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Just finished. A bit disappointed. Once it really started building events upon events within the (fairly thin) core plotline it got interesting, but the whole thing was too drawn out and ultimately led to that most horrid of modern American TV series hallmarks: a massive open end. A series -sorry- season that serves mostly to lead into a second season? I don't like that. Quite anti-climatic. Or are climatic TV series so very 90s or something?
Cynical structure aside, I liked the performances. All the exposition of Underwood's background could lead to something. His wife was just as interesting. Tempted to say not enough dark humour, but maybe I've been a bit too expectant of something like the original.
Talking of the original, I just started it again. Opening scene: Urqhart looking at a framed photo of Margaret Thatcher, saying "Nothing lasts forever"
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Just started watching it. Good stuff so far (first two eps).
Hope you enjoy it.
Finished watching the original S1 again. What a contrast! Seems almost rushed compared to the new one. And slightly shabby in a classic British way, compared to the slickness of the American stuff. Very good though. Ian Richardson was brilliant. Oh, and so much more talking and joking with the audience. He enjoys you taking an interest in his behaviour! Except when he does something he doesn't want you to witness. I wish there was more of this in the American series.
One thing that's reinforced watching the original is the old pun in the title. It doesn't suit the characters in the American series.
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Couldn't watch the original after finishing the superb us one. Watched a couple episodes but just looks ancient and thrown together.
It does look old and a bit primitive but didn't you enjoy Urqhart? At all?
Deleted user wrote:Who was this? I can't remember. I'm guessing mowgli.
Couldn't watch the original after finishing the superb us one. Watched a couple episodes but just looks ancient and thrown together.
Yeah still showing up as mowgli on the Android app.
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I'm yet to watch the American one, but the original is one of the most brilliant TV series I've ever seen.
Dougs wrote:Haha! I can recognise mowgli prose! Ehhhh. Go me.
Yeah still showing up as mowgli on the Android app.
thelzdking wrote:Well worth it. It's long-winded and filled out (rather like Spacey's Urquhart ho ho) in the American HBO-style way, but it's still quite good. Some have said Spacey carries it, but I think Robin Wright's character is as good. She's stone cold.
I'm yet to watch the American one, but the original is one of the most brilliant TV series I've ever seen.
Worth getting Netflix for a month to see for yourself. If they release s2 in one big hit (as they did for s1), you could see the lot inside one month.
They are, released Friday I think
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Yeah I want the smug cunt to get his compeuppance but the fact series 3 is already commissioned makes me think this might not happen.
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I started this recently and I'm chapter 10. My friend recommended it to me and even though I didn't think it would be for me I'm now hooked. Never thought political shows would appeal to me. Once i've finished this and season two i've been told to watch The West Wing.
I can't quite work out if I like Frank Underwood or if I hate him
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Started this yesterday, on episode 5 now. Absolutely superb.
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Season 2 is up on Netflix!
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Great news! I only just finished with the first one the other day...
Thought it was a very good series with only one huge disconnect where Peter is murdered...That just seemed like a step too far for Frank no matter how he justifies it...
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AcidSnake wrote:Thought it was a very good series with only one huge disconnect where Peter is murdered...That just seemed like a step too far for Frank no matter how he justifies it...Not started the second season yet but I wouldn't be too surprised if that comes back, he's in the passenger seat, no-one who kills themselves like that would do it from there. Something any cop should be suspicious of.
Have now watched the first episode of season 2 er nice to know that particular plot element hadn't been forgotten about!
Really big spoiler for episode 1 having watched the original series I wondered if Frank would do what Francis did, yup...
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Just watched the first episode of the second series.
My mouth swiftly cupped my overly gasp-inducing mouth near the end.
... and the talking to us in the mirror at the end was absolutely blooming brilliant! I was almost laughing when that happened as I kept thinking Francis has not uttered a single word (to the camera) throughout the episode.
Well, they have certainly got my attention now.
: )
It started slowly, but the climax to the first episode in season two was excellent!
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craigy wrote:Sounds like my kind of valentine's night!
It started slowly, but the climax to the first episode in season two was excellent!
Hah, I wish! Was in bed by 9.30, and not in a kinky way.
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Fantastic first episode to S2. Fantastically brutal.
Just watched the first episode of season two. Woof.
I think everyone probably saw Frank pushing Zoe under the train coming, but I'm glad they made it fairly obvious it was going to happen. Had a sick feeling in my stomach during the whole scene.
Fuck! fuck fuck fuck.
I didn't think that would happen. At all. Maybe I should have, but as a viewer, I was completely manipulated into believing that what was offered would happen. A brilliant reference back to the originals too. I can only imagine it'll be a bit dull for a while now, but perhaps the only things to expect are surprises.
I meant to say: massive kudos to Whizzo for spotting the passenger seat thing. I hadn't noticed that at the time, never mind predicted the part it would play!
@CharlieStCloud Ha! Yeah, that was quite brilliant. A real Fuck U to the viewers.
I'm pretty sure we were supposed to see it coming. The scene with Frank in the ribs joint really spelled it out, and we now know he'll kill people who get in his way. The scene in the subway was absolutely dread-filled, it ratcheted it up brilliantly.
I was a little disappointed in Zoe for completely falling for it since she had suspicions that Frank was capable of murder, or at least being involved in a man's death in some way.
Still, I guess you don't really think someone's going to throw you in front of a train...
The sense of threat was strong, but I thought she was playing it safe, but then she followed him quickly and..
I'm hoping the rib-joint advice was setting the tone for the whole series. Clearly, FU is no fan of Kobe beef.
OH - good advice for casual readers: do not glance at these spoilers if you have any intention of watching these series. They will spoil it.
A few thoughts on Episode 2:
The plot with Lucas is great. Thought the bit with Tom was excellent. I like the tension created by him being on Frank's trail and the fact that Frank doesn't even know Lucas exists. However, it feels like we're just waiting for a breakthrough in his investigation to get things moving.
I'm not sure where all the stuff with Jackie fits in, or Frank's general business as VP. I mean, his goal was to be VP, right? So now we're just watching him be VP and waiting for Lucas to bring him his comeuppance?
Maybe the stuff with Jackie will all slot into place later, but right now it's admittedly interesting but I'm not sure what the bigger picture is.
I thought he knew of Lucas? Or am I thinking of Stamper? Which one was Tom? I've forgotten half the names, it seems.
I'm thinking Jackie will be Franks new squeeze. She'll do everything he wants. The sexual tension will be great, and his wife will hate her, 'cos she'll rival her for ambition (and fertility!).
Given what happened with his wife -what a monster!- she'll need something else to sink her teeth into.
Holding off watching ep2 'til tomorrow.
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Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality is commonplace in Show Biz and The Real World.
The parade of drinks moving from fiction to reality is flowing unabated. This is the fourth time I've been able to report on such possibilities.
• The first was Pawtucket Patriot Ale from the animated TV series "Family Guy."
• The second was Booty Sweat, the energy drink created in the Ben Stiller action/comedy film "Tropical Thunder."
• The third was Slurm (motto: "It's Highly Addictive"), the official soft drink of the 31st Century, in the process of moving from the animated TV series "Futurama" to our very own dimension. Twentieth Century Fox has filed for the "Slurm" trademark which would cover (prepare yourself) "carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; fruit drinks; fruit juices; mineral and aerated water; bottled drinking water; energy drinks; syrups and powders for making soft drinks and other beverages, namely soft drinks, fruit drinks and tea; coffee-flavored soft drinks; Ramune (Japanese soda pops); powders used in the preparation of isotonic sports drinks and sports beverages."
And, now, courtesy of HBO's latest pop cultural hit "True Blood," comes. … well, Tru Blood.
In the show it's a synthetic blood replacement vampires can use to avoid wasting humans. In the real world, it is a blood orange (of course) carbonated drink in a bottle that is identical to the one used in the Sunday night TV series.
A few suggested recipes for using it:
• The Fangbanger: Tru Blood and vodka.
• Death On the Beach: Tru Blood, peach schnapps, pineapple juice and vodka.
• Plasmapolitan: Tru Blood, Citron, Cointreau and fresh lime juice.
It is packaged in a four-pack, carrying a suggested retail price of $16. Tru Blood will hit the market on September 10. You can pre-order it online at HBO Shop.
