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We are hosting an Evening of fabulous storytelling by local authors from 6.30-8pm on Saturday 22nd April. We will be giving away a selection of WBN books to all attendees. Tickets are free and available from firstname.lastname@example.com or by phoning 01214647422.


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The IRS has reaffirmed in a recently released Information Letter that no prohibition exists against a charitable organization using an Internet fundraising platform to raise funds.
Website or email solicitations should comply with the same rules that apply to other solicitations, noted the IRS in the Information Letter addressed to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.).
The IRS said that an organization that intends to apply for recognition under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and wants to raise funds, whether by Internet or otherwise, must ensure that it structures its fundraising programs in a manner consistent with that tax-exempt status.
The organization must describe its actual and planned fundraising activities in its application (Form 1023, "Application for Recognition of Exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code"). It must report any expenses incurred with regard to fundraising on both Form 1023 and its annual information returns (Form 990, Form 990-EZ or Form 990-PF).
An organization that is raising funds and has not yet received recognition as exempt from tax under Code Section 501(c)(3) should make clear – with a conspicuous and easily recognizable statement in the solicitation material – that it has not yet received recognition and as a result contributions may not be deductible.
A Section 501(c)(3) organization cannot be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests, such as the creator or the creator's family, shareholders of the organization, other designated individuals or persons controlled directly or indirectly by such private interests. Also, no part of the organization's net earnings may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
Therefore, the IRS cautions that the organization should consider whether payments or benefits to fundraisers or other private parties may be excessive or may constitute impermissible direct or indirect private benefit or private inurement.
An organization that provides something of value to donors in exchange for donations must consider carefully the possibility that doing so may violate the rules against private benefit or private inurement. And it must comply with any substantiation and disclosure requirements for quid pro quo contributions.
In addition, the IRS advised that the organization should consider any state laws and regulations that may apply to Internet fundraising by nonprofit or tax-exempt organizations.


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New smartphone App allows safer booking of taxis
The free myTaxi smartphone App was developed in Germany to overcome inconveniences and safety concerns of hailing a taxi, and the technology is now available to Australian users.
"For young, female or nervous travellers, finding a taxi at night can be an ordeal," says Claus Gosch, Director of 1 Touch Taxi Systems, distributor of myTaxi in Australia. "Whether walking dark streets from an isolated location to a busier thoroughfare, or waiting at a venue exit among late-night crowds, you are left visible and vulnerable as you search for transport home at the end of the night. Our technology in your pocket can look after you."
Available for iPhone and Android smartphones, the App shows available taxis on a Google Map, and hails a cab with a single touch. When a driver accepts a booking, passengers can then watch the taxi approach on Google Maps, until the screen flashes to indicate its arrival.
Gosch has experienced the benefits of the myTaxi App in Europe. "myTaxi brings together taxi drivers and their passengers faster and more efficiently than any existing booking systems in Australia," he says. "No more phone calls, just launch the App, and call a taxi with one touch."
The Assisted-GPS technology embedded in smartphones combines with Google Maps to show passengers the nearest available cabs, and then provide instant and accurate locational information to the driver who accepts the request. "You can book from the street, or remain in a safe location and watch your driver approaching on Google Maps - no need for a call on approach - you're already connected through myTaxi," says Gosch
Gosch sees the built-in feedback tool as a great benefit for passengers and taxi drivers alike. "Share your experience with other myTaxi users and reward your driver for excellent service."
No more streetwalking - myTaxi makes taxi travel safer by allowing passengers to find a taxi while remaining in a safe location.
No more fare surprises - myTaxi has a built-in fare estimator.
No annoying ads - myTaxi is a proven technology committed to ad-free operation of its App for both drivers and passengers.
myTaxi is currently enlisting drivers across Australia, and Gosch points out that during the start-up phase some areas may find there are no available myTaxi drivers. "Don't panic! Keep the app on your device and follow us on Facebook or Twitter so we can keep you posted about developments in your area."
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Help me,
Obi-Wan Kenobi Eileen Hull, you're my only hope — to make a R2D2 card for Valentine's Day. As a member of Eileen's inspiration team, our assignment this month was to create a card using her Sizzix dies. Looking through my stash, I picked up the Sizzix Scoreboards 3-D Adirondack Chair die and just stared at it. Then I ran a blank white piece of paper through it. And that's when it came to me: I can make an R2D2 from the pieces of this adirondack chair! (Yes, I am a huge Star Wars geek, and proud of it.)
These are the components I used from the adirondack chair die: using white paper, one of the domed shapes and two paddles, and using the blue paper, one domed shape and one of those "A" shapes that look like a pagoda.
Taking the white domed piece that looks like a fire hydrant, I cut two trapezoid notches from the left and right bottom, leaving a trapezoid in the bottom center. The left and right pieces come in handy later. Then I glued the white "fire hydrant" on the front of the card.
Taking the blue domed shape, I cut off the top of it and glued it to the top of the white dome, like a yarmulke. Yes, R2D2 wears a yarmulke. Then I cut a stripe right above the left and right tabs, cut those into little sections, and glued them onto the white as pictured. It's already looking like R2!
On to that blue pagoda shape: I trimmed off the left and right sides and made them the horizontal stripes on R2D2's upper body.
I also cut a blue square for his "eye" area, and some black vertical rectangles for his body.
On the two paddles, I cut notches in the lower part of them and glued those trapezoids from before to the bottom.
And using foam tape for dimension, I glued those "arms" onto either side of R2D2.
The "You R2 Cute" message was written using adhesive vinyl letters.
I love how the card turned out. Here is the card with some of my original Star Wars memorabilia from 1977. May the force be with you! (Or at least some good Sizzix dies.)


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Trick or treat, smell my feet. Give me something good to eat.
If you don't, I won't be sad. I'll just make you wish you had!
How about this picture from the McClain archives?! Funny story.
When Baby Ben was just two years old and I frantically put on the last touches of his costume, it never occurred to me he would NOT want to go Trick-or-Treating. (See, I'm not really much of a seamstress, so this was a real labor of love and a little madness.) Oh my. I was floored, and not just because my costume masterpiece would go unused, but because of all that candy
I, oops, he would miss.
