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Former Gov. Edwin Edwards will lead the Krewe of Hercules when its parade rolls at 6 p.m. Friday to kick off the Carnival season in Houma.
Former Gov. Edwin Edwards will lead the Krewe of Hercules when its parade rolls at 6 p.m. Friday to kick off the Carnival season in Houma.
The theme of the 700-plus-member, all-men's krewe is "Hercules Celebrates Louisiana Bicentennial."
With 32 double-decker floats, it's the largest parade in the area, said S.P LaRussa, a longtime krewe member.
"We are going to put on a first-class show," he said. "We've got the Budweiser Clydesdale horses. We're the only parade that's going to have them."
In addition to having Edwards as grand marshal, Houma native and retired New York Giants football player Brandon Jacobs will ride along as well, LaRussa said.
The parade starts at the Southland Mall and will travel down Park Avenue, turn at Hollywood Road, continue on Main Street and turn onto Barrow Street, ending near Town Hall.
The Krewe of Bayou Petit Caillou is set to parade at noon Saturday in Chauvin with the theme "Krewe of Bayou Petit Caillou Goes Mardi Gras."
The Mardi Gras krewe of men, women and children is anticipating 12 floats for its parade of 150 members, including marching bands.
This year's royalty is King XXVII Christian Leger and Queen XXVII Paige Lirette.
Waylon Thibodeaux will serve as the parade's grand marshal.
The all-female Krewe of Aquarius, which has 295-plus members, will celebrate its 19th anniversary when it parades at 6:30 p.m. Saturday along the traditional west-Houma parade route.
The krewe's 17-float parade theme is "Las Vegas Shows."
The parade will also feature the marching bands of Houma Junior High School, Grand Caillou Middle School and Terrebonne High School.
Reigning over Aquarius this year is Queen Aquarius XIX Trudy Turner. Captain of the parade is Cheryl LeBlanc.
Hyacinthians turns 62 with its Sunday morning parade.
The 375-plus-member, all-female krewe will parade at 11 a.m. in west Houma with 17 floats.
This year's theme is "Let's Play," and the parade will feature marching bands from Vandebilt Catholic, H.L. Bourgeois and Ellender Memorial high schools, and Evergreen Junior High School.
This year's royalty is Queen Hyacinth LXII Stephanie Cancienne Hedge and King Harold Cancienne. The krewe's captain is Lynn Myers.
The Krewe of Titans will roll through Houma following the Hyacinthians parade under the theme "Titans Invites You to Storyland."
The 500-plus-member krewe of men, woman and children is set to feature 25 floats and the Morgan City High School marching band.
The parade does not feature any sort of royal court, but the grand marshals this year are TARC's king and queen, Chris Naquin and Domanasia Sims.
The male and female Krewe of Ambrosia is set to parade Saturday night in Thibodaux.
The parade is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. along the traditional Thibodaux city route. It is the only parade in Lafourche this weekend.
Ambrosia is set to have 25 floats, in addition to marching bands from St. Mary's Academy, Ellender Memorial and Lake Providence high schools, Miller McCoy Academy and Sophie B. Wright Charter School in New Orleans. The 400-member krewe's theme is "Ambrosia Celebrates Fairs and Festivals."
The krewe's royalty are King XXVIII Travis Brown and Queen XXVIII Kimberly Landry.
Krewe member Tracy Westerman said she anticipates a bigger crowd and bigger parade this year than last, when its inaugural parade was held.
Bring lots of bags, she said, "because we have lots of stuff to throw."
"Last year was a trial run," she said. "This year it will be full-fledged Mardi Gras."


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If you plan on dropping by Katy's Grill & Bar to chat up the namesake founder, don't bother.
If you plan on dropping by Katy's Grill & Bar to chat up the namesake founder, don't bother. Katy Monaghan is probably hanging out with Bella.
After 40 years helming some of the area's most beloved eateries, she's bowed out of the food service industry, selling the business on Dec. 18. Within days, she found a new project to occupy her time and considerable stamina.
Short for Isabella, "Bella" is her 1972 Serro Scotty Sportsman camper, a pale blue, gold and white road warrior she's restoring this winter with the intent of spending some well-earned freedom basking in the Florida Keys. No more dirty dishes, tardy employees or long hours.
"The thing about retirement, you don't have to worry. But I've got to do something because I'm high energy," she said. "The key is to stay focused. It's really good I found this camper."
A life in restaurants
Born in 1949 and hailing from Winter Haven, Fla., Monaghan, the daughter of a citrus grower turned industrial plant manager, moved to the area in 1966, just in time to begin her sophomore year at New Hanover High School. Then known as Kathy Dean, it wasn't long before she landed a job at Wrightsville Beach's Marina Restaurant.
Monaghan held that job during the summer through her college years, and by 1973 was ready to strike out on her own.
With her first husband, Buddy Wheelis, and business partner Paul Teachey, Monaghan moved into the old Jordan's Soda Shop at 6301 Oleander Drive, better known for the past few generations as the original Salt Works. Along the way, she opened the Pony Express, later rebadged Salt Works II, at 4001 Wrightsville Ave.
She owned those businesses until 1980, when the travel bug bit hard.
Monaghan spent two years bouncing around Hawaii and the West Indies before returning to the area. Needing a paycheck but reluctant to work for somebody else, she bought a Lawn Doctor franchise.
"I realized I didn't like that," she said with a laugh.
Within a year she'd return to restaurants.
Katy's and Causeway
Katy's Grill & Bar was born out of a former Saigon Sam's military surplus shop at 1054 S. College Road in 1983. A contraction of her first and maiden name ("K.D.'s"), the new spot marks a clear dividing line in Monaghan's identity.
"Anybody that's known me more than 30 years calls me Kathy," she said. "When people walk into the restaurant and ask, 'Is Kathy here,' they know it's a longtime friend."
That stretch of South College Road was a drastically different place at the time. Katy's and Jimbo's Breakfast & Lunch House were the only places to grab a bite. Most everything else was still pine forest. Her early years in the new location were a struggle.
"We couldn't even afford heat. We had portable kerosene heaters," she said. "Our rent was only $300 a month."
Today, a similar restaurant space might lease for around $4,500 a month.
The lean days were numbered, however. With the opening of Interstate 40, Katy's became an unshakable fixture in the local dining community.
"That first year, they could not get in the door," she said. "Our business was just off the charts."
While her roots were planted deep, Monaghan's restaurant was far from static. Originally just a burger and hotdog spot, Katy's was among the first in the area to add the now ubiquitous Buffalo-style wings to the menu. Seafood plates followed, and late-night shifts were added to keep up with the times and competition.
By 1986, she had married Dave Monaghan and was ready for a new challenge. Not one to endure boredom, she opened the wildly popular breakfast spot Causeway Caf� at roughly the same spot of her first job's location. You may not know his name, but if you've ever been jarred into an adrenaline shock after hearing your name bellowed out when your table's ready, you know Dave's voice.
Between Causeway in the mornings and Katy's at night, her workday could stretch from 4 a.m. until after 2 a.m. She kept a stake in Causeway until she divorced about three years ago.
The high times rolled on at Katy's, which saw two weddings and at least twice as many proposals take place between the walls over the years. Monaghan said she's been blessed to work with a number of talented managers, including Jerry Allen Lachman, who joined the staff as a young dishwasher. He scrubbed his way up to bar manager over the course of six years, later opening his own namesake establishment at Wrightsville Beach.
4 in 40
It wasn't all a party. She's had two cars careen through the front wall, only one of which was an accident. Fortunately, the property was originally an auto shop, and the colliding vehicles had the decency to use the structurally sound former bay openings. Competition sprouted like weeds as the University of North Carolina Wilmington expanded. Thirty years takes its toll on buildings and people alike.
"This past year's been a real struggle," she said. "I had thought for the last year that if I can make it past the 30-year anniversary, I'd put it up for sale. I had to make it to 30, and I honestly didn't know if I would."
