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Lifestyle taster: Surf, stand-up paddleboard and stay
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About your host, Dan
I surfed my first wave at the age of 11 at Benone Beach and have been addicted ever since. I've accumulated an extensive knowledge of the Northern Ireland coast line and its environment and have surfed in nearly every spot round the island of Ireland.
I founded Long Line in the winter of 2011 to provide surf lessons for all. No matter what the fear or disability, if someone wants to give it a go we have the skills and bespoke surfboards to make it happen.
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A real feel for beachstyle living with this wet 'n' wild weekend of non-stop adventure.
With the lifestyle taster package, you'll be feeling like a seaside dweller in no time at all. Get suited up and show off your skills as you take the school's surfing and stand-up paddleboarding lessons. Then, get ready to get into the team spirit as you and your group take on an 18 feet long paddle board for an unforgettable flat water adventure. You'll even take your group work into the forest for a shelter building challenge before resting your head for a night in the beautifully restored Victorian villa facing Downhill Beach.
Finally, to truly appreciate the work done here, you'll join in on a 'Surfers Against Sewage Beach Clean' to understand the effort that goes in to protecting our amazing coastlines.
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T. Boone Pickens has joined the Orren Boyle and James Taggart crowd of Atlas Shrugged. Timothy P. Carney, the Washington Examiner's Lobbying Editor, has written an excellent column on Pickens and "the Pickens Plan," called Congress gives your money to T. Boone Pickens. The small Washington Examiner has become a very good paper for excellent columnists, while the once very good Washington Times has lost much of its value since undergoing a change of editors.
Senators Robert Menendez (D, New Jersey), Orrin Hatch (R, Utah), and Harry Reid (D, Nevada) introduced a bill this last week to provide a $100,000 tax credit for the construction of each natural gas filling station and to double the very big subsidy for buying a natural gas car.
The methane-powered Honda Civic costs nearly $10,000 more than the regular Civic. The savings from using natural gas rather than gasoline does not begin to pay for this initial purchase cost difference. Natural gas cars are already subsidized, since the 2005 energy bill already gives tax credits for natural gas cars. The House version of the bill provides $30 million per year for research on natural gas cars.
Pickens founded and partly owns Clean Energy Fuels Corp. It builds natural gas fueling stations and it is a leader in transporting natural gas. He also has invested in V-Vehicle Company, which makes natural gas cars. Pickens is a wind generator investor as well and that industry also exists on subsidies and mandates. Since 1992, he has been lobbying Congress for natural gas subsidies.
Timothy P. Carney is a columnist worth following. Let me offer some quotes that indicate clearly how he thinks:
Perversely, his recent shift—from selling stuff (such as oil) that people want to buy, to selling stuff (like gas cars and wind power) that people buy only when it's subsidized or mandated—has elevated Pickens' reputation from greedy capitalist to world-saver."Hostile takeovers" is an inaccurate term for what Pickens used to do. The management didn't like them, sure, but the transactions in question consisted of shareholders voluntarily giving their stock to Pickens in exchange for Pickens' money.Pickens' new bid actually is hostile. I don't want to fund his windmills or methane cars. But if I refuse, the IRS will come after me. But instead of"greed" it's dubbed as "green."


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The Department hosts accredited radiation oncology and radiation physics residency programs, as well as, dosimetry and radiation therapy training programs. The department has active clinical services in brachytherapy, pediatric radiotherapy, total skin electron irradiation, total body irradiation, and Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy has been a major research thrust of the department. Radiation biology, physics and clinical research programs are strongly supported in the department.
The Indiana University School of Medicine, along with Indiana University Health headquarters and hospitals, including IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health University Hospital, and the internationally recognized Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health and IU Health Simon Cancer Center, are located in the heart of Indianapolis which is America's 12th largest city with 1.7 million people. Indianapolis is the perfect mix of big-city sophistication and genuine Hoosier hospitality. With its arts, culture, sporting events, history and heritage, you will find that the Indianapolis area is a perfect place to live and raise a family!
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Kasba Peth Ganesh Mandal
Rediff.com brings you the five most visited Ganesh mandals in Pune.
The Kasba Ganpati is the residing deity of Pune. There was rivalry among the various mandals regarding the privilege of immersing the idol on the last day of the Ganpati festival.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the man who took the initiative of making Ganeshotsav a public festival, resolved the rivalry and declared the privilege of immersion to Shri Kasba Ganpati, as it is the local deity of Pune.
Till 1925, Shri Kasba Ganpati Mandal celebrated the festival within the premises of the temple and from 1926 it is celebrated in an enclosed mandap.
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Tambdi Jogeshwari Ganapati
Tambdi Jogeshwari in the Appa Balwant Chauk in Pune is the second privileged Ganapati. The small silver idol is kept in the palanquin where you can keep your offerings to the deity.
Tambdi Jogeshwari is the temple of Goddess Durga who is regarded as the patron deity of Pune.
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Guruji Talim Mandal
The Guruji Talim is the third among the privileged Ganpatis in Pune. This mandal was established in 1887, even before Tilak started the festival.
It was established as a symbol of Hindu Muslim unity.
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Tulshi Baug Ganpati
The Tulshi Baug Ganpati is the fouth among the privileged Ganapatis, and was installed in 1901.
The mandal has been the forefront of charity donations, and the organizers have decided that they will distribute food grains to adivasi families from Mulshi Taluka.
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Wilder Bosworth Ill
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Sept. 09, 1958
Wilder Morris Bosworth, 23, husband of the former Virginia Champlin, and son of Mrs. W. [sic-should be Millard] A. Mason of Biloxi and Dr. Wm [sic-should be Wilder] M. Bosworth, Columbus, Miss., is in critical condition at VA Hospital, New Orleans. He completed his service in the Navy three months ago and planned to attend Perkinston Junior College.
