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- AnonymousJuly 30, 2016 at 7:21 AM
Dear Florin,ReplyDelete
On Lubos' blog, TRF, one can find multiple examples of logical absurdities generated by his commitment of non-realism. The title of the post is "Socks and electrons are more analogous than Bellists pretend".
Lubos tries here to provide an answer for my argument put forward on your blog in the comment section of the post "GHZ for die-hard local realists". The argument is not new, being well known under the name "EPR-Bohm".
Let's just relax and see how Lubos gets entangled in absurdity after absurdity:
"The uncertainty principle is the actual reason why it's inconsistent in quantum mechanics to assume that the observables have their values before they're actually observed."
"we may reinterpret the events right before this measurement and assume that the individual spins (just like sock colors) had these values, either ↑↓ or ↓↑, already right before the first measurement of an individual spin. But in quantum mechanics, due to the uncertainty principle, we mustn't do the same thing in the absence of an actual measurement. We're only allowed to assign sharp c-number values to observables that are actually measured and once they are measured."
It should be clear from the quotes above that it is impossible, in his opinion, for the entangled particles to have a certain spin (up or down) before the measurement.
Not surprisingly, he is forced to accept that:
"On the other hand, in quantum mechanics, we must admit that the first spin (up/down) of an individual electron that we measure is created in the measurement itself. The reality – a particular c-number associated with the observable – wouldn't exist without the observation. The spin of the distant electron is therefore "determined" by our local measurement, too."
Read carefully the quote above, because this is clearly a non-local phenomenon, and it is what the "Bellists" are arguing.
But he doesn't admit it. His explanation follows:
"But as the sock analogy makes manifest, this "determination" doesn't require any superluminal or instantaneous influence because the spin of the remote electron wasn't strictly changed by the measurement of the spin of our local electron."
Realy, Lubos? You say that the electron could not have had a spin up state. After the measurement it has a spin up state. It's not that you were uncertain about the spin (if it was up or down), it is impossible for the particle to have been in either state. Sorry, no matter what you hope to achieve by placing the word "strictly" before "change" it's not enough. At this moment you may go apologize to all "Bellists" out there.Replies
I went to Lubos' blog and found just this; he is arguing that the individual spins do not exists in the entanglement (true), and then argues they come into existence with measurement. This is the case. Entanglement is a case of the "whole greater than the sum," for there are really no individual parts that ontologically exist in any way, but rather there is only the entire state. Lubos then says this is no different from classical mechanics --- Really?Delete
Lubos is a case study in how the human brain "blows neurons" when it tries to make quantum physics translatable in classical or macroscopic terms. I don't write on Lubos' blog, finding it oriented largely towards a band of far right winged UR-fascists as himself, and not enjoyable. In fact I usually go there to see if he has found an article worth reading.
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2016 at 4:51 PM
"he is arguing that the individual spins do not exists in the entanglement (true), and then argues they come into existence with measurement."
He is also arguing the opposite. The measurement does not create the spins, it only changes the knowledge of the observer. He switches from one position to another hoping to maintain both non-realism and locality. Unfortunately for him it cannot be done. See the continuation of my original post below.
I think that one can understand QM as a statistical theory based on some underlying classical mechanism. Its non-intuitive aspect has been much exaggerated.
It is very difficult, if not impossible to get a fair treatment on Lubos' blog. He insults/bans anyone who disagree with him so that only his admirers remained. Even for the post I was discussing here, riddled with inconsistencies, he got a lot of appraisal for clarity.
I have verified all the quotes of mine and all of them are true, 100% accurate, important, compatible with each other, and compatible with reality. Let me assure you that if you see any problem in any of the sentences I wrote, it is due to your brain defect.Delete
Some summary of these things is rewritten as a reply to Andrei at the bottom of this comment thread. I am afraid it makes no sense to respond many times because peabrains won't ever be able to understand these simple things, anyway.
There is a sort of physics Orwellian statement here. If you have an entanglement, say between spins or polarizations of photons, then the entire state is what has been prepared and is what is accessible to the experimenter. There really are no individual spins or polarizations. A measurement that is performed transfers the entanglement phase from the system to needle states, which by doing so means the spins or polarizations are now manifest or in a sense "created." Yet nowhere do you have both of these circumstances in one data set --- you can't have your cake and eat it too.Delete
This means that the whole or total is not the sum of the parts. The whole can exist without any meaningful physical sense of the parts existing. From the meaning of a quantum bits it is evidence that quantum bits are conserved; for there is no inner information at all, but only the information of the entire state prior to observation and the individual state after observation with quantum entanglement phase shifted to needle states. This is hardly classical, and to say that it is classical just because it is what an observer experiences is maybe an emperor's new clothes idea. It is sort of a case of Orwell's double think, where two contradictory ideas are considered to be mutually compatible.
You do this with climate change, where you claim on your blog presumed data showing the coolest temperatures on record when everywhere else, such as NOAA etc, display just the opposite.
Quantum mechanics is a case of "whole not equal to sum of parts," and this is a mental difficulty comparable to over turning the idea of a god. The classical argument is that for something to be created you must have a creator, which of course gets into "turtles all the way down" once you ask who created the creator. QM similarly challenges our biases over what it means for something to exist and to be "composed" of other things. Some moments of reflection might also suggest that abolishing god(s) and the quantum abolition of the "whole = sum of parts" are somewhat related to each other.
To carry a bit further, I think Lubos' statements are a case of taking the meaning of "OR" in quantum mechanics and mistaking it for "AND."Delete
To carry a bit further, I think Lubos' statements are a case of taking the meaning of "OR" in quantum mechanics and mistaking it for "AND."Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2016 at 7:23 AM
But the gems continue to follow:ReplyDelete
"Both individual spins were uncertain, just like both colors of the individual socks, and the measurement of the first spin just eliminated our uncertainty which may be thought of as residing in our head – just like in the case of the two socks."
Here, Lubos changed his mind. The particles did have spins but the observer was uncertain about them. The uncertainty is only in the mind of the observer:
"So only our knowledge about the individual spins was changed, not the spins themselves."
And also:
"When we learn about the individual spins, we are not remotely changing the two spins. We are just changing our knowledge from the ignorance (of individual spins/colors) to the knowledge"
Sorry, but you said earlier that the particle could not have had a spin, and the measured spin has been created at the time of the measurement. Because there was no spin to speak about there can be no knowledge about it either. You cannot acquire knowledge about something which does not exist.
I feel sad that an otherwise intelligent physicist can display such a complete ignorance of logical reason. This is not some subtlety but a gross logical error for which you would be laughed-out of a debate.
The resolution is simple. The particles have a certain spin before the measurement, but it is unknown. Only now all the talk about knowledge becomes meaningful.
The fundamental error comes from a confusion regarding uncertainty one should not expect from an ex-professor at Harvard. It doesn't imply that the non-commuting observables cannot exist. Such an interpretation is falsified by the experiment involving two consecutive position measurements allowing the calculation, with a theoretically unlimited precision, of both position and momentum of the particle for the time between the measurements.