After much humiliating begging and grovelling, Baby Ben agreed to try at least one door. He quickly grasped the concept of costume=candy. Smart, that kid! We made it half way around the block with a respectfully filled bucket when one of our neighbors got into the spirit of Halloween and answered the door with a "Boo!" Well, one "Boo!" sent Baby Ben off into a tizzy and we had to run all the way home. This has to be one of the most under-utilized costumes of, at least McClain family lore . . .
The project started with a box.
Then I added a couple of specimen-filled test tubes.
That was fun, so I added two more specimen-filled test tubes.
And then . . . I put it all together . . .
Lots of great challenges out this week –
- Catch the Bug asked us to go 3D with Halloween.
- Stampin' for the Weekend said Tag It!
- Paper Garden Projects said show us your Trick or Treats
- Wee Memories said to make a CAS project or project with or Tags. Well, since I don't know what CAS is, then Tag it is.
- Crazy 4 Challenges said bring on the Bling – glitter is always the perfect accessory.
For my specimen treats, I found these at Target. Snap! They're perfect.
I modified Lisa Somerville's template for a four-test tube holder only a little bit. It's a great template you can find here. She also made templates for single and double test tube holders you can find here. (Thanks Lisa, you Rock!)
Here are the Copic markers and the rest of the recipe.
- Fibers: Raffia Ribbon, linen thread, fabric scraps for bow, Stampin' Up! Raven Trim Lace
- Ink – Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers (see below), Clear Spica Clear Glitter Pen, Tim Holtz Distress Inks (tea die)
- Paper – Neenah and Stampin' Up! cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Haunted.
- Stamp: Eat Cake Graphics Happy Halloweenie cling stamp set
- Tools: Nestabilities, EK Success 1" circle punch
- Embellishments: Stampin' Up! Basic Eyelets and Vintage Trinkets. Making Memories Vintage Findings, Matte Buttons
- Misc.: German Glass Glitter, Martha Stewart Test Tubes
This is for all the little boys and girls who put on pumpkin costumes so their Moms can get some Candy!


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Ofcom has announced new streamlined guidelines for the independent bodies that help to resolve customers' landline, mobile phone and broadband complaints which have not been dealt with by their provider.
As part of plans to enable an "improved experience" around consumer complaints, the regulator said that the revamped Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) scheme will act as "independent middleman between communications service providers and their customers when a complaint cannot be resolved".
Ofcom has already approved two schemes - Ombudsman Services: Communications (OS) and the Communications and Internet Services Adjudication Service (CISAS) - to act as arbitration bodies around consumer complaints, including the potential award of compensation.
But now the appointed bodies must work under a set of "common principles", said Ofcom, which means abiding by common decision-making principles to ensure there are no inconsistencies in the way consumer complaints are dealt with and resolved.
They must also adopt common guidelines in order to ensure that they are "consistent and fair" when awarding compensation, it added.
Ofcom has a duty to ensure that consumers have access to free alternative dispute resolution services under its core remit.
Following a review of its ADR measures, Ofcom found that OS and CISAS "continue to resolve disputes effectively", but the bodies sometimes delivered "inconsistent outcomes" for consumers.
The measures announced today (August 22) are intended to address this issue, and help the schemes to be more "accessible and efficient" with their resolution services.
This is needed because both bodies have recently seen a big spike in applications for resolution, including 17% at OS and 56% at CISAS.
"Effective redress for consumers is essential and by providing a free, independent service to consider disputes, ADR schemes play a key part in this," said Claudio Pollack, the director of Ofcom's Consumer Group.
"OS and CISAS have agreed to the new decision-making principles, and Ofcom has therefore continued its approval of both of these ADR providers."
Following Ofcom's announcement, the Communications Consumer Panel welcomed the move to create a more consistent approach across the Alternative Dispute Resolution scheme.
The body said that both the CISAS and OS must strive to be "swift, fair, free and effective" with complaints resolution, and improve the transparency of language in their customer information.
"Our concerns about compensation levels for consumers have been addressed in Ofcom's statement, and information will now be available to people making a complaint," said panel member Kim Brook.
"However, we would still like to see both schemes use more consumer-friendly language in their customer information."
The Panel also called on Ofcom to publish information on the complaints that are referred to the ADR, including what proportion are upheld.


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Advice You Really Shouldn't Follow: How to Become Famous on the Internet
Probably because it's been a while since any of you have asked me for advice.
I can't imagine why.
After absolutely no new advice questions for weeks, I finally got an email the other day from the adorably named Mumun. The email came with the equally adorable subject line: "I need advice that I don't think I'll need."
Well, I think we can all agree that she came to the right lady! Because, not to brag or anything, but I'm pretty much awesome at giving advice to people that they don't think they'll need.
Like I can now tell you how to put unicorn horns on ponies. And cats. And one-eyed chihuahuas.
I bet you never thought you'd need to know how to do that, huh?
(Answer: get your mom to do it. Because you're too busy "checking the lighting.")
Mumun's email went something like this:
I have a travel blog that is specifically about my own country (psst… Indonesia). I really want it to go Rambo-famous and become internationally known so I can legally trash hotels like Rambo (wait, that's the wrong movie), and it would be nice if more people came by. But I don't know how? Aside from writing stupid stories about myself, what should I do?
First of all, writing stupid stories about yourself is always the key to success.
Secondly, I don't usually like to give out blogging advice on my blog. Mostly because there are lots of really awesome bloggy people out there dishing out really awesome bloggy advice (like here and here and here).
These people really know their stuff.
I really do not.
Maybe you've noticed?
But how could I resist answering an email with so many references to Rambo?
I could not.
So here goes:
How to Have an Internationally Known Blog in 12 Easy Steps (Or 6 long years. Whichever one comes first.)
Step 1:Move to Japan.
Start your first blog.
Make sure to give it some kind of funky name that no one can remember or spell. Bonus points if you can give it a name in some foreign language that almost no one (including yourself) speaks, like, say, umm, lemmethinkforasecond, Japanese!
Write your first blog post. Make sure it's about something really poignant and meaningful. Something that really shows you're having an Authentic Experience.
Like, say, your lunch.
Email all your friends and family members to tell them that you've started a blog and send them the link.
Take their silence as a sign that they're too busy reading your blog to email you back. Or comment. Or answer your calls.
Step 2:Start writing longer, more blathery posts. About topics that really show the reader the workings of your inner soul.
Like, say, your couch.
Hardly ever use photos. And when you do make sure those photos are dark and kind of blurry and taken with your teeny tiny cell phone camera.
After all, you wouldn't want to show too much.
