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[noland123]

Originally Posted by kevinkagy

They're really tacky columns that say 'Welcome to Miami' and 'Welcome to Calle Ocho'. They look like they belong in an Olympic stadium with fire at the top. It's so ugly.

Thanks for the info Kevin, they do look like they belong in an Olmpic Stadium for sure.

[miamipaintball]

lol i live a block down from those......

[dave8721]

btw it was the Cleveland Indians that were supposed to train at the Homestead complex but backed out after Andrew.

[QuantumX]

Avatar in China

China Blocks Avatar, Citing Restless Natives and James Cameron's Filthy Wealth

Golden Globe, Shmolden Globe. You know a movie's a real phenom when the People's Republic of China censors it—and tells theaters to play "a patriotic biopic on the life of Confucius" instead.

The Hong Kong Daily Apple (translated and summarized in The Telegraph) reports that, though James Cameron's saga of hair sex and perfect CGI breasts was expected to earn 500 million yuan ($73 million) at the Chinese box office, the state-run China Film Group changed its mind and decided to allow only the 3D version of the film in—a de facto ban on general distribution since so few Chinese theaters have 3D equipment. The Apple continues:

The Central Publicity Department is said to have issued an order to the media prohibiting it from hyping up Avatar. ... Reportedly, the authorities have two reasons for this check on Avatar: first, it has taken in too much money and has seized market share from domestic films, and second, it may lead audiences to think about forced removal, and may possibly incite violence.

The Telegraph speculates that accusations of racism may also be bogging Avatar down, with the PRC particularly weary of ethnic unrest after last summer's Uighur riots. The China Film Group keeps finite quantitative limits on the amount of Western influence in the nation's cinemas at any given moment, which means heavy political jockeying goes into which movies get slotted in, and when. Luckily, China has the most robust pirating economy in the world, so China will still gets its Avatards; they'll just be watching on smaller screens, and James Cameron won't get paid.

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by dave8721

btw it was the Cleveland Indians that were supposed to train at the Homestead complex but backed out after Andrew.

Yep...thanks for the clarification. They were trying to get the Indians but the team opted for Winter Haven instead and have now moved their spring operations to Arizona.

[1772]

Originally Posted by spellbound

Yep...thanks for the clarification. They were trying to get the Indians but the team opted for Winter Haven instead and have now moved their spring operations to Arizona.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_League

When looking at the map of the Cactus League, it seems as if the teams spring training facilities are very close to eachother.
Do they all have different facilities? They must be vacated the rest of the year?

[Aceventura]

Many of the facilities are used by the farm league during the summer.
http://floridastate.league.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=l123

[1772]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

Many of the facilities are used by the farm league during the summer.
http://floridastate.league.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=l123

Yes, but the Florida facilities are all spread out. It seems like the Arizona facilities are very concentrated.

[noland123]

I was wondering how did the palm trees do through all of this cold weather and hard freezes that South Florida incurred? Did any of the species of trees die?

[noland123]

Bobby Maduro Stadium-Spring training for the Baltimore Orioles here in Miami for some time demolished in 2001. This was also the spring training grounds for the Brooklyn Dodgers/Los Angeles Dodgers as this stadium was primarily used for minor league baseball.


http://www.photoshelter.com/c/andrew...00BXZXGhUbqi4/

http://www.digitalballparks.com/Inte...mi_640_11.html

http://sneakykitchen.com/Stories/ms14.htm

Some history of the Orange Bowl and its final days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGckl...eature=related

[Södermalm]

• Tony Perrottet
• From: The Australian
• January 30, 2010 12:00AM

BACK in the 1990s, newspapers across the world were filled with the tales of disaster befalling travellers to Miami.

My favourite involved a German tourist who had complained of an unpleasant odour in his hotel room, which turned out to be, a maid discovered, a corpse under the bed.
("I want to stress, for the record," wrote Florida humorist Dave Barry, "that this German tourist was not charged extra for the additional occupant.")
In 1993 alone, eight tourists were killed in southern Florida, mostly unlucky Germans, several in so-called "bump-and-rob" scams near the airport: muggers would identify a rental vehicle, run into it when stopped at a red light, then assault the driver when he or she got out to investigate.
Five Norwegian tourists were hijacked and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel courtesy van. (Barry also noted that this did not create a favourable impression of Miami back in Norway, "where most incidents of violence involve trains running into moose".)


