .337 SLG, 3 HR, 10 RBI in 2013
Projected rotation
1. Jon Lester, 15-8, 3.75 ERA in 2013
2. Clay Buchholz, 12-1, 1.74 ERA in 2013
3. John Lackey, 10-13, 3.52 ERA in 2013
4. Jake Peavy, 12-5, 4.17 ERA in 2013
5. Felix Doubront, 11-6, 4.32 ERA in 2013
Projected bullpen
Closer: Koji Uehara, 21/24 saves, 1.09 ERA in 2013
RH setup man: Junichi Tazawa, 3.16 ERA in 2013
LH setup man: Craig Breslow, 1.81 ERA in 2013
The new guys
C Pierzynski: Perhaps because of his outspoken nature, some consider Pierzynski to be a lightning rod. However, former teammates, including Ortiz, speak highly of him. The Red Sox look forward to adding Pierzynski's experience, durability and production behind the plate.
CF Sizemore: Sizemore can't wait to get into the grind of Spring Training to see if his body can handle the daily pounding. If so, Boston has a lot to be excited about. Sizemore will challenge Bradley to be the starting center fielder. If Bradley wins the job, Sizemore could be a nice piece off the bench.
RHP Mujica: The best-case scenario is that Mujica was simply tired at the end of last season, and that led to his struggling down the stretch with St. Louis. If so, he gives the Red Sox a potentially dominant setup man and also some insurance if Uehara suffers any health problems.
INF Jonathan Herrera: Acquired in a trade from the Rockies for Franklin Morales, Herrera gives Boston a utility player who can provide innings at second, short and third.
Prospects to watch
C Christian Vazquez: One of the reasons the Red Sox were willing to let Saltalamacchia go as a free agent and sign Pierzynski for one year is because they feel Vazquez is knocking on the door. He has a cannon arm and a lightning-quick release. The question is this: What type of hitter can Vazquez be?
red sox top prospects
|Xander Bogaerts
|Henry Owens
|Jackie Bradley
|Allen Webster
|Garin Cecchini
|Blake Swihart
|Mookie Betts
|Matt Barnes
|Trey Ball
RHP Anthony Ranaudo: The hard-throwing righty could be ready for Major League action at some point during the summer. The Red Sox love his competitive fire and his arsenal of plus pitches.
LHP Henry Owens: It isn't a stretch to say Owens is Boston's best lefty pitching prospect since Lester. And in Spring Training, Owens will get a chance to learn from Lester on a daily basis.
On the rebound
3B Middlebrooks: For the most part, last season was a nightmare for Middlebrooks, who failed to live up to the promise of his rookie season. Middlebrooks is a hard worker and a determined player, so there's every reason to think he might rebound in 2014.
CF Sizemore: The Red Sox hope that Sizemore can be the position-player equivalent of what Lackey was last year.
RHP Buchholz: After a glittering and injury-shortened regular season, Buchholz experienced dead arm in the postseason. If he can recapture his form and stay healthy, Buchholz could be in the running for the AL Cy Young Award.
Long gone
CF Ellsbury: The speedy center fielder played a key role in Boston's last two World Series championships. When healthy, Ellsbury was an invaluable asset. But the Yanks were willing to make the financial commitment (seven years, $153 million) Ellsbury desired, so he followed Johnny Damon's footsteps and switched sides in the rivalry.
C Saltalamacchia: The popular switch-hitter got better throughout his time with the Red Sox. However, the club didn't want to make a multiyear investment in a catcher with depth waiting in the farm system. Saltalamacchia wound up with the Marlins.


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DWTS Season 9 – A Whole Lotta Video
There was a cast party last night and as a result we have lots and lots of paparrazzi video to peruse. First up is PopTV – gang, these videos are LONG. But they cover nearly every single celeb and pro, so you might find them interesting. I confess, I have not watched them all yet. There aren't enough hours in the day. The first one has some non-DWTS content. Be patient. 🙂
Paparazzi Henry – a lot of the pros seem to have a good relationship with this dude:
Derek, Mark, Melissa and Joanna – having way too much fun.
Video of Derek and Joanna from Hollywood TV – no embed code so click THIS LINK
That's all for now. If I find more, I'll post it!!!


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Block House Creek Animal Hospital is a fast paced mixed animal (80% dog, 20% large and exotics) practice that has served northwest Austin, and the surrounding areas for over twenty-five years. We pride ourselves on quality medicine, and outstanding customer service. We are equipped with digital x-ray, ultrasound, in house CBC/Chem, e-cautery, med-rx and a diode laser, endoscopy, and rhinoscopy. We are currently looking for a motivated and passionate veterinarian with a desire to learn, a strong work ethic, and flexible schedule to help us continue to provide exceptional care. Job responsibilities mainly include small animal medicine, surgery, emergency, canine reproduction, and dentistry along with some large animal, and exotics.