The new product was unveiled at ComicCon, the annual convention that draws fans of sci-fi, fantasy and the like from every segment of society. You can see the video of the intro below:
Go to my Upstate Restaurant Examiner column or my National Drinks Examiner column on the Examiner.com Web site.


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THE FUTURE OF NON-FINANCIAL CORPORATE REPORTING: How to influence the next generation of ASSURANCE STANDARD
On Thursday 24th January, the first draft of the new edition of the world's most popular sustainability assurance standard – the AA1000 Assurance Standard (AS) – was uploaded onto its wiki-platform (accountability.opendemocracy.net). This starts the much anticipated collaborative drafting process of the second edition which follows an extensive period of research and a series of consultations in more than a dozen countries.
AA1000AS is used by over 200 companies annually to assure their sustainability and corporate responsibility reports; it provides the basis for leading sustainability report awards programs and rating systems; and is compatible with the most used sustainability reporting frameworks.
Sustainability Reporting and Assurance Standards, like AA1000AS, are responding to increased demand for credible, fair and balanced information on organisations' management and understanding of non-financial issues, information that is needed to make informed decisions about who to invest in, who to do business with, who to work for, and whose products to buy.
Independent assurance brings much needed credibility to this new area of public disclosure.
Reports are now published in more than 65 countries around the world. Over 95% of UK FTSE 100 companies are publishing annual sustainability or corporate responsibility reports, of which close to 60% have independent assurance. As best practice matures in countries like Japan and Australia and experience grows in countries such as Brazil, South Africa and India, it is clear that the field will continue to grow rapidly across the globe and the practice of sustainability assurance will become more and more important. And the standards that help to define the basis for consistent, comparable and credible reporting and assurance need to continue to push best practice.
Why use a wiki?
Access and transparency are key challenges for any standards development processes. Who has had the chance to participate and influence the standard and how do we know who has participated and influenced the standard?
The collaborative wiki drafting process addresses these two challenges head on. The wiki makes it possible for thousands of individuals and organisations to provide their input without facing access barriers such as the cost of travel to meetings and the difficulty of cutting through dominant voices. It also keeps a transparent record of everyone who has participated as well as the nature of their input.
This is the first standard to be developed in such a unique way. It offers a more accountable process to develop future standards in all areas. The collaborative wiki approach has already revolutionized knowledge creation and sharing on the internet through Wikipedia and has the potential to impact other collaborative forums, such as government consultations or stakeholder engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility.
There will be three periods of 60 – 90 days each for public participation where all users are able to add their comments and suggestions. The first one will run from January 24 – April 4, 2008. The new standard will be published in late 2008.
To participate go to: accountability.opendemocracy.net
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Bakery and pastry shop in central Ronneby.
Patisserie Continental, or as we locals call it "Contan" have baked bread and pastry for us for generations.
The café is located in one of the oldest buildings in central Ronneby. Confectionery, bread, salads, pies and more.
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Anders Nilsen - Salsa Tequila
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Apparently, making a smash summer hit isn't so hard after all! All you need is a solid dance beat, some saxophone, and Spanish lyrics! Anders Nilsen says that's all you need for a great summer jam, so that's what he set out to create. The only problem he ran into, was the fact that he doesn't know any Spanish other than words and names that everyone else on the planet has heard before. So, those are the words that he used!
This post is our official vote for this song to be the summer jam of VidCon! Which we're going to be at, by the way. Come visit us!
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Caramel Apples for Halloween
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now, I really want to make caramel apples! My second set this season...is that bad?!ReplyDelete
ooh, they look so yummy!ReplyDelete
Chelsea- No way! Make those apples! They are such a yummy treat!ReplyDelete
James- Thank you! I think the ones you made were beautiful! xoxo
These look super yummy! I love the Halloween sprinkles.ReplyDelete
I didn't make any Halloween treats, but my friend bought me a really cute ghost candy. It's too cute to eat :)
I made some caramel apples too. Except i was lazy and got the ones that you peel off the paper and cover the apples withReplyDelete
aw, that's cute and they look delicious!!ReplyDelete
you can come over to my place anytime you want ;)
chelsea, these look amazing!ReplyDelete
all i made for halloween this year was jello shots... haha but i tried to get creative and creepy and stuck gummy worms in them. :)
i wander, i wonder
i have been meaning to make caramel apples, but i end up making caramel apple cupcakes instead. darn cupcake addiction!ReplyDelete
Oh, yum! I've never made caramel apples, but I have one waiting for me in the fridge that my boyfriend bought me. I might have to give them a try!ReplyDelete
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Call for Application: Global Peace and Youth Workshop in Turkey
Turkey (1-5 July, 2013).
In this first annual Global Peace Workshop we explore youth contributions to
conflict transformation, post-conflict peace building and reconstruction,
looking beyond dominant theories relating to youth in conflict and exploring the
challenges of youth exclusion from peacebuilding activities. We examine how
young people's relationships with societal structures are formed and negotiated,
both through established and unconventional means, and how this impacts on peace
processes in contested and divided places.
Organised by CESRAN International, Coventry University, Eko-Avrasya,
Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), and
Karadeniz Technical University, the workshop brings together practitioners,
academics and students of peace and conflict from institutions worldwide.
The workshop is open to anyone who has some experience and a demonstrable
interest in the field of peace and conflict, ideally with special reference to
young people. Experience can be academic, work-based or voluntary. Participants
do not require any advanced academic prerequisites beyond proficiency in English
and a broad overview of current issues in peace and conflict.
All participants at the workshop will receive a scholarship covering their
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any costs associated with obtaining a Turkish visa in their home country.
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Photographer Jimmy Katz will be in residency at Clark University from Tuesday, March 11 through Thursday, March 13 as part of the inaugural Geller Jazz events.
For the past twenty years, Katz's work for major recording companies (300 recording projects) and jazz magazines (100 covers) gave him unprecedented access to every significant artist in the New York area, where he developed his own personal style, a combination of formal aesthetic and improvisatory camera work. Unique to his style, he has worked with large and medium format film cameras in situations where generations of photographers have relied on smaller formats. The resulting portraits have a remarkable sharp detail and creamy palate while maintaining the spontaneous and intimate quality of working in smaller formats. Herman Leonard called him the best working jazz photographer today and the legendary record producer Michael Cuscuna writes, "His style is as identifiable as Armstrong's tone on trumpet or Coltrane's sound on tenor sax." His photography defines jazz in the modern era.
A selection of fifteen of Katz's jazz portraits will be on display in the Melville lobby on Wednesday, March 12 before the Geller Jazz concert in honor of Ron Carter, and for two weeks following the opening on the second floor of the Traina Center for the Arts. But Katz is primarily on campus to meet with students. Students will have opportunities to meet him over lunch, and other times to just talk with him individually and in classes — show him their work and ask him what life in Greenwich Village has been like for an artist.
This residency is made possible through the generous support of the Estate of Selma B. Geller.


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Bernie Mac's Widow, Rhonda McCullough, Talks Regaining Health after Loss
"In October of 2016, I made up my mind. I said, 'This was it,' and I've been committed ever since."
Rhonda McCullough, Bernie Mac's widow, has dealt with so many life changes over the years. After losing her husband, then her father and mother last year, Rhonda's eating habits became increasingly unhealthy and her weight skyrocketed. It wasn't until last year after her mother's death, that she decided to change her eating habits, and shed the weight. Today, Rhonda has lost over 70 pounds by eating healthy and keeping a regular exercise routine. She'd like to let others know, that if she could do it, so can you!
Black Fitness Today caught up with Rhonda McCullough, to learn more about how she turned pain into triumph and how she kick-started her weight loss journey!
Describe yourself as you can remember while you were with Bernie Mac:
I was a young mother, a young wife and a stay-at-home mom for a while. That's where I came into my weight issues; being at home, a little bored, and having a baby… I'd eat a dozen of doughnuts, then I'd say, "wow I can't believe I ate all of that." It was always the sweets.
So your weight problems started as a young mother, even while Bernie Mac was still living?
Oh absolutely. The weight issues started after my pregnancy. I gained close to 80lbs. After I delivered her, I lost 20lbs, then I went on a strict diet. I ended up getting back down to my original pre-pregnancy size, and I maintained that weight for a while.
