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It's summer movie season, the time when blockbuster films come out every week and we pit Vin Diesel against Wolverine. But how do you keep that cineplex excitement alive when you're at home on the couch? With books! Here are 10 science fiction novels that pack more non-stop thrills than Fast & Furious 6. Really.
Top image: The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton.
To compile this list, we took to our Facebook page, and asked our peeps there. We did take some liberties with the responses — like, we didn't include any books that we've included on similar lists recently. (Scroll down for further reading.)
1) Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
This one is sort of a gimme, considering our review of this book proclaimed it to be " as close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form." We praised the space-faring setting as well as the "intense space station combat," among other things. And you guys agreed. Says Jacqueline, "Leviathan Wakes is a serious guilty pleasure. Part gumshoe detective story, part buddy adventure, part romance, part space opera, with the added bonus of vomit zombies. Rip roaring adventure."
2) The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
In general, a few people mentioned Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series, full of space adventure and intrigue, as a good movie-substitute. But this book, in particular, seemed to be singled out as especially fizzy. Or maybe Young Miles. As we wrote a few years ago, "The three-time Hugo-winning saga of the disabled Miles Vorkosigan and his awesome military career is like Flash Gordon on steroids."
3) Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
We tend to praise Banks' sprawling Culture series for its thought-provoking portrayals of a post-scarcity society and artificial intelligences. But he can also bring intense, fast-paced thriller-y action — people also praised Banks' first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas, for that. In this one, a Culture operative named Cheradenine Zakalwe is brought out of retirement for One Last Mission, while flashbacks travel backwards in time, retracing his career and showing just how everything went wrong for him. Cracking great suspense and action, alongside Banks' usual mind-expanding ideas.
4) Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis
This is a quick, fun read in comparison to some of Willis' longer, more in-depth works — and it's basically a frontier story set on another planet, with Willis poking fun at tons of genre tropes. It's the story of two "famous planetary surveyors," Carson and Finriddy, who travel to a distant planet and wind up going on an expedition into unknown areas with a native guide and a woman who only knows of them through ridiculous video dramatizations of their exploits.
5) Deathworld by Harry Harrison
We've praised Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books a lot before, and also paid homage to Bill the Galactic Hero. But Harrison's Deathworld books are also a cracking great adventure story — as Troy says, "I still say that's one book that MichaelBay should turn into a movie." They're the story of Jason, a dissolute gambler with psionic abilities, who travels to the Most Deadly Planet Ever Colonized, where things evolve so quickly that even natives have to be retrained to survive after leaving for a while. Image via Project Gutenberg
6) The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
Basically your standard "buddy cop romance in a steampunk post-apocalyptic world with zombies" kind of story, in which Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth is forced to team up with the notorious Iron Duke to travel into the zombie-infested wasteland and save England. Says Carrie: "Iron Duke has the most action, but Riveted has a much better hero and still has plenty of action to go around. Steampunky goodness." Art by Anastasia Tychkova.
7) The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The tale of Gully Foyle, the resolute individualist, who faces off against massive megacorps that seek to control everything. Says Kenneth James, "Every chapter is a classic, near-standalone action set-piece. (And his first novel, The Demolished Man, is not too far behind; in that book every chapter is a classic crime-thriller-future-noir confrontation.)" Says Alface, this book "starts off slow and keeps on changing gears and doesn't let go to the end."
8) Divergent by Veronica Roth
This is just one of the many, many dystopian young adult science fiction novels that have trundled down the assembly line in the years since Hunger Games unleashed an insatiable hunger. But it's becoming a movie soon, and people are enthralled by this frenetic depiction of a future Chicago where everybody has to choose to embody one singular virtue. Reviews of this book tend to mention its nonstop violence and Roth's mastery of action scenes.
9) Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton
Says Rick Cromack: "Genetically bred starships swallowing in and out of sentient orbital cities; boosted mercenaries capable of harnessing more firepower than a main battle tank; exotic, interdimensional beings that by their very existence shred the fabric of reality; planetary defense platforms capable of mazing entire arcologies; energy weapons that render entire regions of space into dead zones; planet-busting antimatter bombs deployed to annihilate the populations of entire worlds. And, then, there are the armies of returned dead, possessing both the living and godlike abilities."
10) Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
As we wrote in our review a few years ago, this debut novel is popping with clever ideas, as if Morgan wasn't sure he'd ever get to write another one. And we added back then: "It could make a terrific movie, if they could travel back in time to 1990 and get Bullet In The Head-era John Woo to direct."


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AT&T Narrows 4Q Loss as Wireless Revenue Climbs
AT&T (NYSE:T) narrowed its fourth-quarter loss thanks to accelerated wireless revenue growth.
The company posted a net loss of $3.86 billion, or 68 cents per share, compared to a loss of $6.7 billion a year earlier. Revenue largely remained unchanged, rising just 0.2% to $32.58 billion. Excluding losses related to benefit plans, Hurricane Sandy and the sale of its Yellow Pages segment, per-share earnings climbed 10% to 44 cents, just short of analysts' expectations of 46 cents. Adjusted earnings one year ago were 40 cents a share.
Pension-related charges of about $9.99 billion weighed down net earnings for the period.
Smartphone sales continue to drive revenue growth, as AT&T previously announced that it sold a record 10.2 million smartphones in the fourth-quarter. The carrier activated 8.6 million iPhones during the quarter. For the period, total wireless revenue rose 5.7%, wireless-service revenue edged up 4.2% and revenue from data plans jumped 15%.
AT&T signed up 1.1 million new wireless customers during the period to reach a total of 70.5 million contract customers, but still trails Verizon's (NYSE:VZ) 92.5 million.
The Dallas-based technology giant also said it saw accelerated revenue growth from its U-verse home services business.
"Looking ahead, our key growth platforms -- mobile data, U-verse and strategic business services -- all have good momentum with a lot of headroom," Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. "We're off to a strong start executing Project VIP, our plan to expand our high-growth platforms to millions more customers, and our 4G LTE network deployment is ahead of schedule, delivering outstanding performance."
AT&T expects per-share earnings to register a percentage increase in the upper-single digits or more in 2013. Revenue growth is projected to exceed 2%. Analysts had anticipated upcoming revenue growth of 1% and a per-share earnings increase of 7%.
