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Stonington - Located in 5,000 square feet of the former Harris Graphics mill complex in Pawcatuck is a new business that town economic development officials hope is a precursor of things to come.
Four weeks ago, CrossFit Stonington, which offers an intense workout experience, began operating in renovated space at 100 Mechanic St. that had been vacant for five years.
The gym's owner, chiropractor Al Furtado of Pawcatuck, was successful last fall in convincing the Planning and Zoning Commission to allow health clubs in the town's manufacturing zones.
The Economic Development Commission supported his application and has since been working to expand the permitted list of uses in the manufacturing (M-1) zones in an effort to spur the reuse of vacant buildings and land, especially in the mills along Mechanic Street in Pawcatuck.
Uses could include shops, offices, medical clinics, restaurants, indoor boat storage facilities, family entertainment centers, processing of agricultural products, research and development and personal service businesses. Having them as permitted uses would also mean that potential business would not have to go through the lengthy and cumbersome special use permit process. The Planning and Zoning Commission would have to approve additional permitted uses.
Furtado said he got interested in the rapidly growing crossfit phenomenon three years ago. He began going to a crossfit gym in Branford and immediately began seeing results. Although he saw himself before that as "a fit guy" he said the crossfit workouts were extremely challenging and his body began to change.
"I just fell in love with it," he said.
He outfitted his garage with equipment and began training his neighbors. He and his wife then began to think about opening their own facility.
Furtado said everyone he introduces to the crossfit workouts enjoys them, especially since they take place in an encouraging environment in which the challenging workouts can be tailored to the fitness level of each participant.
"The workouts are always different," he said. "It all comes down to results."
It all takes place in massive room with a 34-foot high ceiling with exposed pipes, steel beams and hanging lights. The gritty industrial feel meshes with the grueling nature of the workouts. There are also concrete block walls, huge windows of translucent glass and even the gantry track that once hauled printing press equipment. Furtado installed bathrooms with showers, an office and reception area.
Workouts last an hour and include exercises that build strength, speed and endurance. Participants are often exhausted when they finish.
"Word about this is spreading. Our best advertising is word of mouth," he said.
He now plans to seek another special permit so he can expand his chiropractic businesses into the space with treatment rooms and a separate reception area.
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In the 2011 meeting between familiar lacrosse rivals Germantown Friends and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, the GFS Tigers romped to a 10-3 halftime lead and continued on to lick the Lions, 16-6.
This year's encounter was much more dramatic, but GFS again emerged on top. With four-and-a-half minutes left to play, Dartmouth-bound senior Annie Morrissey notched her fourth goal of the afternoon, giving the host Tigers a 9-8 edge than held up until the final horn.
Germantown (3-0 overall), received two goals from freshman Annie Tyson and single goals from seniors Isabella Didio and Iris Williamson (a Penn recruit) and sophomore Schuyler Nissen, along with six saves in goal from another tenth-grader, Dana Schulman.
Senior Libbie Maine scored a hat trick for the visitors, who got one goal apiece from senior Carly Schwartz, juniors Kitty Morrissey (Annie's sister) and Taylor Wrubel, sophomore Winter Chernak, and freshman Francesca Fabiani. In goal, junior Shelby Jackson made five stops for the Lions, who suffered their first loss after a 5-0 start to the season.
"It's disappointing, but my girls played so hard and just left everything out on the field," said Lions coach Lydia Imperiale. "This was the toughest team we've played so far, and at least it was good to see that we could stay with them."
SCH had done a lot of scoring against its other non-league opponents, but they weren't of the same caliber as the Tigers. The schedule had included Hill School, normally a tough rival but one that is in rebuilding mode this year following the graduation of eight starters from 2011.
For GFS, a win over Baldwin School was the only contest prior to spring break, but a day before meeting Springside Chestnut Hill, the Tigers proved something to themselves by coming from five goals down to claim an 11-10 overtime victory against Archbishop Wood. Williamson's fifth goal of the day was the game-winner for the resilient Tigers.
"It was a great game to get us started on the main part of our season," noted veteran defender Alex Clarke. "It definitely gave us confidence."
Against the normally high-scoring Lions, the senior said, "We were just trying to work together and double-team when possible to fluster them."
SCH's Imperiale remarked, "At times we couldn't get our attack started. They really defended the eight [meter arc] and collapsed in tough on our drivers. They also did a great job of pressuring in the midfield."
Clarke agreed, pointing out, "We have a lot of fast middies and attackers, and we all work to play good defense up and down the field. Then when we have possession, I think we take pretty good care of the ball; it's been a strength for us this year."
The Lions' Maine (who will attend Princeton University) captured the initial draw and then got her team on the board in the opening minute, with classmate Ellie Stout assisting from behind the cage. The match was tied with 18:47 remaining in the first period, as the Tigers spread out to help clear the arc for a successful drive by Didio.
Annie Morrissey got going with the help of a feed from Williamson, then the Lions pulled even at 2-2 thanks to Schwartz.
Nissen moved the hosts ahead once more, and with 4:18 remaining in the period Williamson scored on a free position to make it 4-2. It was the only goal of the day for the senior star. She was being guarded by SCH freshman Sinead Brierley, with other defenders looking to double when required. Curiously, at times the Lions lost track of Morrissey, who was essentially unmarked on two of her four scoring sequences.
Still, SCH went into the halftime huddle only trailing 4-3, getting a free-position goal from Maine with 15 seconds left. The clock had been allowed to run down to 10 seconds on the play, and the Lions' attempt to break downfield off the final draw was cut short.
On one of the neatest scoring plays of the day, GFS took a 5-3 lead early in the second half when Williamson passed the ball from the top of the arc into the stick of Tyson right at the crease. It was the first of two goals by the freshman in the second period.
"During our little team huddles," she related, "Iris and Annie were saying that they were being covered really tight, so we knew that other people needed to contribute on offense and make it a real team effort."
Tyson, who scored her first goal of the season in the Wood game, noted that the veteran GFS players have welcomed in the younger Tigers.
"It feels great to be a part of this team," she said.
The Lions responded immediately, with Maine taking the draw, going down the left wing, and angling in to score. Next, the tying goal (5-5) was netted by Kitty Morrissey on a free position from the top of the arc. With 15:58 left in the contest, Chernak took a pass from Maine and scored from the left side of the eight-meter loop, completing a 3-0 run that gave SCH its first lead since the opening minute of the contest.