How long were you able to sustain that post-pregnancy weight loss?
I was able to lose the weight, but I couldn't sustain it for very long. Bernie Mac worked 4pm to midnight, and I'd wait for him to come home before eating dinner, and you know, you can't eat late like that, plus I wasn't active. As African-Americans, we're not taught that you must exercise daily to sustain weight loss. You have to exercise, you have to move, and I didn't do any of that. So as life went on, I ate, and I gained the weight back, especially once Bernie got sick.
After Bernie Mac got sick, how did that affect your weight loss?
Bernie was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in the 80's. As his sickness progressed, it just got worst for me. I was here taking care of him. After he died in August 2008, I could only think, "What am I going to do now?" I just didn't care about my diet after that. Nothing was healthy, nothing was good. I remember saying to myself, "I'm going to be fat the rest of my life."
What happened between 2008 and now?
After Bernie died in 2008, my dad died months later. In 2010, I joined Weight Watchers and ended up losing 70lbs. I got remarried at the end of 2010 on New Years Eve. From 2010 to 2013, I don't know how, but the weight crept back on me. In 2016, my mom got sick. She was in and out the hospital, it was just so stressful and I didn't care about my diet again. I was at my highest weight that I'd ever been. I just couldn't stay focused on the weight loss.
What was the turning point for you?
I have a good friend, he told me, "You know what Rhonda, you're a beautiful person, no matter what size you are. Stop talking about yourself… if you don't like how you look, change it, only you can change it." I've been a yo-yo dieter my whole life. So this time around, because I'm turning 60 this year, I said I wanted to be healthy, and I wanted to look good. So slowly but surely, I started making changes. After my mom died, months later, I knew it was time for a major change. In October of 2016, I made up my mind. I said, "This was it," and I've been committed ever since.
How has your diet changed?
I cut out sugars, white foods, potatoes, sodas, I only ate lean meats and vegetables, and I did that for four months. I got tired of that so I decided to incorporate some foods back into my diet, but in moderation. You just have to learn how to compromise.
Are you happy?
I honestly am. I love the way my shirts and blouses fit; I love the way my jeans fit. I'm a size that's suitable for me. I want to lose maybe 10-15 more pounds but I honestly am happy with the way I look now.
What are some words of encouragement that you would give someone going through the same thing you went through?
Right now in this moment, no matter how you feel, or how you look, you still have to love yourself. We always show compassion to other people, but we never show that same compassion to ourselves. Within loving ourselves, we can make a change. Start small, it doesn't have to be big. Don't make goals that are too big and overwhelming. Take something away for a week. Start walking everyday for 10 minutes, until you can build up and do more. Baby steps. Rome wasn't built in a day. It's not a diet, this is a lifestyle. Not to say you can't enjoy some things, just not every day. We have to learn how to love ourselves and not let the food consume us. Eat to live, don't live to eat.
Rhonda McCullough plans to continue her weight loss journey while living on purpose! Follow Rhonda on IG at @mcculloghgilmore.
Michael B. Jordan Gained 15 Pounds of Muscle for Killmonger Role
Wallace Has Come A Mighty Long Way!
Erik Killmonger is a very powerful character in Marvel's Black Panther. The supervillain, played by Michael B. Jordan, along with his dominating spirit and his pain, was just as important to the story line as the evolution of T'Challa. While there's generally an antagonist in films (spoiler alert coming if you haven't seen the film) – we didn't find Killmonger to be so much of a villain after all.
Corey Calliet is the man behind Michael B. Jordan's gains, and arguably another person who contributed the overwhelming success of the movie. The celebrity trainer, seen now on Revenge Body on E! helped Jordan bulk up, as well as help other stars like Angela Bassett, be at peak physical condition for Black Panther. Calliet has worked with Jordan in the past, most notably for Creed and the Fantastic Four reboot.
"When you see him, you need to be scared, you need to be intimidated. We don't want the nice, young-looking Michael," Calliet said in an interview with Men's Health Mag. He also describes his training style to that of an artist taking a chisel to a block of marble. "I'm talking about sculpting a body, not just conditioning it to be fast…I wanted to make his shoulders look better. I needed his upper chest to pop. I needed his back to tell a story. I wanted his back to look like a globe, like a map."
So how did Jordan get his gains? Calliet trained the actor two to three times a daily and Jordan ate six meals per day. Get more details on Calliet's training with details with Jordan here .
Greenleaf Star Deborah Joy Winans Talks About Overcoming Self-Doubt and Achieving Self-Love
It's hard to find a black family who didn't grow up listening to the legendary Winans family, or at least know someone who did. From Bebe and CeCe, to Marvin, to Vickie, the Winans family has an annointing! But not everyone in the Winans family has chosen to make a primary career out of singing. 34-year-old Deborah Joy knew in her spirit she wanted to become an actress. The pursuit of her true passion paid off, as she was seen by Oprah at a workshop, and offered the opportunity to play Charity Greenleaf. Ironically, Charity is a singer!
Black Fitness Today caught up with Winans to discuss her success as an actress living her dream, and how she has overcome colorism and struggles with body positivity, to truly love herself and who she has been called to be. We know that wellness starts from within, and a healthy body is meaningless without a healthy mind and spirit.
Winans says she's living her dreams thanks to her big breakthrough to starring as Charity Greenleaf on OWN's hit drama series, Greenleaf. She credits her family as being a dynamic support system, as they constantly cheered her on as she worked towards her dream.
Even though her family was very supportive, Winans says she still dealt with a lot of self-confidence issues as a black woman with a darker complexion. Winans noticed a difference in the way she was treated in high school when events and activities came around that required a date. Winans says women with a lighter complexion would get more attention and she even recalls asking her dad, "Is it because I'm dark?"
Black womens' battle with complexion is nothing new. We have all been culturally conditioned to view lighter skin as a the standard-bearer for beauty. It is refreshing to see the shifts in beauty and what our culture views as acceptable.
"I had to learn to see myself the way God saw me."
When it came to career goals and dreams, Winans always knew she wanted to be an actress, even though she grew up in a singing family. Daughter to Carvin Winans, Deborah grew up amongst chart-topping hits and albums across her family, but has said she did not grow up singing.
"I always knew what I wanted to do, but I never saw anyone who looked like me in film."
Despite not getting attention from her peers as a teen, Winans realized one day she had to be a role-model for darker girls, especially those who didn't get the same love and support from their family as she did.
Winans acknowledges Oprah Winfrey as a beacon during her childhood. And today, she says the black representation in television and film is, "absolutely amazing!"
"If [Oprah] can pursue her dreams like this, certainly at some point, somebody will see me too."
Winans pursued theater in school and after completing her Master's program, she knew she'd done all the work necessary to move forward in her acting career. But that is when self-doubt started to hit. After hearing so many "no's," Winans began to wonder if acting was truly the career path she should be pursuing. Winans thanks her husband, attorney and community activist, Terrence Williams, for being the motivation she needed. After meeting Williams, Winans says she still didn't have an agent, and hadn't really booked anything.
Still questioning God and wondering when her moment was coming, Winans recalls Williams sharing advice, "you have to be open and you have to be ready." Months later, Winans was doing a family workshop production in NYC. Oprah attended, saw Winans performing, and pitched her to the network for the role of Charity.
"I knew I had done the work, it's just a matter of being able to have an opportunity."
She credits her support system for believing in her more than she even believed in herself. While currently prepping for Season 3, Winans notes how balance is more important than ever. With a full time schedule with Greenleaf and having a family life as well, Deborah Joy says it's all about making "day-to-day decisions."
Whether its deciding what time she needs to wake up to make sure her home is taken care of before heading to work, or simply deciding what to eat while on set, Winans says you have to constantly choose what's best for you.
After being nominated for Best New Artist at the Stellar Awards, Winans is currently trying to figure out if singing will be one of the next steps in her future. She did however, have a single on the Greenleaf soundtrack, The Master's Calling, that shot to the top 20 on the Gospel Billboard chart. Along with constantly writing, it's safe to say, Deborah Joy Winans will have a busy 2018!
"When you recognize who you are in God and who you belong to, you know that there is nothing that is for you, that you won't get."
Follow Deborah Joy Winans at joywinans.com, @deborahjoywinans – Instagram and @deborahjwinans – Twitter to stay in the loop with what she's up to next!
