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Coastal Georgia Greenway
January 2, 2008
A group has been in the works for some time now to create a 450 mile trail system that connects Florida to South Carolina through 6 coastal Georgia Counties. Guess what bryan County is - that’s right! A coastal county. The other counties are Chatham, Camden, Glynn, Liberty and McIntosh. The venture includes participation from both public and private organizations. Looking at the minutes from the June 2007 meeting, it seems as though the project is also including some interior works addressing routes to schools. If you live in a neighborhood where the kids must walk/ride to school, this is probably very important to you. There is a joint meeting for the Chatham and bryan County Committees being held Monday, January 28, from 1 to 3 PM at Bamboo Farms and Coastal Gardens. You can find more information on the Coastal Georgia Greenway website.
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Drinks on Sunday
March 13, 2008
In case you missed it in yesterday’s edition of bryan County News, there has been a referendum submitted to the city. The measure would allow eateries in town to serve alcohol on Sundays - not the bars or the package stores - but places where you go to eat. The measure was proposed by the owner of Molly McPherson’s and supported by most of the related businesses. I would be interested to hear how you feel about it or if you have any questions related to the proposal.
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Uncle.  A simple word.  Yet complex. So what exactly is an uncle?  Here are a few qualifying criteria of an uncle… Your mother’s brother Your father’s brother Your mother’s sister’s husband Your father’s sister’s husband Don’t make me break out all of the step, half, in-law, common-law combinations…we’d be here all night. The point is that while we as adults easily understand what an Uncle is, it seems that the whole Uncle concept is confusing for two year olds…or at leat my two year old. Ace has three uncles…Uncle Brandon, Uncle Mike (or sometimes referred to as Uncle Munch), and Uncle Charlie. We have some family friends, that while not officially an Uncle, are around enough to have earned the glorified Uncle status.  These people would be…Uncle Jason,  Uncle Soichi, Uncle Shawn, and Uncle bryan (with a Y not an I, like Bee-Ryan). With all of these Uncles, it’s hard to believe that Ace has no real aunts…  (So if any of you single ladies out there are looking for a single Uncle…I got the hook up.  C’mon now for Ace’s sake…the poor boy is in Aunt-icipation)  So, why was I surprised…   Why was I surprised when he pointed at me said, “Uncle Daddy!”?
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Complete PRC Mechanical Engineering Board Exam Passers Results List - October 2008
Posted on | October 18, 2008
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This is the complete PRC Mechanical Engineering Board Exam Passers Results List for October 2008. This list is a bit long so I suggest you to press keys in your keyboard “Ctrl + F”. This will enable to find your name faster. Get more Board Exams update delivered to your inbox just by subsribing for free, Enter your Email below: Mechanical Engineer Licensure Board Examination Passers List Seq. No. Name 1 A-AYO, FER CLYDE LOPEZ 2 AARON, JOEMARIE CATEDRILLA 3 ABABON, REY JOHN BAJO 4 ABAR-ABAR, ALLAN AGUILAR 5 ABAYARI, MARK ANTHONY DE GUZMAN 6 ABAYON, EDUARDO JR FLOTILDES 7 ABELEDA, ADELYN BRISONA 8 ABESAMIS, RICKY MARTIN ZABALLERO 9 ABITRIA, ROGER III AZUPARDO 10 ABOUJAFARI, WILSON GLODO 11 ABRENICA, BAHRRY BALIWAG 12 ABRES, DANIEL SUSON 13 ABRICA, ARLENE BENDAÑO 14 ABRIGO, JOSHUA JADIE 15 ABUEVA, JUN REY AMBROSIO 16 ACASIO, OLIVER TAN 17 ACAYLAR, ARCHIE MAQUILING 18 ACEDO, MARIO GINO BOMEDIANO 19 ACELAJADO, HARRY MENDOZA 20 ACOSTA, DENSYL IBARDOLASA 21 ACOSTA, JOHN ALEX TIRAO 22 ADA, KRISTIAN ARVIN LICOS 23 ADAP, JEFFREY VILLEGAS 24 ADIO, JULIE ANNE RIVERA 25 ADRIANO, KING WEBSTER MONTEMAYOR 26 ADVINCULA, MIGUEL CASTILLO 27 ADVINCULA, RAMIL OBEDOZA 28 AGBUGGO, RICHARD TUDIO 29 AGCAOILE, WARENE FRANCIS MANALO 30 AGCAOILI, SHERWIN LINTAG 31 AGNO, ARIEL ESTRELLANA 32 AGOSTO, SIDNEY CIRUJALES 33 AGOYAOY, MARK ANTHONY GUALBERTO 34 AGUADO, JESSA DOYOLA 35 AGUILAR, ANTHONY NUÑEZ 36 AGUILAR, DENNIS MORALES 37 AGUILAR, JONATHAN TEE 38 AGUIRRE, BENSTHER JOHN DE TORRES 39 ALAGOS, JOHN CARLOS SOLOMON 40 ALANGUI, RUEL MARRERO 41 ALBUDIN, JERVIS KARLO ALGENIO 42 ALCANTARA, HENDERSON PUNZALAN 43 ALCANTARA, MELVIN REBANCOS 44 ALCAZAR, J VILLANUEVA 45 ALCORIZA, GERWIN CREDO 46 ALFORNON, MARKMELL ENCINA 47 ALILI, RYAN CARILLO 48 ALIPIO, LAURENZ ALDRIN GONZALES 49 ALIPIO, RENDERF RESURRECCION 50 ALMAREZ, MARVIN VICO Seq. No. Name 51 ALMOROS, JESSTHER DE VILLA 52 ALVARADO, ALFREDO JR IMPUESTO 53 AMANCA, JAMES ALLAN YABUT 54 AMBAT, RAMON JR DIMAALA 55 ANDANAR, ANSELMO JR ALMIA 56 ANDRES, ADRIANNE KING MANTES 57 ANG, FRANCIS ERNEST RENTASIDA 58 ANG, RAYMOND BASA 59 ANGAY, ROMICOR RAMOS 60 ANGELES, MANALYN AIRA PANALIGAN 61 ANGNOWEN, ALEX KAG-ARENG 62 ANILAO, WILSON JR TESORO 63 ANSELMO, VON VERNON SULLANO 64 ANTONI, EULER CAIDIC 65 ANTONIO, ANDREW LAWRENCE CAMACHO 66 ANZA, JEFFERSON LACSA 67 ARABIT, ALEXANDER MEMBREBE 68 ARANAS, REY MAGTIBAY 69 ARANDILLA, GIOVANNI DELA CRUZ 70 ARANETA, VERNON PHILIP JOCSON 71 ARANTE, MAE LARRAGA 72 ARCALES, KIM bryan CENITA 73 ARCHIVAL, NOLINEIL DALTON 74 ARELLANO, MA EDELYN BECBEC 75 AREVALO, MARK LLORCA 76 ARGOS, RONALD SALGADO 77 ARGUEZA, JERRY SAKAY 78 ARIÑO, JOSHUA BUENSUCESO 79 ARMAS, JOSELITO ASUNCION 80 ARROYO, JULIUS CEAZAR ROSALES 81 ARSENIO, HASAM OSTING 82 ARSITIO, FRANK VINCENT RIVERA 83 ARTATES, CHESTER ICBAN 84 ASPILLA, JOFEL ESTOLE 85 ASTIDA, JINNEL CARDONA 86 ASTORGA, RONALD DELASAS 87 ATAMOSA, MIKE SOLITANO 88 ATIENZA, CHRISTOPHER MAGHIRANG 89 AURILLAS, JUAN ERNESTO REFERENTE 90 AVENIR, JOHN EDUARD MASICLAT 91 AVEÑO, MARILYN DIZON 92 AVISADO, AL-JHAMES HENRY CUARTOCRUZ 93 AYUSON, ALEXANDER FELIX BRAVO 94 AZURIN, ERIK ERMITAÑO 95 AÑONUEVO, JAYRO ROQUE 96 AÑOSO, JOHN ARCY DECHAVEZ 97 BABASORO, JEFFERY VILLUAN 98 BACALSO, BENJAMIN JR OCA 99 BACAY, ALDRICK VERDEE ELLOREN 100 BACENA, CHRISTOPHER BAUTISTA Seq. No. Name 101 BACON, JOE CARLO ENOC 102 BAGAYBAGAYAN, GIL FUENTES 103 BAGSIT, MARK PAUL CERDENIOLA 104 BAGTAS, APRIL JOY VELONTA 105 BAHILLO, MARY GRACE AMBOY 106 BAILON, RALPH KRISTIAN SACDALAN 107 BALBAR, ANGELO BOQUIREN 108 BALBARONA, JONEL CANELA 109 BALBERONA, MICHAEL JR BUSAING 110 BALDERAS, LITO JAY BIGAYAN 111 BALDIVINO, ROMER RACRAQUIN 112 BALILI, FRANCIS CUESTA 113 BALINO, KRIS bryan HERNANDEZ 114 BALLAD, JOHN FERNANDO BOLANDO 115 BALLESTEROS, CHRIS IAN APATAN 116 BALTAZAR, RENZ MARION PONCE 117 BALURAN, MELMAR BATICAN 118 BALUS, ALMER BOOC 119 BAMBA, CHRISTIAN DAVIS ESPINOSA 120 BANAAG, JOEL JOHN JR SIPOCOT 121 BANGCO, CHRIS OLIVER SANICO 122 BANZON, VIRGO TIGAS 123 BARIT, bryan OACDAAN 124 BARRETE, FRANZ RONALD IDO 125 BARRETO, ADRIAN GARCIA 126 BARRETTO, ROBBIE NOEL ORTIZ 127 BARRIDA, ANDREW CRISOSTOMO 128 BATAGON, BERNARD BERNEO 129 BATARRA, BORIS ALBURT CASAPAO 130 BAUN, DRICK CORTEZ 131 BAUTISTA, JOEL MILAR 132 BAUTISTA, REY GIL TORREGOSA 133 BAYAN, FRENCHZIER SANTOS 134 BEATO, MERWIN LOZANO 135 BELGIRA, CHRISTOPHER DELDO 136 BENSING, RICHARD RODRIGUEZ 137 BENZON, MARK RAYMOND CABRERA 138 BERMUDO, MARIANO ORTESA 139 BERNABE, DANILO JR SABINO 140 BERNARDO, ANTONIO JR MENDOZA 141 BERNARDO, CHRISTINE CHRISTEL BERNARTE 142 BERNARDO, ELIZABETH ROMERO 143 BESAÑEZ, JUPITER GARCIA 144 BINAG, CHRISTIAN JAMES SAN PEDRO

