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LOS ANGELES - J.R. Martinez didn't need any more love from the "Dancing with the Stars" judges.
The U.S. Army veteran and his professional partner Karina Smirnoff earned a pair of perfect scores - 30 out of a possible 30 for a total of 60 - on the ABC ballroom competition Monday. They danced a dreamy waltz to "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and a swift jive to "Tutti Frutti." It was the first time this season couples performed two routines.
"There's nobody coming close to you tonight," judge Carrie Ann Inaba beamed to Martinez.
Tied in second place behind Martinez with a combined score of 52 were Hope Solo and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, and Ricki Lake and partner Derek Hough. Rob Kardashian and partner Cheryl Burke stepped into third place with a total score of 51, while Nancy Grace and partner Tristan MacManus tangoed into last place behind the pack with a combined score of 44.
"It's midnight, and it's time to go home," judge Len Goodman told Grace after comparing her to Cinderella.
The fairytale will end for one of the five remaining celebrities Tuesday after judges' scores are combined with viewer votes.
Previously dismissed contestants included actor David Arquette, activist Chaz Bono, singer Chynna Phillips, actress Elisabetta Canalis, basketball player Metta World Peace and TV personalities Kristin Cavallari and Carson Kressley.


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How to Remember Names in a Business Situation
Remembering names and titles in a business situation makes a lasting impression. If you can master remembering the names of people your business deals with, you can present yourself with confidence and authority — and outclass the competition. Remembering names is a skill, and one that you can acquire:
Repeat the person's name a few times to yourself after you're introduced.
Remember memorizing facts for a test back in school? It's like that — repetition is key!
Use the person's name immediately in the conversation after an introduction.
Saying the name out loud can help make it stick in your memory.
Immediately introduce that new person to someone else you know.
If you don't have an opportunity to speak up immediately, you may want to try finding a word association with the person's name, such as "Bob — B — Brown shoes."
Jot down the person's name, if you happen to have a pad and pencil.
Avoid glancing at the pad every time you address that person, though.
Listen, listen, listen.
Good listening skills and concentration are the real keys to recalling a name. If you heard the name but didn't understand it, simply ask the person to repeat the name. You also can ask for a business card.
If — the horror! — you forget someone's name, don't make a scene. It's a big deal only if you make it a big deal. Simply admit your mistake and move on. We all have problems remembering people's names now and again, and you can be forgiven for occasion flub-ups.


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I was going to update the recruiting board but a computer crash ate it. So: #$*((#$. Delay.
Tickets. Have received several emails about the best ticket strategy for the Frozen Four, so: I'm not an expert since I've only gone to one, that in Buffalo in 2003, but that experience leads me to believe that tickets will be available in abundance. In Buffalo you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone hawking 4 tickets; some guys were carrying around enormous packets.
We ended up buying lower-bowl seats right behind the net where Jason Ryznar's goal was waved off (woo!) for face value; when the immense depression of that game's OT loss combined with the lethal carnie strip of "attractions" on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls border to force us home ASAP we left our (stupidly, arrogantly purchased) tickets for the final with my brother, who ended up selling them for just over half of face.
With both Colorado schools bombing out in the regionals (thanks, MSU and Wisconsin!) the situation in Denver is likely to be similar. BC is half a continent away and Notre Dame fans barely know they have a hockey program. The other ND and Michigan figure to bring large contingents, but Buffalo was much closer to participating programs and the aforementioned scenario played out.
So given all that, I'm pretty comfortable with the idea of heading out there with the intention of buying tickets on the street. Unfortunately, this year the second semi ends within an hour of the first one and there is a single ticket for both. In previous years there had been separate tickets. This scuttles the post-semi dump wherein fans of the losing team sell tickets to the second semi.
We're going to print out a Pepsi center seating chart and go for the gusto. IIRC, the athletic department tickets were lower-bowl but in the corners in Buffalo.
What? Notre Dame is selling your standard a "woo frozen four shirt" on their official site. But apparently they got theirs from a mirror universe:
Yeah, ND's in the Frozen Four. So are Miami(?), Colorado College(??), and Northeastern(?!?!?!?!?!).
This seemed like an easy opportunity to make fun, but on closer inspection it's just weird. Michigan goes out in the first round to Northeastern, which didn't even make the tournament. Northeastern then plays Wisconsin, which beat UMass -- also not in the tournament. In fact, every first-round game is wrong and the only thing the shirt got right was a second-round matchup between ND and State going to ND. So that's... bizarre. It's as if they said "hey, no one's going to believe ND is in the Frozen Four anyway, let's just go all the way with this."
Movin' on up. I previously speculated that Brandon Minor might be headed elsewhere because of the shift in offensive philosophy; initial returns on that are as good as "Porter is a creation of Hensick":
Junior running back Brandon Minor and senior cornerback Morgan Trent have become early vocal leaders of the team, Rodriguez said.That's a week or two old. This is new:
Defensive standouts: Rodriguez listed fifth-year senior John Thompson, redshirt sophomore Obi Ezeh and junior Stevie Brown as the defensive players who have stood out in the spring.How are these items related? Evans and Minor both attended Varina High in Virginia. Minor was generally well regarded -- a mid four-star, IIRC, though some sites rated him as fullback -- while Evans was virtually ignored. How ignored? He's the first two-star Michigan prospect (kickers excluded) since Andre Criswell two years before, and Criswell was a last-second edition. Michigan can get a commit from the most obscure Estonian and Rivals will give Argpan Ekerbajain a third star if given a couple weeks to re-evaluate him. Evans, not so much. Michigan recruited Evans specifically because Brandon Minor told them he outworked Brandon Minor; I probably should have given him more credit.
Thompson is trying to take the starting middle linebacker job from Ezeh, who was a Freshman All-American last year. Redshirt sophomore Jonas Mouton and sophomore Marell Evans appear to be leading the way at the outside spots. Rodriguez said the linebacker corps was one of the deepest units on the team.