His brother, Frank, now stationed at Ft. Jackson, S. C., awaiting shipment to Fort Benning, GA., to attend Officers Candidate School Oct. 13 is home on emergency leave and members of Wilder's family also are in New Orleans with him.
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AMAT Teams Up with DLA to Develop New National Observance: Donate Life ECHO
The Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT) and Donate Life America (DLA) joined forces to develop Donate Life ECHO, which stands for Every Community Has Opportunity. It will be celebrated the second and third full weeks of each July (July 12 – 25, 2015), as a nationwide observance designed to reach multicultural communities. The new observance will be translated into multiple languages, including Spanish. Done Vida ECO, which stands for Esperanza, Comunidad y Oportunidad, translates to "hope," "community," and "opportunity."
The new observance has two objectives: one is to focus on the power of sharing one's personal decision to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor with members of one's community; the second is to encourage registered donors to ask members of their personal networks and extended communities to talk about organ, eye and tissue donation and register as donors. Through the ECHO concept of reiteration and repetition—with people sharing the life-affirming message of donation within their community—more lives will be saved and healed. Multicultural communities play a critical role in America's transplant system. They save and heal lives as donors of organs, eyes and tissue, need life- saving kidney transplants in disproportionately high numbers, and serve patients and families as healthcare professionals.
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Prospect executive chef Ravi Kapur's full plate
Prospect executive chef Ravi Kapur's plate overflows these days with a new baby and lots of family
That Ravi Kapur grew up in Hawaii comes as no surprise.
On paper, his life is enough to drive even the most grounded person to Xanax: He's running a professional kitchen for the first time, is a new father to 3-month-old Makoa and shares his house not only with his wife but also his sister, her fiance and his parents, when they come into town for months-long visits.
But Kapur, executive chef at San Francisco's Prospect, makes it look good.
Prospect earned 3 1/2 stars from The Chronicle in September. Makoa is "the baby you dream you'll have, but never actually think you'll have," says Kapur's wife, April Dawn Storm. And Kapur seems to have achieved the impossible in the chef world - work-life balance. He spends two days each week at home with the family, which tends to congregate around the backyard grill.
"I remember working for certain chefs that would say, 'Oh, I gotta be here all the time, I can't leave,' " Kapur, 34, said, at home on a recent Monday, the soothing beats of Matisyahu playing in the background.
His flip-flop-shod feet were crossed, his unruly hair was smashed against the couch and a hand gently rested on baby Makoa's stomach. Storm, 36, puttered about, occasionally finishing her husband's sentences, and Hoku, their 8-year-old Great Dane mix, lazily wagged her tail as she gave the baby a protective snuffle.
"I always wondered, 'What does that say about you? If you can't step out, what tools have you not given your cooks, your sous chefs?' "
Kapur paused.
"This is the first time I've taken two days off together since ..." he trailed off.
The line that traces Kapur's movements across the globe begins in Oahu, where he was born to an Indian father and Chinese-Hawaiian mother. After 18 years, the line stretches to Waco, Texas, where he moved for college, then starts zinging around peripatetically.
When Kapur found that he preferred his after-school cooking stints to classes, he moved to the Bay Area (zing), where he met Storm and enrolled in San Francisco's California Culinary Academy.
The two moved to Santa Fe (zing) during his internship, where he worked at the Coyote Cafe. Then they traveled the globe for almost a year, hopped back to the West Coast, lived for a brief stint in Hawaii, then returned to San Francisco (zing, zing, zing, zing). Somewhere in there, the line jumps to Vegas (zing), where Kapur and Storm married one weekend on a whim at City Hall. ("We were so naive, we didn't even know we needed a witness," remembers Kapur. Billy D., boyfriend of the justice of the peace, filled in on the fly.)
When Kapur landed a job at Nancy Oakes' Boulevard after cooking at Redwood Park under Michael Mina and George Morrone, his path steadied. He stayed there for eight years before leaving to head Prospect. In unusually effusive language, Chronicle Restaurant Critic Michael Bauer wrote that Kapur "soars" there and deemed almost everything on the menu "a brilliant marriage of fine ingredients and inspired technique."
Kapur seems flabbergasted at his luck. As his sister, Lani, came upstairs after returning from her finance job, settled into the couch next to Storm and Makoa and gave Hoku an ear scratch, Kapur said of his life, "It's a perfect example of how not to stay on a career path."
Maybe, but it seems to have worked out just fine.
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Sarah Baker's artwork
Sarah Baker: Storm's best friend, an artist living in London. She is the reason Storm moved to San Francisco (Baker studied at the Art Institute), thus arguably, the reason Kapur and Storm met.
On Baker: "I've known Sarah since I've known April. We all lived together on Steiner Street, man. Wow, that was crazy."
From Baker's website: "In her explorations of representation and social status, Sarah Baker employs multiple media platforms to perform/document/disseminate art projects that heighten the tensions between fabrication and authenticity."
Their collection: Mostly Baker's earlier collage work - easier to hang than some of her current pieces.
Charbroil grill
Storm, on Kapur's sister Lani buying it for Kapur: "He was a line cook and broke, and she had just started her first finance job. He was calling her 'Santa-Lan.' "
On gas versus electric: "I'm not even a part of that discussion. I think as long as you make the most of what you have, that's what's important."
What they cook for gatherings that can grow to as many as 150 people: "Ribs, wings, burgers ... whole pigs."
Dining table
Found at: Salvation Army in San Francisco, seven years ago.
Cost: $40
On its significance: "Many Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners have been had on it. When I first started at Boulevard, I started doing an orphans' Thanksgiving. Those with nowhere to go on the holidays would come over here and we'd have big potlucks."
Hoku portrait, by April Dawn Storm
Hoku means: Star
Storm, on her talent: "I went to art school since I was 3, and my mom has a gallery. I grew up around it. I came out of retirement for this. I hadn't drawn anything in years."