Over the next four minutes the Tigers responded in kind to gain an 8-6 advantage. Tyson started the three-goal sequence, bringing the ball down from midfield, drawing a foul, and converting the free position. Jackson, the SCH goalie, stopped the next Germantown shot, but Annie Morrissey dug out the rebound and put the ball in the net. The senior then came from behind the cage to deposit the eighth goal for the home team.
At the other end, Kitty Morrissey sent a pass inside from a few yards past the eight, and the ball appeared to deflect off the stick of Fabiani and into the net. With 9:41 on the clock, a three-second call against the GFS defense resulted in a free-position for the Lions' Wrubel, who shot just inside the right post to tie the match at 8-8.
After SCH's Jackson stopped a close-range shot by Annie Morrissey, the Lions went up on offense, but they too were unable to break the deadlock.
Soon, Germantown was on the attack once again and the elder Morrissey was fouled well outside the arc on the right side. She looped across into the middle, accelerated, and fired from near the top of the eight. The 9-8 final score was now on the board with 4:36 remaining. The Tigers had a chance to reinforce their lead, but Jackson made the save on an open shot by Didio.
GFS maintained possession and confidently passed the ball around on the offensive end, while the Lions pursued with a surprising lack of urgency. When SCH finally took the ball across midfield on the left wing with 40 seconds to go, the Tigers quickly double-teamed near the sideline and forced a turnover.
"This was our first loss and the girls don't like how they feel right now, so that should put some fight into them for the start of the league," Imperiale said. "It didn't end the way we wanted, but I love this kind of low-scoring game where there's great defense. It was one of those games where literally every possession counts."


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Melinda Pierce, whose husband Morris is Asst. Manager of Rankin's, has organized the fund raiser with Store Manager Lloyd Asprough. They'll grill up hot dogs and serve them with all the fixins. Hot dogs are a dollar, or a donation.
Funds will go to the Brown family for Ja-Myreon's healthcare expenses and to keep the family's van able to make the constant trips to Richmond's VCU Health System and MCV Hospitals.
The little boy travels there twice a week, and sometimes more often, where his team of doctors help him fight for his life with chemotheraphy.
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Megos partner faces tax auction sale in Norwich
Norwich - A tax auction sale of a commercial building at 59-61 Broadway is scheduled for Saturday at noon to satisfy about $35,000 in back taxes and escalating legal fees caused when the owner twice received court extensions that delayed the auction by nearly six months.
The building is owned by Bishop Taylor, a business partner of Norwich businessman Zane Megos, who is listed in a mortgage foreclosure document on the property as Taylor's "agent and representative." Megos faces several larceny and related charges in criminal court for allegedly taking rental deposits from tenants for apartments in Norwich and New London that never became available.
Norwich filed a tax foreclosure lawsuit on 59-61 Broadway Sept. 6 in New London Superior Court. Two separate mortgage holders, Edward Cohen and Howard Goldstein, also had pending mortgage foreclosure lawsuits on the property. The city's tax bills and interest are first in line to be paid in any foreclosure auction.
New London Superior Court Judge Emmet Cosgrove twice agreed to delay the auction since February despite objections by the city and Cohen. Taylor's attorney, Kenneth Leary, asked for extensions twice claiming the owner had a buyer for the property, each time for a price far exceeding the $100,000 appraised value.
Each time, the city objected to the delay, pointing out errors in the purchase and sale agreements submitted with the requests - the first sale document listed a different property address, 75 Fourth St., owned by Megos' Meyers' and Bailey Investment Co. and listed a sale price of $202,500.
The second requested extension in April made no mention of what happened to the first supposed buyer and listed a different buyer with a purchase and sale agreement for $155,000. In that document, Taylor signed as the buyer rather than the seller.
The city also objected because each auction delay added $5,000 to the legal fees the city would have to pay to the court-appointed Committee of Sale, attorney John T. Asselin. The city's attorney Aimee Wickless said those fees now total $15,000 and will be part of the $35,000 the city plans to bid to cover the debt owed to the city by the owner.
Mortgage holder Cohen, who would be paid only after the city's bills are resolved, also objected to the extensions, calling the first alleged sales contract questionable given the appraised value and the stated sale price of twice that total.
Cohen filed a foreclosure against Taylor and Megos last July for $50,000 mortgage on 59-61 Broadway.
"No extension of time should have been given in the past or in the future without immediate payment by Taylor of the committee fees and the accumulated interest to the city of Norwich," Cohen's objection stated. "The risk of these debts rightfully belongs to the defendant Taylor."
Cosgrove granted both extensions in February and in April, scheduling the final auction for Aug. 3 at noon at the building. In his ruling, Cosgrove stipulated that no further extensions would be granted without a real estate contract that includes a 10 percent down payment "and a guarantee those funds can be used to satisfy the previously incurred expenses of the committee."
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Tax foreclosure auction, 59-61 Broadway
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Building appraised at $100,000
Minimum deposit $10,000 by bank or certified check. Buyer would have to pay the new July tax bill, which totals $5,857.
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Clara Barton's House: Home of the American Red Cross considers the life of one of 19th century America's most influential women. Below are materials for further exploration of her life, women's roles in the Civil War, and the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Clara Barton's home in Glen Echo, Maryland is now a unit of the National Park Service. The park's web pages detail its history, including photographs, descriptions, and materials for teachers.
Antietam National Battlefield
Clara Barton's efforts to care for the wounded began during the Civil War, and the web site of this battlefied provides more information about her work.
National Park Service Civil War Website
Visit the official National Park Service Civil War Web Site. Offering the current generation of Americans an opportunity to know, discuss, and commemorate this country's greatest national crisis, while at the same time exploring its enduring relevance in the present, the website includes a variety of helpful features and links such as the About the Civil War page that offers a timeline and stories from various perspectives. Also included are links to Civil War Parks, NPS education programs, and much more.
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American Visionaries: Clara Barton is an online exhibit exploring the extraordinary life, tenacious personality, and humanitarian contributions of Clara Barton through museum collections relating to her personal and professional life, as well as virtual tours of her Victorian-style Glen Echo, Maryland home and American Red Cross headquarters. The Museum Management Program also has three lesson plans focused on Clara Barton in their Teaching with Museum Collection series: Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross, Pioneer and Innovator, Clara Barton Needs You!, and Preservation at Clara Barton National Historic Site.