You need to maintain an aura of mystery, you know.
As well as an aura of "Did she take that photo in the bathroom? I think that's a photo from the bathroom. I hope she washed her hands."
Step 3:Get your first comment ever from someone who is neither a friend of yours nor biologically related to you.
Jump up and down. A lot.
Because, obviously, you're on the brink of Internet stardom.
Step 4:Join Facebook.
Start harassing all your Facebook friends into reading your blog.
Take their silence as a sign that they're too busy reading your blog to like the link. Or comment on the link.
And that's probably also why they de-friended you on Facebook – they're simply too busy reading your awesome blog posts to be your friend. Whatever. That's cool.
Step 5:Change the name of your blog to something that's a lot easier to spell. And doesn't require any foreign language training to remember.
Spend about a week changing your blog over to a blogging platform that no one ever uses. Probably because it's ridiculous and breaks down a lot and makes your blog almost impossible to find with a Google search.
After all, you don't want to make it that easy for people to get to your blog. You need to play hard to get.
Step 6:Join Twitter.
Realize that Twitter is even better than Facebook because people are on there ALL THE TIME. Unlike your Facebook friends who are always doing stupid stuff like sleeping or going to work or de-friending you.
Start following other bloggers on Twitter.
Because, guess what?
Other bloggers exist.
You had no idea.
You were pretty sure you were the only one.
Start reading other blogs and realize that blogging is actually this thing that people take pretty seriously.
You had no idea.
Notice that no one else is writing blog posts about their couches – instead they are writing informative pieces with lots of bullet points.
Wonder if you should be doing that too. But you hate bullet points and you love your couch.
Keep writing about your couch.
Step 7:Leave Japan. And your couch.
Start traveling and writing about non-couch-related things. Like cats.
Get over a hundred hits to your blog in a few hours after a kind-of-big-deal blogger tweets a link to one of your posts. This is more hits than your blog has received in EVER.
You probably shouldn't sleep tonight in case a Hollywood agent needs to call you to get the rights to your blog to turn it into a movie.
Also, you need to think about who is going to play you in the movie. Is Angelina Jolie too obvious? And can she type? Because most of the movie is going to be her typing.
Google search "Angelina Jolie typing."
Be disturbed by the results.
Step 8:Travel some more.
Go to Chiang Mai because everyone else is doing it.
Finally switch your blog over to WordPress.
Because everyone else is doing that, too.
BLOGGER PEER PRESSURE, you guys. It's real.
Step 9:Move to China.
Get a new couch.
Write about your new couch.
Win a kind-of-big-deal-award.
These two things are probably related.
Just saying.
Step 10:Attempt to write shorter, less blathery posts.
Fail miserably.
Start taking photos of EVERYTHING and put them on your blog. Because, apparently, people like to look at things and not just words all the time.
Include lots of dark, blurry bathroom photos. After all, you wouldn't want to forget your roots.
Step 11:Move home.
Get another couch which is not nearly as exciting as your old couch.
Compensate by getting a cat. Start writing about your cat.
Decide to start an advice column on your blog.
And by "advice column" I mean "just an excuse to write stupid stories about yourself."
Tell all your readers that you will now be answering all their questions about everything ever.
Take their silence as a sign that they're too busy reading your blog posts to email you with their questions about everything ever. Whatever. That's cool.
Step 12Totally start trashing hotel rooms.
And by "trashing" I mean "take lots of photos of the bathroom because everyone loves a good bathroom photo, amirite?"Have any blogging or how-to-get-kind-of-famous-on-the-Internet tips you'd like to share? Or want to get some advice from me? Leave your question in the comments, send your question via the contact form or shoot me an email at unbravegirl at gmail.com


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The Beedle Award was established in honor of the late Lynn S. Beedle, an international authority on stability and the development of code criteria for steel and composite structures. He was a leader and outstanding contributor to the work of the Structural Stability Research Council for a period of more than 50 years, establishing the council as the preeminent organization worldwide in the area of structural stability. Through Lynn Beedle's dedicated work and leadership in the national and international arenas, the structural engineering profession has seen advanced concepts developed into practical engineering tools. He consistently and successfully endeavored to advance collaboration between researchers, engineers and code writers worldwide.
Recipients of the Lynn S. Beedle Award must meet the following criteria: long-time member of SSRC, a worldwide leading stability researcher or designer of structures with significant stability issues, a leader in fostering cooperation between professionals worldwide, significant contributions to national and international design code development.
The SSRC Executive Committee serves as the award committee. The award may be presented as frequently as annually. An individual can only receive the award once. The award is presented at the SSRC Annual Stability Conference. It consists of a framed certificate, signed by the SSRC Chair and Vice Chair. The Awardee is invited to make the keynote presentation at the Annual Stability Conference.
Winners of the Beedle Award
- 2002 Theodore Galambos
- 2004 Yuhshi Fukumoto
- 2005 William McGuire
- 2006 Joseph Yura
- 2007 D.J. Laurie Kennedy
- 2008 Donald Sherman
- 2009 Wei-Wen Yu
- 2010 Reidar Bjorhovde
- 2011 Nick Trahair
- 2012 Peter Birkemoe
- 2013 Rene Maquoi
- 2014 Sriramulu Vinnakota
- 2015 David Nethercot
- 2016 Roger LaBoube
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ABC's promo department sabotaged this episode with the claim that we would get three major answers in this episode. The ad people, aware of the growing restlessness of answer-demanding viewers, threw that in the ad to try to assure them that something will happen. Only problem is the core of this promise: three major things weren't answered. Jack's tattoo's were partially explained (I guess they thought they were going to do another episode), but did anyone really care? Jack's tattoos were a mystery some producers hyped and most viewers ignored. Now that we know, does it unlock any major answers into the island or mythology?
The second thing we learned was where the people went after The Others took them. The return of Cindy and the kids felt tacked on from another episode. They show up, speak with Jack for a few moments, not really saying much, and disappear. It doesn't make any sense. All we get are vague statements like "you don't understand" or "they're in a safe place", which considering the episode's hype, could be considered anything from irritating to down right teasing. I'm also guessing "where are the kids" and "what happened to Cindy" were supposed to be two answers, but no one bought it.
It isn't fair for me to fault the whole episode on the advertising debacle. The creative team doesn't work with the ad team, so the results can have too many spoilers or misrepresent the episode among other problems. When "Lost" is in syndication and even when it comes out on DVD, this ad problem should not be an issue to viewers and critics, but considering the negative reaction, "Lost" simply failed to make up for the ad screw up, resulting in a sub-par episode.
