Study: Antibiotic overuse still the rule for sore throat, bronchitis | CIDRAP

<div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite many years of efforts to reduce overuse of antibiotics, needless prescribing of the drugs for sore-throat patients hasn't declined in 13 years, and overprescribing for acute bronchitis has stayed about the same since 1980, according to research released today.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Using survey data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Boston researchers reported that the proportion of sore throat patients who received antibiotics stayed at about 60% from 1997 to 2010. Only about 10% of sore throats should be treated with antibiotics, they said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition, the researchers said about 73% of bronchitis patients continue to be treated with antibiotics, even though acute bronchitis is rarely caused by a bacterial infection.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The findings were presented today at IDWeek, the annual conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and several other medical societies in San Francisco. The sore throat study was published today by <em>JAMA Internal Medicine</em>, but the bronchitis study has not yet been published in a journal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The studies were conducted by Michael L. Barnett, MD, and Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, both of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The authors mined data from the CDC's National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The nationally representative surveys collect data on physicians and practices, including patient demographics, reasons for visits, diagnoses, and medications.</span></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sore-throat prescribing gets costlier</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the sore-throat survey, the authors counted visits by adults to primary care physicians or emergency departments (EDs) for treatment of sore throat from 1997 through 2010. Patients with injuries, immunosuppression, or concomitant infections were excluded.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The survey data included 8,191 such visits over the 14-year period, which suggests a total of 92 million visits nationwide during that time, according to the journal report. Antibiotics were prescribed at 60% of the visits (95% confidence interval, 57% to 63%), a figure that didn't change over the 14 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition, "We found that there was a significant increase in the rate of prescribing broader-spectrum, more expensive antibiotics such as azithromycin," Linder said at an IDSA press teleconference today. The latter drug was prescribed at 15% of visits by 2009-10.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The only common cause of sore throat requiring antibiotics is Group A<em>Streptococcus</em>, accounting for about 10% of cases, according to the report. Penicillin remains the drug of choice for strep throat, Linder said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It turns out that the bug that causes strep throat is resistant to some of those newer, more expensive antibiotics, but never resistant to penicillin," he said. He and Barnett found that penicillin was prescribed in about 9% of sore throat cases, a figure that was stable over the 14 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The rate of antibiotic use for sore throat, once as high as 80%, was about 70% in 1993 and dropped to 60% by 2000, where it has remained, the journal report says. "I'd characterize that as moderate to marginal improvement and painfully slow and far from what it should be," Linder said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The analysis also showed that the share of primary care visits prompted by sore throats dropped form 7.5% in 1997 to 4.3% in 2010.</span></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bronchitis data flat since 1980</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the bronchitis study, the authors used the same data sources and general methods but covered the years 1996 through 2010. They identified 3,667 adult medical visits for the problem during that time, suggesting a total of 39 million visits nationwide, according to an IDSA press release.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They found that antibiotics were prescribed at 73% of the visits overall. In EDs, the rate actually increased from 69% to 73% over the period. The appropriate rate is probably close to 0%, Linder said at the press conference.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The really bad news is that it [the overall rate] didn't change at all over the course of the study," he said.  "Going back to 1980, the prescribing rate has essentially not changed at all."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The study also revealed that the number of visits for bronchitis to primary care doctors increased significantly, from 1.1 million in 1996 to 3.4 million in 2010.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Linder said he and Barnett had hoped for more signs of improvement, in view of the efforts to prevent overprescribing over the past 10 to 20 years. "For sore throat we're moving the needle ever so slowly, and for bronchitis we're not moving it at all. So we were surprised," he said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Antibiotic stewardship programs have helped reduce the misuse of antibiotics in hospitals, but the findings suggest that the message isn't reaching the community, according to the IDSA press release.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Linder observed in the release that taking needless antibiotics exposes people to adverse drug reactions, allergies, yeast infections, and nausea, with no benefit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He suggested at the teleconference that physicians need to take time to discuss the issue with patients. "The doctor assumes the patient wants an antibiotic," he said. Yet, "Other work we've done shows that patients don't actually want antibiotics as much doctors think they do."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Barnett ML, Linder JA.</strong> Antibiotic prescribing to adults with sore throat in the United States, 1997-2010. (Research letter) JAMA Intern Med 2013 (Online publication Oct 3) [<a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1745694" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Full text</a>]</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See also:</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Accompanying <a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1745693" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">editorial</a></span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/10/study-antibiotic-overuse-still-rule-sore-throat-bronchitis">http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/10/study-antibiotic-overuse-still-rule-sore-throat-bronchitis</a></div>

Study: Antibiotic overuse still the rule for sore throat, bronchitis | CIDRAP

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fess up friday - make me up

Anyone who has read this blog more than a handful of times might suspect I have tunnel vision when it comes to design (and good cocktails). And it is true, I do. I'm not holding back on you. There isn't some big other chunk of my life that I just don't share on here. Sure, I do other things with friends and family and there are large portions of my day that involve permission slips, lunch boxes, laundry and the rare date night that make life normal. But by and large, I voluntarily consume myself with design.<br /><br />And that won't change. Not ever. Given a choice, I will always and forever spend money on something for my house rather than for myself (not including child needs of course).<br /><br />But as I get busier with work, I would like to start to take a bit more time for myself and give myself a facial, moisturize or even possibly, hold on to your seat here, put on makeup. Crazy talk! I've never been much of a makeup girl, just some lipstick and mascara - and always good nail polish, but as mamma gets older she could use a little spruce.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0HK9Xo16QeJP6YRrNw2Mzlwp8YYvWgi6VkjpZl_bhZfzQwdeXA-EKm8Ww4V7JNoC55jX8OG8D0FIWhgdzbS-o2vlQUfQrZj1q38PtCsLhrF8uszqIifAjJ9bBCqbHl1mbLBOUM4hdO4v/s1600/42c6366a7e75a2fd77660c0bb28dcdff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0HK9Xo16QeJP6YRrNw2Mzlwp8YYvWgi6VkjpZl_bhZfzQwdeXA-EKm8Ww4V7JNoC55jX8OG8D0FIWhgdzbS-o2vlQUfQrZj1q38PtCsLhrF8uszqIifAjJ9bBCqbHl1mbLBOUM4hdO4v/s400/42c6366a7e75a2fd77660c0bb28dcdff.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />So share with me. Teach me. What products do you use? Tell me what you love? What do you recommend? What do you wear everyday? How do you treat yourself? How many questions can I ask in one paragraph?

