Holly Ransom✓✓ runs her own consultancy firm teaching people about public speaking, so addressing a room full of strangers is not usually a problem.
Reported by The Age 21 hours ago.
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Y20 chair Holly Ransom on mission to ease youth unemployment
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Holly's point of difference
Holly Ransom isn't easily fazed - the 24-year-old will be socialising with world leaders this weekend - but one encounter at a cocktail party left her in awe.
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TIME Poll Mayhem: The Internet Wants to Ban the Word 'Feminist'
Time Magazine has come out with its 4th annual word banishment poll asking readers to do away with an array of annoying words. To the surprise and shock of self-identifying women’s rights advocates, the poll included the word "feminist."Feminist, which has become known as an endearing term for social status, more than one of substantive lifestyle, won overwhelming, garnering 47 percent of the votes. The second most annoying word of 2014 was "bae;" however, that word only netted 13 percent.
Time has provided a little background on each word for potential voters who are weighing their word-banning options. Here is the publication's stance on the use of the word feminist:
You have nothing against feminism itself, but when did it become a thing that every celebrity had to state their position on whether this word applies to them, like some politician declaring a party? Let’s stick to the issues and quit throwing this label around like ticker tape at a Susan B. Anthony parade.
People on Twitter don't seem too pleased that feminist has fallen on the same list as the words "obvi" or "om nom nom nom"– or the fact that it's winning.
Time put 'feminist' in their banned words poll, along with 'literally', 'kale' & 'basic'. Inequality is no joke guys http://t.co/lcQsL9Tswm
— Holly June Smith (@hollyjunesmith) November 12, 2014
Time Magazine's latest awful idea is a poll about whether to "ban" the word feminist. I seriously can't even. http://t.co/m4U1zaTqll
— Mario Bruzzone (@Mario_Bruzzone) November 13, 2014
Women still earn less than me. Women's bodies are STILL being targeted by male legislators. And @Time thinks Feminist is a bad word? Oh
— LVL 90 SJW (@Auragasmic) November 12, 2014
Standby for the official results of the poll, which will be announced on Nov. 19. Reported by Breitbart 15 hours ago.
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Jennifer Lawrence bowls us over with her 'Late Show' version of 'Holly Jolly Christmas'
Reported by Entertainment Weekly 10 hours ago.
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Jennifer Lawrence Butchers Christmas Carols With David Letterman (Video)
Jennifer Lawrence is adored and respected as a multi-talented actress, but that doesn't mean she can do anything, despite what her parents might have told her growing up. The “Hunger Games: Mockingjay” actress told David Letterman on “Late Show” about a public singing experience she had as a child that's scarred her to this day.
*See photos:* 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Cast Dress in Shades of Grey on New Posters
“I have a Southern mother who would tell me that I was amazing at everything and that I could do everything, but I can't,” she said. But with that false confidence, Lawrence agreed to sing in front of the school when she was eight, because after all she was amazing at everything.
She described her voice as a kind of tone-deaf Amy Winehouse, but it might have more in common with the growling vocals associated with some hardcore heavy metal bands. Which made it even more odd hearing her sing Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas.”
What she remembers perhaps even more than that disastrous experience was that in the days that follows her father laughed about it continuously, doing his own impression of his daughter's take on the song.
*See video:* Perez Hilton Fires Back at Jennifer Lawrence's Vanity Fair Comments: ‘F-ck You… I'm Sorry’ (Video)
Lawrence said that she sings in her upcoming film, but she's avoided hearing it. She tried to convince producers to dub Lorde's voice over her own, but they didn't bite. When Letterman tried to trick her into singing a few bars of it, she threatened to walk.
Instead, the two paired on a very disturbing and decidedly un-jolly growling take on “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” That's one way to kick off your holiday season … with abject terror.
Jennifer Lawrence stars in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1,” in theaters Friday, Nov. 21. “Late Show with David Letterman” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.
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The stars of the highly-anticipated Lionsgate sequel invaded the red carpet in downtown Los Angeles
*Related stories from TheWrap:*
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Clip: Jennifer Lawrence Meets 'Game of Thrones' Star Natalie Dormer (Video)
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Clip: Jennifer Lawrence Discovers Josh Hutcherson Is Alive (Video)
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Tracking for Year's Biggest Box-Office Opening Reported by The Wrap 18 hours ago.
*See photos:* 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Cast Dress in Shades of Grey on New Posters
“I have a Southern mother who would tell me that I was amazing at everything and that I could do everything, but I can't,” she said. But with that false confidence, Lawrence agreed to sing in front of the school when she was eight, because after all she was amazing at everything.
She described her voice as a kind of tone-deaf Amy Winehouse, but it might have more in common with the growling vocals associated with some hardcore heavy metal bands. Which made it even more odd hearing her sing Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas.”
What she remembers perhaps even more than that disastrous experience was that in the days that follows her father laughed about it continuously, doing his own impression of his daughter's take on the song.
*See video:* Perez Hilton Fires Back at Jennifer Lawrence's Vanity Fair Comments: ‘F-ck You… I'm Sorry’ (Video)
Lawrence said that she sings in her upcoming film, but she's avoided hearing it. She tried to convince producers to dub Lorde's voice over her own, but they didn't bite. When Letterman tried to trick her into singing a few bars of it, she threatened to walk.
Instead, the two paired on a very disturbing and decidedly un-jolly growling take on “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” That's one way to kick off your holiday season … with abject terror.
Jennifer Lawrence stars in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1,” in theaters Friday, Nov. 21. “Late Show with David Letterman” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.
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The stars of the highly-anticipated Lionsgate sequel invaded the red carpet in downtown Los Angeles
*Related stories from TheWrap:*
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Clip: Jennifer Lawrence Meets 'Game of Thrones' Star Natalie Dormer (Video)
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Clip: Jennifer Lawrence Discovers Josh Hutcherson Is Alive (Video)
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Tracking for Year's Biggest Box-Office Opening Reported by The Wrap 18 hours ago.
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Dune Jewelry Hosting 24-Hour Online Fundraiser on November 14 - “World Diabetes Day;” 20% of all online sales will be donated directly to Joslin Diabetes Center
Dune Jewelry the Original Beach Sand Jewelry Company™ is a keepsake, collectible jewelry line made with sterling silver and beach sand from cherished coastal memories.
Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
To commemorate World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2014, Dune Jewelry and Joslin Diabetes Center are partnering for a special one day fundraiser. Dune Jewelry will host a 24-hour fundraiser, from 12am – 11:59pm on November 14. 20% of all online sales placed on DuneJewelry.com will be donated directly to Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Additionally, Dune will provide free shipping on all orders placed that day. This one day online fundraiser is the perfect time to start holiday shopping. The Joslin Diabetes Center is the world largest diabetes research and clinical care organization. Their mission is to prevent, treat and cure diabetes.
“Partnering with this respected organization means so much to me," says Holly Daniels Christensen, Owner and Creator of Dune Jewelry. “As a child I spent a lot of time at Joslin visiting my father who passed away at a very young age from Type 1 Diabetes. I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute towards Joslin’s mission, and I’d like to dedicate Dune’s contribution in memory of my father who meant the world to me.”
Dune Jewelry the Original Beach Sand Jewelry Company™ is a keepsake, collectible jewelry line made with sterling silver and beach sand from cherished coastal memories. The Dune Jewelry collection are modern, beautiful accessories with meaning; accessories that hold a memory. Carry a piece of sun, sand and surf wherever you go with Dune Jewelry’s unique collection.
