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Meet the New York heavies behind reality TV. | Produced by Ray Rogers |
Reality, Check!
Ray Rogers
Meet the New York heavies behind reality TV.

 Anthony Bourdain: The King of the Kitchen

 When Anthony Bourdain penned Kitchen Confidential in 2000, he thought it would cater only to his fellow restaurant employees. "That's not a huge demographic," says the chef known for his iron gut and Teflon personality. "I didn't even think it would lead to another book." But it did—as well as a television offer. "I was still in my 'better keep my day job' mode," says Bourdain, a former chef at New York brasserie Les Halles. "I naturally assumed they were full of sh*t." But with his second book, A Cook's Tour, which included "ludicrously self-indulgent" travel as a main ingredient, he realized they weren't. He began shooting with the same "no expectations" ethos that characterized his approach to writing. "It's very liberating," says Bourdain, an understated presence in a hyped foodie scene full of celebrity chefs, cooking competitions and branding. "Television is a means to an end. I like telling stories and keeping each episode different, from a downbeat conflict show to silly food porn the next. I think viewers are much more intelligent and engaged than programmers think."

 More than 10 years and four shows later (A Cook's Tour on Food Network, No Reservations and The Layover on the Travel Channel and The Taste on ABC), his instincts proved right. Now the 56-yearold host brings his acerbic wit, counterculture take on travel and seemingly insatiable palate to CNN for his boldest platter yet, Parts Unknown. The season starts in newly liberated Myanmar and culminates in political hotbeds like the Congo and Libya, where he dines with rebels. "We tend to think bad things happen in other places," he says of his remote locations. "We try to put a human face on countries that most can't even locate on a map—though I'm not naive enough to think this will lead to world peace." But his unvarnished lens, wanderlust and populist take on eating just might get viewers to open more than their mouths. —Marisa Fox

 Teresa Launi Sorkin: The Production Maven

 "The hardest part of being a reality producer? We need to find the craziest people who will bring the drama, but we also need them to be dependable enough to show up on time," explains Teresa Launi Sorkin, president of Prototype Entertainment, a TV and film production company. Sorkin grew up in Soho and attended New York University before heading to Milan, where she studied economics and modeled. After a stint as an entertainment correspondent on Italian TV, she decided that working behind the camera was a better fit. Back in the U.S., she worked on Laguna Beach and The Hills for MTV; then in 2007, she co-created the network's controversial show The Xeffect, which showed young couples getting drunk and hooking up. "It really pushed the envelope for its time," she says. But standards evolve quickly, and by 2009, Jersey Shore had made on-camera smushing routine.

 Currently Sorkin, 37, and her partners Bethany Parish and Frank Rainone have a first-look deal with The Weinstein Company and can boast 10 shows in development, including ones about psychics, surfer girls, Wiccans and guys who pour concrete, as well as a relationship show that's premiering on MTV in June. "These shows are really cast-driven," says Sorkin, who lives with her husband and two kids in Battery Park City. Besides bringing the crazy, "reality stars need to be willing to reveal the good, the bad and the ugly on camera," she says. "If they don't, this isn't for them." But promising shows can also fall apart when cast members' lives are too out of control. "We were doing this show called Trailer Girls about girls in a trailer park in South Carolina," she says. "It didn't work out because the girls had serious issues because they weren't professional actors, they were trailer girls." —Anne Marie O'Connor

 Meryl Poster: The Straight Shooter

 Long before she took the reins of Mob Wives and the Project Runway franchise, executive producer Meryl Poster was well-versed in the ways of reality TV. As a Miramax Films honcho, Poster appeared on-camera alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the company's very first reality series, Project Greenlight. "At the time, I wasn't sure what I was getting into," she says of the 2002 cult favorite, in which Damon and Affleck saw a wannabe filmmaker's dream project through to production.

 But despite any initial misgivings, Poster took beautifully to the medium. Her shoot-fromthe- hip style made her a Greenlight fan favorite. And it continues to serve her well in a genre in which authenticity is both rare and key. "I've always said, I am who I am," says Poster, 48. "I'm very honest and straightforward. It isn't always pleasant, but it's always in the best interest of the company."

 From her very first show business job—as the second woman ever to work in the William Morris Agency's famed mailroom—on through the two decades she worked for Miramax, she has maintained that sense of loyalty. "My position may have changed over the years, but I really haven't," says Poster, who executive produced such bigscreen hits as Chicago, Chocolat and The Cider House Rules.