I find the leaders at linebacker interesting for these reasons:
- Jonas Mouton was just a redshirt freshman last year but I'm going to be pretty ticked if he has a good to excellent debut season; last year he was stuck behind a mediocre to bad Chris Graham. Since the coaches were willing to boot Graham to the bench in 2007 I think he got something less than the full-on Massey treatment and Mouton might have a year like Ezeh in 2008: "promising" but pretty meh.
- Johnny Thompson and Obi Ezeh both impressing and Evans being the leader at strongside linebacker. Ezeh was a SAM until the dire situation at MLB forced him over. Presumably either he or Thompson could shift back. So if Evans does get to start he's beaten out either a returning starter or (more likely) a fifth year senior with spot starts to date.
There's another set of clips at VB. I watched them, for what little value that provided. Main impression: holy God, Jason Kates still blocks out the sun.
I usually don't go in for the predictable photoshopped baby in the aftermath of someone bailing or complaining or something, but good freakin' lord this is creepy:
Matt Hayes article in which he checks out Michigan practice and finds a distinct lack of blood orgies.
Etc.: MVictors actually cased Saline High's football field in an effort to scout out spots from which you, the frenzied, BTN-less Michigan nut, can espy Michigan's spring game. The internet at its best.


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NuWa Industries Inc. will begin to build luxury fifth-wheels again in May after a prospective buyer decided not to implement a business plan that NuWa Chairman and CEO Mike Mitchell helped him develop.
"He declined for personal reasons and another buyer didn't surface," Mitchell told RVBusiness. "As I was going through the analysis, I convinced myself that the business plan would work, and I said to myself, `If not him, why not me?"'
The new NuWa will cut the retail prices that will be "non-negotiable" by as much as 25%, sell factory direct and have fewer dealers and employees than before.
NuWa's return to production was somewhat of a surprise. The company announced in late December that it was making "a graceful exit from the RV industry" and stopped production in January.
At the time, dealers were told that NuWa was not going bankrupt and "intended to meet its financial obligations."
Mitchell told RVBusiness that NuWa will have between 20 and 25 dealers when 2010 HitchHiker fifth-wheels start rolling off the production line in June — down from more than 60 dealers last year. Also, Mitchell anticipates a production crew of between 50 and 100 people, plus an office staff of about 25. At one time, NuWa employed as many as 450 people in its Chanute, Kan., factory.
"It will be a fairly slow startup," Mitchell said.
The company's "hybrid version of direct factory sales," he said, doesn't intend to compete with dealers on retail prices that will be about 25% less than before. Factory-direct sales are intended to be available for customers who don't have a dealership nearby that sells NuWa RVs. "We are not going to compete with our dealers on price, only on service," he said.
Retail prices at the factory and at the dealerships will be the same, he said.
In a letter posted on NuWa's website, Mitchell said, "This concept will also help us maintain more control of competitive product pricing."
"We will eliminate the artificially high MSRP so often used by the industry to manipulate the unsuspecting customer, and too often give a false premium for the trade," he wrote. "This present process is confusing and often detested by many buyers.
"Discounted cash/wholesale trade selling prices typically will be 25% lower than comparable 2009 model prices, but will be non-negotiable. The low cash price concept will require that trades be taken at wholesale, as the new unit pricing will be much nearer wholesale."
Mitchell said that 175 unsold 2008 and 2009 HitchHikers remain in factory and dealer inventories that have been "well-priced" to allow dealers to make room for 2010 models.
He said that it's likely that some floorplans will be trimmed and that some models won't be available until the fall.


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Obama pulls ahead of Romney
President Barack Obama has opened a national lead in a tight race that's been static for much of the year.
A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters finds little good news for Mitt Romney but a race that remains competitive.
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Obama leads 50 percent to 47 percent, which is within the margin of error. His 50 percent job approval rating puts him at a crucial threshold for an incumbent seeking reelection. It's an uptick from the spring and summer, but 48 percent still disapprove.
( Also on POLITICO: Democratic analysis: Things are looking good)
Romney, meanwhile, finds himself sliding in the wake of two events — the choice of his running mate and the Republican national convention — that were supposed to buoy his candidacy. His unfavorable rating ticked up from 46 percent to 49 percent over the past seven weeks, as the share viewing him favorably held steady at 46 percent. Personal likability boosts the president, who is viewed favorably by 53 percent.
"The window is narrowing for Romney, and he's in deep, deep trouble," Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who helped conduct the bipartisan poll, said Sunday. "Ultimately, people don't like this guy. If they don't like someone, it's hard to get people to vote for him — particularly to fire someone they do like."
The universe of voters who might change their mind also has shrunk significantly. One in five supporting a candidate said they'd consider someone else last month. Now it's closer to one in 10. Regardless of who they're supporting, 60 percent now expect Obama to win. Democrats say this will fuel late Obama momentum. Republicans think pro-Obama turnout could drop off if people expect him to win.
( Also on POLITICO: Republican analysis: Mitt winning in middle)
The poll's Republican pollster, Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group, notes that Romney is winning independents by 2 points.
"Our original premise that this was going to be a very close race is just reinforced with most of this data," he said. "This race is far from over."
Obama now ties or has an edge over Romney on who is best to handle every major issue except the federal budget and spending.
Romney has lost his edge on jobs. A month ago, he led Obama by 6 points on the question of who is best equipped to put Americans back to work. Now they're even. Among those who say creating jobs is their top priority, Obama's up 11 points.
A slight majority disapproves of the way Obama's handling the economy, yet he narrowly leads Romney on who is better to manage it.
Approval for Obama's tax policy has risen from 46 to 51 percent in the last month, and Obama has a 4-point edge on who will better handle the issue after the two tied in the previous poll.
"For the first time in decades, Democrats have persistently had an advantage on taxes," said Lake.
