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A benefit will be held on March 30, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the Towanda Elks Club for Dorothy Button Casselbury. A spaghetti dinner will be served—adults, $10; kids, age 6- 12, $7; under age 6, free. Basket raffle, bake sale and Chinese Auction. If you'd like to donate or help out in anyway, please call Heather at 570-250-0009. Dorothy is a member of WVHS class of 93.
Monthly Breakfast at the Herrickville Fire Hall, Sunday, March 30, 2014, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. All you can eat: pancakes, French toast, ham, sausage, eggs, home fries, sausage gravy and biscuits, coffee, orange juice, real maple syrup and sugar-free syrup. Adults, $7.50; children to 12 years, $3.50; preschool, free. Benefit: Herrick Twp. Vol. Fire Co. - Dept. 4.
Lenten Vesper services will be held at the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church on Wednesdays during Lent. The dates are: March 26, April 2, 9 and 16 from 7 to 7:30 p.m.
The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints general conference will be held on Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6 at noon and 2 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints building on Rt. 706 East, Montrose. For questions, contact, Sister Missionaries at 570-787-1730.
A Jewish Seder Presentation will be given at the Orwell Bible Church on Sunday, March 30 at 9:30 a.m. The presenter is Peter Blitshteyn of New York City. For more information, call Pastor Rich at 570- 744-1915.
Hunter Trapper Education Class. New two-day class. Register for class, then go to website: www.pgc.state.pa.us and take the online study. You must complete the online Today's Hunter & Trapper in PA course before attending the class. Held at Tri-County Sportsman's club, Saturday, April 5, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, April 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Light lunch. For more information, call Pat Beebe, 570-746-3869 or Carl Yurgatis, 869-1706. You must be 11 years old.
The Penn State Master Gardeners of Wyoming County will hold a Free Garden Talk Series, Wednesdays, March 26 to April 23, 7 to 8 p.m. at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 3832 SR6, Tunkhannock. To regist e r , http://extension.psu.edu/wyo ming/events and scroll down to dates you want to attend. Or call Penn State Extension at 570-836-3196.
Free soup suppers at Hollenback United Methodist Church on April 9, from 5 to 6 p.m. with a Bible Study from 4:30 until 5. All welcome.
Lenten Fish Dinners on March 28, April 11. Dinner includes baked fish, macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, cole slaw, applesauce, dinner roll, beverage and homemade dessert. Served 4 to 7 p.m. at St. Basil's Hall, Dushore. Adults, $8; children 12 to 6, $3; under 6 eat free. Everyone welcome. Take-outs available. Proceeds benefit local charitable activities. Knights of Columbus, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406.
Stag Ham and Bean Supper, Laceyville Goodwill Fire Company, March 20 at 6 p.m. R9-3c/S10- 2c
The annual Camptown Civic Club family-style chicken and biscuit dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Camptown Community Church.
"Spaghetti & All That Jazz," Saturday, April 5 at the Northeast Bradford High School cafeteria from 5 to 7 p.m. Spaghetti dinner with musical entertainment featuring: NEB Jazz Band, Show Choir, Guest Soloists. Donations accepted at the door. All proceeds benefit NEB Music Department. R11- 3p/S12-3p
Easter Events
The New Albany Area Children's Fund will be hosting their annual Easter egg hunt at the New Albany Park on Saturday, April 12 at 12 p.m. All New Albany area children ages preschool through sixth grade are invited to attend.
Easter Egg Hunt, New Albany VFW Post 384, April 12, 11 a.m. All children, age 10 and under.
For Your Information
Bright Beginnings Preschool of the Dille Parish UCC in LeRaysville is holding a visitation and pre-registration March 24-28 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. for the fall. Call 570-744-2225. Bright Beginnings admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin.
The Camptown and Merryall Cemetery Association request that all decorations and flowers be removed by April 1.
Meeting Notices
AA Meeting—Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
S.O.S. Al-Anon—Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
TOPS PA #1134—Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 570-965-2493 or 570-869-1834. Toll-free 1-800-932-8677.
Recovery House Meetings— AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends—of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 570-965-0901 (evenings) or 570-278-1658 or email email@example.com.
MOPS—(Mothers of Preschoolers) meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.
Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock—Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.
Diabetes Support Groupmeeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
Memorial Hospital's monthly bereavement support group schedule for 2014 will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m., located in the library on the lower level of Memorial Hospital, Towanda. The group follows the book by James Miller, "What Will Help Me?" and other authors' writings related to grief and loss. The support group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. For more information call 570-268-2233.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265- 2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory— Faith-based support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888-1967.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, 3832 State Route 6, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836-2233.
AA meeting–Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, non-smoking.
Al-Anon meetings on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the upstairs kitchen of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Wyalusing Musical Society will meet on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Allan Waterhouse will present the program on the music of Victor Herbert.
Stevensville Birthday Club will meet Tuesday, April 1 at noon at OIP in Wyalusing. Joyce Sharer will be the baker.
Caregivers' Support Group sponsored by the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman and the B/S/S/T Area Agency on Aging meets at noon the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Library at Memorial Hospital Personal Care Home in Towanda. Anyone taking care of a family member or loved one, be it at home or as a resident of a longterm care facility welcome. For information, call Donna Benjamin at the Law Office of Leslie Wizelman, 570-746-3844 or Carol Dieffenbach at Area Agency on Aging, 570-265-6121. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 25.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit #534 — meeting will be held on April 10 at 6 p.m. at the post home. Members are urged to attend. Any member that is able to help with a dinner on April 12, please call Renee Stewart at 570-746-3370 or Ree Ann Ross, 570-746-1316 and leave a message. Also, desserts are needed.
The monthly meeting of the Twin Tier Antique Tractor and Machinery Association will be held on Thursday, March 20 at the Stoll building in Wysox at 7 p.m.
PARSE: The Endless Mountains Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of the State Employees will meet at noon on Tuesday, April 8 at the American Legion at 912 Main St., Towanda. Please call John Benio, 570-278-2380 or Bernice Landmesser, 570-265-8812 for reservations.