 She's loyal to her TV shows, too. The daughter of a swimsuit manufacturer and a model with a love of fashion, Poster was already a die-hard Project Runway fan when, in 2011, Harvey Weinstein lured her back from NBC to executive produce both Runway and its spinoffs Project Runway All-Stars and Project Accessory. "My 13-yearold daughter and I still watch it all the time," she says. And Mob Wives—which Poster says she knew was a "home run" right away—is the icing on the cake. "It exposes us to a world we've never seen," she says, explaining that she sees that as the main appeal of the genre.

 "The best reality shows either take you to a place you've never been before, or take your own life to another level," Poster says. "Either way, it's a great escape." —Alison Gaylin

 Mark Mullett: Agent of Influence

 "People like to give reality TV a hard time," says Mark Mullett, William Morris Endeavor agent for unscripted and lifestyle television. "I might be drinking my own Kool- Aid, but I look at each show, from Honey Boo Boo to Housewives, as an anthropological incision into our societal fascia," Mullett continues, his schmooze impassioned. "Love 'em or hate 'em, they would still be doing their thing, whether we watched them or not."

 His clients range from master reality TV producer Lenid Rolov, whose credits include Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, The Hills, Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual, and the The Real Housewives New York City and New Jersey franchises ("The next season of Housewives of New Jersey is apparently explosively wild," says Mullett), to One Louder Productions (creators of MTV's teen self-improvement show, Made), Anne Burrell of Food Network, Nate Berkus and Kathie Lee Gifford. Clearly Mullett, 29, thrives on media mashup: "My day is always undulating," he says. "Every day is really different, and that kind of pacifies my self-diagnosed ADD."

 The key to successful reality TV, Mullett says, is simply a matter of great storytelling. "A dynamic, magnetic character always has a place on TV," he says.

 The Gucci-, Dolce- and Dior Homme-suit wearing Mullett, a daily habitue of SoulCycle (another of his clients), grew up in Manlius, N. Y., just outside of Syracuse, and was determined to work in New York City's entertainment industry. In 2005, after graduating from Hamilton College, he won an entrylevel position at the William Morris agency, starting in the mailroom as all new hires do (in the footsteps of David Geffen and Michael Ovitz), and has been on the fast track ever since. Does Mullett ever disconnect from his iPhone? "No, I really don't," he says. "I feel like it stares at me at night, but that's OK." —James Servin

 Scott Lonker: The Super Agent

 Life is unscripted, and the career trajectory of Scott Lonker has proven similarly unpredictable. A top agent at legendarily powerful talent agency CAA, Lonker, 39, enjoys a reputation as one of unscripted television's most innovative powerhouses: He currently represents much of its top talent, including Criss Angel, Johnny Knoxville's Dickhouse production company and the creators of ubiquitous hits like The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? And ImpracticalJokers. What launched his career, however, was a hilarious misunderstanding. After graduating from Rutgers in 1996 with little career direction, he found himself working the door at a Washington, D. C., comedy club. "I didn't know anything about entertainment—I grew up in Margate, N.J., where my dad owned a pet store," Lonker says. "Backstage, all the comedians' contact info was posted up on a wall, and I'd noticed they were repped by different agencies. I thought they were photo agencies: It was like, 'No, dum-dum, they're talent agencies.'"

 Once he'd figured out that key detail, Lonker's professional ascent began. Landing in the mailroom of William Morris' New York office, he found a crucial mentor in WM's thenhead of TV, Jim Griffin. At the time, reality-based programming wasn't the Zeitgeist driver it is today, allowing Lonker to build a solid foundation in that growing arena. His taste and industry savoir faire eventually led to a four-year stint as vice president of unscripted development at A&E, overseeing smash series like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

 He transitioned back to agency life in 2011: Joining CAA's Manhattan operation, he'd become ideally poised to tackle the opportunities of unscripted's burgeoning "golden age." "I'd gotten a 360-degree view of what goes into making a hit," Lonker explains. "Shows were going straight to series, with no pilot. When I realiZed how competitive the market had become between networks, I didn't want to miss anything on the selling side. It's just always exciting to look for stories that haven't been told yet, or in a way we haven't seen before." —Matt Diehl