American Red Cross History
The American Red Cross details its history in a virtual museum that includes photographs and descriptions of the organization since its founding.
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Louisiana State University maintains this collection of Civil War resources, including a list of links providing more information about women in the war.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The residents of Gaza City - capital of the most destitute territory on earth, if mainstream media reports are to be believed - joyously celebrated the opening a new luxury shopping mall at the weekend.
The grand opening of Gaza Mall was a carnival-like experience complete with clowns and other entertainers.
Despite the significance of the event for local residents, the thousands of foreign media correspondents who spend nearly all their time focusing on this tiny coastal strip completely ignored the mall's opening.
Journalist and media analyst Tom Gross, who has made it his mission of late to call out the press on its biased reporting on Gaza, noted that apparently the new mall doesn't fit with the popular image of Gaza as a land wallowing in squalor thanks to the limited Israeli embargo on it.
"On a day when (because EU Foreign Policy Chief Baroness Ashton is in Gaza) the BBC and other media have featured extensive reports all day long on what they term the dire economic situation in Gaza, why are they not mentioning the new shopping mall that opened there yesterday?" Gross asked.
Gross also noted that the mall is clear evidence that Palestinian and European accusations that Israel is denying Gaza building materials are outright lies.
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Husam Alminawy, a student at ELS/Bowling Green on the campus of Bowling Green State University (BGSU), began his studies at the ELS Center in August 2015.
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Residents in the Smyrna-Clayton communities once again showed how they come together in times of need by raising over $61,000 for this year's Smyrna/Clayton Relay For Life event.
Relay For Life was held Friday at the Smyrna High School track. Relay For Life is a fundraiser that benefits the American Cancer Society.
In just its second year in the area, the goal for this year's Relay For Life was to raise $33,000 but that figure was blown out of the water by the determination of this year's participants and teams.
Staci Lewis, the organizer for the Smyrna/Clayton Relay For Life, was amazed by the success of this year's event.
"I can't even put into words how I feel about this year," Lewis said. "We more than doubled in size and had so many people come out who had never been to a Relay. It doesn't quite seem real."
Not only did the group manage to exceed their monetary goal, but Lewis said they are the first Relay team in Delmarva to reach their American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) goal and had 50 survivors register.
"People are already asking when they can register for next year so I'm confident that we will be even bigger in 2014," Lewis said.
And the fundraising isn't even close to be over as the Smyrna/Clayton Relay For Life can raise money until August 31. There's even a tad bit of a wager going on for the group to double their initial goal and raise $66,000. Lewis said if the Smyrna/Clayton Relay For Life hits the $66,000 mark both herself and Jaime Watts – the group's American Cancer Society staff partner – will get pied in the face. Lewis will also post a video on Facebook of her dancing.
Coming together for a cause
This year's event had 39 teams and 443 participants. Relay For Life started Friday at 7 p.m. with opening ceremonies and ended at 7 a.m. Saturday. Lewis opened the ceremony by explaining to participants why she decided to start a Relay For Event program for the Smyrna/Clayton area.
"Unfortunately there are too many people affected by cancer here," Lewis said.
The top fundraisers and top teams were announced. The Smyrna Middle School baseball team presented a check to Lewis for $1,000 for the North Smyrna Elementary team. The team, which went undefeated, donated money based on their offensive statistics during the season.
Like last year's event, a participant spoke on how cancer has impacted their life. This year it was Tori Brien, who spoke about the recent loss of her boyfriend, Tyler Gebhart, to cancer. Brien said Gebhart, at 23, was an example of how age is never a factor when it comes to cancer.
"Tyler put everyone before himself," Brien said. "Without trying, Tyler touched so many."
Before the rest of the event began, Lewis took a few more moments to address the participants, explaining she had spent about two weeks trying to figure out what to say at the fundraiser.
"Thank you all for coming and for the tireless work that you're doing," Lewis said.
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Thursday's Hearing
When Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey open's Thursday's hearing of the Subcommittee on Defense of the House Committee on Appropriations, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will very much be in the room.
The Russian president has invaded a neighboring country and seized a huge chunk of it –for the second time in six years. The Chinese president is presiding over a massive arms build-up —a 12.2% increase in the PRC's already substantial public budget was announced las week— and the PRC is taking increasingly hostile actions in the South China Sea. (Robert Kaplan's Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific which arrived this week could not be more timely.)
The combination of the Murray-Ryan budget accord of late last year and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's incoherent defense budget has left the Subcommittee a very difficult job: Reintroducing reality to the military budget. Todd Harrison, an analyst Harrison at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments provides some background on the Subcommittee's dilemma, but the short version is this: We don't know what the Joint Chiefs say we need to protect America, our allies, and the international waters through which commerce flows and by which freedom expands.
For three years now, since the infamous Super Committee and the "sequestration machine" that followed in its failure, the Pentagon has not been funded according to its needs but according to a formula imposed because of the failure of the president to deal seriously with the domestic spending mess, primarily as it connects to entitlements. The president got his tax hike in January of 2013, but he did nothing to bring long-term domestic spending under control. So the sequester mechanism kicked in, wrecking havoc on our national security budget.
A handful of neo-isolationist Republicans have combined with a handful of strategically-placed deficit hawks to pretend that the cuts to the military have not been that horrible, and are in fact necessary. "Waste, fraud, and abuse" is their combined rallying cry, but they do not represent the country. The country spoke –very loudly and very clearly– when the Congress attempted to cu the retirement pay COLA earned by the active duty or recently retired military with an aim or a record of at least 20 years of service. The Congress's decision to target that group woke the sleeping giant of support for a strong American military and the men and women who serve in it, and very few elected officials missed the message of what awaits representatives or senators who try to balance the budget on the backs of the military.
The repeal of the cut to the COLA of the career military should not be mistaken for a repudiation of the GOP' drive to reform entitlements. It wasn't. The repeal was, however, a giant flashing sign that entitlement reform is not an excuse to gut the military further and that in fact the Regean coalition was built on three legs, one of which is peace through the strength provided by the world's most competent and well-equipped military. Canards about our budget being bigger than the next ten combined do not answer the question of what America's military needs to do its job? That's the answer that should drive the budget and nothing else. If the military's many jobs add up to a budget 20 times larger than the next ten nations combined, so be it. That is how the peace is maintained and would-be adversaries kept far and firmly at bay.