There is absolutely no contradiction between any two of the statements I have made. All information about the state of Nature and physical objects in it is always defined relatively to an observer's perspective - and is obtained from observations. This is a basic principle of quantum mechanics.Delete
So this applies to individual colors, uncertainty about them, correlations, and all other things. In the correlated/entangled experiments, the individual colors/spins are not measured at the beginning, so they're not determined. In QM, in fact, they have to be completely undetermined by the condition J_x=0 and by the uncertainty principle: it follows that J_1z and J_2z must be uncertain.
When a measurement of the individual spins J_1z and J_2z takes place, they will be found anticorrelated - because the "relative spin" was known from the beginning (the anticorrelation was perfectly guaranteed at every moment since the decay of the original particle). However, the individual spins j_1z and j_2z only become specific c-numbers when the first one of these two is actually measured. When it's done, this "birth of classical information" must be interpreted exactly as it was in classical physics, and one may say that the individual spins always existed but the observer was just ignorant about them.
This particular reconstruction of the history would have led to wrong predictions if the spins j_1x and j_2x were measured instead but it's OK - for these other types of measurements, a different reconstruction that is analogous to a classical one would be OK. These two ways of study the 2-electron systems are not compatible with each other but it's totally OK because they are Bohr-complementary or, equivalently, using e.g. Gell-Mann's language, they take place at different branches of the history. Whenever the measurements are actually done, the birth of the particular individual bits for the spins/colors may be understood as an observer's learning about some information that has existed from the beginning.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2016 at 2:39 PM
"All information about the state of Nature and physical objects in it is always defined relatively to an observer's perspective - and is obtained from observations. This is a basic principle of quantum mechanics."
This is irrelevant for the EPR-Bohm setup as this experiment can be performed by a single observer. Nevertheless, I disagree that this is a "principle of quantum mechanics". It is nowhere to be found in QM postulates, and it is not what Bohr or Heisenberg believed.
"When a measurement of the individual spins J_1z and J_2z takes place, they will be found anticorrelated - because the "relative spin" was known from the beginning (the anticorrelation was perfectly guaranteed at every moment since the decay of the original particle)."
It is possible that the observer did not know that the source produces entangled particles (the source could be defective), so he didn't know what to expect.
"However, the individual spins j_1z and j_2z only become specific c-numbers when the first one of these two is actually measured. When it's done, this "birth of classical information" must be interpreted exactly as it was in classical physics, and one may say that the individual spins always existed but the observer was just ignorant about them."
Sure, but you have clearly said that those values were CREATED during measurement. You need to decide what your working hypothesis is. Are those values created at the time of measurement or were they there before?
You keep switching between those two logical incompatible scenarios, claiming that they are both true. Sorry, but this is absurd. You just cannot have them both.
I notice your use of the word "may": "one MAY say that the individual spins always existed". Why don't you have the courage to say what you think? Do you believe that statement to be true or not? Did the individual spins existed or not? I predict that you will not answer this question because it would force you to choose between non-realism and locality. If the individual spins existed before measurement you have realism, if not, you have non-locality.
"This particular reconstruction of the history would have led to wrong predictions if the spins j_1x and j_2x were measured instead"
This is not true. The statistics used in Bell's theorem, are only true for naïve classical theories like non-interacting billiard balls. Contextual local realistic theories, like classical electrodynamics, do not allow you to deduce those wrong predictions. So, you are avoiding the only reasonable answer (the spins had those values all the time) for nothing.
"These two ways of study the 2-electron systems are not compatible with each other but it's totally OK because they are Bohr-complementary or, equivalently, using e.g. Gell-Mann's language, they take place at different branches of the history."
Bohr complementarity is logically consistent, while your view is not. Bohr insisted that a measurement induces an uncontrollable disturbance on the system under observation. I find this view perfectly acceptable and in agreement with (properly understood) classical realism.
We seem to be in the Bohr-Einstein debates circa 1930 all over again. Really much of this has been sorted out, and Lubos appears to be requiring that the "OR" of quantum complementarity with respect to entanglements or nonlocality be an "AND."Delete
This appears to bother some people, and even 't Hooft has gone off into this sort of lala land. The difference is that Lubos denies there is nonlocality by requiring a quantum "AND" while 't Hooft accepts nonlocality and argues for nonlocal signalling that is entirely opposite what Lubos says. It would be amusing if the two were put in a room to debate this one out!
I will put my arguments to rest at this point I think. Continued arguments are not likely to lead to much and Lubos has already resorted to ad hominem comments on his blog.
Let me just say that I've quick-read all those comments and it would be a waste of time to reply to individual sentences because 99% of them are completely illogical and wrong crap and you're just two irrelevant cranks who would have been banned on this blog a long ago if Mr Moldoveanu cared about some standards at least infinitesimally.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2016 at 11:07 AM
"The uncertainty principle is the actual reason why it's inconsistent in quantum mechanics to assume that the observables have their values before they're actually observed."
"one may say that the individual spins always existed but the observer was just ignorant about them."
Take those quotes to anyone with some grasp of logic, expect him to lough for a fiew minutes and ask him to explain to you the rules of logical consistency.
"Let me just say that I've quick-read all those comments and it would be a waste of time to reply to individual sentences because 99% of them are completely illogical"
From someone utterly ignorant about logic this sounds almost like a compliment.
"you're just two irrelevant cranks who would have been banned on this blog a long ago if Mr Moldoveanu cared about some standards at least infinitesimally"
This is the reason your blog doesn't contain interesting debates. You have nourished there just a bunch of yes-men and rejected valuable people like 't Hooft. Great strategy!
Wow, 13 comments on a non-existent post. I read them but no time to reply, I will drive today to lake Tahoe. Ans I only want to give the fake Mark Twain quote: the coldest winter for me was a summer in San Francisco. What a cold weather here.ReplyDeleteReplies
In part this is an extension of Musser's guest post on Lubos' blog. The problem in part is there are some serious people who can't ignore him. There are a range of people that Lubos has condemned as communist agent provocateurs, or complete idiots, including sean Carroll who Lubos repeatedly excoriates. Of course his favorite person to dump on is Smolin, who I do not agree with on some things, but there are a couple of works he has done that I think are fine. He recently has a bit on Fotini, who did some ideas about graph theory with loop variables (a not entirely unreasonable topic to look at even if it might be wrong) who Lubos completely rakes over the coals as being some immoral trollop. Being condemned by Lubos in some sense actually puts you in with good company.Delete
This is in line with borderline personality disorder BPD. Such people have a very white vs black view of the world, and to be in their favor you have to conform virtually 100% to their world view. Any deviation and the BPD person will respond histrionically or with great hostility. BPD people display an absolute intolerance for people with ideas, opinions or outright facts that diverge from their world view. This can include their image of a person they are in a relationship with, and in fact most often this happens. BPD people are pure misery to be in any relationship with, I know for I have been there and done that. I am a bit of an expert at spotting BPDs.
The other two main personality disorders are narcissistic personality disorder, which a certain orange colored baboon running for US President has, and anti-social personality disorder or psychopathy. All personality disorders occur with a range of severity. About 5% of people have one of these, about 1% have one of these seriously, and with .1% are dangerously afflicted. These three overlap some, and the all share a diminished lack of empathy. Psychopathy is the worst on that front. A BPD can exhibit empathic deficits as well, and Lubos yesterday condemned the fact the Italian navy rescued some 1600 refugees in the Mediterranean. What the hell should they have done? Sit back and watch them drown, maybe laughing at it? Sheesh, this and related posts clearly demonstrate an empathic deficit.