The 350-plus guests that attended her anniversary bash last April all stand as proof that she did cross the finish line. And despite being courted by investors looking at the parcel for other purposes, the distinctive sign bearing Monaghan's name will remain standing, with Lachman purchasing the establishment from his former mentor with business partner Kelly Baucom. He's keeping the name and staff intact, but making significant improvements to the property and merging the menu with his other eatery.
"He is first class," Monaghan said. "He learned what I taught him and went way beyond that. I'm very optimistic and very supportive."
Now that she's stepped away from the stove and has time to go out for a bite, Monaghan is thrilled to see the changes sweeping over the local restaurant scene. Previously dominated by chains and franchises, she said the future is full of smaller, owner-operated establishments driven by talented chefs and customers hungry for an independent voice.
"Between the Landfall crowd, the Wrightsville Beach crowd and downtown, I think you have the money to support these finer restaurants, especially if they can keep prices that aren't exorbitant," she said.
In the meantime, the only cooking she's planning on doing will be outside over a campfire. Best friends that began as customers decades ago are helping her renovate Bella. If they're lucky, she may even stick an extra hotdog or two on a stick for them. Just don't ask her to do the dishes.
"I really love the restaurant business. You're never lonely," she said. "But after four restaurants in 40 years, I'm really pretty tired."
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Why I use ArchLinux is tied to why I use a Linux distribution in the first place.
Starting in 2001/2002, I would try a Linux distribution of one kind or another once every 18 months or so. For a long time the story was the same: I could (probably) get it installed OK, but would quickly retreat back to my comfort zone (Mac OS, and later Mac OS X) in the face of difficulties with hardware, packaging issues, and what I perceived to be a lack of elegant and fully-functional GUI applications (nothing against straight CLI and curses-based tools, but I don't really want to use them for everything) with decent environmental integration.
As I got used to Mac OS X, my interest in Linux distributions waned, especially during what I recall as the 'golden era' of 10.4 through 10.6. But since that time, although Mac OS X remains quite nice, the increasing integration of iOS technologies and concepts renewed my Linux distribution interest; regardless of form factor, I want the focus to be on my computers as 'my tools' rather than on me as 'their user', a focus on the latter producing an increasingly uncomfortable 'constricted' feeling.
So, with the aid of VM software this time, I delved back in... and tried out Gentoo. Needless to say, with a lack of experience that didn't go very well, but I did learn a considerable amount from my short time using it. I then found my way to KUbuntu, and believe it or not, learned a considerable amount from that too. I used it on-and-off for awhile, until the 'constricted' feeling began to return.
Poking around on Distrowatch, I discovered Arch... and have had a home here ever since ('ever since' being the past ~ 2 years). For me, it was (and is) in the sweet spot between Gentoo's flexibility (minus all the compiling!), Mac OS X's elegance (as an environment), and KUbuntu's simplicity. Mac OS X remained my workhorse until very recently, but with v4.9, KDE finally reached a point where I could use it on a regular basis for most of my tasks.
I picked up my first-ever non-Mac computer at the end of last year for the express purpose of running Arch. I had a lot of difficulty getting Arch installed and running on real hardware, but perseverance won out, and it has been increasingly serving as my workhorse since. With Kernel 3.9, KDE 4.10 and learnings over the past six months, I now have a smooth and (nearly) issue-free system (applying the standard of what would historically be considered 'issue-free' outside of the Linux distribution universe), a decent selection of fully-functional GUI applications with increasing levels of elegance, good package management (thankyou Pacman team and package maintainers!), and decent integration due to a judicious selection of mostly KDE/Qt applications and the efforts of FreeDesktop/XDG (thank you too!).
It's not perfect by any means, and there are a number of things I think KDE and Linux distributions generally could learn from Mac OS X... but I don't feel 'constricted' using it, and for now, that makes all the difference.
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I like your story aexoxea. Arch really is that perfect middle ground between Gentoo and *buntu-like distros. First non-Mac computer? I'll bet you enjoyed getting the specs you wanted for half the price (hehe). I'm sometimes forced to use Mac at work, and I often want to pitch it out the window. Luckily I don't have a window in my office. I'm sure my frustration is due to my lack of experience with Mac OSX. A friend/apple employee tries telling me that my aversion is misplaced because once you fire up a terminal in OSX, you're basically using linux. Wrong! I find that half the useful commands are missing, and it's usually a day's work if you want to add them. Again, due to my lack of experience...I don't mean to harp on Macs.
I'm curious to know some of the things you think linux could learn from Mac OSX. I know lots of people that love their Mac more than their kids, and I've always wondered why. I think that maybe you are someone who can express the reasons in a language that makes sense.
I like your story aexoxea. Arch really is that perfect middle ground between Gentoo and *buntu-like distros. First non-Mac computer? I'll bet you enjoyed getting the specs you wanted for half the price (hehe). I'm sometimes forced to use Mac at work, and I often want to pitch it out the window. Luckily I don't have a window in my office. I'm sure my frustration is due to my lack of experience with Mac OSX. A friend/apple employee tries telling me that my aversion is misplaced because once you fire up a terminal in OSX, you're basically using linux. Wrong! I find that half the useful commands are missing, and it's usually a day's work if you want to add them. Again, due to my lack of experience...I don't mean to harp on Macs.
Whenever someone reminds me that mac has bash as well, I remind them that linux has Xorg.
The problem about OSX is really on the desktop side, not the cli side. For example, a great deal of hotkeys are non-configurable (minimize, maximize), font size can't be globally changed either, mouse acceleration can't be changed, and a lot of buttons/menus are way too small for people with bad sight/mobility (and can't be adjusted at all).
On top of that, the desktop is way too mouse-oriented, and the hotkeys are totally impredictable if you're use to linux/xorg.
I'm curious to know some of the things you think linux could learn from Mac OSX. I know lots of people that love their Mac more than their kids, and I've always wondered why. I think that maybe you are someone who can express the reasons in a language that makes sense.
I'd like to hear those thing too. aexoxea sound like a reasonable person who can illustrate what we can learn and give us a hand improving those things.
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I like your story aexoxea.
Thank you . I wasn't sure if posting something long here would be appreciated or not (most of the other replies are very short).
First non-Mac computer? I'll bet you enjoyed getting the specs you wanted for half the price (hehe).
Sort of. There are some things that I miss (for example, the Mac OS X unit has a backlit keyboard that is based on ambient light sensing, whereas this unit operates on a time-out only; the Mac OS X unit also has a much nicer display); if I were to get a truly equivalent unit in terms of 'seasonally-adjusted' hardware capabilities with all of the niceties, it wouldn't at retail end up costing me much less (and could even cost more). As it was I got a unit that wasn't as high-end, since I wasn't sure if I would necessarily stick with it (and so didn't want to sink too much in initially), but given the Mac OS X unit isn't new, they're actually about equivalent in 'hardware generation' and specs terms.
That said, it was nice to have a broader range of hardware choices, especially since Apple no longer offers the 17" MBP and is moving away from built-in optical drives. Getting a lot more 'bang for my buck' in terms of memory didn't hurt either .
I'm sometimes forced to use Mac at work, and I often want to pitch it out the window. Luckily I don't have a window in my office. I'm sure my frustration is due to my lack of experience with Mac OS X.
It might, in part, be a matter of background; for me, I've spent more time working with Mac OS and Mac OS X than with any other OS (thusfar), and so the Mac 'view' of the world is, in some ways, my 'default'. Interestingly, that view, even from a Mac OS background, mixed well with a UNIX-like 'view' of the world, but not with the 'view' from Windows; as a result, I always had a basic level of 'comfort' in UNIX-like systems (even if I ultimately couldn't make use of them, per the original story), but haven't really been 'comfortable' in Windows (though I use it regularly too), and have wanted to give Windows-bearing boxes the heave on occasion too .
A friend/apple employee tries telling me that my aversion is misplaced because once you fire up a terminal in OS X, you're basically using linux. Wrong! I find that half the useful commands are missing, and it's usually a day's work if you want to add them.