Tuesday painters will meet on April 1 at St. Paul's Church in Montrose from 10 to noon. New members are encouraged to attend. For information, contact Chris Lathrop at 570- 278-2141 or email@example.com.
Rabies Clinics
Rabies Clinic - Monday, March 24 at Wilmot Fire Hall, 5 to 6 p.m., $10. Animals must be caged or on a leash. Clinic run by Rome Vet Center.
Rummage Sales
Annual Good Stuff Yard Sale Wyalusing Presbyterian Church, Friday, April 4, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, April 5, 8 a.m. to noon.
Soup Sales
Homemade Soup Sale Saturday, March 29, 3 to 5:30 p.m. at Russell Hill United Methodist Church, Rt. 6 W, Tunkhannock. Soup, salad, rolls and homemade baked goods. No set charge, but all donations greatly appreciated. The church has containers or you may bring your own. For more information, call 570-833-2983.
RTL Little League tryouts: March 22 at the High School (old gym). Everyone must attend and please wear sneakers. Major baseball: 9-10-11-12 yr. olds, 10 to 11:45 a.m.; Minor baseball: 7-8-9-10 yr. olds, noon to 1 p.m.; Major softball: 9-10-11- 12 yr. olds, 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.; Minor softball: 7-8-9-10 yr. olds, 3 to 3:45 p.m.; Junior baseball and Junior softball: 3:45 p.m.
Mandatory managers/coaches meeting: RTL on March 23 at the Laceyville Fire Hall. Scheduled as follows: T-ball, instructional baseball and instructional softball at 5 p.m.; Minor baseball and minor softball at 5:45 p.m.; Major baseball and softball at 6:30 p.m.; Junior baseball and junior softball at 6:30 p.m.
The WVHS Wrestling Booster Club will meet on March 20 at 6 p.m. in Coach Haley's room at the high school.
Sixth Annual Pink Panther 5K Run/Walk will be held on March 22 at 10 a.m.
Trivia Night
Towanda Elks Lodge is having a Towanda Trivia Night on Saturday, March 22 from 7 to 10 p.m. Teams of up to six people. Open to public.
Vendors Wanted
The Twin Tier Antique Tractor and Machinery Association is in search of food, crafts and flea market vendors for their 20th annual show, Tractors, Trucks and Treasures" on June 13, 14 and 15 in Rome. Please contact LaVonne Powell at 570- 746-1989. Deadline for vendor application is May 10.
Look Good, Feel Better workshop on Monday, April 14 at Guthrie Cancer Center at 1:30 p.m. Please call 1-800-227- 2345 to register.
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Coming up with platinum substitutes may be elemental
Platinum and some related precious metals (palladium, iridium, rhodium and ruthenium) are frequently used as chemical catalysts and for countless laboratory processes. As rare metals, they are also expensive. To ensure technological advances are not curtailed due to their lack of availability or high cost, Lab researchers are working with an abundant element to take their place: cobalt.
A catalyst differs from a reagent in chemical transformations because a reagent is typically consumed during a reaction, while a catalyst is not. Still, recovery of the metals is not always complete and it's not uncommon to lose a small percent of these dwindling materials. This is a long-term concern for the use of precious metals in industry and by researchers around the world.
Initial findings by a Los Alamos team indicate that if a cobalt atom is captured within a complex molecule, it can mimic the reactivity of platinum group metals. It could then potentially be used as a catalyst in a wide variety of processes, including the production of biofuels and numerous applications within organic chemistry.
The research is funded through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development's Early Career Program. The cobalt research results made the cover of Angewandte Chemie: International Edition late last year in an article titled, "Mild and Homogeneous Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of C=C, C=O, and C=N Bonds."
Guoqi G. Zhang and Susan Hanson, both of the Lab's Inorganic Isotope and Actinide Chemistry group and Brian L. Scott, with the Materials Synthesis and Integrated Devices group, are conducting the research.
Match the precious metal to its cost
(Precious metal prices change frequently; these prices were captured on a single day and may not reflect their current costs.)
A) Iridium 1) $1,600 ounce
B) Palladium 2) $88 ounce
C) Platinum 3) $710 ounce
D) Rhodium 4) $1,040 ounce
E) Ruthenium 5) $1,160 ounce
By comparison, cobalt currently sells for about $1 ounce.
(Answers: A=4, B=3, C=1, D=5, E=2)

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So I've got me some Springsteen tickets
cost a fortune as expected, just hoping the Olympic park venue isn't shit
I just paid £70 for a ticket. I haven't seen him before. I partly got a
ticket as it is at the Olympic Stadium and I have some great memories of last summer. I think I remember swapping posts with you, Podge, about the Olympics last summer. Were you one of those, like me, that had loads of Olympics events booked too?
You know it's not in the Olympic Stadium but a big outdoor patch of grass outside right?
Oh right. I didn't realize that but that's fine. It'll be interesting to see
the whole area. I had ten events either at the Olympic Stadium or venues in the Olympic Park last year and I'm looking forward to it.
Yep, I Olympiced all over the place last year
I did try and find out where exactly this was going to be in relation to the old site layout but couldn't find anything
70 quid?
Ahhh damn I was gonna try and get one tomorrow. Didn't realise it would be that much.
They're available on pre-sale via LiveNation. So, basically anyone
can get some now. At the moment from my group of gig mates, I'm going alone (I'm Billy NoMates). One ticket with a print at home ticket cost £69.75p to be precise.
Same here
DiS meetup anyone?
It's a day of music starting at 2pm probably
And then Springsteen will come on and play for 3.5 hours plus. £70 is a bargain!
Anyway, i'm going - also have great memories of going to the Olympics last summer, which will be nicely topped up with a return to see Bruce there this summer. Also going to see him at Wembley a few weeks earlier. Can't get me enough Bruce!


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Here are the results on 2 packages. In both cases I got an "error expanding" message. Files were DLed and opened from MyDocuments. I then ran TKzip on the XnView file and extracted the contents successfully, and clicked the "Install" program from ROX but got no response. At this point my Linux knowhow ends. On the Adobe package I first got a file corrupted message from TKzip, so I re-downloaded and got the same message again. I then switched to Windows and the file tested as good under a program called ExplorerPlus which I had used succesfully to download and extract the Unleashed package last week. I noticed that the tar itself was 97MB, but I did not do a Windows extraction. Possibly there are some file size issues with TKzip extraction. My Pup100 runs in a Fat32 partition with about 1GB of free space. The machine is an Athlon 800MHz with 256MB RAM.