The chronology of Jack's flashback is puzzling. Considering how many he's had, there are several points where Jack would want to head to Phuket to "find himself"; after his marriage fell apart, after the confrontation in "A Tale of Two Cities". Not being able to fit it in the chronology hurts the context because we don't know which event spurred Jack to go on his vacation or his unreasonable anger.
Achara, played by Bai Ling, apparently was going to be featured in three episodes. Considering the overwhelmingly negative response this episode received, it's unlikely we'll ever see her again. This is reminiscent of another Bai Ling role, when she guest starred on "Angel" seven years ago. Her character then was supposed to be featured in several episodes, but was quickly jettisoned after poor responses as well. You have to feel bad for her with that track record.
Considering how many flashbacks Jack has had, it's important that they continue to incorporate new elements to Jack's character and develop him further. Unfortunately, the tattoo flashbacks don't do much of that. We know Jack is a leader and is often lonely because of that, but what else? Ultimately, the flashbacks serve only as a parallel to the current state where Juliet gets marked.
Because she killed one of their own, Juliet is now branded with a mark that looks like an upside down version of the Scientology logo. This type of punishment seems fitting with older customs The Others have, but why would they put her mark in the same place coeds get tattoos on spring break? If they really want her to be branded as an outcast, why wouldn't they place where it is harder to hide?
The most obvious reason would be so Jack and Juliet can have a tender moment while he tends to this new mark. They have made a connection and since Jack knows she wants to leave the island, they have a mutual goal. Obviously his feelings for her earlier in the episode were what provoked him to sway Ben from executing her, as he doesn't even care for sympathetic Others like Tom.
A big problem with this episode is the introduction of "The Sheriff", Isabel. Unfortunately for a show that has had such a great track record with its actors, this actress just doesn't cut it. While the monotone may be channeling Hannibal Lecter similarly to the way Ben speaks, it just comes off as robotic. I've seen her in other work so I know she isn't a bad actress, but she doesn't quite fit on "Lost". Perhaps Klugh was supposed to fill "The Sheriff" role, but the actress had other engagements and this role was meant to be temporary.
One element in the episode that deserved a lot more exploration was Ben's apparent slow healing. It's been shown that the island has been able to heal Locke's paralysis, Rose's cancer and (maybe) Jin's infertility. However, Ben can't heal quickly from his surgery and is rather weak (the brief shot of Tom holding the umbrella over Ben's head was intriguing). In fact, the infection is getting worse. Maybe this episode would've been better had they focused on Ben and hallucinations he had while taking the drugs for his infection.
Leaving the Hydra Island effectively ends this introductory phase of the season, one that has been harshly criticized for not featuring much of our beach castaways and focusing too heavily on The Others. This shift in the narrative, with the promise that The Others prefer the main island and live there full time (if that was supposed to be the third mystery solved, then that makes the promos even worse), is certainly welcome to those who stuck through this one.
It was clear in "Not in Portland" that there were some bumps in Kate & Sawyer's relationship. Sawyer knew it as she emotionally retold the "Count to 5" story. Kate's insistence that they return to Hydra Island (which Karl informs them isn't where they live) is a clear indicator that although Kate slept with Sawyer, her affections are still split between the two men. As for Sawyer, hurt by this, tries to brush off their intimacy by saying that it only happened because she thought he would be dead soon, which may be partially true
Karl and Alex's relationship develops more. Of the romantic relationships, this one seems pure in its "puppy love" nature, which makes it more endearing. You feel bad for Karl seeing him sob over his lost Alex and smile when Sawyer convinces him to go for it, even if he may die in the process. There is a certain star crossed quality to it as their feelings override many of the politics meant to keep them apart.
This episode came at a bad time. Following the hiatus, people complained about the show's direction while praising the new hit show "Heroes" (a show with similar attributes. I won't go into any comparisons here). They had two good episodes, but this episode may have been enough to tilt some viewers to stop watching. This episode taught them some major lessons in how delicately you need to treat some fans, or else the situation will become a full fledged fiasco. Despite its faults, it is forgivable considering many of the above average/excellent episodes later in the season.


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What is the correct meaning of raided as it is used in paragraph 5?
a) to make a raid on
b) to steal from; loot
c) to entice away from another
d) to indulge oneself by taking from, especially in order to eat
Based on this excerpt, how has the author's heritage influenced her message?
a) Esmeralda knows how to pick out a perfect guava
b) She is now back with her sisters in Puerto Rico
c) Esmeralda eats apples and pears from the market
d) She can no longer eat guava because it made her sick
The author included paragraph 9 to –
a) let the reader know how much a guava costs.
b) inform the reader of the season.
c) persuade the reader to choose a dark green guava.
d) reminisce about the author's childhood.
Which phrase appeals to the senses of touch, taste, and sight?
a) pick one the size of a tennis ball and finger the prickly stem end
b) its heart is bright pink and almost solid with seeds
c) the inside of your mouth explodes in little spurts of sour
d) could feel the texture against my tongue, the tiny pink pellets of sweet.
'At night, your mother makes you drink castor oil,1 which she says tastes better than a green guava. That's when you know for sure that you're a child and she has stopped being one.' In this selection, castor oil represents the --
a) importance of timely health care
b) foolishness of youth
c) author's mother
d) cautiousness of adulthood
The author's purpose in this essay is to --
a) describe an exotic fruit rarely seen in the United States
b) reflect on a meaningful childhood
c) explain why her family left Puerto Rico
d) develop a detailed comparison of two different locations by contrasting their produce
Why does the author call apples and pears 'bittersweet' in paragraph 10?
a) The ones in the grocery store taste both bitter and sweet.
b) They represent her life in New York, about which she has mixed emotions.
c) The fruit tastes the same every time and has very few seeds.
d) She thinks the apples are bitter but the pears are sweet.
The phrase 'the guava joins its sisters' in paragraph 10 is an example of --
a) sarcasm
b) figurative language
c) commonplace assertion
d) sensory language
What feeling does the author convey through her use of the word raided in paragraph 5?
a) happiness
b) patience
c) eagerness
d) aggressiveness
What is the purpose of the factual details in paragraph 4?
a) to explain why it is hard to stop eating guavas when they are ripe and juicy
b) to show how difficult it is to grow guavas
c) to illustrate the importance of agriculture in Puetro Rico's economy
d) to emphasize what the author misses most about living in Puerto Rico
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Yulli's Brews Slick Rick's Rampaging Red Ale has been around Sydney taps for a while but in 2016 it became available in cans.