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• Maintain client/patient medical/surgical records and make certain all necessary logs are kept up-to-date through established protocols; assist colleagues in follow-up and future management of the patient.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) Eshaunte Jones posted his fourth consecutive 20-plus-point game and Ernest Watson scored 16 points to help Northern Kentucky edge East Tennessee State 70-68 in Atlantic Sun Conference play and win three games in a row for the first time this season.
Jones tallied 25 points on a career-high seven 3-pointers. The 6-foot-4 forward has knocked down 22 treys in Northern Kentucky's last four games.
The Norse (7-11, 5-5) trailed 31-28 at halftime but opened the second half with seven straight points to take a 34-31 lead.
From there, ETSU (6-17, 4-6) tied the game twice and regained the lead on Rashawn Rembert's 3-pointer with 3:34 left to play. However, Northern Kentucky's Chad Jackson rattled off five straight points and Jones converted a four-point play with 26 seconds left to seal the victory.
Jackson finished with 12 points.
Jarvis Jones had 23 points for ETSU and Lester Wilson added 16.


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Shown in front of a pair of NOS directional assemblies.
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308 Ferrari lenses are known to crack around the screw holes. On mine I tighten the screws just enough to lightly touch the gaskets. This keeps them from cracking around the screw holes. I never drive mine in the rain and seldom wash it so water getting in for me is not a concern.
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A seminar organized by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday questioned whether the foreign and cross-strait policies of the administration of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) were inconsistent — and if so, why.
"The DPP cannot place all the blame [for what it was unable to accomplish] on Beijing's oppression and the Chinese Nationalist Party's [KMT] majority in the legislature," Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies president Chao Chun-shan (趙春山) told a panel discussion. "After all, tensions across the Taiwan Strait and deteriorating Taiwan-US relations were facts."
The seminar was the first of four weekly installments, a comprehensive review that gathers academics and former government officials to examine 17 policy areas of the DPP administration from 2000 to 2008 in the hope of helping the party return to power.
Four panel discussions covering the economy, foreign policy, cross-strait policy and national defense were held yesterday.
Chao, one of President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) most trusted cross-strait affairs advisers, said it was inevitable for political observers to define the DPP's foreign and China policies as inconsistent since Chen had submitted a "four noes and one not" policy in his inaugural address, and at one point considered conditionally accepting the so-called "1992 consensus."
However, Chen made a swift U-turn in his second term by advocating a series of radical policies, such as "one country on each side" and Taiwan's bid to become a member of the UN, Chao said.
"If the DPP is serious about a thorough introspection of its past administration, it needs to explain why those changes occurred" rather than reminiscing on what it had accomplished, he said.
One of the DPP's most glaring weaknesses has been the struggle between its political ideology and hard reality, Chao said, because space to maneuver as a ruling party is dramatically diminished.
Former DPP government officials countered that the party's policies are rational and consistent, with former representative to the US and former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) saying that the DPP administration had always upheld the principles of peace, reconciliation and collaboration in its engagement with Beijing, and was able to move bilateral relations forward, although in baby steps, with successful negotiations on charter flights and the "three small links" even during difficult periods.
In his review of DPP foreign policy between 2000 and 2008, former deputy minister of foreign affairs Michael Kau (高英茂) said that Beijing's hostility was why Chen's foreign policy shifted from one of pragmatism and steadiness to trying to break out of China's encirclement, which contributed to a souring of Taiwan-US ties.
Changes in policy could also be attributed to Chen's character, former National Security Council deputy secretary-general Antonio Chiang (江春男) said.
"Chen has always been a pragmatist without a firm political ideology. He could have supported unification and been a pro-China politician if that would have helped him get re-elected," Chiang said.
However, panelists agreed that the former DPP administration was able to ensure that Taiwanese sovereignty and national integrity topped the agenda in engagements with China and other countries, and commanded better interagency coordination and communication for its policy implementation in comparison with the current KMT administration.


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They sing the ballad to show support toward Finn and Quinn due to the baby debacle. The song tells them that the group will support them throughout the journey of Quinn's pregnancy. Puck seems annoyed as he sings because he is the real father, which leads to him to be looking at Quinn throughout the entire song. Kurt also looks at Finn longingly through the song.
New Directions:
Hum-hum-hum-hum-hum (Artie: Yeah)
Hum-hum-hum-hum-hum (Artie: Mmmm)
Hum-hum-hum-hum-hum (Mercedes: Ohhhh)
Hum-hum-hum-hum (Mercedes: Yeah) hum (Artie: Ohhhh noooo)
Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain
We all have sorrow
But, if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Mercedes with Artie and New Directions:
Lean on me
When you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on
Mercedes (New Directions):
Please! (Please)
Swallow your pride (Pride)
If I have things
(with New Directions: You need to borrow)
(For) For (Ooooh) no one can fill
(Ooooh) Those of your needs
That you won't let show
New Directions (Mercedes):
So just call (with New Directions: Call!) (call on me brother) (New Directions: Hey!)