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PRC Chemical Engineering Board Exam Results, Passers For November 2008
Posted on | November 8, 2008
Category: Board Exams
Here is the list of successful Chemical Engineering Board Examinees for the PRC Chemical Engineering Board Exam for November 2008. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said that 308 out of 577 or 53.38% passed the Chemical Engineer Licensure Examination. PRC Chemical Engineering Board Exam passers list Seq. No. N a m e ABAD, JAYZEE HAROLD ROQUE ABARCA, RALF RUFFEL MERCADO ABELLA, JAN MARC TIAMZON ABLEN, RHEA JABALLA ABUNDO, CRES ANN GALENZOGA ACILADOR, MARY GRACE ASUNCION ACOBA, ZAR FRANCISCO ADVINCULA, BRIDGETON LOMBOY AGBUYA, JASPER SEVILLA AGUADO, JEMMA ROSE KATIGBAK AJERO, ALVIN WATE ALBAO, SHYR LYNN DESALES ALBARINA, JOSHUA REY SAAVEDRA ALCALA, RUBEN JR ESPINAS ALCANTARA, JERICO ZARSUELO ALCANTARA, RUPERT KITT PUZON ALDON, BERNADETTE TEÑOSO ALEJANDRINO, ROSE ANNE LAPIRA ALFAJARO, ARNOLD CHRISTOPHER CALINISAN ALFECHE, RONDEL BOLONGAITA ALI, VON KARMEL NERVAL ALI, YUSSOF CALIM ALIVIO, JEZEL TUDTUD ALLA, ALLAN JONSON ALMAIDA, BRENNAN ALBA BANTUGON ALO, REZY ROSE ALMIRA ALO, STEPHEN BATOY ALTAR, DALE EMET SABATER ALTAREJOS, GENNELL CUADRA ALVAREZ, DANICA MARIE ONG AMBIONG, FARINA MARIVIC TABISORA AMPONIN, JOHN LLOYD MIRABUENOS ANIT, GIANINA MARTHA ANGAT ANTONIO, JUAN PAULO MAGPANTAY APAO, MARVIN RAMOS APAS, BERNICE RIEZA CASTIL ARBOLEDA, ELIZABETH NEPOMUCENO ARMEÑA, FRANCIS PHILLIP GUADAMOR ARON, EMELIANO JR VIRTUDAZO ATENCIO, PEPITO JR BENITEZ AUNARIO, JOSEMARI DAUZ AVILA, KARMELA CESISTA AYUYANG, JADE AGUINALDO BACANTO, SHERWIN PEDRAJAS BACEA, REY CAMARIÑAS BAGUIO, RALPH VALLADORES BALAN, JAN REYNOLD QUICOY BALDONAZA, MARY GLOBERT FRIAS BARTOLO, EMILY ANN AGUILAR BASIO, VON IVAN MIRANDA BATHAN, RICKY SANGALANG BAUTISTA, RICABELLE HABITO BAUTISTA, ZITA ANNE EVANGELISTA BELARMINO, GERIC VON PEÑA BENDOY, KELVIN LOUIE GUIMARY BERGANIO, KRISTOFFER ALDY BAUTISTA BERMEJO, JOENY QUIJANO BERTULFO, JAMES DANIEL CASTRO BICOL, ERUEL TRIVIÑO BOLAÑOS, MABELLE ISABEDRA BOLO, KIRSTENE MAE REDITA BONAGUA, CHRIS EMMAN BENOSA BONGALON, MILANIE BRUTAS BOÑAGA, ROMYLYN MUIT BRAVO, RENSON AVRIL ADRIANO BROWN, ERNILYN BORJA BUCAY, FLORAMIE LAPINGCAO BUENA, ANDREW ELIGIUS MABULAY CABAEL, JOHN ANRICK ALDEGUER CABAHUG, MARIA REGINA SEQUIÑO CABILDO, MARJORIE ARCAINA CABONCE, KAREN VERNON SARAUS CABRERA, JENELYN NARAG CABRILLAS, HANNAH MARIE ALMOJUELA CABUAG, ROGER ALFRED VALENZUELA CACHO, LORRAINE ORTEGA CALAD, MICHAELA MATEO CALLEJA, DERWIN GARCIA CALLOS, VICTOR MIRABUENO CAMARIG, JEMARK PENETRANTE CAPAN, NYMPA DONNA MURALLA CAPIRAL, GILFRED ABIOL CAPUNO, ROSA BUENA ADANAN CARACAS, NARICHU MARFA CARBONEL, GLORY MEI DELA CRUZ CARIAGA, CARLO ACE GALICINAO CARIG, AUDREY JORINA PALISOC CARPIO, MADISON FAJARDO CAS, CHRISTINE REGASPI CASTILLO, ROWENA SISON CELESTIAL, MYLENE TRILLANES CHAVEZ, KRIZ DIATE CHOI, VAN WEILY KAH CHUA, BRIANT SIY CHUA, GLEZEL BULALAQUE CHUA, STEPHANIE NICOLE SEVILLA CO, DANA MAE SANTOS COBO, CEILO FABRO COGAY, RHEA GLAIZA BATHAN COILAN, TONI ROSE JOSE CONSTANTINO, JOANNE UNCIANO CONSUELO, MAILYN COMPETENTE CORSINO, WINDY BOY RUBAC COSTELO, ENGILBERT ARJONA CRUZ, JEREMIAS JR VALERO CRUZ, ROCHELLE DE SILVA CRUZ, RONALD JR CONSORTE CU, GUIA PAULINE UMALI CUERQUIS, ROSE ANN CRISTINA RAMOS CUIZON, CHURCHELLE BANTILAN DAFUN, DARYL JEFFREY QUINAN DARROLES, EMERSON BALUBAR DE GRACIA, ARLINE TOLIN DE LEON, EILEEN MONICA CENTENO DE PERALTA, SHAYNE CATHLEEN CHUA DE RAMOS, ANA RENEE MAGAT DE TORRES, JON JON MAGADIA DELA RAMA, RENE RUSSELL SASAM DELOS SANTOS, RUSHELL ROWENA TACARDON DESUCATAN, LEONARDO VILLACERAN DIAMANTE, DONNA MAE OLIVEROS DINGLASA, LOUELA RECHARL UNGAB DIZON, DIANA JINA TAMAYO DOLIENTE, STEPHEN SALVE DU, JOCELYN PALOMO DU, JOSEPHINE IBON OLICIA DYCOCO, RAISSA ESTRADA EBREO, JENNY DELA ROSA EDUAVA, KEITH ARLEIGH MACABUDBUD ELEMOS, MARIA MARICRIS TORREDA ENCANTO, MARIA CORAZON CORPUZ ERMAC, RYAN PASASADABA ESCAMA, MAE ANGELINE LUMALANG ESPINO, ALEXANDER ESPERIDA ESPIRITU, PAUL FRANCIS MENDOZA ESTERA, FLORO JR ESTILLERO ESTRADA, MARIA KATRINA CATAPANG ETULLE, RHEZA LEAH APOSTOL EZEMA, HYACINTH JR ESTOJERO FABALEÑA, HARVY MANLISIS FABIC, CHRISTINE SORIO FABROS, ALDEN FERDINAND CACAL FALAGNE, KRISTINE SUPERLATIVO FELICIANO, JENIFER NUEVA FERRER, PRIMA JOY GUIYAB FLORES, ELOISA MADERAL FRANCISCO, FRIEZELL THESS SAGARAL FUNELAS, LIZA AUREA DESOLO GABAYOYO, REJEAN LOMOGDANG GABRIEL, MARY JOSEPHINE VILLAVERDE GALANG, LARED ROMMEL EUFEMIO GALEDO, JOSEPH BENJAMIN MANIGBAS GAMALONG, NEZEN BORBON GAMMUAC, MARIA CARMINA MERCADO GARCIA, HERCULES SALVADOR GAVIOLA, APRIL MICHALEI LOZADA GECAIN, MA KRISTINA REYNO GO, CATHERINE CANDA GO, LUKE ALBERT MEDINO GOMEZ, CHRESTA NIÑA LAO GONZALES, JAMES PHILIP ABASTILLAS GONZALGO, MARK ANTHONY GRASPELA GUANLAO, ANJELIKA MAE SALIGAO GUANTES, LOREBEL GARCIA GUERRERO, GINO APOLLO MARAJAS GUEVARRA, NORMAN GIOVANNI MOLINA GUIEB, FRANCE ANGELY BADUA GUTAY, ERWIN BORITO HADLOCON, LARA JANE SEBUC HAMMOND, JESSICA ANN ALVIAR HERNANDEZ, MAUREEN VERGARA INFANTE, VON SAULO MARANAN INOC, KENNETH NAYA ITURIAGA, MERCY LIZA SANTOS JABONERO, CHERRY ANNE MATAS JACINTO, ELAINE MARY CARLOS JAMOSALE, YRONA CORONADO JUNCO, JEFFREY CENTENO KEH, ANNA KARMELA BIBAT KING, MERCH DOMINGO LEONG LA PEÑA, JEORIDY DAYAG LAGMAN, MIA MARIE GAMBOA LAGUARDIA, CARLA MARGARET PEREZ LAMOSTE, JOYCE ALMONIA LANSANGAN, MARIE CECILLE DAYRIT LAPADA, CATHERINE MILLO LARDIZABAL, RON VINCENT MAAÑO LASCANO, RAYSON ADRIANO LAUDATO, BRETT TAGALOG LAURITO, BENITO JR ACOSTA LEOPOLDO, PAUL ANTHONY GEALON LOPEZ, APRIL ALLETHA MARQUEZ MACAPAGAL, LOLITA PAULINA ISON MACARAIG, HAIDENEL HERNANDEZ MACARAIG, MARK EVANS CAÑARES MACATO, ANDREA DISCAYA MADERA, ABEGAIL BEO MAGPANTAY, JULIUS MERCADO MAGSINO, LOWELIN DE VILLA MAHANDOG, PATRICK VAL IMBANG MAKINANO, REMELOU ELUDO MALIBIRAN, MARK ANGELO OMPOY MALONES, JOHN MARVIN CABUGUASON MANSING, CARYL JOYCE SIBUG MARCIAL, MA ELAINE COMBES MARQUEZ, LORRIELYN PIÑEZ MATAYA, MARLENE LIGAYA MATIRA, EMMANUELA MARTINEZ MAYOL, ANTHONY ALIVIADO MELLINA, CHESTER DE CHAVEZ MEMBREVE, HAZEL VEGAFRIA MENCHAVEZ, RUSSEL NAVARRO MENDIOLA, APRIL SHOWER MAGNO MERIA, CHIARA FAYE ABUG MILLANO, KRISTINE ANGELA BINOS MOLINA, JERIC SALUBRE MONTECLARO, JULIAN CHASE QUIAMBAO MONTEROSO, VINCENT PAUL GUPIT MONTOYA, JANINA KRIZELLE DEANG MORALES, JOSEPHINE SEÑERES MOYA, ORESTES ARAGON NAGMA, CHRISTOPHER DIAZ NATIVIDAD, NOEL REY LAZALITA NAVALES, DEXTER JACQUEZ NICOLAS, ROSEMARY PEREZ NUDALO, ROSIE 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January 4, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Table of Content [Hide] 1 CakePHP 1.2 beta 2 Trac changes 3 Google group topics 3.1 How to find referrer url? 3.2 Will CakePHP be able to survive as the Zend Framework matures? 