The Democrat has also expanded his advantage on Medicare. He leads Romney by 9 points, 52 percent to 43 percent, on who can better handle the entitlement program. The president had a 4-point edge in the week before Romney announced Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate.


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After rushing across the planet to escape two screaming infants and the Messiah, we sat down to our first meal in the modern section of Lyon, which is fairly charmless and utilitarian. Think downtown Sacramento but with French people, and not the hot Parisian kind. The dumpy-we- love-butter-and-don't-walk-much kind. (So basically, Americans who speak French.) Modern Lyon is not a tourist destination, unlike the picturesque Vieux Lyon, the Renaissance district, or the Presqu'île, the slender peninsula between the Rhone and Saone Rivers. (Blah, blah, blah. Steve loves history. He read the guide book. Blah, blah. Blah, blah. Look at the train station. It's soooo super '70s.) A few blocks away from the train station, you'll find Lyon's primary food market, Les Halles de Lyon - Paul Bocuse. The name almost seems invoked as a defense, as if to say: We, the Lyonnias, may be so paralyzed by our inferiority to the capital that we actually built a miniature Eiffel Tower, but when it comes to matters gastronomique, our fair city reigns supreme. Supporting evidence is available in this very building.[1]
Three blocks from Halles de Lyon is Daniel et Denise, a restaurant that may or may not be a genuine bouchon—its business card claims the status even if that douche tiger Bill Buford demurs. Owned since 2004 by Joseph Viola, a chef with a stellar pedigree and the narrowly defined ambition to refine and interpret – without deconstructing or otherwise destroying – the Lyonnais classics, Daniel et Denise would be the perfect place to test Bill Buford's incendiary claim that Lyon is, in fact, the food capital of the world.[2]
After 18 hours of travel and grappling with the Wife's concomitant jet lag, I was afraid disaster had quickly struck. (What he means to say is that I was fucking pissed because I wanted a cute, dark, romantical ristorante, and instead the lighting was positively FLUORESCENT, so, upon entry, I wanted to punch Steve in the face. But that could have been because I thought he could have been more polite. But, yes, the rest of the stuff bugged me, too.) My nonexistent "bonsoir" to the maître d' provoked her irritability (See what I mean? Say "bonsoir." It won't kill you.), which quickly became acute when we were seated in the restaurant's incandescent back dining room. (Did you not hear what I said? Fluorescent, NOT INCANDESCENT. DON'T YOU READ THE NEW YORK TIMES?) For all its traditional décor, the room was as bewitching as an operating room. On a Friday evening, the restaurant's final service of the week, the restaurant was filled with ordinary people dressed ordinarily, in sweatshirts and the like. It dawned on me that Lyon was not Paris. (Thanks, Genius.)
The Wife's lingering displeasure proved fleeting once she was served a salad of greens on which the kitchen overlaid haricot verts, then a few creamy pieces of crayfish, and finally a thin wedge of foie gras terrine, all in a row. (I'm easy like that.) This salad and, let's be honest, this preparation of foie gras still haunts Marisa's dreams. (Does it? Does it now? Like I fucking sleep long enough to dream? STOP BLOGGING ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK MY DREAMS ARE, STEVE, AND GO CHANGE A DIAPER.) I stayed out of the way, but for a single, ethereal bite of foie gras that was unmatched the entire trip. At our waitress's recommendation, I ordered the house terrine of God-knows-what; it was one of those sallow, jellied concoctions of different layers of animal parts, artisanal Mystery Meat for all intents and purposes, forced into the shape of a slice of Wonder Bread. I'll confess that I enjoyed it, but there is no need to order it again. (It was fucking gross. And I say that as someone who walked around covered in my younger daughter's vomit for an hour today before realizing the smell that was bothering me was coming from my own damn shirt.)
Marisa then struck gold with a Lyonnais classic, quenelles au brochet, sauce Nantua. The sauce is a béchamel plus crayfish, a local staple which provided the requisite fluvial nuance – a grand, seemingly weightless soufflé of pike, molecular cuisine if there ever was one, in which Monsieur Viola tossed in a few mushrooms and yet more crayfish for good measure. [3] (Oh my god, you're verbose.)
I ordered a personal favorite, Le Boudin noir fait Maison aux Pommes, that is, black pudding with sautéed apples, a perfect autumn dish and accordingly a rara avis in the City of Angels. (Accordingly, this non-chef just had to master Bryan Miller's straightforward recipe.) Daniel et Denise's rendition uniquely served the pudding in two small casseroles, dispensing with the formality of encasing the meats. The sweet apples were of course the hoary, necessary counterpoint to the rich boudin noir, its globules of pork held together with delicious blood and fat. Ultimately, Viola's goal was to prepare a Gallic standard to the best of his considerable abilities and with all due intelligence. I loved it. (Not for me, says the wifely mouse.)
The kitchen brought out two side dishes. The first was a platter of fried discs of potatoes, seasoned just right with salt and torn little shards of basil – just perfect for sopping up the remainder of the Wife's sauce Nantua. But the heavenly gratin of what amounted to macaroni and cheese stole our hearts. Think the best macaroni and cheese hails from some venerable Memphis soul food house in spitting distance of an old-timey juke joint? Guess again. Crazy Joe Viola is responsible for the best. Creamy and rich and made with cheese from, yes, France, this dish is the very reason that comfort food is so comforting.
Dessert, a "floating island of pink pralines" (Ile flottante aux Pralines de Saint Genix) was in actuality a giant cone of iridescent, pink sugar, the color provided by Lyon's ubiquitous pink pralines. I remain bewildered by the dessert and frustrated that I didn't have the presence of mind to order the poached pears au vin rouge. Oh well.
As for the matter of Lyon's status as the world's gastronomic capital, why not? Lyonnais allez lyonnais allez lyonnais allez. Even the Wife liked it.
