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Jorma Taccone

jorma c. taccone (born pace 19, 1977) is an american comedy writer/actor. in fall 2005 he joined the leader staff pro sketch comedy show saturday Cimmerian dark live. he is also an emmy-winning songwriter and member of the lonely island, a sketch comedy assemble that includes snl repertory player andy samberg and snl writer akiva schaffer. taccone created the beat as well as assisted in writing the snl digital short lazy sunday.biographytaccone was born in berkeley, california, the son of suellen ehnebuske and tony taccone, who is the artistic steersman of the berkeley repertory theatre.[1][2]taccone played the lead job of brett in the barren island’s the ‘bu, the group’s record-breaking contribution to channel 101,[3] where he played a ninja who didn’t belong. the ‘bu, a parody of the oc, also starred sarah chalke (roseanne, scrubs) as melissa and andy samberg as aaron. in the group’s first pass 101 clarify, “itv buzz countdown,” taccone played chris hoffman, a imaginary vj on a make fun of of mtv’s aggregate request live. he co-starred in hot fractious, starring samberg.will also appear in 2009 capture of the lost. backstage at snl, taccone is known to dance obtrusively in boxer shorts to the dulcet guest of the grandstand a expose due to his strange taste in various music genres. four videos of this are shown on youtube, all in front of the members of the league together and a disapproving bill hader. the videos show arcade firing, death hansom cab for cutie, arctic monkeys and my chemical romance.he makes an appearance in the video against the gnarls barkley song who’s gonna save my soul.jorma married marielle heller in june 2007 at ministry ranch, carmel.source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jorma_taccone
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4 TV shows premiering early 2009 worth viewing

i’ve already written about the returning tv shows coming bankrupt this month in lost, 24, bsg, scrubs, american idol - tv season undeniably begins in january and the secret life of the american teenager 2nd season. it turns out there are also some brand new shows premiering in a second so that you will conditions be at a loss for what to wait for during the upcoming cold winter nights.in chronological order of start dates, here are 4 new shows opening in the next two or so months that i am looking forward to:1. on sunday, january 18, the united states of tara will premiere on showtime. toni collette stars as tara, a mother with multiple personality disorder, or dissociative identity kerfuffle as it is called now. her husband is played by john corbett and it is written by diablo cody, academy award winning freelancer of juno. i’ll ration out it a evaluate because toni collette is such a big actress and i can look at john corbett forever.2. on monday, january 26, trust me premieres on tnt. the stars are tom cavanagh (ed) and eric mccormack (will and grace). i am a big admirer of both of them but remarkably hope that this works out for tom cavanagh. after ed, cavanagh had another series called lose one’s heart to monkey that didn’t despite that smooth last a full year, although i enjoyed it.3. confidently this premiere date will not turn out to be a bad foreshadowing, but on friday, february 13th, dollhouse begins on fox. this playing is created by joss whedon (buffy the vampire slayer, firefly, dr. horrible) and stars eliza dushku, also of buffy. the women, or dolls, are given different personalities for the treatment of each assignment and then their memories are erased between each a specific. joss whedon fans deliver been waiting into another whedon advertise for a elongated together and this plot sounds very fascinating. however, after the pathway fox treated firefly, and has already stuck dollhouse on friday nights, i’m already nervous helter-skelter how fancy it will last.4. speaking of firefly, on monday march 9th on abc, manor-house, starring nathan fillion (firefly, waitress, dr. horrible) last wishes as premiere. he plays a crime writer that winds up ration the nypd. i discern that all firefly fans will be watching this. i am now asking all of you, to please give it a try. i beggary this indicate to work unserviceable so that i can on the lookout for nathan fillion on a automatic principle. this man should be a big star by contemporary. he is the most underrated actor currently working.what television series are you most looking forward to? do you think you will be watching any of these creative shows i wrote about above? choose comment.

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2010 Cadillac SRX - Auto Shows

Keep the badge, change everything else. They mean it when they call this SRX all-new.

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BY DAVID GLUCKMAN

We’ve been fans of Cadillac’s SRX crossover since it went on sale in 2004, naming it to our 5Best Trucks list for three years straight. A new SRX is being unveiled at the 2009 Detroit auto show, though only the badge will continue on with most everything else changing around it.

For starters, things have been turned around with standard drive wheels in front instead of the rear?all-wheel drive continues as an option, gaining the ability to apportion torque side-to-side in the rear via an electronic limited-slip differential. The SRX has also been downsized (or is that rightsized?) for these changing times and the available engines have likewise shrunk. Compared to the current model, the SRX is smaller in length and wheelbase, but wider by about two and a half inches. Underpinnings are now shared with GM’s other mid-size crossovers, including the Saturn Vue and recently redone Chevrolet Equinox.