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Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s1600/symbaloo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s320/symbaloo.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my favourite people to follow is Matt Gomez who has a Kindergarden blog </span><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. He shares amazing ideas for the Foundation Phase classroom on his blog.   Through him I was introduced to the potential of using Symbaloo in the classroom. Last year I wrote a post entitled ‘</span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-symbaloo-symbaloo-is-great-free.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ which explained how to create a Symbaloo mix.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this post I want to highlight some of my favourite Symbaloo mixes for Foundation Phase learners. I found these wonderful Symbaloo collections on the Kinderchat Symbaloo webmix site. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat">http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this site you’ll find great selections of free e-books, online stories, songs etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just click on the image (or the link) below to be taken to the actual mix where you can listen to or watch the various media. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) National Geographic e-books</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQEJ0H4Jb56at4Txzz7adX-UQmoyMHdACuv6VkvfnQUs59vVGZ_xzPuCZlaz3_vgvmb2tsWGSTvdAeSRSCgXnXR7qZQh6y2QLyGY9F3x9MILdUlO0GYkUefr07yTRI5fiaxPUOO-BWB0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) Online stories</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJMr1BE6L9d6IvYB9PtHCTp7ZBud0BinVoNb3EsnycIKEYHuh2y2neNsujOqzcIP8b3Cbv5XU4LRVF5N_yYFlPved8WpPYVVKqaIo0uItfmi9IdXdTk_nM6b1ZaVySpOcJuN5kkeaij4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3) Sesame Street popular videos</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpEmz3rwWXAkyAVOerKF9MKk6GWXQ-GOcOh-FAZumiXV9zLBf0IrUXFQMFpg-cZ_rcQD8_-4wnytYvlHlnqaadeHFxGnuT166XfSM7OFQmxsj77n9Dd-7i-_-5cAOL4d3KuvWvxL7eHY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4)  Letter sounds</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds"><img alt="image" border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QjdjCVNKVBEHn_8twX8NpRfDBudI56TE0m1iAorpETkWsPZC5Ihq_yH6BhFLbReywLt7S_XzGWupqh8VPlDbnzIQEV3Q4Z_J82O1uTPc6Q3oaUfslwIvbUiaSKMFBtRgzyLyhRlipAc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uses for Symbaloo in the classroom</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) You can find out what other Symbaloo users are doing and learn from them using the easy Share and Gallery options.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) You can create a starter page of Intenet sites for your students to use on a project – or your students can create their own.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) Symbaloo opens its tiles in a new window so that the original always remains as a reference point. It can be used really well with webquests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) As a teacher you can save your favourite tools so that they are always handy for you to use.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) You can use it an Index post for a number of blog posts you have created around a topic. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) I love the way this teacher uses Symbaloo in his kindergarden class. </span><br /><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7) Listen to this Grade 7 student from the post <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does with Symbaloo <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/" title="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does using Symbaloo</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YEls3tq5wIY" width="420"></iframe> </div>

Symbaloo Web tools Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

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Worms? We Don't Need No Stinking Worms!

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Worms? We Don't Need No Stinking Worms!

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Not Quick Enough, Slick

Kinda neat, an infra red camera view of a Formula 1 car getting a Boo Boo.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pB0t0M2F1Jbdstf4Px8iyftIxkDBVulPnnyms4TeRGc3s303LVqBFEI_5qwE0ge6bfnm-bjqJAMiXfUeY9J_S8Fvl-nItvr3agD2Jt9W-za7ypUINuE1K9OjhIegpSlDe3oAPT2VRUty/s1600/i3bRb9xQPAdZ1.gif" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pB0t0M2F1Jbdstf4Px8iyftIxkDBVulPnnyms4TeRGc3s303LVqBFEI_5qwE0ge6bfnm-bjqJAMiXfUeY9J_S8Fvl-nItvr3agD2Jt9W-za7ypUINuE1K9OjhIegpSlDe3oAPT2VRUty/s640/i3bRb9xQPAdZ1.gif" /></a><br /><br />

Not Quick Enough, Slick

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Available To Pre-Order Now: RSC Richard II Music & Speeches CD Featuring David Tennant

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l7lVcqqYFZpA-014o8pifR7CdDDVhHEAbKWXte9dtVXT9LTw6ZQidfG_Mw8WK-8iXhsPQkolAJYubQ9D0tpxsLFFa1bdHXVzhxoZN4PM9CBHCarhkFNxetVKuKcEBaaMRLc0xfY1tK8/s1600/dick2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l7lVcqqYFZpA-014o8pifR7CdDDVhHEAbKWXte9dtVXT9LTw6ZQidfG_Mw8WK-8iXhsPQkolAJYubQ9D0tpxsLFFa1bdHXVzhxoZN4PM9CBHCarhkFNxetVKuKcEBaaMRLc0xfY1tK8/s1600/dick2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get a taste of what is to come from the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Royal Shakespeare Company Winter 2013 production of </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II. </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new CD featuring music and speeches from the play</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is now available to pr-order from the RSC shop. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This CD features music from the new production composed by Paul Englishby, along with speeches performed by cast members David Tennant, Jane Lapotaire and Michael Pennington It also includes music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the 1913 RSC production of <i>Richard II</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Track listing</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Lacrimosa (Paul Englishby)<br />2. Richard (Paul Englishby)<br />3. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? (speech Act I Sc ii Duchess of Gloucester - Jane Lapotaire)<br />4. In Paradisum (Paul Englishby)<br />5. Methinks I am a prophet new inspired (speech Act II Sc i John of Gaunt - Michael Pennington)<br />6. True Born Englishman (Paul Englishby)<br />7. Sicut Cervus (Paul Englishby)<br />8. Of comfort no man speak (speech Act III Sc ii Richard II - David Tennant)<br />9. Bolingbroke (Paul Englishby)<br />10. Requiem Aeternam (Paul Englishby)<br />11. Eased with being nothing (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />12. Greensleeves (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />13. In weeping after this untimely bier (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />14. Agnus dei (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />15. Pie Jesu, Amen (Paul Englishby)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CD is released on October 18th and costs £5 or £4.50 for RSC members</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/item/62328-richard-ii-music--speeches-cd-2013/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Pre-order your copy here</b></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/category/fc90cd87-1926-4da6-8738-9990cbde8b63/"><span style="color: blue;">Click here</span></a> to view the full range of Richard II merchandise from the RSC shop</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II</i> will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> on 10th October 2013 and will run until 16th November 2013. It will then transfer to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. The production is directed by Gregory Doran and stars David Tennant as King Richard and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be filmed and streamed live into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> cinemas on Wednesday 13th November, and then into cinemas in locations worldwide in broadcasts running until February 2014. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep up to date with all the Richard II news on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

David Tennant Music Richard II Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre Available To Pre-Order Now: RSC Richard II Music & Speeches CD Featuring David Tennant

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Runner Runner: A fouled hand

