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Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #19

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QFZRr5n6vF432Xai7lMSG9QjXv_L6EmoREV-t3myRTDz8_tF8ALKU9S5iaDTn2YQ8ZmfaUVjPrnhaxjtmYoQ_19yTCrQy6pUnA3h2MnvYDwsWurnkkWVLjxCEMBEJxCfbeFlmR6rbmM/s1600/evo8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QFZRr5n6vF432Xai7lMSG9QjXv_L6EmoREV-t3myRTDz8_tF8ALKU9S5iaDTn2YQ8ZmfaUVjPrnhaxjtmYoQ_19yTCrQy6pUnA3h2MnvYDwsWurnkkWVLjxCEMBEJxCfbeFlmR6rbmM/s640/evo8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dalek Sec: </b>These humans will become like me. Prepare them for hybridization.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Martha: </b>Leave me alone! Don't you dare! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dalek Sec: </b>What is that sound?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor: </b>Ah. Well. Now. That would be me. Hello. Surprise! Boo! Etcetera. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evolution Of The Daleks (2007)</span></span></div>

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Today's Teamster News 10.19.13

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<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-stop-fmcsa-attack-truck-drivers" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Stop FMCSA Attack on Truck Drivers</a>  teamster.org   ...The Teamsters Union helped score a victory for truck drivers this week when <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.3095:">H.R. 3095</a> was signed into law compelling the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to follow the formal rulemaking process to set strict guidelines for when they can require screening, testing and treatment for sleep apnea...<br /><a href="http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/10/star-ledger_unions_ratify_new.html" rel="nofollow">Star-Ledger unions ratify new 4-year contracts, agree to buyouts</a>   Star-Ledger   ...After months of negotiations under the cloud of a threatened shutdown of the state’s largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger’s production unions, including the Teamsters Union, have ratified new four-year contracts, agreeing to buyout packages for at least 55 workers...<br /><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165470/end-recession-seniors-workforce.aspx">Since End of U.S. Recession, More Seniors in Workforce</a>  Gallup   ... There has been a three-point increase since 2010 in the percentage of Americans aged 65 and older who are in the workforce -- employed full time through an employer, self-employed, working part time, or unemployed but actively searching for work. At the same time, there has been a two-point decrease in the percentage of Americans aged 18 to 29 who are in the workforce...<br /><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/18/millennials-still-lag-in-forming-their-own-households/" rel="nofollow">Millennials still lag in forming their own households </a> Pew Research   ... most Millennials (adults ages 18 to 32) are still not setting out on their own. As of March 2013, only about one-in-three Millennials (34%) headed up their own household...<br /><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-18/debt-still-worth-degree" rel="nofollow">Is The Debt Still Worth The Degree?</a>  zero hedge   ...The price of a college education has increased 1,000% or more over the past 3 decades...<br /><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115256/government-shutdown-has-not-ended-and-wont-years">You Thought the Government Shutdown Was Over. You Were Wrong.</a>  New Republic   ...It was an awful time. Federal employees had to take unpaid furlough days. Beneficiaries were thrown off of federal programs. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/23/sequestration-impact-wyoming_n_3976250.html">Courthouses had to be sold</a>. Federal agencies like the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health strained to meet commitments, leading to more crime, more outbreaks of disease and less basic research, among other horrors. This may sound like a description of the recent government shutdown, which ended October 16. But this describes the fallout from sequestration...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/pro-coal-kids-pages-pulled-government-site-public-pressure-increases">Pro-Coal Kids' Pages Pulled from Government Site as Public Pressure Increases</a>  Alternet   ...The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has removed coal-related educational sections from its website, less than two weeks after the launch of a grassroots campaign demanding that the pages be taken down...<br /><a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/19481-food-stamp-outage-highlights-problems-with-privatization-of-public-services" rel="nofollow">Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services</a>  Truthout   ...Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a subsidiary of Xerox since 2000 that specializes in privatizing government administrative services for the most economically vulnerable Americans, has taken heat in the past for siphoning excessive fees from welfare recipients, mismanaging Medicaid payment systems, and failing to complete multimillion dollar contracts for public agencies...<br /><a href="http://storify.com/fasteddie9318/fix-the-debt-s-fix-the-debt-q-and-a-needs-to-be-f" rel="nofollow">"Fix the Debt's" "Fix the Debt Q&A" needs to be fixed</a> (hilarious)  Storify   ..."Fix the Debt" decided to have a Twitter Q&A about fixing the debt. I'm not sure it went the way they wanted...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/18/how-mexico-is-upending-the-u-s-auto-industry/" rel="nofollow">How Mexico is upending the U.S. auto industry</a>  Washington Post   ...More U.S. automakers <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/with-mexican-auto-manufacturing-boom-new-worries/2013/07/01/10dd57e8-d7d9-11e2-b418-9dfa095e125d_story.html" rel="nofollow">have been shifting</a> their plants south of the border, attracted by Mexico's lower wages and dense industrial clusters…<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-18/states-clamping-down-on-workers-mislabeled-as-contractors.html" rel="nofollow">States Clamping Down on Workers Mislabeled as Contractors</a>  Bloomberg News   ...When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance, taxes, fair wages and overtime...<br /><a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/68445/scott-walker-steers-state-funds-to-union-busters" rel="nofollow">Scott Walker Steers State Funds to Union Busters</a>   PolicyMic   ...Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) made headlines in 2011 with his plans to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/scott-walker-anti-union-restrictions_n_3682957.html" rel="nofollow">bust public sector unions</a> and strip unions of their collective bargaining powers, which led to mass protests in the Madison Capitol building. Now he is back with his latest contribution to increasing jobs in Wisconsin: making them up and steering them to his supporters...<br /><a href="http://www.hcpress.com/arts/moral-monday-leader-comes-to-boone-oct-28-rev-barbers-speech-begins-at-730-p-m-at-schaefer-center.html" rel="nofollow">Moral Monday Leader Comes To Boone Oct. 28</a>  High Country Press   ...Moral Monday leader Rev. William Barber II will address “The Necessity of a Moral Movement in North Carolina and the Nation” on Monday, Oct. 28...<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bart-strike-commuters-affected-20131018,0,5820062.story" rel="nofollow">BART strike: About 400,000 S.F.-area commuters to be affected</a>  Los Angeles Times   ...Bay Area residents were without commuter rail service and facing a morning of frustration Friday as BART workers went on strike after a week of marathon negotiation collapsed overnight...<br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/17/michigan-walmart-worker-says-was-fired-for-helping-assaulted-woman/">Michigan Walmart worker says he was fired for helping assaulted woman</a>  Associated Press   ...A Michigan man says he was fired from his job at Walmart after he tried to help a woman being assaulted in the parking lot of one of the retail giant's stores and ended up fighting with her attacker...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/breaking_wal_mart_workers_on_strike_in_florida/" rel="nofollow">Wal-Mart workers on strike, defying firings</a>  The Salon   ...In protest of paltry hours and defiance of firings, over 80 Wal-Mart workers in Hialeah, Florida walk off the job...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/super-rich-americans-chart_n_4115576.html" rel="nofollow">The U.S. Blows Everyone Else Out Of The Water In 1 Key Way</a>  Huffington Post   ...That one way? We're really, really good at creating really, really rich people -- like, $50 million-plus rich. Just ignore the fact that our 400 wealthiest people are worth more than the entire bottom half of the country combined. Look at the chart…<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/krugman_on_gops_top_down_class_warfare/" rel="nofollow">Krugman on GOP’s “top-down class warfare”</a>  The Salon   ...The New York Times columnist explains how the GOP policies have stalled a true economic recovery...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/week-blackness/mcdonalds-has-their-hands-all-our-pockets" rel="nofollow">McDonald's Has Their Hands in All of Our Pockets</a>  AlterNet   ...Do you want to pay for billion dollar companies to make more money? Of course not, but in recent studies, we learned that we are, in fact, playing billions of dollar to support low-wage fast food workers for America's top seven restaurant chains...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-16/euro-capitals-tighten-fiscal-leash-as-eu-starts-austerity-police.html" rel="nofollow">Euro Capitals Tighten Fiscal Leash as EU Polices Cuts</a>  Bloomberg News   ...Even with the 17-nation euro area projecting economic expansion next year, policy makers are keeping a fiscal leash on growth by maintaining austerity policies to save the euro...<br /><br />