Totally agree. In an earlier era I tried to make use of Fink several times; the CLI-based packages worked well enough, but the GUI packages -- which I was mainly interested in -- were never really very happy, even with XQuartz. I concluded that running them in an environment they were designed for was the way to go; one of the reasons I went for VMs when my interest in Linux was rekindled.
Getting things like development packages for interpreted languages is piecemeal; most of them are available packaged for installation using Installer.app and will install as a SystemFramework, and they work well enough (both from CLI and from the provided GUI, if any), but that then presents all the same system management and upgrade issues that full system package management solves on Linux distributions. Mac OS X does of course now have the App Store, but that has a somewhat different focus, and in any case not every kind of application is permitted on there.
The alternative is projects like Fink and MacPorts; my recollection is that they lacked the kind of selection the Arch repos have and the calibre of tools such as pacman, though I must confess that I have not tried them in some time, so my knowledge of these things could be outdated (and certainly, I have nothing but gratitude and support for those working on those projects).
I'm curious to know some of the things you think linux could learn from Mac OS X. I know lots of people that love their Mac more than their kids, and I've always wondered why. I think that maybe you are someone who can express the reasons in a language that makes sense.
I'll do my best .
The 'love' aspect for Macintoshes is somewhat subjective, as there are multiple reasons. For me, it was the ecosystem I 'grew up' with, and in many ways I view computing generally through that 'prism'. For others, it's the fact that it's not running Windows, or that it's different to whatever else they use and have, or a sine qua non not found elsewhere before or since. Some do the same trick as with Windows-bearing computers; buy it for the hardware and then install another OS onto it, so it's not a full-on Macintosh per se.
In short, there are many 'computer enthusiast' reasons, and they're not significantly different from the reasons for any other platform (just ask any BeOS or Amiga devotee). Realistically, anyone putting computer love ahead of familial love probably falls into the 'computer enthusiast' category in some fashion .
As for non-enthusiasts, well...
I've seen several reports/analyses over the years (even in pre-iOS smart-iDevice times) that describe Apple's market strategy as more akin to that of an electronics company. The modern PC is built on the premise of extensibility; hardware can be expanded, firmware can be upgraded, software can be added, removed and replaced. However, many electronics are the opposite; all of the components -- hardware, firmware and software -- come together to make a discrete unit, you use it like an 'appliance', and when it breaks or ceases to be useful years into the future, you just replace the entire thing. (Obviously, there are moves afoot to change that in some areas, but let's stick with the comparison for a moment...)
In that interpretation, the way a Macintosh is marketed makes more sense: a given device can be marketed for years in the same exact configuration as the first day it shipped, and some Macintosh models (hardware-wise) have lasted that long without being updated. Apple touts the benefits of vertical integration (of which, to be fair, there are a number), and as you will note, most of their lines don't have much by way of internal hardware expandability now. The move to iOS-based devices is a natural fit from this viewpoint, and the inherent extensibility of the platform still allows Apple and third parties to value-add through firmware and software updates (for which they now also control the main channel, courtesy of their App Stores).
An appliance sits in its designated spot until you want to use it; turn it on, set the washing program/cooking time/driving mode, wash/cook/drive somewhere, turn it off. The appliance itself is predictable, almost boringly so; knowing what detergent to use, or how long to cook a particular dish at what temperature, or where something is by road (and the nearest refuelling stations) are more relevant and pressing concerns. I see Apple's mission, in effect, as offering something which -- as much as possible -- offers that boring predictability, while still giving you most of the range of possibilities that a 'real' PC can provide (and doing so in a stylish, aesthetically-pleasing way).
Yes, those goals are incompatible in a number of ways... unless you sacrifice flexibility; in many respects, Apple doesn't actually do this, they just seem to (although actually using the 'hidden' flexibility can have mixed results). The upshot is a fair degree of consistency in their parts of the environment (and a strong expectation that third parties will follow suit for non-specialist applications), even when this doesn't necessarily make sense. But that consistency makes the appliance.
If you are licensed and trained, you can get into any car and drive it with minimal adaptation required, and trade-up to new cars with confidence; the flexibility is limited, but did that matter more to you? Sure, it'd be great to have KITT... but do you have the technician and company backing that came with it in the television series, and if not, the time, patience, aptitude, funds and enthusiasm to do it all yourself? You did for your computer (since you're here ), as did I, but maybe you didn't for your car (I certainly didn't); you decided to take what you saw as the best option on the market, and trust that the people who made it got it right. Others took that approach to their computing, decided Apple made/make the best decisions, and now swear by it.
(Whether or not they continue to swear by it may be as much about what Microsoft, Google and others do, who are hot on Apple's trail, especially in the smartphone and tablet spaces. But Apple managed to set themselves apart, and have benefited greatly from it.)
In terms of what Linux distributions can learn, well... if it's running KDE 4.9 or later as its DE, only little things . But seriously, the fact of what KDE offers made my transition possible. Spotlight is a good example; I wouldn't want to be without that kind of facility again, and I'm not, thanks to Akonadi/Nepomuk (which have been much-maligned in the past, and to be fair have come along a rocky path). KDE actually improves on Mac OS X by also featuring a more traditional find option in the GUI, which can still work even if Akonadi/Nepomuk isn't present; from my understanding, the only way to do that on recent Mac OS X is using 'find' under a Terminal, which has been irritating on a few occasions. No doubt there are other solutions similar to Akonadi/Nepomuk, but they also integrate well with KDE, which is a plus.
The irony here is that, while I noted originally I didn't want to use the CLI for everything, the Linux CLI environment seems to me to be quite robust; clean, efficient, effective, sane defaults in recent times, well-integrated if you choose the right tools, and even 'polished' at times. It offers a fair degree of consistency without sacrificing flexibility, the approach I decided I wanted to follow (along with the strong community aspects in some areas). In essence, I'd like to see the same in the Linux GUI environment; it still has some ways to go (for my money), but it's moving in the right direction (or at least, I feel KDE is).
Meanwhile, as an example of the 'little things': Under Mac OS X, most windows that display a document can be [Command]-clicked on the name of the document in the title bar to reveal a pop-up menu, showing the location of the corresponding file (if saved) on a mounted mass storage volume. If you select one of the entries from the menu, it opens that location in Finder.app, with the next level down selected. Also, those same windows have the icon of the file appearing next to the name in the title bar, and in addition to reflecting how the file appears in an icon view, can also be used for some limited drag-and-drop operations (not as extensive as in RiscOS, but it certainly has shades of that). Little things that can save a lot of time.
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Better documentation.
not time consuming (once you get what you want),
pacman + packages,
because it's a mix between a *REAL* Linux box and also a "be reasonable for the common folk" system
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Simplicity, complexity, configurability, lightweight, fun.. but most of all because I don't have time to configure and maintain a Gentoo system (as harsh as it may sound..I don't think I'm alone in this;P)
Its simplicity, its wiki, and its package manager.
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Its simplicity, its wiki, and its package manager.
Damn right! Same for me. I would just like to add the installation routine.
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This why I've chose Arch:
1) Install once, upgrade forever - other distributions make you install the whole system from scratch every few years;
2) smallest footprint and highly customizable - I run a server so I don't need bloatware like gnome or X.
Started off with suse linux 9.3...it was a pain to install with 8 cds, but nevertheless I liked it. I hanged on to it for 2, maybe 3 months dual booting with windows until I was sick of constantly booting back and forth.
After that, I always had a desire to switch over to linux, but every time there was some either compatibility issue or a missing program/feature that I needed. Every year I tried different distributions just for fun with constantly downloading latest ubuntu to try out.
3 years ago I started meddling with android roms and well, windows didn't really cut it for me so I installed ubuntu and, again, dual booted with windows. Then the first distro update hit...it broke down my system, but I didn't really mind as I thought it was probably something I did as it was my first distro upgrade. So I installed it again....after 6 months - hello distro upgrade - it broke down again. I was pretty pissed off. I wanted to change the distribution to something else and I remembered that I liked what I saw in suse linux - namely KDE. As I was used to *buntu way of things I thought that maybe Kubuntu would be different in regards of stability. I was right. It survived a full year.