A corner in this debate has been turned and the Murray-Ryan budget accord overtaken by events, both political and international, especially because of Putin's adventurism and the PRC's growing threat.
It is up to Chairman Frelinghuysen and his colleagues to get some mission statements out of Secretary Hagel –do we intend to deter China from seizing more space and islands, keep international waterways open, respond to aggression against a NATO member or an ally like Japan?– and then ask Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey if the Pentagon has the resources it needs to accomplish all the missions the secretary agreed to? Dempsey is a straight shooter, and the Service chiefs are becoming increasingly candid that they are beyond cutting into bone but are now carving out marrow. The cutting has to end and in fact be reversed.
This will require the Committee on Appropriations to bust the caps imposed by Murray-Ryan, and to do so only for Defense and to do so openly and with an argument as to why each specific increase is being funded. Deficit hawks will scream, but Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor should put the bill on the floor and vote on it and then send it to the Senate and see which members of both bodies want to face voters in the fall having shrunk from the challenges of Putin and the PRC.
The Party of Reagan is regaining its voice and now it needs some Members of Congress to do the same. Starting Thursday.


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Oilers 6, Blue Jackets 3 – Game 26 – 2011-12-02 @ 7:30 PM MST – SNETW
The Oilers face the Blue Jackets tonight and for the first time this season. The Jackets have struggled almost all year, but they've shown a pulse in their last half-dozen-ish games.
In news recently for the Blue Jackets is Allan Walsh's ripping of Columbus Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel for his handling of Derick Brassard. Walsh is Brassard's agent and has been very vocal in the past for other clients as well too. Some chatter out there suggests that the Oilers should take a crack at trading for him, to which I'll say "no, thank you". Too much money, too long a term, and nowhere near good enough production even if he did have a hot rookie year.
This one should be a game that the Oilers power through fairly handily, but we all know how those "easy" games can go. Hopefully the Oilers take the Blue Jackets more seriously than the Flames did last night! The Oilers are currently sitting in 11th in the conference, but are right in the mix. Every win is important from here on out.
Doobie starts tonight.
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Surf / Kaimana Jaquias
- Nickname: Mana Boi
- Sport: Surfing
- City/State you reside in: Lihue, Kauai, HI
- Age: 19
- Age when first started competing: 7
- Favorite spot: Kealia
- Favorite trick: Air reverse
- Sponsors: Rockstar, Billabong, Kustom, On A Mission, Kicker
- Inspiration: Dad and Irons brothers
- Career Honors, Awards and Highlights: 2010 NSSA National Open Men Champion
- Video parts: Billabong's
- When I'm not competing I like to: Play Basketball or hiking
- Contest History: Multiple NSSA National Final placings, Regional NSSA regional wins, King of the Groms, Multiple ASP jr. Finals. Competed in the World Junior Championships in Bali and Australia. 5th ISA World Games in Ecuador
- Other interesting Info : Son of Former world tour surfer and 96 Triple Crown winner Kaipo Jaquias
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Isn't it exciting?
Forbidden Planet's announced it well in advance, with a shipping date of 28 February 2014 (wot a pity it's not going to be in time for the Christmas merchandising, isn't it?) Five inches, comes with the sonic screwdriver and the Moment box, probably sans red button though. Oh, and also Paul McGann's removable head so you can play out the time war with the Eighth Doctor if you like.
Here's their writeup. "The 'Other Doctor' is the Doctor's dark
chapter, a hitherto unknown incarnation whose existence he has spent
centuries repressing, a secret he wants no one to know of. He
is a relic of the past, part of the great Time War, when he spent
centuries fighting alongside his fellow Time Lords against the Daleks
and made the final decision to end it with a desperate act that cost
that incarnation the right to use the name "Doctor". This haunted and
battle-worn Other Doctor is finally forgiven after helping find a new
solution to end the war, giving the Eleventh Doctor a new purpose as he
heads into further adventures."
We'd love to know when this blurb was written - it's not really like Matt Smith's going to be having many further adventures, is he? It'd be tempting to think that even when when the BBC publicity office was preparing for 50th anniversary merchandising, they were still hoping to keep the upcoming regeneration under wraps...because otherwise, that line really doesn't make too much sense.
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Trigeminal neuralgia is universally acknowledged as one of the most painful afflictions known to adults, affecting thousands of Americans each year. A form of microvascular nerve compression, trigeminal neuralgia causes episodes of intense, stabbing, electric shock-like facial pain. The pain results from blood vessels coming into contact with the fifth cranial (trigeminal) nerve and applying pressure to the nerve. The shock of this excruciating pain can actually cause a sufferer's head to snap back, or it can immobilize the individual. The pain attacks viciously and without warning. Left untreated it tends to worsen over time.
Patients with neurovascular problems, such as trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, intractable vertigo and spasmodic torticollis, may benefit from micro surgical procedures. Surgeons perform this delicate microvascular decompression procedure through a small opening behind the ear. Through this opening, surgeons can identify the problem and perform the procedure - meticulously separating the nerve and blood vessel, and inserting a Teflon disk between them. Once the pressure has been relieved, patients often report immediate and complete relief of symptoms.
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Have a nice day,
Hi Danielle,
Yeah, most definitely, just let me know when!
Hi Danielle,
When would you like to play?
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SOURCE: Marriott International
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Courtyard Booth and Drink Specials Celebrate Goleta Hotel's Sponsorship
Courtyard Booth and Drink Specials Celebrate Goleta Hotel's Sponsorship
GOLETA, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - For the past 20 years, the Goleta Lemon Festival has been the biggest celebration in the area -- and 2012 was no exception. The 21st Annual California Lemon Festival, held October 13-14, 2012, was a rousing success, and the all-new Courtyard Santa Barbara Goleta was proud to sponsor the event.
Offering wonderful food, a fantastic family atmosphere, and variety of entertainment and activities that have made this the most anticipated event in the Goleta Valley, the festival included the Goleta Fall Classic Car and Street Rod Show and the ever-popular 'Safety Street,' as well as pie-eating contests, and arts and crafts vendors. Over the entire weekend, over 35,000 people attended.