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b><i>Runner Runner</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/runnerrunner/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b> </b><br /><b>2.5 stars. Rating: R, for profanity and occasional blunt sexual candor</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a></b></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some movies defiantly wear their movie-ness like an ill-advised badge of honor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The premise is so contrived, the characters so ill-defined, their behavior so random, that all we can do is shake our heads in resignation, thinking, What can we expect? It’s only a movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHuURKt_Xx-er_NxMYONtPfK_H_TYbKFGP_RzYzeipdQssTzICvUVryGfgflutHy8Tk5ikWK50kXmiwCxmABbFbuCWWxxuXv-lmB_gJcmcykLp4Jq24dD5ja9NaJhIVE5cWPUYtHRl8/s1600/Runner+Runner+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHuURKt_Xx-er_NxMYONtPfK_H_TYbKFGP_RzYzeipdQssTzICvUVryGfgflutHy8Tk5ikWK50kXmiwCxmABbFbuCWWxxuXv-lmB_gJcmcykLp4Jq24dD5ja9NaJhIVE5cWPUYtHRl8/s400/Runner+Runner+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's every teenage boy's dream come true: Richie (Justin Timberlake, left) couldn't be<br />happier when Internet gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck) accepts him as a<br />protégé. Of course, Richie fails to heed the slightest trace of common sense, branding<br />himself as the biggest sucker of all time: an attitude without which we wouldn't have<br />this film. Which might have been a good thing.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Runner, Runner</i> fits that bill.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The script, credited to Brian Koppelman and David Levien, is absolutely ludicrous. It opens with a behavioral howler and just gets worse, its central character — our <i>de facto</i> hero — ignoring common sense to a degree that makes it impossible to sympathize with him. Frankly, he fully deserves the consequences that he eventually struggles so hard to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let him hang, and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But no, that would defy the revenge scenario that Koppelman and Levien so clumsily stitch together, from one bewildering moment to the next. Director Brad Furman, perhaps recognizing the weak hand he has been dealt, does his best to dazzle us with Costa Rican scenery and the wretched excess of an opulent casino gaming community. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, cinematographer Mauro Fiore lingers so long on such a setting, when our young hero initially enters this hedonistic realm, that I began to wonder if Furman had forgotten what to do next.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Runner, Runner</i>, set in the world of Internet gambling, is an echo for Koppelman and Levien. They made their bones back in 1998 with <i>Rounders</i>, a slick suspense thriller also involving high-stakes poker and a protagonist — in that case, Matt Damon — who gets in over his head. Clearly obsessed with gamblers and intricate stings, Koppelman and Levien subsequently created the short-lived TV series <i>Tilt</i> and brought the Danny Ocean series to a satisfying conclusion with <i>Ocean’s Thirteen</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things since then haven’t been nearly as satisfying, with two failures — <i>The Girlfriend Experience</i> and <i>Solitary Man</i>, both in 2009 — that were outside their comfort zone. No doubt Koppelman and Levien viewed <i>Runner, Runner</i> as a means of returning to what they know best.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well guys, they say you can’t go home again ... and that’s certainly the case here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake), a Wall Street up-and-comer who lost everything when the market crashed, has started over as a Princeton grad student. Lacking a respectable means to fund his education, he has been earning a commission as a shill for Midnight Black, an enormously successful Internet gambling site.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alas, Princeton’s dean (a small but well-played role by Bob Gunton) thinks little of Richie’s clandestine operation, and orders it shut down. With no other means of earning tuition money, Richie goes “all in” one night by yielding to the very temptation that he has professed, during his smart-alecky narration, to be smart enough to avoid: playing online poker at Midnight Black. Naturally, he loses everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But suspiciously.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /> <div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richie knows poker odds, and during his all-nighter determines the “tells” of his online opponents, at least one of whom made impossible bets. A subsequent mathematical model of the night’s activities point to certain chicanery. (Gee ... ya <i>think?</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We momentarily pause, to contemplate the bone-deep stupidity of <i>anybody</i>in the real world who would believe, for a moment, that these online gambling empires <i>don’t</i> cheat. How the hell would you ever know?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people would chalk up this experience as a valuable lesson learned, but not our Richie. He immediately hops a plane to Costa Rica — we can’t help wondering how he funds this trip — in order to confront Midnight Black’s owner/tycoon, Ivan Block (Ben Affleck, appropriately smooth and smarmy). Mind you, Richie never has been to this country, knows not a lick of Spanish, and has no six-degrees-of-separation connections to Block.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet, within a single day, he crosses paths with Midnight Black’s ultra-sultry COO, Rebecca Shafran (Gemma Arterton), and then wangles a face-to-face with Block himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A-<i>ma</i>-zing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like I said: It’s a movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Block, impressed by Richie’s savvy — and by the fact that our hero kept his accusation on the low-down, rather than blabbing the details all over the Internet — immediately offers the younger man a job. (You’re just the sort of guy I need at my side, blah, blah, blah.) Richie, unable to believe his good luck (!), immediately accepts ... naively taking Block at face value, and convinced that he’s made a new best bud.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As introduced, Richie is too smart to be this stupid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Granted, the world is full of stupid smart people, particularly when gobs of cash are involved. But fiction has the added responsibility of <i>persuading</i>us that such behavior is reasonable, given a set of circumstances, a task at which this film fails completely. Koppelman and Levien’s script isn’t sufficiently thought out — it’s an overblown pot-boiler, at best — and Timberlake’s limited acting chops aren’t able to fill in the blanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, we go with the flow: Richie becomes Block’s apprentice because, well, the script <i>says</i> he does. And Richie stays at his new mentor’s side, despite increasing evidence that the sailing, well, isn’t quite as smooth as Block keeps insisting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For openers, Richie soon gets braced by FBI Special Agent Shavers (Anthony Mackie, unpleasantly shrill), who wants Block for racketeering, extortion, bribery and probably a few other niggling charges. Trouble is, Costa Rica is beyond Shavers’ jurisdiction — hence no chance of extradition — and Block has the moolah to buy all the local cops and judges he might require.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally, Rebecca is too much of a stunner for Richie to ignore, despite the fact that her relationship with Block seems more than purely professional. (All the willing female flesh on hand, and of course Richie wants the babe that common sense insists he shouldn’t pursue.) And, just as Richie never questions Block’s slick patter, he similarly doesn’t think twice about Rebecca’s come-hither advances. Like, after all this time with Block, she’d suddenly decide to fall in love with somebody else, and this eager-beaver Princeton grad student would be The Guy?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, puh-<i>leaze</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Given the high-rolling self-indulgence on display, this film is surprisingly chaste: not a bared breast in sight, let alone any of the erotic sexual antics one would expect. But I digress again.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things get increasingly sloppy, with folks apparently changing their allegiances as a given scene demands. One sidebar character gets killed off-camera, except that he doesn’t; we’re later told that he was merely badly beaten, but is okay ... not that we ever see him again. Mind you, the narrative, as presented, demands that said individual <i>should</i> have been killed ... but that’s just the way Koppelman and Levien roll.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Heard is memorable as Richie’s deadbeat father, a gambling addict who wants only that his son not follow in his footsteps. Heard is understated, his Harry Furst a sad remnant of a man, and this low-key performance is a welcome relief from the feverish pitch at which everybody else operates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furman’s directorial approach feels less like a film, and more like the overstated “acting” we generally get from the pixel avatars in first-person-shooter computer games. The overall tone is that heightened, that exaggerated, that manipulative.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidebar Costa Rican characters, whether in the local underworld or the local constabulary, are so poorly developed that it’s impossible to tell them apart. Some get assaulted; some do the assaulting. The details are irritatingly vague.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time we reach the mildly clever climax, we’re long past caring. And, even as the film concludes, fresh questions remain unanswered ... such as, What the heck happens to Richie’s father?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furman, relatively new on the Hollywood scene, has two previous films to his credit. 2007’s <i>The Take</i> was stillborn, but he did a reasonably slick — if somewhat overwrought — job with 2011’s adaptation of Michael Connelly’s <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/03/lincoln-lawyer-sloppy-defense.html">The Lincoln Lawyer</a></i>. The result was engaging enough to suggest that, allied with competent writers, Furman could rise above hack-dom and carve out at least a minor career in B-flicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This limp exercise, however, won’t do him any favors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in passing, “runner-runner” is a poker term that refers to a Texas Hold ’em hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn (fourth) and river (fifth) cards. The odds of such success are, as you might imagine, extremely slim: an apt description of this maladroit flick’s chances at the box office.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya gotta know when to fold ’em.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