As I am somewhat of an audiophile, I was trying to find ways to improve the sound quality and everywhere I looked people said oss is the sound system to have. I tried to install oss on kubuntu, but it failed drastically in so many ways for so many times.
Almost every time I searched about something related to oss or anything linux related for that matter, I found out google was pointing me to something called archwiki and arch forums. I hesitated at first as I read that you had to install the whole system from scratch and pure terminal and no matter how much I learned in those 2 years with linux, I did not feel I had the knowledge to do it. But as I'm shitty with staying with something that doesn't please me, I reformatted the partitions, slapped on an archlinux install and I can honestly say, I never looked back. I satisfied my 'need newest updates' desire, fell in love with pacman, AUR, archwiki and most importantly - ossv4 I'm still dualbooting with windows, but that's only for when a program I need doesn't work well in virtualbox.
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Pacman and customizability for me.
I do really appreciate how much I have learned about linux in general since I made the switch to Arch a few years ago. Also, yes as mentioned earlier, the documentation is fantastic. Kudos to everyone who helps with that!
I chose arch for two main reasons (in no particular order)
1. I love the almost infinate options it offers, having exactly what I want and not what I don't want.
2. Using a distro such as arch forces me to learn more about the operating system. If something breaks I learn how to fix it. If I manage to fix something I have knowledge to share. So that over time the need to look up fixes, post in forums and whatnot are reduced to a bare minimum. I learned more in the first two weeks of using arch for the first time (about two years ago) then I did in almost four years using ubuntu.
I chose arch for two main reasons (in no particular order)
1. I love the almost infinate options it offers, having exactly what I want and not what I don't want.
2. Using a distro such as arch forces me to learn more about the operating system. If something breaks I learn how to fix it. If I manage to fix something I have knowledge to share. So that over time the need to look up fixes, post in forums and whatnot are reduced to a bare minimum. I learned more in the first two weeks of using arch for the first time (about two years ago) then I did in almost four years using ubuntu.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Give a little more for a little less today.
I've been using Linux, in this case Ubuntu, since 2005. But somewhere between 2010 and 2011 I started to dislike Ubuntu and it's shiny-but-impractical approach on user interface design.
That's when I started using debian, in some ways the father of Ubuntu. But debian is kind of bloated, slow and outdated. I was doing "minimal" installations by then because I didn't want or need gnome2, so I installed X and fluxbox.
When Unity and gnome3 were introduced, I decided to leave those distributions. In my opinion, Unity and gnome3 are ridicoulus, slow and generally painful.
Last month, when buying grocieries, I noticed arch on the cover of a linux magazine. That's when I decided to give arch a chance, and so far it worked out perfectly.
Small, well documented, modular, huge software repositories and up-to-date but still mantainable. Looks like this is going to work out (well, at least until Arch comes pre-packaged with gnome4).
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Last month, when buying grocieries, I noticed arch on the cover of a linux magazine. That's when I decided to give arch a chance, and so far it worked out perfectly.
That's the best reason to choose arch that I have read!
This should go in a "what our users are saying about us" section on the splash page!!
To be honest, I've seen lots of silly reasons why users switch distros. But they reasons we stay have been consistently the same!
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Interesting to read aexoxea's post, since it seems our trajectories are somewhat similar:
after having been a mac user for many many years (mostly due to working in a context in which people like me use computers to do artsy things), I switched to Linux about two years ago. For my work I started doing 'real' programming more and more (in Python) and the breaking point was when I tried for a few days to install OpenCV with the right Python bindings under Mac OS X and had to give up. OK, I didn't know much about such things at the time, others more knowledgeable or clever than me could probly do it in a few minutes, but at that time when I tried Ubuntu it took me only two hours to figure it out and it actually worked. After Ubuntu/Gnome I switched to Kubuntu and now Arch, recently using a mix of KDE and i3.
What I really like about Arch is that things are not made user-friendly: if you have a problem there is good documentation to help you solve it and after you solved it you understand a lot more about how such systems work for real: you didn't just learn some stupid workaround around the userfriendliness shield constructed by company X that adds extra layers of complexity and that is useless outside of the bubble created by company X. And so far I had only some small things break in Arch, mostly out of my own ignorance, much better than Ubuntu, and problems can be solved because things are simple, which is way better than any system I ever used before.
I chose Arch because of the wiki, the AUR and the philosophy.
I honestly don't see anything Arch (or Linux in general) could learn from mac: in my view the fact that things can break is the inevitable side-effect of plurality, of having a choice, of a nice and messy process of people developing different tools with different agendas on hardware that has no fixed standard. There is no master plan and that is exactly why I like it so much. And the famed good looks of os x are not much of a loss too: I find my current system actually looks a lot better, especially after mac started using fake leather for its interfaces...(but I do get grumpy when there is suddenly again a window that manages to ignore all configurations and looks like it came from some ms-dos hell 20 years ago...)
And installing OpenCV on Arch took me literally two minutes, thanks to pacman.
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Some time ago, Arch Linux became my major desktop OS as a replacement for FreeBSD - compiling all those big ports (Qt, LibreOffice, ...) became just too time-consuming, plus some random system instabilities when running X with the Nvidia blob driver. Back then, Arch was just the most convenient choice for me, since it had more similarities to BSD than any other Linux distribution (which by today is no longer the case, but why moving away when it still works...?)
Today I am still running FreeBSD, but only either on servers (where it still is my favourite OS) or within a VirtualBox for development purposes (if you want to write nice, clean, portable and POSIX compliant C code, you'd better keep away from the glibc...)
"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry." — Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Bleeding edge - Having constant package updates makes them feel like active projects, and I get the latest features
After opening my eyes I realized that Fedora sucks, just the playground for Red hat, and it is just bloated and forget about controlling what you install..... laziness at the cost of stability and performance... even if you tweak it, Only good thing is the community behind it.
So, here I am in my early Arch days and I'm loving it...
1. No bloat, easy on my Computer on Memory usage,Disk Space Usage, was probably the lowest I've seen.
2. Bleeding Edge, while being stable at the same time.
3. Pacman is by far, the BEST package managers you can get, it reliable,works,many options overall usage experiace is awesome.
4. Boots on almost any computer 2000 onwards, perfact for legacy hardware.
5. Easy to understand, detailed documentation, easy to understand how to install stuff, configuring, or even learning the basics about linux.
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I use it for the same reason I use Gentoo:
1) I decide what it looks and feels like
2) I don't have to accept all that bloat that comes with some other distributions
3) Arch doesn't tinker with every single upstream packet
And "unique" features of Arch:
4) The wiki is superb
5) AUR provides a fantastic and easy way to install some packages
I'm in no way saying that Arch is THE best distribution because it comes down to what one needs but to me it's the one distribution that has most of what I desire.
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1) It's the best way to build something up that does only what you want it to do where hardware and storage is limited (latest projects involve a couple of machines that will have only 4gb of boot space and I don't need full blown window managers, IM clients, email, web browsers, cloud this and this etc. etc.
2) pacman is easy to use
3) arch wiki is full of awesome information
4) rolling release makes it easier to stay up to date and roll things back if they break, full distro releases give you a whole bag of problems all at once to diagnose
5) nerd cred?
I chose arch because neither one of us are very user friendly.


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Superstitious Jet-Setters and Airlines
Travelers are a superstitious bunch. Airlines, too, have their quirks, such as never reusing flight numbers of crashed planes and pegging "lucky" numbers for flights to Las Vegas. The Federal Aviation Administration subscribes to a superstition of "tree-topping" ceremonies when building control towers. Photo: Getty Images
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The Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens just concluded talks on a deal that will send receiver Anquan Boldin and a 2010 fifth-round pick from the Cardinals to the Ravens for 2010 third- and fourth-round picks.
ESPN's Adam Schefter was the first to report the move.