Today's Teamster News 10.19.13

Teamsters Stop FMCSA Attack on Truck Drivers teamster.org ...The Teamsters Union helped score a victory for truck drivers this week when...

PHOTOS: Richard II Review And Gallery Of New Production Images

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUphn2JCbLwdaEPOxUq_LqcE245n72Dkxw9f99YUaaR42nhzd5XnFa9pM9TNsr-g1q_wkfRKCBVy3t1YS8TyMQshQpHXDYShLXw8NEBzr3_SdIKULPj6YFkL4SSbmgaRy7TN3nLuoGRCQv/s1600/Rich02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUphn2JCbLwdaEPOxUq_LqcE245n72Dkxw9f99YUaaR42nhzd5XnFa9pM9TNsr-g1q_wkfRKCBVy3t1YS8TyMQshQpHXDYShLXw8NEBzr3_SdIKULPj6YFkL4SSbmgaRy7TN3nLuoGRCQv/s640/Rich02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Coventry Telegraph have reviewed the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard II starring David Tennant. With their review they have posted a photo gallery which includes some new production images from the play.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reviewer Catherine Vonledebur says:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Former Dr Who star Tennant, whose run as Hamlet in 2008 was a sell-out, gives an intriguing and intelligent performance as the flawed ruler."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><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/AVvXsEj25-qS1r78Vr8U9QDMtP37Qw2Phf-WNHYLd9CxRlTtzxNB1wf98msMGqHu_Ht0PP2Ut-BG354Z77KduXn1ShONov0vmss5BQKyh0HXa2W01AHSkeFqcLSGJ6E1bdhS025twmhCISCAaTQG/s1600/Rich05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25-qS1r78Vr8U9QDMtP37Qw2Phf-WNHYLd9CxRlTtzxNB1wf98msMGqHu_Ht0PP2Ut-BG354Z77KduXn1ShONov0vmss5BQKyh0HXa2W01AHSkeFqcLSGJ6E1bdhS025twmhCISCAaTQG/s640/Rich05.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDAROBK5FsZr8hGBP1mOA_kWH9DnGx9KLgIth0RxPoXwrKkdioW_ud_BPHePYrMy-UrQKEcy4KzrK-dWV3GNNOBm-kmsNGtky7K9kCu80P4tV_I6LE61HUgMCrxoMIp9zhBtFOZrhi_Ne/s1600/Rich10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDAROBK5FsZr8hGBP1mOA_kWH9DnGx9KLgIth0RxPoXwrKkdioW_ud_BPHePYrMy-UrQKEcy4KzrK-dWV3GNNOBm-kmsNGtky7K9kCu80P4tV_I6LE61HUgMCrxoMIp9zhBtFOZrhi_Ne/s640/Rich10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/photos-richard-ii-royal-shakespeare-6205544"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the review and see the full photo gallery here</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II stars David Tennant with Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Jane Lapotaire and Emma Hamilton. The production is in residence at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> until 16th November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> on 9th December where it plays until 25th January 2014. Both runs are currently sold out but returns are available: call the RSC on 0844 800 1110 to check availability</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 production will be filmed on November 13th and broadcast into cinemas across the UK and worldwide. The recorded play will also be released on DVD.</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;">More information about Richard II starring David Tennant is available on our website</span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

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The Coventry Telegraph have reviewed the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard II starring David Tennant. With their review th...

VIDEO: Watch David Tennant In Dragons: Defenders Of Berk

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7WN4r_G1HPoxxD7SqdpZIgkOiGqNNHevEixYMO2kdGp-nOktn30gRRHO-2QsryVOdXBpRnXq4332i7AD3SESMBY3i1Xy6LuMSqH7g1npbClOnyXPdmybLmRLSx7dAyiuJfrBYsP4O9r0/s1600/Spitelout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7WN4r_G1HPoxxD7SqdpZIgkOiGqNNHevEixYMO2kdGp-nOktn30gRRHO-2QsryVOdXBpRnXq4332i7AD3SESMBY3i1Xy6LuMSqH7g1npbClOnyXPdmybLmRLSx7dAyiuJfrBYsP4O9r0/s1600/Spitelout.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;">David Tennant guest starred in the latest episode of <i>Dragons: Defenders Of Berk </i> which premiered on Cartoon Network in the USA on Thursday. David has a recurring role as Spitelout, father to hero Hiccup's main rival Snoutlout.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dragons: Defenders Of Berk<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Episode 5: <i>Race To <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Fireworm</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype></st1:place></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Snotlout is concerned when his dragon's flame goes out and the kids have to figure out how to reignite it before it's too late.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the episode here; David's scene begins at around 7m 15s:</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfINGUCJWOY"><span style="color: blue;">Dragons: Defenders Of Berk - Race To Fireworm Island</span></a></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Defenders Of Berk</i> is the second season in the Dreamworks Dragons TV series, a spin off from the film <i>How To Train Your Dragon</i> (2010). A second <i>How To Train Your Dragon </i>movie is scheduled for 2014. Dreamworks Dragons is based on the <i>How To Train Your Dragon</i> series of books by Cressida Cowell.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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David Tennant guest starred in the latest episode of Dragons: Defenders Of Berk which premiered on Cartoon Network in the USA on Thursday. ...

