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With all the international competition brewing at the World Cup in Brazil, it reminded me of Baltimore's own ambassador to the beer world, my friend Brian Strumke. Strumke's line of Stillwater Artisanal Ales finally reached Asia and South America this year. He's come a long way from cooking up five-gallon batches of hibiscus ale in his Canton rowhouse six years ago.
He visited five continents in three months last year and he's not slowing down anytime soon.
Stillwater is currently served in 45 states, most of Europe, Brazil, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, and Australia. When Strumke started Stillwater, he explains, "the goal was to make it an international brand, because I knew I wanted to do something radically different and there was no local market anywhere that could support the concept."
According to Strumke, Brazil and Japan will be the first international markets that will see on-site Stillwater production.
Europe might be an obvious target for the brand, but Brazil?
"A lot of people would think Europe would be our best bet, but it's already engulfed in beer culture, so they're the last place that's going to want Americans coming in. They don't need that. A place like Brazil, the beers that are No. 1 there are still American industrial beers."
Strumke brewed four collaboration beers with "odd Amazonian ingredients" in Brazil last year, and one of his brews recently won a medal at the South American Beer Awards. 'Classique,' Strumke's homage to Baltimore beer, is a "deconstruction of the post-Prohibition industrial lager," like Natty Boh, and he wants it to be enjoyed by the masses—in all of the Americas.
"I was down there and I saw how expensive my beer was. Classique has really taken off there, but it's supposed to be priced affordably. It's supposed to the common man's drink. It's our most popular beer there and it's still too expensive. Knowing that my importer has a brewery, I came up with the idea of 'Mexican Coke'. There's a little bit of corn sugar in Classique to dry it out. I thought, 'Why don't we do the same beer with cane sugar, change up that ingredient, make the 'Mexican Coca-Cola' of beer, and call it 'Classico'? We'll do it and make it more affordable.' I may also make some special beers specifically for the Brazilian market. I'd like to start producing my Cellar Door and Stateside [two other popular beers in his arsenal] on site."
Strumke proclaims that "the new slogan for Stillwater is 'Brewed locally . . . somewhere.'
"I'm a nomadic brewer, so why should I import beer down there?" he said.
He's also big in Japan. Plans are in place for a full-time, on-site production brewery in Tokyo, similar to his Canton restaurant Of Love & Regret.
"Japan embraced my beer the most, on the cerebral side of it. They look at the art on the label, they taste it, and they know it's unique. People would come up to me and say 'This is art.' In Tokyo, we did a tasting in a department store. Take Nordstrom and put a Whole Foods in it. It was really cool to watch women shopping and they're leaving the store with bottles of Stillwater. They're not even your average beer drinker. They're women shopping."
Three times the beer, three times the fun
Baltimore's Heavy Seas is currently installing new brew equipment at the Halethorpe brewery. Hugh Sisson said the new "brew house" will allow the facility to increase production capacity by about 300 percent. The upgrade should be completed and fermenting beer by early August.
Steve Fogleman was formerly the Chair of the Baltimore City Liquor License Board.


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Three newly discovered groups of fossilized footprints show that dinosaurs and their early relatives were stalking the Earth some five million to nine million years earlier than scientists had previously estimated. This represents "a substantial extension of early dinosaur history," noted researchers in a description of the find, which was published online October 5 in Proceedings of The Royal Society B.
The diverse collection of tracks suggests that the dinosaur group contained some tenacious early members. The earliest traces found in the rocks show up relatively soon after the Permian–Triassic extinction, which occurred 252.3 million years ago.
"We see the closest dinosaur cousins immediately after the worst mass extinction," Stephen Brusatte, a graduate student at the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology and coauthor of the new study, said in a prepared statement.
The tracks were sampled from three areas in modern-day Poland and span about four million years and three different ancient ecosystems. The oldest protodinosaur prints were found near a village named Stryczowice and date to about 250 million years ago. (The oldest fossilized dinosaur bones date back some 244 million to 242 million years.)
But the animals that left these footprints were no Tyrannosaurus rex. These "stem dinosaurs," were likely smaller than a house cat and lived on the fringes of their environments. The largest tracks at Stryczowice, likely left by a protodinosaur called , are just 40 millimeters long.
Despite mostly being protodinos, the fossils of these creatures reveal some distinctively dinosaurian traits. The 120- to 140-millimeter-long imprints left near Baranów some 246 million years ago reveal an animal, named Sphingopus, that was bipedal and substantially larger than Prorotodactylus and other creatures that left tracks in the region. The find represents the earliest evidence of bipedality known in the dinosaur lineage and also raises the question of whether this trait arose more than once in the span of dinosaur evolution. Even some of the quadrupedal tracks show signs of short front limbs—an adaptation that can precede a more upright posture. The third group of tracks, found near Wióry, were made by early dinosaurs some time between those at Stryczowice and Baranów.
Dino tracks are an unusual find in the lineage's early history. Most early known fossilized footprints were left by members of the broader group archosaurs. "For the first 20 [million to] 50 million years of dinosaur history, dinosaurs and their closest relatives were living in the shadow of their much more diverse, successful and abundant crocodile-like cousins," Brusatte said. "The oldest dinosaurs were small and rare."
Footprint evidence is "often ignored or largely dismissed," the researchers noted in their paper. As a result, they wrote, the "footprint record has been marginalized and is yet to be fully integrated with the body fossil record."
But tracks might be an important place to look for new clues about early dinosaur evolution—especially with the fossil record for this group remaining thin. The three sets of ancient tracks in Poland were made some 40 million to 50 million years before dinosaurs came to dominate, the researchers pointed out in their study, underscoring the notion that, "the rise of dinosaurs was a drawn-out affair."
Images of Prorotodactylus and Prorotodactylus prints courtesy of Grzegorz Nied wiedzki

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Really clean one here! Born in the 1990's in Japan this very nicely crafted semi-hollow guitar is loaded with those special "wide-range" pickups Fender made and is a cool blend giving it some Gibson flavor. Always loved a natural finish on any guitar!
This gal has some light wear but who wants a guitar that no one played? Also features the factory original 1950's style Kluson tuners instead of the cheaper ones they put on these days. Hardshell case included!
Location: Midtown West
Curtis Mayfield dug the Thinline! Here he is playing one with the regular single coil set-up!