Some signs of personality disorders are unreasonable explosive anger, an inability to maintain a relationship with others, whether professional, friendships or intimate and familiar, and a tendency to adhere to or join extremist groups and ideas. Often people who join religious cults or political groups of an extreme nature have some underlying mental dysfunction or illness. Lubos was let go from Harvard in part as I understand because almost nobody could stand him. He explosively responds to things on his blog, often peppered with four letter words, and his politics is really very extreme --- though becoming less so as the world slouches more towards fascism these days.


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76ers took Embeid I thought he would fall further.
Wiggins is a safer pick. Too many bigs with injuries have been busts or even Thabeet who wasn't injured but is a bust.
So The Heat got Napier pick 24 for...
Pick 26, pick 55, and a future second going to Charlotte. All this talk about buying a first round pick by us was fake hustle just like I figured. Past history has shown picks are very expensive to purchase before pick 40.
We got Cle-ANTHONY Early with the 37th pick. Looks like a player who'll replace Shumpert/Smith/Hardaway. One of them is a goner. Listed as a SF but plays very much like a guard.
EDIT: With a name like that who am I kidding, he's Melo's replacement
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We also drafted with our other pick Hakuna Matata's(Bucks Phenom) brother....Not a bad night overall considering where our selections were.
I do like the pick, he's an underdog going from playing community college ball in upstate NY to Witchita St.
He had a monster game against Julius Randal the 7th pick and looks like a solid shooter, he's got a poor assist rate so not sure what you mean he plays like a guard.
Didn't do bad considering we had no picks going in. Early was actually projected as high as a late first rounder so the Knicks might have picked up a first rounder at 34.
We also got Larkin a former first rounder so I'm going to count him as a first. Is Giannis brother NBA ready or are we going to stash him away in the euro league.
Cbssports draft grader gave both our picks an A+. Maybe just positive media bias for PJ, but both high upside players according to evaluation, which is the best you can get normally in the 2nd round.
3g4g you talk about teams building through the draft let's see how fast Philly does it with all the picks they had.
They had the 3rd and 10th pick...they draft Embid at 3(trust me Cleveland will regret not drafting him). They take Payton at 10 knowing he was coveted by many teams below them and trades him to Orlando for...pick 12(Saric stashed overseas)....future 2nd, and get back their 2017 first from the Howard Bynum trade...unreal.
Then they get Jerami Grant from Cuse and McDaniels and stash 2 more picks overseas...they did well. They won't be legit until after next year 2015-2016(they will be scary)
Don't forget they have Nerlens Noel coming back this year too.
Bobcats did great....
I don't like the fact they helped the Heat but to get Vonleh at 9, Hairston at 26, Powell at 45, a stashed overseas pick at 55 and a future 2nd is really good
Bulls and Denver both did well also. I think Denver may have gotten the sleeper in this draft. The Bulls flat out got the best shooter. McDermott is gonna Kyle Korver except on steroids
don't like the fact that Miami picked up one of the best point guards in the league (an NCAA champion PG), and a position they needed help with. no way LeBron's leaving Miami now after Riley got the one player LBJ wanted and coveted. we can only hope Wade opts in for 42M over 2 years, and then breaks down further. f*ck the cHeat. i hate them.
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All new Volvo S60 wins award
The all new Volvo S60 has won the 'Scottish Executive Car of the Year'
The all new Volvo S60 has won the 'Scottish Executive Car of the Year'. The Volvo S60 is one of the safest cars on the road and can be fitted with Volvo's pioneering Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake as a cost option to complement City Safety which is fitted as standard.
The Volvo S60 is available with a range of four petrol and two diesel engines. It is priced from £21,995 on the road. A DRIVe version powered by a 1.6 litre diesel engine with co2 emissions of 115g/km and fuel economy of up to 65.7 mpg will join the range later in 2011.
Duncan Forrester, Head of Public Affairs, Events and Sponsorship, who accepted the award on behalf of Volvo Car UK, said "the all-new Volvo S60 is an important car for the UK and especially our dealers in Scotland who sold significant volumes of the previous model. The signs look positive that the new car will outperform the previous levels of success."


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The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is always a go-to for new fall clothing and exclusive beauty sets, but the home section is not to be missed!! Here are a handful of things that are worth a look.
1. Cable knit throws – It's like the cutest cable knit sweater made into a throw!
2. SMEG electric kettle – This has to be your taste, but I personally love the old fashioned look of the SMEG products.
3. Throw pillow – Throw pillows are the accessories of your couch, amiright?!! This pillow is a statement accessory.
4. Serving board – I know these serving boards are great for hosting, but if you ask me I like to use them regularly just to feel fancy. Why the heck not?! Make yourself a little charcuterie board for sitting in bed watching netflix.
5. Agave planter – Nothing spruces up a room like adding some greenery.
6. Stemless wine glass – These are cute for a summer get together or to (again) feel fancy when drinking your smoothies. Ha!
7. Voluspa candles – I love the packaging on Voluspa candles and this set is great to put in all the rooms in your home.
8. Marble print waste basket – If it's marble print, I want it.
9. Braided pouf – I love poufs as extra seating, accessories in a room, under a hallway table – there are so many uses for a cute one like this.
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SustUrbanFoods at the AESOP Sustainable food planning conference – 14&15th November – Coventry, UK
Last week, Susturbanfoods joined the AESOP Sustainable food planning group in the annual conference, hosted by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University (UK), on the 14-15 November.
The concept of the conference was the following:
After seventeen years from its early conceptualisation, and ten years on from its institutionalisation (Van der Valk and Viljoen 2014), sustainable food planning is a thriving transdisciplinary research and policy field bringing together policy makers, academics, and practitioners across the globe. Food charters, food strategies and food policy councils have multiplied, 'alternative food networks' have gained significant and growing shares of the food market and new forms of localisation of food production, including urban agriculture, are gaining ground and becoming central components of new food policy strategies.
Yet, the scale and speed of the 'food' crisis make us see these achievements as modest and utterly inadequate. Urban food poverty and malnutrition, and the related use of food banks, are on the rise even in some of the most wealthy countries of the world; the most vulnerable populations in both the global North and South are unshielded by austerity politics, food-commodity speculation, land grabbing or staple food price rises. Diet-related diseases (such as diabetes and obesity) are growing at alarming rates among children in the supposedly 'well-fed' countries of the world. We still waste between 30% and 50% of the food we produce while millions of farmers and land workers growing our food across the globe are struggling to make a living. And the environmental impacts of our food 'regime' and diets are devastating.
Planning for sustainable food production and food provision is more than ever urging us to look for more effective, equitable and just approaches that radically change not only the way we grow food, but the very core of our living space.
In the conference, we participated with a study on how urban agriculture is implemented on vacant spaces towards social inclusion and urban regeneration, presenting the results published in an article in Sustainability (MDPI).
Two case studies of SustUrbanFoods exemplify these practices:
Via Gandusio is a community rooftop garden that was implemented by the municipality of Bologna, in collaboration with the University and the association Biodivercity to foster the community building of the residents.