No More V-8

Two engines will be offered in the 2010 SRX, both of which are smaller than the current base SRX engine, a 3.6-liter V-6. The standard motor will be GM’s new direct-injection 3.0-liter V-6, which puts out 260 hp and 221 lb-ft of torque and bests the output of the previous standard mill. Offered as an option will be a 2.8-liter turbocharged V-6 that produces 300 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque and nearly matches the 320 hp and 315 lb-ft afforded by the 4.6-liter Northstar V-8 in current SRXs. The turbo six, plucked from the Saab 9-3, is notable as the first turbocharged engine offered in any North American Cadillac. Six-speed automatic transmissions with manual shift control are paired to both engines, regardless of front- or all-wheel-drive layout.

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A Look Back: Revisiting some of our favorite feature photos from 2008

In compiling our top five photos of the year, we considered several criteria in the process. Overall punch, great angles, drama, and irony, among others.

Using those criteria, we soon discovered several Times photos were contenders for the top five spread. As such, we had to expand our concept a bit and placed our second string of favorite photos in smaller form on the front page of the paper.

We hope you enjoy these photos as much as we enjoyed capturing them.

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To view the corresponding Top 5 photo album featured in the Jan. 1 Waterford Times inside spread, click on the photo at right.

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“All Streets” by Ben Fry

*Infoviz — a USA made entirely from pavement.

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Capturing Cosplay: The Photographs of Brian Berman (Part Two)

Editor’s note: this is my last post for 2008. I will be back after the start of the new year.

Last time, I shared with you a series of photographs of Furry fans taken by Brian Berman and encouraged us to reflect a bit on what they show or fail to show us about this particular subcultural community. To me, these photographs speak to a core issue in fan studies: the question of how we position ourselves vis-a-vis the subjects of our research. Put in its broadest terms, we see different things and say different things if we are writing about a community which we are a member of than when we are dealing with that same community as an outsider.

Brian is very explicit in his artistic statement and in his bio that while he is fascinated by these fan communities, he looks at them as an outsider, a non-participant. This does not mean that his photographs are necessarily hostile to the communities being depicted, but they do, to some degree, hold these fans at a distance. This is the strength of the images in many ways, but it is also what may make them more than a little disturbing to some of us who claim a much closer set of social and emotional ties to fan communities.

By way of contrast, I thought we might look at some of the videos we’ve been producing about Cosplay for Project New Media Literacies’s learning library project. These videos, filmed at an anime convention in Ohio, reflect a perspective much more sympathetic to the fan experience. Indeed, many of the students who worked with us on these videos were themselves anime fans and some of them had a long history of cosplay. Our goal was precisely to escape the outsider perspective of many commercial documentaries about fans, to treat cosplay as a normal and valued mode of cultural expression, and to hopefully introduce these practices to young people who may not have found their way into the cosplay community before.

These photographs were taken by Brian Berman at Onnafest, Newark Gateway Hilton, Newark, NJ 2005.

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Brian Berman was born in New York City in 1971 and grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey. After graduating from both the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the School of Visual Arts in NYC he started shooting professionally in New York in 1996. He shoots for, and has been featured in, publications such as the New York Times, Esquire, Ojo de Pez, and Capricious Magazine. He has also been featured in shows at the Houston Photo Festival and Wallspace Gallery. The project featured here is part of larger project about how people fulfill a basic human need to fit in by creating their own subcultures. He does not watch anime or own a fursuit.

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Israel Strikes Hamas in Gaza

BY TAYLOR MARSH –updated–

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It really could have only ended this way after the Egypt brokered peace exploded recently. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was in Egypt on Christmas Day, warning President Hosni Mubarak that Israel wasn’t going to allow Hamas’ continuous attacks inside Israel without a response.

This story was in the TM headlines all day yesterday. Just call it foreshadowing of today’s events.

The AP reports Israel stuck Hamas targets after weeks of rocket and mortar fire into Israel from Hamas:

I actually heard the MSNBC host Alex Witt ask about the possibility of a peace agreement before Bush leaves office. It was surreal. Nobody has done less in the last two decades than the Bush administration to make the Middle East more unstable. That anyone could offer with a straight face any possibility of peace at this point shows the lack of rational deduction utilized when speaking of the Israeli - Palestinian reality we face.

The problem Israel faces is that international public opinion is against them, especially after the blocking of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. The reality of national self defense is lost on Israeli critics right now, because of what is seen as heavy handedness over the aid issue. Israel is losing the public relations war, even as it fights to protect its own citizens, something that is the first priority of any country’s leaders.

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Barack Obama certainly has his hands full when he comes in to office. That’s the real legacy George W. Bush leaves the new president. Is the world any safer after Bush-Cheney? is the real question that should be asked. The answer is obvious.

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State Lottery Ticket Sales Down — GOOD.

Many states in the United States depend on gambling, specifically lottery ticket sales, to fund their school systems and other agencies. I have always been against this practice. But you know the ploy, politicians say “It’s for the c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n…..” So we must allow gambling.The truth is gambling in all forms harms children and families and if we cannot educate our children without depending on gambling, then it truly is a sad day for this country. We’ve all heard of the addict taking the last few dollars a family has for food and shelter, and spending it on their addiction … gambling, alcohol, drugs, whatever.

the sour economy is topping the inseparable source of supervision financing that had been widely regarded as recession-proof: lotteries.across the u.s., many phase lotteries are reporting hefty declines, with ticket sales down nearly 10% in california and more than 4% in texas over the past few months. in good years, these lotteries have turned over more than $1 billion apiece to education programs, the most unrefined lottery beneficiaries.