1981 Greco Les Paul Custom – $850
Another guitar coming in from the land of the rising sun, here we have a great looking Greco Les Paul Custom. Beautiful finish, nice reds and solid golds I do say! These guitars are an awesome and affordable option for your Les Paul needs! I'd bet good money this thing would slay many of these new poorly constructed $2k+ Les Paul's over at GC right now.
These guys have a nice 60's style slim neck! Gibson sued Greco at the time over this baby cause it was such a great copy!
Location: Garden City, Long Island
This guy goes into good detail about the story and the differences in the models:
1970's DeARMOND "WEEPER" WAH PEDAL – $125
Very cool, pretty rare and totally unique sounding Wah Wah pedal by DeArmond. Much more cut and mid-range then other Wah pedals out there – really its own beast. This one is fully functional and has seriously STURDY construction.
This is "Or Best OFFER" folks so get over there and see about it! Channel your inner Jimi but beware these guys are NOT true-bypass.
Location: The Bronx
This here is what I call a Player Guitar. Starting its life off in Germany as a hollow body with no F holes this Les Paul style bodied guitar has some real character in my opinion! Bridge pickup was replaced with a Bill Lawrence humbucker turning this into a real heavy machine. Still features the "toaster" style pickup in the neck. John Lennon in his youth owned a Club 40 – same guitar but ONLY had the neck pick-up.
Having been checked over and adjusted by the good folks down at RetroFret in Gowanus the seller says this is READY TO GO! Hardshell case included!
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Cool story as to why The Faces are holding up this Club 40 with The Beatles signatures on it!
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Notice how Alinsky sets the stage. He is simply restoring these words to their true, original meanings! Removing the discolorations of politics! And what better word to first redeem, than Power?
"The same discolorations attach to other words prevalent in the language of politics... They become twisted and warped, viewed as evil... This is why we pause here for a word about words."
Continues after the break.
"We strive to invent sterilized synonyms, cleansed of the opprobrium of the word power— but the new words mean something different, so that they tranquilize us, begin to shepherd our mental processes off the main, conflict-ridden, grimy, and realistic power-paved highway of life. To travel down the sweeter-smelling, peaceful, more socially acceptable, more respectable, indefinite byways, ends in a failure to achieve an honest understanding of the issues that we must come to grips with if we are to do the job."Actual note I jotted down while reading the above passage: "Oh my shit dude, stop jerking off and fuck this bitch already. Save the apologies for after you blow early." Which is crude, but I didn't buy this book to hear Alinsky assuage his guilty conscience.
Look, if you want Power, take Power. We all know that Power is morally neutral. God has power and Satan has power. If you have to convince someone that power is not the root of all evil, do you really want them reading your book?
"To know power and not fear it is essential to its constructive use and control. In short, life without power is death; a world without power would be a ghostly wasteland, a dead planet!"Another note: "Anyone hemming and hawing this much has a guilty conscience."
I don't know who Alinsky is trying to justify his desire for Power to - himself, his allies, or his enemies. But no one goes to this much effort to justify something they feel good about.
"Machiavelli makes a mortal mistake when he rules out the "moral" factors of politics and holds purely to self-interest as he defines it."Remember that the "moral" factors of politics gets defined as "what we can get away with" married to "the easiest thing to get away with."
"What we hate is the atheism and the suppression of the individual that we attribute as characteristics substantiating the "immorality" of communism. On this we base our powerful opposition. We do not admit the actual fact: our own self-interest."The rational realize that morality is in harmony with self-interest. It's better to live in a world where you don't have to worry about getting your throat slit.
"Too, there is no question that, with all our denunciation of the Red Chinese, if they announced that they were no longer a part of the world communist conspiracy or alignment of forces, they would be overnight acceptable to us, acclaimed by us, and provided with all kinds of aid, just so long as they were on our side. In essence, what we are saying is that we do not care what kind of a communist you are so long as you do not threaten our self-interest."No, we are saying we care specifically about what type of Communist you are. Are you part of a world conspiracy to subvert our institutions and destroy our freedoms? Well, then we will do all to oppose you. Are you basically going to sit over there and do your thing? Well, okay.
It is, after all, the threat to our self-interest (rather, to our natural rights, property, lives, and security) that justifies wars of defense. Morality demands that we not take the life of someone who is not threatening our own.
It bugs me because Alinsky could get us to the same place (Self-Interest is not necessarily bad) without requiring us to drop morality. Which is why I suspect his true goal is not to justify Self Interest, but amoral Self Interest.
"if we've got everything so set that we are going to win, then it's a free election. Otherwise, it's bloody terrorism! Isn't that your definition?" The Russian's reaction was, "Well, yes, more or less!"Okay, that's pretty funny. And it does illustrate that the US government is hardly a stellar example of pristine morality.
"If you start with nothing, demand 100 per cent, then compromise for 30 per cent, you're 30 per cent ahead. A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises— which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum."1). This reminds me of Trump's negotiating style - ask for it all and you're more likely to get what you want.
2). In essence, Alinsky tells us that he cannot be compromised with, because he will never abide by a compromise. It can only be the stage for the next conflict.
"Ego," as we understand and use it here, cannot be even vaguely confused with, nor is it remotely related to, egotism."Don't confuse them because they're total not the same thing! Look, I agree with the point, but your frantic justification of how Ego is okay makes me worry.
"The ego of the organizer is stronger and more monumental than the ego of the leader. The leader is driven by the desire for power, while the organizer is driven by the desire to create. The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach— to create, to be a "great creator," to play God."I believe that once you declare yourself God, we can assume you're an egomaniac. This informs the rest of the section: Alinsky is explaining to us why it's okay he has a God complex.
I actually agree with this! But if you're running around declaring yourself God like M. Bison, I'm going to guess you engage in some egotistical behavior.
"Egotism is mainly a defensive reaction of feelings of personal inadequacy— ego is a positive conviction and belief in one's ability, with no need for egotistical behavior."
|"You came here to fight a Community Organizer, and instead, you found a GOD!"
-Saul Alinsky
Right. Again, the kernel of fact is indisputable. Groups need mass egos (or mass ids), and leaders provide that. But don't back down to us, Alinsky. Don't justify it. State the facts and move on. Providing this much wind up front is only making you look like a bitch with a fragile ego.
"Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego."
No one justifies themselves this much without a guilty conscience.
"So today we find that people in the mass media are fired for expressing their opinions or being "controversial"The more things change...
I would trust Alinsky's sincerity more if he hadn't literally just told us that compromise is the prelude to the next attack.