The Spazio Battirame of the Eta Beta social cooperative renovated an abandoned building and the adjacent agricultural space in a suburbial district of Bologna with the aim of producing local and organic vegetables that are sold to Bologna citizens and employing adults and youth in risk of social exclusion.
We took part in the session "Urban agricultural planning & design"
- Daniel A.C., Aubry C., Colle M., Barbillon A. "Development of an urban agriculture project: "projection" and "revelation""
- Solman H. van der Valk, A., Pedroli, B "Alleviating tourist pressure on city centres by fostering alternative food experiences away from tourist hotspots"
- Sanyé-Mengual E. Gasperi D., Pennisi G., Rizzati N., Bazzocchi G., Magrefi F., Mezzacapo U., Centrone Stefani M., Orsini F. Gianquinto G. "The use of vacant spaces for urban horticulture in the city of Bologna (Italy)"
- Mees C. "Participatory design and planning for food production, shelter and cultural expression: Shared urban gardens in New York City"
During the conference, a Book launch on the topic took place, including the following publications:
- Everyday Experts: How People's Knowledge Can Transform the Food System (People's Knowledge Collective)
- Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State (Aurelie Desmarais, A, Claeys, P., Trauger, A.)
- Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2017 The World Food Crisis: The Way Out 10th Anniversary Issue
- Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond (Chappell, J.)
- Food Sovereignity, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity (Pimbert, M.)
- Forest Gardening in Practice (Remiarz, T.)
- Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework (Bellows, A., Valente, F., Lemke, S. and Maria Daniela Nunez Burbano de Lara)
- Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty: Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience (Tilzey, M.)
- Special Issue of RUAF Magazine UAM No. 33 "Urban Agroecology" (Produced by CAWR & RUAF)


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Phallic. This is the time when the foundation for moral development, understanding right from wrong develops. This is when the oedipal/electra stages and complexes come into play.
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Oedipal stage
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Electra stage
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What's better than drooling over a few throwback photos of Leonardo DiCaprio from the 90s?
Seeing a modern-day Leo who looks just like that dreamy dude from "Titanic."
If you've been searching for a real-life version of your beloved Leo, you're in luck. We recently came across a guy who's basically a hot Swedish version of DiCaprio (pre-dad bod, of course!)
Meet Konrad Annerud.
From his long hair and facial expressions to his sense of fashion, it's not hard to see this handsome fella is basically a carbon copy of the Leo we all know and love.
Annerud recently became quite a star on social media, thanks to all of his Leo-esque Instagram uploads, and trust me, his nostalgic doppelgänger photos do not disappoint.
Take a look at the pictures below to see this hot Leo lookalike.
This may look like a #TBT photo of Leonardo DiCaprio from the 90s.
But don't let your eyes fool you.
It's not 1997, and that's not Leo.
It's his smoking hot, Swedish doppelgänger, Konrad Annerud.
He's just like you ordinary 21-year-old from Linköping, Sweden.
Expect for the fact that he and Leo look like they could be long-lost brothers who were separated when the Titanic went down.
Annerud totally has that irresistible Leo look on lock...
...before Leo went all dad bod on us!
Annerud nails everything from Leo's signature hair...
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He told Nyheter24, "It can be quite annoying sometimes when people call me Leo instead of my real name..."
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At a Super Bowl party, appetizers are often the main course. There's never a sit-down dinner at a Super Bowl party (at least not one we've ever heard of) because everyone is gathered around the TV, yelling at a bunch of men so big and so strong that you would never dare yell at them in real life.
Super Bowl appetizers need to be able to be picked up with the fingers or skewered on a toothpick so the revelers can hold a drink in one hand and eat with the other. We've rounded up some finger foods perfect for a Super Bowl party that are just a little bit healthier, with a vegetable or a few beans added here and there, making them just right for your Super Bowl party food table.
Honeyed Sausage Appetizers – An alternative to the traditional 'Lil smokies made of tiny hot dogs and a ketchup sauce, this appetizer uses nitrate-free smoked beef sausage, which you can buy at Whole Foods, cooked in a sticky sauce of reduced red wine and honey. Red pepper flakes add a kick.
Mini Spinach Pockets – Spinach, onion, garlic, scallions, pine nuts and a mixture of two cheeses fill pockets made from puff pastry sheets. It makes enough to serve a good-sized crowd.
Roasted Squash, Red Pepper, and Jack Cheese Quesadillas with Chipotle Lime Sour Cream Dip – Pureed roasted butternut squash and onions create a meaty — but meatless — filling for these vegetarian quesadillas. The recipe makes 36 to 48 wedges.
Jalapeno Poppers – Most jalapeno poppers are filled with only cheese and then deep fried, but these poppers are filled with a mixture of nonfat refried beans, cheese and scallions, and then they're baked, not fried. Not only are these healthier, but you don't have to stand over them as they bake.
Chili-Roasted Black Eyed Peas – Spicy and crunchy, canned black-eyed peas (or chickpeas) make a great salty snack. Watch closely while baking so they dry out but don't char.
Seared Beef Tenderloin Mini Sandwiches – Lean beef tenderloin, watercress, fresh tarragon, and a horseradish sauce made with fat-free sour cream and Dijon are arranged on sliced baguette. Use whole-grain baguette to add an additional healthy kick.
Mushroom, Sun Dried Tomato and Mozzarella Dip – This warm dip gets cooked on a grill in a skillet, but for those watching the Super Bowl in colder climates, the oven will do just fine. Fresh rosemary and sherry make this dip tastier than some of the dips regularly served at parties.
Sweet Potato Skins – Potato skins are right up there with Buffalo Wings for favorite Super Bowl appetizers. These skins use much healthier sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes, low-fat cheese, and are topped with plain Greek yogurt.
What Super Bowl appetizers will be on the table to please your crowd this year? We're especially interested in those made with healthy ingredients.


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Fabric Finds…Posted: March 16, 2011 | Author: charismagick | Filed under: buttons, Fabric Finds, felt, flowers, fruit, mummysam, raindrops, teeth, wreath | Leave a comment
I love fabric! Here's a few images… 1) source unknown but aren't they adorable?! 2) by Samantha Cotterill , 3) source unknown, I do really like fabric wreathes, 4&5) are both by yours truly, 6) another pretty wreath & 7) so cute teeth fabric, both found on weheartit.
I'm off to cook dinner for the lovely drummer boy downstairs… Chicken with mushrooms & boursin, cauliflower cheese & homemade chips. Should be scrummy!


