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Funjet Vacations, MLT Vacations, Delta Vacations, Apple Vacations and Allegiant Air focus on packaging travel from the Midwest, offering the best air rates and volume-priced hotel deals. Here's a round up of what's new and noteworthy.
1. MLT Vacations
Edina, Minnesota-based MLT Vacations is one of the largest providers of vacations in the United States and manages multiple vacation package brands with value-driven accommodations, car rentals and other ground transportation to places like Las Vegas, Mexico and Jamaica.
The company offers at least 18 choices of vacations and resorts in Negril, Jamaica including everything-on-a-platter stays at Beaches, Sandals, Couples and Hedonism. A resort-only stay at Beaches for a family of four for four nights runs $3,322 with a single ocean view room or $4,584 for two rooms.
They are expanding their warm-weather offerings for this season as well. For instance, MLT's Worry-Free Vacations has new seasonal charter air service between Detroit and Daytona Beach through April 9. Delta Vacations is also selling packages to Daytona Beach and Melbourne, Florida while Continental Airlines Vacations is expanding to the islands of Turks and Caicos. And while these destinations may favor certain gateways, MLT's extensive low-fare route system through Delta, United and Continental allow connections into these packages.
2. Delta Vacations
If you are looking for luxury, Delta Vacations also has a new Lifestyle Collection line for deals to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This includes first-class airport check-in, roundtrip in first-class or BusinessElite on Delta, choice of luxury hotels, a private airport meet-and-greet and transfers, Concierge desk privileges, hotel taxes and fees, and 7,500 bonus Skymiles. A sample seven-night package from Chicago starts at $2,040 per person.
Lifestyle customers departing from the Detroit or Minneapolis/St. Paul metro areas have the option of purchasing door-to-door, chauffeured luxury car service between home and the airport. Other options are available for trips to Cancun and the Riviera Maya, the Dominican Republic, Maui, Montego Bay and Las Vegas.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Funjet Vacations is known for its trips to Cancun and other Mexican beachfront resorts, but new for the operator is the offering of Destination Wellness Vacations for that added of edge of focused rejuvenation. The trips include a fitness-focused few days in a holistic wellness environment that transforms a vacation into an invigorating and healthy experience. Travelers can add a one, three or six-day Destination Wellness program to a vacation at either the El Dorado Royale or El Casitas Royale, both all-inclusive beach properties in the Riviera Maya of Cancun. Guests can take a variety of classes, including yoga, Zumba and Beach Boot Camp, plus have access to private trainer time, sports massage treatments and nutritional counseling. Packages with the Eldorado Royale come with a free room upgrade and up to $100 in spa credits. A sample four-night package for two leaving from Chicago in mid-March costs $3,201, including trip insurance.
4. Apple Vacations
Apple Vacations, based in Philadelphia, recently announced expansion of its Jamaica and Cancun inventory with non-stop service on Sun Country Airlines from Lansing Capital Region International Airport. Prices start at $600 for three all-inclusive nights in Cancun including round-trip airfare and transfers.
Costa Rica is also on top of the list for Apple's favored go-to destinations. The company recently came out with exclusive vacation flights from Chicago's O'Hare Airport through April 22, 2011. A seven-night trip starts at $1,299 per person including roundtrip air, a four-wheel drive rental car, seven nights hotel and some meals, letting you see the magical interior of Costa Rica, with its waterfalls, volcanoes and monkeys, at your own pace. For those who prefer to base themselves at the beach, choose seven nights at the RIU Guanacaste, which starts at $1,499 per person including roundtrip air from Chicago, hotel transfers and all meals and drinks.
5. Allegiant Air
If you are looking for more desert than sandy beach, Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air offers packages from many regional airports. The airline concentrates its service on underserved cities such as Bozeman, Billings, Duluth, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Grand Island.
A four-night package from Moline/Quad Cities, Illinois, with a stay at Aria and including airport transfers will cost two people $1,391. That might not sound cheap, but the convenience of booking trips from nearby airports rather than heading the distance to gateway airports more than makes up for any perceived rate differences.


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State had 'no choice' but to drop drug charges
Prosecutors decided they had to drop the charges against Demetere Taft, 30, of Beaver Street, and
Prosecutor David Shannon told Superior Court Judge Mintz that in light of Trial Referee Robert Callahan 's decision, "the state had no choice but to nolle the charges."
A nolle means that the prosecutor decides not to pursue the charges against a defendant.
Lawyers for the two men claimed that the only reason police stopped the men is because they were black.
Callahan's decision did not address the issue of race. He ruled there were not sufficient grounds for a stop and a search.
The arrests occurred Oct. 5, 2004, when Danbury detectives went to the Sheraton on Old Ridgebury Road to look for anyone who might have information about a shooting death in Waterbury that happened about 15 hours earlier. The men were taken into custody by police as they were leaving the hotel separately.
Crawford had more than 30 grams of crack cocaine and heroin in his luggage and was carrying about $1,000 in cash, police said.
Taft had 3.5 ounces of powder cocaine, more than 2 ounces of crack cocaine, and two handguns, police said.
The men faced a range of charges including possession of narcotics, possession of crack cocaine, and possession with intent to sell.
After the Wednesday hearing, lawyers for the two men said their clients were pleased.
James Diamond , who represents Taft, said, "It's a huge burden off my client's shoulders."
"He feels good," Joe Mirksy said about Crawford.
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Laugh Loud Make Some Noise Comedy Night
After the success of last years, Laugh Loud Comedy night at the Stand Glasgow, we're bringing the laughs to The Stand Edinburgh with a top line up of comedians.
Fancy a night of big laughs?
Join Capital Breakfast's Des & Jennie on Wednesday 12th of October as they hosts our 2nd Laugh Loud Make Some Noise Comedy Night.
Des will have the task of keeping the house in order as host, with top comedians:
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- Christopher Macarthur Boyd
They'll each take to the stage and have you rolling in the aisles. If last year is anything to by, it'll be a night full of strange surprises including a rap battle between our very own Steven Mill and Christopher Macarthur Boyd.
Tickets are cheap as chips at £10 with all proceeds going to Globals Make Some Noise, grab them here...
Global's Make Some Noise is Capital FM's charity, supporting disadvantaged children and young people in Central Scotland & throughout the UK. We give a voice to small projects that struggle to be heard – and raise much-needed cash to change young lives