3.3 Upgrade problems 3.4 Table inheritance, multiple schemas, and associations 3.5 Depricated ListControllers 3.6 OthAuth looses session – upgrading to new 1.2.0.6311 (2008) 3.7 Themes management for an app ? 3.8 Cakephp with PHP 5 and Mysql 5 3.9 Bug for find('All' 3.10 CakeFest website Launched 3.11 Bakery hates me 3.12 Require SSL for entire site? Welcome to the first issue of CakePHP Weekly Summary. Below you’ll find all sorts of interesting topics that were discussed on the CakePHP mailing list and on SVN. This week alot happened, but the biggest news is that CakePHP 1.2 have entered BETA phase, and with that – we are close to a feature (API) freeze of the 1.2 branch. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• CakePHP 1.2 beta Yes, finally it happened. Please look at my post about the . Trac changes Changeset #6288 (gwoo) Added support for stored procedues in DboMysqli, fixes Ticket #2340 Changeset #6289 (gwoo) Updating controller task with i18n wrappers, closes Ticket #3490 Changeset #6290 (nate) Updating help text for ACL shell interface, fixes Ticket #3790 Changeset #6291 (phpnut) Moved merging of components, helpers, and uses vars to Controller::_mergeVars(); fixes bug with PluginAppController? vars not being merged before components are loaded. Fixed Ticket #3760 Changeset #6292 (phpnut) Missing keys when Model merges actsAs. Fixed Ticket #3786 Changeset #6293 (nate) Adding quoting and name-resolving fields in TreeBehavior. Fixed Ticket #3778 Changeset #6295 A few new exciting features was pushed into the repository: Model::generateList() was deprecated, and replaced by the new 1.2 cake find syntac. Model::find(’list’) Model::saveAll() was enhanced to save multiple records and associated records Some transactional methods (begin, commit, rollback) was added to DataSource class as well bindModel now support to change the bind settings on the fly if the model has already been bound Fixed Ticket #3720, Ticket #2355, Ticket #3615 Changeset #6296 Implemented Validation::extension(); and Vaidation::range(); Fixed Ticket #2897 Changeset #6297 Some optimization in code. Fixed Ticket #3653 Changeset #6298 Adding test for root path caching. Fixed Ticket #1349 Changeset #6299 Adding full join model support. Fixed Ticket #828, Ticket #1045 Changeset #6300 Adding Debugger::log and test cases. Fixed [ticket tixed 995] Changeset #6301 CSRF usability problems, Security Component and multiple instances of the webapp. Fixed Ticket #2608, Ticket #3436 Changeset #6302 Adding new URL to validation test Changeset #6303 Renaming domains in test to generic names Changeset #6304 Fixing Model::find(’list’) when using self-joins Changeset #6306 Refactoring, fixing SessionComponent test, adding String::tokenize() Changeset #6307 Adding regular expression support to Set::extract() [ Set::map($data, '{s}.{n}.{[0-9]} ]. Fixed Ticket #3263 Changeset #6308 Fixing paths returned by Debugger::trimPath(); Changeset #6309 Fixing paths in debugger tests Changeset #6310 Fixing paths in debugger tests Changeset #6312 Adding String class to shell boostrap. Fixed Ticket #3793 Changeset #6313 Fixing JavascriptHelper::link() for script files outside of webroot/js (i.e. plugins). Fixed Ticket #3799 Changeset #6314 Removing unused directories from app/pages. Merging changes from app/ to skel/ Changeset #6315 Fixing after filters for Model::find(’list’). Fixed Ticket #3805 Changeset #6316 Updating TimeHelper. Fixed Ticket #3801 Changeset #6317 Bug in hasAndBelongsToMany. Fixed Ticket #3814 Changeset #6320 updating Set::map() handling of deeply nested arrays, thanks to speedmax for an updated test case. Fixed Ticket #3809 Google group topics How to find referrer url? A guy called ‘krr’ opened a question how to find referrer url?, and Daniel Hofstetter quickly replied that Controller::referer() would return the referer. Will CakePHP be able to survive as the Zend Framework matures? The framework war ignited yet again when “Action” created Will CakePHP be able to survive as the Zend Framework matures?. Upgrade problems Following the release of 1.2 beta “Mech7″ Upgrade problems after upgrading his application to the new beta verion. Chris Hartjes quite replied that Mech7 should check his apache and php error logs. Mech7 however, quickly replied that the error was solved (after only 9 minutes), and his solution was to clear the app/tmp/cache folder in this app. I had however already written a list of steps I follow when my application suffers from the White Screen Of Death: Check that debug > 0 Clear app/tmp/cache/persistent/* Check local vhost error log Check global httpd-error log Restart apache, (stop, start), restart cache services (memcached ect.) Enter the world of die(’stop’); from app/webroot/index.php and downward in your application Table inheritance, multiple schemas, and associations Brian had a interesting question, well, for us postgresql users at least, table inheritance, multiple schemas, and associations. There we no response to this thread, but after a few hours, he returned with a working solution, very interesting stuff. Depricated ListControllers Ronald Chaplin asked what the ‘new’ way was in 1.2 to get a list of controllers in your application, since 1.2 had Depricated ListControllers ( listClasses( CONTROLLERS ); ). He had tried Configure::listObjects(’controller’, ‘/app/controller’);, but without success. Arno Esterhuizen quickly pointed Ronald in the right direction, the CakePHP 1.2 api OthAuth looses session – upgrading to new 1.2.0.6311 (2008) Klaus had a problem, othAuth looses session – upgrading to new 1.2.0.6311 (2008), but so far no replies, might be a local issue on his setup? Themes management for an app ? Max asked if anyone had a component/helper for Themes management for an app ?. Tarique shamelessly pointed to his own blog, where there is quick guide on how to