When (you need a hand) (with New Directions: You need a hand)
Mercedes with New Directions:
We all need (New Directions : Need) somebody to lean on!
(New Directions Girls: I just might have a problem)
I just might have a problem that you'll understand.
We all need somebody to lean on! (Artie: Lean on me)
Lean on me (Artie: Hey)
When you're not strong (Artie: When you're not strong)
I'll be your friend (Artie: I'll be your friend)
I'll help you carry on (Artie: Help you carry on)
For it won't be long (Artie: Oh, it won't be long)
'Till I'm gonna need (Artie: Oh, 'Till I'm gonna need, Oh) somebody to lean on
New Directions Girls (New Directions Boys):
(Just lean on me) You just, call on me brother (Hey)
When you need a hand (You need a hand)
Mercedes with New Directions Girls (New Directions Boys)
We all need (Need) somebody to lean on! (Artie: Somebody to lean on)
New Directions Boys (New Directions Girls):
(I just might)
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
Mercedes with New Directions Boys (New Directions Girls):
We all (need somebody to lean on!)
Lean on me (Artie: Oooh oh)
Artie (New Directions):
If (If)
There is a load (There's a load)
You have to bear (You have to bear)
That you can't (with New Directions: carry)
I'm (I am) (with New Directions: right up the road) (Oooh)
I'll (with New Directions Boys: share your load)
Artie and Mercedes with New Directions:
If you just call me
Mercedes with New Directions:
Call me (Artie: I'm calling)
New Directions:
Call me (Mercedes: When you need a friend)
Call me (Artie: Call me)
Call me (Tina: Call me) (Mercedes: Call me!) (Artie: When you need a friend)
Call me (Tina: When you need a friend)
Call me (Mercedes: If you need a friend)
Call me (Mercedes: Call me, uh) (Tina: Any time of day)
Call me
Oooo, It won't be long
'Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on, lean on, lean on me
New Directions:
Lean on, lean on (Mercedes: Lean, lean on me, yeah), lean on me
When you need a friend
Lean on, lean (Mercedes: Hey, yeah!) on, lean on me, (Artie: Yeah!) lean on me
Lean on, lean on, lean on me
Mercedes with New Directions (New Directions):
I'm gonna need (Somebody) somebody to lean on
New Directions (Mercedes):
I'm gonna need (Hey!) somebody to lean on (Somebody to lean on) (Artie: Yeah!)
Mercedes with New Directions:
Yeah! (Artie: Ohh)
- Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron were not allowed to attend rehearsals for Lean on Me, as Brad Falchuk wanted their reactions to seem real. Both were brought to tears by the performance, with co-star Jenna Ushkowitz commenting: "It's special to have those kinds of touching moments where you can get real, raw emotions on screen."
- This song was performed on the first season of The Glee Project as a homework assignment in episode 9, "Generosity," with Kevin McHale as the guest mentor.
- Darren Criss sung this song for his first Glee audition. Source.


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Wineke: Moving "right" along the religion front
C3K columnist says some promoting strange view of "science"
Moving right along on the religion front:
Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, a member of the Science Committee of the United States House of Representatives, says the ideas of evolution and the "Big Bang" theory of the creation of the universe are "lies straight from the pit of hell."
Those "lies" are being told by folk who want to undermine our need for a "savior," Broun told an audience at Liberty University.
Now, just to repeat: Paul Broun is a member of the Science Committee of the United States House of Representatives. He is one of the people who get to determine how federal money is spent in the advancement of science.
He's not the only one. Remember Rep. Todd Akin, R-Arkansas? He's the guy who explained a few weeks ago that when a woman is the victim of "legitimate rape," her body will produce some magic chemicals that will keep her from getting pregnant.
Akin, too, is a member of the Science Committee of the United States House of Representatives.
He is also the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in Arkansas.
I don't know whether to be more fearful for the future of the United States of America or for the future of the Christian Church.
America has always had its share of oddball politicians. They add color to our national dialogue. They give voice to people who wear aluminum foil hats.
But, I think, we have to ask Speaker of the House John Boehner why he would appoint such crackpots to the Science Committee of the House of Representatives.
Their weird view of faith is dangerous to us all.
Because it's not just abortion and evolution that these guys question: It is all modern science.
It seems to be an item of faith for the most part of the Republican Party that global warming is a myth. The party's presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, is making increased drilling for oil and increased mining for coal a centerpiece of his energy policy—and is promising to end subsidies for alternatives to fossil fuels.
And, so, while it might be fun to laugh at crackpots like Broun and Akin, there's more at stake.
We cannot run a modern society on myth. We can try, but it won't work.
And when one of the two major parties in a country governed by what is essentially a two-party system is taken over by the crackpots, we are all at serious risk.


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VERNON � The Vernon City Council took about 30 seconds Monday to approve adding a mile to the city�s Enterprise Zone.
VERNON � The Vernon City Council took about 30 seconds Monday to approve adding a mile to the city�s Enterprise Zone.