With thousands of sands in their Sandbank™ spanning all 7 continents, Dune Jewelry custom makes all orders out of their Boston, Massachusetts studio. Dune’s Sandbank™ count keeps growing, almost weekly, thanks to customers sending in their own sand for their very own one-of-a-kind pieces. The Sandartists™ only need a tiny bit (soda cap full) for most designs.
“We don’t just sell jewelry, we preserve cherished moments, we sell memories that people will keep with them for a lifetime,” says Christensen.
The Dune Jewelry women and men collections include: necklaces, earrings, bracelets, Sandbeads® that fit on all interchangeable bracelets, bangles, key chains, tie bars, cufflinks wedding bands and much more. Prices range from $34-$380.
Dune Jewelry works with sand from golf courses to create exceptional golf tournament gifts, in addition to also working with baseball parks such as Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
With the holiday season fast approaching this could be the perfect time to get that special someone something ultra unique from Dune Jewelry, and at the same time give back to an important organization.
Joslin Diabetes Center is dedicated to ensuring that people with diabetes live long, healthy lives and offers real hope and progress toward diabetes prevention and a cure. Joslin is an independent, nonprofit institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
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For more information on Dune Jewelry visit them on their website, at http://www.dunejewelry.com
About Joslin Diabetes Center:
Joslin Diabetes Center, based in Boston, Massachusetts, undertakes diabetes research, clinical care, education and health and wellness programs on a global scale. Joslin is dedicated to ensuring that people with diabetes live long, healthy lives and offers real progress in preventing and curing diabetes. Joslin is an independent, nonprofit institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and is recognized worldwide for driving innovative solutions in diabetes prevention, research, education, and care.
Our mission is to prevent, treat and cure diabetes. Our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications. For more information, visit http://www.joslin.org.
About Joslin Research:
Joslin Research comprises the most comprehensive and productive effort in diabetes research under one roof anywhere in the world. With 30‐plus faculty‐level investigators, Joslin researchers focus on unraveling the biological, biochemical and genetic processes that underlie the development of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and related complications.
Joslin research is highly innovative and imaginative, employing the newest tools in genetics, genomics and proteomics to identify abnormalities that may play a role in the development of diabetes and its complications. Joslin Clinic patients, and others with diabetes, have the option of participating in clinical trials at Joslin to help translate basic research into treatment innovations.
Joslin has one of the largest diabetes training programs in the world, educating 150 M.D. and Ph.D. researchers each year, many of whom go on to head diabetes initiatives at leading institutions all over the globe. For more information, visit http://www.joslinresearch.org.
For more info on Dune Jewelry visit: http://www.dunejewelry.com
Follow Dune Jewelry on Twitter: @dunejewelry
Follow on Instagram: DuneJewelry
Like Dune Jewelry on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dunejewelry Reported by PRWeb 17 hours ago.
Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
To commemorate World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2014, Dune Jewelry and Joslin Diabetes Center are partnering for a special one day fundraiser. Dune Jewelry will host a 24-hour fundraiser, from 12am – 11:59pm on November 14. 20% of all online sales placed on DuneJewelry.com will be donated directly to Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Additionally, Dune will provide free shipping on all orders placed that day. This one day online fundraiser is the perfect time to start holiday shopping. The Joslin Diabetes Center is the world largest diabetes research and clinical care organization. Their mission is to prevent, treat and cure diabetes.
“Partnering with this respected organization means so much to me," says Holly Daniels Christensen, Owner and Creator of Dune Jewelry. “As a child I spent a lot of time at Joslin visiting my father who passed away at a very young age from Type 1 Diabetes. I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute towards Joslin’s mission, and I’d like to dedicate Dune’s contribution in memory of my father who meant the world to me.”
Dune Jewelry the Original Beach Sand Jewelry Company™ is a keepsake, collectible jewelry line made with sterling silver and beach sand from cherished coastal memories. The Dune Jewelry collection are modern, beautiful accessories with meaning; accessories that hold a memory. Carry a piece of sun, sand and surf wherever you go with Dune Jewelry’s unique collection.
With thousands of sands in their Sandbank™ spanning all 7 continents, Dune Jewelry custom makes all orders out of their Boston, Massachusetts studio. Dune’s Sandbank™ count keeps growing, almost weekly, thanks to customers sending in their own sand for their very own one-of-a-kind pieces. The Sandartists™ only need a tiny bit (soda cap full) for most designs.
“We don’t just sell jewelry, we preserve cherished moments, we sell memories that people will keep with them for a lifetime,” says Christensen.
The Dune Jewelry women and men collections include: necklaces, earrings, bracelets, Sandbeads® that fit on all interchangeable bracelets, bangles, key chains, tie bars, cufflinks wedding bands and much more. Prices range from $34-$380.
Dune Jewelry works with sand from golf courses to create exceptional golf tournament gifts, in addition to also working with baseball parks such as Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
With the holiday season fast approaching this could be the perfect time to get that special someone something ultra unique from Dune Jewelry, and at the same time give back to an important organization.
Joslin Diabetes Center is dedicated to ensuring that people with diabetes live long, healthy lives and offers real hope and progress toward diabetes prevention and a cure. Joslin is an independent, nonprofit institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
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For more information on Dune Jewelry visit them on their website, at http://www.dunejewelry.com
About Joslin Diabetes Center:
Joslin Diabetes Center, based in Boston, Massachusetts, undertakes diabetes research, clinical care, education and health and wellness programs on a global scale. Joslin is dedicated to ensuring that people with diabetes live long, healthy lives and offers real progress in preventing and curing diabetes. Joslin is an independent, nonprofit institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and is recognized worldwide for driving innovative solutions in diabetes prevention, research, education, and care.
Our mission is to prevent, treat and cure diabetes. Our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications. For more information, visit http://www.joslin.org.
About Joslin Research:
Joslin Research comprises the most comprehensive and productive effort in diabetes research under one roof anywhere in the world. With 30‐plus faculty‐level investigators, Joslin researchers focus on unraveling the biological, biochemical and genetic processes that underlie the development of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and related complications.
Joslin research is highly innovative and imaginative, employing the newest tools in genetics, genomics and proteomics to identify abnormalities that may play a role in the development of diabetes and its complications. Joslin Clinic patients, and others with diabetes, have the option of participating in clinical trials at Joslin to help translate basic research into treatment innovations.
Joslin has one of the largest diabetes training programs in the world, educating 150 M.D. and Ph.D. researchers each year, many of whom go on to head diabetes initiatives at leading institutions all over the globe. For more information, visit http://www.joslinresearch.org.
For more info on Dune Jewelry visit: http://www.dunejewelry.com
Follow Dune Jewelry on Twitter: @dunejewelry
Follow on Instagram: DuneJewelry
Like Dune Jewelry on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dunejewelry Reported by PRWeb 17 hours ago.
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Georgia Gives Day Participating Charity, Sunshine on a Ranney Day, to Have Sunshine Kids for Meet & Greet at the Charity Headquarters in Roswell, GA
From 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. on November 13th, GA Gives Day charity Sunshine on a Ranney Day, a local Atlanta Nonprofit, will be hosting an open house.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
Georgia Gives Day participating charity, Sunshine on a Ranney Day, has a full day planned for the yearly event. The stars of Sunshine on a Ranney Day (SOARD), the children who have received life-changing makeovers from this 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, will be on hand to help the organization celebrate Georgia Gives Day (#GaGivesDay) on Thursday, November 13 at their headquarters located at 42-C Oak Street, Roswell, Ga.