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WWE Backlash
May 21st, 2017 | Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois
Aiden English vs. Tye Dillinger
This was the Kickoff match. I loved Aiden English's singing gimmick from his pre-Vaudevillains days in NXT, so I'm glad it's back. His starry night attire is tremendous as well. This is about the spot I see Tye keeping on Smackdown. A solid babyface midcarder. The match itself was fine, but very forgettable outside of Aiden's tights. English looked better than when he lost to Tye on Smackdown and his frustration grew when he couldn't keep Tye down. He missed the swanton and fell to the Tye Breaker at 8:22. Like I said, this was fine and what I expected. Solid work and Tye got the crowd going. He's a great guy to open shows. [**¼]
Dolph Ziggler vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
The big in-ring debut for Shinsuke Nakamura. He got a great reaction during his entrance, so that's a positive. This reminded me of a lot of Nakamura's NXT matches. He wrestled an even match with Ziggler at times, but also had to fight from behind. I don't know if that's the best spot for Nakamura. He was great in NJPW when he was the one in control. His best WWE match (with Zayn) was about him showcasing his stuff and being awesome. We didn't get that here. This felt like it was more about Ziggler and then Nakamura made a comeback that lacked some fire. Also, they've hyped him as the king of strong style, and I didn't see him do much of that here. He won with Kinshasa (just one, thankfully) at 15:41. A solid match, but nowhere near the ideal way to debut Nakamura. Consider this a disappointment because it could've been handled so much better. [**¾]
WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship: The Usos (c) vs. Breezango
Why does the Breezango team work so well? They're two guys who have good chemistry and are fully committed to the gimmick. Breeze played a master of disguise here, dressing up as a janitor with a mop and everything. He used it to comically trip up the Usos and once Jimmy or Jey broke it, the crowd reacted. Breeze disappeared for a bit and returned dressed as an old woman, garnering "Let's go grandma" chants. Grandma Breeze busted out a bronco buster but was taken out shortly after. Fandango nailed a great dive outside following that. He then jumped into a superkick to take the loss at 9:18. A different kind of tag team match, reminding me of the old Damien Mizdow hijinks. Would I like to see Breezango as more serious challengers? Sure. But I can appreciate something as entertaining as this.[***¼]
Baron Corbin vs. Sami Zayn
These two are great opponents for one another. Corbin can throw around smaller guys and Zayn bumps like a madman most of the time. That's what we got for the most part here. Corbin dominated at times and Zayn drew the sympathy he needed to from the crowd. There is no better babyface on Earth than Sami Zayn. He sold the hell out of Deep Six for the best near fall of the match. Corbin made a mistake and his momentum sent him outside. Once back in, Sami connected with a Helluva Kick from out of nowhere to win in 14:35. I was surprised with the outcome, since Corbin has been booked strongly. Sami's win is good and hopefully sets up more down the line. A good David vs. Goliath story, with the underdog taking advantage of a mistake. [***¼]
Becky Lynch, Charlotte and WWE Smackdown Women's Champion Naomi vs. Carmella, Natalya and Tamina w/ James Ellsworth
Coming into this match, I expected one of two finishes. Either Charlotte wins because BIG DOG GOTTA EAT or Carmella wins since she seems to be on the road to a title match. I'm a fan of Carmella and Becky but a lot of this match fell flat. It felt like the stuff we got when the #DIVASREVOLUTIONMAGGLE started and it was just a bunch of clusterfuck tags. Nobody stood out or shined and it felt like a time filler. The in-ring stuff was fine, but nothing you need to see. Becky brought fire, but in the end, she tapped to Natalya's Sharpshooter at 10:05. Why? What was the point of that finish? That made no sense with anything that has happened recently. Whatever. [**]
WWE United States Championship: Kevin Owens (c) vs. AJ Styles
On paper, this should be the best match on the show by a wide margin. Early on, this was a tough match to pinpoint. It didn't seem to have a focus, but was just two of the best having some solid exchanges. It was when Owens went after the leg, which he also attacked on Smackdown, that things really got going. Owens avoiding a ridiculous Styles Clash off the apron by slipping out and slamming Styles' leg into the ring post was great. He used various submissions to wear it down inside and I bought into some of the false finishes from it. Styles sold the leg very well and it came into play when he couldn't hit the Phenomenal Forearm. The bump he took on slipping there was dangerously great. They built to bigger stuff before bringing out a creative finish. Styles went for the Styles Clash on the announce table, but his foot got caught in the hold where the monitor goes, leading to him getting counted out at 21:10. I'd rather the finish have been Owens getting DQed out of desperation, but this was different. The match was the best thing on the show and was a clear first match in a series judging by the finish. If you want to know how good AJ is, this was his worst PPV match of 2017 in my eyes. [***¾]
Erick Rowan vs. Luke Harper
I'm still mad this feud isn't a bigger deal. If handled right, it absolutely could've been. Not main event material, but still. This only went 9:00, but felt like 20. I love Harper but there was never a sense of urgency or anything resembling that here. Like the women's tag, it felt like they were just here to fill time. I never felt anything for this. Harper should've brought fire in seeking revenge for a loss, while Rowan should've been aggressive since he's mad at Harper for betraying the Wyatts. That didn't happen. Harper won with the discus lariat, gaining some momentum before what I'm hoping is a MITB appearance.[*¾]
WWE Championship: Randy Orton (c) vs. Jinder Mahal w/ The Singh Brothers
I've made my opinions on Jinder clear. I don't think he belongs in this spot. Anyway, they had a surprisingly hot crowd and got off to a hot start as Orton jumped Jinder. Then, they just screeched the pace to a halt. Any chance this had of being fun went out the window. Orton didn't completely phone it in like he did with Bray, but he didn't bring his best. Jinder should've worked his ass off in the biggest match of his career, but if he did, it certainly didn't show. The best part was Orton dumping the former Bollywood Boys violently onto tables. Speaking of that team, I hate that they took one of the few cruiserweights with personality and made them into bland, faceless henchmen. Orton focused on them, allowing Jinder to hit his finish and win the title at 15:46. Neither guy brought it and the match was oddly laid out. It's crazy how wrestling companies will do anything for the Indian market. From the Great Khali to Mahabali Shera to Jinder Mahal, it doesn't matter how shitty you are, you'll get a push. On the positive, it ends a pointless and dull Orton reign. On the negative, this screamed situations like Sheamus, Swagger, Del Rio and Ziggler, who all got title reigns WAY before they were ready. And they all had higher upsides than Jinder. It's the era of the Maharaja. Let's see how it goes. [**¼]
Overall: 6/10. An average showing from the blue brand. None of the matches are anything I'd consider "must see", but most of the show is solid. The Kickoff match was solid, as was the women's match and the main event. Nakamura/Ziggler was pretty good, but a disappointment. I thought Harper/Ziggler was a time filler at best. If pressed for time, check out Zayn/Corbin for a good underdog story, the Tag Team Title match for fun antics and AJ/Owens for the best match of the night.


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Thanks to Entertainment Weekly supplying us with the goods, we no longer have to wait around to catch a glimpse of what is to be Disney's coolest, sweetest and best remake yet.
Emma Watson is playing Belle, a role she was born to play according to herself, and she will be playing alongside love rival Gaston alongside Josh GadIan McKellen, Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson) Ewan McGregor's Lumiere and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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- Full-size fridge, stove with oven, dishes, pots and pans, serving bowls, glasses and mugs, cutlery and assorted knives, coffee maker, toaster, kettle, juice pitcher and milk-bag jug, dish soap, and toilet paper
- 3-piece bathroom
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Winning orienteering races isn't about running fast, it's about running smart — using your brains to plot the shortest route between checkpoints, to think a few moves ahead and to stay focused on the goal while your body and the terrain under your feet are battling for your attention. That's why it's sometimes called "cunning running."