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[1] Les Halles is the home of the fantastic centenarian, Maison Rousseau, a lunch counter beloved for bringing the best of the Atlantic coast and Mediterranean to the Rhône-Alpes region, including impeccable Belon and Papin-Poget oysters, subtle sea urchins which were much smaller than their Santa Barbara cousins, an absolutely epic fish soup—burgundy in color, smelling of the sea that, depending on one's perspective and power of persuasion over the spouse, either moots or necessitates a visit to Marseilles—and plenty of personality and personalities, naturally.
[2] Paul Bocuse may be a deity, but his eponymous restaurant, located nine kilometers north of Lyon in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, like any house of worship, involves too much entertainment and kitsch, and is prohibitively expensive. Seven years ago, we found Paul Bocuse to be a theme park of itself: Bocuse's image was emblazoned on every wall, plate, and mug. The preparations felt more like the nineteenth century than the mid-twentieth. One example, a plate of Bresse chicken in loads of cream epitomized blandness. Toward the end of that meal, Bocuse found his way to our table to greet us and receive our plaudits. For the Vegas-level mediocrity and showmanship, we had to oblige.
[3]As a matter of course, we'll order the labor-intensive quenelles when appropriate, which is to say, whenever a restaurant will make them with pike. I ordered quenelles the following night at Café Comptoir Abel, whose chef, Alain Vigneron, is the only practitioner (and holder) of Eugenie Brazier's original crayfish-less recipe. Ms. Brazier was the first French woman to earn three Michelin stars, over 70 years ago. With such a noble provenance, quenelles would seem the very essence of fancy, fusty French food as stereotyped in both the States and increasingly in France itself. For example, La Grenouille, the New York dinosaur that insists that its patrons wear jackets, sells quenelles to septuagenarians for $36.oo per serving. But in Lyon, the dish is standard fare for regular people. For all of his troubles and for such amazing quality, Joseph Viola charges a mere 15€.
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Sixteen years ago, one grassroots organization brought the Jaguars to Jacksonville. Now they're back, doing everything they can to keep them there. (Note: "everything they can" appears limited to coupons for nachos and soda at one game.)
Touchdown Jacksonville was a group largely responsible for convincing the NFL's owners that north Florida could support a football team. We saw how that turned out: every single home game thus far has been blacked out locally.
When the group was revived earlier this month, there were five remaining home dates. Much like a surgeon willing to leave the patient a limbless torso in order to keep the gangrene from killing him completely, they've made the final home game of the year the focus of their efforts (codenamed TEALgate Party) That's right: if the Jags can almost sell out a single game in 2009, it will be considered a success.
The December 17th game against the Colts has always looked like the most likely game to sell out. For one, the greatest QB of our generation is coming to town. Secondly. it'll be on national TV and no one wants to look bad in front of Rich Eisen. Finally, it's a Thursday night game, and since Jacksonville shuts down for the weekends, perhaps people will be able to attend.
But Touchdown Jacksonville is taking no chances:
Single-game ticket sales will include a coupon for $10, good for food, drinks or merchandise at the game if ticket buyers give the code word "teal" when ordering by phone or click on a Touchdown Jacksonville Web banner when ordering through Jaguars.com.
That's not all of the group's approach to boosting sales. Mike Hightower, chairman of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce, said members of the chamber's councils are working with their groups of businesspeople to sell tickets. Jacksonville lawyer Wayne Hogan said his law firm will have its Christmas party at the TEALgate party and that it will fill about 100 seats at the game.
Strong work, Wayne Hogan. Jacksonvillians will be watching their team get blown out on national TV in no time!
Which brings us to the only remaining question: which sounds better, Los Angeles Jaguars, or London Jaguars?
Touchdown Jacksonville Has Big Plans For Jaguars' Dec. 17 Game [Florida Times-Union]


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Stop me if you've heard this one: Stanley Kubrick was a perfectionist and a control freak; a chess master and an intensely private individual. And, while making his peerlessly disturbing, endlessly influential movies, Kubrick insisted on doing take after take after take — a truism that gets repeated so often throughout the extras here, you'd think the director himself were behind the camera, forcing his friends and collaborators to recount the story ad nauseam.
If this master filmmaker believed repetition yielded perfection, the documentaries on Warner's imposing 10-disc Directors Series collection have certainly taken his ethos to heart, trotting out the same gallery of talking heads — directors Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack, longtime collaborators Jan Harlan and Milena Canonero, actor Jack Nicholson among many others — to make and remake the same points, albeit tailored to the film under discussion.
The movies themselves, however ("2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining," "Full Metal Jacket" and his final, posthumously completed opus, "Eyes Wide Shut") testify to a decisive lack of repetition across Kubrick's body of work — a dogged refusal to make the same film twice, which would have been just as evident had Warner subbed in "Barry Lyndon," "Lolita" or "Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." As Spielberg opines, "The only thing that bonded all his films was the incredible virtuoso that he was with craft," a fact made intimidatingly clear in every one of the titles in this splendid reissue.
Receiving the most lavish treatment is "2001: A Space Odyssey," which, nearly 40 years after its release, remains a gorgeous, towering enigma. Thesps Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood do more talking on their commentary track than they did in their roles as astronauts, with Lockwood at times amusingly cantankerous in his defense of the movie's genius ("Human beings are just too stupid to comprehend the beauty of what we have here") — which, as was often the case with Kubrick, went unappreciated early on. Snippets from Variety's review ("Big, beautiful but plodding sci-fi epic") are held up for the viewer's incredulity.
Every Kubrick film tells its own illuminating behind-the-scenes story about its creator; with "2001," it's the director's obsession with not only pushing the visual-effects envelope, but also projecting a painstakingly accurate vision of scientific progress in the new millennium. Peeks at the film's trippy concept art bear this out, while extras have original novelist Arthur C. Clarke, Dullea and others speculating about why America's space program has never conquered the heights to which Kubrick's imagination aspired.