"If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance."


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An introduction – It is strange, but true that most people tend to forget what is most essential and require some kind of a reminder. Well, they not only forget, but also tend to lose things. For instance, you will find family members at home or then colleagues at the office searching for their spectacles.
Apart from this, a vast majority of people have a knack of loosing their keys. This could be their house keys, wardrobe keys, important drawer keys, car keys, office keys, et al. Since the list could go on and on, lets just say that people tend to lose their keys. And how can one safeguard themselves from misplacing this vital unlocking object? The answer is simple, keychains! Surely, you must be wondering that if people lose their keys what would prevent them from loosing their keys attached to key chains? The answer to this is simple. Whether you pick up a fancy keychain or something simple, it is an object you would rarely forget, or would slip your eye. In fact Indian women usually carry ornamental key chain that have a hook attached to it so that they can hang it on the clothes they wear.
Most key chains are designed with a hook so that the person carrying it can immediately place it onto the hook of their trousers. Otherwise they place it into their handbags or pouches. This object is handy not only from the perspective of being a safety measure, but also instead of carrying a set of keys on separate rings, you can carry an entire bunch on a single keychain.
There is a large variety of keychains that are available around the world. In fact every country has their flag or national emblem printed on key chains, which are sold as souvenirs. Being a handy object it is generally preferred as a corporate gift or even a present for someone special. One can select from the simple ones that come in various fancy shape to the larger fancy ones that could be used for other purposes. This include pillboxes, Swiss knives, penknives, lighters, stress balls, etc.
The key is usually considered the symbol of freedom and responsibility. One will notice that a lot of children tend to play with keys, especially games where they imitate their parents or teachers. They consider the key to be one of the major aspects of adult life. Children tend to demand the keys to their cupboards and room. To help them take their responsibility you could hand them a set of keys hung onto a keychain in the shape of their favorite object, animal, bird or cartoon character. This will give them a sense of freedom, responsibility, self-confidence and self-esteem. Only remember to keep a spare set of keys just in case of the accidental loss.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The lost in the 50s Parade
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Love old cars! That red truck is gorgeous :)ReplyDelete
Oh yeh, that Red Truck takes the cake!! Hands down the coolest car at the show! My oldest brother had a old black Buick that was similar to the one you show which is close to the top of your photos. The problem with it was that he and a friend spent more time under the hood fixing it than driving it!! Hah! My other brother had a black VW bug just like the one you show. The rest of those cars you show could have been on any street in Charlottesville, VA. during my youth! Wonderfully kept cars and lovingly restored. But, I am with you. any chance we could get our hands on that Red Truck for a ride??ReplyDelete
Super cool!! We sometimes have vintage car parades in Germany.....but we never know when they are. Just on a few days we see LOTS of old timers on the street.ReplyDelete
Love the truck! I love old trucks like that (especially red and black ones).ReplyDelete
My dad and I just found one slightly similar for sale up the street from where we live and we absolutely fell in love with it. I told him it was a "perfect picnic truck". Whenever we drive by we call it our truck even though it's really not :-P
However, it's far too expensive to ever dream of buying it in the near (or perhaps even far) future....so I keep telling myself it wouldn't be practical anyhow.
My dad still jokes that we're getting it for him for father's day though.....
interesting parade.ReplyDelete
Those are definitely prettier, car-ier cars than what you see today... (I can't help but wonder, though, just how much awful exhaust fumes the old motors probably produced in those days?)ReplyDelete
I think my favourite photo is he one with the old signs on the building. I love old signs on buildings. Enduring remainders of days gone by...
Those cars are simply breathtaking! I just love the style and colors of old cars...I wish today's cars looked more like them. That truck is adorable! It certainly looks like it would suit you perfectly.(:ReplyDelete
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It's funny. My family lives in Calgary, Alberta, and my mother's family lives in Oregon, so we drive down there almost every year. So, we always drive through Bonner's Ferry, Sandpoint, and Coeur de Alene! So it's fun seeing that:) We've followed those "Bonner's Ferry/Canada signs home before:DReplyDelete
How neat! Old cars are so much classier than cars these days! And they are such fun colors. Modern cars are so plain in comparison!ReplyDelete
I simply adore all these photos, Kellie! They're wonderful! Make me feel like I was there – it really looks like a great time.ReplyDelete
oooooh. oddly enough, I really can't see you without that truck now, m'dear. *smiles* lovely stills, by the way. xxReplyDelete
A stepside Chevy is #1 on my list of things to get after I graduate college and get a real job. I'm trying to decide if it's worth selling my Toyota to just get one now.ReplyDelete
That's one of the nicest ones I've ever seen, but it'd be cooler if it was blue or green (preferably green).
After the truck, I'd have to get the (rather impractical) '37 Plymouth coupe.
I'm gonna need a big garage.
And of course, we were at the parade, too! Small town))ReplyDelete
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I have always wanted to go to Africa to do mission work since I was a nurse. I always assumed it would be on a medical missions trip and I actually had an opportunity to go to Kenya this coming November, but something kept holding me back. The more I talked with David about it, the more we decided that we wanted to go together. But Kenya was just not the trip for us because David had fallen in love with Ethiopia and the people there.
So, about 3 weeks ago, we filled out our applications and were accepted to go with Ordinary Hero at the end of June 2013...that's just 9 months away!!! Our group leaders will be the founders of OH and we couldn't be more thrilled about that. I don't have specific details about our trip yet as those will come in the near future. But what I do have is this...
The contest is running just this week and the top seller of merchandise from the OH store gets this grant. This would be such a blessing to us as not only does 40% of your purchase go directly to our trip fund, but the grant would be HUGE since we are paying for the both of us to go.
Please visit this website SOON (www.ordinaryherostore.org) since the contest ends on September 30th, and pass it along to everyone you know. It's really simple. Get something cute from the store and when you go to check out, you will select "Kelly Blevins" in the affiliate drop down box. This will alert them to put the 40% in my account and to credit me the entire purchase cost for the grant. I am really hoping and praying that I will be the top seller.


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well yes and NO
yes a 2.5 inch group will for sure kill a deer, just think many guys shot much bigger groups at say 30-40-50-60 yrds and kill deer with them no problems(and not starting a distance war either)
but at 20 yards with a scoped X box, that you KNOW can do better(as in the past it shot better) I would TRY to see if I could improve on it, IF I really wanted too, or just doubl;e check to make sure all is well with the gear end of things!