By way of encouragement for anyone interested, these are both very deserving candidates for Unleashed status, or even just a basic install how-to. See my comments below.
XnView V1.68.1 (static) ~1.5MB
"There was an error expanding package XnView-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static. Either the file is corrupted, or has not expanded into its own directory with name of XnView-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static/ (which is how most packages expand)."
Adobe Reader 7.0 ~37.6MB
"There was an error expanding package AdbeRdr70_linux_enu.
Either the file is corrupted, or has not expanded into its own directory with..."
XnView is a freeware graphics file viewer/editor/converter/slideshow - a sort of uberfeatured GTKsee. It is recommended by the Scribus author, and is the closest thing I have found to a thin, one stop digital camera picture editor. It is not a bitmap editor, but can handle most other image manipulation including croping, rotation, gamma and color correction, etc. It is crossplatform and very mature. Its most distinctive feature is doing conversions between over 200 graphics formats, including some vector to raster conversions. The newest Windows version can even use Photoshop filters, and the author says that the Unix version will soon catch up (it tends to lag the Windows releases). It makes a good complement to a basic bitmap editor like mtPaint.
As for Adobe Reader, Version 7.0 is the first since 5.x to support Unix/Linux. Of course anyone distributing PDF documents must ultimately test with the Adobe version, and 5.x is now very old. Too bad Adobe doesn't believe in puppies. Version 7 is more like Dogzilla.
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XnView ... That is pretty good under Windows.
I'll take a look at that at the weekend, it is something I would really like in my Puppy variant (God knows how I am going to fit it in though)...
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Xnview screenshot: http://tinypic.com/51wqxg
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Cool, you've made a .pup already !?
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AhHa. Thanks for looksee. If you can give me some installation pointers, I'd love to give it a spin. I am quite familiar with the Windows version. Hope that the Linux version is useful enough to deserve DotPup treatment.
Regarding digital camera progs, the best package for casual users is Picasa2 which became freeware when Google bought the company. The New York Times reviewed it a few weeks ago and compared it favorably to Adobe Elements, et.al. It does a little more handholding than I prefer, but is very full featured. The prog is just 3.3MB but is Windows only (at least for now). It apparently runs well under Wine, but I imagine that Wine would be a big swallow for Puppy.
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It apparently runs well under Wine, but I imagine that Wine would be a big swallow for Puppy.
It has been talked about, and is doable ... But the thing is that running windows software isn't really what Puppy is about.
Either way I use Picassa on Windows, it is pretty good
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i didn't make a dotpup
not yet anyway
it's not GPL so you need to respect the copyrights
i downloaded the tgz file and unzipped it
i copied the binaries (in the bin dir) to my-applications/bin
i copied the library files (in lib) to my-applications/lib
i copied XnView.ad (in app-defaults) to /etc/X11/app-defaults, and renamed it to XvView
now xnview should run
all it really needs is a Puppy-install.sh script
i could convert the man files to text ... not sure if that would violate the copyright though
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Thanks for the instructions. I installed it and ran a few tests. The appearance is a little dated (the Linux version uses a Mosaic library) but it seems completely functional, with one exception. I scanned a CD which had about 1000 small jpgs and the thumbnails came up fine. One of the nice features of XnView is that it will cache the thumbnails (optional setting) so they pop up very fast the next time you browse a folder. I edited a couple of pictures with good results.
XnView screenshot: Browser and edit windows.
The screen capture under Windows is pretty good - it will capture full screen or a selected window, but I could not get it running on Puppy. A thread on the Unix XnView forum suggests that this is related to the xnview.sh settings. I saw this file in the install tarball, but I'm not sure where it goes or what to do with it. http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=466
In any case, this goes on my list of 10 desert island Puppy (Linux) programs, pending some additional testing. Again, it is not a bitmap editor, but does have a few camera related features such as redeye removal. I don't expect any Wine on the island anyway - it usually goes down with the ship, maybe sinks the ship.
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i think all xnview.sh does, is set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before it runs xnview
it has 2 problems 1) it looks for xnview only in /bin 2) it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH only to the xnview library files, so the normal library files are no longer in the path
if you copied the library files to /root/my-applications/lib, you don't need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so you shouldn't need xnview.sh
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Hard Rock International has called on aspiring musicians from around the globe to rock out for the opportunity of a lifetime through this year's "Hard Rock Rising" - the most far-reaching battle of the bands competition in the world. As Hard Rock continues its commitment to emerging artists, "Hard Rock Rising" will place the grand prize winner on the fast-track to global stardom as they embark on a world tour in six renowned cities arranged by Hard Rock International - including a spot on the bill at the Hard Rock Calling festival in London, with additional dates at Hard Rock Cafés in cities such as Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Chicago and Honolulu; make an album and music video through Hard Rock Records; and receive new music equipment and gear valued at $10,000.
Hard Rock Café's Facebook fans from around the world have spoken - narrowing down more than 12,000 bands to its top contenders - and only a select few will move on to the next round and perform live at participating cafes.
Through multiple live battle events at Hard Rock Café Niagara Falls - USA beginning on Thursday, Feb. 21, the undiscovered talents of Niagara Falls will vie for the top spot to represent the city in "Hard Rock Rising's" global competition. Performances by BangBang Gang, Breckenwood, Contagious Woo, CrashFuse, Dirty Smile, Fiona Corinne, Handsome Jack, High Horse, Klear, Kroy Weezy, Low Road Revival, Mute Reminder, Randle and the Late Night Scandals, Reign, SIC SIN, and Whiskey Reverb will be judged by a panel of local industry experts that include James Kurdziel, Bob Silvestri, Rich Sargent, Tim O'Shei, Justin Rose, Paul Varga, Joey Nicastro and Eddie Tice. The final round will be held on Thursday, March 21, and will feature each of the preliminary winners. One band will then be selected to represent Niagara Falls - USA as they compete against 95 other Hard Rock Café winners from around the world.