Shares of AT&T were down slightly at Thursday's market close, while the stock rebounded by 8 cents, or 0.24%, in after-hours trading.


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World's Largest 7 Up
Monday, 24th July 2006 by Alex Turnbull
This has got to be the world's largest can of 7 Up, and even better – it's actually full of 246,051 litres (65,000 gallons) of 7 Up!
(OK that's not entirely true. The 19 metre can is actually a water tower, but the water which passes through it really does get turned into 7 Up.)
7 Up was launched in 1929 named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", which was caramel coloured and contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. They changed the name almost immediately, but the psychiatric medicine stayed in until 1950.
More info at Roadside America and Wikipedia.


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A few weeks ago we wrote about a spam problem reported by Dropbox users.
Email addresses which had only ever been used with Dropbox accounts (at least so far as the account holders were aware) experienced a surge in spam, leading people to conclude that something had gone wrong at Dropbox.
As we reported at the time, the truth was actually a little more complex than that.
Some users had set the same password on multiple sites, and a compromise elsewhere led to their Dropbox accounts being unlawfully accessed and assaulted by spammers.
Other spam-affected users were affected indirectly, because one of those "compromised elsewhere" accounts belonged to an employee at Dropbox itself. This staffer's was account was raided and gave up not one email address, but many, thanks to what Dropbox described as "a project document with user email addresses."
Part of Dropbox's response was to promise a two-factor authentication (2FA) system using your mobile phone as the second factor.
The good news is that Dropbox is already starting to deliver on that promise: three days ago, the company announced that it was just about there, opening up the the 2FA to early adopters prior to rolling it out (on an opt-in basis, at least for now) to everyone.
The Dropbox forum post which announced the 2FA availability doesn't go into a whole lot of detail, but here's what's on offer:
We'll be adding optional two-step verification for all Dropbox accounts sometime in the next few days. Two-step verification adds an extra layer of protection to your account by requiring an additional security code that is sent to your phone by text message or generated using a mobile authenticator app.
(If you're outside North America, the usability of SMS-based security tokens depends on your mobile provider's willingness to accept and deliver international SMSes; some users on the Dropbox forum, e.g. in Moldova, Greece and New Zealand, have reported problems receiving their login codes over the air.)
Two-factor authentication that forces you to enter a per-transaction or per-session code – loosely speaking, a password that is used once and never again – is slightly less convenient for you, but very much less convenient for cybercrooks.
2FA even protects you from yourself, in the event that you inadvertently use the same password on more than one site, or get infected by key-logging malware.
If you're a Dropbox user, why not give it a go?


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Robert Gordon
Review by Thomas Scalzo
Posted on 28 October 2013
Source Columbia Pictures DVD
Categories 31 Days of Horror X
Since the dawn of history, humans have been fascinated, and terrified, by the oceans. Early cartographers, fueled by tall tales, and a paucity of facts, populated many of the blank spaces on their maps with humongous and hideous sea creatures. For centuries, such seemingly benign decorations proved exceedingly powerful on our collective imagination, engendering a persistent belief that something horrible lay in wait in the bottomless depths. Even today, despite extraordinary advances in mapping and exploring the ocean floor, we still cannot claim to have uncovered all of the oceans secrets, or experienced all its horrific possibilities. Each Monday this month, we'll dive into a tale of terror that plunges us far below the horrors of the surface world into the unfathomable fears of the deep.
After his atom-powered submarine is nearly destroyed by an unknown aquatic menace, Captain Pete Mathews demands an explanation. Though the Navy is flummoxed, they have the good sense to bring in two of the top scientists in the nation, John Carter and Lesley Joyce, to figure out just what when on out there in the Pacific. After several days of diligent lab work, Carter and Joyce postulate a hypothesis: Captain Mathew's sub was attacked by an octopus—a gigantic, radioactive, and carnivorous octopus. Not unexpectedly, the brass doesn't buy it, arguing that in all the years of Pacific Naval activity, nothing like a giant octopus had ever been spotted. But when the attacks continue, and occur closer and closer to shore, even the non-believers agree that something must be done.
At first glance, what we have here is a classic example of the tried and true 1950s monster movie formula: an oversized creature, enraged by radioactivity, going on a rampage; a sober team of scientists and military men doing everything in their collective power to destroy it; and a hapless populace serving as fodder for the beast's wrath. We have the requisite explanation that humanity's fiddling with atomic weaponry is at the heart of the problem, and the expected fiery climax, replete with screaming crowds, massive explosions, and widespread destruction. What sets this film apart, though, is the magnificently realized octopus monster, brought to life by the wizard of stop-motion animation, the incomparable Ray Harryhausen. That and one of the most bizarre love triangles I've ever seen.
When first we meet doctors Carter and Joyce, they appear to have a purely professional association. When Captain Mathews makes a move on Lesley, then, we assume we're simply witnessing the beginning of a time-filling romantic subplot. As things develop, though, we learn that Lesley and John do have a relationship, one based on mutual admiration, respect, and love. In particular, John values Lesley's intelligence, confidence, and independence, and wouldn't dare to control any aspect of her life. In film's centerpiece of narrative inanity, he explains to Pete that Lesley is part of a "whole new breed" of women who "feel they're just as smart and just as courageous as men." He goes on to advise Pete that women like Lesley "don't like to be overprotected," and "they don't like to have their initiative taken away from them."
Despite John's championing of this "new breed" of woman, though, Lesley appears to be much more attracted to Pete, the old-fashioned, take-charge, keep women out of harm's way kind of guy. Thus, when Pete makes a move, Lesley doesn't resist, or make the least indication that she feels guilty about stepping out on John. In fact, she comes out and tells John that Pete kissed her, and asks him what he thinks she should do about it. Incredibly, John doesn't get mad at all. Instead, he answers scientifically, advising Lesley to examine how she feels about Pete, and to explore the implications of the kiss. Just as things seem to be going Pete's way, Lesley changes her mind again, declaring that once all this octopus nonsense is cleared up, she'll be embarking on a lengthy tour of Egypt with John. Why the filmmakers felt it necessary to inject such a ludicrous subplot into a film about a killer octopus is beyond my comprehension. Regardless, the saga of Lesley, John, and Pete is hilarious, as memorable as it is unexpected.