On adopting Hoku from a pet shelter during their Hawaii stint: "We had nothing to do, so we'd go to the Humane Society three times a day."
On Hoku being the calmest, sweetest pet: "We poured all this love into her. Maybe that's the reason why we went to Hawaii."
Where she sleeps: "On the bed, with us. But with the baby now, it's getting a little crowded."
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Crossroads Trading Co.: With multiple locations across the city, this is definitely my go-to store to buy and sell clothes. All the clothes are always in great shape, and it's hands down my favorite place to find jackets and shoes. They also offer great store credit when you turn in your gently used items.
Buffalo Exchange: This chain has tons of locations across the country, and is my go-to place if I want to shop the latest trends. With a mix of modern clothes and awesome vintage pieces, you never know what you're going to find here. While the store is pretty busy most of the time, new inventory is always coming in which makes each time I visit a different experience filled with new clothes.
Belmont Army: This store is secondhand paradise. With four floors of different clothes, shoes, and accessories, I could seriously spend all day looking around. Each level of the store features something different. It's a great place to find staple pieces for your closet, as well as funky costumes and vintage accessories.
ThredUp: Now this isn't technically in Chicago, but it is my favorite place for buying used clothes online. As the largest online thrift store, this website makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. They even pull pieces they think you would like based on your browsing history. It's also a great place to sell clothes without having to make a trip to the store.


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I came across this rather provocative article, and while I do not fully subscribe to the author's views, it nonetheless raises some interesting questions about governance in a democratic system, and the tendency of politicians to subvert the democratic ideals in favour of vote-bank politics.
Having spent a significant portion of my life outside India, in the US and in Singapore, where, in both countries, I was a minority, I cannot help, but compare, the politics of the United States and Singapore. Two diametrically opposed systems as far as personal freedoms and role of government goes, but with one common thread – a citizen is a citizen regardless of ethnicity, religion, or gender, and one law applies to all, criminal and civil.
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It was a national humiliation
Arvind Lavakare
Arvind Lavakare may be 71, but the fire in his belly burns stronger than in many people half his age. The economics post-graduate worked with the Reserve Bank of India and several private and public sector companies before retiring in 1997. His first love, however, remains sports. An accredited cricket umpire in Mumbai, he has reported and commented on cricket matches for newspapers, Doordarshan and AIR. Lavakare has also been regularly writing on politics since 1997, and published a monograph, The Truth About Article 370, in 2005.
Hang your heads in shame, my countrymen. Do it because a dozen-odd terrorists traveled 500 nautical miles of the Arabian sea from Karachi to Mumbai's Gateway of India, just opposite the grandiose Taj Mahal Hotel and proceeded to humble the city of 16.4 million into utter helpless ness for over 48 hours even as over 125 civilians and some distinguished professional security men lost their lives to the hand grenades and rifle bullets of a fanatical mindset. It was a humiliation worse than the drubbing the Chinese army gave us in 1961.
It was because our motherland, India, is a soft nation, tested and proven so several times. Despite the weighty evidence of Clement Atlee, the Britain's post World War II prime minister to the contrary, the Congress party brainwashed the entire nation, including the press, that it was the non-violence strategy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi that brought us independence.
Atlee had expressed fears regarding the rage of Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army as a reason for its decision to give us independence; another reason was that World War II had liquidated the British Empire and left it to ration even eggs to the citizens of England. But Gandhi disliked Bose's guts and gumption and Nehru sent the officers of the valiant INA to a secret trial in the Red Fort.
Thus, even as the Congress of Gandhi and Nehru, his pampered disciple, ahimsa, non-violence, became the motto of our motherland. So bad has this become over the last 60 years that today even killing a stray dog on the street, however vicious and sick, has become a crime, courtesy another Gandhi, Maneka by name.
Take the more serious issue of terrorism. Excepting during the Khalistan uprising in the eighties that was ultimately doused by K.P.S. Gill and his brave police force, our country's approach to terrorism has all along been tepid and timid, castrated and impotent.
Because almost all the terrorist acts in recent years have involved Muslims as the perpetrators, and because of the Congress fetish of appeasing the minority Muslim community at any cost, our soft national psyche inherited from Gandhi, our response to terrorism has become a combination of impotence and vote bank politics sought to be covered by rhetoric and pleas for peace.
At every stage of our every "encounter" with a terrorist act, our collective national response has been reactive rather than active, defensive rather than offensive. Public statements are issued, action is promised. Period. Nothing else really happens.
At the base of it all is the shameful fact that we choose to be confused by terrorism. We are not sure whether to treat it as a law and order problem or as an act of war against the nation. Our elite journalists of the print and TV/radio world are not even sure as to whether to describe those who indulge in an act of terror as "militants" or "terrorists".
Reams of newspaper reports are testimony to this confusion. The latest Mumbai drama was no different as one prominent TV channel kept on describing the killed terrorists as "militants". Politicians are, or choose to be, equally confused in this simple matter.
Yes, it is a simple matter because the English dictionary will tell you that a militant is one who confronts, face to face, not one who wears a mask; and this militant does not wield an AK 47 or throws hand grenades or detonates a bomb with remote control mechanism.
Further, we have had the phrase "terrorism act" well defined in one of our Constitutional documents right from 1985.
Called "The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order", it empowered Parliament to enact any law to prevent "terrorist acts" and went on to define "terrorist act" as "any act or thing by using bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances or inflammable substances or firearms or other lethal weapons or poisons or noxious gases or other chemicals or any other substances (whether biological or otherwise) of a hazardous nature." By corollary, the perpetrator of a "terrorist act" is a "terrorist If you get your concepts right; the right action will follow — provided you love your country more than your political party or your own advancement in political circles.
Tragically, that hasn't happened in our country so far and is unlikely to ever happen till, heaven forbid, a colossal and unbelievable act of terror paralyses the entire country into a daze.