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The Hard Rock Café Niagara Falls - USA is located 333 Prospect St., Niagara Falls. For more information, call 716-282-0007 or visitwww.hardrock.com/niagarafalls.


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[CD] Insector - Predator (Kamino Records)
Mexico City, April/01/2011
Kamino proudly presents "Predator" the new album of Balazs Poczik a.k.a. Insector.
After his debut album "Rebirth" released in Biomechanikal Records in march 2010,
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Since we inexplicably still care about this, I guess, both of the women with whom David Petraeus had his sexual dalliances have been over in the vicinity of WHOTUS (I keep trying to make WHOTUS happen; it's not going to happen) in the last few years. The only real-ish gossip here is that Tampa "socialite" Jill Kelley, who the media learned of after Petraeus had already resigned due to his affair with Broadwell, has been to the White House three times in the last few months—once for a tour, and twice to have dinner with her sister and an unnamed White House staffer who met Kelley and her family at an air force base. The last time she broke bread with this dude was on November 4th, 5 days before Petraeus publicly left his post as director of the CIA due to "poor judgment" regarding his affair with Broadwell.
The media's now painting Kelley and her twin sister as sort of the Middleton siblings of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where they've developed reputations as "aggressive social climbers" who "flirted their way into the good graces of high-level officers" all over the base. It was also disclosed a few days ago that Kelley has exchanged "flirtatious emails" with Joe Allen, a top commander in Afghanistan. If you're still confused about how this all connects, this janky-ass Fox News affair flowchart is kind of helpful, though it begs the question of why Alice McCutcheon's chart on The L Word is more comprehensible than that of, you know, a major news outlet. The Daily Beast has taken to calling MacDill—specifically, the boulevard that extends from downtown into the base itself—the "Wisteria Lane" of Tampa. Although it's not explicitly mentioned why Desperate Housewives is the specific reference, besides the partying, one can only assume it refers to Kelley and her fellow "bored housewives" lurking around and trying to grab some unsuspecting military peen. (As if the actual military peen have no autonomy here.)
For her part, Broadwell spoke to a national security staff member about Afghanistan and Pakistan policy back in June 2009 and attended a briefing on the subject with 20 others in the summer of 2011. White House officials say that neither woman has met President Obama, probably because he is too busy doing THISSSS.
'Tampa's 'Wisteria Lane': Petraeus, Broadwell, Kelley-and a Culture of Climbing' [The Daily Beast]
'Women in Petraeus scandal had visited White House' [USA Today]


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p.s. When Wey came home from school, I hounded him about this morning's breakfast and he said the pizza was excellent "with a capital 'E'". How can I not love him to bits??
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Bacon & Eggs Breakfast Pizza
p.s. When Wey came home from school, I hounded him about this morning's breakfast and he said the pizza was excellent "with a capital 'E'". How can I not love him to bits??
12 comments:
- TeaLady said...
this looks great. I could do this easy for b'fast. Pizza dough looks really easy too.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
- May 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Precious Pea said...
Terri, i really really envy your kids. How I wish I get breakfast like this every morning!
- May 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- "Joe" who is constantly craving said...
perfect breakfast pizza!
- May 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- the lunch guy said...
they are going to put you in the mom's hall of fame right next to my mom. in the section for moms who cooked their hearts out for their family, and never knew when to stop.
the pizza shop where i worked in the usa used to offer egg as a topping. they were noted for their very thin crispy dough, but never the less, they always cracked the egg on after the pie had started. that with a drizzle of the oil from the anchovy jar is heavenly.
i believe the french also have a version with egg.
if you want to "greek" it up, add olive slices and feta crumbs go great with egg.
again, i am envious of your photo abilities. i can never get such balanced light for my food shots. i think my problem is many are shot at night without natural light and the flash is just to overbearing.
- May 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Ally ML said...
Terri, it looks soooooooo yummy!
- May 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- Jade said...
that sounds lovely. I suppose if you reaally miss the tomato sauce, some baked beans over it wouldn't hurt :)
- May 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Sonia (Nasi Lemak Lover) said...
Good idea, and it look soooo yummy, am sure my kids will love this pizza, must make for them soon. Thanks for sharing.
- May 4, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Anncoo said...
Looking at this, really makes me drooling. Nice clicks!
- May 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM
- Aggie said...
Wahhhh salivating!!!!
- May 5, 2010 at 1:45 AM
- terri@adailyobsession said...
tealady: yes, i like the dough. i'll use this dough recipe from now on. all's well, thanx, how about u n yours??
pp: this is my Mother Of The Week week. i am making better breakfasts than chow men n egg sandwiches bc i'm going on holidays n feeling guilty about leaving wey behind.
joe: yumyum
lunch guy:hahahaha! i'm just doing this to make sure tt when i'm away my boy misses my cooking if not me!
oh no, i'm the last person to take good photos. it's all about lighting. if i get enough light, the camera does the rest. i also learnt from bee of rasa malaysia to always use white crockery to show off the food n to let the light reflect. try tt:))
ally: it is, try it!
jade: tt's an idea. i like your resourcefulness:))
sonia: yes u must n tell me if your kids like it ok
anncoo: thnx:))
aggie: :))
- May 5, 2010 at 11:05 PM
- Big Boys Oven said...
I got so excited looking at thos half cooked egss topping the pizza, my my lovely!
- May 13, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- wvfy said...
I am frm KK , and would like to try out this pizza. Should i put in the middle rack or lower rack of oven? Because my electrolux oven does not brown the base of my cake that i baked before this when i put in the middle rack.
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The 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Panama. The conference comes at a time intense pressure on whales, dolphins and porpoises from human activities.Panama City – The 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens today in Panama. The conference comes at a time intense pressure on whales, dolphins and porpoises from human activities. Governments are set to discuss severe marine threats such as oil and gas exploration and fisheries bycatch, which are driving some cetacean populations to near extinction, as well as stronger measures to protect cetaceans, such as sanctuary establishment.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Reigning Miss Westchester Kristy Abreu is accusing New York City police officers of stripping her of her pageant crown and sash, subjecting her to an "extremely invasive frisk and search" and mistreating her and her mother during a traffic stop in May.