The Courtyard hosted a booth at the event and distributed discount coupons for 25% off Lemon Drop Martinis in the hotel's Bistro, as well as Orange and Lime colored totes. An entertaining lemon mascot walked around the event with the coupons and became the highlight of the entire event.
Located along the 101 corridor amid Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez wine country and within 3 miles of the prestigious campus of University of California Santa Barbara, this new Goleta hotel features the latest in technology and conveniences for business and leisure guests, combined with traditional Marriott hospitality.
With many Santa Barbara hotel deals to choose from, each of the Courtyard's spacious guest rooms combine comfort and functionality, with high-speed Internet access and flat screen TV, as well as a large desk with conveniently placed lighting and outlets and an ergonomic chair for comfort.
Home to some of the country's most beautiful beaches, Santa Barbara is known as the America Riviera. The city is also rich in Spanish history, and this beautiful hotel's exquisite décor brings that history to life. Guests can enjoy the beautiful scenery with the Courtyard's ample outdoor space featuring fire pits, comfortable seating, and swimming pool. Meeting facilities at this hotel near Santa Barbara include two meeting rooms that seat up to 100 people theater-style with 1,785 total square feet, A/V services, wired and wireless high-speed internet access.
The Courtyard's facilities also include a complimentary airport shuttle, on-site fitness center, outdoor hot tub, self-service business center, valet dry cleaning, and the Market 24-hour self-serve pantry.
In addition, the state-of-the-art lobby features The Bistro - Eat. Drink. Connect™., offering great breakfast, or drinks and dinner during the evening.
About the Courtyard Santa Barbara Goleta
Offering state-of-the-art Goleta accommodations and located only 10 minutes from State Street in Downtown Santa Barbara and 1 mile from University of California Santa Barbara, the Courtyard features a complimentary airport shuttle, Wi-Fi Internet and parking. This exciting new property features 87 comfortable rooms and 19 spacious suites on 2 floors, plus two meeting rooms with 1,800 sq. ft. of total meeting space.
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PowerMax Inc., an Apple Authorized Specialist and online destination for the latest in Apple products, as well as discontinued and used Macs and iPods, has launched new trade-in programs for both the iPhone and iPad. Staffed by the same experts who have evaluated and processed thousands of Mac and iPod trade-ins over the past 20 years - these new services extend PowerMax's offerings into the hottest segment of Apple's business - mobile devices.
PowerMax CEO Kevin Anderson says:
Let's face it - there's no industry today that changes as often as the electronics industry, especially with computers and handheld devices ... But moving from one generation to another can be a hassle, and risky. We make the process safe and easy. Plus, due to the quality of Apple products, we really have very few issues with the units that are traded in. We've built quite a name for ourselves with our selection of used Macs. It was a natural fit for us to extend these programs to the iPhone and iPad.
Compared to companies offering dedicated iPhone & iPad trade-in/upgrades for cash, PowerMax can offer considerably more aggressive trade-in valuations (often 10-15% higher) on every iPhone and iPad model - new or used - because the credits are applied to purchases made through PowerMax.
As an Apple authorized reseller PowerMax offers all the latest Apple products - along with tens of thousands of other products - simplifying the process of trading in an iPhone or iPad to purchase accessories or another gadget. Since traded-in iPhones and iPads will be refurbished and resold by PowerMax, the used devices stay out of the waste stream, promoting reuse and provide a more cost-effective option for consumers looking to save on an iPhone or iPad.
The trade-in process is quick and easy - with device condition and market conditions affecting trade-in values.
PowerMax customers visit the Trade-in Program page, select a device - iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac computer, enter the model, specs, condition and any original accessories that may be included in the trade, and submit contact information via web form.
A PowerMax trade-in expert responds to the submission with a quoted value for the device. If the customer agrees to the quoted value, they're given instructions on sending it into PowerMax. When received, an Apple product expert performs a thorough evaluation and verifies the value and condition of the device. Once a device is accepted, trade-in credits can be issued in two ways:
1) via check or credit card reimbursement if a customer has already made a purchase through PowerMax
2) held on account for future purchases
Headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, PowerMax is something of a unique Apple authorized reseller and consumer electronics retailer. PowerMax provides a wide array of new, used, and discontinued Apple computers by coupling industry-leading trade-in expertise with truly personalized service. When people want to purchase the right products from hassle-free, knowledgeable experts - they call PowerMax. Copyright (C) 2010 PowerMax Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
28 March 2009
Making me Laugh
Posted by shadowfax at 10:06 AM
3 comments:
- JustaMom3/28/2009 3:57 PM
Hilarious!! Having read both ummm I agree!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/28/2009 5:42 PM
I read all 1200+ pages back in college with a gripping page turning urgency to see what nonsense came next.
Oh man, I don't get this - come on Shadow.ReplyDelete
I agree that Atlas is an outrageous story line that could based on many impossible suppositions, but why does everyone who is against it take to cheap humor about this aspect of it? I've never heard anyone actually discuss it with the idea of picking thing the larger picture items apart. I don't think Rand intended it as a bit by bit picture of reality, but the overriding themes are the bigger picture, don't you think?
Even if you don't agree with these themes, at least give credit that an author used a great story, albeit a bit ridiculous at times, as a vehicle for a large movement of thought.


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The zigzagging market has created a stock picker's paradise, right?
Individual stocks aren't moving together as much – correlations are down, in other words. So that's providing active managers with a chance to fare better than investors who go with index funds, according to some experts.
Not so fast, says Craig Lazzara, global head of index investment strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
It's dispersion, not correlation, that gives a better indication of the potential opportunity for stock pickers, Lazzara says in a blog post. Dispersion shows the extent to which the average stock's return differs from the market average.
"In a high-dispersion environment, there's a relatively large gap between the 'best' and the 'worst' stocks," Lazzara writes.
Dispersion has been on the rise this year, but it's still below its historical average, according to Lazzara. He does offer a concession: "If dispersion continues to trend upward, that could make 2014 a 'stock-picker's market.'"
It's worth noting that Lazzara does have a dog in the active vs. passive fight, given that his company works with ETF and mutual-fund companies and says it leads all index providers in terms of assets linked to its indexes. But other cognoscenti are also criticizing those who say it's a stock picker's market.