The Enterprise Zone extension was discussed in length at last week�s council workshop, where Washington County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ted Everett proposed expanding the city�s Enterprise Zone down Moss Hill Road.
An Enterprise Zone is a state-created area for industrial or commercial development that offers incentives to businesses in order to create jobs. Those incentives include jobs creation tax credits, electrical energy tax credits, sales tax refunds for jobs creation and building materials, property tax credits for jobs creation and sales tax refunds for business equipment and machinery.
Last year the state Legislature passed a new law allowing counties to expand their Enterprise Zones, and Washington County will be allowed to expand its areas by three miles, which Everett plans to divide evenly between Ebro and Vernon.
Everett visited the Vernon council�s workshop on Sept. 16 to discuss possible expansion plans for Vernon�s Enterprise Zone.
Currently the city has its Enterprise Zone located mainly along Highway 79. Everett suggested the city council consider extending the zone an additional 1 � mile, the amount by which he hopes to expand the zone, along Mossy Hill Road toward the high school.
The council was told that the school district owns property behind the school�s campus, which could potentially be purchased by the city and used as an industrial site.
The next step will be for the city to determine where exactly the new Enterprise Zone will be, and Everett has an engineering firm lined up to help with that work at no cost to the cities.
The council also approved four requests for adjustments to customer water bill accounts due to leakage. Deputy Clerk Karen Dodd said that the city may waive sewage fees in the case of leaks, with the council�s approval.
The first account the council discussed was for an amount of water bill for $896, the result of a tree root breaking a pipe. The adjustment the customer would receive would be $399. �They�ve already paid the bill, but they were just hoping you could help them with this.�
�If we make this adjustment, then we�re setting a precedent,� said Councilman Joey Brock.
The request for adjustment for $399 at first went without a motion, which would have meant the refund would not have been made. However, Council President Tina Sloan passed the gavel so she could make a motion to allow the adjustment, and the motion was approved.
�We�ve always allowed adjustments for broken pipes,� Councilwoman Gwen March said.
The council approved the other three adjustments, which were for $100.45, $302 and $1.42.
Councilman Shawn Sanders reported that the repair estimates for the city�s two fire trucks had been submitted. �The estimate for the fire engine repairs is $45,000 and repairs to the tanker will cost $65,000.�
The two fire trucks were damaged when they collided with each other en route to a fire call in August.
�The insurance adjuster figured $16,000 for the tanker and only $7,000 for the engine,� Sanders said. �We�ve got to get with the insurance company and see what to do. We�ve got full coverage insurance, so they either have to fix it or replace it. It�s just a matter of working out the details.�
In other business, the council approved paying a negotiated amount to former city attorney Kerry Adkison.
�I met with Mr. Adkison and we had a very good meeting,� said City Attorney Michelle Tagert. �I had the chance to review all the city�s files and reviewed the work products case-by-case.�
The original amount of the bill was about $27,000. Tagert said she and Adkison had discussed the billing, and he agreed to a lower amount of $10,230, which the council agreed to pay.


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A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
On a Friday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, Marion Crane and her lover, Sam Loomis, are having a romantic rendezvous at a hotel when Marion complains that she is tired of meeting Sam under such sordid circumstances. Sam, who runs a hardware store in Fairvale, California, assures her that they can marry after he pays his debts, but Marion longs for immediate respectability. Upon her return to the real estate office where she works as a secretary, Marion learns that her boss, George Lowery, is with oil tycoon Tom Cassidy. When the men return, the lecherous Cassidy brags to Marion that he is paying $40,000 in cash to buy a house for his daughter. Lowery, worried about leaving the money in the office over the weekend, tells Marion to take it to the bank, and Marion asks to go home afterward. After rebuffing Cassidy again, Marion departs, but at her apartment, stuffs the money into her purse and leaves with a suitcase. Driving until exhaustion forces her to pull over, Marion falls asleep on a lonely stretch of road. She is awoken on Saturday morning by a highway patrolman, who is suspicious of her irritable manner. After the policeman dismisses her, Marion, afraid that he will remember her, goes to a used car lot and trades in her vehicle for one with California plates. Later, during a fierce rainstorm, Marion misses the turnoff to Fairvale and stops at the Bates Motel, where the proprietor, Norman Bates, welcomes her and offers to fix her dinner at his home, a looming structure on the hill behind the motel. Marion accepts, but as she hides the cash in a newspaper she had purchased, she hears an old woman loudly berate Norman for attempting to bring a girl into her home. When Norman returns with sandwiches, he explains to the apologetic Marion that his mother is "not quite herself." Norman then invites her into his parlor behind the office, where Marion is nonplussed by the birds Norman has stuffed in pursuit of his hobby, taxidermy. Marion chats with the shy Norman, who confesses how alone he is, except for his mother. When Marion asks if Norman has any friends, Norman replies that "a boy's