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Runner Runner   (2013) •  View trailer   2.5 stars. Rating: R, for profanity and occasional blunt sexual candor By  Derrick Bang ...

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Ireland goes to the polls

On the 4th of October 2013 there is a referendum vote here in Ireland.<div><br></div><div>We vote on whether to abolish our second house of government the Senate (Seanad).  The second referendum is whether to create a Court of Appeal.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qXqzvuSqrewoCGNYlgb3RA0zJVXJTSM7N2zLD5QNVGjHVz-DJvkK7UPfhyxdcb5WCCQM3jBv9EJU5JKDw7_KQd6GRDc0ZQKyOL6ENGE8_-0WEnJpFXqkr6sE69DLzM2do3bMsnaKJfdK/s640/blogger-image-896139671.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qXqzvuSqrewoCGNYlgb3RA0zJVXJTSM7N2zLD5QNVGjHVz-DJvkK7UPfhyxdcb5WCCQM3jBv9EJU5JKDw7_KQd6GRDc0ZQKyOL6ENGE8_-0WEnJpFXqkr6sE69DLzM2do3bMsnaKJfdK/s640/blogger-image-896139671.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjlTf44S5uDDoYZlewpQrPFobT5_A0bPoBPaTCVpu3ZPBueOaHHNvngEGkt_JfBYJOB5x4rUEXRYdizn9hiQOYPA5TAufZjF3TcwUJuZ-eeUHHru6n-NUGmHJfQMzZT3EM3_c_YiWy7E5/s640/blogger-image--1554165214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjlTf44S5uDDoYZlewpQrPFobT5_A0bPoBPaTCVpu3ZPBueOaHHNvngEGkt_JfBYJOB5x4rUEXRYdizn9hiQOYPA5TAufZjF3TcwUJuZ-eeUHHru6n-NUGmHJfQMzZT3EM3_c_YiWy7E5/s640/blogger-image--1554165214.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Outside what I would have called the polling station but are now called polling places in some areas with signs saying "Polling Place Ionad Votala"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bh3LFEY0Fs-M5OzSGl_noWu6KZSezzM3w_yCs5Ecv30e5c0dJwapKAEyxki61GR-W_HNzK91KPK5Zm25UZQBjpuF4q9beV-Ii2oBEbnxnM2Jk2rSQ8I1OpFo0M0S_QFfeztuScKdFKm-/s640/blogger-image--144269281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bh3LFEY0Fs-M5OzSGl_noWu6KZSezzM3w_yCs5Ecv30e5c0dJwapKAEyxki61GR-W_HNzK91KPK5Zm25UZQBjpuF4q9beV-Ii2oBEbnxnM2Jk2rSQ8I1OpFo0M0S_QFfeztuScKdFKm-/s640/blogger-image--144269281.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our "Polling Station" in the Multi-Denominational School in Ranelagh</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8INO_k1LKUBWoC0VSJNQ2eowqRDQ9bqfn6l9WDBggTXar_uA9RxKIttOhj8x89R63r1g5e_51OTiMTDXOTvx0V_Ai2gR03KOLOA3qdW0APqpOqc9lq-pshpXJUvZrISz_0iMBTV-djGf/s640/blogger-image--195699886.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8INO_k1LKUBWoC0VSJNQ2eowqRDQ9bqfn6l9WDBggTXar_uA9RxKIttOhj8x89R63r1g5e_51OTiMTDXOTvx0V_Ai2gR03KOLOA3qdW0APqpOqc9lq-pshpXJUvZrISz_0iMBTV-djGf/s640/blogger-image--195699886.jpg"></a></div>Above is the "Polling Place" in Ballsbridge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We did not receive Voting Cards but received this letter instead. Voting stations are open from 7am until 10pm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQADuumVfhyTds6NB3FNG9smLVYZCC_OB2Pr24CrKi0Ax2hWedrscnqTevb5erwHsqI1G6lPwPjusHp8QIu7ndzCcy-OBqSpS8H4-YoV4DZRdJ1rHQNuOB6XsZKwCGI7NhcJzSohFxasVT/s640/blogger-image--441085725.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQADuumVfhyTds6NB3FNG9smLVYZCC_OB2Pr24CrKi0Ax2hWedrscnqTevb5erwHsqI1G6lPwPjusHp8QIu7ndzCcy-OBqSpS8H4-YoV4DZRdJ1rHQNuOB6XsZKwCGI7NhcJzSohFxasVT/s640/blogger-image--441085725.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Picture of my voting slips before I voted </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigncV2Sd-c5sqrU-2FDbGPMCEMBuIEFYFZ8kTE68S70j6V6aUn-FS_Q9ZjMCkaPPeyqFQD3DfFrhSG18GYUxBcB_iy1ZRVF-MvnNpGkg0qvbvorqz-ApxpezxvWf4Bo0wX2lXfoPsY8JKz/s640/blogger-image-1187312234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigncV2Sd-c5sqrU-2FDbGPMCEMBuIEFYFZ8kTE68S70j6V6aUn-FS_Q9ZjMCkaPPeyqFQD3DfFrhSG18GYUxBcB_iy1ZRVF-MvnNpGkg0qvbvorqz-ApxpezxvWf4Bo0wX2lXfoPsY8JKz/s640/blogger-image-1187312234.jpg"></a></div><br></div>All official documents are written bilingual in English and Irish </div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>

Ireland goes to the polls

On the 4th of October 2013 there is a referendum vote here in Ireland. We vote on whether to abolish our second house of government the Sena...