Nando's

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I went to Nando's for the first time yesterday.  It was the Blanchardstown Branch that I visited with my two friends.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">We really enjoyed it - the atmosphere and decor was great and the staff were friendly and efficient and the food was good.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1P6ABrdj6ApSUluy0LczkaQj0d7wRw_bJG-8WC568O7Lqgk2hO8izUUxD6RgBloVHLpWzYVgzRyvJbeAXh6dlc-wN8SiY_Wh_VaZ_0hG05UiTUsdTmDiYXVf_Lgtpn0P-T4B9WWrI-vV/s640/blogger-image--1053713084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1P6ABrdj6ApSUluy0LczkaQj0d7wRw_bJG-8WC568O7Lqgk2hO8izUUxD6RgBloVHLpWzYVgzRyvJbeAXh6dlc-wN8SiY_Wh_VaZ_0hG05UiTUsdTmDiYXVf_Lgtpn0P-T4B9WWrI-vV/s640/blogger-image--1053713084.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">We were offered complimentary garlic bread because there was a delay on our food.  We didn't even notice the delay because we were chatting so much as it was a long time since the 3 of us had met up!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenzoxJB-8rNnQjoeChziFgQzbvZSmX45OjKX75I1EqM6fV_GEOzkI3e3z4HJX6dEhJ3oSYVULGdf4VzbRpf3I_G2b5xEXRio34vSeckllaWUPwAndCWLJCp4trdvYwy15FYti8UbckKNp/s640/blogger-image--164485494.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhyphenhyphenzoxJB-8rNnQjoeChziFgQzbvZSmX45OjKX75I1EqM6fV_GEOzkI3e3z4HJX6dEhJ3oSYVULGdf4VzbRpf3I_G2b5xEXRio34vSeckllaWUPwAndCWLJCp4trdvYwy15FYti8UbckKNp/s640/blogger-image--164485494.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Above is my butterflied chicken with lemon & herb and sweet potato mash.  In the background is Yvonne's veggie wrap.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4dfchOTpLDoO1hIVeA4h8Bvcfi7otky1EgF0m2GfEB-ooviVY6garCjMh94_fUPJYcZM-vqFidlHGe2e_mEvl8-RpzHxE3JCuawLioG94PLUcVgCIxEIrMNpApu8cQA3z30hGF3sPsnp/s640/blogger-image-2106408634.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4dfchOTpLDoO1hIVeA4h8Bvcfi7otky1EgF0m2GfEB-ooviVY6garCjMh94_fUPJYcZM-vqFidlHGe2e_mEvl8-RpzHxE3JCuawLioG94PLUcVgCIxEIrMNpApu8cQA3z30hGF3sPsnp/s640/blogger-image-2106408634.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Marguerite had the chicken burger & chips.  The flavouring on top of her chips was tasty!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCowYUkpPB5ja3FrTp167fd0Nv70OJyR26rkUeeSjCPW-sFTIho8HCDc1XcTOWgR4Vn_vqOSFb47BjbX19srNZxZO74xehmK8boFiRU5o-sK79hyphenhyphen0vfwU_nYtP9ULkEQwPCKBtD5xZd3qq/s640/blogger-image-1730694222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCowYUkpPB5ja3FrTp167fd0Nv70OJyR26rkUeeSjCPW-sFTIho8HCDc1XcTOWgR4Vn_vqOSFb47BjbX19srNZxZO74xehmK8boFiRU5o-sK79hyphenhyphen0vfwU_nYtP9ULkEQwPCKBtD5xZd3qq/s640/blogger-image-1730694222.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Caramel Cheesecake</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpg8TmZBxhsqxoXpZG-bUhuBXDCqlT3Rdixshtvn9kvn5QzqkIU7aa0BjXODUGmnHNuPjGHppQelHR8szFgkMJsELZM3HiI5hStmEq1OUuJF4w2CxXvD0uA7pS39O3nTv_vioXZgTCjau/s640/blogger-image-1903440405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpg8TmZBxhsqxoXpZG-bUhuBXDCqlT3Rdixshtvn9kvn5QzqkIU7aa0BjXODUGmnHNuPjGHppQelHR8szFgkMJsELZM3HiI5hStmEq1OUuJF4w2CxXvD0uA7pS39O3nTv_vioXZgTCjau/s640/blogger-image-1903440405.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bottomless Frozen Yoghurt - Mango Flavour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInmGRjs7EzJdzCdgoJurftbR1ACZ0vdD-fmDI52fFOToMO9DqL51xP9XX5kxTaaEzfGjSjzNmlI6vepiO8kjgpqnEn0RB4QaQKKSW9nNlwNabMGDWOJWjoAVWtRrwn5d7rTvKxA2gqagX/s640/blogger-image--1140663597.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInmGRjs7EzJdzCdgoJurftbR1ACZ0vdD-fmDI52fFOToMO9DqL51xP9XX5kxTaaEzfGjSjzNmlI6vepiO8kjgpqnEn0RB4QaQKKSW9nNlwNabMGDWOJWjoAVWtRrwn5d7rTvKxA2gqagX/s640/blogger-image--1140663597.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">And of course I ordered chocolate cake!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">All in all a great night and brilliant to get out with my friends.</span></div>

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David Tennant Contributes To The Doctors Revisited On Watch Today

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxJ_LiL-RB-tma3bbKPA8W6gzHeXmpYTdK_ILVkQpB4OmYt0fH7qIPFBfjjAO8ij-xU1p8ZN46TLxsQxdQPk6wZH41Mppu2wNZ34cdndBN42UMPNgmTb8trP-uJgnOK9ZzvXFkft8kETc/s1600/The_Third_Doctor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxJ_LiL-RB-tma3bbKPA8W6gzHeXmpYTdK_ILVkQpB4OmYt0fH7qIPFBfjjAO8ij-xU1p8ZN46TLxsQxdQPk6wZH41Mppu2wNZ34cdndBN42UMPNgmTb8trP-uJgnOK9ZzvXFkft8kETc/s1600/The_Third_Doctor.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;">David Tennant will be one of the contributors to the third episode of <i>Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited</i> on UK channel Watch today. The episode, originally shown on BBC America focuses on the Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee. The special will be shown at 2pm on Watch today (3pm on Watch+1)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Radio Times:</span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, third Doctor Jon Pertwee steps into the limelight, “a hands-on action man” according to his far-off successor David Tennant. Camille Coduri (who played Rose Tyler’s mum, Jackie) describes him as “very debonair, so handsome in his ruffled shirt”. Hugh Bonneville also pops up to out himself as a former Pertwee fanboy. Sadly, the man himself and many of his colleagues from that period are dead, while fabulous Katy Manning (his companion Jo) was unavailable when this fun recap was assembled. </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 programme is followed at 2.30pm by Jon Pertwee's first adventure in the role, <i>Spearhead From Space </i>(1970). </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;">Find Watch on Sky channel 109 and Virgin 124 (Sky 155 and Virgin 125 for Watch+1, Virgin 191 for Watch HD)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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Microsoft to buy Nokia Units and Acquire Executive Class