The Yonkers native and her parents, who now live in the Bronx, told the city this week that they intend to sue and seek $210 million in damages, saying officers falsely imprisoned Abreu and her mother, Kendy Paredes; deprived them of their constitutional rights; and physically and psychologically assaulted them.
Police stopped the two on a traffic violation, and subsequently accused them of riding in a stolen vehicle despite records showing otherwise, their lawyer alleged in a notice of claim he said was filed with New York City.
City comptroller officials said they have not received the notice while the New York Police Department did not respond to requests for information on the incident.
Abreu said she and her mother were going to the Fashion Fighting AIDS benefit show in Manhattan when they were stopped by two police officers at Broadway and 145th Street at 9 p.m. May 5. After being presented with the vehicle's documentation, police threw Paredes against the car and accused her of driving a stolen vehicle, the claim alleges.
The officers ignored her when she told them there was an error in their computer files that was triggering a "stolen vehicle false alarm," Abreu said, recounting a traffic stop months earlier when another set of officers told her of the problem and then advised her that it had been corrected, according to the claim.
Officers subsequently frisked Abreu, handcuffed her and placed her in the back of a patrol car while "laughing at and mocking" her and her mother, the claim said.
At the police station, Abreu had her sash and crown taken from her and underwent a pat down, the claim said. She and her mother also were placed in a cell with another prisoner who yelled, cursed, taunted and spit on the pair, according to the claim. They said they were denied access to a phone, bathroom and lawyer.
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"Thank you all for all of your nice comments and support," she Tweeted Tuesday. "I've kept this in for (a while) and finally I am able to vent and fight for what I believe in."
Dee van Eyck, executive director of the Miss Westchester pageant, said she believes Abreu's claim of police mistreatment.
"We just feel that she and her mother are innocent victims," van Eyck said. "We just want to make sure it doesn't happen again."


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Common Kiddush Questions
One of the most common halachic realms where we actively see different minhagim manifested is that of making Kiddush on Shabbos. One family stands when making Kiddush, another sits, while a third does some sort of combination[1]. Additionally, another's "minhag" preference might just depend on how tired or hungry one is. However, aside from the proper posturical preferences on how to make Kiddush, there are actual variations inherent in the words and actions of the Kiddush itself.
Kiddush Commencement
Although everyone agrees that the Friday night Kiddush starts with the passage of Hashem's resting on the Seventh day after completing Creation[2], on the other hand, the Shabbos Day Kiddush is not so clear cut. Some start Kiddush with 'V'Shomru Bnei Yisrael es HaShabbos'[3], the Biblical passage detailing how Bnei Yisrael kept Shabbos in the wilderness, while others start with 'Zachor es Yom HaShabbos lekadsho'[4], the exhortation to keep Shabbos excerpted from the Ten Commandments. This passage is also the source cited by the Gemara (Pesachim 106a) as a support for making Kiddush on Shabbos day. Yet others start with the last pasuk of that passage, 'Ki Sheshes Yamim', and others from that verse's midpoint, 'Al Kein Beirach'. In fact, the Kabbalists cite an entire lineup of passages to be recited as part of the Shabbos morning Kiddush, replete with twelve challos, two bundles of hadassim, and circling the table[5]. Which is the correct Kiddush?
The Great Kiddush?
The answer is an interesting one; one that is alluded to by the way the Gemara refers to the Shabbos Day Kiddush: "Kiddusha Rabba", 'the Great Kiddush'[6]. This nickname actually is a seemingly mystifying misnomer for a Kiddush that is merely a rabbinic enactment to honor the Shabbos[7]. Shouldn't such a weighty and significant title rather be exercised on the biblically mandated Friday night Kiddush[8]? Although there are other rationales to explain this puzzling moniker[9], the accepted reason is that it is simply 'lashon sagi nahar', or a euphemism[10]. In other words, the Shabbos Day Kiddush is called 'Great' because it actually is not as important as the Friday night Kiddush.
This understanding affects various halachos and nuances of the Shabbos Day Kiddush. The most important distinction, as detailed in the Gemara and later implied by the Shulchan Aruch as well, is that the only part of this Kiddush that is halachically required is the bracha of 'Borei Pri HaGafen'[11] on the wine.
This means that the various passages people customarily say before this Kiddush are not actually part and parcel of the Kiddush itself, rather merely serving as the preamble. In fact, it is known that many Gedolim did not say any pesukim before Shabbos Day Kiddush, and only recited the bracha of 'HaGafen'[12].
Divided Verses
The Aruch Hashulchan takes this a step further. He explains that although there is a Talmudic dictum that any pasuk that Moshe Rabbeinu did not stop at we may not either[13], meaning that we may not recite half pesukim, even so, since the pesukim here are simply meant to be an introduction to give extra honor to the Shabbos day and are not actually a requirement of the Kiddush, we are allowed to do so. Therefore, he maintains that one may start with 'Al Kein Beirach' even though technically it is in the middle of a pasuk. Several other authorities, including the Maharam Shik and the Ben Ish Chai rule similarly[14]; the Ben Ish Chai even referring to starting Kiddush with 'Al Kein Beirach' as 'minhag ha'olam'.
However, this logic is not universally accepted. In fact, the Mishna Berura[15] states that even though he acknowledges that many start Kiddush from 'Al Kein Beirach', all the same, in his opinion, it is incorrect to do so, as the rule of not reciting half-pesukim should still apply to Kiddush. This is why many are makpid to start their Kiddush from the beginning of that pasuk: 'Ki Sheshes Yamim'. Either way, whatever one's Kiddush custom is, he definitely has something to rely upon. However, if one does not have a specific custom, it seems preferable not to start mid-pasuk, and rather choose a different starting point for Kiddush.