Preposterous human sideshow aside, the real star here is Ray Harryhausen's magnificent giant octopus. Whether dragging fishing vessels to their doom, swatting helicopters out of the sky, or tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge, this enraged cephalopod is an impressive feat of stop-motion animation. In fact, Harryhausen's creation is so wonderfully realized that it quickly establishes a personality, and by the time the carnage-filled climax rolls around, we can't help but feel pity for the beast. Though the elaborate military response and need to protect the citizenry is understandable, the fact is that the octopus' anger, and the reason it has come ashore in the first place, is a direct result of humanity meddling with its habitat. From everything Joyce and Carter reveal, were it not for its maddening hunger, the great beast would have happily remained in the deepest depths of the ocean. It's food supply decimated, however, it had little choice but to surface, and scour the seas for sustenance.
Surprisingly, not even the scientists seemed moved by these facts. At no time does anyone even posit the idea that trapping and studying the beast might be better than destroying it. On the contrary, once the beast is sighted, it's all out war. "We have good reason to believe that its destruction must be complete and instantaneous," says Carter. And everyone agrees. Even when the foe has been extinguished, and the danger has passed, no one expresses the least sense of guilt, or admits that all of this could have been avoided had humankind not meddled where it should not have. Thus, instead of a sobering reminder that with tremendous advances in science and technology come potentially horrible consequences, the message here is that American firepower can destroy anything. It is a subtle theme, easily overlooked amidst all the glorious octopus action, but it does inject this otherwise lighthearted monster movie with disquieting cold war propaganda. When considered alongside our main players' collective preoccupation with romance, such shortsighted human motivations and callous indifference to the natural world make us side with Harryhausen's monster even more.
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The Devils1971
The Sea Serpent1984
The Dark Half1993
The Baby1972
The White Reindeer1952
The Serpent and the Rainbow1988
Endless Descent1989
Prom Night1980
Night Train Murders1975
God Told Me To1976
In a Child's Name1991
Prom Night II1987
Men Behind the Sun1986
DeepStar Six1989
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul1964
They Came Back2004
Buried Alive1990
A Bucket of Blood1959
Buffy the Vampire Slayer1992
Night and Fog1956
It Came From Beneath the Sea1955
The Tenant1976
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Ahhh, Switzerland! The beauty here is beyond words. This morning we drove to the two villages where my daughter in law's family has its roots. They come from a long line of dairy farmers and the tradition was carried to America when Pam's grandfather started a large dairy farm in the Portland area.
Tunnel after tunnel... a major part of the Swiss highway system. Our longest was over 4 miles long. It is a great way to get through the mountain without disturbing the flora and fauna surrounding it. The journey is a bit creepy though!
One of our infrequent hotel stays required us to walk through a small park to get to the restaurant for our breakfast meal. These two yo yos couldn't resist climbing into one of the over-sized chairs found in the park. Once in, just try to move or get out!!! I believe this show drew a crowd.
Within the city, buildings were painted beautiful pastel colors and many had gorgeous flower boxes. We can tell that summer is drawing to a close and autumn is quietly moving in, changing the warm evenings to cool and mornings to misty clouds and much sharper temperatures in the 50s. People around us are working as hard as the squirrels, cutting and stacking firewood for winter and cleaning their gardens.
We left this town with heavy hearts, sure to miss the beauty and the warm and friendly people. The car was packed and off we went, following Brenda's instructions to find Lichtenstein. Why not, it's close and nobody has been there! I'm excited! We drove through windy roads for several minutes until I spied the sign below. "Hey guys, we're in Germany! Are we supposed to be here?" No! Another hour of driving and we were back to Switzerland, back to our city and ready to take a new route. All in a day with Brenda!
Our Swiss city had this beautiful centuries old covered bridge and we were back to take photos!
Pumpkins harvested from local gardens. We found these in a wagon along the side of the road. These are used for eating, not for jack-o-lanterns.
Next, on to Lichtenstein!


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North Head Lighthouse in Black and White.
Cape Disappointment State Park, Ilwaco, Washington
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11-23-12 This is one of my favorite images that I decided to share.
Critiques Welcome.
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3-30-13 At the Quad at University of Washington. This area is known for the cherry blossoms. I heard that the trees were in bloom so Doug and I went to do some long exposures. Unknown to us, there was an article about the blossoms on the front page of thevSeattle Times. So the area was teeming with people. This is a 5 min plus exposure converted to black nd white. See all the ghosting? Tell me whether you like this and find this effect interesting? I am doing a lot of experimentation with long exposures for my class.
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10-12-12 Nautilus
Constructive Feedback Welcome and Appreciated.
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9-27-12 Coquille Lighthouse. This is a 5 shot HDR processed in photomatix and silver effex pro 2.
Critiques Welcome.
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10-14-12 Dahlia in Black and White - This was taken at Shore Acres State Park, Charleston, Oregon. They have incredible gardens including several beds of dahlias. I converted this using Silver Effex Pro 2.
Constructive Feedback welcome.
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10-17-12 Nautilus This was a three stop HDR where the nautilus was lit with two fluorescent continuous lights. I used my Nikon 105/2.8 VR macro. The photo was processed in Photomatix Pro and SIlver Effex Pro 2.
Constructive Feedback Welcome.
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12-18-12 Nubble Lighthouse, York, Maine. This image was a 20 sec exposure. I used a 10 stop ND filter. I was wishing for clouds.
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12-21-12 Another Portland Head Lighthouse Shot - thanks for all the wonderful support and comments for my photos of late. Recently there have been just some incredible images. I appreciate the feedback and critiques as well. I often enjoy doing multiple versions of an image. I hope that you all joy that as well.
Critiques welcome.
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12-28-12 Storm approaching at the South Jetty of the Columba River. This is a black and white conversion of an earlier shot.
Critiques Welcome.
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1-2-13 Young's Bay Bridge - This was a 25 second exposure taken using my Lee Big Stopper (10 ND filter). The black and white conversion was done using Silver Effex 2. I was thrilled to see my Snowy Owl image make it to the number one spot today.
Critiques Welcome.
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1-3-13 Young's Bay Bridge #2 -this was a 40 second long exposure done during the afternoon with a 10 stop Big Stopper ND filter. I tone-mapped this single image exposure using Photomatix Pro and converted to Black and White using Silver Effex 2.
Critiques Welcome.