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Late Monday, Microsoft and Nokia said 32,000 Nokia employees would join Microsoft as a result of the all-cash deal, which is meant to turn the Finnish mobile phone pioneer into the engine for Microsoft’s mobile efforts.<br /><br />Stephen Elop, the former Microsoft executive who was running Nokia until the deal was signed, will rejoin Microsoft after the transaction closes, setting him up as a potential successor to Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive. Mr. Ballmer has said he will retire from the company within 12 months.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFslxrskvBpGCudVX-Mo8WQFCk08h1K6wnR6jBKVwQhXtCipwDK2qfII-_OwGvjJJ0LIr3mLfcuhjiPnco-l0Sq7juVpWBaRE9bPtFGSyQcUIKmd0RYYAVEnh6fi2iLgz0fISlbZZewru9/s1600/NokiaSPG.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Microsoft to buy Nokia Units and Acquire Executive Class" border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFslxrskvBpGCudVX-Mo8WQFCk08h1K6wnR6jBKVwQhXtCipwDK2qfII-_OwGvjJJ0LIr3mLfcuhjiPnco-l0Sq7juVpWBaRE9bPtFGSyQcUIKmd0RYYAVEnh6fi2iLgz0fISlbZZewru9/s200/NokiaSPG.JPG" title="Microsoft to buy Nokia Units and Acquire Executive Class" width="200" /></a></div>“This agreement is really a bold step into the future for Microsoft,” Mr. Ballmer said in a telephone interview from Finland. “We’re excited about the talent capabilities it will bring to Microsoft.”<br /><br />The deal, which was first broached between Microsoft and Nokia executives in February, is the latest transformation of the 150-year-old Finnish company. Nokia began life as a conglomerate making products like rubber boots and car tires before reinventing itself in the 1980s as the world’s largest manufacturers of cellphones.<br /><br />Nokia’s once mighty position in the mobile phone business has been lost, as the industry shifted to the era of the smartphone. Samsung and Apple divide nearly all of the profits in the global smartphone business now.<br /><br />Nokia’s fall has been most spectacular in Asia, a region that its phones once dominated. As recently as 2010, the company had a 64 percent share of the smartphone market in China, according to Canalys, a research firm. By the first half of this year, that had plunged to 1 percent.<br /><br />While Nokia phones used to be prized in Asia and other developing economies for their durability and value, the company was late to introduce innovations like touch screens. That left the high end of the market to brands like Apple and Samsung.<br /><br />In the lower price ranges, smartphone makers from China have been more responsive to consumer demands, offering phones with features resembling those of their more expensive rivals at a fraction of the cost.<br /><br />Risto Siilasmaa, Nokia’s interim chief executive, said on Tuesday that the sale of the handset business was the logical step in the company’s evolution but still pulled on his heartstrings.

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The iPhone 5 s’s Fingerprint Scanner

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Well, that didn’t take long. Only a couple of days after Apple’s iPhone 5s went on sale, somebody managed to fool its fingerprint sensor.<br /><br />The headlines and blog comments were predictable and instantaneous: “Oooooh, Apple blew it! The star feature of its new phone is worthless!”<br /><br />I’ll admit it: I love that darned sensor. You unlock your phone dozens of times a day. Each time is a few seconds of tedium and looking down at it, over and over and over, to enter your password. It’s a drag.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglpdXUWOH6K1tU8Hy_dy5WbKQ61AZCS1jZC9g45CKpP7pyHPYjAMvoxSui-baWrDb3V2x2ANSIafRXDeK4MEG1On7Wg7MgAnVs3duXuQ3-1JQwbQmk_syJdq9xN2IKaY0THolu8NZxu1Cn/s1600/spg+bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The iPhone 5 s’s Fingerprint Scanner" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglpdXUWOH6K1tU8Hy_dy5WbKQ61AZCS1jZC9g45CKpP7pyHPYjAMvoxSui-baWrDb3V2x2ANSIafRXDeK4MEG1On7Wg7MgAnVs3duXuQ3-1JQwbQmk_syJdq9xN2IKaY0THolu8NZxu1Cn/s200/spg+bb.jpg" title="The iPhone 5 s’s Fingerprint Scanner" width="200" /></a>And then there are the 50 percent of iPhone users who don’t even bother with a password. If you’re among them, then your phone and your life are susceptible to snooping should you lose your phone, find it stolen or leave it on your desk while you get coffee.<br /><br />On the iPhone 5s, you wake the phone by pressing the Home button — and then just leave your finger on it for half a second, and boom: it unlocks.<br /><br />But should we be concerned, then, that the hacker’s exploits render the fingerprint reader useless?<br /><br />Not at all. For three giant reasons.<br /><br />First of all, Apple doesn’t let you create a fingerprint “password” without also creating a regular password. Every so often, you’re required to enter the regular password as a security precaution — including every time you restart the phone and every time 48 hours have elapsed since you last used it. If someone managed to bypass the fingerprint scanner, the joyride wouldn’t last long.<br /><br />Second, the fact that the fingerprint scanner was fooled is important, but so is how it was fooled.<br /><br />Marc Rogers, who works at Lookout, a mobile security company, and the guy who “hacked” the Touch ID fingerprint system (or, more properly, fooled it), wrote a blog post about his experiment. It’s “Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome.”<br /><br />He writes: “Practically, an attack is still a little bit in the realm of a John le Carré novel. It is certainly not something your average street thief would be able to do, and even then, they would have to get lucky. Don’t forget you only get five attempts before TouchID rejects all fingerprints, requiring a PIN code to unlock it.”<br /><br />The steps are ridiculously difficult and expensive.<br /><br />The first hard part is just getting the fingerprint. “A suitable print needs to be unsmudged and be a complete print of the correct finger that unlocks a phone. If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone.” To get your fingerprint, “a thief would have to work out which finger is correct AND lift a good clean print of the correct finger.”<br /><br />Describing one technique, he goes on: “You take the cleaned print image and without inverting it, print it to transparency film. Next, you take the transparency film and use it to expose some thick copper clad photosensitive PCB board that’s commonly used in amateur electrical projects. After developing the image on the PCB using special chemicals, you put the PCB through a process called ‘etching’ which washes away all of the exposed copper leaving behind a fingerprint mold.”<br /><br />Seriously?<br /><br />His conclusion: “The reality is these flaws are not something that the average consumer should worry about.”<br /><br />Why? Because exploiting them was anything but trivial. Hacking Touch ID “relies upon a combination of skills, existing academic research and the patience of a Crime Scene Technician.”<br /><br />If you really think somebody wants to get into your phone that badly — “a dedicated attacker with time and resources to observe his victim and collect data” — well, spoofing your fingerprint is not the method he’d take.<br /><br />He’d save a lot of time and effort by learning your password instead. Maybe by holding a knife to your neck and asking for it.<br /><br />It’s just not a real-world concern, if you ask me.<br /><br />But there’s a third reason that I still plan to use the fingerprint scanner. It’s very simple: If someone gets your iPhone, either because you lost it or it was stolen, you can erase it or lock it by remote control at iCloud.com.<br /><br />(Better yet, the new iOS 7 Activation Lock means that a stolen phone can never be erased without your Apple ID, even if it’s force-restored or jailbroken. It’s essentially a worthless brick.)<br /><br />I’m guessing that if you’re in an industry where your phone is so important to espionage agents that they’d mount a “targeted attack,” you’ll have realized that you’re missing your phone and locked it by remote control long before the bad guy has had time to put it through “a lengthy process that takes several hours and uses over a thousand dollars worth of equipment,” as Mr. Rogers said.<br /><br />Of course, we all know that some people won’t get past the phrase “hacked the fingerprint reader.” And that’s fine. The fingerprint reader is optional. If you feel safer using a password, you’re welcome to!<br /><br />But as Mr. Rogers himself concludes: “Fingerprint security will help protect you against the three biggest threats facing smartphone users today:<br /><br />    Fingerprint security will protect your data from a street thief that grabs your phone.<br />    Fingerprint security will protect you in the event you drop/forget/misplace your phone.<br />    Fingerprint security could protect you against phishing attacks (if Apple allows it).”<br /><br />Let’s be vigilant about security threats. But let’s also be rational.