Greeted initially as dangerous underground dysto-porn, "A Clockwork Orange" allows everyone from helmers Mary Harron and Sam Mendes to intellectual Camille Paglia — all of whom view Kubrick's chilling adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel as an indelible cultural touchstone — to intelligently hold forth on issues of censorship, sexuality and representations of violence raised by this landmark film. Indeed, when a rash of seemingly "Clockwork"-inspired crimes caused the Brooklyn-born, longtime Blighty resident Kubrick to fear for his and his family's lives, he persuaded Warner Bros. to remove the film from British cinemas, wielding the sort of directorial power hard to imagine today.
Prominently featured in the "Clockwork" extras, Malcolm McDowell (delivering his most famous and still most frightening performance as Alex the Droog) peppers the commentary track with naughty wit ("People think I'm masturbating here; bullshit, I'm taking off my boots") and relishes the famous story of how Kubrick got him to croon "Singin' in the Rain" during the central rape sequence. McDowell also gets loving enshrinement in "O Lucky Malcolm!," a docu survey of his career titled after 1973's "O Lucky Man!," his second collaboration with director Lindsay Anderson (after 1968's "If … ").
The package's three remaining titles haven't been accorded the same high critical estimation and lasting cultural import as "2001" and "Clockwork," and the bonus features are conspicuously thinner.
Yet "The Shining," if not exactly a definitive treatment of Stephen King's novel, remains an impeccable exercise in the film craft Spielberg so reveres, an object lesson in how Steadicam and sound design can conjure an atmosphere of icy menace. And 1987's underrated "Full Metal Jacket" — a late-blooming Vietnam War movie that "Platoon" fans simply didn't know what to make of — still packs a punch with its brilliantly sustained boot-camp sequence; commentators Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey, who have Kubrick to thank for their careers, can't help but marvel at, yup, the number of takes (37) the director required for the jelly-doughnut scene alone.
And then there's "Eyes Wide Shut." Met with befuddled disappointment by audiences expecting a Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman sex tape rather than a brooding, mysteriously anti-erotic odyssey through a dreamlike Manhattan, Kubrick's posthumously completed 1999 opus is ripe for re-evaluation. Alas, no fresh interviews are forthcoming; instead, the discs are largely devoted to eulogies for the late director and a look at his two sadly abandoned projects, devoted to Napoleon and the Holocaust, respectively. No less than the films in this collection, these extras underscore that time has not diminished the loss of this great filmmaker.
Rounding out the package is the warm and insightful documentary "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures," which includes such treasurable footage as Kubrick grumpily directing his daughters in a black-and-white homemovie.


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A brief history of the Club
Read Honorary President William Lowell Putnam's Speech on Club History: "A Great Many Years"
Established in 1902 by the nation's leading climbers and conservationists, The American Alpine Club promotes and preserves the climbing way of life. The Mission Statement reads: "We provide knowledge and inspiration, conservation and advocacy, and logistical support for the climbing community." The AAC evolved from a social club for elite adventurers located on the East Coast to a more centrally located Denver-area organization that actively participates in international dialog about environmental policy, high altitude safety and medicine, innovation in alpine tools, clothing and survival technologies, sponsors expeditions, and investigates controversies in the world of exploration.
John Muir (1838-1914), considered by some to be a founder of the wilderness preservation movement, was the American Alpine Club's second president (1908-1910). Four women, including Annie Peck (1850-1935) and Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925), were among the founding members, all of them trouser-wearing suffragettes and strong leaders. Peck was the first to summit Peru's 22,205' Mt. Huascaran in 1908. Workman, along with her husband William, was a Himalayan cartographer and explorer, and competed quite publicly with Peck for the women's altitude record.
The AAC was associated through its officials and members with many significant American and International organizations, including the Appalachian Mountain Club, Sierra Club, Explorer's Club, Canadian Alpine Club and Alpine Club of Britain, and it was integral to the founding of the Union International des Associations d'Alpinism (UIAA) in 1930 and the Arctic Institute of North America in 1948. The AAC was central in the formation, in 1940, of the 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army, an elite division specializing in warfare in harsh alpine conditions.
Starting with Muir, the club has held a central role in environmental conservation, developing relationships with the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service to balance land use with preservation needs in addressing ethics, access, wilderness management, registration, huts, and roads. The AAC's Access committee, begun in the 1980s, spun off to become the Access Fund, a nation-wide non-profit focusing on keeping climbing areas open while supporting environmental protection. In 2006, the AAC, in concert with The Mountain Institute, founded the Alpine Conservation Partnership, an organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the world's alpine environments.
The American Alpine Club, along with the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation, sponsored and participated in some of the most significant exploration of mountain regions in the world, including the 1939 summit attempt on K2, 1963 first American summit of Everest, and the 1966 summit of Antarctica's Mt. Vinson. Expeditions have been and continue to be negotiated to some of the most remote and politically inaccessible areas of the world in Pakistan, Nepal, China, South America, Cuba, and Russia, at times with the help of usefully placed AAC officials. For example, the AAC president from 1938-40 was James Grafton Rogers. In 1960, he was Undersecretary to the State Department and therefore able to coordinate collaboration between the State Department, U.S. Navy, and the AAC to plan an expedition to the Antarctic. AAC member and past official Mark Udall has served as the senior U.S. Senator from Colorado, and on the Committees for Armed Services and Energy and Natural Resources.


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Gov. LePage vetoes the state budget
Gov. Paul LePage follows through on his promise to veto the budget proposal that lawmakers passed earlier this month.
The governor had until midnight Tuesday to act on the $6.3 billion, two-year spending plan.
In a press release LePage said he could not approve a budget that included tax increases. The plan he vetoed called for a temporary half-percent increase in the sales tax as well as a 1 percent increase in the meals and lodging tax.
LePage also pointed to education cuts as another sticking point. He said more than $18 million was cut from the budget he originally proposed.