And while it doesn't affect the Dolphins directly, I'm adding it here because, well, I am terribly disappointed the Dolphins weren't involved in this thing.
The Ravens needed wide receiver help. I get that. So they made the deal and will likely sign Boldin to a nice contract very soon.
[Update: He has agreed to a four-year, $28 million contract.]
Guess what?
The Dolphins need wide receiver help, too.
Does anyone believe the picks they will use in the third and fourth round this year will produce as much as Boldin does in the next couple of years? I seriously doubt it.
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EDSBS breaks down the bowl season
My personal favorite:
33. Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl: TCU vs. Michigan State.
"Hey guys, whaddya think? Is that a game-clinching safety to end this miserable assheap of a football game at 4-2? Or do you want overtime?"
"We were wondering if you could just flood the room with deadly Sarin nerve gas, killing all of us who just lost all will to live by watching this game, and indeed any other game involving Michigan State this year."
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Smoother Firefox for Android
October 16, 2012
Now that Reader Mode has been released in Firefox 16, my main focus for the 18/19 releases will be about making the experience of using Firefox for Android as smooth as possible. I'll initially focus on three areas: tabs UX, Awesome Screen performance, and page load progress feedback.
This will probably be a continuous effort and it's unlikely that I'll be "done" in just one cycle. The goal here is incrementally land changes that have clear user-visible impact. I've already landed the first batch of improvements to the tabs UX:
- The slide animation to show/hide the tabs tray is now much smoother, especially on Android devices with hardware acceleration support (ICS or later).
- The swipe-to-close gesture on the tabs tray is now much more polished and reliable (see image above).
- Tabs now slide to fill the gap of removed tabs instead of just snapping to the new positions.
- We now give more space to the tabs tray so you can see more tabs at once.
- Tapping anywhere in the main UI (not only the web content area) should close the tabs tray.
These changes together add up to a much better UX already but there's more coming, stay tuned! This week I'll be working on ways to make the Awesome Screen feel more responsive. For now, you can see the improvements in the tabs tray in action on our Nightly builds. Feedback is very welcome!


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Corn seed companies have proven highly successful in screening new hybrids for disease resistance, and combined with chronic low prices of corn in the past, most Southeastern growers rarely sprayed their crop with fungicides.
With corn prices continuing to be well above the 10-year average, more and more growers are looking to fungicides as a way to get an additional yield boost. Whether the extra input correlates to extra dollars at season end depends on a number of variables, according to North Carolina State Plant Pathologist Steve Koenig.
The first key, he contends is to know what disease is — or isn't — the problem. A common corn disease in the upper Southeast is crazy top, which is a disease, but not one that is treatable with fungicides. Corn infected with crazy top has multiple tillers, excessive tassling and shriveled tassles.
Koenig says the disease is most frequently misidentified as herbicide damage. It is a disease most frequently caused by early season flooding. The only way to prevent the disease is to control moisture and/or drainage.
Southern rust and gray rust are the most common corn diseases for which fungicides are used in the upper Southeast. Both these diseases can reduce corn yield significantly enough to merit spraying, especially with corn being more valuable in today's market.
Triazole fungicides are most commonly used to control Southern rust and gray leaf spot in corn. "How well these fungicides work, we can't say, because we have limited research on fungicides in corn, because it was assumed these materials won't pay.
"The corn companies do such a good job of screening and eliminating most diseases through natural resistance that the need for fungicides is a hit and miss situation at best in North Carolina," Koenig says.
In limited testing conducted by North Carolina State Corn Specialist Ronnie Heiniger, spraying fungicides paid off in about one field out of four. Koenig says tests using two applications of triazole and strobilurin fungicides applied at the R1 and R3 showed no yield difference between treated and untreated in three of the four counties in which the tests were conducted.
In the one county where yield was enhanced, only the R3 application of Tilt, Quadris or Headline provided a 10-12 bushel yield increase.
With a combination of strobilurin and triazole, in this test Stratego or Quilt, yield increases were as high as 20 percent.
It appears, Koenig says, that the fungicides applied at the R3 growth stage kept leaves on the plant longer, which probably accounts for most of the yield increase.
As of early August, Southern rust had been found in Georgia, but had not spread into North Carolina and Virginia. According to Koenig, the disease is found at economic thresholds in North Carolina about one year out of five. The North Carolina State pathologist says growers may want to look at moderately susceptible varieties to Southern rust and gray leafspot, because the varieties with high resistance to these disease may have as much as 30 bushel per acre reduction in yield potential.
"The main reason we had such a big problem with these diseases two or three years ago is that we had a lot 120 day corn planted after June 1, meaning maturity is late, creating more susceptibility to Southern rust. So, from a disease perspective a grower would be better off planting a shorter-season hybrid, but that is likely to cost yield," Koenig concludes.
Southern rust of corn is caused by the fungus Puccinia polysora. The rust is considered to be tropical or sub-tropical in distribution. It does not over-winter in North Carolina. Spores travel on wind from more tropical regions depending on weather patterns.
The optimum conditions for rust development are temperatures from 80 to 90 degrees F and high humidity. Ordinarily, Southern rust of corn is of little concern to North Carolina growers because spores arrive so late in the season that little or no impact on yield occurs.
The symptoms of Southern rust are orange to brown masses of spores (urediospores) that erupt through the upper leaf surface. Leaves, stalks, and the husks on ears may be infected. Southern rust typically sporulates profusely on the upper leaf surface and only sparsely on the lower leaf surface.
In contrast, common rust (caused by Puccinia sorghi) produces spores on both surfaces, often in streaks.
Gray leaf spot is more common in no-till systems planted year after year to corn and is sporadic in the Southeast. It is caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis.
The fungus can infect leaf blades and, to a much lesser extent, leaf sheaths. The gray or pale brown lesions are long and narrow with parallel sides delimited by leaf veins. The ends are usually blunt, giving the lesions a long rectangular shape. Lesions commonly are about one quarter inch wide by about 1-inch long.
When the disease is severe, lesions merge into long stripes. Eventually the entire leaf may be killed.
While both gray leaf spot and Southern rust can be yield and profit robbing diseases of corn in the upper Southeast, the jury is still out on whether use of fungicides will enhance profitability.
In some cases, Koenig says, big yield increases have been documented in North Carolina, but when these increases will occur has not been verified by research.


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The Education and Law Project seeks to improve and reform public education from pre-K to 12th grade through policy advocacy, community outreach and litigation. We are committed to ensuring that students who are minorities, have disabilities, come from low-income families, or are otherwise disadvantaged have access to high-quality education.
Secure the funding public schools need in order to provide a high-quality education to every child.
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Ensure parents have the information and access they need so they can be involved in their children's educations.
Advocate for integrated schools that provide expanded opportunities and enhanced educational outcomes for all students.
School Funding: We work with legislators, policymakers and community leaders to secure adequate and equitable state funding for public schools, and we advocate for necessary increases in funding for effective programs that serve low-income, at-risk or underserved students. We also fight efforts to dismantle and privatize public education through the diversion of state funds for public schools to unproven, unregulated charter schools or to private schools through tax credits or vouchers. Read more about the state school voucher program at this link.
Responsible Charter School Policies: We strive to make sure state policies mandate that charter schools fulfill their original mission – to be centers of innovation that share their successes with all schools and to serve the most at-risk students. Public charter schools should be publicly accountable and transparent.
Suspension and Expulsion Policies: We secured passage of a state law that put an end to the "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that robbed many minority students of the opportunity to get an education. We continue to work with policymakers, school leaders and parents to make sure suspension and expulsion policies do not discriminate against minority students.
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Hush-a-bye, baby
This performance is from the series "Nursery Rhymes with Howard" which was designed and performed in the hope of providing a useful resource for the parents and for teachers of young children.
By the way .... Howard is the bear, who is assisted by John Barham on keyboards, x-Hong Kong (international school) teacher.
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Dawn Bryant, M.S.