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Today I'm sharing another product review from Korea which somebody told me that this product has been a big hit lately in Korea. I actually have never heard of this product before--maybe because of my vacuum time :')--but I said yes to review this even though lately collage life had been quite tough. '-')b
So no longer talk, let's just see why people say that this cream is a big HIT!
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There's good reason to be up pre-dawn to be on a mountain top at sunrise!
On this late October morning, weather was crisp with just a touch of haze. As I made my way to the top of the Rettenbach Glacier high above Soelden, Austria, the sunrise pastels framed the Italian Dolomites nearly a hundred miles away, with each successive mountain range from Austria over to Italy taking on a mystical aura.
I've been atop this glacier a dozen times and have never seen such vivid color or distinctness to the jagged peaks in Italy some distance away.
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I personally commute 10 miles each way from Bay Ride, Brooklyn to Union Square, Manhattan – four to five times a week. A round trip daily commute adds up to about 30-40 miles daily depending on what the day may consist of. Coffee meetings, networking events, and daily adventures. My favorite part of this collection is very important to me which is function and price point. Each piece from the Levi's Commuter collection is affordable and reasonable priced.
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Beyoncé Sings At The Inauguration [VIDEO]
If you didn't catch the inauguration show.... I meant event. A lot of celebrities were there to watch President Barack Obama get sworn in for his second term. Beyoncé closed out today's Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner". I never really remember who sang at any of the other inauguration events in the previous years. Beyoncé did a great job on this one.


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35th Chamber Music Festival: A gift to San Miguel of 19 free performances
By Camie Sands
"During the festival, which begins today and runs through Saturday, August 17, our town will have the chance to experience 28 concerts and recitals, of which 19 are free. In our 35th year, we have finally been able to do what we've always wanted to do – but did not have the resources to – and that is to create a festival that is accessible to everyone who wants to experience the thrill of world-class music played up-close and personal," said Dirk Bakker, president of the festival this year.
Ensō String Quartet
Bartok, Mozart, Grieg
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Tonight and Saturday, the Enso String Quartet will open the festival with a Gala Concert starting at 7pm in the Teatro Ángela Peralta. The quartet recently received a Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music Performance and has quickly become one of the most exciting young musical ensembles in North America. "They continue to expand their worldwide reputation as 'simply hot,'" said Bakker, who helped select music programs for this year's festival and is pleased the Enso will play from Bartok, Mozart and Grieg Friday night, then Boccherini, Janacek and Beethoven on Saturday.
In the coming week the 35th Anniversary Concerts series begins, presenting free concerts thanks to a grant from CONACULTA, Mexico's office of cultural affairs. "This grant is like a gift to the city of San Miguel. Just come out and enjoy the music," said Bakker. The first of the Anniversary Concerts is Wednesday, July 31, by Trio de Las Americas, which has been together since 1997 and is featured in the Cervantino Festival and other important Mexican arts and music festivals. This 'mature' piano, violin and cello trio will play selections by Schumann, Haendel-Halvorsen, Kenji Bunch and Elena Katz-Chernin starting at 7pm at the Teatro Ángela Peralta.
The following evening, La Fontegra will present a complimentary concert. The players specialize in the historic interpretation of 16th and 17th-century Mexican music using replicas of the original instruments including the harpsichord, transmitting the Viceregal repertoire of New Spain. They will play pieces from Telemann, C. Ph. E. Bach, Códice Saldívar and Boismortier, also at the Teatro Ángela Peralta at 7pm.
Gala Concerts return Friday and Saturday, August 2 and 3, by the Daedalus String Quartet, which will perform Britten, Beethoven and Haydn Friday night and Mendelssohn, Schulhoff and Smetana on Saturday with what is characterized as a 'youthful and buoyant sound.' "This stellar group has performed in the world's leading musical venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in leading halls in Japan. Be sure to see them for their San Miguel debut," said Bakker, "as they are in demand all over the world and we might have a hard time bringing them back."
Saturday, August 3, Camino Silvestre will host a complimentary Anniversary Recital at 2pm in the patio at Correo 43 under the direction of Festival Artistic Director, Dr. Alejandro Escuer and his Academic Program, playing from the classics to contemporary selections. "This is a great chance to get to know Mexico's young up-and-coming and soon-to-be professionals who will influence the future of music in this country and beyond," commented Bakker about the Anniversary Academic Recital series.
Starting the week of Sunday, August 4, at Hotel Imperio Angeles, will be a brunch featuring a free concert of Baroque music at noon by Alvaro Díaz and Eunice Padilla.
For a completely different sound, attend Onix Ensamble's free concert at the Teatro Angela Peralta Sunday afternoon at 6pm. The festival's artistic director, Dr. Alejandro Escuer, professor of music at UNAM, founded the Onix Ensamble in 1993, and it has become an acclaimed group of Mexican musicians dedicated to promoting Latin American contemporary music across the world. The ensemble consists of flute, clarinet, piano, violin and viola. This year the group will interpret Ginastera, Ortiz, Luna and Currier. "Their festival concert last year brought the audience to its feet. Don't miss this chance to hear something new," said Bakker. "And this just represents the first 10 days of the festival. We really heat up heading into our final weeks. Go ahead and wear yourself out with great music. This year it's a feast – plan to partake of it all!" concluded Bakker.
Tickets for the pay-to-see Gala Concerts start at 150 pesos for balcony seating (which now offers individual seats instead of benches) and are sold at the Teatro Ángela Peralta box office. For more information on all concerts, music programs and group profiles see festivalsanmiguel.com 154-8722, the office is in the Bellas Artes on the second floor.
Camie Sands is the past president of the Board of Directors, San Miguel Chamber Music Festival (2008-2012)


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Hello faithful readers, I recently took a trip to London for work, spent some time in the town with my brother, and got back yesterday.
A nice warm lager
London is sweet, our trip was complete with...
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We were even able to rent some bikes, but that will be its own whole other post. Now that I'm back, Green Bird will resume the regularly scheduled programming.