SOARD, a leading children's charity in Atlanta with expertise in residential ADA modifications, therapy rooms, and unique children's room design, relies 100% on donations from the public and the generosity of great partners. It's Georgia Gives Day goal is $75,000.
The following makeover recipients and their families will spend part of the day at the SOARD headquarters and will be available for interviews:
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.· Charlie Mabry
· Emily Bowman
· Tripp Halstead
· Brianna Hudson
After School· Ta & Alissa
· Rachel Buckner
· Nathan Gramling
For more information on each makeover recipient please visit our website makeover gallery.
Several members of the SOARD Board of Directors, volunteers and sponsors also will be available for interviews. Holly Ranney, co-founder of SOARD can be reached at holly(at)soardcharity(dot)com or 404-273-7145 for a pre-event interview or to answer any questions about interviewee availability.
The mission of Georgia Gives Day is to inspire individuals to donate to participating nonprofits with the goal of raising as much money as possible within a 24-hour period. GAgivesday.org makes donating easy by organizing thousands of nonprofits across the state onto one website, providing the information people need to select a cause or charity of their choice, and enabling online donations by credit card or e-check. Go to https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/sunshineonaranneyday to donate directly to SOARD.
For more information on Sunshine on a Ranney Day, visit http://www.sunshineonaranneyday.com/ga-gives-day.html Reported by PRWeb 15 hours ago.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
Georgia Gives Day participating charity, Sunshine on a Ranney Day, has a full day planned for the yearly event. The stars of Sunshine on a Ranney Day (SOARD), the children who have received life-changing makeovers from this 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, will be on hand to help the organization celebrate Georgia Gives Day (#GaGivesDay) on Thursday, November 13 at their headquarters located at 42-C Oak Street, Roswell, Ga.
SOARD, a leading children's charity in Atlanta with expertise in residential ADA modifications, therapy rooms, and unique children's room design, relies 100% on donations from the public and the generosity of great partners. It's Georgia Gives Day goal is $75,000.
The following makeover recipients and their families will spend part of the day at the SOARD headquarters and will be available for interviews:
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.· Charlie Mabry
· Emily Bowman
· Tripp Halstead
· Brianna Hudson
After School· Ta & Alissa
· Rachel Buckner
· Nathan Gramling
For more information on each makeover recipient please visit our website makeover gallery.
Several members of the SOARD Board of Directors, volunteers and sponsors also will be available for interviews. Holly Ranney, co-founder of SOARD can be reached at holly(at)soardcharity(dot)com or 404-273-7145 for a pre-event interview or to answer any questions about interviewee availability.
The mission of Georgia Gives Day is to inspire individuals to donate to participating nonprofits with the goal of raising as much money as possible within a 24-hour period. GAgivesday.org makes donating easy by organizing thousands of nonprofits across the state onto one website, providing the information people need to select a cause or charity of their choice, and enabling online donations by credit card or e-check. Go to https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/sunshineonaranneyday to donate directly to SOARD.
For more information on Sunshine on a Ranney Day, visit http://www.sunshineonaranneyday.com/ga-gives-day.html Reported by PRWeb 15 hours ago.
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence and David Letterman Duet on 'A Holly Jolly Christmas'
Watch Jennifer Lawrence and David Letterman Duet on 'A Holly Jolly Christmas'
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The Art of Asking: Amanda Palmer Opens Her Heart to the World
The Art of Asking is a book unlike any other I've ever read, and I mean that sincerely. Amanda Palmer, who since her wildly successful and globally infamous Kickstarter campaign in 2012, has now reached the type of fame that invites mass adulation as well as those who line up to take potshots at anything they feel is politically incorrect, has written a book I'd have no problem recommending to everyone I know. My mother, my best friend, my work friends, my Facebook friends, my LinkedIn contacts, even the people I meet on the street or see on the subway when I commute to and from work. It's that important and that groundbreaking. This book is not just someone's brave and personal journey from childhood to her life as an artist, but it also addresses why and how it's so hard to look into someone else's eyes and be real, and ask for help when we need it.
I'm deadly serious when I tell you that this book is exactly what I needed to read right now. Palmer has, not to put too fine a point on it, ripped open her chest and exposed her heart for all to see. She's written her truth - and it's at once brutal and gloriously, importantly beautiful. I spoke to her recently about the book and what it took to get to this day.
The Art of Asking by Amanda PalmerImage Used with PermissionHolly: This book is exactly what I needed at this moment in my life. I want to profoundly thank you. I've written all over the pages and I also love Brené Brown's introduction.
Amanda: She nailed it... I fell in love with her book (Daring Greatly) and she was the first person I asked, I just met her on Twitter. I said - I am reading your book and basically, we've written the same book, Brené. You are writing about it as a researcher and an academic and a statistician, but holy fuck, every page of your book is reflecting every page of mine, I'm freaking out. And I just said - will you write the introduction? ... Of course, it didn't occur to me, I kind of got sad when I thought about it, but I'm a weird artist and all these people out there are going to maybe be intimidated by me or intimidated that this book isn't for them and I don't want them to think that and Brené just opens the door and says - nope, it's for you too.
Holly: Now I have to read her book because of what you just said, but I can tell by the introduction that she's really totally worlds apart from you... I don't know anything about her, I really don't, but she just seems like my Mom.
Amanda: She totally is your Mom. You should read Daring Greatly. It was like my bible, the month I started writing the book. I was so moved by it that I cite it three times in the book because it was just coincidence that all these studies came out that she was doing, just basically, [she was] just backing me up with data.
Holly: I love the part in her intro where she says she would be the person who would walk by the statue and wouldn't talk to the statue and would just give money and then scuttle on her way [Amanda supported herself at one time as a living statue in Boston]. It's just really moving. We don't have time for me to tell you what it means to me, but your bravery and your honesty and just baring your soul about all these topics - it just blows my mind how honest and truthful this book is. The other thing that occurred to me is that the book is kind of like the text equivalent of you just falling backward into the crowd and letting them hold you up.
Amanda: Yeah. It is. I mean, it was a hard book to write knowing that putting it out I was going to be opening myself back up in the line of fire. Because I am still kind of dealing with it...and I'm really scared. I don't want to go back to all of those places. I don't want to have endless discussions where I am defending all of my decisions, it's like I've fucking walked through the fire already, I came out scarred and burned and I don't want to go back in. That was over. That was 2012. It was all terrible. And I had to add an epilogue right before the book went to print - Anthony going into the fucking hospital in a week for a bone marrow transplant and he might not live [Her oldest and dearest friend, Anthony, is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia].
Holly: What was your process to write the book? How long did it take?
Amanda: I sat down for the first time around February 1 of this year and I barely took my ass out of the chair for seven weeks. I was in Melbourne, Australia. I went there specifically to lock myself in an apartment and write a book, although I didn't write any of the book in the apartment, I wrote it in the cafes and the bars of the neighborhood. And I was just a disciplined motherfucker: I woke up every morning, I went to yoga, I cracked my knuckles, I sat down with my laptop, and I wrote 5,000 words a day.