Dawn Bryant, M.S., of Hartford, has joined Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center as the Senior Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer. In her new position, Bryant will be responsible for all human resources activities, including talent acquisition and management, compensation, benefits, employee relations and organizational development. She will report directly to Kate Roche, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
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Power outage in Blackfoot
A power outage Monday morning affected nearly 1,100 customers in west Blackfoot for approximately 30 minutes.
The outage occurred at 10:24 a.m. Monday. An Idaho Power representative said they believe something hit a power line causing the outage, but the cause was not immediately determined. A crew responded, checked the line and restored power at 10:53 a.m.
The outage affected 1,100 customers from Broadway to Riverside Plaza including the Jensen Grove area. The areas impacted include Meridian Street, Parkway Drive and Jensen Grove Drive.


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Facebook Exodus
Kevin Van Aelst
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 26, 2009
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you'll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourthbelieved his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
The exodus is not evident from the site's overall numbers. According to comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the United States in July. But while people are still joining Facebook and compulsively visiting the site, a small but noticeable group are fleeing — some of them ostentatiously.
Leif Harmsen, once a Facebook user, now crusades against it. Having dismissed his mother's snap judgment of the site ("Facebook is the devil"), Harmsen now passionately agrees. He says, not entirely in jest, that he considers it a repressive regime akin to North Korea, and sells T-shirts with the words "Shut Your Facebook." What especially galls him is the commercialization and corporate regulation of personal and social life. As Facebook endeavors to be the Web's headquarters — to compete with Google, in other words, and to make money from the information it gathers — it's inevitable that some people would come to view it as Big Brother.
"The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook — and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent — the more Facebook can and does abuse us," Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. "It is not 'your' Facebook profile. It is Facebook's profile about you."
The disillusionment with Facebook has come in waves. An early faction lost faith in 2008, when Facebook's beloved Scrabble application, Scrabulous, was pulled amid copyright issues. It was suddenly clear that Facebook was not just a social club but also an expanding force on the Web, beholden to corporate interests. A later group, Harmsen's crowd, grew frustrated last winter when Facebook seemed to claim perpetual ownership of users' contributions to the site. (Facebook later adjusted its membership contract, but it continues to integrate advertising, intellectual property and social life.) A third wave of dissenters appears to be bored with it, obscurely sore or just somehow creeped out.
My friend Alex joined four years ago at the suggestion of "the coolest guy on the planet," she told me in an e-mail message. For a while, they cultivated a cool-planet online gang. But then Scrabulous was shut down, someone told her she was too old for Facebook, her teenage stepson seemed to be losing his life to it and she found the whole site crawling with mercenaries trying to sell books and movies. "If I am going to waste my time on the Internet," she concluded, "it will be playing in online backgammon tournaments."
Another friend, who didn't want his name used, found that Facebook undermined his whole notion of online friendship. "It's easy to think of your circle of 'Friends' as a coherent circle, clear and moated, when in fact the splay of overlap/network makes drip/action painting a better (visual) analogy." Something happened to this drip painting that he won't discuss. He said, "Postings that seem private can scatter and slip unpredictably into a sort of semipublic status."
That friend was not the only Facebook dissenter who was reticent about specifics. Many seem to have just lost their appetite for it: they just stopped wanting to look at other people's photos and résumés and updates, or have their own subject to scrutiny. Some ex-users seemed shaken, even heartbroken, by their breakups with Facebook. "I primarily left Facebook because I was wasting so much time on it," my friend Caroline Harting told me by e-mail. "I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies because I rarely directly contacted them." Instead, she felt as if she stalked them, spending hours a day looking at their pages without actually saying hello.
But then came the truly weird part: "Facebook was stalking me," Harting wrote. One day, on another Web site, she responded to an invitation to rate a movie she saw. The next time she logged on to Facebook, there was a message acknowledging that she had made the rating. "I didn't appreciate being monitored so closely," she wrote. She quit.
Julie Klam, a writer and prolific and eloquent Facebook updater, said in her own e-mail message, "I have noticed the exodus, and I kind of feel like it's kids getting tired of a new toy." Klam, who still posts updates to Facebook but now prefers Twitter for professional networking, added, "Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone's been found." As of a few months ago, she told me, Facebook "felt dead."
Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit? Sad, if so. Though maybe fated, like the demise of a college clique.
Points of Entry: This Week's Recommendations
THE QUIT Put "Why I Quit" into Google, and the search engine proposes you look into both "Why I Quit Facebook" and "Why I Quit Church." If you aim to be a lapsed social networker, wikiHow, the collaborative how-to guide, provides a useful step-by-step way to disengage, emotionally and practically: wikihow.com/quit-facebook.
AN INQUIRY You're not the first to think it's creepy to have your personal life commercialized. Jürgen Habermas has been especially eloquent about this. Start with "The Theory of Communicative Action." Copies are available on AbeBooks.com. Also interesting on this score: "The Purchase of Intimacy," by Viviana Zelizer.
GET BOARD ONLINE Scrabble is alive and well in cyberspace. If you like Scrabble, try lexulous.com. For backgammon: ItsYourTurn.com.
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It's tough to beat actual sports for entertainment. Yet television continues to try and, as is traditional in sports, success is hard-won.
Actually, it's more like Chicago sports than that: Very few succeed, and most might as well write off their entire season after just a few weeks.
There will be a list here of the best scripted sports series, or at least the start of some arguments about these shows, and it will be topped by "Friday Night Lights." Stick around.
But what led to this consideration of the genre is that the funny, surprisingly resonant and sometimes obscene "Brockmire" wrapped its first season on cable's IFC this week and has been...


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Anchor Bay Blu-ray Wrap-Up 4 (US - BD)
Gabe checks out Bait, The Barrens, Excision, and Chained for Halloween...
Bait 3D
Instead of reviewing Jaws as a movie when I checked out the Blu-ray release a couple of months ago, I chose to wax nostalgic on the long tradition of killer shark movies that were birthed from Steven Spielberg's blockbuster opus. Towards the end of that list, I began to bemoan the onslaught of STV/made for Syfy killer sea creature flicks that B-movie fans have been forced to endure over the last decade. Bait 3D doesn't quite fit this mould it's technically a foreign film since it was made in Australlia, which I suppose sets it a hair or two beyond the STV/MFSYFY junk right off the bat. The film is directed by second unit director Kimble Rendall (he worked on the Matrix sequels). His direction isn't particularly flashy or at all unique, but he's pretty good with action and his weird, layered 3D compositions are fun enough, I assume (I watch it in 2D). Among the film's six writers is Highlander director Russell Mulcahy, whose feature debut, Razorback is one of the best and most stylish Jaws rip-offs. He and the other credited main story writer, John Kim, build their dumb movie around a fun, high concept foundation, that of sharks (or shark, no idea) let loose in a grocery store. The last time I saw filmmakers take killer sharks out of a traditionally watery environment, it was in Renny Harlin's super-awesome Deep Blue Sea. Clearly, such a simple alteration should be enough to get me on board, so the addition of disaster and heist movie trappings could only help. Or so I thought. The problem with this film isn't obvious incompetence on the part of the filmmakers, surprisingly enough (the cast is actually pretty good, despite terrible characterizations) – it's all about tone and rhythm. I appreciate the fact that everyone is treating the material seriously, rather than as camp, because ridiculous shit is almost always funnier when it's treated like high drama ('In the end it wasn't me you needed to apologize to…it was yourself,' vomit), but Bait 3D tends to draw itself thin with unnecessary and uncompelling character interactions, then loses tempo while trying to sell tepid scares. When this film is boring, it's really boring, which is an achievement, considering how many mini-movies are occurring at once. Perhaps six writers were too many? I liked Bait 3D more than I anticipated, specifically a handful of good gore gags, and I was shocked by how passable most of the special effects were. I recommend viewing it at a pizza party where you'd rather catch-up with friends than pay attention to the plodding plot.