I know you limit your shots so as is!, will for sure work for you!
arrows do wear out you know same as all parts on things, could be a string going a little, could be lots of little things
they do sell scopes with more maginfacation than can sure help aging eye's to see a little better at distances, I know my vision isn't what it once was too, and I like good glass on my weapons anymore!
most triggers can be tuned up I would think, one of the reasn some higher end X bow's/gun come with them!
limbs do get old and loose there repeatability, equal power side to side and all sorts of things, there like people, they get old and don't work as well as new!
easy way to tell if its equipment or shooter is go to a few bow shops and well test fire a few now models
not saying you need to buy one, but just to see if its the shooter or gear, shooting indoor help eliminat some things too!
you can also have a different person shot your same set up and see how that goes, if they shoot better than you, then you know its ONLY you and not the gear being the issue!, and can make adjustments from there , like again a new more powerful scope or trigger job or??
me I am normally a nut,on over doing replacing things before really needed! I do a new string on my X bow every yr, for peace of mind, there only like 20 bucks so to me its cheap insurance one didn't stretch over the storage of off season
and when it comes to rifles, I am an accuracy nut of sorts, most of all my hunting rifles shoot sub half inch, MOA
again its not needed, but sure add confidence at times
or maybe its from me being a long range shooter, I like small groups and the challange to get them the farther the more challange!


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Post here? Never mentioned here. No idea what you're talking about. Like I just said, a lot of experts at making something out of nothing seem to reside in this thread.Canucklehead wrote:jp761 wrote:I'm not talking about anything specific. Many a person has pointed things out about the obvious over-the-top feminists on DS, even some females have done it.Canucklehead wrote:jp761 wrote:
Ole Major Starbold should go on DS and annoy the feminazis for 10 minutes, he wont last much more than that(ban). I don't agree with the way major goes about things or what he says, but it's always funny to see over-the-top feminists sweating and getting oh so irate!
Which over the top feminists were sweating and getting so irate?
Over the top would be equating all men to be '____________'. Telling one person he's a racist/bigot/sexist is not in any way over the top. It's stating a fact, because that's what he is. You seem to admire him though. That's unfortunate, you usually try to be more diplomatic, a fence-sitter even sometimes.
Admire... don't talk silly, saying I admire/seem to admire him is so ridiculous it's hardly worth a comment. If anything I make fun of OLE Major.
So you wouldn't care to say which ones are over the top feminists? Do any of them post here? If it's "always funny to see over-the-top feminists sweating and getting so irate", surely you must have a name or two in mind? Don't want to commit? That's what I was referring to about the fence-sitting thing.
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A friend of mine said to me during one of our brief, little mid-day electronic meeting of the minds, "Ignorance is bliss."
A comment had been made to her in jest about self-actualization (a fancy term for really knowing yourself in a way that begets complete fulfillment and an understanding of values and underlying hopes and dreams–eureka, so to speak; it's something that few really accomplish because it requires a level of vulnerability that many aren't willing to open themselves up to)….or at least working toward it.
"Ha!" I scoffed, "Ignorance is bliss until you discover that you're standing in the same spot you've always been, wondering what happened with your life."
How often are we unwilling to stare in the face of our inequities. To face the cold, hard, ugly monsters inside of us. To sit at the bottom of what can feel like a dried up old well one second and then be swept away by a gushing, uncontrollable current that is our inner river the next. Sure, ignorance allows us to avoid these extremes. Maybe. Or perhaps it's our ignorance that keeps us stuck in these patterns.
Becoming unstuck means unearthing the rubble that has piled up around us. Removing one stone at a time, turning it over to view it in its full context, and then deciding what we'd like to do with it. Polish it up? Throw it away? Replace it with another stone? Crack it open and discover that it might contain some hidden gems?
What this requires, however, is a willingness to wake up! When we are suffering we're choosing to live unconsciously. We're putting on our blinders.
What would happen if instead of running away or pushing against what's happening for us, we observed it? The discomfort, whether physical or emotional, can be approached non-judgmentally. Waking up is just that– opening our eyes to view our circumstances in full effect, in 3-D, in all their layers and textures. Waking up means committing to learning about how and why you react or respond to others and situations the way you do.
I've exclaimed "WAKE UP!!" in exasperation to others I'm feeling particularly frustrated with. Not the most compassionate statement to make in the heat of what could be a conflictual discussion, however, it holds some weight. It's not typically received well in such a situation either, resulting in the blinders coming right back down and a defensive and self-protective posture coming up. But used in the right context, it can be like the lights coming on!
Waking up means we can be conscious, mindful, aware, and willing to engage in some self-exploration. Don't we have to do these things in order to grow up? When you hear parents say almost sadly, "My baby's growing up…" do they not often mean they've seen their children navigate big events and transitions in their lives, that they've matured and see the world differently? That should never stop.
Ignorance is blind.
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Miami Dolphins Coaching Staff Soon To Be On the Hot Seat?September 29, 2010
You can talk all you want about moral victories, but the Miami Dolphins are lucky to be 2-1 and not winless at this point.
On Sunday night the Dolphins lost to the New York Jets 31-23 and showed on national television why they are not in the upper echelon of teams in the NFL just yet. You can grab all the players and spend all the money you want but in the NFL coaching matters.
Up to this point in the season the coaching staff of the Dolphins has severely let down its players, upper management, and of course the fans. I'm not one for panic and I am still even keel at the moment but if things don't start changing immediately Tony Sparano may be the next NFL coach on the hot seat.
For starters, Sparano has never been a good game-day coach.
He is decent with the press and media but I think it is safe to say we have yet to see great clock management in Sparano's tenure thus far and more Dolphins fans can remember clock management blunders in Sparano's reign than Nick Saban or Dave Wannstedt.
But Sunday's loss to the Jets was an all around poorly coached game, and it stretches further back than that.
On special teams, not only was the coaching horrific, but so was the execution. How can I blame the coaching? Several reasons!
Clifton Smith, who was supposed to be the Dolphins savior on kick returns, was cut last week and now the return duties are relegated to Patrick Cobbs who is coming off ACL surgery, can anyone say Ted Ginn Jr?
Also, the Dolphins had a crucial punt blocked inside their own 20-yard line that led to a Jets field goal. We saw this story in the preseason and for it to be happening in the regular season means that the correct adjustments haven't been made to fix these problems, even after all the waiver wire moves.