Holly: Wow. So how long did that take every day? How many hours?
Amanda: I probably wrote for about six or seven hours a day...I didn't capitalize, I didn't correct typos, I just slammed it out. And I also didn't write in any particular order. I just wrote whatever I felt like...I had a bunch of note cards that had notes like - write about being a Bride [her living statue appearances were as the Eight-Foot Bride], write about Anthony getting cancer, write about Kickstarter sucking. I just had a list of about a hundred things and every day I would wake up and I would say, what do I feel like writing? I'm going to write about that today. And what was really interesting at the very end, the last week, there was this little pile of things that I hadn't written about. What was in that pile was really telling - what I didn't want to attack and places I didn't want to go. Write about your abortion stayed on the desk for quite a while.
And then when I got to end of that trip, I flew to TED, very poetically, a year after I had given my talk .... I spent a week at TED and didn't touch the book. I spent a lot of time on the phone with my editor. I had two editors and they were going through all this shit that I had written. Then I started the long, arduous task of rewriting and editing and piecing it together. I hilariously thought that would take about a month; it took four months. Which meant that my summer which was supposed to be collapsing from exhaustion having handed my book in in June, had me handing my book in in August. And my life, which was supposed to get cleaned up and my marriage was supposed to get quality time and repaired, everything just got thrown out.
I just put up a giant sign - do not fucking disturb - I have to finish this book if they are really going to put it out in November - and sort of had the gun to my head. And then I handed this thing in at the eleventh fucking hour and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Renting an empty apartment in New York with my two editors; literally just waking up and going for a jog and then working for twelve hours piecing this fucker together; and it was a brain marathon of doom.
Holly: I would think that the editing was even harder than writing it.
Amanda: The writing was a dream. I loved my life in Melbourne. I was free, sort of on my own schedule, I was writing sort of according to my mood and it felt hard, but fun. The editing was hard and a total bitch. Not to mention giant life catastrophes of epic levels that I don't want to even discuss coming my way...trying to deal as best I could but just be like, wow, matters of life and death are happening all around me and I am just going to focus on my fucking book. I'm just going to get this done. I don't care what else happens.
Holly: Yes. Because who has time for real life when you're doing something like that, it is such a gigantic project. I don't think a project could be bigger than that. Except maybe writing a Broadway musical or something on that scale.
Amanda: And what is really interesting too is when I look at the entire process from tip to tail, it did take about nine months. And I think there is beautiful poetry in that, which is the book as pregnancy and labor metaphor is pretty apt. I've heard people say it a million times. It's a lot like that and I think a book much more than a record album. Because a book is a solitary process, you're the only one who is pregnant. You're not pregnant with a band. It is you and this thing that you're trying to get out of you. No one else knows what's in there and then it comes out and it belongs to the world.
Holly: I'll be so excited to hear people's reactions to this book because it's really not like any book I've ever read and what it discusses is not like anything that I've ever read about. How important it is to surrender to the "Art of Asking." Your whole story is about this book and the book is about your story.
Amanda: We edited about 70,000 words...Our big pair of cutting scissors was is it on topic? Even if it is an amazing story. If it's not about asking, it's hitting the floor. I had some great back and forth with my editors scooping up these little snippets on the floor trying to sneak them back in and failing, but they really did serve me and Neil [Gaiman, her husband] line-edited the book for me, he held my hand and helped me cut thousands of words. And if anyone understands the craftsmanship of what makes a story engaging, it's Neil fucking Gaiman. So I had some heavyweight help in constructing this sculpture. It's not a linear story. It bounces around in time and place - it bent reality in the book and things kind of happened out of order, but they are all just there to serve the theme. And it is there to make people really think about Asking.
Holly: What you write in the book about being seen, and seeing other people. That was so resonant - anyone can read this and get something out of it because we all want to be seen. We all need to be seen.
Amanda: Yeah. It's very true. That's been a lifelong lesson. And one of the biggest, ongoing and most powerful lessons that Anthony gave me.
Holly: So you're doing a big book tour. Going to a lot of cool places.
Amanda: I'm doing a book concert tour. I'm basically going around the country doing concerts with the book in my hand.
Last weekend I took a train up the Hudson to Rhinecliff to see Palmer's musical production The Bed Show at Bard College's Fisher Center for the Arts. Steven Bogart, her high school drama teacher at Lexington High School, was directing. A group of Bard students - each more gifted than the last - no, scratch that - they were all equally gifted - were the acting ensemble. Palmer had written several songs for it as well as contributing around six of her solo and Dresden Dolls numbers to the production. During our interview, she described it to me as a "passion project I've wanted to do forever." She continued: "it is a fucked up musical: there's all sorts of crazy; it is a beautiful, hot mess that will never ever go to Broadway in a million years musical...It is beyond Off-Broadway. It is Anti-Broadway."
The Fisher Center is a small and intimate theater. Prior to the show, Palmer and the students strolled around the audience with ukuleles and perched on people's chairs singing songs they made up on the spot. The show itself was stunning; simultaneously screamingly funny and steeped in pathos. It poked at your tenderest spots, not just touching them, but staying there, pushing in until you couldn't breathe. The actors were amazing and the building was charged with the energy of creativity. I took two friends with me who had only seen Amanda once before; they were astounded. We met many audience members of all ages, and one young woman had driven eight hours from Cleveland to see it. You see, it's like that. It really is.
Amanda Palmer will be touring the United States during her book tour, appearing in New York City Friday November 13th at the Union Square Barnes and Noble. Learn more here.
In her words:
"It's a book about...a lot of things. My marriage, my days as a weird street performer, my amazing band and label disaster, my difficulties dealing with a best friend who's had cancer for the past three years; but that's all sort of a veil. Mostly it's an attempt to try to discover why all human beings (especially artists) have such a hard time asking for things. I poured my heart into it. It's a really personal book. It's also really FUNNY. and sad. It's a weird book. but I'm really, really proud of it."
And she should be. Reported by Huffington Post 8 hours ago.
I'm deadly serious when I tell you that this book is exactly what I needed to read right now. Palmer has, not to put too fine a point on it, ripped open her chest and exposed her heart for all to see. She's written her truth - and it's at once brutal and gloriously, importantly beautiful. I spoke to her recently about the book and what it took to get to this day.
The Art of Asking by Amanda PalmerImage Used with PermissionHolly: This book is exactly what I needed at this moment in my life. I want to profoundly thank you. I've written all over the pages and I also love Brené Brown's introduction.
Amanda: She nailed it... I fell in love with her book (Daring Greatly) and she was the first person I asked, I just met her on Twitter. I said - I am reading your book and basically, we've written the same book, Brené. You are writing about it as a researcher and an academic and a statistician, but holy fuck, every page of your book is reflecting every page of mine, I'm freaking out. And I just said - will you write the introduction? ... Of course, it didn't occur to me, I kind of got sad when I thought about it, but I'm a weird artist and all these people out there are going to maybe be intimidated by me or intimidated that this book isn't for them and I don't want them to think that and Brené just opens the door and says - nope, it's for you too.
Holly: Now I have to read her book because of what you just said, but I can tell by the introduction that she's really totally worlds apart from you... I don't know anything about her, I really don't, but she just seems like my Mom.