 Vinnie Potestivo: The People Person

 It takes a character to know a character. Gesticulating wildly while telling tales of reality coups (from bringing Mandy Moore and Molly Sims to the sector in his early days at MTV to casting the Millionaire Matchmaker in Manhattan), 6-foot-3 casting agent Vinnie Potestivo, 36, is one big lovable Italian family man. It's no wonder he rhapsodizes about the matriarch of The Real Housewives of New Jersey series (for which his firm helps cast supporting players) and takes pride in "MTV's other Vinny from Staten Island" (Vinny Guadagnino from Jersey Shore), recognized as a hometown reality heartthrob. Growing up the oldest of six kids in a one-parent household in an outer borough was early training for the demands of casting reality television programming, says Potestivo, who rose through the ranks at MTV before starting his own namesake casting agency, Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment.

 "As a kid, my job was to keep the other kids out of the kitchen—I did that by entertaining each one of them individually," he says. "I can work for MTV, VH1, Bravo, A&E Biography, and so on, because I have that many family members and I can tell versions of the same exact story to my grandfather as easily as I can to my brother."

 The real key to his success in the genre comes from being "a person hoarder, and a story hoarder," says Potestivo, who counts more than 160 people in upward of 35 markets in his "COPS" program—which stands for Character Outreach Program, or COPS on patrol. That reach gives his firm the ability to search high and low for, say, "adult babies"—"and that's not even strange or unusual for me"—as easily as the girls next door. But so far, for 2013 it's been all about the moms. "As of January, we've sold five projects that all have strong mothers at the center of every show." Hardly surprising, as the mom controls the remote control in the family, he says— "they're like the TV gatekeepers." And what does his own mom make of his chosen field? "My mom loves what I do," he says. "But I still get phone calls from her congratulating me on like, American Idol or the Academy Awards—neither of which I have anything to do with." —Ray Rogers