make cakephp use ThemeView. Cakephp with PHP 5 and Mysql 5 One of the too often asked questions on the group was asked yet again, Cakephp with PHP 5 and Mysql 5, and yes. CakePHP works fine with both MySQL5 and PHP5!!. Its rather funny, or sad depending on who you are, that the same questions is asked over and over on the googlegroups…. I’m sure the CakePHP guys chose google for a reason Bug for find('All' Another of repeating posts on the mailing list is the “I think I have found a bug” or just bug for find('All' in this case. And as always, people always point directly to Trac bugtracket, as its the one and only place to submit possible bugs.. CakeFest website Launched Mariano Iglesias announced that the CakeFest website Launched! There was no replies or reactions on the list, I just hope that people did not overlook this little gem Bakery hates me Adam Royle claimed that “bakery hates me“, because he was not able to comment on a bakery article. Mariano Iglesias was quick to point to tracwebsite, but a Dr. Hannibal Lecter was snappy, and said “I don’t think posting links to Trac solves anything, it is a fact that bakery has many issues (some minor and some..not so minor). Some things should be seriously reconsidered and rewritten. But that’s just my 2c.”. As much as Chris Hartjes agreed with Dr. Hannibal Lecter, he pointed out the important fact that trac is still the one and only place for bugs on cakephp related projects. Dr. Hannibal Lecter hoped that someone from the core team was following the group, since it wouldn’t be very (And I quote) “userfriendly community” if they didnt. Dr. Tarique Sani (Whats up with all those doctors?) replied that it was unfair against the php team to mark the community less userfriendly because users finding bugs wouldn’t bother to create tickets on trac, and just posting the errors on the mailing list. And FWIW my personal experience is that posting in trac works Adam Royle said that the reason why he hadn’t posted a bug report on trac yet was because he didn’t like opening tickets without a patch or solid way to reproduce the error. Dr. Hannibal Lecter returned a apologized that it was not his intention to be unfair against the CakePHP team, and that he really appreciated their efforts. He was however puzzled that the creators of such a great framework as CakePHP would neglect The Bakeryand made a rather good point: If new users use the bakery, and its full of errors, what would they think of the underlying framework as well? Adam Royle returned to the discussion and tried to get answers on his two original questions He was unhappy wit the quality of this article on the bakery What version of cake is the bakery running on? (1.2 pre-historic afaik) Chris Hartjes, our favorite grumpy Canadian, closed the thread with a few harsh comments I’m not going to quote here Larry E. Masters aka PhpNut posted his announcement on the new 1.2 beta at: New Year, New Beta, that received a few “thanks”, but nothing else of interested. Require SSL for entire site? bryan Encina asked if it was possible to Require SSL for entire site?. His own idea was to check $_SERVER['HTTPS'] in his AppController, and then redirect based on this. Chris Hartjes questioned the safety of $_SE

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The ANPW contest winners, Pros, and I were up bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning at 5am, hoping to catch a beautiful dawn in Grand Teton Ntl. Park. The actual workshop *learning Aperture* was to begin later, but at first light, the students split up into two groups to take some pictures. I trucked it to Oxbow Bend with Pros: Scott Stulberg & Steve Simon; and contest winners, Richard and Bryan. Everyone came prepared for the cold, except Steve, who was a bit whiny and runny nosed, kinda like a baby who's had their lollipop ripped outta their tiny little hands by a mean photographer trying to capture pure misery and tears. I guess Steve is like me, you know, "they mostly come out at night... mostly" aka morning is for sleeping, afternoons are for eating breakfast. Scott was determined to get a great shot, so we headed down this step muddy hill to the bank of Snake River. And then we set up our tripods, then everyone laughed at mind and pushed me in the mud... well they didn't exactly push me in the mud, but I bet they wanted too,. Jerks. *huff* Then we pointed our lenses at the iconic view and waited. And waited. No interesting light seemed to be happening on Mt. Moran, but suddenly a slight miss of fog started floating just above the water line behind us. No one else was worried about the immediate appearance of Death Eaters, but I methodically started chanting the Patronus Charm in my head and heart. As the fog began to roll, As the fog began to roll, Scott jumped and “yahooed”, changing his camera direction to started shooting the rolling fog and silhouetted trees against the wispy, pink sky. It was a great lesson in always looking for shots, even when you are waiting for a sunrise to happen, look around, there maybe a great shot just waiting to be found like, a silhouetted bird in the distance, or a line of photographers tripods all in a row, or even interesting shots of reflected trees in the water. Everyone was carefully switching lenses near the water, and Scotty reminded us to always keep one hand on your tripod near water. He has tragically lost two cameras in the water, so let him be the lesson for all of us. Scott Bourne lead Catherine and Rob to Schwabacher Landing, but immediately left when no clouds were present because without clouds, landscape shots fall a bit flat. So, they headed up the road past the landing at Teton Overlook and grabbed some amazing panoramic shots of the Southern Tetons. Rob disappeared from the group with Martin aka the "Aperture Guru" for a while and ran into a crazy one horned elk. After breakfast, the workshop got in full gear at the beautiful Jackson Arts center where Martin blew our minds with the dynamic power of Aperture. We imported our images, learned how to compare and select our favorites, and generally found out that Aperture can do most of the things we used to do in Photoshop, but it's waaaay less complicated. I'll do a dedicated post on Aperture in the next few days so you guys can see how cool it is. What photo management & editing application do you use?