Bait 3D was shot using an assortment of top of the line digital HD, 3D cameras, cameras so good that it doesn't require much in the way of skill to create a clean, sharp image. This Blu-ray disc features both the 3D and 2D versions of the film, but this review will only pertain to the 2D, 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer (I don't have 3D capabilities). This is a colourful film that is often bathed in warm yellows and rich teals, then highlighted mostly by poppy blood reds and grassy greens. The lighter scenes are hugely vibrant without elements bleeding into each other, while the darker scenes feature harsher contrast and a more washed out sense of colour (mostly green and red). The higher contrast leads to some minor edge-enhancement, but there's very little else in the way of noise or other artefacts. Details and textures are consistently sharp throughout and on different plain levels, unless Rendall is pulling focus for the sake of a 3D gag. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack is punched-up to support the 3D video. There are plenty of moderate, dialogue heavy scenes, but even these tend to feature abnormally high-volume simple effects (something as simple as opening a door leads to a reasonably loud LFE punch) and a lot of ambient shimmer. Much of the film is made up of highly immersive action beats, including a massive, bassy flooding effect and a large number of directionally enhanced and particularly stylized shark attacks. Joe Ng's dramatic score isn't given much LFE support, but generally mixes well with the aggressive sound without muddying things. Extras include a storyboard gallery and trailers for other Anchor Bay releases.
The Barrens
Director Darren Lynn Bousman is perhaps the most talented filmmaker currently making bad movies in the horror genre today. He has a very strong visual sense and the balls to do experimental things on a minuscule budget. Yet, none of his films approach what I'd call 'good.' Occasionally, he steps above the mediocrity of his subject matter, as apparent in his Saw sequels ( Saw III is possibly his best movie), but he's also managed to dash sure-things, like Repo: The Genetic Opera by over-stylizing it into an obnoxious image overload. Since Repo flopped, Bousman has been discarded to STV/low-run theatrical releases. His latest is The Barrens where he attempts to mix the mythical Jersey Devil (which is among the silliest looking of all of the cryptids) with survival horror and disintegrating family unit motifs. Here, the director largely leaves his music video hysterics behind in favour of slow burns and hand-held cameras. He succeeds, for the most part, at keeping things more down to earth and getting quite a bit of production value out of his tonal choices, but his slow burn is occasionally more 'slow' than 'burn.' He also tries to have his cake and eat it too, when it comes to the film's supernatural events, which make for an unearned final sequence that technically plays fair, but tonally betrays most of the rest of the film. Bousman also scripted this particular film himself, so no one else is to blame for its heavy dependence on genre clichés, specifically the angsty family dynamics and predictable spooky forest happenings. The characters don't have a lot of depth (making it awfully difficult to care about their eventual fates), but are well rounded enough, thanks in part to decent performances that step above hackneyed dialogue. Lead Stephen Moyer (who was also co-producer and, like every non-Anna Paquin True Blood cast member, will probably wallow in relative obscurity until the show is canceled) does an especially good job slowly devolving from friendly into sinister. There is quite a bit of grue here, though probably not enough to hold an oldschool gorehound's interest. Overall, this is a decent effort and an admirable failure from a filmmaker looking to grow.
Despite its humble aspirations, The Barrens follows the graphic tone set by most of Bousman's other releases, specifically in terms of colour saturation, which looks pretty great here in 1080p, 1.85:1 video. However, Bousman and cinematographer Joseph White opt for the grit and grain of 16mm film here, which works beautifully to contrast the hyper-realism of the bulk of the film with the much more stylized (and more saturated) bits. The colour quality and vibrancy are the transfer's strongest elements and are well-supported by truly black shadows. The problem here isn't the thicker grain or lack of wide angle fine detail, both of which are an inherent part of 16mm film -– it's that some shots exhibit digital artefacts, like minor blocking and banding effects. Edge enhancement, another common issue with 16mm, is only a minor disturbance and mostly delegated to harsh dark and light contrast. The 5.1 sound design, presented here in Dolby TrueHD, is often more loud than effectively immersive, but the blurry flashbacks and creature attacks/fake-out creature attacks do feature a bevy of stereo and surround enhancements, most of which work in a directional sense. More clever bits of design that don't feature monster effects include a cool bit where the sounds of technology slowly overwhelm the calm of nature and a nice, ambient rainstorm that permeates throughout the third act. The musical soundtrack is a mostly successful mishmash of folky, Appalachian tunes and more traditional strings/percussion that is given a nice, warm treatment with plenty of LFE punch. Unfortunately, the main theme is really close to of one of Ravenous' main themes. Extras include a commentary track from Bousman and cinematographer Joseph White, an alternate ending shot for foreign markets with optional commentary (3:30, HD), and trailers for other Anchor Bay releases.
First time writer/director Richard Bates Jr.'s Excision comes fitted with too little word of mouth and an incredibly intriguing premise and trailer. It's difficult to put Excision into a specific genre box. The best I can manage is American Beauty meets Todd Solondz' Welcome to the Dollhouse meets Lucky McKey's May meets every movie those movies recall. When it works, it works very, very well and even when it doesn't work it looks absolutely delectable, specifically main character Pauline's (portrayed with gusto by AnnaLynne McCord) horror-chic dream states, where she envisions herself amid grotesque sexual escapades. Even the sequences dedicated to the comparatively un-stylized waking world, which verges on a cartoon version of David Lynch's Americana, are incontrovertibly well-shot. The screenplay, which Bates Jr. based on his own short film (which is, sadly, absent from this disc), is a bit precious and 'on-the-nose' for its own good (sort of vulgar for the sake of vulgarity), but, once one is acclimated to the stagy qualities, it's actually quite easy to absorb its odd tone. Occasionally, it appears we're meant to feel genuine emotional attachments and these do not connect with much real weight, but are only a minor bump in the tonal road. Bates Jr.'s frank and often uncomfortable sense of humour is well-served by incredibly efficient editing practices. These rhythmic choices also help justify the episodic storytelling approach and effectively builds tension as the film grows darker. The supporting cast includes Roger Bart, Modern Family's Ariel Winter, Marlee Matlin, Matthew Gray Gubler and cult favourites Traci Lords, Malcolm McDowell, Ray Wise, and the incomparably delightful John Waters (whose participation gives the audience a guess on what to expect from the film). Many of these performances are only glorified cameos, but they're generally well-executed glorified cameos. Lords is the standout, surprisingly enough, as Pauline's overbearing mother, though some of her best lines land, thanks to Roger Bart's stone-faced reactions.
I can't find any specs on Excision, but suspect it was shot using digital HD cameras, based on the lack of grain and general warmth. This image is super clean, super sharp, and super vibrant. Bates Jr. and cinematographer Itay Gross split the film's look a bit between the mudanity of the real world and the extreme qualities of Pauline's dream world. The real world is shot with a mix of soft backgrounds, sharp foreground textures, and warm, unbroken pastel and acrylic colours. The dream sequences and the matching horror-laced finale are shot with more precise detail, clean lines, sharply focused backgrounds, and more specified blue and red hue choices. The only time the film really breaks from these two stylistic choices occurs when Pauline prays, set against a sheet of black that is only broken by her face and arms, which are lit more harshly, leading to some purposefully blown-out highlights. Contrast levels aren't set too high to damage the soft textural qualities, but still revel in incredibly deep, pure black levels and bright, clean whites. The closest I can come to complaining here is when I notices some minor banding effects throughout the smoother backgrounds. Otherwise, digital noise is minimal and soft without noticeable blocking or edge enhancement issues. This Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack is also largely split and deals in the dynamic ranges of the waking world and the dream world. The real world is mostly centered, aside from music, including all dialogue and basic shades of ambience, all of which sounds plenty clear and natural despite an overall lack of noise. The dream world is brimming with multi-channel, echoing abstractions that often build to a crescendo of pure white noise. There aren't many directional elements, but the LFE gets some work (occasionally ironic) from the musical soundtrack, which includes folk-pop, punk, and a more traditional electronic score. Extras include a commentary from Bates Jr. and actress AnnaLynne McCord and trailers for other Anchor Bay releases.