On kick returns the Dolphins allowed on average 37.5 yards a return. Dan Carpenter also had a kick that was booted out of bounds and gave the Jets field position at the 40, right after the momentum had swung into the Dolphins favor.
On defense, I have so many question marks after this week.
Was the Dolphins defense REALLY that good or were they the benefactors of Trent Edwards being really bad and Brett Favre being really old?
Why on Earth was Jason Allen covering Braylon Edwards? I get it that size wise he matches up better against Edwards but you are going to waste Vontae Davis on David Clowney or Jerricho Cotchery?
When Edwards was out for the firrst quarter and you knew the only weapon the Jets had in the passing game was Dustin Keller, why is Bobby Carpenter covering him instead of Carlos Dansby or Yeremiah Bell?
Why oh why was there absolutely no pass rush against Mark Sanchez?
Where was Koa Misi? After his player introduction he wasn't heard from all game.
Mike Nolan made himself look really bad this week and now, in a week where the Dolphins defense prepares for maybe its toughest challenge all season, there are more questions than answers.
On offense I really am baffled with Dan Henning.
Two years ago he made the Wildcat the newest and hottest thing in the NFL and Sunday night he made it look like the Wildflat.
Play calling is to blame on the offense not the execution as Chad Henne was superb, Brandon Marshall played a heck of game and Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams averaged 4.5 yards a rush between them.Problem was, they only got 18 carries.... combined!
On the last two drives where the Miami Dolphins offense had the ball inside the 11 yard line, there was a total of zero rushing plays involved. After Brandon Marshall scampered for a 40 yard gain down the sidelines the very next play Dan Henning calls a fade route to Marshall who later admitted he was in fact winded.
And inside their own 11 yard line with two timeouts and less than a minute left, Dan Henning went away from the Dolphins strength, the running game, and called four passing plays.
I am a huge fan of the Wildcat but not when it is used at the wrong times. The formation that once shocked the New England Patriots exactly two years ago, was better utilized by the Jets in this game, as Dan Henning seemed it fit to use the Wildcat continuously after Henne had a big play or the Dolphins had 10 or more yards to go.
The play calling stretches further than only the game against the Jets.
Special teams has been anything but special and the offense had looked plain vanilla until Sunday night, being extremely conservative whenever the Dolphins had the lead
Look for more of the passing game against the Patriots, but I expect the Wildcat to be used in ideal situations. I also expect to see more Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams in the running and passing game to stretch the field.
The defense cannot just send four guys after Tom Brady and let him file his taxes while looking for an open man. Cameron Wake and Koa Misi must come up big, set the edges and get to the quarterback or expect another unveiling of Jason Allen and this secondary come Monday night.
The Dolphins dropped an ENORMOUS opportunity to take the season by the neck and run with it. They had a Jets team without their best player on offense and their best player on defense, at home, in your home opener with a chance to start 3-0 and 2-0 in the division.
It's time to start stepping it up Sparano and company or they may just find themselves sitting next to Paul Pasqualoni next year.


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We lived on North Main Street. The events of that night and the following days changed my life forever. It just kept raining. Late that night my father said we had to leave. He drove our Studebaker up into the woods as far as he could. We were across the street from the Mad River. The garage was on the river side. I'm not sure if it was there when it was over. Anyway we had to go out the backdoor and up the woods until we could cross.
My mom gathered stuff in pillowcases. She thought to take some food also. She had cooked a meatloaf, but dropped it because she was carrying my sister. We went to the Lemelin's house on the corner. We should surely be safe there it was up really high. We were all related somehow since we all had the same last name. I can remember all the children gathering together and kneeling around a bed and saying the rosary.
The adults discussed where we would go next. They decided if the water got to a certain tree on the property that we would have to leave. The plumbing wasn't working so there was no flushing the toilet or water to drink. I think us kids were starting to whine. Not used to being inconvenienced. Well we didn't have to go to higher ground, we were high enough. I'm not sure how long we stayed there.
When the waters receded we went home. God was looking down on us. The water mark was at the threshold of our front door. No damage or water in our house. The things in the cellar were gone. My dad's car was fine - the water did not get to it.
My brother Donald was a Boy Scout, about 13, and he was busy directing traffic and helping out. We went to Greenwoods School for shots and food. One of my aunts who lived in Massachusetts drove down with a car full of water - the only reason they let her cross the state line. She had water in every kind of container you could think of.
My uncle and aunt had recently moved to California. He kept bugging my parents to come out saying what did they have to lose. Because of the flood and the scare of a flood in October, I think, they sold all of their belongings and moved to California. We were very lonely at first but soon made a new home here.
Although I was only 8, I left my heart in Winsted. I love to visit. My cousins who still live there think I'm nuts. There's nothing here and I tell them I don't care. I have memories of my grandparents and family. Sundays up at my Grandmother's on Cherry Street, all of us cousins playing and sometimes fighting. I have pictures of occasions where there are family outside all over the lawn.
My uncle died about 4 years after we moved. We had no family for a long time. I love family life; my siblings and families get together whenever possible. But being in Winsted brings me peace.


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The scenario for these games is largely immaterial (the main point of it is to get the AWI figures out which John gave me many years ago, and through them remember John), but I try to make the scenario "old school", and amongst that pantheon there are none more old school than the Wagon Train scenario!
Either way, the table is set, DG is due in a couple of hours (and we're going to Colours on Sunday!) ...
Looking forward to it! More anon...!
|Hessian entry point bottom left - they're the convoy escort for this game... destination is top right
|Destination - the Hessian held "Fort Corrigan" (or should that be von Corrigan? )
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Friday, October 27, 2006
The Nancy and Her Gifts
October 30th will be the sixth anniversary of our wedding day, The Nancy and I, that is. She and I have been an "item" for over thirteen years. I believe I first met her sometime in 1987 or 1988. She attended the West Virginia Association of School Business Officials Conference in Charleston, West Virginia, and I was there with my sales rep manning a booth full of my company's products. It wasn't until many years later we began a relationship. That story offers some twists and turns and some ups and downs, but the bottom line is I fell head-over-heels in love with this woman. I was at first drawn to her oh so beautiful eyes and over time came to realize the beauty in her ever so gentle demeanor. Then it took me seven years to ask her to become "one" with me.
Each year on the anniversary of our wedding I have written a letter to The Nancy expressing my deep feelings for her. This year I get to do it openly for the world to see. I want the world to know exactly how I feel about this magnificent woman. My wish for everyone is that someday they will find their "Nancy" and be as happy as I am.