Amanda: She totally is your Mom. You should read Daring Greatly. It was like my bible, the month I started writing the book. I was so moved by it that I cite it three times in the book because it was just coincidence that all these studies came out that she was doing, just basically, [she was] just backing me up with data.
Holly: I love the part in her intro where she says she would be the person who would walk by the statue and wouldn't talk to the statue and would just give money and then scuttle on her way [Amanda supported herself at one time as a living statue in Boston]. It's just really moving. We don't have time for me to tell you what it means to me, but your bravery and your honesty and just baring your soul about all these topics - it just blows my mind how honest and truthful this book is. The other thing that occurred to me is that the book is kind of like the text equivalent of you just falling backward into the crowd and letting them hold you up.
Amanda: Yeah. It is. I mean, it was a hard book to write knowing that putting it out I was going to be opening myself back up in the line of fire. Because I am still kind of dealing with it...and I'm really scared. I don't want to go back to all of those places. I don't want to have endless discussions where I am defending all of my decisions, it's like I've fucking walked through the fire already, I came out scarred and burned and I don't want to go back in. That was over. That was 2012. It was all terrible. And I had to add an epilogue right before the book went to print - Anthony going into the fucking hospital in a week for a bone marrow transplant and he might not live [Her oldest and dearest friend, Anthony, is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia].
Holly: What was your process to write the book? How long did it take?
Amanda: I sat down for the first time around February 1 of this year and I barely took my ass out of the chair for seven weeks. I was in Melbourne, Australia. I went there specifically to lock myself in an apartment and write a book, although I didn't write any of the book in the apartment, I wrote it in the cafes and the bars of the neighborhood. And I was just a disciplined motherfucker: I woke up every morning, I went to yoga, I cracked my knuckles, I sat down with my laptop, and I wrote 5,000 words a day.
Holly: Wow. So how long did that take every day? How many hours?
Amanda: I probably wrote for about six or seven hours a day...I didn't capitalize, I didn't correct typos, I just slammed it out. And I also didn't write in any particular order. I just wrote whatever I felt like...I had a bunch of note cards that had notes like - write about being a Bride [her living statue appearances were as the Eight-Foot Bride], write about Anthony getting cancer, write about Kickstarter sucking. I just had a list of about a hundred things and every day I would wake up and I would say, what do I feel like writing? I'm going to write about that today. And what was really interesting at the very end, the last week, there was this little pile of things that I hadn't written about. What was in that pile was really telling - what I didn't want to attack and places I didn't want to go. Write about your abortion stayed on the desk for quite a while.
And then when I got to end of that trip, I flew to TED, very poetically, a year after I had given my talk .... I spent a week at TED and didn't touch the book. I spent a lot of time on the phone with my editor. I had two editors and they were going through all this shit that I had written. Then I started the long, arduous task of rewriting and editing and piecing it together. I hilariously thought that would take about a month; it took four months. Which meant that my summer which was supposed to be collapsing from exhaustion having handed my book in in June, had me handing my book in in August. And my life, which was supposed to get cleaned up and my marriage was supposed to get quality time and repaired, everything just got thrown out.
I just put up a giant sign - do not fucking disturb - I have to finish this book if they are really going to put it out in November - and sort of had the gun to my head. And then I handed this thing in at the eleventh fucking hour and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Renting an empty apartment in New York with my two editors; literally just waking up and going for a jog and then working for twelve hours piecing this fucker together; and it was a brain marathon of doom.
Holly: I would think that the editing was even harder than writing it.
Amanda: The writing was a dream. I loved my life in Melbourne. I was free, sort of on my own schedule, I was writing sort of according to my mood and it felt hard, but fun. The editing was hard and a total bitch. Not to mention giant life catastrophes of epic levels that I don't want to even discuss coming my way...trying to deal as best I could but just be like, wow, matters of life and death are happening all around me and I am just going to focus on my fucking book. I'm just going to get this done. I don't care what else happens.
Holly: Yes. Because who has time for real life when you're doing something like that, it is such a gigantic project. I don't think a project could be bigger than that. Except maybe writing a Broadway musical or something on that scale.
Amanda: And what is really interesting too is when I look at the entire process from tip to tail, it did take about nine months. And I think there is beautiful poetry in that, which is the book as pregnancy and labor metaphor is pretty apt. I've heard people say it a million times. It's a lot like that and I think a book much more than a record album. Because a book is a solitary process, you're the only one who is pregnant. You're not pregnant with a band. It is you and this thing that you're trying to get out of you. No one else knows what's in there and then it comes out and it belongs to the world.
Holly: I'll be so excited to hear people's reactions to this book because it's really not like any book I've ever read and what it discusses is not like anything that I've ever read about. How important it is to surrender to the "Art of Asking." Your whole story is about this book and the book is about your story.
Amanda: We edited about 70,000 words...Our big pair of cutting scissors was is it on topic? Even if it is an amazing story. If it's not about asking, it's hitting the floor. I had some great back and forth with my editors scooping up these little snippets on the floor trying to sneak them back in and failing, but they really did serve me and Neil [Gaiman, her husband] line-edited the book for me, he held my hand and helped me cut thousands of words. And if anyone understands the craftsmanship of what makes a story engaging, it's Neil fucking Gaiman. So I had some heavyweight help in constructing this sculpture. It's not a linear story. It bounces around in time and place - it bent reality in the book and things kind of happened out of order, but they are all just there to serve the theme. And it is there to make people really think about Asking.
Holly: What you write in the book about being seen, and seeing other people. That was so resonant - anyone can read this and get something out of it because we all want to be seen. We all need to be seen.
Amanda: Yeah. It's very true. That's been a lifelong lesson. And one of the biggest, ongoing and most powerful lessons that Anthony gave me.
Holly: So you're doing a big book tour. Going to a lot of cool places.
Amanda: I'm doing a book concert tour. I'm basically going around the country doing concerts with the book in my hand.
Last weekend I took a train up the Hudson to Rhinecliff to see Palmer's musical production The Bed Show at Bard College's Fisher Center for the Arts. Steven Bogart, her high school drama teacher at Lexington High School, was directing. A group of Bard students - each more gifted than the last - no, scratch that - they were all equally gifted - were the acting ensemble. Palmer had written several songs for it as well as contributing around six of her solo and Dresden Dolls numbers to the production. During our interview, she described it to me as a "passion project I've wanted to do forever." She continued: "it is a fucked up musical: there's all sorts of crazy; it is a beautiful, hot mess that will never ever go to Broadway in a million years musical...It is beyond Off-Broadway. It is Anti-Broadway."
The Fisher Center is a small and intimate theater. Prior to the show, Palmer and the students strolled around the audience with ukuleles and perched on people's chairs singing songs they made up on the spot. The show itself was stunning; simultaneously screamingly funny and steeped in pathos. It poked at your tenderest spots, not just touching them, but staying there, pushing in until you couldn't breathe. The actors were amazing and the building was charged with the energy of creativity. I took two friends with me who had only seen Amanda once before; they were astounded. We met many audience members of all ages, and one young woman had driven eight hours from Cleveland to see it. You see, it's like that. It really is.
Amanda Palmer will be touring the United States during her book tour, appearing in New York City Friday November 13th at the Union Square Barnes and Noble. Learn more here.