best friend is his mother," although he admits that he wishes he could run away, as Marion is apparently doing. Norman relates his belief that everyone is in a trap of some kind, and that his mother is mentally ill due to the deaths of his father and later, her lover. When Marion suggests that Norman could lead a life of his own if he put his mother in an institution, he reacts bitterly, stating that his mother is harmless and that he could never abandon her. Relaxing, Norman asserts that "we all go a little mad sometimes." Realizing that she has gone mad herself, Marion tells Norman that she has to return to Phoenix, in hopes of escaping a private trap. Marion then goes to her room, unaware that Norman is watching her undress through a peephole. While Marion writes a note calculating how much of the stolen money she has spent, Norman strides to the house, resolved to assert himself. Norman's strength fades, however, and as he sits dejectedly at the kitchen table, Marion tears up her note, flushes it down the toilet and enters the shower. As Marion enjoys her shower, a shadowy female figure enters the bathroom and repeatedly stabs her. A few minutes later, in the house, Norman screams out to his mother about the blood, then rushes to find Marion, lifeless on the bathroom floor. Sickened but determined to protect his mother, Norman wraps Marion's body in the shower curtain and after cleaning the room, deposits her corpse and belongings into the trunk of her car. Norman also tosses in the newspaper, which he does not know holds the money, then sinks the car in a swamp behind the house. A week later, as Sam is writing to Marion, he is interrupted by her sister Lila, whom he has never met. Sam is baffled by Lila's frantic questioning about Marion and is prevented from answering by the arrival of Milton Arbogast, a private investigator. Arbogast and Lila explain to Sam about Marion's theft, and although Sam maintains his innocence, Arbogast remains suspicious that he is involved. Promising Lila that he will find her sister, Arbogast then spends two days searching the area. When he reaches the Bates Motel, he interrogates Norman, who stammers that he has never seen Marion. Arbogast uncovers Norman's lie, however, and after Norman admits that Marion was at the motel, the detective appears to accept his statement that she left early in the morning. When Arbogast sees Mrs. Bates sitting in a window of the house, he wants to question her, but Norman orders him to leave. Unsettled, Arbogast calls Lila and relates everything that Norman said, then states that he will return to Fairvale after interrogating Mrs. Bates. As Arbogast climbs the stairs in the house, however, he is stabbed to death by a woman. Soon after, Norman sinks Arbogast's car in the swamp, while in Fairvale, Lila grows impatient about the detective's absence and Sam eventually takes her to see Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers. Convinced that Arbogast got "a hot lead" from Norman, then left to chase Marion and the money, the skeptical Chambers dismisses Lila's concerns, especially when she mentions Mrs. Bates. Chambers explains that, ten years earlier, Norman's mother poisoned her lover upon discovering that he was married, then committed suicide. After Chambers telephones Norman, who confirms that Arbogast left suddenly, Norman confronts his mother, telling her that she must hide in the fruit cellar for her own protection. Over her loud objections, Norman then carries her downstairs. Unsatisfied by Chambers' remarks, Lila and Sam drive to the motel the following day and check in. After sneaking into the room in which Marion stayed, Lila finds a piece of the paper on which Marion had written. Convinced that Norman hurt Marion to steal the money, Sam detains him in the office while Lila searches for Mrs. Bates. Norman, irritated by Sam's insinuations, retreats to his parlor and upon hearing Sam's mention of his mother, knocks Sam unconscious. Meanwhile, Lila has been exploring the house, in which she finds Mrs. Bates's immaculate bedroom and her bed, which bears the imprint of her body. Lila also snoops around Norman's squalid room, which contains his childhood toys and a small cot. Returning to the first floor, Lila sees Norman running up to the house and hides downstairs. As Norman goes upstairs, Lila creeps down to the fruit cellar, where she finds Mrs. Bates sitting with her back to the door. Lila inches forward to tap the old woman on the shoulder, but when she swings around, Lila is horrified to find herself staring at a decaying corpse. As she screams, Lila turns around to see Norman, wearing a wig and one of his mother's dresses. Shrieking "I am Norma Bates," Norman lunges toward her with a knife, but Sam arrives in time to overpower him. Later, as Sam and Lila wait with Chambers and other officials at the courthouse, Norman is examined by a psychiatrist, Dr. Richmond. Richmond explains that Norman, who suffers from a split personality, has been taken over by the dominant personality, that of his mother, and that Norman himself no longer exists. Richmond states that after the death of his father, Norman was overwhelmed by his domineering mother, and that when she took a lover, Norman killed them both. Unable to bear the guilt, Norman preserved her corpse, then, to heighten the illusion that "Mother" was alive, began dressing and speaking as her. Believing that his mother would be as jealous of him as he was of her, Norman subconsciously allowed the Mother side of his personality to murder any woman whom he found attractive. As they discuss the case, Norman sits in a nearby room, huddled in a blanket, while the Mother side of his personality thinks to herself that she could not allow her son to brand her a killer. Noticing a fly on her hand, Mother cunningly declares that she will not swat it, so that anyone observing her will know that she would not even harm a fly.