American Bobsledder Aja Evans Looks to Bring Home Gold at the Winter Olympics
Bobsledding might be the sport to watch in this winter's Olympic Games. We're seeing more representation and more awareness of the sport. It has been nearly two decades since Vonetta Flowers became the first African-American bobsledder to bring home a Gold Medal in 2002. In 2017, we found out that Nigeria would have a bobsledding team of black girl magic competing for the first time ever, which brought even more excitement about representation in the sport. But did you know that we've got an African-American woman from Chicago representing TEAM USA? 29-year-old Aja Evans will be competing in the Olympics for the SECOND time, after winning a Bronze medal in 2014.
Evans is using her platform to encourage more participation from people of color in on-ice sports. Her story was also recently featured in Procter and Gamble's Love Over Bias campaign who spotlight athletes who found their deepest encouragement from their mothers.
"I saw that I could be a symbol of power and resilience and strength for others," Evans says, "and I wanted to own that. … It was a powerful realization to understand I was standing for so much more. I was representing where I'm from. I was representing African-American women all across the world…In this city and the areas I grew up in, so many kids are closed-minded and they don't think there's any more to life outside of where they are," she says. "But I'm living proof that there is. When I talk to kids, I want them to see my (Olympic) medal and to understand I accomplished these things because I refused to let anyone tell me I couldn't."
We are already inspired by Evans and will be cheering her on! The 2018 Winter Games in South Korea begin February 7th on NBC, but catch the opening ceremony on February 9th.
Read more about Aja Evans and her journey as an elite athlete here.
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In a Time of Massive Budget Cuts, Cal May Have to Borrow for a Football Stadium
Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere in California...
It's such a California story. UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium sits on an earthquake fault line. It's going to cost about $321 million to renovate. It would be, says the Wall Street Journal today, "one of the most expensive renovations in college sports history."
The university originally intended to fund the project privately, presumably from Bears fans of the type that regularly clog Berkeley streets on game days.
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"But three years into the fund-raising effort," writes Rachel Bachman in the Journal, "a projected $270 million from the sale of seats has failed to materialize. At the end of December, the school had collected only $31 million... Now it has become clear that the university will have to borrow the vast majority of the money."
If revenue projections fall short and don't cover the bond payments, the shortfall would come from campus funds.
After the state legislature last year slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from the University of California system, tuition at UC schools rose, and then rose again.
Nobody argues about the need for seismic upgrades, especially after those Berkeley shakers just a few months ago, one of which was centered right near the stadium. But some may question whether the university can afford $270 million for a football team right now.
Perhaps the loudest critic is Brian Barsky, a computer science professor who's written repeatedly in the Daily Cal about funding for collegiate athletics. He quoted as saying it's "disconcerting that the university may be gambling with student fees and other academic funds to cover a massive financial commitment for a football stadium."
The Journal does acknowledge the new Pac-12 television-rights deal, expected to nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses. Will it be enough for the athletic department to wean itself from university support? What's that cliche? Only time will tell...
UPDATE: Herb Berenson of UC Berkeley contacted us after this post to offer some Bear Perspective. The Assistant Athletic Director, and the guy in charge of athletic communications writes the Wall Street Journal article contained "a number of errors," which he itemized thusly:
Why is the Memorial Stadium project being financed?
It has always been the intention to use external financing for the renovation and seismic retrofit of Memorial Stadium. This is common practice in financing many types of capital projects, from large endeavors, such as the Memorial Stadium construction, to smaller ones, including home purchases. The Athletic Department, using non-public funds, will be able to make its debt payments through an increase in operating revenue generated from such avenues as the Endowment Seating Program (ESP) seat sales, enhanced Pac-12 media rights, the institution of a facility fee and donor philanthropy. It should be noted that, to date, the project has been financed using debt at lower interest rates and longer maturities than initially modeled.
Cal has received $31 million in cash from ESP sales to date. Does this mean the $270 million goal for the program is not realistic?
About 85 percent of ESP participants have chosen to spread their payments over time, which means they are paying annually up to 30 years. As of December 31, Cal had received $31 million in cash from ESP sales, which corresponds to a total projected value of over $144 million to be paid by the end of the payment contracts. The original goal of $270 million remains. The plan has always been for the Athletic Department to use its operating revenues to make debt payments on an annual basis over the next 30-35 years.
The $31 million received also comes four months before the reopening of the stadium. We anticipate the number will assuredly grow as kickoff for the first game of the year approaches and as the football season gets underway. The goal is to sell 90 percent of the available capacity in the ESP sections, and that goal is targeted for June 2013.
Will the campus have to account for any Athletic Department shortfall?
No central campus funds have been used to finance this project, and it is intended to be managed so that none will be. The Athletic Department and university have gone to extraordinary lengths to inform interested parties about the financing model, including posting on Calbears.com (see Facilities Project Summary and ESP Financial Reports). This analysis suggests that even under a highly conservative, worst-case scenario, the project does not face a financial problem until at least 2038, and that case assumes that no intervening action is taken over the next 26 years.
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Did the university pledge tuition revenue to obtain debt financing at a lower interest rate?
As is standard practice for debt issuance in higher education, all forms of university revenue, including tuition revenue, are pledged.
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Drug monitors want own Armstrong confession
Updated 11:33 pm, Tuesday, January 15, 2013
A televised confession by Lance Armstrong isn't enough.
Anti-doping officials want the disgraced cyclist to admit his guilt under oath before considering whether to lift a lifetime ban clouding his future as a competitive athlete. That was seconded by at least one former teammate whom Armstrong pushed aside on his way to the top of the Tour de France podium.
"Lance knows everything that happened," Frankie Andreu said Tuesday. "He's the one who knows who did what because he was the ringleader. It's up to him how much he wants to expose."
Armstrong has been in conversations with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials, touching off speculation that he may be willing to cooperate with authorities there and name names.
Interviewer Oprah Winfrey didn't say if the subject was broached during the taping Monday at a downtown Austin hotel. In an appearance on "CBS This Morning," she declined to give details of what Armstrong told her, but said she was "mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers."
Asked whether the disgraced cyclist appeared genuinely contrite after a decade of fierce denials, Winfrey replied, "I felt that he was thoughtful, I thought that he was serious, I thought that he certainly had prepared for this moment. I would say that he met the moment."
She was promoting what has become a two-part special, Thursday and Friday, on her OWN network.
Around the same time, World Anti-Doping Agency officials issued a statement saying nothing short of "a full confession under oath" would cause them to reconsider Armstrong's lifetime ban from sanctioned athletic events.
The International Cycling Union also urged Armstrong to tell his story to an independent commission it has set up to examine claims that the sport's governing body hid suspicious samples from the cyclist, accepted financial donations from him and helped him avoid detection in doping tests.
The ban was only one of several penalties handed to Armstrong after a scathing, 1,000-page report by USADA last year.
The cyclist was also stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, lost nearly all of his endorsements and was forced to cut ties with the Livestrong cancer charity he founded in 1997.