Just recall some events of recent years. The UPA government that came in 2004 quickly repealed the Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA) which the Vajpayee-led NDA government had introduced after the ghastly attack in December 2001.
It was not withdrawn because of its stringent features but because it was allegedly misused against the minorities (read Muslims). The basic fact was that the Congress, which heads the UPA sarkar, wanted to appease and win over the Muslims with one more lollipop.
Amusingly enough, any call by the BJP for the re-introduction of POTA or some such tough law is counterattacked by the Congress. "Did your POTA prevent the attack on the Akshardham Temple?" they ask.
Forgotten in this child-like question is that it was POTA that secured the conviction of Afzal Guru. Forgotten is that the acceptance of a confession to the police as evidence (considered a draconian legal provision) was what led to the conviction under TADA of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins.
In several other areas as well, our successive governments have failed to act in ways so crucial to minimize, if not totally stop, the reign of terror that now occurs so frequently that from a tragedy it has become a joke for the cynic.
Take the policing of our urban areas which are the focal points of terrorism. Lt General Sinha recently disclosed that in the last sixty years after Independence the number of police stations in the country has increased by a laughable 15 per cent over the figure of 12,000 that existed then.
In contrast, he says, our population has increased four times in that same period even as policing has become so much more complex than before.
Further, whatever police force available is overworked but underpaid, apart from being manipulated and exploited by their political bosses. That is why, at least Mumbai's policemen, and policewomen , look so unfit, almost obese, and so blank in face.
Ditto with our Intelligence force. Marginal increase in their strength has occurred, but assignments include assessment of likely performance of the ruling party in the coming elections. And why the National Security Advisor should have been involved so much in the Indo-US nuclear deal as he actually was is a mystery.
Then there's the human rights industry and our politicians' concern for it much beyond national interest. And there's that impractical concern for "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" even in matters of terrorism. If cockroaches had votes and rats had a religion, our politicians would enact a law prohibiting killing of those two living species as well.
Imagine the People's Democratic Party of Jammu & Kashmir granting pensions from government to families of slain terrorists. Imagine, the Prime Minister himself disclosing his sleepless night over the plight of the mother of an Indian Muslim held in police custody in Australia on suspicion of being involved in a bomb blast but not over the plight of mothers of thousands of his innocent countrymen killed in terrorist violence.
Imagine two Cabinet Ministers oppose the ban on SIMI despite the latter's proven guilt. Imagine one Cabinet Minister wanting all illegal migrants from Bangladesh to be given full citizenship rights, when it is well-known that many among them have links with terrorists. Imagine another Cabinet Minister approving of a University vice chancellor's decision to deploy funds provided by a foreign government to be utilized for the legal defence of two of his University students accused of involvement in terrorist violence.
Imagine, lastly, that amounts running into thousands of crores have been spent on the Haj subsidy for Muslims but the security of our very long coastline on the west is so ill-funded that terrorists can come from Karachi across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai without being spotted.
Contrast all of this is typically indolent-cum-idealistic-cum-selfish Indian attitude to the stark realism and patriotism of the USA when 9/11 occurred in 2001. One thing that nation did shortly after that dastardly day was the enactment by the USA Congress of what's come to be known as the USA Patriot Act. That nomenclature is really an acronym, and the full name of that legislation is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". If a name can arouse emotions, that one certainly does. And however draconian that law has been, it has prevented the recurrence of 9/11.
Unless the whole young nation of ours forgets non-violence as a magic mantra and unless our politicians show a commitment similar to that of the USA to engage in a literal war against terror, we shall continue to allow just about a dozen-odd terrorists to humiliate an entire nation for over 48 hours, even as a naïve Prime Minister calls the Pakistan chief of intelligence to share info with us.
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A 45-year-old woman allegedly threw four litres of acid on a 28-year-old veterinary doctor in Vaishali area of the Ghaziabad district in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
The victim, Amit Verma, has been admitted to a private hospital and is in a critical condition.
The alleged attack took place at around 9 am at the dog care clinic in Vaisahali Sector 4 area where the victim worked as a veterinary doctor.
According to Verma's roommate, Deepak, the veterinary doctor was lying on a couch in the clinic when the accused woman barged into the room and threw a bucket of acid on him.
"The woman sneaked into the living room and threw acid on Amit's face and other parts of the body. She immediately fled from the clinic. I rushed him to a private hospital nearby and immediately informed the police," said Deepak.
The local police failed to record the victim's statement as he was unable to speak.
According to Dr Sunil Dagar of Yashoda Hospital Verma has suffered 40% burnt injuries. "The victim has suffered burns on his face, chest, abdomen and arms. He is currently under observation," said the doctor.
According to Deepak, before joining the clinic, Verma was working as a veterinary doctor at a slaughter house in Meerut. His friend added, Verma had a relationship with alleged attacker who had followed him to Vaishali from Merut.
"He had developed a close relationship with woman who was his landlady," added Deepak. The woman had met Verma three times and called him more than 100 times in the last 18days added the victim's friend.
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TUCSON, ARIZONA – Single-game tickets are now on sale for the Tucson Sugar Skulls' inaugural Indoor Football League season.
The schedule has seven home games played at the Tucson Convention Center Arena beginning March 10. The Sugar Skulls' first game of the season is on the road at the San Diego Strike Force on March 3.
Single-game ticket prices range from $17 in the corner of the arena to $99 in the first two rows on the sidelines. Tickets can be purchased from the TCC Box Office, which is open 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or online at Ticketmaster.com.
Season tickets remain on sale with per-game prices discounted from single-game prices. The Sugar Skulls also have a 10-game voucher program that allows fans to buy 10 tickets with the flexibility to use them on the dates that best fit their schedules. In the program, fans buy the voucher at a price discounted from the single-game price and use as many of them at a game of their choice. For example, four tickets can be used for two separate games and the remaining tickets for a third game.