The immediate experience when presented with a glass of Slick Rick's Rampaging Red Ale is that of the forceful piney, resinous nose which stands out over some more subtle zesty citrus.
As with many red ales, the colour is gorgeous. It's a deep burnt umber with hints of amber that glint in the light.
An off-white head froths up with reckless abandon before settling into a half centimetre sliver across the top of the beer.
Bold Yet Balanced
The bold pine character likely comes from the Chinook in the hop bill. This classic American hop pulls no punches in the aroma and flavour it can impart.
But this beer isn't all about the hops. The malt bill is complex with plenty of caramel shortbread biscuit flavours over some lightly roasted grain and the tiniest touch of dark bitter chocolate.
Back to the hops and Amarillo and Vic Secret round out the regime, throwing some beautiful citrus fruit notes into the mix.
The malt and hops complement each other perfectly. Good red ales are inherently balanced and that's exactly what Slick Rick is.
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Thankfully this beer isn't as elusive as all that. Since being packaged in cans it's more available than ever. You'll find it around Sydney at bottle shops such as Medhurst & Sons, Oak Barrel and Beer Cartel.
If you like this you might like another Yulli's beer, Norman Australian Ale. But you'll definitely love Modus Operandi's Former Tenant Red IPA.
From: Surry Hills, NSW
Beer style: Red Ale
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Here's the brand new video from TaySwee! Check out "Sparks Fly." Taylor will play Staples Center in a few weeks with Need To Breathe. sf from Taylor Swift on Vimeo.
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New York, NY and El Segundo, CA – Time Warner Cable and the Los Angeles Lakers today entered into a 20-year, wide-ranging agreement for rights to distribute all locally available pre-season, regular season, and post-season Lakers games, beginning with the 2012-2013 season. To showcase the games, Time Warner Cable will launch two regional sports networks […]
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For select home games, the Lakers game will be broadcast on both FS West and Prime Ticket. FS West will have the normal broadcast of the Lakers game with Joel Meyers and Stu Lantz. Prime Ticket will cover the game with the Courtside View. The Lakers game against the Sacamento Kings on January 28th, 2011 […]
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It was a wonderful night at Staples Center, as the Lakers hosted their All-Access All-Star Edition event. Bill McDonald was the MC and Laker players Derek Fisher, Bill Walton and Matt Barnes were on hand to share with the fans. Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw and former star Robert Horry were also in the mix. […]
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Linkin Park are coming to Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 23rd. Here's their A Thousand Suns World Tour video preview. The band will offer every concertgoer on their 2011 North American tour a complimentary download of the live recording of the show they attend. Purchase tickets for Linkin Park's A THOUSAND SUNS 2011 […]
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"The Logo" to get a statue… The Lakers are planning a statue of Jerry West outside Staples Center and will unveil it during All-Star weekend Feb. 18-20, Lakers spokesman John Black said Tuesday night. West's statue will be within shouting distance of Magic Johnson's in Star Plaza. West, 72, will have the third Lakers statue […]
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Three county Galway Beaches Deemed Unfit for Swimming
Three quarters of Ireland's bathing waters are of "Excellent" quality for a third year in a row.
The figures from the EPA also show six beaches failed to meet the minimum mandatory standard and were classified as 'Poor'.
Three were in Galway and three in Dublin.
The three in county Galway that failed to meet the minimum required standard were: Ballyloughane, Clifden and Trá na bhForbacha.
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Some say revenge is a dish best served cold. I tend to think that's bullshit, myself. I would much rather it be served with a smoking gun, and smirk, and dead asshole on the ground who, as Vincent Vega would put it, "Should have fuckin' better known better!". There are just some things you don't do, and while most revenge movies aren't about massaging the feet of a dangerously beautiful female, most of these films do seem to have some things in common. That is what this article is about: The Reasons.
Do you think some of the best movies center around vengeance as a driving force for the protagonist?
Honestly, just like in real life there are not very many reasons for revenge. Different circumstances sure, but like a Netflix que I believe they seem to follow similar actions that result in the reaction of revenge. So sit back as I burn through three of my favorite reasons for revenge and the films I believe represent them the most. So enjoy, and if I happen to list a movie you haven't had the pleasure of seeing.... do yourself a favor and get revenge on whomever you have been getting your cinematic advise from so far... because they hurt you... they hurt you bad.
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I tell ya folks, there is one thing I love in a main character and that is a particular set of skills.... skills that are.... oh okay, ya caught me; but, you get my meaning. I like badasses that are A) so badass that they themselves aren't really sure just how badass they are, and B) so badass they DO know how badass they are they keep that shit hidden deep down within themselves in fear of hurting those close to them. Usually B is more depressed than A, but hey... you might be too if you had seen the shit their back story inflects.
Take our first example: Mr. John Creasy from 2004's Man on Fire
This cinematic gem of a remake was directed by Tony Scott, and based off a book by the same name from the author AJ. Quinnell. The original which starred Scott Glenn as Creasy and was directed by French/Italian director Elie Chouraqui, was a little to damn depressing for the likes of me. Its slow pace and long silences did absolutely nothing for the story, but when Brian Helgeland wrote the remake in 2004... lets just say the tone was pushed to the max and Denzel seemed to fit into the role of a troubled ex-military man with nothing to lose like a glove made from angry latex that gave exactly zero fucks about anyone and anything... that is until he was given the job of acting as a bodyguard for the terribly cute Dakota Fanning.
The movie starts out with a troubled Creasy; and when I say troubled I don't mean a stomach ache. I am talking Martin Sheen fresh from duty in a hotel room Apocalypse Now style type of troubled. He is given the job by a friend of his played by the dancing man himself Christopher Walken. Thanks to his reactions toward Creasy you know exactly how badass he is just by inflection alone.