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1-15-13 Coquille Lighthouse- this is a 130 sec exposure and then converted to black and whit. I thank you all for the many comments and support of making the other Coquille Lighthouse image number one. What a thrill especially when there were many exceptional photos posted.
Critiques welcome.
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3-4-13 This was taken yesterday earlier in the day than the Blue Hour Image. This was a 284 sec (almost 5 minutes). I converted this to Black and White using Silver Effex 2.
Thanks for all of the feedback on yesterday's image. The small cubicals are fish cleaning stations.
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3-18-13 Coquille Lighthouse. I'm taking a long exposure online class and based upon feedback I reprocessed this image
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3-20-13 Newport Bridge
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4-6-13 Tillamook Bay - down on the Oregon Coast on a windy rainy afternoon. We drove out to Bay Ocean Spit before the rain started pelting. I did some long exposure work for my class/project until I got drops on my filter. I used 13 stops of ND and exposed this image for 357 sec ( almost 6 minutes).
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4-7-13 Tillamook Bay, Oregon. This was taken at the same time as the image I posted yesterday. I used my Lee Big Stopper for 10 stops of ND compared to 13 stops. I am taking a long exposure class where I am earning to vary the exposures. I think I like the 30 sec exposure better than the 357 sec exposure http://www.ilenesamowitz.com/Photo-A-Day/PAD2013/i-ckkRpZ8/0/M/20130406-_IS04253-M.jpg .....what do you think?
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4-9-13 Looking to Haystack - another image for my long exposure class taken yesterday. This is 414 sec (almost 7 min).
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5-2-13 From my archives...could not post or comment last night or earlier due to Smugmug in read only. Hope to get back to routine soon.
5-8-13 This is a black and white conversion of the Coquille lighthouse that I posted yesterday. I think I like the black ad white one better. Thoughts?
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5-12-13 Looking towards Shore Acres
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5-23-13 A Low Tide at Bandon
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5-28-13 Yaquina Lighthouse. I tried to really work the scene with the stormy light
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6-2-13 Another Bellevue Reflection with a different twist a self portrait
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6-3-13 Here s another Bellevue building reflection that I shot today at lunch. I used my Lumix gh-2 which I hadn't shot with for a while. I am having a problem with the eye sensor on my Nikon V1 so I am giving it some time off and will go back and decide next steps on it most likely next week.
Thanks for all the comments and support on this series.
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6-16-13 This is a 5.5 minute long exposure of Mount Baker taken from Semiahmoo, WA.
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8-2-13 Evening at the Deserted Market - this is a black and white Hdr that was created in photomatix pro by merging 3 jpegs created in the Fuji x100s in B+W with red filter mode. This camera is so much fun and lends itself to creative experimentation.
Terry asked me if I ever took a shot for the top of the ferris wheel and the answer is a big "NO". It would take someone paying me a lot of money to get on the ride although I am fascinated by it.
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8-27-13 Downtown Seattle from Pier 57
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Users of Origin, the game distribution platform of Electronic Arts (EA), are vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through origin:// URLs, according to two security researchers.
Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante, the founders of Malta-based security consultancy firm ReVuln, disclosed the security issue last week during a talk at the Black Hat Europe 2013 conference in Amsterdam.
The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on Origin users' computers by tricking them into visiting a malicious website or clicking on a specially crafted link, the researchers said. In most cases the attack will be automatic and require no user interaction, they said.
Command line option allows intrusion
When the Origin client is installed on a computer, it registers itself as the handler for origin:// protocol links, which are used to launch games—including with command line options—or to initiate other actions through the client.
Some games have command line options that allow the loading of additional files. For example, the researchers demonstrated the Origin link attack against the new "Crysis 3" game, which supports a command option called openautomate.
Openautomate is a feature that allows users to test the performance of their graphics card in "Crysis 3" using the Nvidia benchmark framework. The command is followed by the path to a DLL (dynamic link library) file that's then loaded by the "Crysis 3" process.
The researchers found a way to craft origin:// links that instruct the Origin client to open "Crysis 3" with the openautomate command followed by a path to a malicious DLL file hosted on a network or WebDAV share. A separate command option can be included in the URL to make "Crysis 3" open silently in the background without users seeing any windows.
When an origin:// link is opened for the first time in a browser, users will be asked if they want to open it with the Origin client, which is the registered handler for this type of URL. Some browsers will display the full URL path or a part of it, while other browsers won't display the URL at all, the researchers said.
The confirmation prompts displayed by browsers provide users with the option to always open origin:// links with the Origin client. Most gamers have probably already selected this option so that they're not bothered with confirmation dialogs every time they click on an origin link, which means that for them the attack will be fully transparent, the researchers said.
Similar to Steam flaw
The vulnerability is almost identical to one found by the same researchers last year in Valve's Steam online game distribution platform. That flaw allowed the abuse of steam:// protocol links in the same way.
The Steam vulnerability was reported in October 2012 but has yet to be fixed, the researchers said. Fixing it would probably require considerable changes to the platform because it results from a design flaw, they said. The researchers don't expect EA to fix the origin link issue any time soon either.
The attack is not limited to "Crysis 3." It also works for other games that have similar command line features or some local vulnerabilities, the researchers said. The flaw essentially provides a way to remotely abuse features or security issues that would otherwise only be exposed to local attacks, they said.
Auriemma and Ferrante never disclose the vulnerabilities they find to the affected software vendors, so they did not alert EA about the flaw before presenting it at Black Hat.
The researchers published a white paper on their website that explains the issue in more detail and proposes a way to mitigate the attacks. The mitigation involves using a specialized tool called urlprotocolview to disable the origin:// URL.
The side effect of doing this will be that launching games using the desktop shortcuts or their executable files will no longer work. However, users will still be able to launch the games from inside the Origin client.


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Getting email off your Linux server with ssmtp and yandex
A quick note to self about configuration of servers with ssmtp and yandex mail service (any other would work too, of course). I keep forgetting how it is done and keep spending time looking about so here goes the summary.
Install ssmtp package, if missing, install also bsd-mailx.