In her words:
"It's a book about...a lot of things. My marriage, my days as a weird street performer, my amazing band and label disaster, my difficulties dealing with a best friend who's had cancer for the past three years; but that's all sort of a veil. Mostly it's an attempt to try to discover why all human beings (especially artists) have such a hard time asking for things. I poured my heart into it. It's a really personal book. It's also really FUNNY. and sad. It's a weird book. but I'm really, really proud of it."
And she should be. Reported by Huffington Post 8 hours ago.
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CUTE! Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby's friendship in pictures
See how the pair became so close
Reported by Now 8 hours ago.
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Ralph C. Keef Selected As 2014 Recipient of Lee Wulff Conservation Award
The Lee Wulff Award is presented annually in his memory. Lee Wulff was an angler, artist, author and filmmaker, who dedicated 60 years of his life to conserving wild Atlantic salmon and advocating live-release angling to help safeguard their future.
St. Andrews, NB (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is pleased to announce that Ralph C. Keef of Hermon, Maine has been chosen as the 2014 recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award. Christopher H. Buckley Jr., Chairman of ASF’s U.S Board of Directors made the announcement today at an ASF board meeting in New York City.
In 1998, Keef was elected President of the Maine Council of ASF, serving in that capacity and then as a director for many years. He has participated in countless field activities with state and federal fisheries biologists including marking and tagging juvenile salmon, electrofishing, and monitoring fish counting facilities. He has provided testimony in support of state and federal agency budgets for Atlantic salmon conservation and research programs and acted as a member/advisor to the U.S. section of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) for 15 years.
Keef is a generous supporter of U.S. and Canadian organizations dedicated to the conservation of wild Atlantic salmon including Penobscot River Restoration Trust, Downeast Salmon Federation, ASF, and numerous Maine Atlantic salmon angling clubs. He has exhibited outstanding leadership in the ASF Live Release Program and donated thousands of hours over 15 years to the Fish Friends program enthusiastically recruiting teachers and schools to participate.
“It is an honor and pleasure to name Ralph C. Keef as this year’s recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award,” said Mr. Buckley. “For more than two decades, Ralph has been an educator, mentor, and generous supporter of numerous salmon conservation efforts both in the U.S. and Canada. His generous volunteerism is an inspiration to others, particularly fisheries scientists, teachers, children, and his fellow anglers who appreciate wild Atlantic salmon and the sport of fly fishing.”
Keef graduated from the University of Maine in Orono in 1955 with a Degree in Chemical Engineering. After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned to the University of Maine and in 1959 earned a MS Degree in Pulp and Paper Technology. Early in his career, he spent time working in the pulp and paper industry in southeastern Alaska. It was a significant time in his life, not only because of the experience he gained in two major pulp mill startups, using a more environmentally-friendly manufacturing process, but because that is where he met his Alaskan-born wife Allison.
Keef’s professional career included various management and consulting positions in paper mills located in Maine, Oregon, Nova Scotia, Quebec and New York. In his retirement, he and Allison moved to Hermon, Maine in 1994.
“From my university days, a goal was to work with pulp and paper companies that were committed to using newly developed processes, which reduce pollution of air, oceans and rivers, said Ralph C. Keef. “I am honored to receive this award and to be counted in the company of previous recipients.”
The Lee Wulff Award is presented annually in his memory. Lee Wulff was an angler, artist, author and filmmaker, who dedicated 60 years of his life to conserving wild Atlantic salmon and advocating live-release angling to help safeguard their future.
Note: Due to health reasons, Mr. Keef was unable to personally accept the Lee Wulff Award in New York City. It will be presented to him at an upcoming dinner in Maine in Spring of 2015.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation is dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon and the ecosystems on which their well-being and survival depend. ASF has a network of seven regional councils (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Maine and Western New England). The regional councils cover the freshwater range of the Atlantic salmon in Canada and the United States.
ASF Contact: Holly Johnson, Manager of Public Information: (506)529-1033(o)
(506)469-1033(c), HJohnson(at)asf(dot)ca
To view this story online visit: http://asf.ca/ralph-keef-the-2014-winner-of-lee-wulff-conservation-award.html
Join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AtlanticSalmonFederation Twitter: https://twitter.com/SalmonNews
For high-resolution photography please visit: the ASF Image Gallery: http://www.asf.ca/images.html Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.
St. Andrews, NB (PRWEB) November 13, 2014
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is pleased to announce that Ralph C. Keef of Hermon, Maine has been chosen as the 2014 recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award. Christopher H. Buckley Jr., Chairman of ASF’s U.S Board of Directors made the announcement today at an ASF board meeting in New York City.
In 1998, Keef was elected President of the Maine Council of ASF, serving in that capacity and then as a director for many years. He has participated in countless field activities with state and federal fisheries biologists including marking and tagging juvenile salmon, electrofishing, and monitoring fish counting facilities. He has provided testimony in support of state and federal agency budgets for Atlantic salmon conservation and research programs and acted as a member/advisor to the U.S. section of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) for 15 years.
Keef is a generous supporter of U.S. and Canadian organizations dedicated to the conservation of wild Atlantic salmon including Penobscot River Restoration Trust, Downeast Salmon Federation, ASF, and numerous Maine Atlantic salmon angling clubs. He has exhibited outstanding leadership in the ASF Live Release Program and donated thousands of hours over 15 years to the Fish Friends program enthusiastically recruiting teachers and schools to participate.
“It is an honor and pleasure to name Ralph C. Keef as this year’s recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award,” said Mr. Buckley. “For more than two decades, Ralph has been an educator, mentor, and generous supporter of numerous salmon conservation efforts both in the U.S. and Canada. His generous volunteerism is an inspiration to others, particularly fisheries scientists, teachers, children, and his fellow anglers who appreciate wild Atlantic salmon and the sport of fly fishing.”
Keef graduated from the University of Maine in Orono in 1955 with a Degree in Chemical Engineering. After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned to the University of Maine and in 1959 earned a MS Degree in Pulp and Paper Technology. Early in his career, he spent time working in the pulp and paper industry in southeastern Alaska. It was a significant time in his life, not only because of the experience he gained in two major pulp mill startups, using a more environmentally-friendly manufacturing process, but because that is where he met his Alaskan-born wife Allison.
Keef’s professional career included various management and consulting positions in paper mills located in Maine, Oregon, Nova Scotia, Quebec and New York. In his retirement, he and Allison moved to Hermon, Maine in 1994.
“From my university days, a goal was to work with pulp and paper companies that were committed to using newly developed processes, which reduce pollution of air, oceans and rivers, said Ralph C. Keef. “I am honored to receive this award and to be counted in the company of previous recipients.”
The Lee Wulff Award is presented annually in his memory. Lee Wulff was an angler, artist, author and filmmaker, who dedicated 60 years of his life to conserving wild Atlantic salmon and advocating live-release angling to help safeguard their future.
Note: Due to health reasons, Mr. Keef was unable to personally accept the Lee Wulff Award in New York City. It will be presented to him at an upcoming dinner in Maine in Spring of 2015.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation is dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon and the ecosystems on which their well-being and survival depend. ASF has a network of seven regional councils (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Maine and Western New England). The regional councils cover the freshwater range of the Atlantic salmon in Canada and the United States.