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Man facing extradition to US on terror charges denied judicial review
A man facing extradition to the United States on international terrorism charges has been refused leave to seek judicial review at the High Court.
Mr Justice John Edwards today said that he was not disposed to grant Ali Charaf Damache (48) leave for judicial review on any basis, adding that he believed his judgement would deal comprehensively with each and every one of the points raised.
Damache, an Algerian-born Irish citizen who has been living in Ireland for a decade, is wanted in the United States to face charges relating to the conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists and attempted identity theft to facilitate an act of international terrorism.
The High Court heard the US alleges it has evidence that Damache conspired with American woman Colleen LaRose - who used the online name "Jihad Jane" - and others to create a terror cell in Europe capable of targeting both US and western European citizens.
It is alleged Damache - who went by the username "the black flag" - also participated in a conspiracy to transfer a passport stolen from a US citizen to an individual in Pakistan whom the conspirators believed to be a member of Al Qaeda.
Damache had sought judicial review to challenge the DPP's decision not to prosecute him in Ireland for the offences. The extradition case has been adjourned until after judgement is returned in the judicial review application.
Mr Justice Edwards said that he had prepared a substantial judgement that runs to over one hundred pages. However, he said that although the judgement was finished he was not prepared to release it today as there was some "minor tying up" he wanted to do.
The judge said he would put the matter back until Friday when the written judgement, containing his reasons for the decision, would be handed down.
With regard to the part-heard extradition case, Mr Justice Edwards said he would re-enter this matter on February 4 for the purposes of hearing submissions on how the matter might proceed from here and when it should be re-listed.
Mr Justice Edwards said it was not necessary for Damache to attend on Friday but counsel for Damache, Mr Mícheál P O'Higgins SC, later said that his client wished to come to court.
If convicted of the charges against him as laid out by an indictment returned in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in October 2011, Damache faces a potential sentence of 45 years in prison.
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Although the U.S.Women's National Team is the obvious favorite in the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, they still have to get by three opening round opponents to get to the single elimination semi-finals.
Two of those teams will no doubt be bunkering with the best of 'em, packing everyone behind the ball to frustrate the American attack and catch us on a quick counter. Not a bad plan on paper, but see our 7-0 win over T&T yesterday (Feb. 25) to see how that works against arguably the top offense in the world.
Next up for the U.S. is a match tomorrow (Feb. 27 – 8 p.m. CT) against Haiti, who the U.S. has met just once prior, a 10-0 win in Port-au-Prince that included a shoving match with Carla Overbeck and a rare red card shown to peace-keeper Thori Bryan (nee Staples). For a blow-by-blow retelling of the "Brawl in Montreal,†click on the following link for a "Center Circle Extra†exclusive.
The toughest match of the three will be against Mexico on Sunday (Feb. 29 – 3 p.m. CT), where the winner will likely win the group and put themselves in a favorable position to meet likely Group A runner-up Costa Rica on March 3. While the USA-Mexico rivalry isn't close to what it is on the Men's side, the U.S. Women do have a chance to send Mexico into a difficult semi-final battle with Canada to start to make up for Mexico's Under-23s 4-0 winner over the U.S. that robbed them of a trip to Greece in August.
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Small Group Personal Training
Foundation pioneered this way of training. It is now our number one way we train people now. It is the same program you would receive in a personal training program; it is just conducted in a small group environment. You still get individualized attention and workouts; you just share the room with up to six other people and a trainer. The trainer simply floats between clients to ensure proper technique is being used.
In a tough economic time, saving money is everything. It's less expensive than personal training, but provides more personal attention than a large class at a typical gym.
Some sessions will be more aerobic and others more strength-based, but all will be fun and challenging.
Some things you might do:
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received its first showing at Cannes and the verdict is in – it's not as bad as everyone feared, but not as great as everyone hoped.
Harrison Ford, reprising his role as the whip-cracking adventurer at the age of 65, joined Steven Spielberg, the director, and George Lucas, the producer, on the Riviera for the world premiere.
Even the critics were not immune to the excitement, cheering as the curtain went up and singing along to the famous theme tune. But, by the end, they could muster only polite applause. The feeling was that the film failed to recapture the Indy magic.
However, Ford was in bullish mood after the screening when asked if he was worried about bad reviews.
"I'm not afraid at all. I expect to have the whip turned on me. It's not unusual for something that is popular to be disdained by some people and I fully expect it and I'm not really worried about it," he said.
"I'm here for the people who pay to get in. My focus is on providing the best experience I can for them.
"This kind of film is a celebration of the movies. We made the movie to
re-acquaint people with the pure joy that can happen in a dark room with a bunch of other people seeing something you haven't seen before which will just kick your butt."
It is 19 years since Indiana Jones rode into the sunset in The Last Crusade, and Ford said that donning his battered fedora once again had brought on "a wave of unlikely nostalgia".
"Putting the costume on reminded me of all the good times. They all came flooding back," he said.
"These films are maybe the most significant moment professionally in my life. To progress the whole story was just really wonderful."
Spielberg admitted that he had taken some persuading to revive the franchise but had bowed to public demand.
"I had so many people come up over the years and ask when another one was coming out. The only two movies anyone ever asks me that question about are ET and Indiana Jones."
Such was the anticipation surrounding The Crystal Skull that burglars broke into Spielberg's office and stole files containing images from the film, only to be caught in a sting operation when they tried to sell them.
Shia LaBeouf, a rising star in America, plays Indy's young sidekick and the film is clearly setting him up as an Indiana Jones Mark II.
Asked if there would be a fifth instalment, Spielberg replied: "If you want more of them. We will certainly have our ear to the ground."