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March 10, 3 p.m. vs. Bismarck Bucks
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The Indoor Football League was founded in 2008, and has just concluded its 10th season in 2018.
Tucson Convention Center Arena in downtown Tucson has been host to a variety of shows and events. TCC is operated by SMG. SMG is the "gold standard" in public facility management and they have the programs, systems and talent in place to ensure that all SMG-managed facilities run smoothly and every event they host feels like a celebration.
The Tucson Convention Center / Arena is host to more than 500,000 guests annually, and is home to the American Hockey League's Tucson Roadrunners.
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Manchester United have not made an official approach for Olympiakos defender Vasilis Torosidis, according to the player's agent.
The versatile 26-year-old is believed to be on Manchester United's radar amid reports Sir Alex Ferguson is considering a move for the experienced Greek international in a bid to alleviate the injury problems his defence has perpetually encountered this season.
Last week the Daily Mail claimed scouts from Manchester United watched Torosidis in action during Olympiakos' 0-0 draw against Doxa Drama and while the player's agent, George Kazianis, refused to confirm or deny the Premier League champions were interested in the defender, he told The International Business Times that there had been no official approach.
"I would like to inform you that I have no official proposal from Manchester United regarding the player Vasilis Torosidis." Kazianis told The IBTimes UK.
Manchester United have endured a torrid season with injuries to date, that has at times decimated their back-line. The long-term absence of captain Nemanja Vidic has exasperated United's problems, but Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Rio Ferdinand and the Da Silva twins have also all faced spells on the sidelines this term.
Torosidis is believed to have a £6 million buy-out clause should Manchester United decide to firm up their reported interest in the robust defender. With 42 caps for Greece and plenty of Champions League experience, the 6ft 1inch fullback has the necessary quality to provide defensive cover in a number of positions in Ferguson's back-line
The 2010 Greek Footballer of the Year is a right-back by trade but equally adept anywhere across the back-four, and has in the past been associated with moves to Liverpool, Newcastle and Bayern Munich.
While Manchester United have been associated with defensive cover in the January transfer window, the club's record signing, Dimitar Berbatov, is reportedly considering a return to the Bundesliga.
At the beginning of the month Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed the club's intention to exercise the Bulgarian's one-year contract extension in March, but the 30-year-old is wanted by his former club Bayer Leverkusen, and has also been coveted by Bayern Munich and wealthy Russian club Anzhi Makhachlala.


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Business maintains telecommunication networks for the phone communication. There are different types of phone systems that can be used by companies. Both the business structures and features of the phone systems must be factored in when making decisions on selection of phone systems. One of the decision that the business will take care of is whether to use mobile phones or to have dedicated phone systems. If the company requires dedicated telephone services; it can choose among three different alternatives. The selection should be made bearing in mind factors such as the number of users whom will connect to the phone among others.
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For some, "Burqavaganza" is a funny love story in the time of jihad. For others, it mocks Islam. The government's recent ban on the play highlights Pakistan's liberal-conservative divide.
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Syrian Actress Tests Boundaries Again
"My films criticized the double standard of the Eastern man. He studies in Europe, but he comes back East and returns to his old attitudes," said Nihad Alaeddin.
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: October 1, 2010
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DAMASCUS, Syria
NIHAD ALAEDDIN was once one of the great sirens of Syrian cinema. Working under the stage name Igraa, or Seduction, she embodied the openness and liberalism that reigned in the Arab world during the 1960s and '70s, performing the region's first cinematic nude scene and flippantly telling journalists that "we have to bring sex to the cinema because our audience is frustrated."
Now, after 15 years of self-imposed seclusion, she has returned as a ferocious critic of the Islamist wave sweeping the Middle East, and her courage has drawn the admiration of a younger and more constrained generation of actors and filmmakers. A multipart documentary about her appeared on Syrian television last year, and a prominent Syrian director is now working on a film about her life.
Unlike many other actresses of her era, she refuses to apologize for any of her numerous risqué roles, and even defends her sexual freedom in a way that is almost unheard of in this increasingly conservative country.
"Men have this hypocrisy nowadays. If the girl wears a hijab she must be honest," Igraa said in a voice ragged from chain-smoking, during a late-night interview at her Damascus apartment. Today's Islamic conservatives, she said, are mostly "liars" who "criticize others but don't truly believe themselves."
"The whole issue of the hijab has become an excuse for hunting down other people," she said.
She laughed and added, "This kind of talk could get me hanged."
Igraa's own family has been split by the Islamist trend. As a teenager in the late 1950s, she traveled with her older sister to Cairo, where an Egyptian impresario renamed them Seduction and Charm and made them a successful belly-dancing duo who toured Europe and Asia in daringly scanty outfits.
Then in the late 1970s the Islamic revival began, taking with it Igraa's sister. She took the veil and became a conservative Muslim, discarded the name Charm, and now refuses to talk about her belly-dancing past, though the sisters remain on speaking terms.
As for Igraa, who still uses that name, she now lives mostly nocturnally, rising in midafternoon. Her apartment is a decaying museum of her own career, with dozens of pictures of her alongside bizarre collections of cheap trinkets and stuffed animals. In her late 60s, she still dresses like the precocious teenager she once was, with tight jeans, pancake makeup and a spectacularly bouffant wig hiding her gray hair. She married only eight years ago, to a man decades her junior, and has never had children.
Some critics say her new iconoclasm is just an effort to dignify what was little more than a career in soft-core porn. Igraa bristles at the notion. "I took off my clothes for a principle," she said. "If I wanted to do it for money I could have done it in the dark and made a lot more."
BORN in Damascus to a lower-middle-class family, she dropped out of school in the fifth grade and moved to Cairo at the age of 13. After training with the legendary Egyptian belly dancer Tahia Carioca, she danced with her sister for several years, and then began acting in television dramas. She went on to become a leading actress, screenwriter and director.