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Nun ist es endlich soweit, wir haben den Gewinner der Windows Home Server Add-In Idea Challenge 2009 gefunden! In den vergangenen zwei Wochen haben einige tausend Besucher des Blogs ihre Stimme für einen der zehn Finalisten der Challenge abgegeben und zusammen mit den letzen Bewertungen des HSB Add-In Teams wurde ein Gewinner bestimmt! Hier nun die Platzierung: Home Calendar, Tasks, Contacts (Jared Finkenbinder) Beschreibung: Das Add-In sollte gemeinsame Datenspeicher benützen, um Daten zwischen verschiedenen Anwendungen wie Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Entourage, etc auszutauschen. Es stellt keinen E-Mail Server bereit, sondern ist einfach ein Weg um eine zentrale Datenbank für freigegebene, gemeinsame Termine in der Familie oder im Home Office zu haben. Run TV cards on WHS, controlled from MCE clients (Sven Halling) Beschreibung: Ermöglicht dem WHS TV-Karten (MediaCenter kompatibel) zu betreiben, um TV direkt in den WHS Speicher aufzunehmen und von jedem Client (MediaCenter oder anderer), der ans Netzwerk angeschlossen ist, abzuspielen. Planung von Aufnahmen sollte von jedem MediaCenter PC, der am WHS angeschlossen ist, möglich sein. Damit bekommen wir eine richtige vernetzte TV-Funktion, die auch Energie spart (da der WHS der einzige Rechner ist, der immer laufen muss). Photo Manager Beschreibung: Eine Fotoanwendung die mithilft, die Fotos besser zu organisieren, damit sie einfach zu sortieren sind und das, wonach man sucht, einfacher zu finden ist. Dies würde eine Gesichtserkennungssoftware beinhalten, um alle Fotos mit einer bestimmten Person zu finden, wo man sonst alle Albums durchsuchen müsste. Windows Live Skydrive Add-In Beschreibung: Die Hauptidee dieses Add-Ins ist es, einen automatisierten Weg bereitzustellen, um Ordner auf dem Home Server zu überwachen und automatisch nach Windows Live Skydrive zu sichern, welches 25GB freien Speicherplatz bereitstellt. WHS Windows Update Manager (Rob Cassie) Beschreibung: Erlaubt Benutzern die zentrale Verwaltung von Windows Updates für alle angeschlossenen PCs von der Konsole aus. Time Machine (Simon Needham) Beschreibung: Einfache, vollständig einsatzbereite Unterstützung für den Speicher für OS X Time Machine. Automatic Add-In Updater (Erik Madsen) Beschreibung: Ein Add-In, das automatisch nach Updates für andere Add-Ins suchen kann und den Benutzer informiert, sobald ein Update verfügbar ist, mit der Möglichkeit die Add-Ins zu updaten. Microsoft Web Platform for WHS Beschreibung: Das Microsoft Web Platform for WHS Add-In erlaubt jedem, einen einfachen Zugriff auf einige der besten Website Management Systeme (Wordpress, Drupal) zu haben. Microsoft kümmert sich hier sogar um die Updates. Folder Monitoring + Notification scheme (Adam Swift) Beschreibung: Dieses Add-In stellt die Möglichkeit bereit, eine Liste mit freigegebenen Ordner einzurichten, die auf Dateiänderungen (hinzufügen oder löschen) überwacht werden, und sendet eine Benachrichtigung an eine Liste von registrierten Benutzern mit detaillierten Informationen was sich auf den Freigaben geändert hat. Die Benachrichtigung könnte entweder über E-Mail oder über einen RSS Feed geschehen. WHS Undelete (Andrew Carr) Beschreibung: Überträgt eine Kopie jeder gelöschten Datei vom WHS in den Papierkorb des Computers, auf dem sie gelöscht wurde. Der Gewinner des Preises zur Teilnahme an der Abstimmung, der im Zufallsprinzip bestimmt wurde, heißt bryan Crosby. Er gewinnt den HP MediaSmart Server LX195 und eine Reihe anderer nützlicher Dinge. Wie ihr wisst, wird aus der erstplatzierten Idee ein Windows Home Server Add-In entwickelt! Entwickler Felix Kollmann hat sich bereits Gedanken über Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten für Home Calender, Tasks, Contacts (ich nehme mal an, dass sich der Name noch ändert) gemacht. An dem Add-In wird nun bis zum Ende des Jahres gearbeitet und dann für die Community freigegeben. Ich möchte mich außerdem noch einmal bei jedem, der eine Idee eingesendet oder seine Stimme während der Abstimmungsphase abgegeben hat, sowie bei den Unterstützern der Challenge für die vielen zur Verfügung gestellten Preise bedanken! Die Gewinner der Preise werden diese in nächster Zeit erhalten. An dieser Stelle auch noch mal Danke an Terry von WeGotServed für die tolle Zusammenarbeit. Damit wäre die Challenge für dieses Jahr erst mal beendet, ich bin schon gespannt auf die Ideen für die Challenge 2010! Das könnte auch interessant sein: WHS Add-In Idea Challenge 09 – Finalisten WHS Add-In Idea Challenge 09 – Abstimmungsphase Update zur WHS Add-In Idea Challenge 09 Umfrage: E-Mail Server im WHS WHS Add-In Idea Challenge 09 – Preisliste!
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« Cars (2006) operation groucho » Superman Returns (2006) June 29th, 2006 by Brian McDonough Rating: Director: bryan Singer Starring: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden I was completely torn watching “Superman Returns.” It’s a terrific spectacle, visually one of the best superhero movies yet, but director and co-writer bryan Singer betrays the essence of the character so thoroughly that the film is, at best, a guilty pleasure, and at worst, heresy. Here’s what the film gets right: The action is big and fast, expertly staged. I’ve never been more convinced by special effects that this is exactly what a superhuman being would be like. And Singer pits Superman against pretty much every form of major disaster: Plane crash, shipwreck, runaway car, earthquake, fiery explosions, each made compelling, each looking so big against the lone figure in the red cape. The visual design is top-notch. It’s a visually darker world that Superman is returning to, and it feels more modern without “edgy” nihilism. The Daily Planet has that retro art deco feel that’s just … right. The other major set pieces are diverse and fascinating. The film cost $260 million, but you’re seeing ever dollar on the screen. The cast is strong. Brandon Routh makes a good Superman and an excellent (if underused) Clark Kent. Kevin Spacey retains some of Gene Hackman’s silliness as Lex Luthor, but adds significant menace. Kate Bosworth is too young to play Lois Lane, especially as a single mother, and the character is underwritten, but she makes the best of it. Cameos by Eva Marie Saint as Martha Kent and Frank Langella as Perry White are welcome, but not as welcome as seeing Noel Neill and Jack Larson — Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen from the ’50s Superman TV show — given worthwhile cameos. What the film gets wrong isn’t slight. We’re given a Superman who abandoned Earth to go search for the ruins of Krypton. (Which, by the way, should be all kryptonite, so, um, bad move, Clark.) A Superman who didn’t say goodbye to anyone, even Lois, because that would’ve been too hard. A Superman who comes back to learn that Lois Lane — the woman he loved only from afar — is engaged to the man with whom she’s had a child, and proceeds to stalk her with X-Ray vision and tempt her with this