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So, I'll take my promising new action film stars anywhere I can find them, even if its from Chile, a place not exactly known as a hotbed of action film making. As a matter of fact, I'd venture to guess this is the only martial arts friendly action film to come out of Chile. I certainly cannot recall any other.
Director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza and star Marko Zaror apparently gestated Kiltro (2006) while they were going to school together. It is an odd, uneven film, and I wasn't surprised to see that it was Espinoza's proper debut feature. Though I would mark it as a minor success and something to be proud of, it feels like that kind of film, a tad overambitious, and a bit rough around the edges.
Zamir (Zorar) is a red dye streak mulleted, baggy pant wearing, dim bulb street kid who pines for half-breed Kim (Caterina Jadresic), whose Korean father runs a marital art academy. After saving her from some street thugs (apparently her father didn't teach her self defense very well), he obsessively follows her everywhere. Unfortunately his idea of courting is to shadow her and wallop on any guy that makes a pass at her. One of the better jokes around this involves his best friend giving him advice on how to talk to her. He suggests saying, "I saw you yesterday," and when she asks, "Where?" reply, "In my dreams." Zamir gets out the first line and she snaps back, "Of course, you follow me everywhere!"
Enter Max Kalba (that's a villain name if I've ever heard one), the devil goateed, claw cane sporting, deposed member of a martial sect who has come back for revenge against the elders and their offspring. This, of course, marks Kim, her father, as well as Zamir's mother and Zamir becasue his absentee, mystery father was part of the sect. Kalba wipes out most everyone, captures Kim's father, and forces Kim and Zamir into hiding. Zamir is instructed, from a wise dwarf no less, to seek out the remaining elder of the martial sect, Jose Sato, who has become a drunkard living in the desert where Zamir receives the training that will hopefully give him the means to take out Kalba.
The plotting sounds simple enough and honestly it should be. That is one of the finer points of an action film. Like any genre number, from noir or a horror, a simple framework is all you need to lay out, just add action and inspiration on top of it and you can have a success. That isn't quite the case with Kiltro which has some execution issues. Espinoza hangs a few too many disparate elements together, relies too much on flashbacks, and the film feels just a tad overlong. The first third or so plays like a quirky comedy romance and, on that end, it's a bit strange to have you badass action hero puppy dog groveling and even crying to his mother within in the first fifteen minutes. When Kabla shows up, the film suddenly shifts into the all too serious and bleak with bracing shifts into the purposefully cartoonish (obvious fake backdrops, Kalba's army of anime-looking henchmen, etc.) Not to mention, from stolen music cues to Kabla's backstory flashbacks which mirror El Indio's from For a Few Dollars More, Espinoza wedges in some unnecessary nods to Sergio Leone. You can see the capacity Espinoza has as an action helmer if he just had something more solid underneath him. These little rendering problems I mostly mark it up to first-timer growing pains, wanting to play with different styles/tones/feelings, but he ends up with a bunch of odd branches on a hollow trunk.
When it comes to Marko Zorar, likewise, the potential is obvious but he is a bit let down by the slapdash execution and, one assumes, lower budget problems that plague most modern martial films- that is, the films action scenes boil down to handful with only two key finale set-pieces and his fight scene co-stars don't seem capable of matching his skills. Physically he is a big, brutish looking fellow, yet he is capable of some fast, acrobatic movements. Beefcake + Acrobatics + Capable enough acting skills, the guy seemingly has all the tools to be a solid action star. One just hopes he can find the proper vehicles for his talents. Hell, if someone is thinking of another, proper stab at a live adaptation of Fist of the North Star, sign the guy up as the lead. He'd be perfect.
The DVD: Magnolia.
Anamorphic Widescreen. Techwise you'll find some slight edge enhancement. Real problems come about from the source print, and these are forgivable areas you can chalk up to the budget. For instance, you have scenes with heavy grain or slightly lacking definition and the finale features some super slow motion scenes that are extremely flawed, dull contrast, murky, terrible grain, obviously a product of the film makers going out of their way to stylize the scenes but being short-changed with their equipment.
Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 Surround English dub or original Spanish language tracks. Optional English subtitles. Nice soundtrack, dialog is always clear, scoring is mixed with appropriate bombast, and the fist and kickacuffs have a decent amount of thwack.
The subs are extremely bold, well-timed, and get an extra plus for their legibility (maybe I'm just sour because I was watching Paprika OnDemand and found the subs too small and lacking sharpness) .
I am not anti-dub. Gotta' put that out there because every time I rag on a dub, jokers inevitably fire off emails saying I'm some snooty original language only purist. I have many reviews where I actually praise dubs or, for instance, moan over a classic old school kung fu flick not having a dub option. In this case, the English dub is simply terrible, the acting isn't very colorful, and worst of all the guy cast as Amir is far too meek-voiced.