"One of the most misused and destructive phrases in the investment world is the notion of a 'stock picker's market,'" writes Charlie Bilello of Pension Partners. More from Bilello:
"On average, investors are notoriously poor traders and stock pickers and would fare much better spending their time on more boring concepts such as risk tolerance, asset allocation and rebalancing."
Who's saying it is a stock picker's market?
Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx Group put out a note last week that said the 10 sectors in the S&P 500 have averaged an 85% correlation to the index over the past five years, but the average correlation dropped to 77.5% in the past month.
"Lower correlations mean asset class and stock picking matter once again," Colas wrote. A Wall Street Journal column on Tuesday – bearing the headline "Stock Pickers Get Turn To Shine" – quoted Colas and some fund managers.
–Victor Reklaitis
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Just wondering if any of the ladies on this forum with SM have experienced problems with their menstrual cycles? i've read a few people do. My cycle has gone completely haywire. I go a few months without anything and then have multiple period cycles - the longest has been going on 5 weeks. This has been happening since the start of the year.
I guess what I'd like to know is, if you've had any medical diagnosis, what was casusing your problem? I had blood tests earlier this week and should hear the results soon. I figured that my hormones were just screwed up due to all the stress I've been under over these past few years. However, I would have expected things to settle back down now that my syrinx has been decompressed. I did ask whether I was going through "the change", but my GP thhinks I am too young.
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Peanut Cookies
Peanut cookies and peanut cookies recipe. These peanut cookies are a must for Lunar New Year. Easy peanut cookies recipe made with 4 ingredients.
4 cups ground roasted peanuts
1 cup powdered sugar (icing sugar)
1 cup peanut oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons shortening
1 egg yolk, beaten slightly for egg wash
Peanut cookies are one of my favorite Chinese New Year cookies.
I grew up helping my aunt making hundreds of them.
Shaping them into round balls, slightly flattened them with the cap of toothpaste to form the circle pattern on top of the cookies before brushing the top with an egg wash.
Peanut cookies are crumbly and absolutely addictive. Once I start eating, I just can't stop.
Check out this peanut cookies recipe by my contributor Siew Loon.
Don't forget to scroll down and check out other festive baking recipes for Lunar New Year.
Happy 2012 to all the readers!
Time flies and with just a wink of an eye, 2011 has ended.
Lunar New Year is just 3 weeks away and I am sure all of us are looking forward to eat lots of good food, gatherings with the loved ones and "ang pow" (red packets).
I have managed to squeeze in some time during the long holidays to bake some of my favorite cookies, including peanut cookies.
It is kind of addictive and once you pop one into your mouth you will definitely come back for more.
Peanut cookie is a traditional Chinese New Year cookies.
I remember my mom making them every year during for Lunar New Year.
It is mainly made of peanuts and blended with oil and flour.
Peanut cookies are obviously not a very healthy snack but they are too good.
As it is for the Lunar New Year celebration, just indulge and enjoy them with a cup of Chinese tea.
More Lunar New Year Baking Recipes:
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pmjoyce necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Imagine Digg for bars, restaurants, cafés, music and comedy venues. Instead of voting for stories you vote for places. That's what we're creating. A simple, elegant and fun place to vote up your favourite local establishment. The results are displayed on a map with pushpins. These pins change colour according to how buzzing the place is *right now*.
This is a Fast-tracked contest. I always leave feedback.
The prize is for an uncoded design only. The winner will produce layered PSDs for both the homepage and 1 inner page.
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Let me know if you have any questions
The winner will produce layered PSDs for both the homepage and 1 inner page.
Wireframe mockups of both pages will be provided along with some specifics. These are just to give you an idea of the elements required they are not explicit instructions for the final layout.
I want a feeling of space, control and simplicity. We are displaying a lot of information and this needs to be handled well and laid out so as to avoid overwhelming users.
You can find the logo to be used at http://99designs.com/contests/8011/…ies/529041
You can find the wireframe for the homepage at http://critir.com/buzzat/BuzzHome.jpg You can also use http://critir.com/buzzat/buzzMap.jpg to get a rough idea of how sections 8 & 9 might look.
The inner page wireframe can be found at http://critir.com/buzzat/BuzzInner.jpg.
Home Page Elements:
numbers referenced here can be found on the wireframe mockup in the document BuzzHome.jpg
1) Site Logo
2) Quick Search
area. Allows user to search by
event/venue in a particular location
3) Your location. Defaults to London but user can change this. To see an example of what I mean please
visit http://trustedplaces.com/
3c). Popular, Upcoming and Buzz Live. These are buttons/links to other pages
4) Venue categories list
5) Shows the chosen venue category (in the example this is "Pubs & Bars")
6) Allows user to
choose the timeframe in which they want to view. Options are Most recent, Top in 24hr,
7days, 30days, All time.
7) Submit a new venue to the site
8) Large Google map (450px x 425px) of the 10
venues or events on display. This
is linked to…
9) … Summary details
for each of the points on the map with pagination. On click to next page the list updates
with the next 10 venues/events and the map is updated accordingly.
10) Login/Register links.
11) Top users. Images only.
12) Tag cloud showing
the most popular tags on the site.
13) Footer containing
links to privacy policy, terms of use, report a bug, contact us, RSS
feeds, FAQ.
14) Sub-categories of the chosen category (5) see below
Below is a list of categories to be used. Those with the number (1) are at the highest level. My thought was to have them located in Section 4. With any further sub-categories (marked 2, 3 & 4) located in Section 14.