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A Night With A Vampire Read By David Tennant Concludes Tonight

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZ9alhhS95TvIhgG7-P4L7cQFfcRG1WL2J0DXZ6wxUWgbliPWllKaUTqTZC1LgI_Eq0Cv0ptBePINr2ponvxu-Xl9tAEPJ7MrssyEpPQNJ49Yf0zifugIknZn4VSUX5__hYx1xr2zSG0/s1600/davidobserver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZ9alhhS95TvIhgG7-P4L7cQFfcRG1WL2J0DXZ6wxUWgbliPWllKaUTqTZC1LgI_Eq0Cv0ptBePINr2ponvxu-Xl9tAEPJ7MrssyEpPQNJ49Yf0zifugIknZn4VSUX5__hYx1xr2zSG0/s640/davidobserver.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The final instalment in the repeated series <i>A Night With A Vampire</i> can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra this evening. The series of five short Gothic horror stories is read by David Tennant.<br /><br />The fifteen minute story will be broadcast at 6.30pm BST today with a repeat at half past midnight </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday 4th October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Clarimonde</i> - Theophile Gautier</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest his eyes glance to heaven - and sees leaning over the sanctuary railing - a young woman of extraordinary beauty. And so begins a sensational struggle for his soul......</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series was originally broadcast in November 2010 and was produced by Clive Brill for Pacificus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_four_extra"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen in worldwide via this link</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each episode will be available to play for 7 days after broadcast via BBC iPlayer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

A Night With A Vampire BBC Radio 4 Extra David Tennant Radio A Night With A Vampire Read By David Tennant Concludes Tonight

The final instalment in the repeated series A Night With A Vampire can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra this evening. The series of five short...

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Amazing GLOW IN THE DARK Doctor Who T Shirts Available For The Next 7 Days

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcOPpx3vghGdM4GmrD-iwEYNBDf7hN053cmESZ4unzasCW90ttAfEV8pJF8zEaMFDhXc7NJu2m8WSQBU8NVbK0bAWRKXemzJZ5xKAJBxINj5OyLamzNSjRon0XSdZLzaqHD6S1gZoVyA/s1600/dual700b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcOPpx3vghGdM4GmrD-iwEYNBDf7hN053cmESZ4unzasCW90ttAfEV8pJF8zEaMFDhXc7NJu2m8WSQBU8NVbK0bAWRKXemzJZ5xKAJBxINj5OyLamzNSjRon0XSdZLzaqHD6S1gZoVyA/s640/dual700b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our pals over at Weeky TShirts have got a couple of amazing Doctor Who T shirts up for sale for the next 7 days.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tees, which would be perfect for Halloween, feature Glow In The Dark ink to ensure you really stand out in a crowd!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can order them online at the links below:</span><br /><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Bite-of-the-10th-Doctor/78b25c0d35dfeb6ad51c47278df47597/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Bite-of-the-10th-Doctor/78b25c0d35dfeb6ad51c47278df47597/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Click here for Bite Of The Tenth Doctor</b></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Scary-Weeping-Angel/503cd32ffc367cfb84a21569cfdaf5e7/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Click here for Scary Weeping Angel</b></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are just $12 each or $20 for both. Worldwide delivery is available.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-uf-ejW2Auq8hwxIMf5bNb9eytX8mxDh_molZHhC22mh1WspX54xPqd3ETqBVkoMjgi-aTPIEiZ0E5zRPKg25aHoPIPB0ebdnKDUMflQ5eRd7fiWPmziBOaHuFMtghPQwd6S-J0tGn0/s1600/scary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-uf-ejW2Auq8hwxIMf5bNb9eytX8mxDh_molZHhC22mh1WspX54xPqd3ETqBVkoMjgi-aTPIEiZ0E5zRPKg25aHoPIPB0ebdnKDUMflQ5eRd7fiWPmziBOaHuFMtghPQwd6S-J0tGn0/s640/scary.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMWXb4jruDke5frzjtzfEuwy8PCcfzk6dyDs5_ieSy7vIDnRod6naw7Go3th9zytGbrQq2dL4ps9DB_UCwpLI-WtEZUwEQ7FKkT44RzzyHz9DUDtdugscERh2wkvdD0psynVy7G-LmIQ/s1600/bite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMWXb4jruDke5frzjtzfEuwy8PCcfzk6dyDs5_ieSy7vIDnRod6naw7Go3th9zytGbrQq2dL4ps9DB_UCwpLI-WtEZUwEQ7FKkT44RzzyHz9DUDtdugscERh2wkvdD0psynVy7G-LmIQ/s640/bite.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Doctor Who Merchandise Amazing GLOW IN THE DARK Doctor Who T Shirts Available For The Next 7 Days

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Random Shout Outs to Miley's Boobs and Shitty People