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Bil Browning has done it again. He has posted an article on Bilerico about a person who claims to be transsexual who appeared on a Thai reality show. I don't know enough about the contestant to really comment, but during the performance, the song features both a female and a male part, with the singer doing both parts, changing voice while doing so.
Okay, that's bad enough. It is one of those classic moments, like when the extremely credible looking drag performer whips off the wig, revealing that "she" is really a man. It kind of reminds me of a bar here in San Francisco called Asia-SF where the servers are referred to as "gender illusionists." I cannot understand how anyone who is actually transsexual could put up with such an insulting term.
In the video which Browning includes with the post, the contestant is told by the judge that he assumed this person was actually a female until he heard the male part. Then he realized it was a transsexual, and urges that the "deception" continue. Browning seems oblivious to how insulting such a remark would be to a transsexual. Of course, to an "out, loud, and proud" transgender, it would probably be taken as a compliment.
Browning has shown strong animosity for those who wish to simply complete their transition and get on with their lives. He is the sort who would accuse a transsexual who engages in what is commonly referred to as "stealth" of being deceptive. So, I guess a man telling a person who might be a transsexual to "keep on deceiving us" is perfectly fine with him. For the rest of us, it is a horrific insult.
This is the idiocy of the transgender paradigm. You have to accept a man, who wants to hang on to his male history, and in most cases, his male parts, as a woman if that is what he claims to be....but a transsexual, who simply wants to transition and be the woman she really is, well she is being deceptive and should be attacked.
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Check it out. An actual finished project! I finished knitting my Lemongrass sweater back in May. It just needed to be blocked and I had to sew on the buttons. But where's the incentive to do that when you finish a sweater when summer is coming? So it was finished this week.
I used Austermann Murano which is a bulky self-striping yarn. It's now discontinued so I got it at a discount. I purposefully made my yarn selection because as my first real sweater, I wasn't confident I'd even get through it or that I'd even want to wear it.
But I did and I do because the pattern is so well written and easy to follow. I love the cable pattern down the front and the way the sides come together with buttons. The only changes I made were to the stitch used to increase for the arms and putting two buttons on each side.
So I'm pretty pleased with my big warm bulky sweater and even though I'm sad to see summer go, at least I can look forward to getting to wear this new sweater that I knit myself.


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Yep, I'm talking a biggie! Well, Action Hero, my dear daughter could not hold out her birthday gift any longer. This is what I received from her this evening.
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If you scroll and click onto any of the text boxes: blog, etsy, flickr.....it takes you right to the site.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. -- With his team sitting at 0-4 a quarter of the way through the season, Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon wants to do more.
After finishing with just 22 yards on 10 carries in the Chargers' latest loss over the weekend, a 26-24 setback to the Philadelphia Eagles, the reserved Gordon's emotions finally bubbled to the surface.
"I'm super frustrated at the moment, but I can't let it break me," Gordon said after the game. "It all falls under the same thing. But obviously not getting the touches and not getting the win -- the win is the biggest thing. But then the fact that you feel like you can't even help, you're just kind of sitting back, it sucks because I just feel like I'm kind of helpless back there.
"I hate that I feel like that, and I just feel like I can't help my teammates out there. It hurts, really. I probably would have felt a lot better if we'd won."
Gordon has 168 rushing yards on 54 carries with two rushing touchdowns and is averaging just 3.1 yards per carry through four games this season. He also has 13 receptions for 97 receiving yards and a score.
With the Chargers trailing in the second half, offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt turned to the pass to move the ball, with Gordon getting just four carries for 2 yards.
"We talked after the game," Chargers coach Anthony Lynn said. "I feel like when one of our players is upset, we talk right away, and he was.
"I think a lot of guys were upset because we lost the game, and Melvin just wants to win like everyone else. So, second half, we had to throw the ball to catch up a little bit. So we have to be more efficient running the ball in the first half."
Through four games last season, Gordon had just 230 yards. He wound up finishing just three yards short of 1,000, with 997 rushing yards and 12 total touchdowns. Gordon averaged 3.9 yard per carry and made his first Pro Bowl last season.
With 12 games left, there's certainly time for Gordon to turn things around. The Chargers also face a New York Giants' defense allowing 142.8 rushing yards a contest, No. 28 in the NFL.
"I just feel like I can't help those guys, and that's what probably frustrates me the most at this point because we just keep falling short," Gordon said. "Being 0-4 sucks. I've never been sitting here in my life in this position.
"But I'm not a quitter, so I've just got to find a way to make something happen."