"There was a kind of bloom of freedom in those days," said Nabil Maleh, a Syrian director who helped to make Igraa's career.
Igraa's breakthrough came in 1970 with the film "The Leopard," widely considered to have established modern Syrian cinema at a time when Egypt dominated the business. During filming, the producers and director worried that the story — about a Robin Hood figure in the mountains of northern Syria — might not get the attention it deserved without some kind of lure. They asked Igraa, who played the protagonist's wife, to do a nude scene. She surprised them by agreeing almost at once. By modern standards, the film is scarcely racy at all: a few glimpses of flesh during a muted love scene. But at the time, it was profoundly shocking.
"I felt like a suicide bomber when I was making this scene," she recalled. "To do such a scene in Syria — I knew there would be criticism."
There was criticism, but the film was a hit. People traveled in packed buses from remote towns to the movie theaters in Damascus and Aleppo. Igraa was defiant about her role, and when she was asked to blame the director and producer, she refused, saying they had done the scene with her full consent.
She went on to make dozens of other films, many of them tawdry affairs with a lot of bikini scenes and not much plot. But she also wrote 25 screenplays, and she casts her work as an effort to break down patriarchal attitudes toward women.
"My films criticized the double standard of the Eastern man," she said. "He studies in Europe, but he comes back East and returns to his old attitudes. If he could lock his wife and sister up, he would."
To some younger filmmakers, her standing as an artist is less important than her defiance. In a country where artists are often forced to make compromises — with censors, or with religious orthodoxy — her honesty and steadfastness alone seem a virtue. Despite her controversial views, however, she has not suffered harassment or threats.
"She is very important because she is not a liar," said Khaled Khalifa, a prominent novelist and television screenwriter. "She never regretted, she never apologized." He added that in contemporary Syrian television and film "you can barely even show a kiss."
Mr. Khalifa said he had tried to persuade Igraa to return to the screen, without success.
ODDLY, Igraa said she was a great admirer of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. She does not share his Islamist principles, but admires his honesty. "If he asked me to sacrifice my blood, I would," she said.
Igraa said she would make another film if the role were right. For now, the Syrian director Omar Amiralai is making a film about her life, and she seems comfortable to play the provocateur.
Pointing to a huge movie still on her living-room wall that shows her younger self, head thrown back and eyes closed in what appears to be a moment of sensual abandon, she asked, "Guess what I'm doing in that picture?" The answer? Being stabbed to death by her husband. In the film, she played a woman who cheats on her husband and then returns to him, only to have him kill her.
Men usually think the still shows a moment of sexual climax, she said, with a bawdy smile. "Only women ever guess it right."
Nawara Mahfoud contributed reporting.
A version of this article appeared in print on October 2, 2010, on page A8 of the New York edition.
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The IT team: A firm's most important asset
Would you like to improve your client service offering, increase your revenue and enhance your firm's data security? Would you like to do this at no additional cost? It is not only possible, but also fairly straightforward due to a secret resource in your firm: your own IT team. Even if your firm doesn't have an in-house team, your outsourced partner can still help you achieve these goals.
How to grow your firm with IT
The members of your IT team are experts in technology and software, and so much more. They not only can help you remain up to date on the latest advancements and best practices for your firm, but in some situations, they can also do the same for your clients. For example, the same improvements and upgrades your firm is contemplating might also be good for your clients, leading to greater operational efficiency, cost savings and even a more effective outcome.
However, many CPAs and accountants are so focused on service delivery and client retention and acquisition that they simply do not have time to keep track of new or recent technologies. Why not let this valuable resource assist with being your eyes and ears? Encourage your IT staff to proactively make assessments and offer solutions to improve your firm or your clients' businesses – and you won't be disappointed with the results.
Your firm likely faces many of the same challenges your clients do, including budgeting, operational efficiency, workflow optimization and system management. By working closely with your team to develop a better understanding of the value each technological element brings to the firm, you can leverage the solution to your clients. Your firm and the IT group can work on ROI for different solutions, and mutually arrive at the best solution for you and your clients. This knowledge and process will help you better serve your clients and connect with them in a more meaningful manner. Being able to address the challenges you and your clients share can be a big positive to all involved.
How to give IT a bigger role
A commonly held misconception is that IT departments are too busy to provide consultations outside their usual day-to-day tasks. The fact is that IT professionals are interested in their subject matter, and I've found them very happy to share their knowledge and expertise. Your IT staff likely already feels like contributing members of your firm and would very much appreciate the chance to be even more involved in your combined continued success.
IT professionals can provide insight into many different business functions. The group is not only good at technology troubleshooting, but it can also provide expert knowledge in security, user support, project management, system implementation, system architecture and even website development. In some cases, you can incorporate your team's consulting into your client services by billing for the consulting sessions where you present the client's current technology system and business needs to your IT team. In turn, your team can offer an assessment and strategic input. Another consideration would be bringing your IT lead to a meeting with the client to provide real-time collaboration and idea exchange.
The team can also serve as a valuable internal resource for refining pitches and presentations. In their day-to-day roles, IT professionals frequently receive sales calls and meetings from vendors. They critically evaluate offers and packages before making purchase decisions worth thousands of dollars. Why not leverage their experience to refine your own sales presentation?
How to ensure successful IT collaboration
Operating in a consulting capacity might be a new experience for your IT team. This is where you can actually coach technology professionals and provide them with insight and skills they may otherwise not have an opportunity to learn. Educate the team on the best practices for providing client service and managing client expectations. Help them learn the soft skills you learned over the years, such as maintaining control of the conversation and how to tactfully push back, or push harder, for a superior solution. An additional area of coaching might be best practices for email communication with clients.