lingering, longing flirtation that’s passive-aggressively hidden underneath a dishonest veneer of cool professionalism. A weak, selfish Superman who is trying to break up a small child’s family. It’s as though Singer and company have no concept of nobility. The weaknesses must have been apparent to Singer, because the film doesn’t make much effort to justify these deviations, preferring to just get on with the story at hand. And these problems are never resolved. The resolution is not only unsatisfying between Lois and Superman, but Richard (who by film’s end has proven himself as brave and much more honorable than the guy in the cape) is entirely absent. Instead, Singer brings his best efforts to the action with edge-of-the-seat sequences. In these bits, he keeps Superman bright (except for that slightly off uniform) in a world that’s darker than Christopher Reeve’s, but that’s marred with a couple instances of intense violence that really are so off-tone they’re hard to watch. The heart of the problem is the Big Reveal that comes as Lois is being savagely beaten by a crook clearly intent on murdering her in front of her paralyzed, asthmatic four-year-old kid. Can you think of a scene less appropriate for a young kid to see? Yes, the film is rated PG-13, but Superman is an all-ages character. You just don’t get to make a Superman movie without considering the pre-teen audience. That’s like making a Nora Ephron movie without considering stupid people. But I digress. The big reveal is the kid hurling a piano at the bad guy with sufficient might to crush the man to death — Perry White’s pleasantly reliable nephew is definitely not this kid’s father. Singer has picked up the creepiest aspect of “Superman II,” which this film is supposed to follow. Superman so loves Lois that, once she sees through his Clark persona, he decides to marry her but, stupid plot device, must give up his powers to do so. He does, and he and Lois do it in the arctic Fortress of Solitude. Circumstances force him to regain his powers and resume his double life, so he magically (really, he kisses her and she forgets) erases her memory of his identity, their recent adventures, and the sex. It escaped me as a ten-year-old theatergoer how unnervingly creepy that is, until Singer gives us the implication that this is how Lois got knocked up with a gonna-be-super-someday kid. Which means Superman abandoned Earth weeks, perhaps only days, after having saved the planet from being conquered by three crazed Kryptonian super-villains. Yeah, clearly we don’t need him around. And Lois must’ve fallen into Richard White’s arms awfully fast to have believed he could have fathered the child Superman left her with (what, did they not have condoms in 1980? Stupid “free love” generation …). So much for a mourning period, eh, Lois? Since Singer’s Superman is too cowardly to say goodbye, her true love might’ve been dead while she was falling into the arms of James Marsden’s mild-mannered journalist. And how’s Superman leave us at the end? He doesn’t tell Lois the truth. He just tells her he’ll be around and floats off. Classy. Who would’ve thought Superman would become a hero for absentee fathers everywhere? Superman is a hero. He’s often criticized for not being complex enough, for being too purely good to relate to. That’s how he’s supposed to be. Superman is not our drinking buddy, he’s our ideal. He’s super. He does the right thing. Period. Singer’s idea to give Superman some emotional challenges, to throw a wrench into his relationship with Lois, was a good one. Even the absence probably could’ve been made to work. But Home-Wreckin’-Child-Neglectin’-Woman-Manipulatin’ Superman is not the action figure I wanted to buy. And goddamn it, I really wanted to like this film. It looks so good. Somewhere in my notebook I scribbled, “All movies should feel this big.” Singer’s camerawork is as masterful as his grasp of character is weak. I wanted to be charmed by Routh and amazed by Singer. And I was, but not enough to make me swallow a Superman who hasn’t done one thing right that didn’t involve fighting the clearly labeled bad guy. Still, I can’t flatly say to stay away. It’s worth watching, and the saving grace is the knowledge that Superman isn’t one story, he’s a myth that will shrug off the shameful aspects of this episode like a mere hail of bullets. FIVE DEGREES OF SEPARATION Superman: The Movie—It’s corny and a bit slow by today’s standards, but it’s also gentle, sweet and inspiring. And the DVD commentary by Richard Donner and writer Tom Mankiewicz is fantastic; you feel like you’re overhearing old friends talk at the coolest cocktail party ever. Spider-Man 2—Arguably the best comic-book movie ever. Tops the excitement of the first installment but remains true to the character. Action, darker edge, and still inspirational. Batman Begins—This is the kind of return we wanted: Resurrecting a moribund franchise by going back to the basics, not by hijacking the hero into the wrong soap opera. The Usual Suspects—Singer is more at home with the morally compromised characters in this complex, fascinating film than he is with Superman. Hero—Zhang Yimou’s dense, dreamy tale of honor, bravery and kung fu gives us shades of morality without crippling the story. As the final credits roll, you feel wonder … not disappointment. digg_url = 'http://www.badmouth.net/superman-returns-2006-2/'; This entry was posted on Thursday, June 29th, 2006 at 1:00 am and is filed under Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 10 Responses to “Superman Returns (2006)”

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« The DaVinci Code (2006) Cars (2006) » X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) June 8th, 2006 by Brian McDonough Rating: Director: Brett Ratner Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan, Famke Janssen X-Men 3 packs a ton of action and angst into just over 100 minutes. If the film has a drawback, it’s that its frenetic attempt to hit every emotional and action high overwhelms the story – and the viewer. Yet many of those emotional moments flop, and a lot of action potential is underutilized. It’s no spoiler to reveal that Jean Grey, heroically killed at the end of the second flick, comes back, with dangerously increased powers. It’s also been a key note of the ad campaign that Magneto is back, fighting against some kind of alleged “cure” for mutant-ness. Topping those two major storylines is mutant angst – unrequited loves, jealousy, all that oh-so-human frailty that the X-Men comics have always dripped. Brett Ratner steps into the chair bryan Singer abandoned and seems determined to top the guy who had such success with the first two X-flicks. In