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After closing down DriveClub creator Evolution Studios recently, Sony has just started a brand new division that will handle smartphone development. This division will create apps, games etc for Smartphone devices.
Sony has launched "ForwardWorks Corporation" under its Sony Interactive Entertainment that now handles all things PlayStation. With "ForwardWorks Corporation," Sony is targeting the ever expanding mobile market with PlayStation's intellectual properties, meaning we may see plenty of PlayStation games getting a mobile spin-off.
God of War anyone?
ForwardWorks will leverage the intellectual property of the numerous PlayStation® dedicated software titles and its gaming characters as well as the knowledge and know-how of gaming development expertise which was acquired over the years with PlayStation® business to provide gaming application optimized for smart devices including smartphones* to users in Japan and Asia. The company will aim to deliver users with opportunity to casually enjoy full-fledged game titles in the new filed of the smart device market.
Directors in Charge and Member of the Board of ForwardWorks
- Atsushi Morita, President
- Andrew House, Member of the Board
- Hiroshi Ueda, Member of the Board
- Kazuhiko Ono, Auditor
Their HQ is set up in Japan which means Andrew House will be making quite a lot of trips to Asia. ForwardWorks will officially begin its operations from April 1. Sony has invested 10 million yen into the company.
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President/CEO The Aroostook Medical Center, Presque Isle
140 Academy St., Presque Isle
President/CEO: Sylvia Getman
Founded: 1912
Employees: 1,000
Annual revenue: $104 million
Contact: 768-4000 www.tamc.org
Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of The Aroostook Medical Center in Presque Isle, says the transformations taking place in health care right now are akin "to building an airplane while you're flying it." Letting the impossible nature of that challenge sink in for a moment, she completes the thought: "If I'm in that airplane I'd want to work with other people who'd built airplanes before. I'd like to know they'd built an airplane that could fly. And I'd want to know we had the right parts to complete the job."
In the three years since she assumed the reins of Aroostook County's largest employer — TAMC employs 1,000 people at seven facilities within The County — Getman has embraced the leadership challenges of guiding a rural health care system during a time of rapid change. There's the Affordable Care Act and its push for health care reforms in which payments will be based on quality, not quantity. The shift to electronic medical record recordkeeping. Public demand for transparency regarding the costs and quality of health care. Payment reforms in Medicare and Medicaid. The list goes on, and every item on it generally is linked to another problem needing to be fixed.
Underlying all of those changes is the realization that health care, as it's been delivered for the past 20 or 30 years, is unsustainable.
"The math doesn't work going forward," Getman says. "Those who work in the health care system see that more clearly than anyone else. The simple reality in health care is that the system can't go on the way it has been going. Things have to change. You can't cut your way out of it, you can't grow your way out of it. So you need to do something that's different."
Getman brings an unabashedly positive outlook to the urgent challenge of fixing health care in Maine's uppermost county. She admits her glass is always half full.
"When you say 'challenges,' I say 'opportunities' — every time," she says.
VIDEO: How Getman would invest a $10 million grant to TAMC.
Prior to coming to TAMC in August 2010, Getman's medical career had given her opportunities to see what works in hospital settings both large and small. Her large-hospital stint at the University of Kansas Medical Center included working as an assistant director of medical affairs. In a shift, she followed that with a move toward executive-level hospital assignments at smaller rural hospitals in Iowa and, more recently, in Massachusetts.
"I absolutely fell in love with rural health care," she says, noting that one of her roles in Iowa involved an electronic health record project linking a major medical center with eight rural hospitals. In the smaller hospital settings, she came to appreciate the decision-making nimbleness that's possible in contrast to a large hospital setting "where you meet for nine months and then you have a plan."
Another learning experience involved bringing the "continuous process improvement" approaches more commonly found in manufacturing to a hospital setting. Quality improvements can happen by accident, she acknowledges, but not reliably. If quality patient care is to become the norm, she says, there needs to be an unwavering commitment from top to bottom setting that as the goal.
Getman says the CEO opening at TAMC in 2010 appealed to her precisely because she saw the challenges it faced — being a "high-cost" hospital system in Maine's most rural county — as an opportunity to be a leader in the health care reform initiatives that were gaining momentum both locally and nationally.
"I didn't go there by accident," she says of the move to TAMC with her husband and their three sons. "I saw that there was a really strong team in place, with a lot of pieces to work with. I saw an organization with high quality of care, but the public perception didn't see it that way."
Three immediate challenges loomed from the start:
The MaineCare debt, Getman says, complicated virtually every financial decision she's had to face in her first three years, largely because until an agreement was reached this year between the Legislature and Gov. Paul LePage on how to pay off that debt, there was always the question "Would we ever get paid?"
She says to her relief, TAMC received its check from the state canceling the longstanding debt in mid-September.
Not surprisingly, Getman tackled the other challenges by pursuing operational approaches she had learned could be as effective in hospital settings as they had been for Toyota and other manufacturers.
To naysayers who initially worried about posting TAMC's quality measurements on its website — including target goals and outcomes for quality indicators such as "infection prevention," "surgical care," "patient safety" and "satisfaction" — Getman replied that public accountability was an essential step toward improving perceptions about the hospital. She says the implementation of electronic medical records, likewise, supports the lean goals of providing the right information about patients to doctors and nurses, at the right time and in the right format.
"What are the things that aren't working?" Getman says is a question she frequently asks. It's followed by questions she hopes will logically lead her TAMC team down the path of solving those problems: "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
Getman, who is also a senior vice president at Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems, regards TAMC's affiliation with EMHS's Pioneer Accountable Care Organization as a critical step in her hospital's transformation. As one of the first 32 Pioneer ACOs set up across the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in December 2011, EMHS's five-year pilot program is shifting from a fee-for-service model of payment to a model that will reward health care providers for keeping their Medicare patients healthy. Instead of passively waiting to treat their patients' illnesses — and having a fee structure in which more visits, tests and procedures equals more revenue — the Pioneer ACO model encourages a proactive approach coordinated among providers, patients and their families.
Getman says EMHS's Pioneer ACO program (now called Beacon Health) recently learned it is the sixth highest performer of the original 32 Pioneer pilot ACOs created almost two years ago.
"I'm from Missouri, the 'Show Me' state," Getman says. "I can authentically say this is working [to achieve the triple goals of highest quality care and satisfied patients at the lowest cost.]"
It's been a busy three years, and Getman is pleased the efforts she and her TAMC team have been making are being recognized. Locally, the hospital system was named Business of Year by Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce in 2012. It was one of only four hospitals in Maine designated by the Joint Commission in 2012 as a top performer in key quality measures; it also received an "A" hospital safety score last November from The Leapfrog Group. In May it received two honors from Avatar Solutions, a survey, data measurement, and performance improvement company and in September, TAMC was named one of the top 25 "most wired" rural hospitals in the 15th annual Hospitals & Health Networks survey.
More than awards or outside recognition, Getman says it's the small moments that remind her why she's in health care, like the nurse who declined being relieved after hours of comforting a crying baby. "He's more comfortable with me," the nurse told Getman.
"If you have good people and if they understand the importance of what they're doing, that for me is a great 'swoosh' moment," she says. "I see moments like that every day and it reminds me, every day, what we're trying to do here. Every day I clearly know what my purpose is — and that's a gift."
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mixed media photo collage on board, 12"x9"
This is the latest piece from my series of Time Travel Photos. They will all be shown at San Francisco's Glama-Rama Salon and Gallery. The show runs from October 11 to November 27, 2016. The opening reception is on the evening of Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 pm.


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Anyway, I've really missed making scrapbooks for myself and being able to include keepsakes along with pictures and journaling, but didn't want to do the tradition scrapbooks anymore. Not only because it's expensive, but it's also waaaaay too time consuming to take on with little ones running around. That's when I came across Project Life. So easy and so perfect for what I wanted to accomplish! I've already gotten started and am totally in love! Thanks to my boys for the perfect birthday gift!!
And if you've never heard of Project Life and are into scrapbooking, you should definitely check it out! I'll be sure to share pics of my progress with you as I get more added to the book!


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Puracoat is a remarkable leap in nanotechnology. It is a fluid that can be applied across the surface of the entire mobile device, including overtop a touch screen, that will protect your device against scratches and water damage while sacrificing none of the appearance or functionality of your display. Puracoat is undetectable by the naked eye and is synthesized to be next only to gemstones in hardness. It is also substance tough, suitable for those who must retain their particular unit's sanitization.
Say goodbye to sticky plastic screen protectors, which can trap air bubbles on your display and cause your touchscreen to respond inaccurately. With Puracoat, you can protect your entire device with one permanent application (only removable via polishing) and never have any of these issues. Puracoat is also water resistant, anti-static, anti-bacterial, weather resilient, and helps repel dust and staining. It even improves the quality of the display screen.
We originally developed this technology for high-rise building glass, but quickly realized its other applications for the casual consumer. This technology was very expensive, but we endeavoured to create a variant that is affordable and easy to use, while still retaining its quality. The result is Puracoat.
Puracoat will be produced in liquid form and packaged in small bottles. After opening a bottle of Puracoat, its life is 18 months. Puracoat is nontoxic and hazard-free, and has been tested on many different devices to ensure that its effects work on all types of devices and device screens.
The nanotechnology used to create Puracoat is expected to be found in most touchscreen displays in the future. Puracoat is ahead of the curve and is able to offer these benefits to devices on the current market and those further behind.
Puracoat has also been tested on device speakers, and is found to have no influence whatsoever on the effectiveness of finely-tuned acoustic factors.
We want to put this incredible technology out there and available for purchase. By donating a certain amount as outlined on the right, you can have your own bottle of Puracoat to use on your devices.
Even if you cannot fund us at this time, we encourage you to share our campaign with the tools found below. If someone you know has a device they need to protect permanently and completely, consider letting them know about this project and what it can do for them.


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Sitting on the Bank of a Stream
Why I am here just being? I am not sure. Every now and then it's a good idea to get out of the stream's current. Not just stop fighting the current, but to get completely out and just watch the water flow by. Sometimes we get lost and forget who and what we really are.