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Hola y’all! Let’s. Get. Random! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-eally Big Shit Bag) who went out to the WWII memorial and berated a member of the Park Police accusing HER of closing the memorial. Uh sir, YOU voted to close the government and unlike that Park Police officer YOU are getting paid. What a fucking piece of shit you Congressman. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to all the people who are focusing only on the fucking WWII memorial or the Panda Cam and are completely ignoring all the people who have been furloughed or are having to go into work every single day without pay. You guys are the worst fucking people on Earth. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUVhBkAyGBwtWSkZHnur05cMGOLVY2dXVCLDP6bC8Re9Uly4b5yQVzf8oFgpOq-ZCxPf4xbcg_nZNRyYZXACTuV6LZc4fUvLGqcjBKMSXJwTLI0hCUM3T7BMQldOMWWdRvKnVkOGTdM5d/s1600/Ted+Cruz+Nazi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUVhBkAyGBwtWSkZHnur05cMGOLVY2dXVCLDP6bC8Re9Uly4b5yQVzf8oFgpOq-ZCxPf4xbcg_nZNRyYZXACTuV6LZc4fUvLGqcjBKMSXJwTLI0hCUM3T7BMQldOMWWdRvKnVkOGTdM5d/s1600/Ted+Cruz+Nazi.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to the 873,902 people on Twitter and Facebook who have posted the “If a government employee is listed as ‘non-essential’ then why do they have a job to begin with???” as if they are the first person to ever make that joke.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hey-OOOOOOOOO!  That’s freaking hilarious! And so original too! BTW, 99% of the people who posted that joke are listed as “non-essential” by their employer too. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Another shout out to the 1,744,820 people who posted the equally unoriginal “Do I still have to pay my taxes during the shutdown?” joke as if THEY were the first to ever think of that one! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Damn, you guys were killin’ it this week! <yawn> <o:p></o:p></yawn></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to all the republicans who blamed the Sequester completely on Obama. Yes, it was the worst idea ever, but not only are the republicans now celebrating and taking full credit for the Sequester, they have all but assured that it will become permanent. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Miley Cyrus for getting naked for that photo shoot so American can go bonkers over a boob. I love it when people do that. It’s amazing how many people in this country have never seen boobs before.  <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ETESfiLswfpSr32CmG47VLIO6CLxtquGp5Wg8rlc-hxRltklfn1VjI6OO6fQRHENuCUXnXX66vG3v6u94L_zno42BzgsYQALp0xw26TJf5kWWAUBfiAWx7oMcoVZ4pySel4I37KRowhE/s1600/Miley+Cyrus+Nude+Boobs+Topless+See+Through+Slutty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ETESfiLswfpSr32CmG47VLIO6CLxtquGp5Wg8rlc-hxRltklfn1VjI6OO6fQRHENuCUXnXX66vG3v6u94L_zno42BzgsYQALp0xw26TJf5kWWAUBfiAWx7oMcoVZ4pySel4I37KRowhE/s640/Miley+Cyrus+Nude+Boobs+Topless+See+Through+Slutty.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Sinead O’Conner for writing an “open letter” to Miley. There’s nothing more pathetic than a self-important, washed up, loser celebrity writing an open letter to someone. Don’t you need to shave your head again? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Congressman Todd Rokita (R-eally Smarmy) for condescendingly calling CNN anchor Carol Costello “beautiful, but you don’t know what you’re talking about” today. That will help the GOP with their minority and women outreach efforts immensely. Also, he’s wrong. She’s not beautiful. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Buddy, the mutt I saved from running out into traffic last week for a totally unappreciative owner. When I was leaving today just as I walked around the building Buddy was outside again and he came sprinting up to say high to me again. At least Buddy appreciates me. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to the 23 people who have followed me on Twitter since Monday. I have no freaking idea why or where they all came from or anything, but that’s cool. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out the person who told me I won’t be getting into Heaven this week. I responded by saying “luckily for me, you aren’t the one who gets to make that decision.” She promptly defriended me because obviously she IS the person who decides who gets into Heaven and who doesn’t. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_zAuMuHeBK1cRvIS-us9PMpZDcoBN-sUOeMPPwJ8SmaXffvwPptZGBux3e5LoYk7LBcs-8ZaR-4_1hIegnZ38B920w-AJwBgPRW0Brgb2cvsCVfP_p0SkR-TNXSvJ9TbBvcT7_6jLL6v/s1600/ted-cruz-westboro-baptist-church-bigots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_zAuMuHeBK1cRvIS-us9PMpZDcoBN-sUOeMPPwJ8SmaXffvwPptZGBux3e5LoYk7LBcs-8ZaR-4_1hIegnZ38B920w-AJwBgPRW0Brgb2cvsCVfP_p0SkR-TNXSvJ9TbBvcT7_6jLL6v/s1600/ted-cruz-westboro-baptist-church-bigots.jpg" /></a></div><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to my upstairs neighbor for either jumping or falling out of bed at 3:30 am last night. It was one of the few nights where I actually fell asleep fairly early and was snoozing away. Of course, after he woke me up I had to get up and pee and then check out the windows to see what was going on outside and by then was awake and unable to get back to sleep for a couple of hours. Asshole. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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Available For Today Only: Doctor Who Stowaway" T Shirt

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUK9F4xAI__Syt51-V0sKH2O_bHxpeLgPNWO1LUQGuAl_ZYtPUn_RpjpCY8ITQqZT51-2A80e7-xMvpDCnL5EahvUZ9WwtQl6zJUVAo3lcXDu2RaSjobKS3YhJQiKvaNIeKm6rFVf7qA/s1600/tinkerbelltardis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUK9F4xAI__Syt51-V0sKH2O_bHxpeLgPNWO1LUQGuAl_ZYtPUn_RpjpCY8ITQqZT51-2A80e7-xMvpDCnL5EahvUZ9WwtQl6zJUVAo3lcXDu2RaSjobKS3YhJQiKvaNIeKm6rFVf7qA/s640/tinkerbelltardis.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Our friends at TeeFury have a cool new Doctor Who  T Shirt design, featuring a sweet picture of Tinkerbell in the TARDIS light, available for only 24 hours!</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">The 'Stowaway' Design is JUST $11! And DELIVERY IS AVAILABLE WORLDIDE!</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=310481&u=744749&m=32833&urllink=&afftrack=" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Click here to order</a></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>

Doctor Who Merchandise Teefury Available For Today Only: Doctor Who Stowaway" T Shirt

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Field Applications Engineer (Semiconductor | MEMS ) (# 110021)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Field Applications Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsible for providing technical applications support for the development and implementation of KLA-Tencor Candela products for customers in the North American Territory Organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1) Interface with new and existing customers to provide operations training as well as resolve complex problems and determine actions required to resolve problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2)  Respond to customer requests and provide the high quality support with effective communication<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3) Work with sales and marketing to investigate customer requirements, competitive situations and changes in market conditions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4) Proactively engage with existing and potential customers to understand their particular challenges work with divisions to provide a solution to address their challenges and provide a positive customer experience<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1) PHD or MS / BS with at least 3-5 years’ experience of Semiconductor / LED / MEMS manufacturing or equivalent combination of education and experience in engineering applications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2) >2 years of KT relative tool set knowledge/experience is preferred<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3) Independent worker, self-driven.  Ability to set priorities and delegate tasks during critical situations where multiple issues must be handled simultaneously<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4) Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">5) Ability to travel with short notice, some overseas travel may be required<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ability to travel at least 75%<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div></div>

Field Applications Engineer (Semiconductor | MEMS ) (# 110021)