1 Bars & Pubs
1 Cafes & Coffee Shops
1 Comedy Clubs
1 Live Music Venues
1 Night Clubs
1 Restaurants
2 African
3 Moroccan
3 Nigerian
3 South African
2 Americas
3 Caribbean
4 - Cuban
3 Latin American
4 - Argentinian
4 - Brazilian
4 - Colombian
4 - Mexican & Tex-Mex
4 - Pan-American
4 North American
2 Asian
3 Afghan
3 Burmese
3 Chinese
3 Indian & Pakistani
4 - North Indian
4 - Pakistani
4 - South Indian & Vegetarian
4 - Sri Lankan
3 Japanese
3 Korean
3 Malaysian, Indonesian & Singaporean
3 Oriental
3 Thai
3 Vietnamese
2 European & Middle Eastern
3 Belgian
3 Brasseries
3 British
4 - Fish & Chips
3 Central European
4 - Austrian
4 - Swiss
3 East European
4 - Polish
3 Fish
3 French
3 Greek
3 International
3 Italian
4 - Pizza & Pasta
3 Jewish
3 Mediterranean
3 Middle Eastern
4 - Iranian
4 - Lebanese
3 Modern European
3 Portuguese
3 Scandinavian
3 Spanish
3 Turkish
3 Vegetarian
1 Theatres & Art Venues
Similar sites which I like include:
- http://www.tipped.co.uk/
- http://trustedplaces.com/
- http://www.yelp.com/
- Logo, as provided above.
- Usability
- Simplicity
- Elegance
- Appropriate use of whitespace
- Subtle use of colour and texture to highlight important features.
- Demarcation of the different sections
- Clutter
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Spain has more acres under vine than any other country and ranks third in production behind Italy and France. Much of this output continues to be hot-country jug wine made to satisfy the everyday thirsts of the domestic and greater European markets. But many inexpensive Spanish wines that once were rustic, tired, or dried out have been replaced by bottlings that are lush, round, ripe, and cleanly made. Regions that previously made blended Spanish wines that were virtually too strong to be bottled on their own, such as Tarragona, Valencia, Yecla, Jumilla, and Toro are now firmly in the table wine business, even if these wines of Spain can be alarmingly high in alcohol.
At the high end are exciting new bottlings from the historically important Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions in north-central Spain and from the wild, hilly Priorat in Cataluña, in the northeast corner of the country. A new generation of Spanish wine makers has begun crafting wines in a distinctly modern international style: deeply colored, very ripe, and high in alcohol, generally aged in a high percentage of new French oak, and often quite pricey. The majority of these wines are based on Tempranillo, Spain's most distinguished red variety. While the ultimate quality and longevity of these Spanish wines are yet to be proven, these new bottlings have unquestionably captured the attention of wine drinkers both inside and outside Spain.
Although much of Spain bakes in the sun for at least half the year, the country actually covers a vast range of climates-from the cooler and much wetter Atlantic-influenced northwest, to the arid, blazing Mediterranean south and southeast-so vintage generalizations are tricky with Spanish wines. Moreover, the majority of Spain's better vineyards lie at relatively high altitude, where summer nights are cool even when afternoons are stifling.
Among the various Spanish wines, Rioja wine is the most famous. It's said that if you're a wine enthusiast that loves Cabernet Sauvignon, you'll also love Rioja. Rioja is a Denomination of Origin (DOCa) of Spain (similar to the French appellations). There are four wines or "variations" associated with Rioja. There is, of course, Rioja, considered to be the most basic form of the wine. The next wine is Crianza which must spend a minimum of one year in oak. The next wine is Rioja Reserva which utilizes only the best grapes of the harvest and is only produced if there is a good growing season. The last wine is Gran Reserva, a wine that is only produced during the best growing seasons and from the best grapes harvested from Spanish vineyards.
Though Rioja is largely popular, Spain's most important red variety is Tinto Fino. Other synonyms for this wine include Ull de Llebre, Tinta del Pais, Tinta de Toro, Cencibel and, in Portugal, Aragonês and Tinta Rori.
While visiting Spain, there are several locations that are rich in Spanish wine history. Haro, La Rioja is a special Spanish wine region that houses over 500 wineries. Visit this location for an amazing wine tasting experience. Haro is certainly worth a visit if you wish to view beautiful Spanish vineyards. There is also Ribeira Sacra, located in Galcia, where you can also sample wines. Another historic region worth visiting is La Mancha, located in Central Spain, just south of Madrid.
If you're looking to visit a winery, the Rioja Alta Rioja is certainly an excellent choice. La Rioja Alta's ability to supply massive amounts of wine has differentiated it from every other winery in Spain, being able to store up to 50,000 casks and 6.4 million bottles at a time.
Make sure that you snag a bottle of Pedro Ximenez, a Spanish wine grape variety that's grown in multiple Spanish wine regions. However, it's primarily grown in the Denominacion de Origen (DO) of Montilla-Moriles. Also try the Viñas Viejas de Paniza, a wine produced from older Garnacha vineyards at high altitudes. Viñas Viejas de Paniza has delicious aromas and holds a dark and brooding appeal.
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You may have noticed it's the offseason, which means we have plenty of time to sit around and think about many of the things that make it fun to be an NBA fan. Here at All Ball, we'll be passing the time until the start of the season with a new series, the Fave Five. Each week will count down a list of the five best, or worst … somethings. We'll try to get creative with it. Plus we're taking requests! If you have a suggestion for a Fave Five post, give us a shout and you may see it appear in this space over the next several weeks.
You may not know this about me, but if you have read enough posts on All Ball you've probably seen enough links to surmise that I am a big fan of Saturday Night Live.
And with the start of the new season just around the corner, it got me to thinking: When will the next NBA player get a chance to host of the show?
Historically speaking, SNL invites a "sports figure" on average about once a year (this includes broadcasters, professional wrestlers, etc). Last year our own Charles Barkley became the first athlete to host for the third time, but overall basketball representation on the show has been sparse. Aside from the Chuckster, only Michael Jordan and LeBron James have ever hosted. Clearly, Lorne Michaels does not think much of the NBA's collective comedic talents. But is that deserved, this allegation I'm making up on the spot?
It seems to me in this day and age there are more NBA players being funny than ever, and it's just a matter of time before someone else gets a crack at being not ready for primetime.
But who? In this week's Fave Five, we rank the top candidates to take to the stage in Studio 8H:
5. Roy Hibbert
The bonafides: A rising star on the NBA's comedy scene, Hibbert has aligned himself with some very funny people in his burgeoning career. He's guested on Parks and Recreation (the funniest show on TV for my money), hung out at Roscoe's Chicken N Waffles with comedian Chelsea Peretti, and topped it off with Ben Schwartz's hilarious audition video for Hibbert's cheering section. He seems pretty comfortable on camera — here he is from last year's playoffs on Jimmy Kimmel:
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Discuss other upcoming Jim Carrey movies (not confirmed/rumours).