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Paul Anka, songwriter
Paul Albert Anka, OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hits songs like 'Diana', 'Lonely Boy', and 'Put Your Head on My Shoulder'. He went on to write such well known music as 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' for Buddy Holly, the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Tom Jones' biggest hit 'She's A Lady', and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song 'My Way.'
"She's a Lady" performed by Tom Jones
Words and Music by Paul Anka
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"Toot Sweet" performed by Annette Funicello
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"My Way" performed by Sid Vicious
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Bali 3 Days Tour Package is simply designed for travellers who have short holiday in Bali. This tour package offer attractive value of accommodation and tour activities, where you could explore places of interest in Bali, arts, cultures, and unique tradition of Balinese social life. We will take care from your arrival at the airport, accommodate you in comfortable hotel, organize pleasurable trip around Bali, then take you back to the airport on your departure. You could rest assure that your holiday will be totally enjoyable eperience.
DAY 1st: ARRIVAL IN BALI
Our driver will pick you up at bali airport and drive you to the hotel, after check in we start our tour to see Garuda Wisnu Kencana Culture Park at Jimbaran and take your buffet lunch in one of the restaurant in GWK. After Lunch we continue our tour to see Uluwatu Temple, a beautiful cliff temple in the south of bali and see the Kecak and Fire Dance performance with the sunset view. Our last visit is Jimbaran for your fresh seafood dinner, then back to hotel.
DAY 2nd: KINTAMANI TOUR
After breakfast at hotel, our first tour destination is to see the Barong Dance at Batubulan then visit Celuk Village – the center of silver smiths, Tegalalang – for beautifull rice terrace continue to Kintamani where we can admire the Mount Batur, an active volcano rising 5,000 feet above sea level, also the lake Batur on the side. Lunch will be serve at local restaurant. Return to Denpasar we will visit Goa Gajah – beautiful elephant cave temple with stop at Mas village – the center of wood carving and Tohpati Village to visit a Batik Gallery, then back to hotel.
DAY 3rd: BALI – DEPARTURE
Breakfast at hotel then transfer to the airport for flights to your country.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis AndPregnancy
As everybody might popular, rheumatoid arthritis is additionally persistent and systemic and an autoimmune inflammatory illness influencing the joints that could influence ladies regardless of their age. And, when it comes to rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy, ladies will certainly undertake a change in their immune state that could become an autoimmune illness, and there have actually additionally been alleviating impacts of being expecting on a lady with rheumatoid arthritis, which has actually been verified by some current researches on the topic. There are as several as seventy to eighty percent of such people that will certainly experience remission while they are expecting, though one quarter of these people will certainly endure from rheumatoid arthritis throughout pregnancy and in some instances, the illness might aggravate therefore requiring to be dealt with also when the person is expecting.
Short-lived Improvements.
Whatever enhancements are really felt in rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy are usually of a momentary nature with people quickly slipping back throughout postpartum duration, and why there is renovation in rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy has yet to be totally found. Concepts have actually been placed onward such as it can take place due to modifications in hormonal agents throughout pregnancy, impacts of pregnancy on resistance that is moderated by cells and modification to neutrophil feature throughout a pregnancy.
If you take a look at the numbers connected to rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy, you will certainly locate that though rheumatoid arthritis does influence just one to 2 percent ladies, rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy is not as uncommon a problem as one may anticipate it to be and ladies that go to an age of recreation are probably to be influenced. There have actually additionally been researches on the impacts of rheumatoid arthritis on pregnancy, and it has actually been located that bulk of ladies in the United States having rheumatoid arthritis might be reasonably untouched by their expecting problem and the mother's morbidity prices amongst ladies with rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy have to do with the like for those that have rheumatoid arthritis and are not expecting.
There is no proof to recommend that rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy have any type of result on fetal result, though there are some reported circumstances of early birth and also decrease in development due to rheumatoid arthritis, while various other records do not recommend any type of adjustment in fetal end results at all.
Hence, it would certainly be risk-free to think that there are no actual long-term impacts on a woman?s wellness problem regarding rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy is worried, and researches additionally explain there is no considerable modifications in the result of pregnancy in ladies struggling with rheumatoid arthritis.


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The artists Bei and Lily
Catching indoor butterflies!
Catching indoor butterflies!
Recently Bei has Doe Doe on his brain. Out of the blue on Monday, Bei asked if he could see Bei Bei and Doe Doe on the TV, meaning he wants to see the video of the two of them while they were in China. We watched the video for two days. He loves watching himself and laughs alot. Then my friend Kim and her daughter Lily, who was adopted from China came today for a play date. I didn't tell him ahead of time that they were coming, so when he looked out the window and saw that they were here he asked " Is Doe Doe here?" For some reason, he is thinking about her alot.
Bei and Lily had a really fun play date together. Lily is very reserved and quiet. Bei is somewhat of a chameleon. When Huckleberry and Max are over and are being loud and testing their voices, Bei follows suit. With Lily he was quiet and very relaxed.
I know that this will sound stupid to some people, but I wish I could just capture Bei's joy and happiness into a bottle. I wouldn't even sell it, I would give it to anyone feeling lonely, sad, depressed or hopeless. That little boy is amazingly joyful and content and could touch the darkest hearts and bring sunshine into it. He has the most wonderful sense of humor, he loves to laugh and be silly. He loves to be touched and cuddled. He shows compassion and empathy. He knows how to love others and receive love. I never imagined in my wildest dreams, that we would ever get a child like him. I am so over the top in love with him. But it is because he is so easy to love. I don't take credit for any of it, because I really believe people are born with their personalities. Now it is my job to nurture him to become who he was meant to be, but the mold has been cast and it is a good one.
Okay...you all know what this means...I bragged about him, so I better get ready for a day of hell tomorrow...it is my curse!