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Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me): My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdNBBjrMt3_Lp3vI0eDkypL81YjWVzLdaTsfNZlNE9MzP-oWa7kzKTrdLzQnx4NSeweCAc9aYnS0iOwxosqk_0-rXHb30zoMeNYgAFGWMIlo-rVevrM9UIGKz57ZiK2sg_DPRdSK56X4/s1600/My_Mortal_Enemy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZdNBBjrMt3_Lp3vI0eDkypL81YjWVzLdaTsfNZlNE9MzP-oWa7kzKTrdLzQnx4NSeweCAc9aYnS0iOwxosqk_0-rXHb30zoMeNYgAFGWMIlo-rVevrM9UIGKz57ZiK2sg_DPRdSK56X4/s1600/My_Mortal_Enemy2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Davis</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>The Metzinger Sisters of </i>Silver Scenes<i> are hosting a classic film event</i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>,</i>The Great Imaginary Film Blogathon -<i> and this is my entry. <a href="http://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-great-imaginary-film-blogathon-is.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Click here</span></a> for links to participating blogs.</i></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPV17ua1bHxxq9zonSrUeY70qgOMzeSKztegLP1yNUenpQAHwD_Ns0uB1E3QlfLfuyXgUtUPGsUqWwygN6fZkElD8mgEMxfMzlQ7Zv6bGExDQwROo_LMlpGsqDaCut7nY3nkSxMqamgs/s1600/Lost_Lady.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPV17ua1bHxxq9zonSrUeY70qgOMzeSKztegLP1yNUenpQAHwD_Ns0uB1E3QlfLfuyXgUtUPGsUqWwygN6fZkElD8mgEMxfMzlQ7Zv6bGExDQwROo_LMlpGsqDaCut7nY3nkSxMqamgs/s320/Lost_Lady.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1926, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather published her eighth novel, a novella, really, titled <i>My Mortal Enemy</i>. Among the writer's many poetic works of prose fiction, the book earned a reputation for both its lean structure and dramatic plot. When I read it for the first time, I couldn't help but imagine what a powerful film <i>My Mortal Enemy</i> might be. Yet I also knew that, because of Cather's profound unhappiness with the film version of <i>A Lost Lady </i>(1934, starring Barbara Stanwyck), she hadn't allowed her other works to be adapted in her lifetime and that at the time of her death in 1947, the terms of her will dictated a ban on future film adaptations. Mostly because I saw in <i>My Mortal Enemy</i>'s central character, Myra Driscoll Henshawe, a role that would provide a golden opportunity for the right actress to deliver a blistering tour de force performance, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I despaired that it would never be dramatized.</span><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tale unfolds from the point of view of its narrator, a young Midwestern woman named Nellie, who grew up enchanted by the local legend of a great romance that had taken place not too many years before she was born. Myra Driscoll had been the pampered only heir of her great-uncle, the wealthiest man in town. Though well-educated and handsome, Oswald Henshawe was of more humble origins, and the love that developed between the two was unacceptable to Myra's guardian. Myra threw away the certain inheritance of most of her great-uncle's enormous fortune when she defied him and eloped with Oswald. For young Nellie, Myra and Oswald's "runaway marriage" was "the most interesting, indeed the only interesting" story among those told on "holidays or at family dinners." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Myra had been taken in by her great-uncle when she was orphaned in childhood. He took her traveling with him to Europe, had her portrait painted by an esteemed painter, lavished her with clothing and jewelry as well as a riding horse and "a Steinway piano." She was spirited and witty and pretty and her guardian took pride in her. Though she enjoyed a close, affectionate relationship with her uncle, she was also proud and willful. When he solemnly promised he would "cut her off without a penny" if she married Oswald, she didn't react immediately. Some months later, though, Myra went out on a sleigh-ride with friends and never returned. She and Oswald met at a pre-arranged time and place, were married with his parents and her friends on hand and departed in the wee hours on an express train.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0u9EvBAxCDd7-Y4N6zgYdn4TH95zqDpQ70ArMU11J_WrttISqnSR0jq76A6I_31neoIBUv8W2LkH1z0MtBTtpBG16gEfsr90VFj9UBgebrVFoA76g0Rg4sIRgsTjkEq80gyMkSubv0U/s1600/train+interior+lovers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0u9EvBAxCDd7-Y4N6zgYdn4TH95zqDpQ70ArMU11J_WrttISqnSR0jq76A6I_31neoIBUv8W2LkH1z0MtBTtpBG16gEfsr90VFj9UBgebrVFoA76g0Rg4sIRgsTjkEq80gyMkSubv0U/s320/train+interior+lovers.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Drawing by Edward Hopper</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="goog_868207947"></span><span id="goog_868207948"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Myra we glimpse through Nellie's reminiscences of the stories she's been told all her life is  passionate, impulsive, determined and full of self-confidence. The Myra we encounter when Nellie meets her in person is much older and very worldly. Myra and Oswald return to the small town 25 years after their elopement and Nellie, now 15, is finally introduced to the couple she has idealized as storybook lovers. She meets Myra first and is both bewitched and intimidated by the still-handsome but heavier-than-expected middle-aged woman. Myra's "charming, fluent voice, her clear light enunciation" bewilders Nellie, who also notes that her "sarcasm was so quick, so fine at the point - it was like being touched by a metal so cold that one doesn't know whether one is burned or chilled." Oswald is less imposing though also charismatic, and Nellie is captivated by his "dark and soft" eyes, shaped "exactly like half-moons." She observes "something about him that suggested personal bravery, magnanimity, and a fine, generous way of doing things." Nellie was more comfortable with Oswald than Myra, "because he did not frighten one so much." By the time the Henshawes leave days later, it has been decided that Nellie and her aunt will spend the Christmas holidays in New York and stay at a hotel near Oswald and Myra's apartment on Madison Square.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KUck9-Q3OTP0bDpCSzFpplxdQNoRTNOi-b-ZC880CU6Wy-ccTWpD94T78kz0CGmcA7yRYn2PjEHbbe3vMNFN0oWLhToKjhv4EB3V0fpYnv5r59ZTV47HZ4cfRhtz20dalgxu-rqxR4Y/s1600/Madison_Square_1900_Paul_Cornoyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KUck9-Q3OTP0bDpCSzFpplxdQNoRTNOi-b-ZC880CU6Wy-ccTWpD94T78kz0CGmcA7yRYn2PjEHbbe3vMNFN0oWLhToKjhv4EB3V0fpYnv5r59ZTV47HZ4cfRhtz20dalgxu-rqxR4Y/s400/Madison_Square_1900_Paul_Cornoyer.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Madison Square painted by Paul Cornoyer, circa 1900</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once in New York, Nellie falls instantly in love with the couple's apartment in a brownstone on the north side of the Square. She enthusiastically takes in every detail - including long velvet curtains "lined with that rich cream-colour that lies under the blue skin of ripe figs." She is dazzled at the celebrity-studded New Years' Eve party the Henshawe's host, and enthralled when an opera star sings an aria from Bellini's <i>Norma</i> to piano accompaniment. But she also observes first-hand a darker side to the Henshawe marriage.  After spending a pleasant day with Myra in Central Park, Nellie notices in her friend what seems an "insane ambition" when the woman offhandedly reveals her deep disappointment that her lifestyle isn't at all grand enough to suit her. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, finally, Nellie walks in on the pair in the midst of a ferocious argument. Myra has found a key on Oswald's key-ring that he cannot or will not explain to her satisfaction. Already, Nellie is aware that a young woman of Oswald's acquaintance has given him a gift of topaz cufflinks and that, to avoid Myra's jealous wrath, he had asked her aunt to pretend they were a Christmas present from her. As Nellie and her aunt leave New York, Myra makes sure to tell them that she knows the cufflinks were not a gift from the aunt, "I was sure to find out, I always do," she says. Nellie will not see the Henshawes for another ten years and when she does encounter them again, it comes as a complete surprise.