particular, his action scenes are as fully orchestrated as military maneuvers, with Wolverine and a new addition, the Beast (Kelsey Grammer), really cutting loose in some exciting sequences. However, the moments that are supposed to have emotional heft are often fairly clunky, most particularly the intended tension between Wolverine and Jean Grey when her Phoenix incarnation comes back a bit … randy. Ratner isn’t as bad at romance and sexual tension as, say, George Lucas, but he ain’t much better, either. As Magneto gathers an army of mutants committed to resisting this “cure” for their genetic gifts, the film managed to provide something the comics gave me when I was a kid, but the first two movies lacked. Much has been made of how the X-Men, as mutant outcasts, serve as a metaphor for anyone who feels disenfranchised. Racial minorities, the gay community, and most importantly, teenagers – young people whose bodies are going crazy on them, who feel misunderstood and alienated, and resent or revolt against the system. Watching the mutants take sides in this movie, I felt that old desire to be an X-Man again, to want to be part of that world. While Singer’s movies held my interest and were quite successful, they never gave me that particular old buzz. For fans of the X-Men comics, there are a lot of classic references to enjoy. For the less initiated, the film is liable to rush past at points, but not at the cost of overall enjoyment. The film does a particularly good job early on, laying out the conflicts and explaining characters and situations at a brisk but digestible clip. (Warning: If you follow the jump, there won’t be major specific plot spoilers, but there will be thematic commentary that might piss you off if you don’t want any hints about the flick. Which, if you’re that intense about it, you should’ve seen by now…) The biggest drag of the movie is how it handles the Phoenix story. Jean Grey comes back from the dead with the full, frightening potential of her psychic powers unleashed. She’s mentally unstable because … well, the explanation the movie gives is kinda convenient and lame, really. But she is. Unstable. Anyway, the two things they do wrong is that whenever Jean is in character as the Phoenix, she gets this ugly vampire-zombie look. While characters argue whether Jean is now evil, the viewer looks at the screen and goes, yeah, clearly evil. Why make it so easy on the audience? Another problem is similar to what occurred in the comics. Before Phoenix went bad, she was so powerful a good guy it was difficult to write a threat that she couldn’t solve in the blink of an eye. Here, she’s so powerful a sorta-villain that most of the time, the film has her standing around doing nothing, because if she were to take center stage as the main threat, she’d wipe out the X-Men and everyone else in a heartbeat, and that’s tough to sell as a Hollywood ending (which is not to say that her, and the film’s, body count isn’t damned impressive). Also, the extreme measures the X-Men have to take to contain her out-of-control powers seem absurd when a less drastic solution is not only right at hand, but is used against another villainous mutant only minutes before the final confrontation with Phoenix. The film adds another original X-Man, the winged Angel, but barely makes use of him, and seems even to forget him by the end of the movie. Similarly, what seems like a really interesting possibility with shape-changing terrorist Mystique gets no play, either. Magneto’s plot, the opposition to the “cure” for mutanthood, is interesting, but the consequences and implications of the situation could’ve been explored just a bit more, too. The film bites off more than it can comfortably chew. The result is a movie that moves really fast but doesn’t get quite as much emotional or intellectual traction as it could. And with so much going on, there’s a lot of loose ends. It seems the “Angel” character was added only for one majestic shot of him spreading his wings. He’s underutilized throughout the film, and in the final battle, he rescues one minor character, flies off, and is never seen again. The film makes some major changes to the status quo, leaving the team and their world in a condition much, much more changed than at the end of either of the previous movies. While this is supposed to be the “Last Stand,” there are a couple teasers at the end that seem to deliver a promise of stories to come (watch all the way through the credits for the last of those promises). Considering how much Ratner delivered as a latecomer to the project — despite his unsatisfying emotional moments — it wouldn’t be so bad to see those promises kept. THREE DEGREES of SEPARATION Spider-Man 2 – Full-steam action, emotional notes nailed one after another. Notice how having one charismatic villain works better? Battlestar Galactica – Technically not a movie, but the mini-series and a season and a half of the new show is out there, combining life-and-death tension, character drama and hot robot babes perfectly. After the Sunset — Ratner’s caper film with “retired” jewel thieves Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek against rogue fed Woody Harrelson has some really, really clunky moments, but is ultimately a fine piece of Caribbean confection. digg_url = 'http://www.badmouth.net/x-men-the-last-stand/'; This entry was posted on Thursday, June 8th, 2006 at 10:44 am and is filed under Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 2 Responses to “X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)”

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I remember about a year ago, not many people knew what Twitter was, and many though it was very pointless ( many still do ) . But now is has grown like crazy, and everyone and their momma’s best friend are on there. Here are 25 Music Producers you should check out and follow on twitter. But remember to follow Hip Hop Makers on Twitter.   9th Wonder Just Blaze Cool & Dre Bryan-Michael Cox The Runners Timberland Ron Browz Danja Handz Mysto & Pizzi Scram Jones Ryan Leslie Dark Child HI-TEK DJ Green Lantern Swizz Beatz The Heat Makers Buck Wild Black Milk Don Cannon Beat Minerz Kwame Drama Beats Dallas Austin Drumma Boy D. Dot