A Brisker Twist
A consequence of the basis of this machlokes is that it has become the starting point of another. The famed Brisker Rav, Rav Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik zt"l, was bothered by one of the halachos of Kiddush. If, as previously explained, the Shabbos Day Kiddush is intrinsically just a bracha of 'Borei Pri HaGafen' on the wine in order to honor the Shabbos, then shouldn't it be in the category of 'Birchos HaNehenin' (referring to blessings recited on items we derive pleasure from, i.e. food) where halachically one must partake of the item he recited a bracha on? If so, one must at least taste the Kiddush wine; otherwise, how can he fulfill his obligation?[16] Although he acknowledged that this is not normative halacha[17], nevertheless, the Brisker Rav maintained that lechatchila one should strive to at least get a taste of the Kiddush wine. That is why at many a Kiddush you will usually find at least several people waiting to get some Kiddush wine before joining the rest of the crowd in digging into their coveted mezonos[18]. This just goes to show that when it comes to properly honoring Shabbos by making Kiddush, even a small drop goes a long way.
[1]See Shulchan Aruch, Rema and their main commentaries to Orach Chaim (271, 10).
[2]See Tur, Shulchan Aruch, Rema and their main commentaries to Orach Chaim (271, 10).
[3]Shemos (Parshas Ki Sisa Ch.31, 16 -17). See Kol Bo (39), Elya Rabba (O.C. 289, 2), and Mishna Berura (ad loc. 2).
[4]Shemos (Parshas Yisro Ch.20, 7 - 11).
[5]See Kaf Hachaim (O.C. 262, 2 & 289, 4) at length.
[6]Gemara Pesachim (106a) in the story about Rav Ashi, Rambam (Hilchos Shabbos Ch. 29, 10), Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 289, 1).
[7]See Rashbam (Pesachim 106a s.v. amar) who cites the Sheiltos D'Rav Achai Gaon (Parshas Yisro, 54) who explains that the reason why we make Kiddush on Shabbos day is in order to show honor to the day, by drinking wine, which showcases the difference between weekday and Shabbos. Similar sevaros are given by other Rishonim, including the Meiri and TosafosRi"d in their commentaries (Pesachim ad loc.). See also Shulchan Aruch HaRav (O.C. 289, 2) and Aruch Hashulchan (ad loc. 3).
[8]See Gemara Brachos (20b & 27b), Rambam (Hilchos Shabbos Ch. 29, 1 & 4), Sefer HaChinuch (Parshas Yisro, Mitzva 31), Tur & Shulchan Aruch and main commentaries (O.C. 271) at length, and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (77, 1).
[9]For example, Rashi and the Rashbam (Pesachim ad loc. s.v. kiddusha rabba) maintain that the Shabbos Day Kiddush, which technically is made up of only thebracha of 'Borei Pri HaGafen', is called 'Great' because every Kiddush contains the bracha of 'Borei Pri HaGafen'. Rav Moshe Sternbuch (Shu"t Teshuvos V'Hanhagos vol. 1, 164 s.v. v'taam) further explains that Chazal wanted people to realize that the whole of Shabbos Day Kiddush is the bracha of 'Borei Pri HaGafen', and they can fulfill their mitzvah of Kiddush exclusively through this bracha. Therefore, they called it 'the Great Kiddush' so that everyone should realize the bracha's importance in fulfilling their chiyuv of Kiddush. On the other hand, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky (Emes L'Yaakov al HaTorah, Parshas Bo Ch. 12, verse 1, pg. 280 s.v. v'al) maintains that the reason Shabbos Day Kiddush is called this is due to that this Kiddush was considered the more important one before Mattan Torah.
[10]Ran (Pesachim 22a in the Rif's pages s.v. zachruhu), Maggid Mishna (Hilchos Shabbos Ch. 29, 10), Aruch Hashulchan (O.C. 289, 3), Mishna Berura (O.C. 289, 3 & Shaar HaTziyun ad loc. 1), Kaf Hachaim (ad loc. 7). For an explanation how 'lashon sagi nahar' is used, see Ibn Ezra's commentary to Bamidbar (Parshas Beha'alosecha Ch. 12, 1).
[11]Most Sefardim actually say 'Borei Pri HaGefen'. See the footnotes of a previous article titled 'Geshem or Gashem?!' for an explanation.
[12]See Aruch Hashulchan (O.C. 289, end 3), who writes that when he was younger he saw many Gedolim only saying 'Borei Pri HaGefen' for the Shabbos day Kiddush, and Shu"t Teshuvos V'Hanhagos (vol. 1, 164) who writes that this was also the custom of Rav Chaim Brisker and the Chazon Ish.
[13]See Gemara Brachos 14a-b, Taanis 27b, and Megillah 22a.
[14]Aruch Hashulchan (ibid.), Shu"t Maharam Shik (124), Shu"t Rav Pe'alim (vol. 1, O.C. 11). However, the Ben Ish Chai (Shu"t Rav Pe'alim ibid.) cites a different reason. He writes that the Arizal is quoted as holding this way as well, and even though the sefer that quotes him - Pri Etz Chaim (beg. Ch. 7, pg. 89) is riddled with mistakes [including that Lag B'Omer is the yahrtzeit of Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai (see previous article titled: "The Unknown Days" of the Jewish Calendar), nonetheless this ruling is correct. He explains that the Chasam Sofer (Shu"t O.C. 10), citing the Magen Giborim and Yachin U'Boaz (vol. 2, 2) holds that one may stop and start reciting a pasuk by an esnachta (a half-stop, generally akin to a pasuk's midpoint), which would be the case by 'Al Kein Beirach'. He further cites (quoting several different poskim) several different exceptions to the rule of not reciting half-pesukim - that it does not apply to Kesuvim, pesukim recited 'derech techina, tefilla, or bakasha', or if only reciting two words of a pasuk.
[15]Mishna Berura (O.C. 289, 20), Several other earlier authorities, including the Chessed L'Alafim (ad loc.), and Rav Chaim Falaj'i (in his Kaf Hachaim 36, 38) rule this way as well.
[16]Cited in Shu"t Teshuvos V'Hanhagos (vol. 1, 264 s.v. v'daas). A similar ruling is given in Chiddushei Rabbeinu Dovid on Pesachim (105).