The iPhone 5 s’s Fingerprint Scanner

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David Tennant & Matt Smith Doctor Who T Shirt Offer

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl1wgf8mb5LwFdz8TG4q-TK4cKalqDgU1jlpGKk8TIkPzfu4d4WYxensBU5Q9EU5iG3irdbEALR7dLz_bqScAoVU-LuT4j4u9MzeKXikuHl2Ig4ecsvduOwh9LQDtMWtOLBl6LlxI7pQ/s1600/dotd700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbl1wgf8mb5LwFdz8TG4q-TK4cKalqDgU1jlpGKk8TIkPzfu4d4WYxensBU5Q9EU5iG3irdbEALR7dLz_bqScAoVU-LuT4j4u9MzeKXikuHl2Ig4ecsvduOwh9LQDtMWtOLBl6LlxI7pQ/s640/dotd700.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">These cool David Tennant and Matt Smith Doctor Who designs are available from our pals at Blue Box Tees for the next 7 days only!</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The first design also features John Hurt and is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show. The second design has a Pulp Fiction style twist..<br />Make sure you don't miss out and grab yours for just $12 each or $20 a pair today!<br />WORLDWIDE DELIVERY is available!</span><br /><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="display: inline; outline: none;"><span style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><a href="http://blueboxtees.com/?wm=10033" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO ORDER!</a></span></b></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="display: inline; outline: none;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBuH2Z2hg63PHD6xDVfbBCeEMyj3ad90vRVHW6VlEMJZpqeleiYbrYDahhfO8snjwmPFV5aVSr67a1RFxJO85kfmtYhcjdwH6_aWv6isUfash92buuxxi1GPF-kGTacxjniarjoPhMBI/s1600/fiction600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBuH2Z2hg63PHD6xDVfbBCeEMyj3ad90vRVHW6VlEMJZpqeleiYbrYDahhfO8snjwmPFV5aVSr67a1RFxJO85kfmtYhcjdwH6_aWv6isUfash92buuxxi1GPF-kGTacxjniarjoPhMBI/s640/fiction600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="display: inline; outline: none;"><br /></b></div>

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Richard II Family Workshop This Morning

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.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;">The Royal Shakespeare will be hosting a Richard II Family Workshop this morning in Stratford-upon-Avon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They say:</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take part in a fun family workshop and work as an actor does, on your feet!</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No previous acting experience or knowledge of the play required, as you'll be introduced to the story on the day.<br />We approach the play from the first day of rehearsal, exploring Shakespeare's plays and characters on our feet and speaking the language. For children aged eight years and up and parents/carers.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/events/family-workshop.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more here.</span></a></div>

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The Royal Shakespeare will be hosting a Richard II Family Workshop this morning in Stratford-upon-Avon. They say: Take part in a fun family ...

Banksy In New York - See Pics

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<u><b>Who is Banksy?</b></u><br /><br />Banksy is a Street Artist from UK whose street road side art, graffiti is coupled with both activism and populism. He has gained a major following for his unique stencil art and epigrams on various issues depicted with satire and more for their touching various burning and latest issues.<br /><br /><u><b>Banksy in New York</b></u><br /><br />Banksy is in New York now and Mayor Bloomberg is not thrilled!  According to Bloomberg  "I just think there are some places for art and there are some places [not for] art." What? Haha. Banksy "art" has featured in major streets, walls, bridges throughout the World. Even the locals dont agree with Bloomeberg. It seems as there are reports of people charging for a view of Banksy's art on their properties!<br /><br /><b>Banksy Irritates Bloomberg! </b><br /><br />Banksy in New York has featured a "<a href="http://www.banksyny.com/2013/10/11/meatpacking-district" target="_blank">slaughterhouse truck</a>" with stuffed animals poking out. There is a "<a href="http://www.banksyny.com/2013/10/16/all-city-%E2%80%93-mcdonalds" target="_blank">boy shines Ronald McDonald's shoes</a>" fibreglass sculpture of Ronald McDonald with his shoes being polished by a real boy - a sculture that will visit various McDonald stores and seems to have stirred up a lot a interest. Are McDonalds' managers happy with this free publicity or tearing their hair out? There is another graffiti of the WTC with a flower sticking out. He has surely made some unwitting New Yorker very happy having sold one of his pieces for just $60 in Central Park - when normally they auction for thousands of dollars! That is one quirky artist, surely.<br /><br />Whatever it is Banksy is sure making news in New York. <br /><br />See more <b>Banksy pics</b> here at the official Banksy blog "Better Out Than In" at <b>Banksyny.Com</b><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.banksyny.com/" target="_blank">Banksy in New York</a><a href="http://www.banksyny.com/" target="_blank"> and More Banksy</a>

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Who is Banksy? Banksy is a Street Artist from UK whose street road side art, graffiti is coupled with both activism and populism. He has gai...

Matt Said, Jay Said...9373241798

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_ExZJyoNVNjGkXPUhgeVyepuAmEYkwYYrF5kKq3pR1g-XYUwy23Ezd-PoWMr2OSkOWqy8tix_bZj8z_leok4BhnygL4ECqfrKzB1IeLVhWpmADDUUm3LDr6wDR5XnBoPUF2PQNf3s6FC/s1600/Introspection.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_ExZJyoNVNjGkXPUhgeVyepuAmEYkwYYrF5kKq3pR1g-XYUwy23Ezd-PoWMr2OSkOWqy8tix_bZj8z_leok4BhnygL4ECqfrKzB1IeLVhWpmADDUUm3LDr6wDR5XnBoPUF2PQNf3s6FC/s400/Introspection.jpeg" width="400" /></a>Matt winces...Jay shudders...You see exactly why they are doing that.<br /><br />Matt:  Wassssssssup!?<br />Jay:  Aren't we a little old to be answering the phone with, “Wasssssssup?”<br />Matt:  Oh I don’t know.  I guess. Maybe?  What?<br />Jay:  I don’t know…say what you want, I’m just feeling  a little…a little…um…<br />Matt:  A little what?<br /><br />Jay:  Oh hell…and don’t make fun of me, but I’m beginning to question who I am and where I came from.<br />Matt:  What?  They don’t teach that in Arkansas?<br />Jay:  See?  You’re doing it again!!  It’s like--<br />Matt:  I’m sorry, please continue and I’ll be a most affectionate and attentive listener.<br /><br />Jay:  Alright then…Don’t you ever wonder how you got to the point in your life at which you are?<br />Matt:  I try not to, because that is one ugly road map, but yes.<br />Jay:  And have you ever wondered where you will be in five or ten years.<br />Matt:  I do, but it usually involves me being buried next to my brothers, so I try to think of other things.<br />Jay:  I too think of those things.<br />Matt:  I can tell, and you do it with a Shakespearean cadence in your voice, and it’s hot.<br />Jay:  Me thanks you.<br /><br />Matt: Sooooooooo, what should we talk about this Sunday on the show?<br />Jay:  Don’t you get it man!?  We should talk about our lives and why and how the way they are!!<br />Matt:  You mean, like open up about ourselves?<br />Jay:  Yes!!  Talk about our past failures and how we long for future glory.<br />Matt:  You mean, and do it in an honest sense?<br />Jay:  Hell Yeah!!  We all have regrets and future hopes that shape our lives.  Let’s lay them out there.<br /><br />Matt:  That’s like being completely naked in front of a world wide audience.<br />Jay:  Yes it is.<br />Matt:  That’s kinda hot.<br />Jay:  Yes it is.<br />Matt:  So in order to go full frontal introspection, we should be naked during the show.<br />Jay:  Yes it is.<br />Matt:  What?<br />Jay:  Oh sorry…Yes we should.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak_QjQ1z3ufAGk_4Loxnolhtbr5yIXUia1Lj57bTHTkl883F1ZXLdpWXNh2N50y5UpZoITsfO-QZS-oxadiPtqBDgcP0MHrQpcco-8euAOClGlpWwFn8RSC4k8L8d4XoacNF_u35-5zVb/s1600/Hot+Sad+Woman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgak_QjQ1z3ufAGk_4Loxnolhtbr5yIXUia1Lj57bTHTkl883F1ZXLdpWXNh2N50y5UpZoITsfO-QZS-oxadiPtqBDgcP0MHrQpcco-8euAOClGlpWwFn8RSC4k8L8d4XoacNF_u35-5zVb/s400/Hot+Sad+Woman.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />Matt:  Sounds good, and maybe Guy Ahnyurdyck and Paul Piatt could weigh in with some introspection!!<br />Jay:  And Rev. Moneymaker and Bobby Kraft as well.<br />Matt:  And you know…Schmoop has a very compelling, “how I got to this point in my life” story.<br />Jay:  From what I know of you…er…I mean, know of her story…it’s not pretty.<br />Matt:  No…no it’s not.<br /><br />Jay:  So?  Are you ready to do the, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/10/20/who-am-i-and-why-am-i-here" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Who Am I and Why Am I Here</span></a> show on IWS Radio this Sunday?<br />Matt:  Physically, yes I am.  Emotionally?  It could be very painful.<br />Jay:  Excellent.  I hope you, or I, or both of us break down.  That would be awesome for ratings.<br />Matt:  If that happens, as soon as I uncoil from my fetal position, I will thank everyone.<br />Jay:  We give our bodies.  We give our time.  We give our humor.  This Sunday…we give our souls.<br /><br />Matt:  I love you.<br />Jay:  I love you too.<br />Matt:  Let’s get reaaaaaaaaaady to catharsisiiiiiiiize!!<br />Jay:  Boooooooo Yah!!<br /><br />To listen to the IWS Radio Show LIVE tomorrow from Noon-2 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio just click <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/10/20/who-am-i-and-why-am-i-here" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.<br /><br />And if you’d like to share YOUR life’s road map, victories, and heartaches, you can call-in at 661.244.9852.</div>