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Hmm.. While taking away connections from user thru sqlplus would allow application access coz application makes connection using with application user name. Product_user_profile table is useful only to restrict some scope of sqlplus. If u still want to keep sqlplus access looks like u have to create a database trigger for restricting external programs. The following note from Metalink may be helpful. HTH. Jyoti Bookmark Fixed font Go to End Doc ID: Note:1042517.6 Subject: HOW TO SET ORACLE PRIVILEGES BASED ON TOOL USED Type: PROBLEM Status: PUBLISHED Content Type: TEXT/PLAIN Creation Date: 11-FEB-1998 Last Revision Date: 11-FEB-1998 Problem Description: ==================== How do you set Oracle privileges based on the tool being used in addition to the login ID? Search Words: security, application Solution: GENERAL INFORMATION: RESTRICTING ACCESS TO SPECIFIC TOOLS Solution Description: ===================== Oracle DBMS does not provide any good way to do this. Security in Oracle is based on the login ID. This comes with the general assumption that a particular login can perform certain operations, regardless of what tool you are using to log in. Oracle7 and Oracle8 have very fine-grained access control mechanisms, but they are both based on the login ID. That having been said, there are three general strategies for restricting access based on the tool being used, not on the login: - Disable the undesired tool - Code database triggers that disable DML under certain circumstances - Code extra data access in the desired tool Trusted Oracle does not help at all; privileges in TO7 are still granted on the basis of the login, not the tool. Solution: USE PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE TABLE TO DISABLE DML FROM SQL*PLUS Solution Description: ===================== To disable DML from SQL*Plus, DBAs can use the PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE table. Example ------- To disable all inserts by PZOLA, use the following command as SYSTEM: SQL> insert into product_profile (product, userid, attribute, char_value) 2 Values('SQL*Plus', 'PZOLA', 'INSERT', 'DISABLED'); WARNING! This command is case-sensitive: you *MUST* capitalize it as shown above. You can do similar things with UPDATE and DELETE. For details, refer to Bulletin 98549.947 or Appendix E of the SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference. Disadvantage ------------ This strategy has one problem: it only disables access for SQL*Plus. It does not keep users from updating database data via Browser, Microsoft Access, or any other data access product (such as SQL*Less). To disable DML via Browser, for instance, you would have to configure that through Browser's access mechanism. Plus, some products (such as Microsoft Access) do not have *any* way of disabling DML from the tool. Additional Information: ======================= Oracle Documentation: --------------------- SQL*Plus 3.X User's Guide and Reference Appendix E, Security PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE Table Oracle Support Bulletins: -------------------------
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It's time for a GOLD Play!! Today we want to introduce you to a company that we have seen the activity pick up on it during the last two day's of trading while rising 10%!! Now it's time to Introduce you to our Featured Gold Profile:
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This junior gold producer has such a massive gold and precious metals reserves ($13.5 billion worth) that analysts and stock newsletters are calling it the #1 Junior Gold Investment of the Decade!
Although gold has hit well over $1420 an ounce in December, numerous well-respected gold bugs project it's headed for $2,000 or even $5,000 an ounce and for good reason. Now is the time to begin researching GSTP.OB
Liberty Star Uranium & Metals (LBSR) - this miner of multiple precious metals recently shot from $0.02 to $0.20 - a 1,000% gain in just 8 weeks.
Underworld Resources (TSX-V: UW) - this junior gold saw its share price rocket 959% in just 15 months (12/08 to 3/10). It was then that the world's 5th largest gold producer, Kinross Gold (NYSE: KGC), took over Underworld in a $140 million buyout. On news of the takeover, the share price gained 41%.
Kaminak Gold (TSX-V: KAM) is yet another junior with gold-lined pockets. As a result of its major discovery, shares of KAM shot from $0.11 to $2.43 - a gain of 2,200% in only 18 months.
Now Gold Standard Mining Corp. is set to be the next junior gold that could make staggering gains. I urge you: talk to your investment advisor today and begin to research an investment in GSTP, while the share price is still less than a buck.
Six million ounces of gold worth $9.3billion - that's the score for Gold Standard Mining Corp. (GSTP). Because word of their production has not yet reached the street, you and I can get a piece of GSTP for less than $1 a share.
Once word that GSTP is producing gets out and begins to spread like wildfire around Wall Street and investment circles, the less than $1 share price could swell to $2, $4, maybe even $5 if the spot price of gold begins to rise again.
GSTP is mining gold in the Far East of Russia, which holds the second largest gold reserves in the world!
Deep in the Far East of Russia GSTP's subsidiary, Roszoloto, is operating the alluvial mining operation on 12 claims licensed from the Russian government.
Elnichnoe Property: an area that covers 10 square kilometers, has both alluvial and hard rock deposits. Elnichnoe has 69 tons of B+C1 gold reserves, 6 tons of C2 gold reserves, and 480 tons of silver.
Snezhinka Property: which covers 20 square kilometers, has hard rock mineral deposits and consists of three mining claims. The hard rock mineral deposits at the Snezhinka property have 120 tons of gold reserves classified as C1 and P2 under the Russian reserve reporting system, 3 tons of platinum P2 and 195 tons of silver P2.
It is worth noting that the licenses for these mining claims do not expire until 2030 and 2019 respectively—and they are renewable should GSTP choose to renew them.
For the past two fiscal years the company has been producing around 10 kilos of gold a day—that's 350 ounces or $330,000 worth based on last year's gold prices. What's more, that was only for 100 days of operation due to weather conditions.
Assuming operations are in full swing approximately 180 days out of the year, the company would be producing around $40 million a year in gold at current prices. That number could rocket if gold starts rising again.
Plans are for the company to exploit the full reserves by expanding operations to include building a plant to service the Snezhinka property.
Once completed, GSTP will have the capacity to produce seven tons of gold a year—a move that will increase company net income by $150 million. It will happen quickly.
A second plant will then be built at the Elnichnoe location which is projected to increase the company's net income by $350 million annually.
Longer-term, GSTP's business plan calls for a 3 year target of one million ounces a year in production. At today's prices, GSTP could be producing over $100 million worth of gold in the next 36 months.
Gold, Gold and more Gold...
Production in the second richest gold country in the world is rising. Russian gold production rose 12.2 percent year-on-year, in the first 10 months of 2009. This was mainly due to the launch of large projects in its Far East reports the Russian Gold Industrialists' Union.
Gold output by Russia, the world's fifth largest miner of the precious metal, totaled 171.2 tons January through October compared with 152.5 tons in the same period a year ago. Production is increasing and GSTP is in the heart of gold country in gold-rich Russia.
Yes, like most other foreign countries, Russia has had its share of obstacles for miners such as administrative barriers. To its credit, the Russian government is changing that.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently called for a centralized system for natural resources management which would remove administrative barriers that inhibit geological exploration. New legislation would also streamline visa and work permits for foreign workers in the finance industry, removing yet another common obstacle to mining in Russia.
Easy gold strikes are long gone. New gold is often found in regions of the world where both terrain (and politics) make extracting the metal difficult. The old miners panning for gold have been replaced by huge open-pit or deep hole mines that are difficult to obtain permits for and can take as long as 10 years to begin producing gold.
Turmoil in world financial markets with a global currency crisis
Around the world, economies are in great upheaval. The US and world currencies are unstable. The US alone has a massive deficit—up over $13 trillion at last count and headed for $20 trillion by 2015 according to the Office of Budget and Management. Shaky bailouts, a stimulus plan with a mind-numbing price tag we can't possibly afford, sky-high unemployment—it's all fueling the price of gold.
The US and other countries are stocking up on gold
In 2009 the world investment in gold was nearly DOUBLE, around $60 billion worth, exceeding 1,900 tons. Just in the last quarter of 2009, the world central banks in emerging economies began buying up gold like there's no tomorrow. India's central bank took the world by surprise when it bought a stunning 200 metric tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—that was about HALF the amount slated for sale by the IMF. India loves its gold. Of course, China wasn't about to be outdone so the Chinese announced in the coming decade they had plans to increase their gold reserves to about 10,000 tons. The largest holder of gold—the US—is holding on to our gold supply with an iron fist while Venezuela is restricting the amount of domestic gold sold to only 30
As Governments are returning to the gold standard of gold-backed currency, investors continue to lose faith in many nation's economies and want to return to the gold standard. This will put enormous pressure on gold as governments try to amass large quantities of gold to reassure other governments and large investors of their solvency.
Gold Standard Mining Corp. (GSTP.OB) has significant amounts of silver, copper, platinum and molybdenum to be mined. Total worth, including the gold, is more than $12 billion.
And the ability to invest in a junior gold that is already producing and has multi-billions of dollars with of gold and other precious metals already being mined - for less than $1 a share - is a rare opportunity.
Historically, as the dollar continues to be devalued and depressed, gold continues to be the preferred hedge by investors. It has been that way throughout history as investors find gold to be a safe haven. Gold is looking to once again begin to rise and as a result, could add value to any portfolio diversified in Gold Plays.
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As a team of genuine video games and geek culture fans, Ubicollectibles is a branch of Ubisoft which brings to life a wide range of premium, limited-edition collectible products. The Ubicollectibles items are meticulously crafted in close collaboration with the studios to appeal to the fans of Ubisoft's popular brands.