This woman doesn't seem to understand the overall beauty I find in her and in all she does, and does not understand how I can have such deep feelings for her. She is always telling me how little she does for me and how much I do for her. The fact of the matter is simply this: She does and has done more for me than I can possibly ever give back to her. She need only be by my side and my heart skips a beat. My (very soon to be known) secret is that I can hardly take my eyes off her when she is near. There are times I look at her and have difficulty containing the emotion that I feel, and it is quickly evidenced by the moisture that accumulates in my eyes. She often sees it and merely says to me, "I love you, too." I miss her when she leaves the room. Though it may not seem this way, I cannot fully put into words the reasons I feel about her the way I do, I just except it as the truth.
Over the years, since The Nancy and I first began our relationship, I may hear a song or glance something that brings her into the forefront of my mind and I can sense the emotion coming on. Now I can't say I have ever been so emotional as to break down, but I can surely say I tear up whenever I hear songs with lyrics such as these:
How do you keep the music playing?
How do you make it last?
How do you keep the song from fading too fast?
How do you lose yourself to someone?
And never lose your ways
How do you not run out of new things to say?
And since we're always changing
How can it be the same?
And tell me how year after year
You're sure your heart will fall apart
Each time you hear her name
I know the way I feel for you
It's now or never
The more I love the more that I'm afraid
That in your eyes I may not see forever..
If we can be the best of lovers
Yet be the best of friends
If we can try with everyday to make it better as it grows
With any luck, then I suppose
The music never ends
I know the way I feel for you
It's now or never!
(How do you keep the music playing?)
The more I love the more that I'm afraid
(How do you make it last)
That in your eyes I may not see forever
(How do you keep the song from fading, keep the song from fading too fast)
If we can be the best of lovers
Yet be the best of friends
If we can try with everyday to make it better as it grows
With any luck, then I suppose
The music never ends
I am so very happy and very lucky to have found someone with whom I can share everything. There isn't anything I would rather do than spend time with The Nancy. She and I have talked about this a lot, so when she reads this I know she won't be surprised. Perhaps it isn't good for me to be so one dimensional, but it is surely a fact. I am in love with this woman.
Thanks, Nancy, for being my wife.
And that is all I have to say about that…
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Talking With God
If you have kept up with my posts then you know I have had some issues with God. I have searched for a long time for something to give me a sign that a higher being, in any form, exists. About halfway through the Millennium workshops I got it, I had a spiritual epiphany. I came to realize that "God" is the whole of everything and I am a part of God. I am connected to everything and it of me.
Okay, most of my adult life has been spent denying the existence of a God or anything resembling a higher consciousness or being. I moved from agnosticism to atheism back to agnosticism, all through the "isms," but never testing the waters as to whether or not a higher being was really out there. One of my daughters says she believes because she is afraid not to. My questions began when I was very young, and then when my mother died I became angry with God (if "it" existed at all?) and just left it alone, at that time my search for God ended.
I am reading a book written by Dr. Gary Schwartz called "The G.O.D. Experiments." It's pretty cool. Basically, the book is about how science proves the existence of a higher power, one that Dr. Schwartz calls a "Guiding, Organizing, Designing" process, aka God. This book mirrors my own conclusion of my connectivity with all things and my view of a higher being.
This is the neat part: The other night I was lying in my bed allowing my mind to wander. I began to think "God" and in my mind asking if He/She was listening. What happened next startled me and rocked my world. In a voice I didn't recognize or ever sensed before I clearly heard or sensed the words "I am." Weird, huh?
I don't exactly know what this means or what affect it has or will have on my life, but it shook me to my bones. Did I imagine it? I don't know what to think. All I know is that I heard or sensed this voice letting me know something of a higher power, God, if you wish, is listening to me.
I would welcome your thoughts and that all I have to say about that…
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Kids…Where did the time go?
A friend of mine just sent me three photos of his daughter as she was about to attend her first high school dance. She is simply gorgeous and so grown up. As I looked at the pictures I couldn't help but recall a meal I had with my friend, his wife and his three beautiful children. My recollection of the kids is that they were babies, and this was just a year or two ago. Surely they cannot be old enough for one of them to be in high school. Can they?
I got to thinking about my own girls and other kids in my life. Where does the time go? How did they grow up so quickly? Have I been asleep or in a coma? Does tempus really fugit?
The memory of me changing Michelle's diapers is so vivid. I can see her dressed up in her "Mary Jane's," that she referred to as "Dorothy shoes." I can picture her in front of the TV sitting in her little rocker wearing a tiara or dressed up in an Indian costume for Halloween (1971). I can see her smile on Christmas morning as she caught sight of her first new two-wheeler. Where did the time go? Michelle will be forty in January.
Where did the time go? Meredith and I went camping with the Indian Princesses and nearly froze in the twenty-seven degree night. It seems like yesterday. She enjoyed and I tolerated a Boy George concert in Newport News, Virginia. How did we get from Indian Princesses one day to nearing the end of her second pregnancy so quickly? Where did the time go?
Kids: They grow up so fast. I wish now I had hugged mine more – though I still get to do it. I know I wasted a lot of valuable time on dumb shit when I could have been enjoying my girls. I know the dynamic has changed for them as well as me. And while they have grown and I have grown we still have time for hugs and time to create more memories. Cherish your time with kids – whether they are yours or not. What would this world be without kids? Time would run out.
And that's all I have to say about that…except to tell you to go hug a kid.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings…
Last night I was seated at the bar of my favorite restaurant here in Beautiful Downtown Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, population 711, enjoying a sumptuous meal with The Nancy by my side. I suppose I was deep in thought when Betsy Heath (she and her husband Damian own the place), who was tending bar, asked me if I was okay. Well, I was okay but lost in something that popped into my head.
The Nancy and I have known Betsy and Damian for a little over a year. Lot 12 is without a doubt the best restaurant in Berkeley Springs, and to me the best in this state. The food is far and away beyond good, it is amazingly good. The Nancy and I enjoy a meal there about once a week. Lot 12 has spoiled me to the other restaurants in this town and this area. Check it out at http://www.lot12.com .