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The UK's largest network operator has unveiled the UK's first mobile broadband '4G network'.
Orange and T-Mobile owner Everything Everywhere, which was renamed today as EE, will make the state-of-the-art technology available to some 20 million people in 16 cities across the UK.
The EE 4G network will launch by Christmas, and will being trials in London, Bristol, Cardiff and Bristol starting today. The company will also launch and new fibre home broadband service.
Unveiled at the Science Museum in London, the 4G network, which offers speeds up to five times faster than 3G, will cover 70% of the country by the end of 2013, and 98% by the end of 2014, the company said.
The network will launch alongside Orange and T-Mobile, pitched as the superfast, high-end alternative to T-Mobile's no-frills service and Orange's network aimed at users looking for extra benefits and deals.
The EE name will extend to its retail network, with more than 700 stores to sell EE, Orange and T-Mobile devices.
Together the three networks will service more than 27 million people in the UK.
"A new brand gives us permission toi do something we haven't done before," said EE CEO Olaf Swantee.
EE will initially be available on the Samsung Galaxy SIII LTE, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820
HTC One XL, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE and a Huawei WiFi dongle and mobile WiFi hub.
EE added that it had "one more thing" up its sleeve - aping the famous Apple slogan, indicating the network will also be available on the next iPhone, to be announced tomorrow.
The announcement is likely to enrage EE's competitors, including Vodafone, 3 and O2, who have threatened legal action over telecoms regulator Ofcom's decision last month to allow EE to launch 4G on its existing network.
The 4G services will allow uninterrupted access to the web on the go, high definition movies to be downloaded in minutes and TV to be streamed without buffering.
Mark Newman, chief research officer at Informa Telecoms & Media said EE "will have to be careful about over-promising on 4G capabilities".
"The network will only cover 30% of the population by the end of this year," he said. "It will need to strike a balance between extolling the virtues of 4G in terms of speed and latency while, at the same time, continuing to invest in, and market its 3G network capability."
Olaf Swantee, CEO of EE added:
"Today we launch a new company, a new network and a new brand for Britain.
"Our plans to revolutionise the UK communications market with a faster network and an exciting new brand for the digital age are built on solid investment and a simple belief that customers deserve better.
"We look forward to connecting the country with superfast mobile speeds in the coming weeks, months and years.
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Social Development Center donates relief packages to Permanent Patients at HMCas part of new 'AlAtaa' 2014 Program
As part of the Social Development Center's (SDC) new 'AlAtaa' 2014 program, the center is donating relief packages containing personal hygiene supplies, blankets and clothing to permanent patients from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) living in the Muaither compound.
The 'Al Ataa' 2014 program will run for three-years and by end, the SDC aims to have helped 445 patients from all of the HMC branches.
The project began in 2011 to build a bridge between the community and permanent patients in HMC through SDC's 'AlAtaa' program. It started at Al Rumailah Hospital between 2011-2012 and expanded to Hamad Medical City in 2013.
MsNawal Al Kaabi, a specialist in Social Services at the SDC said, "It is known that the general policy of a hospital is to meet the medical needs of its patients. Therefore, the Department of Community Services at the Social Development Center is striving to provide additional health support services that offer aid to underprivileged families. This falls under one of the main pillars of the Qatar National Vision 2030, which focuses on social development."
TheSDC has several other humanitarian and social services programs in collaboration with the Ministry of Endowment. The money raised through these programs is used to cater to the needs of those who are not able to meet their financial obligations and pay their medical bills, as well as patients with kidney failure.
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Blue Cheese and Walnut Quiche
This recipe has been featured in a menu on the site- Mother's Day Brunch. This dish is gluten-free adaptable– see tips below the recipe…
Yield: 8 servings
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 50 min
Blue Cheese & Walnut Quiche
I brought this to a brunch that I was invited to. Everyone raved about it. The flavor of the blue cheese in an egg dish really was wonderful.
1 pie crust (store bought or homemade)
3 large eggs
2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup milk
2 1/4 cups grated Swiss or Gruyere cheese
1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
2 Tablespoons minced red onion
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Gently place pie crust into 9-inch round pie pan or quiche pan. Pinch the rim decoratively and prick crust with a fork. Bake the crust for 10 minutes. Pull out to cool while you prepare the filling.
2. In large bowl, whisk together eggs, flour, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Blend in the cream and then the milk.
3. In separate bowl, combine Swiss and blue cheeses and then sprinkle them into the prepared pastry shell. Sprinkle the red onion and walnuts over the cheese. Gently pour in egg mixture to fill the pastry shell.
4. Place the filled pan on a baking sheet and bake quiche for 35-40 minutes, or until custard is just set. Watch the edges of the crust and cover with foil or a pie-crust cover if it's browning too much. Let quiche rest 8-10 minutes before slicing and serving.
*To prepare this recipe as GLUTEN FREE, you'll need to use a GF pie crust (I've seen them at Whole Foods- or make it homemade). You'll also need to sub GF flour for the all-purpose, and sub another cheese for the blue- try goat or feta instead.
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I love quiche and this looks exceptional! I love blue cheese and walnuts so it's got to be good!
I was under the impression that Blue cheese was not Gluten free as they introduce the bacteria that causes the blue parst in the cheese was cultured on bread crumbs and then added to the cheese. Is there a certain brand of blue cheese used in this recipe?