IT professionals will need to be brought up to speed on the unique needs and challenges of your clients' businesses before they can provide quality IT consulting services. Provide them with details and examples, and answer any questions they have before asking them to develop a recommendation. If this is the first time they encounter this client, it may take your team a day or two to familiarize themselves with a specific client's technology suite. In some cases, it may be mutually beneficial to have an opening dialog with the client directly.
Don't have an internal IT team?
If you do not have an internal IT team, you can still provide technology consulting for your clients by working with an individual IT contractor or outsourced IT firm. Such an alliance is very similar to your other business partnerships and is mutually beneficial. Outsourced IT contractors and firms are likely already well versed in client service and account management best practices, so you'll be able to leverage them in meetings and presentations quickly.


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|Hammersmith Hospital in Shepherd's Bush
As part of my own job I have been trained to a high level of emergency first aid because we tend to go to places where we might need it. And there is a phrase that is drummed into us by the trainers which is the "platinum ten minutes". Meaning, simply, that in many serious emergencies what happens in the first ten minutes can literally be the difference between life and death, or either full or partial recovery. So time matters.
But do people in the north of the borough matter to our council? A Fulham bias is very clear from the reaction to the announcement from the NHS in North West London. Hammersmith & Fulham has started an online petition - but only to protest the closure of the A&E dept at Fulham hospital at Charing Cross, not the closure of the A&E dept and downsizing of our own hospital. And the Fulham Chronicle is living up to its' name by only being apparently interested in the fate of the Fulham service too.
|Our council's priority
The local MP Andy Slaughter is very clear on the answer to that question - these are Government inspired closures and he is organising a protest march in Westminster this coming Monday to coincide with a meeting there of local health planning bosses.
Neighbouring MP Greg Hands is also issuing statements against the proposed plans - again only concerned with Charing Cross Hospital - but insisted to me on friday that this did not mean he had to resign his position as a member of the Government. These were not Government initiatives, he insisted, but local NHS bossses who needed to be opposed. That is also the line of our council.
Of the two Andy is right and Greg is plain wrong. The plans are being put forward because the local NHS has to find around £1 billion of savings over the next three years. That was made very clear by the NHS themselves when they launched the plans at the end of last year, under a banner called "Shaping a Healthier Future". The NHS in our part of the world is broke, basically. And under ruthless discipline that started under the last few years of the Labour Government and which has been continued under the coalition, the NHS has been told it isn't going to be bailed out. So cuts there are.
Speaking in February this year Dr Anne Rainsberry, Chief Executive of NHS North West London and Senior Responsible Officer for the programme, said:
"There will be some difficult decisions to make but unfortunately no change is not an option. This is all about providing the best possible care for our patients and saving lives."In fairness to the coalition if they did just bail out the NHS and save these hospitals there would be no incentive for the financially irresponsible bosses of the NHS not to simply rack up massive debts again. And Andy needs to accept that this happened under the last Labour Government, despite massive amounts of money being poured in. But we are where we are -and what matters now is that at least part of the cost of imposing financial discipline looks like it is going to be paid in local people's lives.
Unless they can be persuaded otherwise.


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Wirecard has gained a new client in the rapidly growing online games market: Germany's market leader of games software, Goodgame Studios, is to begin using Wirecard's payment services. The Hamburg-based company exclusively sells internally developed games via its own portal as well as an extended worldwide network of partners. More than 300 million customers around the world can choose between more than ten mobile and browser games which are available in 26 languages.
Goodgame Studios will use Wirecard's Checkout Seamless Integration. This enables the provider to seamlessly integrate the payment process, in turn allowing players to make convenient card payments for browser games wherever they may be in the world. As a fraud prevention measure, automated real-time risk management tools will run alongside each individual payment. To ensure payments are as simple as possible, Goodgame Studios uses Wirecard's tokenization service. This enables customers to access stored payment data using what is known as a token, meaning that the customer doesn't have to save any sensitive data themselves, instead using the certified and secured Wirecard server environment.
Bruno Sousa, Lead Payment Manager at Goodgame Studios: "Our innovative developments mean that we are in touch with the needs of our users. While creating experience worlds and enjoyment of the game are important, seamless processes such as secure and convenient payment processing are an absolute must – this applies to all gamers across all payment platforms. Wirecard really impressed us with their consultancy and implementation."
Head of Sales Digital Goods at Wirecard, Julia Kitzinger: "The online games industry is growing rapidly and the market segment's potential is huge. In America and Asia, the games market grows by as much as 15% - 18% per year, and Europe is catching up. Mobile devices and ever-increasing internet speeds are just two of the driving factors. For this reason, we are pleased that Goodgame Studios has chosen us as their online payment provider and that we too can profit from what this exciting growth market has to offer."
The Wirecard Group supports online games providers with individual payment solutions. These include online payment processing of local and international payment methods, micro payments, subscription-based billing, risk management solutions, credit card acceptance (acquiring) and accompanying call centre services. Many online games platforms have already placed their trust in Wirecard's solutions.


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Ed must be my favorite name of the day. After covering Ed Packard endorsements in Alabama, I'm moving on to Wisconsin to give you an update on my friend Ed Thompson. For those of you who haven't had the distinct honor of meeting this Ed, he's a former veteran, boxer, professional gambler, prison guard and mayor who is currently a tavern owner and sits on the city council in Tomah, Wisconsin. Here's his Wiki bio:
Ed Thompson (born December 25, 1944 in Elroy, Wisconsin) was the United States Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002. He won 11% of the vote. He was elected mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin in April, 2000 with 58% of the vote. His older brother, Tommy Thompson, was previously Governor of Wisconsin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
On April 5, 2005, Ed Thompson won an unexpected victory in the city council election in Tomah, Wisconsin.
It was unexpected because Thompson wasn't running for the position. He had recently decided not to run for re-election for his position as chairman of the Wisconsin Libertarian Party, and was actually planning to take a break from politics.