Evan Almighty (posters)
I'm gonna laugh like a little girl, I feel it already.
(Jim, my boy, you should have done this and ignored the 23-thing till something better came along)
hahaha LOL i love it!! i cant wait to see this movie. I wish Jim would have made an appearance in it it would have been so awesome!
I saw it! It was an awesome movie!!!!!! though the critics may not have liked it....[/i]
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
"I don't like to brag and I won't cuz I don't have to!"
Yep. It looks pretty gay. I thought "Bruce Almighty" was tolerable only because of Jim Carrey. I learned my lesson from Dumb and Dumberer, I'll never pay for a Carrey-less sequel/prequel again. I don't know who to blame for all these terrible movies: Carrey or the movie studios. Well, it's really the studios' fault.... But I think an Ace Ventura 3 without at least a cameo from Jim Carrey will really f**k up the two preceding movies. If I were him [Jim] I wouldn't allow of somebody else playing Ace Ventura. I think he should make a third one and then establish a contract for no others to be made after him....
But, yeah. I'm rambling. I still respect Jim Carrey so no need for anybody to attack me. It's just odd--to say the very least--seeing all his movies being turned into inferior sequels/prequels without him...crap that nobody even wants to see.
I agree with you Twiggy...but...I 'm n't agreement on Jim/Ace's history,because, probably Jim it has given they the rights for the sequel.
Jim is allergic to the sequel, Ace luck has been an exception, why, creed was becoming famous also in other countries... I that it only works for the innovationes!
I'm Dumb and I'm proud! :_D
[quote="fluffy"]awe...........maybe it'll do better in Europe.......it looks like a fun Summer movie from the trailers.....
Really? It looked like complete crap to me. I wouldn't pay to see this swill any time of the year. In fact, I went to the movies tonight, to see Live Free or Die Hard, and I had the option of walking into this movie without even paying for it, and I didn't. The commercials were more than I could bear. I could barely endure 30 seconds of it, imagine a whole movie! No, thanks. No more Carrey-less sequels for me. No, sir. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Pretty soon we'll be plagued with "Ace Ventura Jr." Written by Jason Heimberg and his brother, two rising hollywood screenwriters who are currently ruining the Farrelly Brother's comedic gem, "Kingpin." I guess it's not enough for them to butcher one classic comedy, they have to screw up yet another. And that Steve Oedekerk, I'm very disappointed in him. He'll milk any Jim Carrey movie he can and try to make money off it...no matter how crappy the bugger is. Ace Ventura 3, without Jim Carrey, reaches new levels of cinematic stupidity. Absolutely nobody wants to see it, without Carrey. It's a waste of time and money and energy and space. It'll just succeed in killing yet another memorable Jim Carrey character this newer generation doesn't know much about.
If any of you have any faith in Carrey-less sequels, just remember "Son of the Mask" and "Dumb and Dumberer." Son of the Mask is in IMDB's bottom 100. It means virtually everybody hated that crap excuse of a movie...and "Dumb and Dumberer" isn't too far behind it at 3.3 out of 10.
At least every 4 years from now, there'll be a Carrey-less sequel to a Jim Carrey movie. Do I think it wrong that he hates sequels? Yes and no. Some sequels aren't necessary, some are. But by refusing to be in no sequels it will, in my opinion, f**k up the originals movies. Other (less talented) actors will take his place, and people will think the original-Carrey-Containing movies will be nothing to write home about.
it's the animals Twiggy........i love the animals regardless of the movie.... ... it looks like a happy movie and that's a nice change......but the simpsons movie is out in july........thats the one i'm gagging for....
I'm sorry Twiggy, all those words about the Carrey-less sequels don't go up for the Evan-one. For reasons I explained a thousand of times earlier.
Evan Almighty imo does look like a good comedy (that isn't trying to be Bruce all over again) with a strong lead. The reason Bruce worked was because of Carrey and a few moments in the script. Beside that it wasn't that Almighty or well-written indeed. So I guess this movie ain't well written either and Carell isn't able to save the whole thing and makes up for all the flaws. Don't forget Bruce wasn't loved by the critics as well. It was verrrry fifty-fifty, and so was the audiance.
[quote="grinchy steve"]I'm sorry Twiggy, all those words about the Carrey-less sequels don't go up for the Evan-one. For reasons I explained a thousand of times earlier.
And what reasons are those, Steve? I'm sorry, I just don't have the time to read every single post on this forum. The movie looks godawful to me. Nobody I talk to wants to see it. It's a Carrey-less sequel, therefore unworthy of my time. It's also starring Steve Carrel, someone who's very unfunny, in my humble opinion.
"Evan Almighty imo does look like a good comedy (that isn't trying to be Bruce all over again) with a strong lead."
Well, that's your opinion, bud, and I respect it. But I'm still convinced "Evan Almigihty" is a genuine piece of trash. When I saw the trailer for "Bruce Almighty," years ago, although I thought the story looked fake and cheesy, the movie looked moderately funny and even enjoyable. I don't see anything funny here. I've seen clips of "Evan Almighty" and nothing about it even midly amuses me. Steve Carrel (sp?) also really gets on my nerves. Not that he had a chance, anyway. Carrey-less sequels will never work. Also, B.A. wasn't geared towards real little kids, this inferior PG crap is. And what about all this nonsense about the Ark? Totally unnecessary and unneeded. Bruce Almighty 2 makes as much sense as a Liar Liar 2, without Carrey. It's in my opinion, a total waste of film and $$$. Even the plot's not exactly like the first one, that still doesn't mean the movie is unneeded. "Speed 2" was a bit different than Speed one, but it doesn't change the fact that the movie sucked. How about "Alien vs Predator?" Two awful films combined without it's predecessor's that wasn't exactly the same, but absolutely sucked. Nah, man. No more of these inferior sequels for me. You could barely pay me to watch them...let alone pay for the buggers. This ain't for me. Real little kids might enjoy it, just like they might like the upcoming (Carrey-less) Ace Ventura Jr. movie. Some families with little kiddes may find it funny, and good fun, but it just ain't my bag.
Yeah Fluffy, I hear you. You like the animals. I too thought they were cute in the commercials. But you don't have to pay for a disgraceful, Carrey-less (PG) sequel to seem them. Just turn on Discovery Channel
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