Whistler is hosting the B.C. Orienteering Championships on Sept. 22 and 23, and organizers are hosting a clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 18 to teach people how to race. The clinic takes place at Spruce Grove and gets underway at 5 p.m. The $10 fee includes the clinic, timing chip rental, a handout that explains orienteering map symbols and control descriptions, your membership in the Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club (GVOC) and a $10 discount for the actual competitions on the championship weekend.
Members of the GVOC will be on hand for the clinic, which will include three short (roughly 10 minute) exercises of increasing difficulty that will turn novices into seasoned beginners with enough knowledge to compete in the championships, and any orienteering event in Canada.
For people familiar with orienteering, there is a practice orienteering race from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. with participants getting 45 minutes to find as many checkpoints in Lost Lake Park as they can. The winner is the individual with the most checkpoints.
Both the clinic and race are open to everyone from age 15 and up, and for all fitness levels. Wear a good pair of trail running shoes and clothes you don't mind getting dirty or ripped.
The B.C. Orienteering Festival, which includes the championship, includes three very different races.
• Long Distance — Saturday at noon is the start of the long distance race in Lost Lake Park staged from the Passive House at the entrance to the park. This is a 45-minute race where competitors see how many checkpoints they can find before the horn. If competitors find all the checkpoints or there's a tie, then the winner is the first racer back to the start. There are seven different courses for different age groups and experience levels.
• Short Distance — Sunday morning at 8 a.m. is a sprint format race in Whistler Village with checkpoints scattered around the Village Stroll. The top times are expected to be between 12 and 15 minutes, based out of the Whistler Olympic Plaza.
• Middle Distance — Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. features a high-alpine race based out of the Roundhouse on Whistler Mountain. Registration includes a ticket up the Whistler Village Gondola and a Peak 2 Peak sightseeing ticket.
Registration is available online at www.zone4.ca until 11:50 p.m. on Sept. 15. The long distance race is $25 for adults and $15 for juniors, the sprint is $20 and $10 and the middle distance race is $30 and $20, which includes the lift pass valued at $50 for adults.
There is also a banquet on Saturday night at the Old Spaghetti Factory available for $22 for adults and $10 for juniors.
Participants can rent an "SI Stick" for $2 per day, which works with the electronic timing system and control points. Compass rentals are also $2 per day.
For more, http://gvoc.whyjustrun.ca.
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Here are some copies of the second printing of my #MadMen inspired "Don Dreams And I Dream". Get yours, here
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Look what arrived today…
Posted in books, mad men series, photos on June 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Matthew Weiner has read Don Dreams and I Dream
Posted in mad men series, photos, press, publications, tagged don dreams and i dream, dreams, MadMen, matthew weiner, photo, poetry on May 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
After a fabulous, LIVE FROM NYPL I got to meet Matthew Weiner, and I kid you not, a dream came true. #bestcomplimentever #madmen #dondreamsandidream
Don Dreams and I Dream was featured as "Ten Chapbooks You Should Buy" in Time Out NY
Posted in mad men series, news, photos, press, publications, review on December 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Honored to be featured with these other great writers! Thanks Tiffany Gibert, Books Editor, Time Out New York
Read more, http://www.timeout.com/newyork/books/10-chapbooks-to-read-now
My Way
Posted in mad men series, poems, tagged don draper, friendship, love, mad men, manhattan, memory, music, new york, peggy, sinatra on July 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Don has the authority and Peggy has the emotion, but that's in the past. She wears the pants and Don is crying alone in his apartment. Peggy lives in the not-knowing, each breath a gasp. Don lives "in the now" and "the know."
His failures are a ladder, and she climbs it wrung by wrung. Her hands reach up but her feet hesitate to follow.
They are two parts of a stumbling whole. Their pasts, a splintered truth.
One small tear at an ankle, could bring them to their knees.
When Peggy needs Don, he is glad to be needed, but it is the needing that desires, not the work. The needing is a haunt
Peggy asks, "what do I know about motherhood" and Don takes a moment. He simmers in their intellects. He lets her stew.
She looks at him: "you love this," and he does, but not in that way.
He loves what she is capable of. She is Manhattan. She is growing and growing. Her arms are pulsing with the blood of the next century.
When they dance to Sinatra, it is like every childhood memory they wish they had, except she is not a child and Don is not her father.
There is a tenderness there, in their package of equals.
Their sale is not dependent on their cleverness.
Their sale is not dependent on their skill.
Their sale is dependent on their love.
And when Peggy puts her head on Don's shoulder, and the moon outside is wide-brimmed, their love is pinned in the stars of the city. Their love is based on their independence. They both only know one way, my way.
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Oh Don…
Posted in mad men series, photos, Uncategorized, tagged Don, DonDreamsandIDream, MadMen on April 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to AMC for this fun app. I cannot wait for Mad Men.
The Great 2014 Indie press – part 1- features DDAID!
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Thanks to David Blumenshine & Michael Seidlinger for featuring: DON DREAMS AND I DREAM in this amazing company on Electric Literature !!
They have arrived. New online store coming soon. Hurray!
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Children's Book Week is in full swing across Australia. from 16 to 22 August. The day before Children's Book Week, the winners of the Book of the Year Awards 2014 were announced.
The CBCA Book of the Year Awards have been going since 1946 and have been celebrating Australian Children's Books since then.
The winners:
Older Readers:
by Fiona Wood
Published by Pan Macmillan Australia
Younger Readers:
City of Orphans: A Very Unusual Persuit
by Catherine Jinks
Published by Allen & Unwin
Early Childhood
The Swap
by Jan Ormerod, illustrated by Andrew Joyner
Published by Little Hare, Hardie Grant Egmont
Picture Book
Rules of Summer
by Shaun Tan
Published by Hachette Australia
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
by Christopher Faille, illustrated by Danny Snell
Published by Working Title Press
For a full list including the notables, check here.
For me this was a great night out and an opportunity to celebrate Australian children's books with friends. Here is a short account of what happened on the night.
Mia Macrossan CBCA QLD president hosted the evening in fabulous style.
Not only is Mia Macrossan CBCA QLD president, vice-president of Book Links Inc., honourary member of my writer's group, Write Links, but she is also the CBCA QLD Book of the Year Judge, 2013-2014.
I was able to sit in on a couple of Mia's fabulous Judge's talks this year and last. Mia exudes passion for children's books and has seemingly unlimited knowledge of children's authors and illustrators and has an informed and passionate opinion on everything form book ends to YA dystopian characters.
Mia received an original print by Kerry Argent and a copy of the special 30th anniversary edition of One Wooly Wombat for her time as CBCA Book judge.
Author Andrew King and Illustrator Benjamin Johnston together with publisher Peter from Little Step pre-launched their new picture book Engibear's Bridge. A review of the book and interview with illustrator Ben Johnston will be on the blog soon.
Christine Bongers inspired us all. She talked about her latest book, Intruder, and the importance of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards to her career as a YA writer and to Australian children's books. Her book Dust was a 2010 notable and Henry Hoey Hobson was shortlisted in 2011. I could have listened to her much longer.
I much more in my element this year as opposed to my rather star struck and slightly embarrassing experience the previous year. You can read about that here: What I Learned at the CBCA Awards Book Week Dinner.
