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My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival

Someones obsessive Compulsive Guide to the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival 🙂

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Last updated 4/11 /14 11 AM (PT). Updated info in italics (including print info)

Here’s my favorite thing about the TCM Classic Film Festival, which kicks off on Thursday in Hollywood: there’s no right or wrong way to pick the movies you see. Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce – like Burger King in the ‘70s, the only right way is your way. 

This will be my fifth trip to the classic film conclave, which packs more than 100 screenings and events into 82 (mostly sleepless) hours in Hollywood. I’m just as excited as ever, but this year the typically torturous process of choosing my personal schedule was easier than in the past.

I used to lament the wealth of competing choices, secretly wishing we could go back to Year One in 2010 when the crowds were small and the options were few. Now I understand that the staggering…

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Jameson Cult Film Club Screening of The Usual Suspects, Cork (22nd April) and Galway (29th April)!

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Just as they did with Jaws and Snatch, the Jameson Cult Film Club are taking their screening of The Usual Suspects on the road. There’ll be screenings happening in Cork and Galway towards the end of the month, and – if you’re in the area – they come highly recommended as a celebration of classic film. (That goes double if you haven’t yet seen The Usual Suspects, which is one of the greatest modern noir films and probably director Bryan Singer’s greatest work.)

Indeed, the Irish chapter of the Jameson Cult Film Club launched with a screening of The Usual Suspects in 2011, making this something of a celebratory screening for the club. And a well-deserved one at that.

The full copy of the press release is below, but it is worth stressing that tickets to the event are completely free. They are assigned via a raffle, and…

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Hannibal‘s Hettienne Park Breaks Her Silence About Beverly’s ‘Shocking, Funny’ [Spoiler]

BLM Abruptly Ends Cattle Roundup In Nevada

Bureau of Land Management Abruptly Ends Cattle Roundup In Nevada.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the crowd then mobilized to force the BLM to free cattle already seized and were en route to a BLM corral outside Mesquite.
Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada issued a statement asking the crowd to returnhome and allow BLM employees to leave without interference.
Some 400 cows were gathered during the roundup that began a week ago, short of the BLM’s goal of 900 cows that it says were trespassing on public land.

Boston College Senior Dies After Being Struck By Two Cabs In NYC

Jesus the poor girl 😦 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

I’m back! And it’s time to get Really Real.

Real World Healthy

Remember back on my very first post how I said I was really bad at blogging? Well, I think I proved that to be true.  However, in my multi-month absence, I’ve noticed how much I feel I really need to write this blog. I keep getting bombarded by articles and people saying “you must do THIS to be healthy!” It’s as if there is only ONE correct way to achieve that elusive “healthy.” And that annoys me to no end.

So here, in my come-back blog…I am going to give you my opinions on some of those naysayers. Because it’s my blog and I can. It is not my intent to offend anybody or say anybody is wrong. I just want to point out why I think these things are NOT the end-all-be-all of health.

1. Shakeology

I’m a firm believer that you should be able to get all necessary…

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Real Helpful Holiday Eating Tips

Real World Healthy

If you Google “how to eat healthy during holidays,” you will get hundreds of tips and tricks eager to help you avoid packing on the holiday pounds. And they really mean well. I know when I hear “holiday weight gain,” I picture all of us blowing up like blimps with an extra 15-20lbs by January.

Luckily, it’s not that crazy. Recent studies show that the average amount of weight gained in America over the holidays is 1-2lbs per person (from mid-November thru mid-January). In fact, less than 10% of people gained more than 5lbs. So, first of all, it’s not as bad as we think it is. Second of all, even though those people have well-intentioned advice, almost none of it does me any good when piles of cookies comes calling. Here are a few of them I’ve heard over the years: stick to your healthy-eating-guns; eat an apple before…

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Women in Literary Studies network proposal by Sophie Duncan

 Dr Sophie Duncan is a 26-year-old theatre historian and writer, and also Fellow in English at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxfordis 

https://twitter.com/clamorousvoice/statuses/454176761719574529  paste the link into your brower to be taken to to the tweet

 

Best of luck with the  Women in Literary Studies network Dr Sophie Duncan

 

@djdave92, 

Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2014: what it wants to change in terms of assault cases: Anne Ferris T.D

An Bille um Chionta Neamh-Mharfacha in aghaidh and Duine
(Leasú), 2014
Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2014
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
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Dear DJ Dave92

Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2014

Purpose of Bill

The purpose of the Bill is to increase the maximum sentence for
assault causing harm from 5 years to 10 years. The proposal in the
Bill was previously contained in a private members Bill published by
Fine Gael in 2008, the Criminal Justice (Violent Crime Prevention)
Bill 2008, section 4. The explanatory memorandum to that Bill stated
that the current penalty ‘‘is disproportionally low for the scale of the
harm that can be encompassed in this category of assault and the
violence required to cause it. It is felt that such an increase is an
important deterrent element of a comprehensive approach to
preventing violent crime.‘‘
The objective of the bill is to provide equivalent protection for the
person as is provided for property. Under the Criminal Damage Act
1991, section 2, any damage to property however minor renders the
offender liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years. Thus, if a person
assaults another by, for example, breaking a glass in a pub on the
head of the injured party, the offender would be liable to up to 10
years imprisonment for criminal damage to the glass, but only 5 years
for injuring the victim. This anomaly should not be permitted to
continue and the Bill is designed to remove that anomaly.
The Bill needs to be seen in the context of the Government’s
measures to provide alternatives to imprisonment for minor
offenders such as a much more flexible regime in relation to
enforcement of fines. However imprisonment is an appropriate and
necessary response to violent crime and particularly to offences
against the person, whether the assaults in question are against
children, women, or men, some of which may have long-term
physical or psychological effects. These are nonetheless offences that
come within the category of assault causing harm (for which the
sentence is currently 5 years). The higher category of assault causing
serious harm currently attracts a maximum sentence of life
imprisonment, but this category is reserved only for the most serious
assaults. On that basis the rebalancing achieved by the Bill is
necessary and appropriate.
Provisions of Bill
Section 1 amends the maximum sentence for assault causing harm
from 5 years to 10 years.
Section 2 is a standard provision.
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Financial and regulatory implications.
There are no direct financial implications. There would be
incidental additional costs of longer sentences for some violent
offenders. These would be significantly outweighed by the saving of
costs to the community and Exchequer achieved by a reduction in
violent crime.
Anne Ferris T.D.,
Márta, 2014.