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So here it is… the day so many have been waiting for… the day… THE WIG CAME OFF. That's right. I decided 2 weeks ago that I would go natural and would give up the wig for good. So below you will see my new hair… and you will be along for the ride for my real hair voyage….
So today's outfit has so many things that I really enjoyed. Today is Palm Sunday and I wanted to go to church but because my hair was a frizzy crazy mess… I wasn't going to go. Then I decided that… eh… what does it matter… I'm not going for the fashion. So today was the Sunday that they got to see the NOT dressed up side of me. You know what I think most people noticed was not the hair or even the clothes… I notice many people look at me… and then drop their eyes to my feet… as if to say "Where in the hizell is your stilettos?" Hahahaha! Yep… I do own flats. So I wore my leopard flats with my DIY destroyed jeans. These jeans I bought to intentionally roll up and wear as capris. Then I asked on twitter how to destroy them and I made that my Saturday task. Destroying these pants. I am pleased with how they turned out. I figure they will only look hotter with each wash. I completed the look with my new City Chic Batwing Top. I wasn't sure about this top when it arrived… but then I put it on this morning… and OMGee… all my worries disappeared. This top is A-MAZE-ZING!!!! The back… oh the back… is what did it for me… a little bit of sexy in a tunic… SOLD!!!
So even though this outfit is super casual… I felt super trendy and fabulous… especially after I got my hair done…
Outfit Breakdown:
Top: City Chic (gifted)
Destroyed Jeans: Baby Phat (Wal-Mart) *holes DIY*
Shoes: FatshionXchange
Earrings: Blessed Treasures
Ring: Flea Market
Sunglasses: Baby Phat (Wal-Mart)
Hair: Dominican Hair Salon


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Hello! I am writing a paper on Creek Chubs for a fishing class. For part of the paper I need to interview people who have caught a Creek Chub. The information you provide will be included in the paper. I am wondering if a few people who have caught one could answer a few questions for me? I will put the questions below. Thank you in advance for helping me out!
1. Where/What type of bodies of water have you caught a Creek Chub? What is its preferred habitat?
2. What time of the year do you catch them? What state/city (location) of where you catch them?
3. What did you use to catch the Creek Chub? (What kind of bait, hook, etc.)
4. Do you know what a Creek Chub likes to eat?
5. Do you know when where and how this fish reproduces?
6. What is a Creek Chubs predators?
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They have even included scripture versus to find all of the names of Jesus in the Bible! We are thinking about making a fireplace garland to hang through the Presentation of the Lord on February 2 and work on looking up each name in the Bible over the next few weeks! I'm looking forward to this:)
Last year we made a Holy Name of Jesus plaque for our liturgical door wreath and this yummy breakfast snack:) This yummy pizza was also a lunchtime hit!
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Preemption is a power that the state should only exercise under extraordinary circumstances; left unchecked, it risks unleashing the 'thought police'
Taipei police would have made Big Brother proud earlier this month when it acted on the government's new "preemptive" policy and brought individuals in for questioning before they could have done anything.
By definition, preemptive action implies that the state has the ability to read people's intentions and the authority, when necessary, to take action to prevent something bad from happening. Generally speaking, the intelligence branches of state organs are responsible for collecting information before a crime is committed, while law enforcement authorities normally act after the fact, with arrests made using evidence of a crime and supported by intelligence collected prior to the act.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
This is a place for you to leave comments about python4ply and its documentation.
10 comments:
- Ralph said...
Very interesting, thanks.
Some typos: The new t_DEC_NUMBER() definition doesn't have the _-added regexp given previously but the old one. Also, is it wise to allow 42___ as a number?
t_BIN_NUMBER() allows 0b_ in the regexp.
Cheers, Ralph Corderoy.
- March 10, 2008 at 6:38 AM
- Andrew Dalke said...
Thanks. I fixed the t_DEC_NUMBER definition and updated the online version of the tutorial.
I thought about the "_" problem and decided to leave it the way it is. The point was to show how to tweak the lexer, and I think I gave enough warnings that there are things like this to worry about.
I'm taking the idea from Perl. Trying it out now I see it allows things like:
$a = 1_2_3_4;
$b = 5__6;
$c = 0b__;
print "a=$a and b=$b and c=$c\n";
a=1234 and b=56 and c=0
which matches what I did. Though I didn't plan it that way.
- March 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Jay said...
Would it be possible to use this as a way to maintain backwards compatibility of 2.5 code with 3.0?
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard syntax-wise. I guess the big thing would be wrapping API's that have changed. Would it be possible to have two implementations of dict, for instance? (Well, I guess there'd likely be one implementation, the 3.0 one, with a wrapper for the 2.5 interface.) Any thoughts? Thanks!
- March 10, 2008 at 4:41 PM
- Ralph said...
Hi Andrew, I think you're right to leave the "_" problem as it is since, as you say, the code is pedagogical.
However, unlike Perl which gives int(0) for 0b_, t_BIN_NUMBER() attempts int('', 2) which gives an exception so the code doesn't match Perl (which some may say is a good thing).
Cheers, Ralph Corderoy.
- March 11, 2008 at 2:56 AM
- Andrew Dalke said...
Okay, I fixed t_BIN_NUMBER so it raises a syntax error for cases like "0b_". Thanks again for pointing that out, Ralph.
Jay? Python 3 will come with a 2to3 converter which does syntax-level transformation of Python 2 code to Python 3. I think that's the tool you're thinking of.
There are limitations in the conversion. One thought I've had is to modify the AST and add run-time checks to either support Python 2 idioms under Python 3 (eg, dict.keys() becomes a set view rather than a list) or to generate warnings in Python 2 that code will break in Python 3.
- March 15, 2008 at 5:50 AM
- Franck Pommereau said...
I'm using python4ply and I'm very happy with it. Thank you for this great work.
Unfortunately, I just discovered that new Python 2.6 deprecates module compiler and that Python 3.0 will not have it anymore.
Do you intend to modify python4ply so that it does not rely on compiler and compiler.ast anymore?
- October 2, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Andrew Dalke said...
Thanks for using it, and for your compliment.
I learned about the compiler module deprecation when I was developing python4ply. The compiler module is cumbersome to use, and I considered supporting the ast module (which was available even before 2.5 as the undocumented _ast module) but there were a few features missing.
The undocumented _ast module was read-only, so there was no way to generate byte code. The 2.6 ast module lets you build an AST and emit byte code, so it's a good replacement. But there's still an advantage to using the compiler module - it let me do my monkeypatch to allow expression assignment.
I've considered pushing for an unused op-code like that, designed for people developing PVM-based languages. But I'm not involved enough to do that and there's really very little justification for such a change.
This is a project I did in my free time, and it's a surprising amount of work, especially if you include the GardenSnake and LOLPython languages which were sort of practice versions. So no, I can't say I'm going to do anything with it.
Feel free to modify the code to support the AST module!
- October 2, 2008 at 11:41 AM
- EvgenyLuttsev said...
python4ply parses "\n" as Module('\n', Stmt([])) whereas it should be Module(None, Stmt([Discard(Const('\\n'))]))
- December 13, 2015 at 1:19 AM
- EvgenyLuttsev said...
Sorry, I was wrong. But this behavior is unintuitive.
- December 13, 2015 at 1:40 AM
- EvgenyLuttsev said...
'\n' really should be '\\n'. Otherwise generated and source texts are not identical. Same about "\"" etc.
- December 13, 2015 at 2:00 AM