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This week's theme: Bright college days
(Poem #1903) Baccalaureate
A year or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of Angelo, Darwin on man, Vergilius on bees, The nose and Dialogues of Socrates, Don Quixote, Hudibras and Trinculo, How worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go,-- All shall be shard of broken memories. And there shall linger other, magic things,-- The fog that creeps in wanly from the sea, The rotten harbor smell, the mystery Of moonlit elms, the flash of pigeon wings, The sunny Green, the old-world peace that clings About the college yard, where endlessly The dead go up and down. These things shall be Enchantment of our heart's rememberings. And these are more than memories of youth Which earth's four winds of pain shall blow away; These are earth's symbols of eternal truth, Symbols of dream and imagery and flame, Symbols of those same verities that play Bright through the crumbling gold of a great name.
One of the universals of the "college experience" - and pretty much everyone I know who has attended college agrees with me - is that the actual classroom education is the least part of it. Of course, that's not precisely true; it's just that lectures are seldom the stuff of which memories are made, and therefore loom progressively less significant in nostalgic reveries. Nonetheless, college remains one of life's defining experiences, and it is interesting to see what poets have made of the memories that *do* linger and tint the time thereafter. Today's poem tackles the theme head-on, with MacLeish's characteristically beautiful phrases flowing like a wash of colour over the contrasting aspects of college life. The sequence of images is exquisite; I'm tempted to say that this is a poem that is more about atmosphere than message, but the atmosphere is definitely part of the message here, and the list format works very well indeed. And not just the imagery either - there is a slight weightiness to the language that helps enhance the academic feel, perhaps most evident in the phrase "symboks of those same verities", but present throughout. The other noteworthy thing is the painstaking attention MacLeish pays to the sound of his poetry. With some poets, this is easy to see - the music of the words takes over, and leaps out at the reader. MacLeish's verse is usually more quietly euphonious, but none the less beautiful, and none the less perfect for not being showy. martin p.s. Yes, the theme is named after the Tom Lehrer song. Yes, it will make an appearance. [Links] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/47


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Retro metal phone table and patio setting that came from the same groovy, retro, house as a bar I have pictures of below.
I love old typewriters...
and old books.
On to the WAC.....
Super groovy bar with lots of fab features,
like the tea towel holder and cupboards,
like this fab pull out drinks tray.
Recliner mid century chairs, pictured is one of three pairs.
The windows at the WAC suited last weeks weather....full of umbrellas. So clever but hard to photograph.
This was the first piece that caught my eye, fortunately this old art deco gal had no chips from being thrown away.
This beswick horse saldy was not so lucky and had to be put down.
Also remember (but for some you would have to be a hard core vintage lover like me to attempt ha) to check the bins when you see full skips, as folks often fill them up at the same time when clearing an old house.
This is how I found this bin when I opened the lid.
The treasure trove went all the way through (yes this meant I had my head in a bin...not for the faint hearted) it was like they moved the black bins into the lounge room and emptied the china cabinets straight into them.
Here is just some of the items I salvaged.
While a lot was broken, from just being thrown in, it was amazing what survived intact
Of course you cannot break old collectable tea towels
Hope you all have a good week.


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My dad is home from Myrtle Beach for a couple of days to attend some business meetings. Mom stayed in Myrtle with the dogs. We have a rule that she must call when she leaves the house and again when she returns. This way we can keep track of her!!! Dad will see the truck tonight at dinner but mom won't see it for a couple more weeks so here are some pictures for her.
If you look at it by itself it looks white but if it is sitting beside a white car, you can see that it is the colour of white chocolate.
One really cool thing is that the back door can be opened with the key fob. You press a button and it opens up-great for when your hands are full.
I couldn't get too close for pictures of the front because I drove it to Toronto today. I have a bit of a lead foot so there are a few bugs splattered on the front-it is going to have its first car wash tomorrow morning.
Not much knitting to report. Just working on my Noro sweater-mindless work in stocking stitch.


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Joel Schumacher
Jim Carrey - Walter Sparrow/Fingerling
Virginia Madsen - Agatha Sparrow/Fabrizia
Logan Lerman - Robin Sparrow
Danny Huston - Issac French/Dr. Miles Phoenix
Year - 2007
Score - 2 Howls Outta 4
Execution - the act or mode or result of performance. It's the way something is done that will most likely lead to the most satisfactory, or just, conclusion. Some films have a great handle on executing their premises. Others don't seem to have that grasp, making the film leaving you with that feeling of something missing. I remember watching the trailer and TV spots for THE NUMBER 23, with all its ways of using math to lead into answers that involve the number 23. Such a cool idea that hasn't really been done before, this could lead into a very memorable movie. While I wasn't too sure with Schumacher at the helm and Carrey doing a serious thriller, I felt there was no way anyone could mess the premise up and leave me hanging. But then again, Hollywood is a really funny place, as THE NUMBER 23 left me with more questions than answers.
Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) is an animal control officer who doesn't really seem to like his job. On his birthday, he gets bit on the job by a dog named Ned, who begins to follow Walter everywhere he goes. The bite causes Walter to be late to meet up with his wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen). While she waits for Walter, Agatha enters a bookstore and finds this red little book called "The Number 23". Finding it intriguing, Agatha gives Walter the book as a birthday present. Walter begins to read the book, suddenly becoming immersed into the story and becoming obsessed with all the possibilities of the number 23. Not only does the obsession affect his home life, Walter finds connections in the book relating to his own life, imagining himself to be the detective in the book and his wife as the "femme fatale". Wanting to understand and end his obsession with "23", Walter and family try to look for the author of the book, only to find out that the truth is closer than he thinks.
Color me disappointed in 23 different hues. A really interesting premise turns into a bit-above average thriller. It's kind of sad because the beginning of the film was really good in setting up the rest of the film, yet by the middle of the film, I started to care less and less about the truth behind "The Number 23". The fantasy sequences based on the book were cool in the beginning, but got really tacky towards the end, ruining the pacing and flow of the film. By the end of the film anyway, those fantasy sequences had nothing to really do with the reveal of the book and were just really used as a way for Schumacher to provide us with a visually beautiful film [which it was, by the way]. I wish the film had focused more on present time because that's where the story was the most interesting and could have created a better film as a whole. And the characters were really nonchalant about Walter's incredibly obsessive behavior of the damn number. I mean, his wife saw Walter write "KILL HER" on his arm, yet she acted like he had those words there his entire life. And the way the son reacted was pretty weird. He agreed with Walter a bit too quickly, in my opinion. If it were me, I would have called the psychiatric ward and have him locked in a white padded room. The reactions of these characters to the entire thing was pretty fake and not believable at all.
And then there's the "truth" behind the book. While I didn't exactly figure it out, I was pretty close. Totally uncreative and totally out of left field. It was like the film dropped the reveal on my lap and said, "There it is! Now do something with it!" Just seemed like something that was made up at the last minute just to explain "The Number 23" in a span of 5 minutes. And I still didn't understand why 23 was such a powerful number that these people would take precious time out of their lives to obsess over it. Yeah, alot of freaky things happened on the 23th or added up to 23. And yeah, it's a neat idea and pretty scary if you think about it. But nothing was done with it and the number 23 was just used as a prop to move the story along. We know what 7 means. We know what 13 means. Hell, most of us are afraid of 666. If more time was given to explain why everything added up to 23, I'd care about the number more. But that never happened and in that sense, the film and script left me flat.