The thought I was stuck on, as I watched Betsy draw my Wild Goose IPA from the tap, was how I have come to fall in love with she and her husband and how to let them know how much I care for them. I know I could just blurt it out, but I am concerned they may not take it as I mean it. Later, after we had finished our meals and drinks and headed out for home, I thought some more about how many people there are in this world with whom I have daily contact that I have come to have special feelings for beyond mere acquaintanceship (if that is the proper term), but may have failed to let them know it.
What is wrong with being open and letting those I know I have special feelings for know it as well? I don't think there is a thing wrong with it. I need to do it. So, I think I will make a list, kind of like the guy on "My Name is Earl" and begin to let those on the list know exactly how I feel about them. I have done this to some degree already, not nearly enough. I could probably post the list here, but with now over 21,800 hits I just know I might offend someone whose name isn't posted. I am not sure I could even name everyone. This list will take some thought, for sure, but I bet I could rattle off fifty names in a very short time.
As for Betsy and Damian, I kind of think they know how I feel about them. Each of us has a "way of being." Mine, as a "courageous, open, connected man" (this is Millennium stuff), has allowed me to be expressive as long as I use it to express my feelings. I think my way of being may get the point across to them. People can sense these things. I haven't verbalized my feelings to them yet, but I will. I may to you, as well. In fact, if you are reading this now know that I love you even if I don't know you.
And that's all I have to say about that…
PS: Great DaVinci Codesque book for you Dan Brown fans. Read "The Expected One" by Kathleen McGowan. Check it out at http://www.theexpectedone.com .


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Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY, +0.90% publicly disclosed its offer to acquire Ramtron International Corp. RMTR, +0.00% in a cash deal worth roughly $88 million, as it renewed takeover efforts that were rejected last year.
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Cypress also disclosed it offered to acquire Ramtron at a 37% premium in March 2011, but Ramtron's board rejected the offer, citing a too-low premium. Ramtron stock has fallen 41% over the past 12 months.
Cypress has requested a response by June 19 and said it would prefer to negotiate with Ramtron.
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Though the broader semiconductor industry was hit late last year by a slowdown in demand, Cypress reported double-digit sales growth last year, bolstered by strong demand for its touchscreen controllers used in smartphones and tablets. Still, the company has been focusing on controlling its operating expenses.
Cypress swung to a first-quarter loss amid weaker sales and charges for stock-based compensation and other items.
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The new engines will be installed on 25 new Airbus airplanes of the A320 family, and also on ten Boeing 737-800 airlanes, which will start carrying out flights on S7 Charter routes starting in 2010.
Equipping the new planes with modern engines is the next step in the realization of S7's strategic plan which includes the modernization of the aircraft fleet and engines in order to increase operational efficiency. "The airline uses various aircraft, therefore the need for a similar engine base and the outstanding characteristics of these engines CFM56 predetermined our choice," said Vladislav Filev, managing director of Siberia Airlines, JSC.
CFM56 engines proved themselves to be the most popular on the market thanks to high fuel efficiency, ease of maintenance and extremely long service life.
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My Ten Cents On: World War Z
World War Z. I doubt there have been any other zombie films more hyped in the media. This was largely due to the film's relation to the Max Brooks novel of the same name, a critically-acclaimed work which explores cultural and social ills, exposed through a global calamities of a zombie outbreak, and due to the draw of Hollywood Superstar Brad Pitt. Now, I've read the book, which is presented as a series of interviews gathered by a journalist who, while collecting data for the UN, assembled the "qualitative" information, which the UN didn't need, into a book. The interview topics range from the start of the outbreak and the breakdown of society, to fighting the zombies and the very real struggles surviving in a post-apocalyptic world entailed, to the end of the war and the strength of human perseverance and ingenuity. If this sounds like an endorsement for the book, well… It is. The novel is pretty well-written and I'd recommend it to anybody.
That being said, as I read this book, I could see no way for a film to adapt this into a narrative form and still capture the essence of the material. Anyone who expected the World War Z movie to be just like the book has quite a few things to learn about when it comes to movies. A World War Z TV show, where dozens of hours could be spent on exploring this vast world, and the effects of the zombie uprising on a global scale would be perfect, but in a 2-hour time frame, nope. So, in heading into the theater, I had no illusion that this film would be anything like the book, and I was right.
World War Z follows the story of Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), a UN investigator who, after the global spread of the zombie virus, is tasked with escorting a scientist to discover the source of the plague and hopefully find a way to defeat it. When the mission goes horribly wrong, it is up to Gerry to figure out how to fight the infection.
The Zombie Movie that breaks the big Hollywood "Undead rule".
If any of you were really paying attention, World War Z did something that no serious Zombie film has ever done in the past. They actually used the word "Zombie" in the film. Think about it, when you hear the word zombie, it's always in the context of being funny, satirical, or Bruce Campbell related. In serious horror films like Quarantine, 28 Days Later, hell, even on TV shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, no one uses the term, it's always something else (Infected, Walkers, Undead). It's like no one in serious films has ever heard of the term "zombie" in their lives.
These undead films are about a desperate struggle of a group of humans, highlighting the destruction of society, morality, and civility in the face of an unstoppable plague. These films ask questions like "Is this my mother, or is she just a body, with the soul long gone?", "Do I have to kill her?", "If I've been bitten, is it over, or should I hold out and keep it a secret?", and make them all morally ambiguous. There are tough decisions to be made by the character, but when the men and women who run Hollywood hear the term "Zombie", they automatically assume that the deepest conflict the main character would have would be whether to use a shotgun or a chainsaw to mow down waves of Zombies. (The correct answer is both!)
But now, we have a shift on our hands. Hollywood is finally embracing the "Zombie" term, and doing so in a highly-billed film with the top-tier name of Brad Pitt attached to it. This, to me, indicates that the geek culture is firmly lodged in the Hollywood seat… And that saturation is not far off in the distance. When you have film makers who aren't geeks using these terms in huge Hollywood blockbuster attempts, then we are going to see lots of cash-ins coming in soon, and heads up, many of them will not be as good as you think.
All that being said though, this film in particular was very well executed.
Prepare for the zombie's greatest weapons! Stress and jump scares!
The movie was riddled with stressful moments. Following Gerry Lane's travels around the world, and going by many of his close calls was an edge-of-your-seat, fingernail-biting experience. Kudos must be given to Marc Forster for his directing efforts. Finally, his penchant for following characters, and putting you in their shoes has tied in marvelously with a film. Marc Forster last showed up on this site in my review of The Mechanic, when I discussed action choreography and how he f*cked up Quantum of Solace.
