| What Thanksgiving means to me, part 2
The tradition changed, but a tradition isn't just a tradition. They aren't supposed to change. Of course, I have my own ideas of what Thanksgiving means, but everyone knows the same story as me. So family, friends and just simply giving thanks are what Thanksgiving means. And we should celebrate them; that is why we have this holiday. So what does Thanksgiving mean to you? -- Kelly Commarato Long Valley Home away from home Thanksgiving, to me, is finding a home away from home with friends that have turned into family. I'm in the middle with four of my friends from college. -- Pamela Burke Parsippany Many fond memories Thanksgiving brings back many fond memories of how much our family enjoyed this holiday and what it really is all about.
Attia turns fragile forms into powerful statements
Attia, 37, showed up as soon as he got the call and found his friend where he fell, covered in pigeons. He'd been eating a sandwich. A couple of birds sat high on his chest, pecking his mouth to get the bread out. In 2005, Attia made his reputation with his response. "Flying Rats" featured seed-filled sacks shaped like children, plus 250 pigeons to eat them. The current exhibit at the Henry Gallery is Attia's first in the U.S., organized by chief curator Elizabeth Brown, His reputation precedes him in this country, not because he's a rising star in Europe but because of widely circulated photos of his work. Although I didn't see it, I'd wager that some photos of "Flying Rats" are more effective than the installation itself. In person, people-shaped sacks are clearly sacks.
Trademark Properties liquidates America's real estate crisis with a ...
This series of sales events across the country is designed to put liquidity back into the local economies by exposing these assets to a much broader buying audience than previously possible, by combining the local physical auction with a real time simulcast to internet buyers who have cash and are looking to place it in real estate. These buyers are shrewd and "liquid." They understand that LiquidationSensation is providing a great buying opportunity at the perfect time, in a real estate cycle for highly motivated sellers and opportunistic buyers to be brought together.Davis estimates that 10% of all existing "for sale" properties would qualify for this type of quick conversion in today's slower real estate market."This isn't all things to all people, this is taking the excess inventories that are clogging the pipeline of a healthy Real Estate economy, so that buyers and sellers can come together to stimulate the market.
Rusty remake fails to fire
Bale plays Dan Evans, an impoverished rancher who volunteers to join a posse of mercenaries and bounty hunters escorting a captured bandit, desperado Ben Wade, to justice. Crowe plays the bad guy, and those who prefer him in more upright, law-abiding roles may want to stick with American Gangster. The original 3:10 to Yuma appeared in 1957, directed by Delmer Daves, who was something of a western specialist. And whatever one thinks of the '50s, they were probably the greatest decade for Hollywood westerns. The mood of the times -- the Cold War, fear of communism, McCarthyist witch-hunts, not to mention a hot war in Korea -- seemed suited to the simplistic moral conflicts of the classic western formula. Daves made Broken Arrow for Fox in 1950, with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler, and Jubal, a western version of Othello, with Glenn Ford, in 1956.
Hendry St. rescue plan underway
Dozens of city employees and contractors flooded foreclosure-plagued Hendry Street in Dorchester yesterday for a concentrated burst of cleaning and staging that felt like the bustle on a movie set. Workers installed new street signs, removed old cars, blasted paint from buildings, and swept trash from the street. Just as Mayor Thomas M. Menino prepared to address a press gaggle, workers attached a sign to the building behind him announcing "The Hendry Street Project." City officials said three-block Hendry Street may host Boston's largest concentration of foreclosed properties. Mortgage companies have seized at least eight homes on the street. All sit empty, with boards on the windows and doors. The area has become a dumping ground and a haven for criminal activity, officials and residents say.
'Indy 4' Cannes Debut
You're thinking: this sounds like a decadent moment. But observe that Bardem's patient little mother, who'd been his guest at the Oscar ceremony, was tucked into a seat just beyond him, grinning from ear to ear if also wanting to put in earplugs. Nothing untoward happened. Just ebullience and a lot of fun as the crowd in the darkened tavern shouted out the refrain: "Pleased to meetcha, don't forget my name!" while Javier — with a lot of encouragement, clapping and screaming — channeled vintage Mick Jagger with just a hint of the late John Belushi. Bardem's happiness, by the way, was infectious. The producers of documentary winner "Taxi to the Dark Side" whooped it up as a result, dancing just below his platform, swinging their gold statues around and over their heads.
Tesco has a flutter in Vegas
It is dog eat dog on Las Vegas's world-famous Strip as casino complexes such as MGM Grand and New York New York compete for attention with outlandish gestures like rollercoaster rides and a replica of the Manhattan skyline. But just a few blocks back from the neon glare the brash casinos give way to the more mundane chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Walgreens, which line the boulevards that stretch back to the desert. It is in competitive retail markets like Las Vegas that Tesco is taking its biggest gamble yet by launching Fresh & Easy, a chain it believes has the potential to become as familiar a sight as 7-Eleven, which has more than 5,000 stores dotted around the country. On Wednesday five stores will open in Vegas, part of a first wave of 200 openings planned for the West Coast between now and the end of next year.
The Blog!!!!!
Now I just blog, do research, and sometimes make forum posts. I'm not going to do a big one year extravaganza blog like most people, but I suppose I could take a brief look at the past year. Let's start with stats: 1,562 people have looked at my profile.45 of them thought I was cool and decided to track meI've made 43 blog posts (including this one)I've made just over 900 forum postsI earned 11 emblems, some of them I regret (Hour of Victory....)I've written eight reviewsI've uploaded two vidsThe most comments on one of my blog posts is...13 I believe (such a big number!)My name has been mentioned on On The Spot...three times I believe So, over the course of this year, I've failed to make a big name for myself in the GS community. But that's fine. I wasn't expecting to even have the 45 people tracking me.
Texas Holdem: Provisionals, Delegates, One-Party Counties Hold Back ...
But perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the Texas primary is that despite the popular vote going for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Texas delegates are voting for Barack Obama. Provisionalizing Voters Those whose names do not appear on voter rolls are provided a provisional ballot which will later be counted if the voter can prove she is legally allowed to vote. Party operatives use voter rolls to disenfranchise targeted segments of society. We saw this in Florida in 2000 from Greg Palast’s exposė. With the advent of statewide, computerized databases, the job of vote suppression becomes child’s play. Electronic "glitches," fluctuations in humidity, and power outages can also remove huge portions from computerized rolls, or refuse to recognize valid voters based on name or street hyphenation.
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