Joel Schumacher, the director who many people [including myself in a way] claimed to have murdered the BATMAN franchise before BATMAN BEGINS brought it back to its rightful glory, actually does a good job directing THE NUMBER 23. It's visually beautiful [especially the flashback/noir scenes] and Schumacher actually created some kind of creepy-ish mood for the film. I also liked that shaky cam bit when the truth was revealed [great metaphoric use of direction relating to one of the characters]. It was a very colorful and very energenic film from beginning to end. Not his best direction [I think THE LOST BOYS and PHONE BOOTH are his best actually], but he surprised me at how well he took charge with this film. Too bad the story wasn't all that great, but at least Schumacher made the film more watchable than it had any right to be.
The acting was pretty good in the film too. Jim Carrey surprised me at how well he was here. He wasn't perfect but he can be a dramatic actor when he works for it [ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND proved that]. He was very believable as a man obsessed and paranoid over the number 23, even becoming a bit creepy towards the end with his ticks and really serious facial expressions. If the script were better, I believe Carrey would have been able to display more of his acting chops. But Carrey was limited, yet even a limited Carrey is a good Carrey and he actually pulled me into the film more than I wanted to be. I thought the whole detective protrayal was a bit farfetched for Carrey in certain scenes, but he made it work. Great voiceover work from Carrey as well, although most of what he said could have been put into actually dialogue with other people.
Virginia Madsen was iffy as usual. I really don't know what to say about her performance. Mediocre, maybe? I think she underplayed the part a bit too much as Carrey's wife. Or maybe it was how her character was written, I don't know. She was trying to be dramatic and I didn't really believe her protrayal of a wife of an obsessed man. Her reactions were a bit off and she tries to speak as if she wants to be seen as sexy. I don't know, it was like she didn't give a damn how she would look in this film. Well Virginia Madsen, I didn't give a damn about your acting skills either. So there ya go.
The rest of the actors were decent. Logan Lerman [of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT and JACK AND BOBBY fame] was good as the son. His character was a bit naive [even for a teenager] but what he did with the script was very good and I think he'll have a good future ahead of him. Danny Huston as the psychiatrist friend was okay. Wasn't really sure what his deal was really. And the very beautiful Rhona Mitra as Laura - va-va-va-VOOM! She didn't do much but damn it if I didn't love looking at her. What a hottie! Whoo! Call me...
1) Jim Carrey is an animal control catcher. Looks like Ace Venture got a demotion. I knew he talked through his ass a bit too often for his own good. Alrighty then...
2) Telling stories to dogs will make their capture a bit easier. Now I know where Michael Vick learned his trade.
3) Walter Sparrow joked that women were of low intelligence. I'm sure that line gets him laid every night.
4) Death and sex are turn-ons. Necrophiliacs have been telling me that for years!
5) I was born on February 25th. 25 - 2 = 23. Oh great, now I'm doing it!
6) Walter has nightmares of killing his wife. I don't see why he's so freaked out about it. O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake had the same nightmares and didn't kill their wives. ALLEGEDLY.
7) Ned the dog sure likes to torment Walter. The dog was lucky it was a white dude chasing after him. If Walter was Asian, that dog would have suffered a much worst fate. Hungry anyone?
8) Digging for buried bodies in a park is a great way for a father and son to bond. Because after all, playing catch is so overrated.
9) Virginia Madsen doesn't believe in magical things. Maybe she should say "CANDYMAN" five more times in front of a mirror to remind herself.
10) Laura sure liked having great relationships with her professors. While she was a straight A student, the only grade she cared about receiving was the letter O.
I was expecting more out of THE NUMBER 23. This is one of those cases where the film has a great idea but is not executed properly. Just an average film that has its share of moments. At least it was watchable with some great visual sequences and a very good performance by Jim Carrey. And you do start thinking of ways to create the number 23 in your own life. Good for a rental, but not-so-much for a buy. Disappointing, yet okay, film.


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With headlines every day about the new Common Core Standards being adopted by New York State, some parents are anxious about changes in their child's classroom. At Early Scholars, we're concerned with provided quality private tutoring and enrichment programs, but we also want to equip our families with all the knowledge they need to successfully navigate their child's elementary and middle school years.
Myth: Common Core is a radical approach used by only a few states.
Fact: False. The Common Core Standards are supported by a number of educational and professional organizations and have been adopted by 45 states thus far. New York State is expected to begin full implementation in the 2013-2014 school year.
Myth: Common Core will focus only on test preparation and deprive children of real-world knowledge.
Fact: False. One of the major "shifts" in the Common Core approach is a new emphasis on learning by reading non-fiction information from the content areas, including science, history, and mathematics. At Early Scholars, we share this position and design our rigorous Science-Reading program around these exact principles. By teaching children skills through real-world ideas, we can better prepare them for the demands of an increasingly complex global marketplace.
Myth: New standards means new tests for our children.
Fact: True. As New York State begins to implement these new standards, the assessments used for all students will begin to change to align with the new standards and reflect greater content complexity. In a recent memo issued by Deputy Commissioner Ken Sletz, the State Department of Education made clear that the state is "designing our Grades 3-8 ELA and math assessments to measure the knowledge and skills students need at each grade level to achieve college and career readiness."
The ultimate goal in implementing the Common Core Standards is one we all share: higher rates of graduation and a better educated workforce for our future.


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Reco Love: Gold Beach and Reco Love: Blue Ocean have unfortunately suffered a delay from the original 25th August release date.
Kadokawa Games has announced the game will now release in Japan on 20th October. The delay is said to be for improving the quality of the game. To offset the unfortunate news of a delay there will be a hands on event in Tokyo on 6th August, where we can possibly expect some more information on the game to come out.
Finally Kadokawa Games unveiled a new costume that is available as a limited quantity purchase bonus. You can check out the "Bloomer Gym Uniform" below.
So what do you think of the delay? How about those costumes? Let us know in the comments below. Stay tuned to The Vita Lounge for more information as we get it.


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D.A.F.T. - A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes is a video collection created by Daft Punk that was released in 1999. It features music videos for Around the World, Da Funk and Fresh, Burnin' and Revolution 909. Although its title derives from the appearances of dogs, androids, firemen and tomatoes, there is no solid plot bonding any of the episodes.
- "Da Funk"
- Audio commentary with Spike Jonze
- The Making of "Da Funk" (Featuring Armand Van Helden Remix)
- The Making of the Dog's Head (Featuring "On Da Rocks" by Thomas Bangalter)
- "Around the World"
- Audio commentary with Michel Gondry
- In the classroom with Michel Gondry
- The Making of "Around the World" (Featuring Masters at Work Remix)
- "Burnin'"
- Audio commentary with Seb Janiak
- The Making of "Burnin'" (Featuring Ian Pooley "Cut Up" Mix)
- "Revolution 909"
- Audio commentary with Roman Coppola
- The Making of "Revolution 909" (Featuring Roger Sanchez Remix)
- "Fresh"
- The Rehearsal of The "Fresh" Shot with Daft Punk
- The Making of "Fresh"
- "Rollin' & Scratchin'" (Live in L.A.)
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