The truth is this story is the classic "Lone Wolf and Cub" type of idea, where eventually the iron-like exterior is broken by the innocence of a child. Which in reaction to this, the badasses last bit of hope and love is placed in the child... and when the character least expects it they are gunned down, left for dead, and the child is taken away. It is then when Creasy, and characters like Creasy, unleash the hell they hold deep within themselves in hopes of either killing everyone involved with abandon or saving the child. In most movies this is a typical reaction, but in this movie Denzel shines as the singular Fuck he was growing as he was getting to know the child was stripped away, and once his fuck level reaches zero once more his compass of hate points to the hierarchy of a criminal conspiracy in Mexico City that is just itching to get burned down. Oh, and Denzel's Creasy doesn't just have a match and a tank of gasoline. He literally is the match with a gasoline center: Napalm personified.
Speaking of people on fire...... lets talk about our next man who's job happened to put him at the wrong place at the wrong time: Dr. Peyton Westlake
or as you might know him: DARKMAN
While Creasy had a job that put him directly in harms way, Liam Neason's character in this 1990's cult classic was not. He was a scientist, and not even the crazy explosion kind. He was working on a new type of synthetic skin when trouble walked into his life. How did a peaceful scientist gain the kind of malice shown in the above picture... why, his lady friend of course. See, she was into real-estate development and a little naive to the real under the table types of business that can go on in that sort of industry and took the wrong document home. The Bellasarious Memorandum as Sam Raimi chose to call it when he wrote and directed this tip of the hat to classic monster movies of the 30's melded with his own hunger to create a cinematic superhero. These chips fall into place and put a ruthless gangster by the name of Robert Durant in Westlake's laboratory along with around 5 other thugs (one of which is Ted Raimi btw). They put Westlake through hell, and laugh while they do it. He is burned with acid and other chemicals, on top of being blown the fuck up and launched so far that everyone thinks he's dead.... I am talking Blown. The Fuck. Up!
Now remember back at the top when I said I liked two types of badasses? Well this is more of an example of A. Because Dr. Westlake, who for sure has a horrible time in his transformation from normal guy to superhero, becomes one of the most unique superheros of all time. See, when the police find him they believe him to be a homeless man who was victim to a gasoline fire and take him to a near by burn instatue. While there he is in a coma and has no I.D. so in order to save his life and help his 97% burned body they cut his "Spinothalamic Tract" which disables pain sensations from reaching the brain. This in turn gives him the ability to release adrenaline soaked carnage along with enhanced strength. If he is injured he wont stop, but there is a slight down side.... for bad guys mostly, because since this tract has been cut and he can't feel pain his emotions -particularly rage - is turned all the way up past 100. Not only that, the rage - which could be anything from a splinter to an attack - and it sends him into psychotic hallucinations of an exploding world... the only thing that can help him? Tearing off a bad guys head, and this is Liam Neason playing him here, so... yeah.
I know what you are thinking... BJ, Why is liam all crazy and looking like Liam instead of a half baked Frankenstein's monster. Well thats the cherry on top of this character. Ya see, old Westlakes study of synthetic skin comes in handy after he is covered in a permanent Halloween costume of burnt flesh and bone. Along with the good news of new skin comes the bad news of the length of time it can survive in sunlight. In the darkness the skin will stay together, but when light hits it he has 99 minutes until its starts to bubble, smoke, and fall apart. He doesn't let that stop him though, because Westlake soon becomes a master of disguise. He takes their faces and replicates them as well as being a lot better at voice impersonation than he ever knew before the accident. He uses these skills to take out everyone of Durant's thugs. I am telling you folks, this movie is a fantastic story of revenge that even includes a sort of Hunchback of Notre Dam type of feel. Also, ya know when you watch Raimi there will be those wonderful psychotic grip losing dance scenes.
Just like one of those crazy dances we are about to take a turn and spin into the past with this portion of the list. There are only a small amount of titles a main character can have within the revenge movie and one of my favorite hazardous work environments is the dirty, the sleazy, the smooth, and the lone wolf that is the Private Investigator. This example comes all the way back from 1941. Just 20 years after the start of the second world war your great grandma was whipped up in a sea of awesome as she sat down in the picture show ready to enjoy one of the first noir films ever made. One that Roger Ebert called "One of the Greatest films ever made." Also in my opinion the birth of the iconic gum shoe, and playing him was the also iconic Humprey Bogart, and even though I believe the character himself is a combination of Methanophiles and ... well ... Humphrey Bogart.... his name isnt either... his name is Samuel Spade and he is not fucking around.......
The Maltese Falcon
The classic film starts off innocently enough. Sam works with his partner who has an even more kickass name than his own: Miles Archer. They are both sitting around in their very own office for two, passing time by rolling cigarettes and looking as manly as possible when Mary Astor's Character Ruth Wonderlay walks in crying tears of lies and deception that our two shamus's (is it shamusi, shamusy, shamuso??) pick up on immediately, but when she presents them with $100 spending money to tail a man hanging in a hotel lobby how could they say no? So Miles volunteers for the shadow job and gets himself capped by a question mark that lasts until the end of the movie. That's not the best part folks, the best part is seeing badass A meet B and create some weird sub-letter I am not aware of. Then for Sam Spade its play time, but not the kind of play time shared by both Creasy and Westlake, which is wrapped in violence. This play time I speak relies solely on Spades ability to manipulate each character. Each of them fall pray to hubris as a calm Spade works all the angles to make sure his partners killer is found. Along the way he finds out the deeper he goes the deeper the pockets of those involved, and Mary Astor's double identity is just a single portion of the pursuit for the infamous Maltese Falcon.
Thats right, a small statue with a real live back story and seething greed pouring from all those who peruse it. It is believed to be solid gold and fitted with rubies, and Sam Spade figures this fact out and squeezes everyone... but not with violence but with tact. See, the above two examples had only one ABSOLUTE angle and that's violent revenge, reflecting the violence that had been done to them... but Sam doesn't just want to see them suffer and figure out his partners killer, he also wants to make sure he can squeeze every last dime out of them using fear alone. Fear of each other, hurt feelings, suspicion - these are Spades tools and if Creasy's art was death then Sams art is talking and body language. Well that and a little bit of and ability to serve out deserved slices of a grinning knuckle sandwiches.
All in all having a job where the possibility of having things taken away from you be it a kid, a face, or a partner you will have to agree that these are some of the most classic reasons for badasses to turn it up a notch. We can all agree though that some films do it better than others. Which just goes to show that its not just the plot of a story that can captivate and audience but the players and feeling involved. These are some of my favorite examples, and there are many more I am sure you can add to it, but lets move forward ladies and gentlemen for like a man in these films i have a plan and to execute that I must move on to........