Configuration for ssmtp goes into /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
MailHub=smtp.yandex.ru:587 # Provider SMTP server hostname and port UseStartTLS=YES # Secure connection (SSL/TLS) FromLineOverride=YES # Force the From: line Hostname=example.com # The name of this host RewriteDomain=example.com # The host the mail appears to be coming from email@example.com # Redirect mail for root@ to email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com # Provider mail account AuthPass=password # The password for the mail account
Note that it is not UseTLS anymore but UseStartTLS, otherwise you'll get
May 25 18:47:18 example sSMTP[315]: Creating SSL connection to host May 25 18:47:18 example sSMTP[315]: SSL connection using (null) May 25 18:47:18 example sSMTP[315]: Cannot open smtp.yandex.ru:587
Now all of the accounts that send email must be mentioned in the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file and be mapped to this existing account at the provider:
root:firstname.lastname@example.com:smtp.yandex.ru www-data:email@example.com:smtp.yandex.ru cron:firstname.lastname@example.com:smtp.yandex.ru
Now we have a working configuration but the password for the service is exposed in a world-readable config file. To fix that, we create a new group:
groupadd ssmtp
Change the ownership of both the config file and the sSMTP binary to this group:
chown :ssmtp /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf chown :ssmtp /usr/sbin/ssmtp
Set the SGID bit for the binary so that others invoking it get the proper permissions:
chmod g+s /usr/sbin/ssmtp
And restrict the permissions of the config file:
chmod 640 /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Now everything should work like a charm… unless I forgot something again :)… -->continue reading →


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2013 Chinese Horoscope for people born in Rabbit years: 1903, 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999.
If your birthday is before February 4, then your astrological sign is Tiger , not Rabbit. (Verify Your Sign)
Both Rabbit and Snake are shy. It's hard to see Rabbit and Snake staying together. When a Rabbit sees a Snake, Rabbit will be full of the curiosity. That implies that Snake will bring the innovation and creativity to Rabbit. When Rabbit is excited, they will leap around. Therefore, 2013 is a year to make Rabbit people busy. That's a good sign for career. Snake may slide away when it sees the Rabbit. So that is a Lonely Sign to Rabbit. This implies the social relationship of Rabbit in 2013 is just fair.
Career: There is no special career sign for Rabbit people in 2013. But you might be quite busy on your daily job. You shouldn't expect that you will receive helps from friends, coworkers, business partners or boss. If you want to show your great achievement to people, then you have to spend lots of energy and effort all by your own. In the year of Snake, a job transfer, traveling, relocation for new position are possible. Rabbit people have to learn not to complaint their work. Your bad attitude could damage your job position. To build a good relationship with your boss is the most important factor to make your job easier in 2013. If you are a business person, then you need to maintain good connection with your customers. As long as, you can learn to enjoy your job at work, then the money income will come after.
Money: There is no lucky sign regarding to money in this Snake year. People work in financial related field, such as banking, trading or accounting, investment have better opportunity to increase their wealth. However, good financial plan and money management are required. The investment on big return and risky business are not recommended. To earn money in 2003, most of Rabbit people need to spend their labor hours from their regular jobs. There is no easy money or windfall opportunities for most of Rabbit people in the year of Snake. If you want to spend more time on your work, your income and saving still will increase in 2013.
Love: The people relationship of Rabbit people should be fine in the year of the Snake. But, there is a Lonely Star appearing in 2003. That sign is unfavorable to Rabbit people who are married or in love. The lonely sign is connected to separation. A separation is not always caused by the issue of love relationship. The separation might be caused by career, money, health or family. So the separation here is not limited by the love between man and woman. There are still have chance for single Rabbit people looking for true love. In Chinese astrology, Rabbit is a Female Wood and Snake contains Male Metal. Female Wood of Rabbit and Male Metal of Snake have attraction relationship. So Rabbit still has the opportunity for building a good relationship. But you might need to try more time to reach what you expect.
Health: Rabbit people might need to consume lots of brain power for their work or people relationship. It's possible that Rabbit people have to work additional hours for their job. Extra work can run out of their energy and lower their spirit. So Rabbit people should reserve more time for enough rest and relax after work. Proper outdoor excise will help maintain the health. Paying attention to food safety and sanitation can avoid issues regarding the intestines and stomach.
The above prediction of 2013 Chinese Horoscope for Rabbit people is based on people's birthday. Using the birth year to tell people's fortune was far away before Chin Dynasty (221 B.C.), which is the first Dynasty in China. During the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.), Chinese began to use birth year, month and day to predict the fortune. To add birth hour to study the fortune like today started in Sung Dynasty (960 A.D.). The reason to make these changes is simple. It's more accurate. Therefore, for more accurate 2013 prediction, please go to 2013 Chinese Five Element Astrology.
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We spent our last morning of activities in the middle of the Bering Strait. Just after breakfast we dropped our five Zodiacs in the water and went off to explore the north coast of Ratmanova or Big Diomede Island. Here we were less than 4 kilometres away from the border between the United States of America and Russia. Conditions were fabulous for our cruise, blue sky, flat sea and no wind. Along the cliffs we saw eight species of Alcids: Brünnich, Common and Pigeon Guillemot, Tufted and Horned Puffins and Crested, Least and Parakeet Auklets. We also saw Pelagic Cormorants, Kittiwakes and a few Snow Buntings. What a great morning for the last excursion of our journey.Read More


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One Dead in Justin Moore Bus Accident
More details have surfaced surrounding the fatal accident that occurred over the weekend (May 12) involving one of Justin Moore's tour buses and an automobile. Chicago resident Joseph Taylor was driving his vehicle around 6AM on Saturday when he struck the back side of the Moore's band and crew bus at Interstate 57 and Route 16 in Illinois.
When Taylor, 48, exited his vehicle to assess the damage, another car on the interstate swerved off the road, hitting him. The impact threw Taylor off of the interstate and onto the pavement of Route 16 below.
According to the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier, Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers pronounced Taylor dead on the scene. The incident re-routed local traffic for several hours that morning. State police are continuing to handle the investigation and more information is expected to be released in the coming days.
Moore took to his Twitter page soon after the accident to share the news, sending special thoughts and prayers to Taylor's family for their tragic loss.
"Thankful my band and crew guys are all good. They got hit by a car this morning in their bus. Prayers go out to the guy who lost his life and his family," he said. "You never know man. You have to be prepared to meet God today, cause it may be your last."