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October full hunters moon 2013

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXJCoQDk2pN9KYE3zCnJ5AmDB9b2kTmycOOfIrJ46VZNLgLxyhsk9qIGHBfAfxdacJrcclSJIhetngt0wm-7hgZn9wnadTDjhLAc_ETwHpJ282K6GZHa_S_RzyAdbEYQyZydj-QI0I3sw/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXJCoQDk2pN9KYE3zCnJ5AmDB9b2kTmycOOfIrJ46VZNLgLxyhsk9qIGHBfAfxdacJrcclSJIhetngt0wm-7hgZn9wnadTDjhLAc_ETwHpJ282K6GZHa_S_RzyAdbEYQyZydj-QI0I3sw/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvae3bkdDxK4409baQUuV1FRR8jb-QhMnJTtw895tX_TM74sPfX8-BaOQgA60GA08EfEXhsiUa0KrTP2v3_JI5VvJdU3dI1evkCtQCONqNVbdHHOb2p92At5ccq0BYAOVan4cicJZOeriO/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvae3bkdDxK4409baQUuV1FRR8jb-QhMnJTtw895tX_TM74sPfX8-BaOQgA60GA08EfEXhsiUa0KrTP2v3_JI5VvJdU3dI1evkCtQCONqNVbdHHOb2p92At5ccq0BYAOVan4cicJZOeriO/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByu0OC1JfRK2pd7t00IeO-MP6npqF_MkA9und9Pw0IMBgMos8Lkf2DjEXJNSsqcbmTZNQtvw5mAtwF_VW6HcGrArIQ_m6z5kRsWuOoNobjTajIhMYUk-PZ7admy8mb9_LgPABchzJ6IoB/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByu0OC1JfRK2pd7t00IeO-MP6npqF_MkA9und9Pw0IMBgMos8Lkf2DjEXJNSsqcbmTZNQtvw5mAtwF_VW6HcGrArIQ_m6z5kRsWuOoNobjTajIhMYUk-PZ7admy8mb9_LgPABchzJ6IoB/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMOm0N4wunoGFwGWpGBsamfkknT40w69vyHpyfPoFa4gpPbQ5JbR1mV8qP3IXeyHbFYyuZQW9D7bWDwPpdFz_c_exMF0lM0ecizcpD-jdatO1hTjOfyGOAZywHuTrNkc7pjb1a8OFRlZp/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMOm0N4wunoGFwGWpGBsamfkknT40w69vyHpyfPoFa4gpPbQ5JbR1mV8qP3IXeyHbFYyuZQW9D7bWDwPpdFz_c_exMF0lM0ecizcpD-jdatO1hTjOfyGOAZywHuTrNkc7pjb1a8OFRlZp/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Here are several shots of tonight's full moon as seen around 9:30. It's the hunters moon and, according to the <a href="http://www.weather.com/news/science/hunters-moon-2013-what-you-need-know-20131016">Weather Channel</a>, there was also an eclipse that occurred between 5:30 and 10:00 p.m.<br /><blockquote>Its name — one of several catchy monikers including the Blood Moon and the Sanguine Moon — reputedly comes from those who used the light to their advantage, according to Science@NASA. “Hunters … tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead,” writes NASA’s Tony Phillips. “You can picture them: Silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood.”</blockquote>I didn't see the eclipse but there was an interesting halo around the moon as it shone down on family hayrides and other fall activities at a nearby pumpkin farm. The glow helped the adventuresome tackle a dark and spooky corn maze while the music of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fA-gBCkj0">Bruno Mars</a> blasted into the cool night, encouraging hunters of a different type hunting for the exit and a cup of hot apple cider.<br /><br />Peek outside. You might catch a glimpse of the hunters moon....<br /><br /><i>Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell</i><br /><i>October 18, 2013</i>

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Here are several shots of tonight's full moon as seen around 9:30. It's the hunters moon and, according to the Weather Channel , the...