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One of my biggest struggles as a vegan is deciding how to participate in Halloween with my children. Do we go trick or treating and trade the candy for vegan goods or toys? Should we stay in and pretend that Halloween doesn't even exist? Do we go out and visit family? Would the kids be happy with a Halloween party? There are other events in town, should we try that? It is a never ending pool of options and questions and pros vs cons.
So this year, after Ape Boy's new fascination with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory we decided to have a small (very small) Willy Wonka Halloween party. You see, he loves the spooky stuff like skeletons and goblins and zombies.. just as long as they don't actually DO anything. And, Tiny Twirler has a hard time watching any movie that has any sad parts at all. In fact, she'll refuse.
What did we decide to do? We told the kids we could have a Willy Wonka Halloween party! Rock on, right? It turned out to be very small, and a little under prepared with everything that's been going on in the world of our vegan family. Infact, each child was asked to invite just one friend, and only one of them showed up. On top of that, they want to have their cake and eat it too. We're going trick or treating on Wednesday and exchanging their candy for something vegan acceptable. In a world of junk food and obesity, disease and slaughter - I have no idea why we will be supporting this. But we are. And that's okay with us, because we know that our children are health concious, vegan-loving kids.
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Some goodies in the goodie bags.
They included candy, glow in the dark stickers, bats, and animal noses.
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Servaas Venter, Country Manager for EMC Southern Africa, discusses the new EMC software enhancements that effectively build the bridge from 2nd platform to 3rd platform computing.
One of EMC's top priorities for 2014 is to continue helping its customers solve today's infrastructure problems while building a bridge across the chasm from 2nd Platform computing to what's become known as 3rd Platform computing – the IT destination designed for cloud, mobility, social networking and Big Data.
As a direct result, EMC has introduced an all-new version of the Storage Resource Management (SRM) Suite (version 3.0), as well as enhancements and updates to the ViPR Software-Defined Storage platform (version 1.1).
Given the complexity of today's IT environments, this demands a long-term product strategy focused not just on one-off innovations, but also on regular product improvements to ensure we support the latest platforms, standards and architectures. And we're doing this before customers need a lifeline; we're at the beginning of the journey to the 3rd Platform.
While 3rd Platform business opportunities promise to transform the face of IT by bringing web-scale services to the masses, many customers find themselves with existing IT infrastructures that have historically been designed for 2nd Platform environments (such as client/server). These customers lack the resources they feel are necessary to bridge the gap between the 2nd and 3rd Platforms.
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'A lot of people wrote us off but we showed a lot of character'
They came close to record a historic win against India but eventually had to settle for a draw in the opening Test at the Wanderers and South African batsman Faf du Plessis' admitted his team was satisfied with the end result.
Du Plessis' superb knock of 134 runs and his 205-run partnership with AB de Villiers had set South Africa up for a world record win but they fell short by eight runs while chasing a 458-tun target.
"This morning a lot of people wrote us off and the character that we have shown to pull this off, I am very satisfied with the result," he said.
Image: Faf du Plessis of South Africa
Photographs: Duif du Toit/Gallo Images
'I was batting very well until the hundred'
His third Test hundred came in the post-tea session, when South Africa set themselves up for the win. But then AB de Villiers got out and du Plessis himself was run-out. It changed the complexion of the game.
"I was batting very well until the hundred, but then emotion took over me. There was a lot of work to be done and we would have liked to win the game and be part of the best Test match ever.
"But I am very satisfied. We did something similar in Australia and then we turned the momentum around, so we can hope for the same here," du Plessis added.
Image: Faf du Plessis celebrates his hundred
Photographs: Duif du Toit/Gallo Images
'We drew a lot of experience from that Adelaide game'
He was referring to the Proteas' 2012-13 tour of Australia, where they saved the Test in Adelaide thanks to his hundred scored over four and a half sessions. Later, at Perth, they defeated Australia.
"We drew a lot of experience from that Adelaide game. I batted for a long time there and then I realized that I could actually bat for so long in a Test match. Obviously, the conditions there were different.
"In Australia, the ball doesn't seam as much and this pitch was harder. I wanted to see through the new ball, that was vital for us and I am happy we were able to do that and set ourselves up in the final session," he said.
Image: Graeme Smith and Faf du Plessis of South Africa
Photographs: Duif du Toit/Gallo Images
'With AB, I got some momentum'
Thanks to their fifth wicket partnership, South Africa did not lose a wicket in the second session of the day and as a result were very well placed for the win in the third session. But India did not give up and the end was perhaps a fair result for both sides.
"It was tough in the middle. With AB, I got some momentum and we wanted to bat until the last ten overs and then see what we could do. But he got out and then JP (Duminy) got out, and I decided to stay on till the end.
"India bowled well and fielded very well. They had two chances for a direct hit and they got run-outs for both.
"Then Vernon Philander was batting well and I didn't give any advice to Dale Steyn. It was upto them in the middle," he said.
Image: AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis
Photographs: Duif du Toit/Gallo Images
'I would have liked to cross the finish line myself'
I would have liked to cross the finish line myself, having come so close. So that was disappointing from the team's point of view."
But, from a personal point of view, I am very happy with what I achieved. I liked batting up the order.
"Jacques Kallis will not be bowling 25 overs every innings so I need to enjoy my chance. I was disappointed to not be included in the one-day squad, so may be this innings will get me back in the reckoning," du Plessis signed off.
Image: Faf du Plessis of South Africa
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Before I get started on my fifth annual attempt at predicting the Oscar winners, let's start with some background information. As I state each year, I don't watch or rent movies anymore.
I pretty much stopped watching movies and DVD's when Hollywood studios began trying to out "special effect" each other in order to overcompensate for bad writing and a lack of original ideas, a/k/a "the George Lucas syndrome."
My formula for predicting the Academy Award winners despite not ever watching movies is simple. I use a combination of word of mouth, watching movie trailers, reading movie posters, and my own personal analysis of how Hollywood works.
Ironically, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been proven remarkable inept at casting somebody with the stage presence and comedic wit to host their own major awards show.
...Save for the 12-13 times that the Academy has gone to the well for Billy Crystal.
That has lead to sagging ratings, as well as last year's disastrous paring of red carpet darling Anne Hathaway and the talentless James Franco in attempt to draw a younger audience.
Cue this year's host, Seth McFarland, who's a natural choice given his pension for writing and singing Broadway-esque scores on his show The Family Guy, an ability to see humor in pop culture, and a quick wit that he's demonstrated during various celebrity roasts.
Then again, McFarland has admitted that he plans to start drinking whiskey before the show, and with his propensity to push the envelope of good taste, the politically liberal but socially conservative Academy should be crapping in their Depends.