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Film festival award first and only for Holocaust survivor - Subject of winning documentary dies week after receiving award
Last updated 5/16/2013 at Noon
Atrocities in life were not few for Holocaust survivor Leopold Engleitner of Austria. However, one of the happiest moments of his life was when he was presented with the Best Documentary Short award for a film made about his life and shown at the 2013 Fallbrook International Film Festival in April. Unfortunately, on April 21, one week after saying the honor was the "first and only award" he had received in the 107 years of his life, Engleitner passed away of natural causes.
In hearing the news, film festival founder Ronald Shattuck said, "Getting to know Leopold through Bernhard's [Rammerstorfer's] stories and film, 'Ladder in the Lion's Den,' had a profound effect on those of us involved in this festival; little did we realize how we could affect this man, Leopold, who endured and lived through mankind's worst nightmare."
Rammerstorfer, who was a close friend and caretaker of Engleitner, had written a book titled "Unbroken Will" and produced several documentary films about Engleitner's life and experiences during World War II in three different Nazi concentration camps. The Fallbrook International Film Festival award was bestowed upon Rammerstorfer at the film festival gala on April 7, and he presented it to Engleitner on April 14 upon his return to Austria.
"When I gave Leopold the award, he was eager to hold it and stared at it a long time; he told me it was the first and only award he had received in his whole life," said Rammerstorfer. Cast in pewter, the attractive award was conceived by film festival supporters Heidi and Rich Minga and made by CR Studio 4 in Fallbrook, owned by Robin and Cy Vojak.
Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness, was born July 23, 1905 in Aigen-Voglhub, Austria, a short distance from where Adolf Hitler was raised. He grew up in the so-called "Emperor's Town" of Bad Ischl. Engleitner, who grew up in dire poverty and suffered from the devastating effects of the Spanish Flu as a boy, told European journalists that he was "horrified by the atrocities of World War I." After doing an intensive study of the Bible, he courageously changed his religion in 1932 when he was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness.
"As a result, he suffered from the religious intolerance of his neighbors and of the authorities during the Austrofascism period from 1934 to 1938," explained Rammerstorfer. "He was incarcerated many times because of his beliefs during that period."
Jehovah's Witnesses were gathered together when Austria became part of the German Reich in 1938. Engleitner and others sharing the same religion were given a directive – to sign a paper renouncing their faith and join the Nazi regime, or be sent to a concentration camp, where death prevailed.
Reflective of the title of the documentary film, Rammerstorfer said, "Essentially, Leopold was offered a 'ladder' whereby he could renounce his faith and walk out of the camps."
Engleitner refused to compromise his religious beliefs and succumb to Hitler.
"He was arrested in Bad Ischl by the Gestapo and held in custody in Linz and Wels," said Rammerstorfer. Engleitner was imprisoned from October 9, 1939 to July 15, 1943 in a succession of three Nazi concentration camps/prisons – Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck. Many that refused to join Hitler were killed immediately.
"Ladder in the Lion's Den" details (in 40 minutes) Engleitner's horrific ordeal, part of which prevented him from having children.
Reported to be the oldest male survivor of Nazi concentration camps before his death, Engleitner, who measured 5' 3" in height, weighed a skeletal 62 pounds after his release from Ravensbrueck in 1943. To gain release at that time, he agreed to work as farm slave laborer. When he was later ordered to report to Hitler's army, he hid in the Tyrolean countryside until after the war ended.
After the survivor returned home, he worked on a farm in St. Walfgang until another life-threatening directive came forward.
"Three weeks before the end of the war, on April 17, 1945, he received call-up papers ordering him to join the German Wehrmacht, immediately," said Rammerstorfer. "He refused to comply and fled into the mountains of the Salzkammergut. There he hid in a Meistereben alpine hut and a cave."
"He was hunted like an animal by the Nazis for weeks, but they could not find him," Rammerstorfer said. On May 5, 1945, Engleitner was able to return home once again.
After he suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Nazi's, Engleitner insisted, "My personal experience has left me absolutely convinced that the Bible is still the best guide for a happy and full life."
The balance of Engleitner's work life consisted of doing farm work, working as a night watchman in a soap factory, and performing general labor as a road maintenance worker.
The film's narrator and script editor, Frederic Fuss, said what amazed him was "the strength of Leopold's unbroken will and determination never diminished his positive outlook, and the intensity of his trial never made him bitter."
Up until July, 2012, this Holocaust survivor spoke at schools throughout Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the United States, and encouraged students to "stick by their own beliefs and not succumb to peer pressure." More than 50,000 students heard his lecture.
Engleitner spent the last two years of his life living with Rammerstorfer and his family, as an adopted, beloved grandparent.
According to Rammerstorfer, he was surprised at Engleitner's death because he was "doing well and even spent time out in our garden."
"He was eager to start school visits again," said Rammerstorfer. "What does make me feel good is that we all were with him and held him when it happened. My wife, Beate, hummed a song to him while touching his nose with her cheek."
For organizers of the Fallbrook International Film Festival, Engleitner left an indelible impression.
"We have, in a small way, become a part of history... the history of a remarkable person and the man and his family that adopted him," said Shattuck. "Leopold wanted very much to attend our festival since this was the first film fest his film had been submitted to." Engleitner was advised not to make the trip as the time neared, but he sent a memento in his stead.
Prior to the festival, Engleitner inscribed a copy of "Unbroken Will" for film submittal coordinator Shirley Duke.
"This was to be the last time he would write his name," said Shattuck.
Rammerstorfer, who continues to miss his "best friend," said more than 500 reports have been made in newspapers around the world on Engleitner's experiences.
"Leopold was not only a treasure of history, but also a treasure of character," he said, citing one of Engleitner's quotes.
"I never got angry or worried, because I entrusted everything to God," he said. "What I couldn't alter, I accepted. I was grateful for every day I was allowed to live."


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Blackhawks beat Sharks, set NHL record for best start
CHICAGO -- In what has already started out to be a historic season, the league-leading Chicago Blackhawks added the most significant chapter thus far to their 2013 season with a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Friday night.
With the win, Chicago (14-0-3) set an NHL record for the longest season-opening point streak, as well as still not having a loss in regulation time. That eclipsed the old mark of 16 points by the Anaheim Ducks to start the 2006-07 season.
Goals by Victor Stalberg and Brandon Saad, as well as another outstanding game by backup goaltender Ray Emery, propelled the Blackhawks to the win in front of an announced crowd of 21,760, Chicago's 197th consecutive sellout (including regular season and playoff games) at the United Center.
Emery remains undefeated this season, lifting his record to a career-best winning streak of 7-0-0.
After staking San Jose to a 1-0 lead in the first period, Stalberg beat Sharks goalie Antti Niemi at 16:40 of the second period, flicking a shot that just snuck past Niemi's outstretched glove.
Chicago finally took the lead for the first time in the game early in the third period when Saad poked a wrist shot past Niemi, a former Blackhawks goalie, putting the Hawks ahead 2-1. Chicago outshot San Jose 34-27.
Even with the loss, San Jose still dominates the all-time series between the two teams with a mark of 42-28-5-7, including a 19-8-0-4 mark in the last 31 meetings between the two teams.
Having lost twice to the Blackhawks already in this lockout-shortened season, the Sharks came out much more offensive in the first period of Friday's game.
After a bit of a lull midway through the opening period, San Jose went back to its aggressive ways, scoring the game's first goal with 15 seconds left before the first intermission. Patrick Marleau's slapsot found its way past Emery to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead.
NOTES: Friday marked the first of three home games in four days for the Hawks, who face Columbus on Sunday and Edmonton on Monday, completing a season-high seven-game homestand. ... Chicago got three key players back from injury on Friday. Marian Hossa, who took a vicious forearm to the head against Vancouver on Tuesday, was cleared to play, as was Brent Seabrook, who missed the Canucks game with an upper body injury. Also back from an upper body injury that has sidelined him four games was No. 1 goalie Corey Crawford. He will likely start Sunday against Columbus. ... The Blackhawks won the first two meetings against the Sharks in decided fashion, 5-3 on Feb. 5 and 4-1 on Feb. 15. ... Friday's game marked the last meeting between the Sharks and Blackhawks this season, barring a matchup in the playoffs. ... Todd McLellan needs three more wins to tie the Sharks' all-time career wins for a head coach (206 wins by Ron Wilson).