The extras boil down to a few featurettes, Fight Training (5:07), Bloopers (1:33), Deleted Scenes (1:48), Behind the Scenes (5:31), and Storyboards (7:24). These are actually a bit of a letdown. There simply isn't much meat on them- mostly b-camera fly on the wall stuff, the bloopers and deleted material are forgettable, and only the storyboard to scene comparison offers any significant insight.
Kiltro is an intriguing modern martial film. It is certainly very flawed but one can see the cues that could signal the director and lead being new stars on the horizon. The DVD is a bit of a letdown, solid enough when it comes to the feature but short changed on the extras. If you are like me, a martial fan who salivates at anything half-decent and inspired beyond the typical DTV dreck, Kiltro is worth a look. I'll give it an overall recommendation of a rental.


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Economic growth throughout much of Asia will slow slightly this year and next, weighed down by weak export demand from major industrial economies and China, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday.
The Manila-based lending institution said Asia's economies excluding Japan will grow 6 percent this year and 6.6 percent next year. Both figures are 0.1 percentage point lower than anticipated in October.
"Enduring debt problems and economic weakness in Europe and the looming fiscal cliff in the United States remain very real threats to developing Asia next year," ADB chief economist Changyong Rhee said.
Slower-than-expected growth in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and India and the two largest Central Asian economies — Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan — slightly outweigh the more rapid expansion in some other economies in the region, such as the Philippines and Malaysia.
The ADB said China's rebound in industrial production means its economy should expand as anticipated — 7.7 percent this year and 8.1 percent next year.
Weak external demand from major industrial nations and China continues to weigh down East Asia.
The ADB revised growth prospects for the region from 6.5 percent to 6.4 percent this year, and from 7.1 percent to 7 percent next year.
Hong Kong's economy grew 1.3 percent in the third quarter from a year ago. South Korea grew 1.6 percent, its slowest growth since the third quarter of 2009. Mongolia grew a lower-than-expected 5.6 percent.
Overall growth in Southeast Asia is expected to reach 5.3 percent this year and 5.5 percent next year. The top five regional economies — Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines — are expected to continue to grow at 5.9 percent this year and 5.8 percent next year.
Domestic demand driven by private consumption and private and public investment is boosting Malaysia's economy. In the Philippines, the GDP growth beat expectations after accelerating to 7.1 percent in the third quarter, compared with 3.2 percent in the same period last year.
The bank said Thailand is expecting a strong rebound in the fourth quarter after last year's floods.


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Can we stay this lucky with the weather? Can we? For just another couple of weeks? It's keeping people on their bikes well into October and that's pretty fantastic. I think that there were more people out today than there was on Friday and that's saying something since Friday was pretty chock full of bike types. I think that more people beginning to weigh the opportunity costs (and real costs) of their transit choices and, in their own individual cases, realizing that bicycling doesn't stack up badly at all. I hope that DC continues to make strides to improve the infrastructure for "close-in" people (the ones coming from only a couple of miles away), so that even more people feel comfortable riding. No, it won't reduce traffic on the Beltway, but it might make moving within the city (via car or Metro) marginally easier. But then again, I have no idea.
I'm still wearing shorts. For the sporty types who've switched to bike pants, it might be a warm ride home this afternoon.
Virginia license plate HAYEK on a pick-up truck. Friedrich or Salma? Trivia: one of them was a producer for Ugly Betty. (The answer might surprise you). Anyway, there's probably a joke in there somewhere about high gas prices and low fuel efficiency being the real Road to Serfdom, but I'm not going to actually make it. Or did I?
The pants-wearing biker in front of me on East Capitol proceeded through the Capitol grounds, which I've yet to try, sticking with Constitution to Pennsylvania. I think that the grounds might make for an easier transition to Penn Avenue, but it's only bad like every other day. On Penn Ave, some guy really pushing it on a Bianchi hybrid whizzed by and prompted me to ride along behind him as we caught light after light riding an a not insignificant speed. As we approached stop lights or jaywalking pedestrians, he used hand signals to alert me as one might in a group ride. I'm never really sure of the appropriateness of this during a commute, since optimally, we're all our own independent actors and just happen to be riding along the same way at the same time. Or maybe that's just what I tell myself to not feel bad about not alerting riders behind me.Though I think it's probably a good idea to signal in some manner if you're going to coming to a complete stop or turn.
Needs to be some better signage/traffic intervention at the end of the 15th street cycletrack by Pennsylvania and New York Ave. It's sort of just a free-for-all right now, with bicyclists turning on and off the track directly through a pedestrian crosswalk. The solution might be a bike traffic light, since it's mostly the cyclists dodging rightfully crossing pedestrians (unlike on 15th where it's pedestrians jumping out into the bikeway with absolutely no awareness that it's a bikeway). But I'm sure nothing can change because it might be too dangerous for security guards in a checkpoint somewhere.(My bitterness got me in WashCycle!)