ASF Contact: Holly Johnson, Manager of Public Information: (506)529-1033(o)
(506)469-1033(c), HJohnson(at)asf(dot)ca
To view this story online visit: http://asf.ca/ralph-keef-the-2014-winner-of-lee-wulff-conservation-award.html
Join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AtlanticSalmonFederation Twitter: https://twitter.com/SalmonNews
For high-resolution photography please visit: the ASF Image Gallery: http://www.asf.ca/images.html Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.
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Hugh Grant Romantic Comedy ‘The Rewrite’ Acquired by Image Entertainment
Director Marc Lawrence's romantic comedy “The Rewrite,” starring Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei, has been acquired for distribution in the U.S. by Image Entertainment, the company announced Thursday.
“The Rewrite” marks the fourth collaboration between Grant and Lawrence, who previously directed the actor in “Music & Lyrics,” “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” and “Two Weeks Notice.”
*See photos:* Party Report at AFI Fest: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Ari Emanuel, Jessica Chastain, and a Mob (Photos)
Tomei, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Chris Elliott also star.
Grant plays a once-famous screenwriter who's fallen on hard times and begrudgingly takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small college. There he gets to know his students, including a single mom Holly, played by Tomei.
*Watch video:* Matthew McConaughey, Keanu Reeves, Hugh Grant Give Sandra Bullock ‘Decade of Hotness’ Award (Video)
“Hugh Grant and Marc Lawrence have a proven track record when it comes to successful films,” said Mark Ward, sr. vice-president of acquisitions at Image's parent company RLJ Entertainment. “With an all-star cast and a heartfelt script about the ups and downs of life and second chances, we are confident that loyal fans will embrace this film.”
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“The Rewrite” marks the fourth collaboration between Grant and Lawrence, who previously directed the actor in “Music & Lyrics,” “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” and “Two Weeks Notice.”
*See photos:* Party Report at AFI Fest: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Ari Emanuel, Jessica Chastain, and a Mob (Photos)
Tomei, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Chris Elliott also star.
Grant plays a once-famous screenwriter who's fallen on hard times and begrudgingly takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small college. There he gets to know his students, including a single mom Holly, played by Tomei.
*Watch video:* Matthew McConaughey, Keanu Reeves, Hugh Grant Give Sandra Bullock ‘Decade of Hotness’ Award (Video)
“Hugh Grant and Marc Lawrence have a proven track record when it comes to successful films,” said Mark Ward, sr. vice-president of acquisitions at Image's parent company RLJ Entertainment. “With an all-star cast and a heartfelt script about the ups and downs of life and second chances, we are confident that loyal fans will embrace this film.”
*Related stories from TheWrap:*
Adam Sandler's 'The Cobbler' Heading to Image Entertainment in $3.5 Million Deal
J.K. Simmons, Chris Elliot Board Untitled Hugh Grant Comedy
Hugh Grant Confirms: I'm a Dad Again, Now Leave Me Alone Reported by The Wrap 4 hours ago.
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Holly Holm injured, out of fight with Raquel Pennington at UFC 181
Holly Holm's much-anticipated UFC debut has been delayed a little longer. The former boxing champion has a neck injury and won't be able to compete at UFC 181.
Reported by FOX Sports 2 hours ago.
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Behind the Handshakes, Military Tensions Are Rising Between China and Its Neighbors
The president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, became the second of two close American allies (after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe) to shake hands with President Xi Jinping of China this week. Xi and Aquino shared promises to constructively manage tensions in the South China Sea, a promising step forward after several years of maritime incursions into territory both countries claim as their own.
Analysts say, however, the gesture, which came on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Beijing, may not entirely calm the waters.
"Don't take Asian security for granted," Robert Kaplan, the author of "Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific," said during a panel discussion at the Asia Society in New York on Wednesday. "There's too much tension."
There is a "naval, air, cyber, [and] high end arms race in East Asia," Kaplan said. "East Asia is as much a military climate as other parts of the world."
This does not mean there must be war, he cautioned. "More likely," he said, "what all of this means is that we are entering a more crowded, nervous, anxious world, a world more crowded with warships."
In this environment, he said, perceptions matter as much as action.
The Philippines in particular is anxious that China is out to thwart its ambitions, and control of the South China Sea could make all the difference.
"The Philippines is a poor nation," Kaplan said. "It's not like the Asian tiger economies. It's only starting its economic run. And there is a perception in the Philippines that the Chinese are going to steal their ability to become a middle class society because there's oil there."
*THE REAL DISPUTE IS NOT ABOUT RESOURCES*
And yet, the oil and gas that may or may not lie under the South China Sea are not the most important reason for these disagreements, the panelists said. "These disputes are not about energy at all," said Holly Morrow, a fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. "Nobody has any idea how much oil and gas is in the disputed areas of the South China Sea."
The disagreements, she insisted, were more about politics, power and image.
Nearly all the countries involved in the dispute have indulged in symbolic posturing. In 2012, Vietnam sent six Buddhist monks to revitalize -- and serve as abbots of --abandoned temples on islands in the Spratly archipelago, which China claims. Later, Philippine troops got together with their Vietnamese counterparts to play volleyball and drink beer on another island that China claims.
None of this went unnoticed in China, of course. Vietnamese and Philippine sailors and fishermen who have the misfortune to meet a Chinese coast guard cutter at sea in a disputed area are sometimes confronted by water cannons. In May, a Vietnamese fishing boat sunk after being rammed by a Chinese vessel.
Partly, this is intended as a message to Washington through its Asian allies, the panelists said. China, they said, continues to be nervous about American power and intentions in the Pacific, and with some justification. In the Chinese media, Zha Daojiong, a professor at Peking University, said via Livestream, there is "much imagining that America is just out there to get China."
Morrow elaborated: "If China's ambitions in Asia are to assert its dominance over its neighbors, to coerce its neighbors and eject the U.S., then the U.S. aim is to thwart Chinese ambitions. There are certain Chinese objectives that the U.S. is fundamentally in disagreement with."
The establishment of a legally binding agreement between claimants, with penalties to wrongdoers, is also fraught with complications.
"Who's going to verify whom?" Zha wondered. "How do you define status quo? And should one party be determined to have violated the status quo, what next? What resolution? A military effort to evict or to blast off a manmade structure? If you say it's legally binding, then you have to design the mechanism to make it binding. How do we enforce it? Whom will enforce it?"
*SHARED USE OF THE SEA*
In the end, the panelists agreed, the best of all possible outcomes would be an agreement on dual-and multi-use of disputed ocean territory. It's not a matter of drawing a line, they said, with China taking one side and Vietnam and the Philippines and other claimants taking other sides.
"Each side can have an equal amount of fishery rights, can equally divide the energy finds, whatever there may be," said Kaplan. "It's about use of the sea as much as it is where one state's sovereignty begins and one state's sovereignty ends." Reported by Huffington Post 21 minutes ago.
Analysts say, however, the gesture, which came on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Beijing, may not entirely calm the waters.
"Don't take Asian security for granted," Robert Kaplan, the author of "Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific," said during a panel discussion at the Asia Society in New York on Wednesday. "There's too much tension."
There is a "naval, air, cyber, [and] high end arms race in East Asia," Kaplan said. "East Asia is as much a military climate as other parts of the world."
This does not mean there must be war, he cautioned. "More likely," he said, "what all of this means is that we are entering a more crowded, nervous, anxious world, a world more crowded with warships."
In this environment, he said, perceptions matter as much as action.
The Philippines in particular is anxious that China is out to thwart its ambitions, and control of the South China Sea could make all the difference.