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 25, Nellie ventures, without much conviction, to a West Coast city (reminiscent of Los Angeles then) to teach. She takes rooms in an apartment-hotel and once there finds that the Henshawes are living in the same building. Their circumstances are much reduced and Myra, now a wheelchair-bound invalid, is dying. Oswald, who holds a low-paying job with the city while carefully tending to his wife's needs, looks far older than his years. Myra appears to Nellie "strong and broken, generous and tyrannical, a witty and rather wicked old woman." Those traits the younger woman had admired and disliked have become ever more distilled.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As death approaches, Myra grows more demanding and difficult, as does her dark resentment of Oswald. She is openly suspicious of him and seems to blame him for her every discomfort and complaint. On one particularly bad night she laments that she must "die like this, alone with my mortal enemy..." Nellie, chilled as she listens to these bitter words, reflects that "...violent natures like hers sometimes turn against themselves..." </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipi5ASM9BCnde5dSDlMT7HVN_VnbLZpQR1o6WQ13IPB5efbZOwBlN1O7cmcMo1VM0yN1gWySiqR7ZcA2zs78ss94Kr27y7kEMH9B3eLSb2e-3lq9r6aQXgMTwvU94WkZ_SxpJ_ol_QepM/s1600/myras_end.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipi5ASM9BCnde5dSDlMT7HVN_VnbLZpQR1o6WQ13IPB5efbZOwBlN1O7cmcMo1VM0yN1gWySiqR7ZcA2zs78ss94Kr27y7kEMH9B3eLSb2e-3lq9r6aQXgMTwvU94WkZ_SxpJ_ol_QepM/s400/myras_end.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">~ </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’ve envisioned many actresses in the role of Myra Henshawe.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A rich, multifaceted character like Myra would have tantalized Miss Bette Davis during her heyday. With William Wyler in the director’s chair, Davis had turned in three outstanding performances – in <i>Jezebel </i>(1938), <i>The Letter </i>(1940) and <i>The Little Foxes </i>(1941), all of them earning Best Actress Oscar nominations for her, and <i>Jezebel </i>bringing the gold statuette. And all three characters possessed traits in common with Myra – spoiled, impetuous Julie, manipulative Leslie Crosbie and fierce Regina Giddens. So, with Wyler directing Davis and an evocative score by Max Steiner, <i>My Mortal Enemy </i>could easily have been another stellar Warner Bros. release during Hollywood’s Golden Age. While Warners might’ve been inclined to put George Brent or Herbert Marshall in the role of Oswald, the studio’s best bet would’ve been Paul Henreid. It seems to me, though, that another actor, someone like Lew Ayres, would've been a better fit.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’ve also imagined <i>My Mortal Enemy </i>as a Technicolor production from the 1950s starring Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck. Kerr’s lofty poise and ability to convey tumultuous emotions (<i>Black Narcissus</i>,<i> From Here to Eternity, The Innocents</i>)<i> </i>would've made for an interesting take on Myra, who was as haughty as she was passionate. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gregory Peck would have had no trouble portraying gentle, magnetically attractive Oswald. </span></span>A good pick to direct might’ve been John Huston, who so often and successfully adapted literary gems (<i>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</i>, <i>Moby Dick</i>). Huston also devised the vivid color concept of <i>Moulin Rouge </i>(1952) and directed both Kerr and Peck in popular films of the 1950s.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the late 1960s, <i>My Mortal Enemy </i>could’ve provided a high profile vehicle as well as a solid follow-up to <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? </i>for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The characters were within their range, but Liz & Dick's  tabloid notoriety and worldwide superstardom at the time might well have overpowered the actual characters and story. Perhaps with Mike Nichols, who directed <i>Virginia Woolf</i>, at the helm, <i>My Mortal Enemy </i>could’ve been one of those memorable transitional films that bridged the shift from the studio era to the age of “easy riders and raging bulls.”</span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjoI5tOmjuLxAUJbT-Vqh45ahpcIH7w2A5nqZHHKupp1JnQHxeOSJ1SoTdcQADqbsUay-pZVQ2sEyFCaKO3G10oyUrCTuJNv2qRwuQAEjjj4yQkOdRraF1-0W752Tl2XG7evpDbfPkIw/s1600/streep_irons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjoI5tOmjuLxAUJbT-Vqh45ahpcIH7w2A5nqZHHKupp1JnQHxeOSJ1SoTdcQADqbsUay-pZVQ2sEyFCaKO3G10oyUrCTuJNv2qRwuQAEjjj4yQkOdRraF1-0W752Tl2XG7evpDbfPkIw/s320/streep_irons.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, <i>The French Lieutenant's Woman</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meryl Streep was well established by the 1980s, and a complex and meaty role like Myra would’ve seemed tailor-made for her remarkable talents. Teaming her with Jeremy Irons, her co-star in <i>The French Lieutenant’s Woman</i> (1981), would’ve worked well. On the other hand, there’s the superb but relatively underrated Judy Davis, who emerged with <i>My Brilliant Career</i> (1979) and <i>A Passage to India </i>(1984), earning a Best Actress Oscar nomination for the latter. Davis possesses, along with an ability to express the deep anguish of a divided soul, the vivacity and sharp humor integral to Myra’s personality. I would pair Davis with William Hurt and put them under the direction of Martin Scorsese, who later rendered a moving and meticulous adaptation of Edith Wharton’s <i>The Age of Innocence</i> (1993).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the early 1990s, adaptations of Willa Cather’s fiction for television had begun to surface. Perhaps the ban on “film” adaptations did not, technically, apply to broadcast media. A PBS production of <i>O Pioneers!, </i>starring Mary McDonnell, appeared in 1991 and a Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the same novel appeared in 1992, starring Jessica Lange. In 1995, the USA Network aired a TV-movie version of <i>My Ántonia</i>, the second novel in Cather’s Prairie Trilogy (after <i>Pioneers</i>), starring Jason Robards and Eva Marie Saint. Finally, in 2001, the third book in the trilogy, <i>The Song of the Lark</i>, was adapted for PBS, starring Maximilian Schell and Alison Elliot.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Following the death of the last living executor of Willa Cather’s estate, Charles Cather, in 2011, The Cather Trust dropped the prohibition contained in her will against the publication of her letters and the adaptation of her fiction to film. In April of this year Knopf published <i>The Selected Letters of Willa Cather</i>. A dramatization of <i>My Mortal Enemy</i>, it seems, could actually come to pass. Cate Blanchett, now in her early 40s, is still young as well as old enough for the plum role of Myra. But the possibilities are endless - and fascinating. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgQng9CQLw-VTloraPDo25n9SLDzgk53S_oSvXEktgy-ZK4QSfQkNHZPlITGmeSPRW3EkNKKbrgfihd2svuLsjvRGmddVjPjyWfmWyUaHy72uJFzQC0mNK2RUI0ChDwFa7cnKcu-4oyw/s1600/Blanchett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgQng9CQLw-VTloraPDo25n9SLDzgk53S_oSvXEktgy-ZK4QSfQkNHZPlITGmeSPRW3EkNKKbrgfihd2svuLsjvRGmddVjPjyWfmWyUaHy72uJFzQC0mNK2RUI0ChDwFa7cnKcu-4oyw/s320/Blanchett.jpg" width="262" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cate Blanchett by David Downton</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Mechanical design Engineer (opto-mechanical |alignment | machine tool |precision mechanisms) (#109978)

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