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Ever wonder why the rights of women are still endangered today? Or how marriage can change the destiny of those who marry powerful men? Award-winning author Nancy Rubin Stuart's presentation from her double biography, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women Who Married Political Radicals illustrates how two teenage brides managed long, happy marriages to famous Revolutionary-era men. Their husbands were the handsome traitor Benedict Arnold and the patriotic General Henry Knox.
Defiant Brides captures how passion and marriage changed the lives of both young women: – Peggy Shippen who assisted Arnold in his betrayal of America, – and Lucy Flucker, who faithfully followed General Henry Knox through the army camps of the Revolution, bearing and losing ten children along the way.
Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist whose books include The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation; The Reluctant Spiritualist: the Life of Maggie Fox; American Empress: the Life and Times of Marjorie Meriweather Fox; and Isabella of Castile. She has written for The New York Times and many national magazines. Stuart currently serves as Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center, and is a board member of the Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Stuart received a William Randolph Hearst Creative and Performing Artist and Writers Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society in 2005 to research The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation.


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- 1 cup Borax (you can find this with the laundry detergent at your favorite store)
- Four 8 oz. canning jars
- 1/2 cup water (optional)
Then cut the tie off of your pumice stones.
Throw the two stones into a thick ziplock bag and smash them into a fine powder using a hammer...


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R.E.M.'s first major label album still stands as a master class in how a band can remain resolute to their own vision while rising above big business demands. Act local; think global indeed
By 1988, R.E.M. were unlikely megastars in the making. The band who had pretty much invented college rock with their strange, inscrutable lyricism and folky guitar jangle were moving from cult status into inevitable mainstream success. The year before, they'd released Document, a dark and monolithic set of deeply-serious songs that had spawned their first top ten single in the form of the anti-love song The One I Love and with sales on an upwards curve, Warners (who had already harvested The Replacements, The B52s and Hüsker Dü) came calling with designs on U2-like crossover for the Georgian four piece.
R.E.M. almost reluctantly and with a huge amount of mischief (the title of Green is as much a comment on the mega dollar deal they signed as the environmental themes that dominate the album) delivered a bright and bold commercial album that still stands as a master class in how a band can remain resolute to their own vision while rising above big business demands. Act local; think global indeed.
Full of what R.E.M. themselves called big dumb bubblegum pop songs including the Doors-referencing Pop Song 89 and the eco-anthem Stand (another top ten hit), Green was Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry loosening up, having fun and enjoying the sunlit uplands after foraging on the forest floor for so long.
Following Stipe's instruction to his band mates "not to write any more R.E.M. type songs", accordions, mandolins, a thing as verboten as a wha-wha guitar solo, and much instrument swapping took place in Ardent Studios in Memphis and Bearsville in Woodstock. So Green's first side signals a determination to escape their reputation as serious and politicised young men – Pop Song 89 knowingly throws shapes with hackneyed rock `n' roll riffs and subverts pop songs clichés; Get Up! is a joyful call to arms complete with the sound of multiple musical boxes being sprung open at the same time; You Are The Everything sings beatifically with Buck's chirpy mandolin and on World Leader Pretend, Stipe even drops his mask and determines to embrace life only, of course, with Mike Mills keening the word "dreamer" in the background.
But it was all a prelude to the dark heart of the album. For all that sunshine and sixties-style optimism, R.E.M. were still a turbulent bunch and Green takes on a darker hue starting with The Wrong Child, an off-key ballad inspired by Dublin writer Christopher Nolan's book Under The Eye of The Clock. I Remember California really does blot out the sun as R.E.M. recalls the West Coast Shangri La as a ruined world with Trident submarines patrolling the oceans and the San Andreas Fault yawning open to swallow the whole place up.
R.E.M.'s very own Led Zep moment, Turn You Inside, is similarly apocalyptic, a power chording epic that is actually about, well, having meaningless and vengeful sex. Orange Crush, a leftover from Document, which concerns itself with on-going US militarism provided another unlikely hit single. They did close with Green's most upbeat and optimistic song – Untitled, a lovely childlike moment in which the band members once again swap instruments as an act of solidarity in the face of what was to come next.
This is a welcome 25th anniversary re-mastered reissue and Warners continue their nostalgia drive with the inclusion of a very good 21-track live album recorded in Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina in 1989 including many of the terrific songs here and older classics such as Finest Worksong, It's The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) and Perfect Circle.
Maybe R.E.M. had peaked creatively with Document and Life's Rich Pageant but Green was the start of phase two. It still sounds marvellous - dream-like one minute - strident and clear-eyed the next and it is another reminder that R.E.M.'s sudden split two years ago leaves an almost eerie vacuum. Were they ever here? Will a major rock band be this consistently good again?
It is almost a shock to be reminded of how great Green really was.
Alan Corr
Review: R.E.M. Green 25th anniversary edition
R.E.M.'s first major label album still stands as a master class in how a band can remain resolute to their own vision while rising above big business demands. Act local; think global indeed


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With Beauty and the Beast 3D hitting theaters this past Friday, Disney's Soda Fountain is celebrating with a special movie themed sundae. My family and I hit the road to Hollywood to check it out.
Almond Praline Ice Cream with a hint of strawberry sauce, swirls of whipped cream, and topped with a "Luscious" candy rose was the description.
However, as soon as it arrived at the table, I noticed that the sundae also had caramel in it! SCORE!
Although I'm still a bit sad about the fact that the Soda Fountain switched from Dewar's ice cream to Dreyer's, the Almond Praline that was used in this sundae was quite tasty!
I am normally not a big strawberry sauce fan, but it literally was just a "hint," so it was not too overpowering. In fact, the hint of strawberry combined with the caramel and ice cream was the perfect mix of sweet.
Now, onto that "Luscious" rose. The candy rose that came with the sundae was really adorable. It was the perfect addition to complete the theme of the sundae. The rose was colored melting chocolate made from a rose candy mold that was presented on a cute swizzle stick.
I did have a bite of the rose and honestly it was nothing special. Not great, not bad; just not a lot of flavor. It did, however, get eaten, so no complaints here. I was just more interested in the yummy ice cream!
Overall, I think the following picture tells the story.
If you haven't seen the new Beauty and the Beast 3D, I really recommend taking the whole family. My family was lucky to see an advanced screening (THANK YOU, DISNEY) and all 4 of us really enjoyed it.