Throw in a rare live performance by Barbara Streisand, who's known to have stage fright, and we could have the recipe for a disaster of epic proportions.
Nonetheless, the Academy will still be getting the ratings spike that they've been craving, whether it be for better or worse.
So without further ado, let's pray to God that the Academy's decision to reach out to the masses doesn't include Steven Spielberg, and rank the nominees for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture:
Best Actor:
5. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master: In The Master Juaquin Phoenix played a character who indulged his every appetite, whether it involved drink, sex or violence. That is, until he stumbled upon June Carter...I mean a shady cult leader. Fortunately, he beat the shit out of Carter before she could go on to brainwash most of Hollywood in this thriller based upon the origins of the Church of Scientology in a parallel universe.
4. Denzel Washington - Flight: Denzel Washington plays a professional who emerges as a reluctant hero, but has substance abuse issues that come back haunt him. Sorry...But I've been there and done that. If Mathew Fox didn't win a Emmy for playing Jack Shephard in Lost, Denzel Washington certainly isn't winning an Oscar for his role in Flight.
3. Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables: Don't get me wrong, Hugh Jackman has a beautiful voice and great stage presence, but he'll take home a Tony long before he takes home an Oscar.
|And based on this photo, Hugh Jackman will take home his Les Miserables co-star Amanda Seyfried long before he takes home his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.
2. Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook: Bradley Cooper may have screwed himself forever in the eyes of the Academy in 2010 when he guest hosted an episode of WWE's Raw. However, as People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive," the Academy will gladly use him to hype up their red carpet ratings.
|And with chiseled abs and an edgy tattoo, Bradley Cooper is Academy's new George Clooney.
1. Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln: Daniel Day Lewis is in a position to potentially win a record breaking third Oscar for Best Actor, which would distinguish him from the likes of Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando and Tom Hanks.
And if your guess was Tom Hanks, you win!
Best Actress:
5. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour: The oldest nominee for Best Actress in Oscar history at 85, Riva plays an octogenarian with rapidly declining health who is determined to stay out of a nursing home. And while she is said to play that role remarkably well, an 85-year-old lady playing the role of somebody who craps herself is about as impressive as Tom Cruise playing a cocky rule breaker who overcomes his personal deamons to save the day.
4. Naomi Watts - The Impossible: In The Impossible, Naomi Watts' plays the haunting role of real life super model Petra Nemcova, who lost her boyfriend in the devastating tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004. Not only did Nemcova miraculously survive that tragedy, but she coined the term "Tsunami chic" when she was found clinging to a tree to stay above the tidal wave with one hand, while smoking a cigarette and drinking a Diet Pepsi with the other when rescuers finally found her.
3. Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild: Not only is Quvenzhane Wallis the youngest Best Actress nominee ever at the age of 9. In fact, this year there is a 76 year age difference between the oldest (Emmanuella Reva) and the youngest nominees. The only problem fro Wallis is that Beasts of the Southern Wild was filmed with non professional, i.e., non union actors, meaning that as a "scab" she doesn't have a chance in Hell of winning accolades from the liberal Academy...Even though she was only 6 when Beasts of the Southern Wild was filmed.
2. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook: Jennifer Lawrence portrays a young widow with an affinity for dancing. It's kind an on-screen adaption of Casey Anthony's post parental life...Wait a second, that's not "widow" means, is it?
1. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty: Jessica Chastain plays a female CIA agent who overcomes internal sexism and uses her interrogation skills to track down one of history's most notorious killers in the latest installment of Silence of the Lambs, much to Jodie Foster's chagrin.
Best Picture:
9. Django Unchained: Let's look at Quentin Tarantino's Oscar chances for Best Picture in the form of an analogy. "Woody Allen is to the Oscars as to Quentin Tarantino is to ______."
And when I tell you that the blank is "Golden Globes," you quickly realize why Tarantino's Django Unchained is ranked #9 out of nine films in the running for Best Picture at this year's Oscars.
As a side note, after his outburst backstage at this year's Golden Globes, Tarantino has now gotten away with saying the "N-word" more times without getting his ass kicked other than any other white guy in the history of Hollywood who's not named Mel Gibson.
8. Les Miserables: A big screen adaptation of a classic literary and musical work. And while casual fans of the big screen seem to love Anne Hathaway and her outgoing lady parts, true fans of both the literary and musical versions seem to consider this variation a steaming pile of shit.
7. Amour: A foreign drama about love and aging as an elderly couple deals with the wife's failing health. The movie was considered a surprise success, mainly because the two lead characters, both well into their 80's, made it through filming without dying...Take that Larry Hagman!
6. The Life of Pi: It's like the producers of this film decided to remake the film Cast Away about being stranded on a beach with no modern amenities, only with Asian people. Unfortunately, Ang Lee didn't realize that a TV show called SURVIVOR has been telling the same story about Asian people nearly every week for the past 12 years.
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild: An art house film about a little girl living in a waterlogged post apocalyptic landscape following a catastrophic hurricane in Louisiana.
Rumor has it that Kevin Costner was in line to reprise his role in this Waterworld sequel until the film went in more of an art house direction with a cast of non-professional actors.
And while it appears as if super villain George W. Bush dies at the end of the movie, just enough doubt was left that he could return in third and final film in what is sure to be a trilogy of Waterworld masterpieces.
4. Zero Dark Thirty: Kudos to Kathryn Bigelow for beating Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame to the punch in finding Osama bin Laden. In fact, she desperately needed the $25 million reward for finding him after The Hurt Locker flopped so bad at the box office.
3. Silver Linings Playbook: This film as a lead actor in Bradley Cooper who's bipolar, a lead actress in Jennifer Lawrence who's a depressed sex addict, and a supporting actor in Robert De Niro who's OCD. And while any of those roles would typically favored to win an Oscar in their respective category, this film is like the Kim Kardashian of films when it comes to trying too hard...Or at least any film that doesn't involve getting peed on by Ray J)
2. Lincoln: I know that Hollywood likes to look the other way when Directors take creative liberties with movies loosely based in historical fact, but I think Steven Spielberg went a little too far when he made Abraham Lincoln a vampire hunter.
1. Argo: Argo is an exciting Hollywood adaptation about a historical event that was relatively boring in real life. In short, any time where you can take a relatively boring historical event involving white people and take liberty with the facts to make the finish exciting, Hollywood loves it!..Kind of like the movie Hoosiers.


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Perhaps nowhere else in the world does a dramatic ocean coastline swoop so close to a major metropolitan city as in San Francisco, California. This is the wild playground of the Neptune's Rangers, a group of friends with a shared love of kayaking where Pacific swell crashes into rocky shore. In their newest video, Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (above), spy on the Rangers as they cavort in the cliffs outside the Golden Gate Bridge and near Monterey's Pebble Beach Golf Course.
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