The usual bunching on R, including (presumably) a dad and his 12 year old son making their way across town. Parents biking with their children is probably a good thing for the cause of biking in general. Parents biking with other people's children might also be good. Parents biking with chainsaws might be good, but it might also be bad, depending on whether the parents are loggers, devoted amateur fans of logging or just recklessly wielding chainsaws. (This post has officially gone off the rails)
Nice climb up both parts of Massachusetts, including riding behind a guy on a fixie. Fixie guy was pretty fleet and he gained ground on the guy in front him to the point where the in front guy turned around and actually apologized. Never apologize to another bicyclist for not going fast enough. It's a fairly simple reality: someone who wants to go faster than you needs to figure their own way around you and you, minding you own business and riding your own pace and the conditions make it such that they can't pass easily and it temporarily slows them up, well, sucks to their assmar. Be cognizant of other bicyclists and be courteous, but don't say you're sorry for riding slower than they would prefer if you can't immediately accommodate them.


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Named as a Freshman to Watch by Golfweek Magazine in the preseason, one of just 20 players nationally so recognized by the magazine ... Ranked third on the team with a 75.41 scoring average ... Won the individual title and helped Harvard to the team title at The Century Intercollegiate with a two-round score of 77-75-152.
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Was named an HP Junior Academic All-American in 2008 and 2009 ... Member of the Victorious 2010 Canon Cup West Team at Old Sandwich Golf Club in Plymouth, Mass.; the Canon Cup is an annual team match play competition featuring the 10 best male and 10 best female junior golfers from the East of the Mississippi River versus their counterparts from the West ... Owns seven career AJGA Top-10 Finishes and 12 Top-15 Finishes (including 2nd at 2008 AJGA Mayakoba Classic and 3rd at 2009 AJGA Las Vegas Junior) ... Finished in fifth place in the 2010 Scott Robertson Memorial in Roanoke, Va. with rounds of 71-72-68 ... Won the 2009 FCWT Legends in the Orange Lake Classic by 6 shots with a 68-70 (-6) total ... Ended his Junior career ranked 38th Overall in the Country by Golfweek/Titleist National Rankings and #12 in the Class of 2010 with a power rating of 71.94 ... Valedictorian of The Pendleton School and recipient of the Carpe Diem Award ... Ap Scholar with Honors ... National Honor Society ... Sophomore class president ... Delegate to University of Florida's Young Leaders Conference.
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Beautiful flat and wooded lot with views to south and North from this top of the world home site. Situated on the 9th hole of the world class Jack Nicklaus signature Summit Golf Course, club memberships available. The adjacent lot is also for sale, would make almost 8 acres of mountain tranquility. Cordillera is one of the Valleys premier clubs with full and part time residents. 3 golf courses, equestrian center, tennis and pool and fitness facilities.
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36th Children's Hospital Gala: Things you may have missed
I cover most of the bases relating to the 36th annual Children's Hospital Gala in a story appearing in the Oct. 10 print edition: 1,400 guests, $1.7 million raised, the husband-and-wife co-chairs and entertainment by Colorado's own OneRepublic.
But here are a few "extras" that I found interesting. Hope you do, too.
* The theme, "Transforming Children's Health," was chosen because event chairs Molly Broeren and Bill Mosher wanted to pay tribute to the remarkable care so many very ill children have received at the hospital.
* One of the best examples of that transformation is Zach Miller, who emceed the dinner with Alice 105.9 personality Slacker. Zach was born with what was eventually diagnosed as hemiplegic cerebral palsy, a disorder of the brain that impairs nervous system functions such as movement, learning and thinking. At 5 weeks old, Zach did not have a reaction to stimulus such as hands clapping in front of him.
At 5 months, he was unable to sit up. At 9 months, he had lost his appetite. Fortunately, his pediatrician referred him to Children's Hospital Colorado and specialists there were able to arrive at a diagnosis and begin appropriate treatment. Today, he thrives, to the point of winning the 2012 Wells Fargo Ski Cup National Adaptive Race in Winter Park and moving toward his goal of competing in the Paralympics.
* After years of engaging Bouquets to decorate the Hyatt Regency Convention Center ballroom, the decision this year was to have The Perfect Petal and Eclectic Hive do the honors. Their effort drew rave reviews.
* Guests included former Denver Mayor Guillermo "Bill" Vidal and his wife, Gabriela Cornejo-Figueroa. The interesting tidbit that I picked up while chatting with them is that her brother, Prof. Ivan Cornejo, is part of the team at Colorado School of Mines that is turning trash — banana peels, eggshells and rice husks — into glass. And a fair amount of those peels and shells came from the Vidals' own kitchen, the remains from ingredients she used to make smoothies. The outcome of this work is nothing short of remarkable; read more about it in a Denver Post story by Bruce Finley.
* The silent auction social that precedes dinner is worth the price of admission alone, mostly because of the fabulous food that is served there. Guests can always count on something special — shrimp, oysters on the half-shell, gourmet olives, top-shelf cocktails. This year, the added attractions included a Brussels sprouts bar and a rack of lamb carving station.
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