[17]As the Shulchan Aruch (O.C.167, 20 & Beis Yosef O.C. 273 s.v. u'ma"sh d'afa"g), Rema (O.C. 273, 4) and later, the Mishna Berura (ad loc. 19) and Kaf Hachaim (ad loc. 34, who ads "v'chain hu da'as ha'acharonim"), quoting several Rishonim, including Tosafos (Pesachim 105a s.v. b'ain), Rif(Pesachim 27b), Ran (ad loc.), Rosh (ad loc. Ch. 10, 36), and Tur (O.C. 284), explicitly rule that one does not have to partake of the Kiddush wine on Shabbos day to fulfill his Kiddush obligation (and not like the shitta of the Mordechai in Pesachim ad loc.). It is said that although the Brisker Rav's father, Rav Chaim, did not accept his son's chiddush publicly, nevertheless, lechumrah he privately adhered to it as well. See Shu"t Teshuvos V'Hanhagos (vol. 1, 264 s.v. amnam, in the brackets).
[18]Whether or not one should be making Kiddush on Mezonos, as well as other common Kiddush questions, will IY"H be addressed in a future article.
Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive guide, rather a brief summary to raise awareness of the issues. In any real case one should ask a competent Halachic authority.
L'iluy Nishmas the Rosh HaYeshiva - Rav Chonoh Menachem Mendel ben R' Yechezkel Shraga, Rav Yaakov Yeshaya ben R' Boruch Yehuda, and l'zchus for Shira Yaffa bas Rochel Miriam and her children for a yeshua teikef u'miyad!


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Inside Man
Friday, 01 February 2008
This, Spike Lee's first "regular Hollywood movie," is sleek, clever and intermittently involving. Unfortunately, it's just a little too long to work all the way through, and you'll probably find your attention wandering at about the one hour mark. Still, it's occasionally tense and has an inventive—too inventive?—script by first-time screenwriter Russell Gewirtz.
Lee gets things off to a fast start; the movie has barely begun when four crooks invade a plush Wall Street bank while dressed as wall painters. They immediately take over, barricade the front doors—and then essentially just shut up.
Skilled NYPD hostage negotiator Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) briskly takes over from somewhat irked Captain Darius (Willem Dafoe). Late in the film, the tables are turned on Frazier, but by that time, he's so curious about the atypical behavior of the holdup team—they demand a plane?—and worried enough about the 40 or so hostages in the bank that he continues working on the case.
Meanwhile, an elegant tycoon (Christopher Plummer) is informed that one of his banks is being robbed. His reaction—a small blink, a murmured "WHICH bank?—tells us just enough to know that there is something special about this particular bank. He quickly meets with grinning, cynical free-lance advisor Madeleine White (Jodie Foster) who assures him there will be no problem negotiating with the leader of the robbers.
Who is Dalton Russell (Clive Owen); he's the first person we see in the movie, talking directly to the camera. There's some suggestion that he's telling us this story, which is a little disconcerting—if he's doing this, then we know he will live through whatever follows, reducing suspense. Also, the movie is occasionally interrupted by Frazier's interviews with some of the hostages, after the situation has been resolved. Which tells us that it will BE resolved—it's the why and how that are the mysteries.
Because it quickly becomes clear that the holdup team is not after a lot of loot. They ignore tall money towers in one vault, and concentrate on only one safety deposit box in another. They seem to spend most of their time digging a hole through concrete in a storage room. They also keep the hostages disoriented, first ordering them to divide up by gender, then into bank employees and customers, then keep moving them in smaller groups from one room to another. They also have the hostages wear clothes exactly like the holdup team members are wearing. All this is very satisfyingly mysterioso—just what the heck is going on? But it's diluted by those flash-forwards and by a pace that slows down too often.
Still, it's good to see that Spike Lee has been paying close attention. His movies have always been very much HIS movies, but the sleek smoothness of "Inside Man" conclusively shows that he's learned stuff his previous work never indicated he even cared about, like action, suspense and tension. He can make a Standard Hollywood Movie just about as well as most well-paid directors, and a lot better than most.
He's also helped by a hell of a cast, even if you only count the first four players. Denzel Washington has never let an audience down yet, and he doesn't do it here, either. His Frazier is getting a little older, his home life is confusing (his live-in girlfriend has her petty crook brother living with them), and he's not as highly placed in police ranks as he thinks he should be. Still, he's a tough, expert cop—one with, like the movie itself, an unexpected sense of humor. There's a funny scene between masked Clive Owen and a little boy hostage about the appalling brutal video game the boy obsessively plays. Also, the Armenian language plays into the movie in an unexpected and rewarding way. This is a brash but cool movie, expert on every level.
Another expert is Jodie Foster—of course. She's never played a role remotely like Madeleine White. She's controlled, smart, cynical, fond of but unfazed by power, highly manipulative and crisply stylish. She's never faced a situation where she wasn't quickly on top of everything, running everyone around her. She likes having control over characters like Plummer's super-powerful businessman; she LIVES for it. And yet Foster's performance is light as a butterfly; you never catch her acting. She's a controlled cat who's eaten her share of canaries.
You can barely catch Clive Owen acting, too, but that's mostly because he plays the majority of his scenes behind a mask. His character, Dalton Russell (as he tells us almost as soon as the image hits the screen), is almost as puzzling to us as he is to Frazier. Even at the end, we never know how he got the information that led to his leading the assault on the bank. At the end, he basically disappears. But Owen is always a pleasure to watch—handsome, rugged, a bit sarcastic. The people at Eon Productions are nuts for not casting him as James Bond.
The rest of the cast has been carefully selected; almost everyone who has a line has a character, and some of them are sharp and witty, others a bit obtuse and blank. Production values are very good; the movie is set in Manhattan, and has a very New York feel. It's sophisticated, imaginative—and somewhat draggy. (Plus, Lee continues to use those idiotic shots of an actor standing on a dolly, staring into a camera which swiftly backs up carrying the actor. It does not remotely look like the actor is walking, doesn't begin to give a feeling of what it's like to walk along quickly like this. Still, it's a small foible, no more harmful to the movies than Hitchcock's cameos hurt his movies.)
Still, the erratic pace and puzzling avoidance of revealing some key information make "Inside Man" less of a thriller than it might have been. It's still worth seeing, but you'll come out of it feeling there was something missing. The title, incidentally, is a play on words.