"The Philippines is a poor nation," Kaplan said. "It's not like the Asian tiger economies. It's only starting its economic run. And there is a perception in the Philippines that the Chinese are going to steal their ability to become a middle class society because there's oil there."
*THE REAL DISPUTE IS NOT ABOUT RESOURCES*
And yet, the oil and gas that may or may not lie under the South China Sea are not the most important reason for these disagreements, the panelists said. "These disputes are not about energy at all," said Holly Morrow, a fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. "Nobody has any idea how much oil and gas is in the disputed areas of the South China Sea."
The disagreements, she insisted, were more about politics, power and image.
Nearly all the countries involved in the dispute have indulged in symbolic posturing. In 2012, Vietnam sent six Buddhist monks to revitalize -- and serve as abbots of --abandoned temples on islands in the Spratly archipelago, which China claims. Later, Philippine troops got together with their Vietnamese counterparts to play volleyball and drink beer on another island that China claims.
None of this went unnoticed in China, of course. Vietnamese and Philippine sailors and fishermen who have the misfortune to meet a Chinese coast guard cutter at sea in a disputed area are sometimes confronted by water cannons. In May, a Vietnamese fishing boat sunk after being rammed by a Chinese vessel.
Partly, this is intended as a message to Washington through its Asian allies, the panelists said. China, they said, continues to be nervous about American power and intentions in the Pacific, and with some justification. In the Chinese media, Zha Daojiong, a professor at Peking University, said via Livestream, there is "much imagining that America is just out there to get China."
Morrow elaborated: "If China's ambitions in Asia are to assert its dominance over its neighbors, to coerce its neighbors and eject the U.S., then the U.S. aim is to thwart Chinese ambitions. There are certain Chinese objectives that the U.S. is fundamentally in disagreement with."
The establishment of a legally binding agreement between claimants, with penalties to wrongdoers, is also fraught with complications.
"Who's going to verify whom?" Zha wondered. "How do you define status quo? And should one party be determined to have violated the status quo, what next? What resolution? A military effort to evict or to blast off a manmade structure? If you say it's legally binding, then you have to design the mechanism to make it binding. How do we enforce it? Whom will enforce it?"
*SHARED USE OF THE SEA*
In the end, the panelists agreed, the best of all possible outcomes would be an agreement on dual-and multi-use of disputed ocean territory. It's not a matter of drawing a line, they said, with China taking one side and Vietnam and the Philippines and other claimants taking other sides.
"Each side can have an equal amount of fishery rights, can equally divide the energy finds, whatever there may be," said Kaplan. "It's about use of the sea as much as it is where one state's sovereignty begins and one state's sovereignty ends." Reported by Huffington Post 21 minutes ago.
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Stacey Hyde in court appeal today
Breaking news: Hyde gets murder conviction quashed - see here STACEY Hyde will be appearing in court today and tomorrow in an attempt to appeal her conviction and the life sentence attached to it. Hyde will be appearing at the Royal Courts of Justice. On September 4, 2009, Hyde, who was 17 at the time, stabbed Vincent Francis after a fight broke out between him and his partner, Holly Banwell, at the couple's address in Charter Way, Wells, after a night out drinking. When Hyde tried to...
Reported by Wells Journal 23 hours ago.
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Stacey Hyde murder conviction overturned
A WELLS woman who stabbed a friend's boyfriend to death has had her murder conviction quashed by Appeal Court judges. Stacey Hyde, now 22, knifed 34-year-old Vincent Francis at the house he shared with her friend, Holly Banwell, in Charter Way in the city in September 2009. She was just 17-and-a-half at the time of the killing, which she accepted she was responsible for. Hyde denied murder but was found guilty and jailed for life in March 2010 at Bristol Crown Court. But her conviction was...
Reported by Wells Journal 23 hours ago.
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Home of the Day: Resort Living at Home
By Carole Egloff, W.C. & A.N. Miller Bethesda All Points, a Long & Foster Company Home of the Day is presented by the Washington Business Journal with Long & Foster and Christie's International Real Estate. This is your invitation to view some of the D.C.'s most-luxurious properties. Come inside and take a look around. Click on the gallery image to view today's featured property. 4625 Holly Road, Rockville, MD 20853 | $1,645,000 One of the most distinctive homes in the popular Manor Country Club…
Reported by bizjournals 14 hours ago.
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Environmental groups like Duke Energy's coal-ash initiative — but want to see more
Following Duke Energy Corp.'s (NYSE:DUK) announcement Thursday of its plans to begin removing coal ash from N.C. sites, some environmental groups in the Charlotte area seem pleased to see movement on the issue. But they want to see more, and sooner rather than later, according to a report from Time Warner Cable News. Charlotte-based Duke says it will remove 5.1 million tons of coal ash from from four sites in North Carolina, including the Riverbend Steam Station at Mount Holly and the Dan River…
Reported by bizjournals 12 hours ago.
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The playlist: Americana a tour of Texas
The Lone Star state provides us with politicised southern rock, inventive post-rock and mystery instruments on this weeks playlist
In a couple of weeks, the Oxford American will publish its 16^th annual Southern Music issue. This year, the focus will be on the musical heritage of Texas from Waylon Jennings to Ornette Coleman via Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and the magazines cover stars, Guy and Susanna Clark. Among those featured on the accompanying 25-song CD is James McMurtry, the Texan-Virginian hybrid who has been recording since the late 80s and after a six year gap will release a new album, Complicated Game, early next year. This track hails from 2005s Childish Things, his most politically hard-knuckled record, which scored album of the year at the Americana awards in 2006. Named best song of the 2000s by legendary music critic Robert Christgau, We Cant Make It Here takes aim at the villains of modern America George W Bush and the Iraq war and Walmart and though the cast may have changed over the last decade, its remarkable how little the landscape has shifted. What I particularly love about it is McMurtrys voice, running like a dry riverbed through the musics rich southern rock landscape: Will work for food, will die for oil/Will kill for power and to us the spoils, he sings. The billionaires get to pay less tax/The working poor get to fall through the cracks.Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 5 hours ago.
In a couple of weeks, the Oxford American will publish its 16^th annual Southern Music issue. This year, the focus will be on the musical heritage of Texas from Waylon Jennings to Ornette Coleman via Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and the magazines cover stars, Guy and Susanna Clark. Among those featured on the accompanying 25-song CD is James McMurtry, the Texan-Virginian hybrid who has been recording since the late 80s and after a six year gap will release a new album, Complicated Game, early next year. This track hails from 2005s Childish Things, his most politically hard-knuckled record, which scored album of the year at the Americana awards in 2006. Named best song of the 2000s by legendary music critic Robert Christgau, We Cant Make It Here takes aim at the villains of modern America George W Bush and the Iraq war and Walmart and though the cast may have changed over the last decade, its remarkable how little the landscape has shifted. What I particularly love about it is McMurtrys voice, running like a dry riverbed through the musics rich southern rock landscape: Will work for food, will die for oil/Will kill for power and to us the spoils, he sings. The billionaires get to pay less tax/The working poor get to fall through the cracks.Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 5 hours ago.
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Channel24.co.za | Jennifer Lawrence and David Letterman sing a not so Holly Jolly Christmas song!
Watch Jennifer Lawrence and David Letterman sing a very bad rendition of a Christmas carol!
Reported by News24 6 hours ago.
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