The thing is, Marc Forster's skill is in having you feel like you are with the character and going through the exact same experience. This does not work when you are showing James Bond, a super spy that is in no way an average Joe, but it does work incredibly well for a normal dude stuck in a zombie apocalypse. Throughout the film, you are watching with bated breath, worried and stressed that out of any corner a zombie might pop out. You feel like you are trying to survive with him. This movie brilliantly put you in with Gerry and helped you feel like you were trapped in the same hell with him. You'd be right there with him as he turns a corner and zombie roars out of cover, where it apparently waited in stealthy silence.
This movie had a lot of those "jump-out-and-say-boo" moments. For the most part, the scares were actually well done, but as it wore on, and the zombies continued to jump out at you from dark tunnels and shafts, I began to think it weird how zombies can shut up and stalk silently when they know someone's around the corner and can't see them. At some point I imagined the script writing session going like this:
Writer 1: "Brad Pitt goes to this place, then the zombies attack! Then he goes to another place, then the zombies attack! Then, while he escapes that place, and he's travelling to his next destination, guess what?"
Writer 2: "What?"
Writer 1: "THE ZOMBIES ATTACK!"
Writer 2: "BRILLIANT!"
This film was so suspenseful throughout the entire run time. From the get go, the film kept pounding at you, rushing you desperately through the story. For the most part, this worked to great effect, but, just like a guitar string constantly put on tension, the note was bound to sour. By keeping the tension so high the entire time, the movie didn't really build upward.
As a result, personally, I found the ending weak and lacking impact. Without any moments of calm to drop down the tension so that you could stretch it up again, the film was constantly applying pressure, so that the ending didn't quite feel like an ending because the climax was just as, if not less, exciting than the earlier scenes. This was my major gripe with the film.
The bites weren't that deep.
My other problem was that, despite all the world going to hell, the film's following of this one man's journey felt kind of shallow. When you travel the world, you gain perspective, you are exposed to different things, and you get to see different things. This movie felt like it all took place on a sound stage, that every scene was done a few miles away from each other. You didn't feel the Korean essence in the film's South Korea, or the Middle-Eastern flavor of the film's Jerusalem. The locations they went to felt like caricatures of the actual places.
When Francis Ford Coppola made The Godfather, he wanted to make the film so authentically Italian that you could "smell the spaghetti." Lost in Translation had you feel the strong cultural barriers posed to an American man in Japan, and hell, Casino Royale's settings in Africa, Montenegro and Venice all had a bit of character. Throughout World War Z, I felt like the locations were all generic, and had nothing important about them.
In following Gerry Lane, and perceiving the chaos of the Zombie Apocalypse from one man's viewpoint, the film was meant to be limited. And at some points, it worked. There was one scene where Gerry and his pilot were flying through the air, and saw a nuclear explosion off to the side. There were also mentions that the North Koreans were able to stop the zombie plague spreading through their country by having everyone's teeth pulled out. You can't turn someone into a zombie by gumming them. These little tidbits, the limited insights to how cultures were dealing with the plague, were by far the best parts of the film. These scenes were few and far between, as most of it was really about running from zombies.
Another problem of mine was the family subplot. The first part of the movie has Gerry and his family struggling to survive in an uncivilized, urban environment. When he was in a grocery store, where people were looting, someone tried to attack his wife. In order to defend her, he had to kill the man. A policeman saw this, came running up to Gerry, only to pass him in order to loot more supplies. The breakdown of society and a family trying to struggle through it was very well executed, and the first 15 minutes of the film were perfect for me. Then the helicopters came.
Gerry and his family landed on an aircraft carrier, and in order to keep his family safely on board out at sea, he had to accept a dangerous mission. At the end of the day, after going through a lot of emotional growth with them, Gerry's family was placed in the film solely to get him to do the rest of the movie. I was really disappointed when it lead nowhere. The family was built up to be a secondary lead character, the story of a family trapped on a boat while they hear tales of what's going on, dealing with the panic that comes about people living in an enclosed space, fighting for food, water, shelter, and dealing with the destruction of everything they've ever known. Sounds interesting, right?! It would have been perfect for Marc Forster's style of direction, and it would have had them do more, and fit in a little more of the social element of the zombie outbreak, versus having way to many shock scenes. It would have given this movie a lot more depth, and depth was what it needed.
At the end of the day, it was a movie I enjoyed, but I wouldn't say its one of the best that 2013 has to offer. This is a movie that I enjoyed once, but I doubt I'd enjoy it as much the second time around.
My Cent's Worth: 7/10
World War Z was a fun film, and it wasn't a waste of my cinema money, but I don't see it becoming a classic soon. It was an entertaining piece of film, even if it was quite shallow. For those of you who think it'll be like the book, please don't, you'd only be setting yourself up for a bad film experience. If you go in with the right mindset, and take it for what it is, I'm sure you'd have a good time with it.


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1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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Social Media: It's All A Matter of Balance
As you can see by my archives, I started this blog a couple of years ago and I just have not contributed to it on a regular basis. The truth is that since we published my book around the same time, we have been consumed with building and managing a new website and a new blog at www.lifetomax.com, as well as learning about a whole new business. Naively, at first we thought that since much of publishing involved activities like marketing and creative production, we wouldn't have much of a learning curve, but things are just different enough to sometimes make things quite challenging.
Of course as you all know, advertising and marketing are also changing at a lightning speed, so it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Still, when I look back over the last couple of years, I am very proud of all that we have learned and consequently, how much more we have to offer our clients in terms of expertise. Now we can share from our firsthand experiences what it can mean to your business to build your network through such social media venues as blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. We can also advise you that all of this new media can be an incredible suck of your valuable time and resources if not carefully managed. And despite the many opportunities new media offers, we firmly maintain that it still does not surpass the need for a sound strategy or good creative work.
Much of the transition to new media reminds me very much of how the introduction of computers for graphic design changed the advertising and design industry. There were those who resisted the change, preferring to cut rubyliths by hand and to sketch designs with markers. Others embraced the change to such a degree that it produced a bunch of over-designed, muddled imagery that had no concept or selling point. Neither approach survived for very long and the same will be true of social media. Just like life, we must find the balance to be truly effective and happy with the results. So those of you who are tweeting about having coffee or driving to work, quit wasting your time and ours. Use Twitter--and all social media for that matter--when you really have something to say or really want to get some feedback in a hurry. About the rest of the stuff, we don't care a Twit!
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