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/trav...-1225824775397

[noland123]

Originally Posted by Södermalm

• Tony Perrottet
• From: The Australian
• January 30, 2010 12:00AM

BACK in the 1990s, newspapers across the world were filled with the tales of disaster befalling travellers to Miami.

My favourite involved a German tourist who had complained of an unpleasant odour in his hotel room, which turned out to be, a maid discovered, a corpse under the bed.
("I want to stress, for the record," wrote Florida humorist Dave Barry, "that this German tourist was not charged extra for the additional occupant.")
In 1993 alone, eight tourists were killed in southern Florida, mostly unlucky Germans, several in so-called "bump-and-rob" scams near the airport: muggers would identify a rental vehicle, run into it when stopped at a red light, then assault the driver when he or she got out to investigate.
Five Norwegian tourists were hijacked and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel courtesy van. (Barry also noted that this did not create a favourable impression of Miami back in Norway, "where most incidents of violence involve trains running into moose".)


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/trav...-1225824775397

I believed the tags had E's on the plates which denoted a rental car to the scammers,but of what nationality they were was by mere coincidence. They did away with those particular tags soon after.

As far as the corpse in my room I would have demanded my money in return,that would have freaked me out.

[QuantumX]

Academy Awards 2010: The nominees
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards, to be held in Hollywood on 7 March.

BEST PICTURE
Avatar
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos - The Secret of Their Eyes (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete - A Prophet (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)

BEST ANIMATION
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Nick Hornby (An Education)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

BEST SOUND MIXING
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST SOUND EDITING
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas
Take It All from Nine by Maury Yeston
The Weary Kind (theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Avatar (James Horner)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
Up (Michael Giacchino)

BEST COSTUMES
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin

BEST FILM EDITING
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

BEST MAKE-UP
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...nt/8493152.stm

Published: 2010/02/02 15:28:21 GMT

© BBC MMX

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[Hia-leah JDM]

The Hurt Locker

[QuantumX]

It's official now. Avatar has out-grossed Titanic domestically as well as worldwide to become the highest grossing movie of all time.

http://www.movieweb.com/box-office/alltime

[Soapy]

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[FLAWDA-FELLA]

Not too sure if I agree with this, but according to a recent Forbes article, Miami is ranked #6.

Here is the link.

http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow....66&GT1=35000#7

[AddictedToSpace]

Originally Posted by FLAWDA-FELLA

Not too sure if I agree with this, but according to a recent Forbes article, Miami is ranked #6.

Here is the link.

http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow....66&GT1=35000#7

This is something that should be more of an opinion than a by the numbers "fact". I can personally tell you that I have no issue with my commute time, the drivers suck, but I go against traffic everyday. The last time I experienced a crime was in 1996, car was stolen. I have never been unemployed. Don't own a home but none of my family's home are in foreclosure and only one close friend is going through foreclosure. I work for a large corporation that is hiring and paying dividends to their stock holders.

I went to Wynwood this past Saturday and for art lovers Miami has nothing to envy other cities. I knew we had a scene but the vibe and blocks and blocks of galleries displaying art was incredible. The quality of the art, also subjective. The amount of people walking around was also amazing and I hear that it is even more intense during Basel.

Not really talked about in Forbes' scoring but the diverse population in Miami is extraordinary. We are not a city of just Cubans or Hispanics for that matter. The only thing they are pretty much right about is the corruption and that is mostly attributed to apathy or stupidity by the citizens for not electing somewhat respectable politicians; never mind politics in general is a big hot messy pile of sh*t.

[1772]

Originally Posted by Södermalm

...Five Norwegian tourists were hijacked and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel courtesy van. (Barry also noted that this did not create a favourable impression of Miami back in Norway, "where most incidents of violence involve trains running into moose".)


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/trav...-1225824775397

Wow, how things have changed.
Miami is nowadays alot more safer than Oslo...

[kevinkagy]

Originally Posted by 1772

Wow, how things have changed.
Miami is nowadays alot more safer than Oslo...

Highly doubtful.