#2 Cold Cold Confinement
I dont know about you but I personally have always loved the story of the Count of Monte Cristo. A man gets imprisoned for a purpose unaware to him, he finally escapes, and then takes out his vengeance on the person who imprisoned him. Its such a good story that a lot of films have taken slices of it and built entirely different re-imaginings of this but one thing is for sure no matter how many times you see them you can't fail to see the resemblance. Some even straight up pay homage to the classic story with the film itself, sort of using it as a skeleton and adding the flashy parts themselves, but always the characters are drenched in depth just waiting to be delved into, and it isn't until their escape or release that the character really shines. I think this has something to do with the sudden purpose they have in their life to find the person who made them a victim and take revenge. In a way they themselves become vengence, in a way an assassin becomes death once he takes a job. I digress, ha, I am totally getting ahead of myself here... Now for your first example lets get back to the Count.
A lot of Asian Directors have taken on their own interpretation of classic stories as an opportunity to tell their own (insane*) story. Park Chan-wook is no different, and when his modern tale of mysterious imprisonment, Oldboy, had its credits roll all I wanted to do is ask where the acid I had clearly taken had come from and why I will never understand Korean food.
Meet Oh Dae-su, the main player in this tale of woes and wonder. He did a bad thing and ends up getting framed for murder, kidnapped, and imprisoned for 20 years with nothing but a TV and a wall to punch until he couldnt feel feelings. Okay, he probably could feel the broken bones in his hands but even those were a release. See not only was these facts present, he survived on nothing but fried dumplings and poisonous gassing's taking place while some skinny lady comes in in-between his conscious states and hypnotizes him. I mean shit, John McCain was a prisoner of war and he's as hollow and broken candy crushing politician, just think of what he would have become with fired dumplings and forced hair cuts. This Koren Alice in Wonderland shit gets even more real once he awakens inside a box on top of a roof at the same exact geographical location of his original kidnapping..... in a field of grass... on top of a building.
This character goes through a a winding road of weird that would rival most people and honestly its almost to good to give away. I mean I really want to describe every moment of the cinematic centrifuge that this movie incarnates {Drinks second glass of hard liquor as he writes}. The beauty of the character is his transformation from regular guy into full fledged bottled hate walking around waiting to punch someone right in the soul. Few things in life can make a man this way and being imprisoned for reasons unknown is one that we seem to realize is enough reason to root for a guy who is pretty much killing people. It makes me laugh when I think about it but its sort of like the 1000 Ways to Die TV shows story lines, ya know? It creates a philosophical stance right from the begining establishing that whoever is about to die... pretty much deserves it and most anything that happen's to them is okay. Which is one stance that is clearly supported in our next example of imprisonmental (I know its not a word*) anguish.
Law Abiding Citizen
In 2009 a movie came out starring Gerard Butler that I wasn't really sure about to be honest. I mean yeah he can play a real hard ass but I never thought when he took on the lead acting role after 'Gamer' was released just a few months earlier that it would turn out this calculated and deranged. I will admit I was wrong though when this story of imprisoned rage fueled by deserving(?) revenge was laid out before me. Even Jamie Fox did a great job as the only character to have any favor given by the audience in this Kurt Wimmer written, underrated master piece of a motion picture. That favor though was only given to Jamie because you know that he has a family, otherwise he wouldn't have lasted as long as he does in this film.
This story though was more about the imprisonment of the men who took away his family, and while yes you could allow for the criticism that he might belong on the first list. It is the use of this reverse imprisonment that makes this movie so special. The men who kill his family get short sentences when they go to trial. he follows the letter of the law and it lets him down and this unassuming family man Clyde Shelton really (for lack of a better term) takes it right in the metaphorical bunghole. To which he resigns to a sort of Monte Cristo like self imprisonment, planning not only for his release, but for the culmination of his very intricate plan.
This character really hammers out the hard hits and if you have never consider this movie I would put it at the top of the next movie list because if you like to see how One man with determination and skill can really make the world fall apart - leave that Heath Ledger shit behind ya and get on the train that leads to this sweet ass execution of events falling into place. I will admit the choice of the writer not to let him win was one that, when seeing the movie, I didn't root for but I do understand it. You can't let an anti-hero willing to take the lives of innocence survive... but I guess you can let them attempt to finish the job they set out to do with confidence if not victory.Let me ease that mind of yours though (person reading this that I sincerely appreciate) we aren't stopping here... this V.I.C.T.O.R.Y point is the subject of our next fun example of wrongful imprisonment...
The Running Man
This tale of imprisonment takes place in the future... a future where prisoners wear explosive collars and peoples prime entertainment is the murder of Death-row inmates live in a game show format. Stephen King had his hand in this, and its something that you can see once the implications this reflection of the ever growing state of reality TV that has at this point in time come and gone. In 1987 though this film was not only prophet of the future but an entertaining mash up of Arne phrases and kicking the shit out of those that pursue you for the sake of ratings.
This caricature of a badass with nothing to lose and a spine to rip is one of the most entertaining of the bunch. I mean seeing Arne play a badass along with wild existential examples floating around his giant muscles filled with hate and weed, its just marvelous to see. At one point an old lady even gets on his side, and in this society it was like a republican convention attendee being asked about there best example of president and proudly stating "Obama!" to a silent crowd of Fox news subscribers.
Imprisonment is a hell of a thing that can get main characters wound up and ready for action. That story-line seldom makes a bad movie to be honest, but its only when you see that the character has a plain deep enough to be intriguing unfolding in front of your eyes. It really makes the movie go from bad to worse... oh and speaking of going from bad to worse.....
#1 You Gonna F$%# With My Family?!
Ahhh shit things are getting crazy now because the one thing, and I can believe you are thinking it due to astrology and what not (magic and shit), that you may be thinking that we just went through this with the previous category... but you would be wrong. we are going on triggers here and I believe that number three here is a hell of a reason to soak a soul in revenge filled malice. Our first example of this comes from way out west during and after the civil war.
It's the rough and strike anywhere-match heavy The Outlaw Josey Wales
You just don't kill a mans family... you just don't do it. Why? Well for moral reasons I am certain a portion of you reading this have inside you mind, but also because if you fail to kill the man he may just bury his family, have a good cry, and then come after you with a ferocity almost unmatched. Like in the imprisonment portion of this article where I stated that the being imprisoned kind of gives the main character purpose, but that purpose only extends until the main character finds out the truth of his imprisonment and then he/she still has to move on with their lives. That is just something not found when people basically take your entire life and rip away everything you care about with a combination of fire, bullets, and most of the time a little rape. All of which are in this film classic from 1976, adapted from the book Gone to Texas (which also happens to be the name of the first 'Preacher' graphic novel, but I digress {if you have never read it, do yourself a favor!}). Clint Eastwood himself directed this western marvel, and in it you see what lengths a man will go to in order to avenge not only an attack on his family but an attack on the only thing good in his life.