Normally I am not a huge 3D fan, but the 3D used in Beauty and the Beast is absolutely stunning. The colors and scenes are so crisp without being "jump out at you" annoying. It was so wonderful to see one of my favorite Disney classics revamped into an even more amazing masterpiece than it already was.
Have you seen Beauty and the Beast in 3D yet? If not, I say get to it while it's still in theaters.
Heather Sievers is the Disney Food Blog's Dining in Disneyland columnist. See more of her columns here!


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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com April 7, 2010 Updated 4/09/10 Looks like nuclear weapons aren't the only thing the Iranian government is after. Apparently, they've also got a penchant for speedboats, specifically high-tech, very expensive speedboats. Multiple news sources are reporting that the Iranians have surreptitiously acquired a "James Bond-style" fast mover called the Bladerunner 51 / Bradstone …Read More »
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by Bob Garver
April 21, 2014. I actually liked 2011's "Rio," even thought it made me physically ill. My stomach couldn't take the slobbering bulldog voiced by Tracy Morgan, and yet I still gave the movie three stars. "Rio 2" sees all the birds flying deep into the Amazon and they have to leave the bulldog behind (they also leave Rio de Janeiro behind, making the title somewhat misleading). This should set the sequel up to be even better, or at least more tolerable, but apparently the birds have left behind all of the franchise's charm as well.
Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) are rare Blue Macaws living the high life in the big city with their three bland kids. They party at Carnival, they eat blueberry pancakes and the kids tie the babysitter to fireworks in a scene I fear younger viewers will want to imitate. One day, they see on television that their human researcher friends (Leslie Mann and Rodrigo Santoro) have discovered more Blue Macaws in the Amazon rainforest. Jewel is eager to fly down there and find more of their kind. Blu reluctantly agrees to the glorified camping trip, even though he's not thrilled to leave behind all his creature comforts.
But don't worry, they're not leaving everything behind. They're bringing along their friends: toucan Rafael (George Lopez), canary Nico (Jamie Foxx) and cardinal Pedro (will.i.am). In pursuit is old nemesis Nigel (Jemaine Clement), a cockatoo grounded by an unfortunate run-in with an active propeller in the first movie. He's flanked by a halpless mute anteater and a poisonous frog named Gabi (Kristen Chenoweth) who is madly in love with him.
Once everyone gets to the rainforest, they find out that not only are the rumors of more Blue Macaws true, but it's Jewel's long-lost family. Her father Eduardo (Andy Garcia), the leader of the tribe, is overjoyed to see his daughter and the kids, but less so Blu, who he immediately dismisses as soft. Also still around is Jewel's childhood friend Roberto (Bruno Mars), now a heartthrob with a great singing voice. Blu frets about being accepted by Jewel's family and friends and ponders if she only coupled with him because she thought that he was the last male of his species.
The film is top heavy with characters and storylines. I saw no reason for there to be a feud between the blue birds and the red birds over a dwindling food supply, except as a flimsy excuse to set up a sport sequence (they say the sport is close to soccer, but it looks suspiciously like Quidditch).
There's also a needless conflict involving a logging company. The whole storyline exists just so Blu can save the day and to remind us that in movies about cute animals, logging companies are evil. The film should have just let Nigel and his henchmen be the villains; the rest of the obstacles could have just come from the jungle itself.
Most of the humor falls flat, consisting mainly of tired slapstick, gross-out gags and bumbling Blu bits ripped off from "Meet the Parents." The only jokes that work are cutaways where various creatures audition for a talent show and even a lot of these are played-out gags involving rapping, break dancing and booty shaking. To be honest, the funniest thing about the movie was hearing the girls in the audience squeal over the Bruno Mars character. It's funny enough when they go crazy over Robert Pattinson or One Direction, but Roberto is animated and a bird.
"Rio" was cute and funny, "Rio 2" is clumsy and annoying. Adults will be bored out of their skulls, kids may be entertained, but only because it is junk food. Somehow this franchise has managed to go downhill from a movie that made me sick.
One and a half stars out of five.


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The NY Observer wants to know why, in a month that might arguably be called financially eventful, Conde Nast Portfolio has put old-newsy sleaze-monger Dov Charney on its cover. They raise a good point: the American Apparel founder's creepiness, idiosyncrasies, success and commitment to "vertically-integrated manufacturing" are not exactly secrets. But it's kind of a good profile, and from it we've been able to extrapolate a definitive Dov Charney dossier than hopefully obviates the need to ever profile him again ever.
American Apparel Is Completely Ridiculous: But you knew that. Charney lives in a "gated, marble, gold-encrusted mansion on a hill" with a rotating roster of hipster employee/roommate/assistants plus:
A young, loud, pear-shaped man named Johnny Makeup wanders in wearing a Mickey Mouse sweater, purple jeans, and shiny loafers. Johnny says Charney recruited him from an American Apparel store in New York after being charmed by his sense of style. Now he's apprenticing in the P.R. department, where his tasks include putting together music mixes, updating his MySpace page, making Charney salads, and keeping him company. He lives in Charney's mansion and calls him Daddy.
"Daddy," he says, as he plops onto the leather couch next to the desk, "I saw a vagina for the third time today."
Dov Charney Is Pervy:Again, we knew this. The not-quite-ironic retro-porn aesthetic, the legions of sexual harassment suits, the tales of sexually-charged work environments (yes, putting it mildly), underage shenanigans, one on one photo shoots with the boss, personal hiring sessions, naked and near-naked romping, coke orgies, orgy-orgies, financial shadiness, and the on-record masturbation are legendary in the bad way. Quoth The Dov,"'Fashion is about sexuality...It's hard to be fashionable and sanitize it and take the sexuality out of it. It's tasteful. It's utility-it's not Frederick's of Hollywood. It has to make you feel attractive. Sex makes you feel beautiful or handsome.'" Well, okay then!
Dov Charney Is Genuinely Obsessed With Tee Shirts: Although An Immigrant, Charney was always obsessed with the preppy American style of the 80s; visiting his grandparents in Florida, he fell in love with Lacoste and Gant. "In 1988, while a high school senior, Charney started American Apparel." It bore the slogan, "Canada's direct source for American-made T-shirts and fleecewear." Even today he's allegedly obsessive about the product - weird, since it's kind of notoriously crappy.