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Bill Woolsey writes:
Suppose I hold $1000 of moeny I want to hold $1100 of money. My income is $45,000 per year. I spend $45,000 on consumer goods each year. However, this year, I spend $44,900 on consumer. Over the course of the year, my money holdings will increase from $1000 to $1100. I have adjusted my stock to meet my demand by reducing my "outflow."
I have moved from consumption to money.
Of course, in aggregate, it is impossible for everyone to increase their money holdings by spending less.
But that doesn't mean that a shortage in the stock of money can't disrupt the flow of income and expenditure.
those who were selling me consumer goods, are selling me less. If they continue to spend money at their same rate, their money holdings will drop. They need to reduce their spending as well.
MV = Py.
M is a stock. Py is a flow. You really think this is impossible because of stocks and flows?
V = 1/k k of the fraction of income held as money balances. Perhaps this is wrong, but is it incoherent for the demand for a stock to be a function of the size of a flow?
Posted January 26, 2009 8:52 PM
Philippe B. writes:
Indeed, Cochrane is not mixing flows and stocks, he is mixing flows and changes in stock.
Furthermore he considers what you put in the first citation as a fallacie and he explains it later (section "A monetary argument for fiscal stimulus.."). You can't blame him on that.
Posted January 27, 2009 6:08 AM
Bill Woolsey writes:
Cochrane's article has some good insight.
I am troubled by his claim that "inflationary" finance of the fiscal stimulous must result in higher prices and the new money can't be pulled out of cirulation in the future or else it will be ineffective. I took that to mean that it will only motivate an increase in spending now if people expect permanently higher prices in the
This appears contradicted by what he wrote a bit later about what happens when there is an increase in money demand. If people want to hold more months of income in the form of money (higher k, exactly) then spending and output falls until the price level falls enough so that the current money stock is two months of income.
Well, suppose the nominal money stock rises until it is two months of income at current prices? The price level is higher than it would have been, (not falling) so I suppose you can say that people have a reason to maintain spending relative to the fall that would have occured because of the deflation that didin't happen. But it seems strained to me.
Further, if k rises and then falls, I don't see how reducing the money supply when k falls makes the increase when k rises ineffective.
It seems to me that Cochrane has trouble getting out of the market clearing always mindset. If k has risen, then the price level must already be lower. We must be somehow trying to disturb this equilibrium that already has real aggregate demand equal to producive capacity.
I think conflating money and government bonds is a mistake. Individual money holdings can be incerased by spending less and reduced by spending more. That the government issues base money is not essential to this characteristic. It would still be true if gold were used or private money. Government bonds don't have this charateristic.
Now, his point about the current situation is almost certainly correct. Open market operations that reduce the supply of T-bills remaining on the market will cause an increase in money demand. If the interest rate is at zero and can't fall, the reduced supply of T-bills leaves a shortage. What will people do with the money they would have spent on bonds? They hold it, because money is pretty much a prefect substitute for zero interest bonds as a store of wealth.
While the operation increases the supply of money, the increased demand and supply match and so there is no correction of the monetary disquilibrium. (It is easy.. k rises more as the supply of T-bills shrinks.)
Corchrane's point about the Fed purchasing other sorts of assets is correct. But calling it all government bonds is confusing--I think.
Personally, I think the Fed should buy up all of the near zero interest government bonds (and sure as hell should stop paying interest on reserves.) It should just realize that marginal increases in the money supply will not lead to marginal increases in nominal expenditures under such conditions. They need to buy longer term and higher risk assets. But still, I would suggest buying up all the near zero stuff more or less at once and then going forward from there.
I also agree with Cochrane's point about a credit cruch reducing aggregate supply. If spending is maintained, but finance breaks down, then the productivity generated by an effective financial system disappears. Productive capacity is reduced.
In reality, credit crunches nearly always impact aggregate demand and I think this is the most important impact. But, they do so because they impact either the supply or demand for money. While the borrowers don't spend in the crunch the lenders still have the money. What do they do with it? If one imagines that they spend it rather than hold it, so there is no monetary disequilibrium, what is left? Those who would have lent spend rather than lend. Finance is no longer moving funds about in value enhancing ways. Productivity suffers.
Kling's butcher, baker and candlestick maker might is a bit different. They were making payments without money and using trade credit. If sellers will not sell to willing buyers because they no longer trust them--there is actually demand (the buyers want to buy.) The
Realistically, when trade credit contracts, the
Shortages. If it werent for this disruption, the retailer would have collected the money from them and used it to pay the wholeseller later.
But that doesn't happen because there are no goods. What do the frustrated buyers do with the money?
There is a problem with goods supply. Goods are not moving.
But if we imagine using trade credit and offsetting debts or something, it is different.
Finally, I find it hard to believe that Cochrane expects us to take seriously his models of fiat currency being like shares of stock in the government enterprise. Maybe there is some insight to be found from models that treat the demand for fiat currency like holding stock in the government. But, other people are supposed to take this idea and imagine it relates to the real world and current problems?
Perhaps part of the problem we face in macroeconomics today is that a substantial part of the "macro" wing of free market economists really think that new classical macroeconomics is "true" because simple and formalistically complete models fit their notion of what is scientific.
It is like Ricardian equivalence. Because the model people (person) rationally saves to pay future taxes, we are supposed to assume this has a connection to reality?
I am sure that the fiscal stimulous package implies higher future taxes. But when I look at my check account balance and make spending decisions-- this has no impact on me. Who are the real people saving up to pay the higher taxes?
Then we have the wing of microeconomists who don't remember Macro.
Then we have the Rothbardians--in praise of deflation and everything must always be liquidiation of malinvestments caused by the market interest rate having been below the natural interst rate. Mises' one scenario is the round peg that must fit every hole, no matter how square.
No wonder those with Sweden-envy carry the day.
Posted January 27, 2009 8:34 AM
Robert Waldmann writes:
As in the post on Fama to which you link, your willingness to criticize Cochrane who agrees with you is very admirable. Such intellectual rigor and integrity isn't as common as it should be among economists (I'm an economist). You almost give me hope for the profession.
Also excellent comments Bill Woolsey. I think you diagnosed the problem with fresh water macro perfectly. I'm going to steal your explanation.
Now there are free market economists who aren't blinded to reality because of their mathophilia and physics envy. Greg Mankiw, for example, is very very polite when discussing Fama and Cochrane (I don't approve as I wrote above) but he doesn't apprach macro the way they do. Robert Hall is a right wing Keynesian and very smart. On right wing, he loved the Reagan tax cuts and advocated a flat tax. Martin Feldstein never got over being CEA chair, but he's smart, in touch with reality and conservative. And you know you can't expect a Milton Friedman to be born every single century.
By the way I personally am a Sweden envier.
Posted January 27, 2009 10:41 PM
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Metal Photographer Jeremy Saffer's 10 Favorite Shots of the Year
Although he's not a rock star, Jeremy Saffer still lives the kind of life most of us only dream about.
The Massachusetts-based artist is one of the most sought after photographers in the metal, punk and alternative model scene today. In the last couple of years, Saffer has shot everyone from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees to just about every rising artist in the hard rock scene Noisecreep covers on a regular basis.
This month, Saffer teamed up with Chris Motionless (Motionless in White) and released a calendar of their work together. The calendar has been the culmination of photo shoots done over the past two years with Chris. It's the kind of thing that would be a great gift for the rock fan in your life this holiday. Also, Saffer recently announced that he's being represented by Miss Management (Maria Ferrero) as his new management, and he's also teaching a music photography seminar. The next seminar is scheduled for mid-January.
Noisecreep is obviously a huge fan of Saffer's work, and we're honored that he took the time out of his schedule to give us his list of the 10 favorite photos he shot in 2011. Check them out below along with his stories about each photograph. As an added bonus, we've teamed up with Saffer to give away some killer swag from his photo work. The details for the giveaway are at the bottom of the post.