LePage left his office on Monday around 4 p.m. and would not talk with reporters about his veto. In a letter to lawmakers, he said, "Now is not the time to ask Mainers to give more to fund government. It is time for us to make hard decisions and make real, structural cuts. There is so much we can do. Our overly generous welfare programs can be reformed, cutting waste, fraud and abuse."
The legislature could vote to override the veto with a two-thirds majority.
Two-thirds of lawmakers approved of the budget to send it to the governor's desk.
Democratic leaders are confident the Republicans who supported that effort will also support a budget override, but that won't be clear until the votes are cast.
"The reality is that we don't even need the veto because we're going to override. I'm pretty confident about that. Our Republican colleagues have assured us they have the votes. It's a responsible budget. We've done our job. It's unfortunate the governor has taken this position," said Sen. Seth Goodall of Richmond.
The legislature is scheduled to return to Augusta on Wednesday to vote.
Members of both parties predict they'll have the votes they need to override the governor's veto.
If there is no state budget by the end of June, Maine faces a government shutdown.


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Is "Philomena" a good movie or a very good movie? Tough call. Let's say somewhere in between.
It's worth praising how the dramedy doesn't appear to falsely exaggerate the true events it's inspired by. As Martin (co-writer Steve Coogan) gets back into journalism to help Philomena (Judi Dench) track down the son whom "evil nuns" (Martin's description, not hers) forced her to give up 50 years earlier, the film resists suggesting that the journey represented more to Martin than it actually did. This primarily is Philomena's story, and it's a natural crowd-pleaser.
Coogan ("The Other Guys," "Hamlet 2") is hilarious as always, but Martin's dry sense of humor never comes off as irritating comic relief. He's an atheist horrified by the church's treatment of his subject and is frustrated that she's not angrier. Philomena, on the other hand, wants to know anything she can about the boy whose conception resulted from a young girl knowing nothing about reproduction.
Suffice to say it's easy to side with Martin's shock about Philomena's treatment.
The film flirts with breeziness and cuteness, and it would be nice to learn a little more about Martin. Still, Coogan and Dench make a fantastic team, believable in their sweet moments together without having to become best pals. She's always watching the movie of her memory. This is a story full of heart about the weight of anger, the relief of clarity and the world sometimes just not being especially good.
Director Stephen Frears ("The Queen") avoids highlighting ironies in blunt, capital letters but also could have gone deeper. The searchers learn that Philomena's son is affiliated with a political party that ultimately did him harm. An elderly nun preaches the sanctity of chastity without seeming to recognize that she wouldn't be around if her parents had felt the same. The film establishes different paths—could Philomena's son be a CEO or homeless? Will this story have a happy or a sad ending?—and allows for varied viewpoints. It also knows how tough it can be to see the other side.
The question about believing in God never seemed to allow for a short answer, Martin tells Philomena. Does she believe? Her answer couldn't be any shorter: "Yes."
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You undoubtedly know people so smitten with their smartphones and tablets that they experience separation anxiety when asked to put them away, even if it's just long enough to get through dinner. But that is nothing compared with the angst they feel when their devices' batteries are getting low. Think tremors and rending of garments.
If you happen to be one of those people, you might consider joining a 12-step program — or maybe just buying a backup battery for recharging on the go. The market for these mobile power sources has grown exponentially in the last two years, with more compact and more powerful options available that allow you to recharge hundreds of times. Which one is best depends on how much power you want on hand and how much weight you are willing to carry.
"Mobile chargers are becoming one of our most popular categories," said Victor Setton, the chief executive of Mobile City in TriBeCa, who bought one himself after he missed critical moments of extended play at the United States Open because he left the match to recharge his phone. "Everybody has had moments like that when you are watching your phone power down and it's killing you."
First, you need to determine how much standby power you need. Battery capacity is measured in milliampere hours (mAh). The more milliampere hours a battery has, the longer it will run, somewhat like gallons of gas in a car. Most smartphone batteries have a capacity of 1,500 to 2,100 mAh while tablet batteries are in the 6,000 to 11,000 mAh range. To fully recharge these devices, you need an auxiliary source that meets or exceeds that capacity.
If all you want is a quick charge to give you a couple of hours until you can get to a wall socket, go with something small, inexpensive and lightweight like the 1,800 mAh Triple C Power Mate Plus ($29), which plugs directly into an iPhone 3GS, 4 or 4S; the company, Triple C Designs, is working on one that will be compatible with an iPhone 5. The Power Mate Plus is about the size of a woman's compact, weighs 1.2 ounces and comes in a variety of decorative designs.
The 2,200 mAh MiPow Power Tube ($39) is compatible with a wider range of mobile devices and will completely charge a smartphone. Encased in what looks like brushed aluminum, it weighs 2.5 ounces and is the size of a cigarette lighter. There are incrementally larger-capacity Power Tubes up to the 5,500 mAh version ($99), which weighs 4.8 ounces and can charge a smartphone a couple of times or charge a tablet 50 percent.
A larger footprint and more heft will provide even more charging capacity. Take the HyperJuice Mini ($100), which is about as big as a smartphone but thicker, weighs 8.4 oz and delivers 7,200 mAh. It also has the advantage of multiple charging ports so that two mobile devices can be charged at once as long as they are USB compatible.
HyperJuice offers battery chargers with progressively larger capacities up to 61,000 mAh ($450). That charger is about the size of a thick paperback book and weighs 4.7 pounds. It is compatible only with Apple products but has enough oomph to keep a MacBook going 32 hours, extend iPad battery life an additional 89 hours or fully recharge an iPhone up to 52 times.
For those who prefer not to juggle one more device, there are charging sleeves or jackets that snap onto the devices they already have. Mophie is the leading provider of iPhone charging cases with its popular Juice Pack Air ($80). It has a 1,500 mAh capacity and adds 2.5 ounces to the weight of an iPhone 4 or 4S. An iPhone 5 version is expected early this year.