Jennifer Lynch's 1993 theatrical debut Boxing Helena was blasted by critics who decried possible nepotism at the hands of her father, David Lynch. But that wasn't what drove her away from filmmaking for 15 years. Lawsuits with departed lead Kim Basinger weren't even the last straw. What really hurt the then 19-year-old writer/director was the blizzard of controversy that surrounded the film well before it was even released. As is often the case, the cries of moral watchdog groups that objected to the film's supposedly misogynistic content hadn't actually seen a frame of the final product. I had thought that Lynch had disappeared forever, but she apparently made two independent thrillers in 2008 ( Surveillance) and 2010 ( Hisss). Now she returns to familiar themes of enslavement with Chained, a far, far more violent and disturbing movie than the relatively whimsical and even comical Boxing Helena.
Though, unfortunately, an increase in violence and disturbance isn't enough to make Chained a particularly interesting movie. This is partially due to it not being a particularly plot-driven film. The story concerns a serial-killing cab driver named Bob, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, who grows attached to the son of a victim he's kept since childhood as a sort of slave/pet. This plays out in a series of repetitive discussions spiked by occasionally gory murders and not a whole lot else, which puts a lot of pressure on Lynch stylistically and even more pressure on the actors to deliver something 'different.' 'Different' never really comes, though, and there's a sense of everyone involved just going through the motions. Lynch soaks the film in a gritty, cinéma vérité dread, the production designers and cinematographer Shane Daly fill things out with skin-crawling scenery, and D'Onofrio chews that scenery as a somewhat indifferent mix of Carl from The Cell and Edgar from Men in Black. I suppose the mundane inevitability of the whole thing is kind of the point, but I'm not really sure what Lynch is trying to say here, besides the obvious things about monsters breeding monsters. It feels suspiciously like shock for the sake of shock, minus the entertainment value of a real exploitation film, since she treats everything as dreadfully important. Perhaps my indifference goes beyond the lack of unique content and into my experiences with other recent 'human captive' and 'killer in training' movies, the worst of which usually have more ideas and eventful moments than this. Though I suppose acting goes a long way. Chained is rarely a bad film, but is almost always an unremarkable one.
Chained is an unmistakably grimey movie in tone, but Lynch and Daly shot it using RED HD digital cameras, so its grime is often quite clear on this 1080p, 2.35:1 Blu-ray release. There is plenty of black digital grain throughout (which does look pretty 35mm-esque), but, for the most part, the clarity of the format takes precedent. Darkness is a key component to the dread-caked look of the film, though the filmmakers surprisingly do not opt for a whole lot of high-contrast edges. Details are rarely lost in the darkness, which is pretty impressive, considering how muddy the overall look is, and textures usually match from foregrounds to backgrounds. The basic colour scheme is kind of piss-yellow-meets-crap-brown. The blends occasionally lead to minor banding effects and green noise. Flesh tones tend to skew red in darkness, but look natural in brighter lighting, where rich greens also tend to flourish. The Dolby TrueHD 7.1 soundtrack is occasionally a bit overdone in terms of surround enhancement. The main issue is that an odd amount of effects and musical material is delegated to the rear channels over the stereo channels. It creates something of an immersive effect, but also sounds a whole lot like a mastering error. It might also be the fact that I have a 5.1, not a 7.1 set-up, but such issues have not arisen before. There's also a weird disassociation between the generally natural, centered dialogue/effects and the definitively louder, more stylized stuff that finds its way into the other channels. Extras include a commentary track with Lynch and D'Onofrio, the 'uncut' version of the film's bloodiest murder (I have no idea why Anchor Bay wouldn't just release this particular film unrated), and a trailer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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a decent film about The Jersey Devil...we need one please
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Disc Details
Release Date: 18th September 2012
Discs: 7
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: Various
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 English, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: 3D Version of Bait 3D, Storyboard Gallery, Director and Actor Commentaries, Deleted/Alternate Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copies
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kimble Rendall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Richard Bates, Jr., Jennifer Lynch
Cast: Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon, Phoebe Tonkin, Cariba Heine, Alex Russell, Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter, Roger Bart, Jeremy Sumpter, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Gray Gubler, Marlee Matlin, Ray Wise, John Waters, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julia Ormond and Eamon Farren
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror and Thriller
Length: 362 minutes
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Sept. 25, 2013) – The ETSU volleyball team looks to extend on its winning streak Thursday night when the Bucs head to Spartanburg for an Atlantic Sun clash with USC Upstate. Game time is set for 6 p.m., inside the Hodge Center.
The Bucs, winners of four straight and eight of its last 12, enter the conference match at 8-6, 2-0.
- ETSU opened A-Sun play last weekend with a pair of wins at Mercer and Kennesaw State.
- As a team, the Blue and Gold out-blocked the Bears and Owls, 30.5 to 9.0, while also holding a plus-22 margin in kills (108-86), plus-18 in assists (102-84), and plus-17 in digs (126-109).
- Junior Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) was named A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week after averaging 2.25 kills (18 total) and 2.38 blocks (19 total) in the two wins down in Georgia. Hardy set a season high with 11 blocks at Kennesaw State, marking the most by any A-Sun player this season.
- Senior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) registered 34 kills, 34 digs, five blocks and four service aces last weekend. The senior outside hitter also generated a .303 attack percentage (34-7-89).
- The Spartans (1-9, 1-1) snapped a nine-match losing skid last weekend as USC Upstate defeated Mercer, 3-1.
- USC Upstate is led by sophomore outside hitter Kayla Eversgerd as she leads the team with 102 kills and 116 digs.
- The Spartans rank second in the conference in digs per set (15.24), but opponents have nearly 100 more kills (477-383), 40 more blocks (81-43) and 30 more service aces (67-38) than USC Upstate.
- Since joining the A-Sun, ETSU is 7-3 all-time against the Spartans and the Bucs have won four of the last five matches.
- Last year the teams split the series with each school winning on their home floor. Overall, the Bucs have won three of the five matches played in Spartanburg.
- In five career matches (18 total sets), Devine has averaged 4.33 kills and 3.61 digs against the Spartans. Devine has also posted three straight double-doubles versus USC Upstate.
- Junior Ivey Rice (Johnson City, Tenn.) has two double-doubles in four career matches against USC Upstate. Rice finished with 16 kills and 12 digs in the four-set win last season, and also totaled 13 kills and 19 digs in a 3-1 win at USC Upstate in 2011.
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- Megan Devine has recorded eight double-doubles on the season, moving her career total to 60. The reigning A-Sun Player of the Year has finished with double-doubles in each of her last three matches.
- Devine, the all-time ETSU career leader in kills (1,637) is 110 kills away from breaking the all-time conference record, which was set in 2010 by Lipscomb's Alex Kelly. The Kingsport, Tenn. native currently ranks 12th nationally in kills per set (4.54) and 18th in points per set (5.09).
- Junior setter Jamie Rutledge (Kingsport, Tenn.) recorded her 2,000th career assist Friday night in Macon. In 67 total matches, Rutledge has tallied 2,074 assists.
- Meredith Hardy has recorded at least one block in 76 consecutive matches and currently ranks eighth nationally in blocks per set (1.51). Hardy enters Thursday's match with 319 career block assists and is 13 shy of setting the ETSU all-time record. The junior middle blocker has 370 career blocks, which rank fourth all-time in program history and are five away from moving into second. Hardy's 370 blocks also put her sixth among A-Sun career leaders.
- Fellow junior Katie Muey (Alexandria, Ind.) is 92 digs shy from No. 1,000 for her career.
- Coach Devine became the all-time winningest coach in program history last Friday night following ETSU's win at Mercer. Devine now has 173 career victories in her 11-year career with the Bucs.
- As a team, the Blue and Gold lead the A-Sun in blocks per set (2.56) and rank second in attack percentage (.248).
- During this four-match win streak, the Bucs are averaging 15.88 kills, 14.81 assists, 16.19 digs, and 2.91 blocks per set.
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