Jose Wales becomes molded by this event so completely that he transforms into one of the most wanted men in America when he refuses to turn himself into the Union Army after he joined the confederacy in the wake of his families death. Everyone else just sort of walks back in... granted they were fighting over pro-slavery. Josey was fighting to get a chance to catch up with the bastards that did bastard things to his family. He takes a persona of a bastard, and wears it like armor. Armor laden with plenty of holsters and Damn pouches what hold spittin' tabacca! {spit} I can understand that most of you might feel this is just one of many Sergio Leone'esque movies that I could include, but for some reason Josey's tale of revenge sets perfectly inside my head as the iconic illustration of vengence and is possibly one of the better early examples of this story hitting the big screen in such a way. Which made it possible for people to take the act of Family Deaths as cause for revenge and push it into the 21's century, which I am almost certain made it possible for the next protagonist to make the leap from the sandy pages of comics and on to the big screen.....
The Punisher
The Punisher has been trying to punish people on the silver screen for years. He's like Jose Wales, if Jose Wales just started hating smelly bad guys in general with as much hate as he hated those specific smelly bad guys. Its a great character, because when I say his family dies I mean that his WHOLE family dies. Ya see Frank Castle was ex-military shadow double deep black ops, the mother fucker might as well have been Remo Williams (see Destroyer books or the movie 'Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins' to achieve full reference point realization) before they take his family away in a very bloody fashion. I love this because, like those 1000 ways to die story-lines I mentioned earlier it sets a precedent where you basically agree with everything that Frank does after that point. It helps you agree, and agree you will if you try out any one of these movies.... even the 80's one.
All humans can come to understand someones reactions when being faced with the death of ones family at the hands of some sort of devilized force. Hell, a lot of people still use this ideology to become actual terrorists in the real world, but just think for a second how hard it would be to turn down the opportunity. Your entire family has been killed, not only that - massacred - could you say no to finding them and putting them down? I don't think I could, but that's where reality and fantasy separate. Because unlike someone who's family was killed in real life Frank has an ability and an almost unstoppable knack for dealing out death to the right people. Its not based on any sort of flimsy ideology like religion or outside influences such as money or power, its based on making the hunter finally feel like the prey, and I absolutely love it. Like I stated earlier, the death of the family becomes a vale in which all actions taken after the fact by the person who lost them is ultimately forgiven with pure understanding. Most of the time their actions are justifiable even without that as an excuse, but sometimes the line of forgiveness is crossed. When that happens a psychosis of the mind taks hold and a psychopath is born.
Which brings us to Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Its not often I write about musicals folks, and I wouldn't even mention it if this wasn't such a perfect example. The movie itself, made in 2007 as an adaptation of a 1979 play (musical) of the same name, and brought to life by a dark Tim Burton. The story is one of insanity that comes to us all the way from the Victorian Era. There is a debate on whether Sweeney himself was a real person, or just a figment of the prose of the times creating a crazed man and his capitalistic lady accomplice who feeds the rich to the poor of London via meat pies. Honestly its the first I have ever heard a story where deranged psychosis is used for profit other than hit men or assassination, but those two have to be controlled and calculated so crazy may be present in the personality but never in the act. Sweeney Todd on the other hand kills only to fill the hole left inside of him that a rotten judge stole away just before sending him to rot himself in an island prison for 15 years. When he returns he is told by Mrs. Lovett (his soon to be accomplice) that his wife killed herself after being raped at a party by the very judge who put him away. He is also told that his daughter is being held as a ward by the dastardly judge Turpin. After being told this.... Benjamin Barker changes his name to Sweeney Todd and plans his just revenge on the judge and his lackey with Lovett. First he must become known as a barber again, and the best way to do that is to take on the best barber in town. He then happens upon a very exaggerated Italian fraud, played in this adaptation by Sacha Baron Cohen....
He defeats Cohen's character and soon the judge comes knocking on his door, but then his opportunity to finally kill the man he has felt so much hate for is gone when a young boy bursts into his shop who is known by the judge to have been lusting after his ward (Sweeney's lost daughter). This drives Sweeney over that line we talked about earlier, because Mrs. Lovett steers his hate in the direction of full blown serial killer. She devises a way for Sweeney to do his killing of random folks in a vain attempt to satiate his lust for the judge's blood, and for her to turn a profit by sticking the victims of his deadly close shave into tasty meat pies.
I love this character because his lust for blood could have been realized in full force had he came back and gone straight for the jugular of the problem, but instead Mrs. Lovett and extenuating circumstances cause this tale of revenge to transform into a story of serial killing and cannibalism. She wants Todd as her own absolutely denying the fact that he has become a fully delusional madman who has replaced his life's purpose with a new found sense of duty believed to be cleaning up the streets of London one dripping ruby at a time. His lust for blood and lies from Lovett blind him from the truth. The truth of his wife still being alive, and in a moment of confusion and agitation he kills her as if she is no one but a speed bump on his road of revenge. He even gets close to killing his daughter - who is in disguise - just to keep her quiet, This story wasn't destined to have a happy ending anyhow, because when a character crosses that line of morality the audience can no longer follow. He or she is doomed to die for the sake of justice and..... desserts.
There are many reasons thrust onto the silver screen that we accept as legitimate, and these are just a few. Vengeance itself is an act that all people can and have felt at one point in their lives. Which makes each one of the revenge stories we watch or read satisfying to that part of us that wishes we could have such an excuse to let that dark side of our minds out to run around for a while with a singular purpose and drop the responsibilities of the real world. While movies are black and white though, the real world is a lot more complicated. The reality of taking someones life is coupled with the complications of those people you are killing deserving to have the same chance as yourself to live life and learn from there mistakes.... although sometimes, just sometimes, we can all set back and let those thoughts run free in a fictional setting and have our beloved cinematic stars inhabit the manifestations of those ideals, and watch as they do what we only wish we could do in those times of desperation. Kind of like violent blood filled Porn for the ego and id in us all.