Carrie: Still raising the roof

6:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<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>Carrie</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/carrie/" 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>3.5 stars. Rating: R, for bloody violence, disturbing images, blasphemy, profanity and sexual content</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>Originally published in <i><a href="http://www.davisenterprise.com/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">The Davis Enterprise</a></i>, 10.18.13</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>            <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sissy Spacek was 27 when she starred in 1976’s first stab at Stephen King’s <i>Carrie</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although she acted the hell out of that role — pun intended — and garnered a well-deserved Oscar nomination for her efforts, she never quite looked or “felt” the part; her residual baby-fat years were a decade behind her. The actresses playing Carrie’s tormentors, all in their mid-20s, also looked too old for their parts ... but that’s how director Brian De Palma was able to get away with all the nudity in the infamous opening shower scene.<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/AVvXsEj41e-JQj2mXzmXf3l_VR2Ef51HrMa3QE12AEbrsipWEVK9h50u16U1inG3MtaiLSbPPNQVvvbbF9pGulIk78q8tSuOu-lielnSMbJ7V6fjEqqfmx_9hk26d4l_S0SdDc58NoneVHqhSUM/s1600/Carrie+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/AVvXsEj41e-JQj2mXzmXf3l_VR2Ef51HrMa3QE12AEbrsipWEVK9h50u16U1inG3MtaiLSbPPNQVvvbbF9pGulIk78q8tSuOu-lielnSMbJ7V6fjEqqfmx_9hk26d4l_S0SdDc58NoneVHqhSUM/s400/Carrie+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;">Having made a dress and tried hard to transform herself into a young woman as typical<br />as her many classmates, Carrie (Chloë Grace Moretz) nervously pauses before joining<br />the teens entering the doors that lead to the school prom. Her escort, Tommy (Ansel<br />Elgort), gently insists that everything will be fine ... but we know better.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With respect to age-appropriateness, then, Chloë Grace Moretz’s presence in director Kimberly Peirce’s fresh take on <i>Carrie</i> is a step in the right direction. Indeed, a massive step: At 16, Moretz is <i>precisely</i> right; she exudes the soft vulnerability of a repressed little girl whose horrific upbringing has further stunted her transition to womanhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moretz is terrific in the role: never better than when she displays the heartbreaking flicker of trust over Carrie’s ill-advised hope that maybe, perhaps, she’s about to be accepted by her high school peers. Moretz’s deer-in-the-headlights insecurity, at such moments, wafts off her in palpable waves; we grieve for what we know is about to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every generation seems to demand its own version of <i>Carrie</i>, and no surprise; King really touched a nerve with this story. As an iconic character, Carrie White seems destined for more lives than a cat; aside from De Palma’s original adaptation and this new film, we’ve also experienced lesser entries in 1999 (a sequel of sorts, titled <i>The Rage: Carrie 2</i>) and 2002 (a TV movie with Angela Bettis).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bullied gay teens may command most of the headlines these days, but there remains no shortage of tormented children of all stripes. Girls can be particularly cruel to the disenfranchised ducklings in their midst, as King knew first-hand, from his early days as an English teacher in Maine’s Hamden Public School.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If anything, the situation may be getting worse. Only a few short days ago, two Florida girls — 12 and 14 — were arrested and charged with felony aggravated stalking, following the suicide, a month earlier, of a 12-year-old classmate. The arrests were made after one of the tormentors posted the following message on Facebook last Saturday: “Yes ik [I know] I bullied REBECCA nd she killed her self but [I don’t care].”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charming generation, this social media set.<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;">Adding the ghastly IED of social media to the combustible brew already present in King’s 1974 novel is the sole significant contribution scripter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa makes to this new film. Otherwise, he borrows so heavily from Lawrence D. Cohen’s 1976 screenplay — verbatim exchanges of dialogue, whole scene set-ups — that I’m frankly surprised Aguirre-Sacasa felt he deserved a paycheck.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This update isn’t a slavish, shot-by-shot remake, like Gus Van Sant’s imbecilic 1998 retread of <i>Psycho</i>, but at times it’s damn close. That begs the obvious question: Why bother seeing this new film, when De Palma’s version remains readily available ... and still quite relevant, in all the significant ways?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, Moretz’s performance, for openers. Co-star Julianne Moore is equally riveting, as Carrie’s ghastly mother, Margaret. More subtly — and this will sound odd, given the material — Peirce’s artistic sensibilities are kinder and gentler; she makes a point of protectively cocooning Carrie when the story allows, granting us moments that allow the frightened, emotionally abused girl to show through the rage avatar she’s destined to become.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No surprise, since Peirce’s claim to fame is 1999’s still-extraordinary <i>Boys Don’t Cry</i>, which remains a template for deftly handling a very tough real-world subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally — and I’ll acknowledge Aguirre-Sacasa’s input here, as well — this take on the story is more “fair,” in both directions, during the climactic third act. Carrie’s deadly delivery of “justice” isn’t quite as indiscriminate, and she’s allowed a better-defined sense of awareness and mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternatively, I always thought that John Travolta and Nancy Allen met their well-deserved doom <i>much</i> too easily in De Palma’s version, and Peirce apparently shared my view. Things are a lot grottier this time around, and — forgive me, but it’s true — much more satisfying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fairly pointless prologue delivers some back-story on just how deranged Margaret White is: an unsettling scene that Moore plays with a level of creepy, persuasive authenticity that I’ve not seen since Samantha Eggar licked the blood off her own baby, in 1979’s <i>The Brood</i>. The scene’s ick factor notwithstanding, it doesn't really explain the origins of the warped maternal instinct that later prompts Margaret to raise Carrie in a repressively smothering embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, flash-forward to Carrie’s senior year in high school, where she does her best to fade into the background, whether in class, in the hallways or during gym. The journey to her damnation begins when she unexpectedly experiences her first period in the gym shower, much to the giggling amusement of the other girls, egged on by the catty Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday). Only one girl, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde), recognizes this act of group cruelty and withdraws.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gym coach Ms. Desjardin (Judy Greer) is furious; her subsequent punishment fits the crime. At the same time, she’s gentle with Carrie, striking an immediate bond and earning well-deserved trust. Greer shines in her scenes: a nice change from her usual overly broad sitcom roles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry Shabaka Henley, on the other hand, is a one-note joke as the impotent Principal Morton: a badly conceived character who doesn’t belong in this film.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The defiant Chris, refusing to accept any responsibility for her heinous behavior, gets suspended and therefore barred from the upcoming prom. Her indignant fury percolates in the company of bad-actor boyfriend Billy Nolan (Alex Russell), and their scheme to “get back” at Carrie — who hardly deserves the additional abuse — is as horrific today as it was four decades ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chris/Billy dynamic is different, in this update. Travolta’s Billy was a clueless moron, easily led by the sexually teasing Chris; Russell’s Billy radiates genuine danger. He’s the true menace, although Doubleday’s Chris proves a willing acolyte.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sue, her guilt mounting, seeks a way to atone for her sin; she therefore asks boyfriend Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort) to take Carrie to the prom. The idea is to give Carrie a means to regain her pride, but of course we know — as does Ms. Desjardin — that public targets are easier to hit. Tommy nonetheless goes along with this scheme, and Elgort plays him as genuinely kind and sympathetic: a truly good guy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, so, the players are assembled, awaiting events to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moore is thoroughly chilling as the fanatically devout Margaret: a woman who has twisted scripture to her own distorted ends. Aguirre-Sacasa adds self-mutilation to Margaret’s kinks; she’s a reflexive cutter, which gets quite gruesome. Mostly, though, Margaret’s faux-pious rants are the stuff of nightmares, and Moore delivers them with Pentecostal passion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moretz shades her performance in a few interesting directions, the most significant of which is Carrie’s curiosity about her emerging telekinetic abilities: a talent clearly linked to her clumsy ascent to puberty. Moretz conveys a level of intelligent awareness that Spacek never quite caught (or De Palms wasn’t interested in exploiting).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this, ultimately, typifies the major flaw in Peirce’s handling of this film. King’s novel has the sinister atmosphere of a parable that isn’t necessarily intended to represent reality; it’s a morality play that builds to a Grand Guignol climax with Old Testament-style justice. De Palma understood that, and his film has an atmosphere of slightly trashy exploitation, and is populated by exaggerated archetypes, rather than authentic characters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De Palma also wanted to scare the willies out of us, which he absolutely did with his infamous final scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By trying to set these events more firmly in our actual world, and by turning Carrie more firmly into an abused girl next door, Peirce works against the tone that powers the core story. The result is more sad than scary, which may have been Peirce’s intent, but it’s also less satisfying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This new <i>Carrie</i> may be more faithful to King’s novel — particularly with respect to Sue’s fate — but it’s less artistically successful. And that, given the powerhouse performances from Moretz and Moore, is a true shame.</span></span>