10. Adam D. (Killswitch Engage), Mike Martin (All That Remains) Jason Roy (Awesome)
"Two of the most universally amusing and sardonic friends I have are Adam D. (Killswitch Engage) and Mike Martin (All That Remains). When Adam said "SAFFER! family portrait! COSBY SWEATERS! my house… LETS DO THIS!" I was instantly in. We went to the Big E (fair) to win some stuffed animals for the shoot, and about $50 of poor ring toss and softball games, we had a sweet $5 stuffed animal for the shoot. We set up in his living room – I used two large softboxes (3×4) on dynalite uni-400s and shot this with the 24-70 L lens on the canon 1ds mark 2. The idea was to do a few sets and put one of the sets in the frame behind them as if it were "last years shot". So this is what we came up with, and if you know anything about Adam… this fits that house PERFECTLY."
9. Megan Massacre ('NY Ink')
"Megan came up while I was doing a big shoot with Chris from Motionless in White. We had plans to shoot years ago, but it never happened. I was pumped to finally work with her. we only really shot a few short sets, but this one was my favorite. I was shooting natural light outside of my studio against a green wall. The green made all the color of her hair and eyes pop out SO much, it was perfect. I shot at 2.8-5.6 to get the really shallow depth of field. She glows in the image, looking both beautiful and ghostly."
8. Mitch Lucker (Suicide Silence)
"This was from a full band shoot with the Suicide Silence guys. I took some shots with Parker the pup (Mitch's puppy) under a little bridge area backstage at the Comcast Center in Mass. Its my go-to area for backstage shoots there. Ive shot Deftones, Murderdolls, Megadeth, In Flames, and countless others, there, as that venue has VERY limited shoot area. The trick is to make it look a bit different. For this I used two bare parabolic rims and pointed them in so there would be a bit of a lens flare – and a large beauty dish main – all on dynalite uni400s. shooting F10 with the 24-70 lens on the canon 1ds mark 2. This is my favorite of the bunch, it has a surreal silver tone to it that initially was unintentional but upon finishing the shots, I made the effect more prominent by desaturating the image 15% making this image perfect for print."
7. Get Scared
"Sometimes when I go in to do a single photo shoot with one band, it turns into me doing four photo shoots with four bands, as this day was Aiden, Vampires Everywhere, Eyes Set to Kill, and Get Scared. I hadn't done a shoot with them before, though I had worked with the other three – and had a live image of Get Scared print in Outburn Magazine just a few weeks prior. So we set it up and the shoot was going to be directly before they went on stage. I used two large soft boxes on the side to give them a more shadowed/darker feel than I've seen in their past photos. I shot this at F10 at a 160th – and by this point in the shoot their intro nusic was about to roll, so they had to run in and play. The horizontal softboxes were perfect here, just enough light on everyone's faces in this triangular pose, being one of my favorite three-piece band shots."
6. Keith Mina Caputo (Life of Agony)
"This shoot was a perfect storm. We had been planning a shoot when the whole "sex change" controversy hit, which to refresh anyone's memory… was basically a bunch of idiot tabloid metal sites speculating that Caputo was "cutting off his d—" "gay, faggot" "breaking up Life of Agony by being a wife of agony" etc. Basically a lot of homophobic and transphobic headlines followed by 100s of supportive comments (in favor of Keith Mina Caputo, against the s—ty phobic journalism). So we decided to fire back with a photo shoot, which would be the first Mina Caputo photo shoot. This was the first image to come out of the shoot. We wanted it to represent that Caputo was labeled… judged.. before even getting to speak and thereby silenced by these labels. It shows the duality of frailty and strength. Strength is something both the subject and the image have no lack there of."
5. Motionless in White
"After a very quick photo shoot much earlier in the year, we had planned to do a bigger one whenever we both could find time. We finally got the chance late spring to do a big shoot which would coincide with their 'Creatures' video and their summer/fall press. I felt this band has NEVER been photographically represented properly before. This is a very image heavy band who were put into weak settings and lit improperly.. basically in most past MiW shots you could remove them and put in ANY band with tight pants, white belts, and sideways hair who write emotional songs about high school while abusing auto-tune. NO MORE! I wanted to give them an image that fits not only their sound, but their personality. (though in just this one photo, you cant really see what im getting at but none the less..)
I shot this with the 70-200 IS on the 1ds mark2 at F10 – I went with five lights on this shot – two rims (umbrellas) two soft boxes (3×4 pointed toward their legs) and a large beauty dish main to give them full lighting with highlight, mids, and really making those dark colors pop out of the white. The lighting HAD to be perfect – not ghosting any faces (with make up) into the background – making sure the details were visible in the clothing, hair and eyes, making the backround a perfect light grey/dark white – all while having a non-linear pose. With all that calculated, here is my favorite photo from that shoot, and since, they have become my favorite band to work with recently, especially their singer Chris who I had just released a calendar with earlier this month to overwhelming praise."
4. William Control (Aiden)
We shot backstage at The Palladium during their headlining show (same day as Get Scared). I had shot in the dressing room there countless times before, so I wanted to make it look a bit different. After shooting band shots on the couch (as seen on the back of their new record 'Some Kind of Hate'). I had William stand on the couch, I brought up the lights a bit (two rims, beauty main) and started firing away while he smoked. I was using the 24-70 at F18, The lights were giving a bit of flare and giving the wall an awesome pastel green color, so i readjusted my lens for a head shot, he took a drag while the flash went off, and in an instant, created not only my favorite group of images of Aiden, but my favorite image I've taken of William in my career thus far."
3. Robert Englund ('A Nightmare in Elm Street's "Freddy Krueger")
"I got approved to do a portrait spread on rock and shock. So there was my chance to do a photo shoot, albeit a quick one, with Robert Englund. For those who don't know me… I am not a horror buff.. I border on insane HOARDER when it comes to horror merch/movies. Right now, next to my TV. there is a lifesized figures of 'Pinhead,' 'Jason Voorhees,' 'Leatherface,' 'Freddy Krueger,' 'Crypt Keeper,' and more. On the big day, I brought along a prop glove from 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors' and had him use it in the shoot. Englund spotted it before I even started shooting, grabbed it, and put it on. I shot this with multiple set ups, but this one is two rims, and a beauty main. EVERY shot is a keeper, he know what to do in front of a camera, and this lead to being one of my favorite portraits I had ever taken in my career. A Milestone, completed."
2. Andy Biersack (Black Veil Brides)
"This shoot was part of the NIGHTMARE that is photographing Warped Tour, both as a live event AND doing multiple (27) photo shoots. Black Veil Brides were part of a Warped spread I was doing over two days, this was shot on the second one. We were in Connecticut and did the shoot in a spot behind the press area. I did the group shots, and then finished up with some solos. For this I really wanted to make sure the key light hit his eyes perfectly giving him a slight fall off in lighting around the hair. I used two rims which lit the outside of his hair, and a beauty dish main shooting at F14. The wind started blowing his hair to his left, and as the wind hit I took this shot. This shot has been a favorite of many, including Andy, and was printed as a main image in the spread. To me, this shot has the perfect mixture of light and dark, all concentrated in the right spots for one of my all time favorite portraits I have taken, ever."
1. Alice Cooper
"As a photographer, IMAGE is everything, despite what sprite may tell you. Being a fan of horror, and of bands with a strong image, the godfather of it all is Alice Cooper. He created something so iconic and legendary, it will always be a staple in the history of rock 'n' roll. This year I got an assignment to shoot Alice, and an opportunity like that, to me, is on par with a lingerie model getting a modeling gig for Victoria's Secret.
I had a plan to shoot using his props, which are many. We used an electric chair, guillotine, his canes, different jackets, but then he took out the snake, and it happened. For some reason the snake just looked right at the camera and by some luck I had the shutter go off the very second the snake stuck his tongue out. The Light set is two rims and a beauty dish boomed down above him using the 24-70 lens at F13. Oddly enough, the original version of this shot is a full body one. I cropped in for this and it is, to me, what one would expect from an Alice Cooper photo, and that is all I could have ever hoped to create working with such a legend. This was my shoot of the year, and something I got to cross off my photographic bucket list."
Head to Twitter and send @noisecreep and @jeremysaffer a tweet telling us which of the photos in Jeremy's top 10 list was your favorite and why. The prize list is below. Make sure you include the #saffer hashtag when you enter. We'll pick the most creative entry and Jeremy Saffer will announce the winners on Fri, Dec. 30 on his Twitter account.
One grand prize winner: 'Top 10 Photos of 2011′ mini-print collection
Second place: 4 prints from Saffer's collection
Three runner-ups: 2 prints from Saffer's collection


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