Although he didn't know it, Ed Thompson was the subject of a write-in campaign. He would receive 31 of 34 votes. His "opponent", John Buick, received one vote from Thompson himself.
When Thompson first heard the news of his victory, he immediately declined the position. But days later, Thompson said, "I am honored by the confidence the people of Tomah have shown by electing me to serve them, and I would be shirking my responsibility and duty if I were to decline.
"I received just a deluge of phone calls, asking me to reconsider. And when I thought about all the people who don't get involved in politics, and how often I've told people they really should get involved in local politics, I had to say yes."
Thompson was sworn in on April 15, 2005 and will serve two years on the Tomah city council.
There is a really great new documentary about Ed which I encourage everyone to watch. The title A Remarkable Man describes Thompson perfectly. People are now reviewing the film and I thought I'd share a couple of clips. Here's one from LewRockwell.com:
Having spent his youth in Toughman contests, you would think that the concussions would have properly prepared Ed for a political career. Unfortunately for him, he seems to have retained plenty of IQ, and he went into business instead. He opened the Tee Pee Supper Club in El Toboso"¦ no, I mean Tomah, Wisconsin. He served spare ribs and ethanol, and put in a few video poker machines.
Then one day, the District Attorney decided to raid all the small gambling establishments in Wisconsin (not the big Indian casinos which Ed points out are only 50 miles from Tomah, just the little taverns and other places not up to hiring Abramoff or his ilk). Ed found his Friday night restaurant receipts confiscated, and faced the threat of 8 years in prison. A lesser man would have taken the proffered plea bargain and gotten back to feeding his family. Ed decided to fight.
First, he defeated the initial charge of illegal gambling. He never claimed to be anything but guilty, but it seems that no jury in Tomah would convict him. Note to other prospective libertarian troublemakers: reading to senior citizens pays off. Note to prospective troublemaking jurors: for Pete's sake, don't ADMIT that you know about FIJA: the cursed prosecutor will just look for more pliable jurors.
Following this victory, he took vengeance on the District Attorney, finding and funding an opponent to defeat him in the primary. The most touching moment in the film is the scene where the former DA talks about losing the only job he ever loved: that of persecuting his fellow citizens for victimless "crimes" like owning video poker machines.
Here's another from FilmBaby:
The film also chronicles Ed Thompson's race for Mayor of Tomah and Governor of Wisconsin and shows how the political system in Wisconsin consists of a sort of corrupt Good Ol' Boy network of Republicrats, who make it nearly impossible for other voices to be heard. After being suffocated with so many plastic automaton Republicrats unfortunately winning elections, it is truly a breath of fresh air to see an actual live human being become involved in politics. The primary concern of career politicians is their own career as is evidenced by their actions. Saying whatever their advisors tell them to say to win votes. The film wonderfully shows that Ed Thompson has no FCC between his brain and his mouth. So when he speaks, they are words that clearly come from his own experience, his own heart, and his own mind, and not sound bytes written by some sleazy political groomer sweating over polls behind the scenes.
The film also painfully illustrates how Ed Thompson has come to the realization that as voters we have unwittingly created our own oppressive royalty in the guise of slick celebrity attorneys who become elected officials, and how we have also unwittingly turned the common man into serfs and peasants to this psuedo royalty. The film shows that it is this realization, which fuels Ed Thompson's current fire in the political arena.
I can only hope that this fine film serves as a mere prelude to Ed Thompson's future governorship of Wisconsin. It clearly illustrates that he is the best man for the job.
I walked away from this film with a valuable lesson, and it is this. Most folks would write letters and make phone calls of complaint if presented with only two choices of televisions at their local Best Buy stores, yet they seem to be content with the illusion of only two choices at the ballot box, which in reality is only one choice. Those same folks will tell you that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote. Those folks are wrong. Republicrats are not entitled to votes. Voting is not about rooting for your favorite team, it's not a sporting event you go to with your hometown colors painted on your face, and it's not about being on the winning side. Voting is a personal process whereby an individual communes with their government, and sends government their own personal political views. Anything else is a wasted vote. Because even if the Republicrat you vote for successfully wins office, you still lose.
I've got a copy and highly recommend that you purchase one, too.


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'Dazed and Confused' is a movie made in the 90s, starring (to name a few) Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams and Milla Jovovich. The movie takes place on the last day of school in May 1976. It focuses on the relationship between the kids soon to be entering high school and the new seniors who are eager to finally rule the school. The costumes are fantastic and it's a pretty funny movie to watch, not a whole lot of substance but definitely an enjoyable flick.
It was the last day of school in 1976, a time they'd never forget… if only they could remember.
I did it when I was a freshman, and you'll do it when you're seniors. but you're doing great. Now fry like bacon, you little freshman piggies. Fry!
Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. But that's all right, we'll worry about that later. I will see you there. All right?
You guys know anything about a party?
No, sir.
Chicks don't wanna here anything, man. The girls in our classes, they're all prudes, man. It's the girls ahead of us, man. They were wild! Our class, they're worthless, man!
Hey you guys know what that song is about? Its about the aliens. We're the aliens man, we're the savages. We're the savages man.
I may play ball next fall, but I will never sign that. Now me and my loser friends are gonna head out to buy Aerosmith tickets. Top priority of the summer.
[talking about Gilligan's Island] Think about it. You're basically alone on a deserted island with two readily available women. One a seductive sex-godess type, the other a healthy girl-next-door type with a nice butt. So guys have it all, the madonna and the whore. Women get nothing; we get a geek, an overweight middle-aged guy, some nerdy scientific type, I mean…
I'd like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin' else.
Watch them fly… away
Man, it's the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. If it ain't that piece of paper, there's some other choice they're gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep on livin' man, L-I-V-I-N.
So if any of you haven't seen this movie, I suggest you do that!