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The Show Player Pages About Luke Podcasting Podcasting The Rundown   February 2006 S M T W T F S « Jan   Mar »   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28   Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.com Kryptonite II – I blinked and missed it Posted on February 9, 2006 by Luke Armour I hate to rehash what amounts to an enormous and severely beaten topic, but I just have to know. Where did I miss the second half of this debacle? From a PR standpoint, this certainly takes a revisit. Apologies if you’re tired of the subject. For those of you who don’t know (and I imagine a fair many of you don’t, so that’s okay), I’ll try to sum it up for you. This is an incredibly simplified version. See the links below for more detailed information. Kryponite Lock is a company that makes, you guessed it, bike locks. In 2004 several videos circulated across the Internet demonstrating how to defeat a certain type of lock style with a typical ballpoint pen. The news originally broke on an “online forum,” and this is important later on. This spells bad news for Kryptonite, right? Well, the blogosphere went crazy and there was quite an uproar even in some traditional mediums. Things got blown out of proportion – as I hope to detail in later posts – because of the mob mentality of parts of the blogosphere. I say “parts of the blogosphere” not all. But I’m digressing. So to make a long story longer, this went on for some time and finally Kryptonite offered a lock exchange program to replace ( here’s a interesting note) not only the pickable locks, but many other locks as well at a significant cost to the company. Sounds great. Word is that Kryptonite suffered irrepairable losses because of this crisis, which could have been avoided if only they had been monitoring the blogosphere . Is this true? Could it have been avoided? Were they not being constantly vigilant? Well guess what, maybe they were. Kryptonite has become the poster child for “Blogosphere Monitoring, how NOT to do it,” and why not? Well, because Donna Tocci, Public Relations Manager for Kryponite, argues that they were watching, they knew about it from day one. I did some online snooping and came across several blog interviews with Tocci that range from April 2005, to December 2005 (see the links below for more information) . Here are my new thoughts about the issue: Too slow to see? No. Tocci indicates they knew about it from day one. The interviews go into chronological detail (especially the Naked Conversations blog post). Good eye, but it’s what you do with that information that matters. Too slow to talk? I say yes. Donna admits that maybe they could have communicated better. It’s a relatively small company and they had various angles to contend with during this and it affected their communications. Could be trouble. Too slow to act? I don’t think so. Donna makes some great cases for not implementing a plan until they had every aspect covered. Sounds good and I agree. You can’t institute a lock replacement program until you can figure out distribution, storage, costs, etc. This takes time. Too slow to get the real story out? I might have to agree. The initial story broke in September, 2004. The first mention I see of Tocci out in the blogosphere trying to get the real story out is April 2005, then July 2005, then December 2005, and into 2006. In my email conversation with Donna she wrote, “This was just the time frame that we were able to start some conversations.” Again, back to the fact that they had scads to do during the crisis. Is that a good reason to drop the communication ball? No one would agree if asked, but it’s the pressure of the situation that really determines what kind of communicator you are. Let’s all remember this: no matter what happens, you must still communicate. Either way, Tocci did go out and get the truth out. Maybe late, but she was tenacious about telling Kryptonite’s story. All last year she was doing interviews, on blogs, posting comments, replying to emails, being available. That’s good communication. She even answered my email to rehash what they consider a closed topic. And who am I? Just a student, trying to learn the truth, trying to share a case study that everyone already assumed had gone wrong. But I maintain this: It wasn’t as wrong as people said it was, not by a long shot. I posit that the blogosphere is like TV or Radio News at times. If it isn’t sensational, it’s not going to make the cut. Bad news is always news, but good news is fluff. (At least that’s how some journalists make communicators feel at times – oops, my PR is showing). My point? When it hit the fan for Kryptonite everyone and their grandmother was writing about it, but when the real story comes out, people don’t care. I indicated this to Tocci who wrote, “This is a very big generalization. The news of our lock exchange program did get out lots and lots of people through the internet and traditional media sources. But, yes, as in most mediums controversy ’sells’.” And that’s why I actually had to search to find the second half of this story. You couldn’t read a PR blog, listen to a PR podcast, or read books about the blogosphere without hearing about this mess when it first came out. But after that I had to search for it. And – oh boy – it’s out there. There is also a thread of information in the following posts that Kryptonite knew about the faulty locks since 1992 when a British publication wrote about it. I’ve read enough articles to gather that Kryptonite Locks weren’t specifically mentioned, so people are putting too much emphasis on that article. However, brand name listed or not, why didn’t they check it out? Do we have a problem here? In crisis PR we call that a prodrome, noticing circumstances that have the potential to become crises. None of the Tocci interviews go into detail about that, she states the article never mentioned Kryptonite Locks. But the myth remains, blogs nearly destroyed Kryptonite, blogs discovered the ineptitude of a shoddy company, you have to monitor the blogosphere, Kryptonite did a lousy job, etc etc. You can think whatever you like, I don’t care. What I care about is researching the truth. How many other people did that? From a PR standpoint, It’s true that you need to monitor the Internet, it’s true you need to know what your publics are saying about you. But it’s also true that you need to communicate as often as possible, especially during a crisis. Maybe Kryptonite knew from day one, maybe they could have done more, been better communicators. Even in the aftermath, why does it take so long to get the real story out, over so many channels, over so long a period of time? PR is about communicating effectively, right? Check out the links below to read interviews with Tocci, opinions and all. If you read on, make sure you read all the comments as Tocci usually follows up to people’s questions. PR flack or honest communicator? I’ve formed my opinion, but let me know your thoughts. The Community Guy interview Naked Conversations interview Dave Taylor interview BikeBiz.com Article Debbie Weil Blog article Andy Lark blog Filed