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BBC One Will Air A 50 Years Of Doctor Who Trailer Tonight

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-iB3V-_ANQSMkZNfsQOf_-nszv5ZUM5EGyASt9LLfPXklBaIwB5P1JM-ic9wdovh0Auagtl8ubqfwELzlvR4A2GOxhwYCZVhtLXMUWMZKx1CBrb26KoqWIfI-HKYb-npXh1cTohyphenhyphenXuyT/s1600/11DocsOct.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-iB3V-_ANQSMkZNfsQOf_-nszv5ZUM5EGyASt9LLfPXklBaIwB5P1JM-ic9wdovh0Auagtl8ubqfwELzlvR4A2GOxhwYCZVhtLXMUWMZKx1CBrb26KoqWIfI-HKYb-npXh1cTohyphenhyphenXuyT/s640/11DocsOct.jpg" width="640" /></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;">The BBC have confirmed that a special trailer celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who will air on Saturday night on BBC One. However, the trailer will show no footage from the 50th anniversary special <i>The Day Of The Doctor</i>, instead focusing on all eleven incarnations of the Doctor. There is also brand new official artwork featuring the eleven Doctors.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BBC say in their press release:</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A specially created trailer celebrating the last 50 years of Doctor Who will air tonight on BBC One, as an exclusive image is revealed today featuring the 11 Doctors.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Travelling through time fans will be taken on a journey from the very beginning using state of the art technology.  The special trailer is set to show all of the Doctors as they first appeared on screen, including William Hartnell in high res colour for the very first time, as celebrations ramp up to the 23 November.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A huge moment for the BBC, the 50th celebrations will culminate with the special episode, ‘The Day of the Doctor’, starring Matt Smith, David Tennant and Jenna Coleman with Billie Piper and John Hurt.  A whole range of shows have also been commissioned across TV and radio to mark the anniversary.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The minute long trailer will air after Strictly Come Dancing tonight on BBC One and will be also be available on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho">www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This trailer does not include any actual footage of the 50th anniversary episode.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trailer will air at approximately 8.20pm BST on BBC One on Saturday 19th October, between <i>Strictly Come Dancing</i> and <i>Atlantis</i>. </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;"><b>UPDATE: </b>BBC America will be posting the trailer to their <a href="http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/">official blog</a> sometime between 3.30-4.00pm EDT</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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The BBC have confirmed that a special trailer celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who will air on Saturday night on BBC One. However, the trailer...

Our Economic Rocket Requires More Industrial Lifeblood (Musical Tribute)

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The following chart shows the 6-month moving average of the monthly commercial and industrial loan growth at all commercial banks.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw__xmqmi7TKgsP4VCXBt1hE5hRp8RLDzGBqZJKIS8T3bvHHJ8BJ_fp_mIKyzzPyBD0jfTNMK89XP4Q4iJShZF70gNdzNHeEj7LK5zpbyI7e7-DheCHlc2t2-_AVpm7CY54h_Dy5ulyc/s1600/Running+Low+on+Industrial+Lifeblood.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw__xmqmi7TKgsP4VCXBt1hE5hRp8RLDzGBqZJKIS8T3bvHHJ8BJ_fp_mIKyzzPyBD0jfTNMK89XP4Q4iJShZF70gNdzNHeEj7LK5zpbyI7e7-DheCHlc2t2-_AVpm7CY54h_Dy5ulyc/s320/Running+Low+on+Industrial+Lifeblood.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VWg_g7-sIn0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><b>April 14, 2009</b><br /><a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20090414a.htm">FRB: Speech--Bernanke, Four Questions about the Financial Crisis</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Credit is the lifeblood of market economies...</i></div><br /><b>Update:</b><br /><br />I originally posted that this chart was showing the annual change. It is showing the monthly change. Sorry about that! The conclusions and the data remain the same though, as only the description of the chart changes.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=nvB">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

Our Economic Rocket Requires More Industrial Lifeblood (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the 6-month moving average of the monthly commercial and industrial loan growth at all commercial banks. Click to ...

Hammered: The con artists attacking your Social Security and Medicare

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The greedy con artists trying to lower your <a href="http://www.strengthensocialsecurity.org/" rel="nofollow">Social Security</a> and Medicare so they can lower their own taxes are having a rough time of it lately. People are catching on to their grift.<br /><br />For example, the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/01/fix-debt-is-full-of-crap.html" rel="nofollow">Fix the Debt</a> swindlers tried to hold a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> live chat yesterday. Fix the Debt is the billionaire-funded group that likes to lecture the rest of us on how to make do with less. While they, you know, make do with more.<br /><br />The Fix the Debt Twitter live chat didn't go so well, according to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fix-the-debt-trolled-on-twitter-2013-10" rel="nofollow">Business Insider</a>. "'Fix the Debt' just felt Twitter's sweet, trollish wrath," reported BI's Steven Perlberg. Here are some choice tweets:<br /><b><br /></b>David Dayen:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@ddayen</b> Do you believe increased tax receipts from faster economic growth would reduce the deficit? Or do you not have a calculator? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Kyle McGuiness<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@Emcee_Gee</b> Which is preferable: Arduous entitlement reform, or just beating up grandparents and stealing their SS checks every month? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Brett Banditelli<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@banditelli </b>Will you be willing to cut Ed Rendell's consulting benefits as much as #ChainedCPI cuts seniors benefits? #fixthedebtqa cc: @fixthedebt</blockquote>Sam Seder<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@SamSeder</b> Favorite Cat Food for a quick nosh? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Then the conversation turned to the utter failure of the twitter chat:<br /><br />Kurt Lynch<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@KurtLynch12</b> Is your PR guy regretting the making of this hashtag yet? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>If that was bad, the <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/who-should-young-people-throw-under-the-bus-granny-or-billionaire-hedgie-stan-druckenmiller.html" rel="nofollow">naked capitalism</a> blog did a priceless takedown of another hustler who wants to throw granny under the bus: billionaire hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller.<br /><br />Druckenmiller, the naked capitalist explains, is a financial speculator who bears a lot of the guilt for the 2008 collapse that is making life so miserable for young people these days (i.e., disastrously high unemployment). Now he's fomenting generational warfare with much the same message the Fix the Debt hustlers are promoting: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">He’s going to college campuses and telling students that things suck (which they know full well) and they need to go after Boomers who are gonna get too much in entitlements if things don’t change.... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">...Druckemniller has not only been one of two or three biggest Republican donors for the better part of two decades, he’s been firmly aligned with the aggressive “shrink government/cut taxes” effort, back to being a strong ally of Newt Gingrich. For Druckemmiller to point at Boomers and act as if he’s part of the solution, as opposed to one of the long-standing proponents of tax cuts, which among other things were one of the big causes in the rise in government debt levels under George Bush, is remarkably disingenuous.</blockquote>And she concludes:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...he was a major sponsor of the very policies that have helped impoverish American youth. Perhaps Druckenmiller is making such an aggressive and public disinformation tour because he knows that if young people were to turn on the old, he’d be one of the most deserving targets for their vengeance. </blockquote>If only they'd just crawl back to their mansions...

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