Lottery officials have long praised their games as low-cost entertainment that grow even more appealing to players when the economy turns down. But lottery sales nationwide fell about $215 million, or nearly 2%, from July through September compared with the same stretch in 2007, according to La Fleur’s magazine, which tracks the lottery business.

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The decline in lottery sales “is an unusual phenomenon,” said John W. Kindt, a gambling critic and business professor at the University of Illinois. A big proportion of lottery tickets are bought by people with gambling problems who are likely to play more in bad economic times, he said, even as intermittent players cut back. (WSJ)

Blacks contribute heavily to lottery sales

When it comes to the Illinois Lottery, it is true that you have to play to win. Unfortunately, it seems that Illinois’ Black residents are doing most of the playing but not a lot of the winning.

A Defender analysis of Illinois Lottery sales for fiscal year 2008 revealed that six out of the top 10 ZIP codes that produced the highest sales have a majority Black population: 60619, 60628, 60617, 60651, 60609 and 60636.

But the analysis shows that when it came to cashing in on winnings, players living in these same six ZIP codes did not fare well. (more)

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Hilary Duff Visits the New York Stock Exchange

we’re used to seeing her rocking unserviceable onstage and showing off her acting skills in movies and on television, but this morning hilary fake was spotted at the new york stock exchange.but she wasn’t there to invest, rather the disney darling was in the building to ring the opening bell along with the board of directors because the blessings in a backpack charity.stan curtis, the organization’s under, received a call from the new york stock exchange recently, asking him to bring a group to the big apple to do the opening honors.blessings in a backpack has received increased media attention thanks to duff’s involvement, and the fact that she, herself, sponsors a los angeles school.enjoy the pictures of hilary duff at the new york stock exchange (december 23).article pictures (click to enlarge):

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Youssif stands on stage beaming as he belts out "Jingle Bell Rock," his tiny burned hands waving in sync with his classmates at Hamlin Street School.

His mother, Zaineb, stands at the back, cradling his little sister, Aya, tears rolling down her face. "I am so proud of him," she says. "It reminds me of what he was like in Iraq when he used to sing in kindergarten. I felt for a moment that none of this had happened. My son was back, without fear, strong."

Youssif spots us, and waves wildly. Little appears to remain of the sullen and withdrawn dark-eyed boy we first met in Baghdad more than a year ago.

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It has been almost two years since masked men in Baghdad doused Youssif, then just 4 years old, in gasoline and set him on fire. His mother still doesn’t sleep at night.

"I still blame myself. I should have protected him. Sometimes I say to myself that I wish it had happened to me, just not to him." Zaineb says, her voice starting to quiver. "If only I hadn’t let him go out to play that day."

Today Youssif plays freely, without fear.

"Let’s race" he shouts to his friend Brandon as the two boys dash across the schoolyard. A couple of minutes later the two are playfully jostling over a rubber ball. Youssif shrieks and bursts into laughter as the two play catch.

"It’s like this weight has been lifted off of me, off of him," his father, Wissam, says. "It’s like we’ve left this dark, depressing state where we were consumed by Youssif and the attack that had happened. You know, it’s so hard to see a child, my child, go through something like this. When I see him like this, I feel like he’s coming back."

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After CNN and CNN.com first reported Youssif’s story in 2007, more than 12,000 CNN.com users contributed to a fund set up by the Children’s Burn Foundation of Sherman Oaks California, enabling the boy and his family to travel to the United States for treatment.

Youssif has undergone more than a dozen achat de viagra en ligne surgeries. Much of the thick scar tissue around his eyes, mouth and nose — left by his treatment in Baghdad — has been removed. He currently has yet another tissue expander in his left cheek, intended to stretch out "good skin" to be used to replace his scar tissue.

Youssif has grown used to the sometimes painful treatments. "When I started this process of tissue expansion, I would have to chase him around the room," Dr. Peter Grossman, Youssif’s surgeon, tells us as he injects achat cialis more liquid into the expander. "We’d need three people to hold him down for these injections."

Youssif will probably have many more surgeries stretched out over time. "The problem we have with Youssif is that every operation we do tends to heal well after surgery, but then a month after, he starts to form these really thick scars," Grossman said. "It’s probably best at this time to let his body relax, let these scars mature over a period of a year or two years."

Today, Youssif grimaces in pain but braves it alone, refusing to take his father’s hand.

"Seven or eight times put water," Youssif says back at home, explaining how the tissue expansion works. "I am not scared. It goes here," he says pointing to the scarring over his lip.

He’s not all that interested in talking about medical procedures.

"When I sharpen this it broke," he says, trotting over with his new pencils. We all smile.

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