American Apparel Really Is An Okay Place To Work: In a city full of sweatshops, AA's 4,000 plus employees make $12 an hour, get health insurance, and have access to "an in-house health clinic, subsidized meals, English-language classes, and a host of other cushy incentives." When Charney had to fire 30 workers who didn't have paperwork, he gave them each $30,000 of company stock.
Charney Seems Really Committed To Free Trade: The pro-immigration ads AA has been running lately are a testament to the company's stance; not surprisingly, Charney's been served with a notice of inspection from Immigration, which is yet to take place. Lately he's been working on prioritizing AA's "Legalize L.A." website. The company is also highly involved in the May 1st immigration protests, which apparently involves Johnny Makeup carrying around a Paris Hilton cutout and screaming, "'Immigrants are hot! Come party with the immigrants.'" How would Charney characterize his positions? "'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall! It's because I'm a Jew! Birds are free! We want to go somewhere, let's go! I just don't believe in borders, in the end. The Americans who do just don't trust humanity.'"
American Apparel Is Really Paternalistic:Whatever its virtues, critics allege that Charney only wants his workers happy on his own terms, that he needs to play Lord Bountiful. They claim that he bullied his workers into not unionizing. Says Kimi Lee, director of the Garment Workers Center,"'It isn't a shining star, but it's not a sweatshop. It could be better. Even though Charney talks about workers' rights and trumpets all the things he's done, he's not letting the workers speak for themselves. It's significant that he doesn't. It's very paternalistic. He believes he's treating them better than anyone else could'."
Dov Charney Is Crazy:"'See! That's what a beautiful, intelligent woman wants, to go to dinner in a pair of pants that makes her look good. She's on top of the fucking world. That's what it's all about. The pants! The pants! That's all a beautiful woman wants! A pair of pants that takes her into a restaurant. She looks beautiful. She looks intelligent! She's got a pair of pants! She's on top of the world-and it's the pants, the pants!'"
Here is the real issue: According to the piece, Charney is for real. He's really pervy. He's really into tee shirts. He's really committed to free trade. And he's really, really crazy. His persona is not a hipster pose; it seems to be who he is. As a result, it's silly to regard anything about American Apparel as a business model; it's one (crazy) guy's dream. Charney seems genuinely aggrieved that people can't forget all about his silly old sexual harassment and focus on all his good works. "It's a victory that we're able to make clothing that people love in a place that isn't embarrassing. Get over the ads. Get over the complaints. Get over the fact that I made a mistake making a comment to one or two girls. How selfish! Why couldn't they just walk away? Think of the thousands of suppliers, the thousands of sewers, the workers!"
It doesn't seem to occur to him that living with a bunch of college students, or representatives like Johnny Makeup don't exactly enhance the company's "seriousness" profile. Says one of his defenders, "Dov is a character, and it's easy to make him a target." Um, okay, except that no one's forced him to be the completely public face of his brain child. He's obviously infantile, thinks he's a victim, refers to himself as "an immigrant" repeatedly - allying himself with his laregly Mexican workforce - breaking into Québécois French. It would almost be one thing if he were like, "our aesthetic is offensive and demeaning but the kids like it and clearly we're onto something, and that allows us to make the changes we really care about."
But that's not what he thinks; he and the company are creepy and skeevy. Hipsters think it's ironic. Probably in the hands of marketers it is; but there's no irony or contradiction to Charney; whatever he wants is good, and right, and of a beautiful piece. Which is kind of scary. It's not unusual in the history of industry for a mogul to be a monomaniacal egotist. But for that kind of craziness to be the basis of a real lifestyle movement? Unsettling, to say the least.
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Earlier: American Apparel Will Make You Look Like A Fat Hooker
If You Go Work For American Apparel Can You Really Expect Dov Charney To Wear Clothes?
American Apparel's Dov Charney Explains It All For You On SNL
American Apparel CEO Orders Subordinate To Pleasure Herself; She Services Him With A Lawsuit
Everything I Needed To Know About The American Economy I Learned At American Apparel


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When we got to Rachael's, I was wondering if we were at the wrong house by mistake, because the house was dark. We walked into her front porch area, and I was peeking in the windows, trying to figure out why I didn't see anyone. Then I saw some people on the stairs inside, so I opened the door to a very loud "Surprise!!" from all my Winers friends!
I was stunned for a minute, trying to figure out what was going on, when I realized that they had turned it into a surprise party for my 30th. I was completely amazed when they told me that Jerry even knew about it, because he wasn't acting suspicious at ALL. Normally, he can't keep a surprise for anything--he gets way too excited, and he always gives it away (even unknowingly). But I had absolutely NO CLUE at all that they were planning this.
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At Romney Rally, Iowa's Moderate GOP 'Silent Majority' Voters Start Talking
Another strong turnout this morning for Mitt Romney at a restaurant in Cedar Falls, though the small place wasn't quite as packed as yesterday's breakfast stop in Muscatine. Romney spent a lot of time shaking hands and posing for pictures with customers, supporters and restaurant staff, after he spoke for about 20 minutes. He usually takes a couple of questions from the crowd but did not today, preferring to spend more time than usual glad-handing.
While many see the state's Republican Party base trending more toward the evangelical Christian and Tea Party right, several of those attending these Romney events want the rest of the country to know there still is a strong moderate base in the Iowa GOP, especially in Eastern Iowa.
While acknowledging the growth of the religious right in her area, Carol Cooper of Cedar Falls said, "there are plenty of moderates. It's sort of a silent, maybe a silent majority, maybe not, but it's close," she said. "I know a lot of the activists in the country and I don't know many (of the people) here today, so that tells you, maybe a lot of the quieter ones came out."
"The Republicans should have a big umbrella," adds Carmen Halverson of Cedar Falls. "And some people are pulling it down for us. The RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) should be under that umbrella as well as the Christian Right, as far as I'm concerned."
Of course, this is the kind of sentiment you'd expect to hear at a Romney event as opposed to a rally for Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum or Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
Nonetheless, Romney is hoping to ride what appears to be a growing groundswell of support to victory here in Iowa. His newly released schedule indicates he'll be campaigning in Iowa Sunday and Monday and remaining in Iowa on caucus night Tuesday, rather than immediately heading to the next voting state, New Hampshire.
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