Blu-ray and HD DVD, the method here, have been used all too often on films that don't really benefit from high definition presentation, but that's because these are more recent films, which have undamaged, unworn negatives; some of them may have already been transferred into the digital realm along the way, facilitating their reproduction in high definition. "Inside Man" isn't especially helped by high definition; the movie is about what people do and say, not so much about what things look like. Also, Lee deliberately shot the interrogation scenes to be grainy and harsh, giving them a look distinctive from the rest of the film. The rest of the film is clear and relatively sharp, but no more so than an average film.
There aren't many extras, although the Deleted Scenes package is longer than usual—most of the footage is of those post-holdup interrogation scenes, with just three other brief scenes from other sections of the movie. One of them is a group of television scenes, for newscasts included within the film.
There's an especially well-done making-of featurette, including some scenes from an early read-through of the script by Lee and the entire cast. We do learn that Lee often shoots both sides of a two-person conversation at the same time; in his commentary, we also learn that in scenes in which Washington is talking to Owen by phone, the actors really were conversing by phone, with a separate camera covering each of them.
The most interesting featurette is "Number 4," a conversation between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington about the four movies they've made together: "Mo' Better Blues," "He Got Game," "Inside Man" and "Malcolm X." Not surprisingly, the most interesting comments are about the latter, still Spike Lee's best movie.
Lee recorded his commentary track on his birthday in 2006, the day of the premiere of "Inside Man." The commentary begins reasonably well, with the director occasionally pointing out interesting details, such as the occasional homages to another New York bank holdup movie, "Dog Day afternoon." However, too much time is spent by Lee simply identifying actors, his occasional "signature shots" (including two long one-take scenes with Washington and Foster). He doesn't explain how he came to make the movie—originally a project for Ron Howard—until the film is 2/3 over. Finally, he becomes lazy, shutting up altogether part of the time, then allowing his ego too much rein, pointing out "one of my favorite sequences" or (several times) "I like this coming up." He pointlessly indicates each interior set, and when a sequence moves from set to location. He talks at times as though he's reading the film's cutting continuity: "push in slowly," "very light music here," and so forth. Unless you're a major Spike Lee fan, you can easily skip his commentary.
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A doll that I have wanted for years has finally joined the tribe. She is "Ghost of Christmas Future," the most popular of the three re-imagined Christmas Carol character figures from Tonner. I am so happy to finally have her. I was fortunate to get one whose owner never removed the protective body plastic so she is just like a new doll in spite of the fact that she was released in 2003! Here is the link to Tonner's archived page describing the three doll set:
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EDI CON 2013 Organizers Announce Dr. Song Junde as Honorary Chair of Inaugural Event in Beijing
Appointment connects learning opportunities in high-frequency electronic design with needs of industry, academia and government research organizations
Norwood, Massachusetts, December 20, 2012 – EDI CON 2013 (March 12-14, Beijing, China), the industry-driven event for RF, microwave and high speed digital electronic design organized by Microwave Journal and Horizon House has announced the selection of Dr. Song Junde, Professor at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, as the Honorary Chair of this inaugural technical conference and trade exposition. In recognition of his many contributions to advancing microwave technology and the communications industry in China, the event organizers and technical program planning committee have asked Dr. Song to represent EDI CON 2013 and its conference to the engineering and academic communities that will benefit from its content. In his role as Honorary Chair, Dr. Song will be consulting on the final details of the technical program and will be delivering the Welcoming Message at the keynote plenary session on March 12th.
Dr. Song has held numerous prestigious positions in government ministries, academia and communication standard bodies. His extensive technical background has been called upon by these organizations to help recruit, support and access the qualifications of postgraduate candidates specialized in electrical circuit and system, microelectronics and solid state electronics with an emphasis on mobile communication theoretical design and ASIC methods; Multi- communications system fusion, next generation network and terminal; broadband wireless mobile internet; mobile communication theory and application.
As one of China's leading telecom experts, Professor Song has won numerous awards including first prize (Ministry of Science and Technology Progress Award) from the State Education Commission for national scientific and technological progress in electronics and has been recognized by the National Natural Science Foundation for his science and technology research and international cooperation. Song has published over a dozen books and teaching material along with nearly 200 technical papers in English and Chinese on mobile communications and the Internet, the future of communications, CTI / CRM, VLSI CAD field. His current research focus is on the next generation of wireless mobile Internet theory and technology (3G, B3G, 4G, WIFI, WiMAX) and other aspects of research. His research interests also include next-generation telecommunications network and its supporting systems and related services, heterogeneous networks. Dr. Song has visited the United States and more than 30 countries in support of his scientific research and teaching.
Professor Song Junde, PhD supervisor. Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications is currently the Academic Council Director, Chairman of China Communications Standards Association, CMIS, honorary Doctor of the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, the State Council Academic Degree Committee disciplinary assessment team members, the State Ministry of Personnel postdoctoral accreditation experts, the international information Federation of IFIP TC7 Chinese President, Information Ministry of Communications Science and Technology Industry Committee members and the satellite and radio consultants, China Communications Standards Association Expert Advisory Committee of experts, China Computer Federation and the data communication network, deputy director of the Committee. Ministry of Information Industry and ministerial key laboratories PCN & CAD Center and CTI Research Centre, Beijing served as the Chairman of the Committee of Posts and Telecommunications large school degree, graduate school dean and other staff.
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Zombie epidemic media clipping creator Vidzilla explains his 15 day creation
The fifteen day zombie epidemic in media clippings creator posted a last installment in his 15 day creation today, January 15th. On reddit, the creator called Vidzilla explained that the 15 day series that gripped reddit's zombie fans was created with no advance planning. He was inspired by a conversation about how people would react if a crowded place were "ground zero" for a zombie outbreak, and after his Day 1 post on January 1st got a big reaction, he decided to continue his story for two weeks.
Tomorrow Vidzilla will post a "Director's Cut" including the zombie story in full on reddit.com/r/zombies. Read his latest comments on reddit to find out more about his awesome zombie storytelling. And thanks, Vidzilla, for a really creepy two week ride. Can we do this again sometime?