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California College of the Arts - Comments and Student Experiences
Ok, so I was in love before I even got there. I lived in the dorms, which are insanely expensive for their size, especially since you're sharing with another guy. That said, my roommate was always at his girlfriend's, so I always had the room to myself. Be sure to call the bottom bunk, otherwise it's pretty awkward if you have a girl over. But honestly, I loved living in the dorms, there's no better way to do it. I've seen all the dorms and they're all really cool. Webster's chill, Irwin has a sweet view from the roof, and Clifton is just great all around.
The Oakland campus is amazing, it's just awesome in every way. The SF campus is pretty sterile, but there's always work up on the walls which is cool.
I went in majoring in photography/painting, then switched to architecture, then ID/interactive, then to Individualized. I'm now looking at that school from HS for photojournalism. If CCA had a photojournalism major with a record like that of RIT's, I'd definitely stay. The area is really great. Living in Rockridge is heaven. You can catch the BART into SF for a night of excitement or you can go to berkeley or any of the other places. I walked and explored a lot. I rode my bike EVERYWHERE. The traffic is wicked fun to ride through. The area is awesome, but the rent is insane out there. good luck finding a room for under 600 a month plus utilities (I'm used to maybe 250/mo with utilities included).
A lot of the students don't care, a lot are morons, most are wicked rich, so what that's all colleges. most of them are great folks. There's usually a party to go to and have fun. I don't smoke or drink or anything but I hung out with everyone and had fun no matter what.
Campus jobs are easy to get if you can get to them and they're easy as pie.
The teachers are pretty great (if you dig painting, f'sho check out Chris Brown, he is the boss, for real). But I didn't really feel like I was getting anywhere with any of it, like it was fizzling out real quick. It doesn't seem like a promising future.
So the reasons I left were:
the school wasn't exactly what I wanted
the price tag of the school in relation to the education quality as well as the high cost of living in the area
The area is awesome, the openings are cool, lots of snooty art snobs, a bit expensive, wicked fun, some of the best memories ever, and I made some great friends from all over the world and I even learned some Chinese. If you're interested in this school, visit and try to sit in on some classes so you get an idea of the level of things. For me it was a tad slow and tedious, but others really loved it. Go CCAC!
Their are a lot of exhibition events and lectures at the school as well ,that will help you make contact and network with people and companies that work in the arts.Artwork is always hanging up from critiques, so if a gallery owner or art director is walking around campus, they could see your work and contact you.This has happened for many students.
Last if you are interested in animation, their is a new degree program in this field. It is really new ,so it not listed in most catalogs yet.


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Earlier this week, I reported on Issaquah's panhandling ban that also prevents firefighters from soliciting money for a good cause at city intersections.
Looks like things will work out after all.
Today, the city said it's working with union firefighters so they can do their "Fill the Boot" drive for Muscular Dystrophy at an intersection on Sept. 12.
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You might try bbdb-vcard-export.el to export your Big Brother Database to vcards, and then import the vcards into Evo via File -> Import. bbdb-vcard-export.el can be found at: http://www.panix.com/~jimh/bbdb-vcard-export.el I've never used it, but it might work. :-) -Eric On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:11, Jack Veenstra wrote:Is there a way to add a contact to Evolution via the command line? If so, I could write a perl script to read my .bbdb list of contacts and invoke evolution for each one. Jack V. On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:10, Jack Veenstra wrote:I have a lot of email addresses in my .bbdb file from when I was using the mail reader "vm" in xemacs. Is there any way to import those into Evolution or convert them automatically into Evolution Contact lists?_______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution_______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution


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In any given year, there are always surprises: films which end up being far better than the sum of their parts, and films which almost accidentally slip into genius territory. Let's hope there are more than a few of these lurking in the 2011 melting pot, for we'll most likely need them. The coming year is not yet looking like a vintage one for fanboy-orientated fare, though there are a few potential gems amongst the generic dross.
Of the comic book movies which will hit multiplexes over the next 12 months, I'm picking Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class as the one to watch. I do so with some reservation, as ensemble superhero films are notoriously hard to get right. There's not nearly enough time for us to get under the skin of all those individual characters and personalities, so film-makers often substitute detail with spectacle.
I have not found any of the previous X-Men films to be to my taste – even the earlier Bryan Singer efforts seemed like pretty po-faced, non-essential confections – so for me Vaughn has a mountain to climb. On the other hand, the series might just benefit stylistically from its period setting, and the cast is spectacular. The British film-maker also seems like he knows what he's doing with this kind of material, coming off the back of the wryly joyous Kick-Ass. Let's hope all the wit and heart of that film does not get lost in a maelstrom of spandex when First Class arrives in June.
I'm finding it hard to get all that excited about either of the two Marvel comic book movies which are due to arrive this year. Thor, I've discussed previously on this blog. Captain America: the First Avenger has the advantage of a charismatic Chris Evans on board, but director Joe Johnston is a typical Hollywood hack whose recent films include Jurassic Park III, Hidalgo and The Wolfman, none of which exhibited any particular verve or flair. That unwieldy title also suggests that Marvel are planning to use the movie as a giant commercial for Joss Whedon's The Avengers, a trick which almost ruined last year's Iron Man II.
I'm expecting The Green Hornet, which arrives in the UK later this month, to be enjoyably throwaway fare. Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg proved with Superbad that they are capable of crafting lastingly great comedy with genuine humanity, but since finding fame they have slipped from those heights. Pineapple Express, while entertainingly silly stoner fun, really only succeeded in making us aware of James Franco's impressive comedic talents.
The Green Hornet does not even have that card up its sleeve. As for the other "Green" movie, Green Lantern, it really does look like a cut-price Iron Man via Flash Gordon type deal, except without the great songs.
In terms of science fiction, anyone who enjoyed Duncan Jones's eerily enthralling Moon will be eager to check out his next venture, the almost insanely high-concept Source Code. An uneasy-looking cross between Groundhog Day and Phone Booth, it stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier whose mind is repeatedly sent into that of a train crash victim in the last eight minutes of his life. He must use that time to work out who bombed the train in order to stop the miscreant striking again, though presumably multiple attempts at copping off with Michelle Monaghan are another option.
Continuing on a (sort-of) sci-fi trip, I'm desperately hoping Greg Mottola's Paul will be a fitting addition to the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost collection. Spaced and Shaun of the Dead will always have a place in the hearts of thirtysomething former denizens of dingy 90s flats, but this one just looks a little ill-conceived to me. Chemistry is hard to find at the best of times, but must be almost impossible when you're acting against an all-CGI little green man whose voice will be dubbed in later by Seth Rogen in an LA sound studio.
Later in the year, Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes and Hugh Jackman vehicle Real Steel might just be passable little B-movie-esque romps, though in my case the latter will have to overcome a personal aversion to anything involving pugilistic robots fostered by multiple Michael Bay Transformers movies. Speaking of which, the third instalment in the almost impossibly loud machine mayhem saga arrives in July – won't that be a little fluffy bundle of horribly cataclysmic joy to behold?
In terms of fantasy in 2011, Marcus Nispel's Conan the Barbarian has been rushed into production in order to meet the terms of a rights clause, and stars former Baywatch Hawaii star Jason Momoa as Robert E Howard's invincible hero. It does not, frankly, look good. But hey, Arnie's free, and no one has yet made King Conan ... Meanwhile, Your Highness looks like an entertaining Princess Bride update (except didn't Stardust already do that?) and Tarsem Singh's Immortals, in which Greek warrior Theseus battles against the imprisoned Titans, could be an outside bet for a decent swords and sandals venture.
Finally, there are those movies which don't quite fit any particular category, like Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens. Could it be the Iron Man director's last gasp at something with a little bit of bite to it before he heads of into facile family territory with Disney's Magic Kingdom? Or is this going to be the first of a slew of poorly considered "mash-up" movies? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Boy Scouts vs Zombies are also in production, but neither of those has Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford blasting Colts and laser wristguns at extra-terrestrial interlopers who have just landed in the middle of the wild wild west.
Which movies are you looking forward to in 2011? And which are you expecting to bomb? We'll split them into goods, bads and maybes – your thoughts, please.


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No, this is a deeper plague, a stress on the psyche, near daily trauma. For me, to sit down to write, to look at that page and get set to begin the words - I am almost afraid at times of the volcano of emotion within, of what might pour out - grief, rage, fear, profound disappointment and disillusionment - I fear the truth within me.
Also the danger of penetrating, life-altering insight, the kind that disturbs, that something huge is about to shift. And this is not your own singular volcano. It is bigger than you, a force in the field, something trying to break through. And the fear it could therefore shatter.


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