For Android users, there is PowerSkin, with 1,500 mAh charging cases for a variety of smartphones. They range in price from $40 to $80, with some selling for as little as $5 with shipping if the model has been discontinued.
If you want an iPad charging case, there is the KudoCase ($130), which relies partly on solar power. It converts outdoor and indoor light into energy for a continual trickle charge. Just know that six hours of sunlight offers only about an hour of iPad time, so you will still need to recharge the case occasionally by plugging it into an outlet.
The Powermonkey Extreme ($200), also has a solar component, with a separate solar panel for recharging off the grid. Marketed to rugged outdoorsy types, the 9,000 mAh Powermonkey weighs 8.5 ounces without the solar panel. It is compatible with most mobile devices, including hand-held GPS systems; is shock-resistant; and, if submerged, is waterproof up to 30 minutes.
Finally, there are mobile chargers that come in special bags with pockets to contain cords and devices, so you can charge discreetly and not have to spread everything out on a table at Starbucks. An example is the Timbuk2 Power Commute ($199). It has dedicated, faux fur-lined pockets to separate and protect devices, as well as the included 3,600 mAh charger. There are also little openings between pockets through which the charger cables can be threaded, and a nifty organizer pocket for partitioning pens, change, business cards and other small stuff.
So with your power anxiety remedied, you can move on to other neuroses, like the bacterial density on your mobile device's touch screen.


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This is probably a stupid and simple question, but does the heisenberg uncertainty principle set this upper bound? That knowledge of the momentum is limited, so it can't reach a very low value and thus have a very large (visible) debroglie wavelength? I am figuring if you wanted to test this on a macroscopic particle you would need it frozen to near-absolute zero, but I assume QM comes in and makes it impossible to see visible wavelengths with the naked eye. Thanks!


text: thefiestygoat 136 Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) I figured we might as well get the 2013-14 thread up and running with the prospect development camp coming up (July 15-19) and then national camps following weeks later. Right now here are the Devils prospects and where they will be playing this upcoming season:Advanced to Pros:D Jon Merrill, D Seth Helgeson, LW Stefan Matteau, LW Reid Boucher, D Reece Scarlett, LW Myles Bell*New Additions:D Steve Santini, C Ryan Kujawinski, LW Miles Wood, LW Myles Bell, G Anthony BrodeurNCAA:Wisconsin: D Joe Faust (SR)Ohio State: D Curtis Gedig (SR)North Dakota: LW Derek Rodwell (SR)Miami: C Blake Coleman (JR)Michigan Tech: LW Blake Pietila (JR)Harvard: C Alex Kerfoot (FR)Boston College: D Steve Santini (FR)Brown: LW Miles Wood (FR)QMJHL:Gatineau: G Anthony BrodeurOHL:Windsor: LW Ben Johnson**Kitchener: LW Ben Thomson*Kingston: C Ryan KujawinskiWHL:Swfit Current: C Graham Black*Kelowna: D Damon Severson KHL:Dinamo-Minsk: F Artur Gavrus (Oshawa hold his OHL rights via trade from Owen Sound)*Could go pro or return for overage season.**No idea what his current legal situation is.I figured Bell is ready to move onto the AHL/ECHL, Thomson could go either way as he is more of a future enforcer than prospect, and I'm guessing the Devils may take it easy on Black with his Grave's Disease.---D Damon Severson is on the roster for Canada's summer camp for the 2014 WJHC. Their camp gets underway on August 4.D Steve Santini and LW Stefan Matteau are on the roster for the USA summer camp for the 2014 WJHC. That camp gets underway August 3.I believe F Artur Gavrus will be eligible for Belarus in the WJHC Division 1A as he doesn't turn 20 until January 3 and the competition is in December.---Please let me know if I made any errors above. EDIT: Corrected Gavrus' status. Edited July 5, 2013 by thefiestygoat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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MILPITAS, Calif, Feb. 22, 2012 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced it has developed the world's smallest 128 gigabit (Gb)* NAND flash memory chip currently in production. The semiconductor device can store 128 billion individual bits of information on a single silicon die 170mm2 in size - a little more than a quarter of an inch squared, or smaller than the area covered by a U.S. penny.
At 19nm, SanDisk is deploying its ninth generation of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND products and fifth generation of X3 technology. This combination of manufacturing and technical expertise helps SanDisk pack more information into each memory cell making it possible to create a smaller, denser NAND flash memory chip.
"Building a 128Gb NAND flash memory chip with this level of complexity is an incredible achievement," said Mehrdad Mofidi, vice president, Memory Design. "This innovation allows SanDisk to continue to be a leader in helping our customers deliver smaller, more powerful products capable of doing more at lower cost."
In addition to reduced size, the 128Gb semiconductor device has an industry-leading X3 write performance of 18 megabytes (MB)** per second. This level of performance is achieved using SanDisk's patented advanced all bit line (ABL) architecture and means that X3 technology could be extended to certain product categories that use MLC NAND flash memory. A technical paper outlining the breakthrough will be presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco today.
The 128Gb NAND flash memory chip was developed jointly by teams from SanDisk and Toshiba at SanDisk's Milpitas campus. The effort was led by Yan Li, director of Memory Design at SanDisk. Products based on the 128Gb three-bit per cell technology began shipping late last year and have already started to ramp into high volume production. SanDisk has also developed a derivative product based on the success of the 128Gb chip - a 64Gb, X3 NAND flash memory chip that is compatible with the industry-standard microSD™ format. The company has also started to ramp production of this additional chip technology.
NAND flash memory is the technology behind the high reliability, small form factor storage solutions that SanDisk sells to OEM customers for use in a wide variety of products such as smartphones, tablets and Ultrabooks. It is also the technology used in products SanDisk sells through its retail channel in the form of imaging and mobile cards, USB drives and mp3 players.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market. SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com
* 1 gigabit (Gb) = 1 billion bits. Some capacity not available for data storage.
** Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
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Vista no more, and I don't miss it
A couple of weeks ago, my PC died. Not the PC itself, actually, just the operating system Windows Vista, which stopped booting up. After a lot of internet research and a lot of trying this and that, I gave up and wiped the hard disk for a fresh install.
I did not, however, install Vista again; I went back to XP. Because I have hated Vista since I "upgraded" to it. The terrible security system that wouldn't let you do the simplest things without asking you if you were sure, and wouldn't let you do some things at all (there were certain folders and files on my computer for the entire time I had Vista simply because it wouldn't let me delete them. The software incompatibility that included Microsoft's own products. The ass-backwards way they tried to improve Windows for gaming and made it worse instead. I had meant to write a whole blog entry about the ways in which Vista sucked, but never got around to it. It is shocking that Microsft would issue what is at best a poorly designed service pack as a new OS, although more understandable if you read this interesting description of how the Vista shut down interface was designed (read the comments too; some are from other Microsoft programmers).
I didn't instantly go back to XP simply because it seemed like too much work. And I thought I would miss the handful of new, minor but useful features of Vista. But I was wrong, I don't miss Vista. Forget those commercials in which Microsoft tried to convince the world that Vista was a good product with bad buzz; Vista had nothing that counterbalanced all its aggravations.
Sure, the folder search on the fly was handy, and the checkboxes that could be used to select files were rather clever. But that's about it. I liked the new start menu, but I discovered that the best thing about it, the ability to type in a program name to find it, can be more-or-less replicated in XP with a freeware program called Launchy that actually works better than Vista's version of the same idea.
Microsoft should never have released Vista, which is the most disastrous OS update since Windows ME. And once they realized it was a disaster, they should have spent time trying to fix its serious flaws with a series of service packs rather than devoting all their energy on their next OS. Microsoft has pissed a lot of people off and made as convincing a case as anyone can that there is no reason to upgrade, ever. XP works fine, there still seem to be drivers for everything and if we just all agree to stop buying new Microsoft OSes then we can all just keep using XP until some Linux programmer comes up with a satisfactory solution for playing games on PCs.


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In the United States, there are three big genealogy companies with huge online databases. I am often asked which is the "best" or which one should the research use. Most researchers seems disappointed to find out that I use them all, plus dozens (hundreds) of other online resources. But I have been wondering: is there any real way to compare the three? I recently examined the three different search engines and wrote a post comparing them to each other. So, I went back to see what I had written. Hmm. Must be advancing age. I was sure it was recently, but it turns out it was in March of 2013, almost five months ago. Time passes when you are having fun.
Back to the idea of comparing the offerings of the three U.S. online mega-databases. I am purposely omitting references to findmypast.com, not because they don't have a huge and valuable database, but they specialize in United Kingdom and related records and so their focus is different that the three U.S. based databases that go head-to-head with information for U.S. researchers. All of these databases have records from other places around the world, but the other three have historically focused on the U.S. with some U.K. records.
One of the first questions is are the three duplicative? Oh, by the way, I am talking about Ancestry.com, WorldVitalRecords.com (aka MyHeritage.com) and FamilySearch.org. I am going to ignore the fact that FamilySearch.org is free and the other two cost money to use, because I am going to assume that you use all three for free in a FamilySearch Center. This, of course, brings up another interesting fact; finding a link to the available FamilySearch Centers is practically impossible through FamilySearch.org. In addition, the program cannot find me a local Family History Consultant, when I am the local Family History Consultant. But that is another post and another day's work. Perhaps FamilySearch should put the things people really use and need on their startup page, instead of the things they want people to use and need?
Back to the comparison. All three of these databases are moving targets. They are always adding new records and new services. FamilySearch.org adds millions of new records from its established microfilm collection and on-going digitization projects. Ancestry.com adds new records every so often. For example, here is a link to a blog post about new Ancestry.com collections.
So here is the first comparison; how many other countries are covered by the databases? Now here is another issue. Do we discount the entries in user submitted family trees? For this comparison, I am doing just that. I will do another comparison of the family trees but not this time.
This one is easy. FamilySearch.org wins hands down with this one. Try looking for records in Luxembourg for example. FamilySearch has six collections with millions of records and Ancestry.com comes in a dim second with a handful of records although looking in the Ancestry.com Card Catalog would seem to indicate otherwise, unless you examine the offerings one by one. In a search for records in Ancestry.com, the Card Catalog (list of all databases) shows 24 items for Luxembourg. If you take out the general ones, such as the Public Member Family Trees and the Holocaust records or New Zealand World War I Records, you end up with less than 2000 actual records. WorldVitalRecords has no listing for Luxembourg.
I could go on with records from FamilySearch.org because its collections are very broad with millions of records from Africa, South America, Central America and other locations including Chinese records by the millions.
But let's go to newspapers in the U.S. for another example. Here, FamilySearch.org drops off the map entirely with only one collection dedicated to newspapers and that is for cuttings from Australia. See Australia, New South Wales, Alphabetical Index to Newspaper Cuttings, 1841-1987. Ancestry.com appears to have extensive collections of newspapers with 1,413 collections in its Card Catalog, but again, this is a list of holdings in individual newspapers, but pretty impressive none the less. WorldVitalRecords.com seems to come out on top with a large number of individual newspapers and the Newspaper Archive Collection of over 2 billion estimated names.
This points up an important issue: aren't I trying to compare apples, oranges and pineapples? Don't each of these huge collections have their own strengths and weaknesses? Yep. That is an issue alright. Usually, I end up telling people who ask to try out all four of the big databases and see which one has the most records from their area of interest. What it boils down to is that each of these databases have huge amounts of data about people all over the world and since they provide this for genealogists to use, we might as well use all of it.


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