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An anonymous reader writes "Real-world military conventions have had obvious effects on many sci-fi books, movies, and TV shows. But how does their fictional representation stack up against the evolving rules of high-tech warfare? In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, a naval analyst discusses some of the technological assumptions involved in transposing sea combat to space combat, and his amusement with the trope of 'aircraft carriers in space.' He says, 'Star Wars is probably the worst. There is no explanation for why X-Wings [fighters] do what they do, other than the source material is really Zeroes [Japanese fighter planes] from World War II. Lucas quite consciously copied World War II fighter combat. He basically has said they analyzed World War II movies and gun camera footage and recreated those shots. Battlestar Galactica has other issues. One thing I have never understood is why the humans didn't lose halfway through the first episode. If information moves at the speed of light, and one side has a tactically useful FTL [faster-than-light] drive to make very small jumps, then there is no reason why the Cylons couldn't jump close enough and go, "Oh, there the Colonials are three light minutes away, I can see where they are, but they won't see me for three minutes?"'"

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The chair of the U.S. Senate's environment committee pressed federal regulators Tuesday to disclose details about the design of the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, where a probe into tube damage has kept the reactors sidelined for months.
In a letter, Sen. Barbara Boxer asked Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko for documentation on how the federal agency reviewed generator modifications, which might be the culprit in vibration that has damaged hundreds of tubes inside the complex machines.
At issue is whether operator Southern California Edison sidestepped any federal requirements by conducting extensive design changes, a claim leveled by an environmental group that said the alterations are at the heart of the plant's problems.
The twin reactors, located along the coast between San Diego and Los Angeles, have been shut down for more than three months while investigators try to determine the cause of the unusual tube wear.
"Concerns have been raised that design changes in the steam generators contributed to accelerated wear in tubes carrying radioactive water," Boxer, D-Calif., wrote in a similar letter to SCE parent Edison International that also requested documents from the company on the history of the equipment. "The determination to restart the San Onofre reactors must ensure the safety of the millions of Californians who live and work near the plant."
Boxer chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Edison said in a statement Monday that "the NRC was fully informed that the replacement would be conducted under the same regulations as had been previously applied at other plants."
The 13-page report issued by Friends of the Earth warned that running the nuclear plant at reduced power would not resolve problems with badly worn tubing. Earlier this month the company announced a tentative plan to restart and run the seaside reactors at lower power, at least for several months, because engineers believe that will ease vibration that might be the culprit in heavy tube wear.
The generators function something like a car radiator, which controls heat in a vehicle's engine. The generator tubes circulate hot, radioactive water from the reactors, which heat a bath of non-radioactive water surrounding them. That makes steam, which is used to turn turbines to make electricity.
The tubes represent a critical safety barrier _ if a tube breaks, there is the potential that radioactivity can escape into the atmosphere. Also, serious leaks can drain protective cooling water from a reactor.
The four generators each have nearly 10,000 alloy tubes that carry radioactive water.
The report by Friends of the Earth also expanded an earlier allegation that Southern California Edison misled federal regulators about the modifications, a claim disputed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the company.
The trouble began to unfold in January, when the Unit 3 reactor was shut down as a precaution after a tube break. Traces of radiation escaped at the time, but officials said there was no danger to workers or neighbors. Unit 2 had been taken offline earlier that month for maintenance, but investigators later found unexpected wear on hundreds of tubes in both units.
The NRC has said there is no timetable to restart the reactors, as investigators continue to look for the cause of the unusual tube wear.
The generators were replaced in 2009 and 2010 in a $670 million overhaul.
The report, written by Vermont-based nuclear consultants Fairewinds Associates, suggested the best alternatives might be scrapping and replacing the costly equipment, or spending as much as $400 million on an extensive repair.
"Power reductions do not solve underlying and serious degradation problems," the report said. It warned of possible tube breaks that could endanger public health.
It said running at lower power would not prevent damaged tubes and tube supports from vibrating and damaging others nearby. "It will worsen the existing damage," the report concluded.
Gradual wear is common in such tubing, but the rate of erosion at San Onofre alarmed officials since the equipment is relatively new. The company last week said more than 1,300 tubes will be taken out of service, a far higher number than previously disclosed, but that number is well within the margin to allow the generators to keep operating.
Edison has been facing pressure from some nearby communities and anti-nuclear activists who have raised safety concerns, while the company looks for a solution to the tube problem and a path to restarting the plant, an important source of power in Southern California.
State officials have warned of possible power shortages in the region this summer while the plant remains dark.
The generators were designed to meet a federal test to qualify as "in-kind," or essentially identical, replacements, which allowed them to be installed without prior approval from federal regulators.
The report said a string of complex modifications involving tubes and supports should have triggered a more extensive review by the government, including public hearings, but did not. The report speculated that the NRC would have identified problems with the design if a thorough review was conducted.
"Edison should never have been allowed to install these fundamentally defective steam generators," Damon Moglen, climate and energy campaign director at Friends of the Earth, said in a statement. "Now Edison is planning to avoid dealing with the underlying problems and instead restart at lower power. Their claims of nuclear safety first ring completely hollow and must be stopped."
In a statement, NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said the company informed the agency of the steam generator design changes "in accordance with NRC requirements," and that portions of the design were reviewed by federal inspectors during the installation. He added that a team of investigators is reviewing those changes as part of its probe into tube wear at the plant.
The agency released a June 2006 document that indicated Edison officials briefed the NRC on a series of generator modifications, though it was not a comprehensive list.
The agency announced Tuesday it was conducting a routine review of "in-kind" repairs at the plant over the prior three years. It was not prompted by the problems with the generators.


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OT - Vote November 7th!!!
But put aside my bitching and moaning for a moment, and consider the duty that comes along with our right to vote. If anything, we should each have a basic idea of who our elected officials are and what they believe. An uninformed electorate is an electorate that is easily led (or misled). In an effort to counteract electoral illiteracy, the League of Women Voters has a voter's guide on their website. Now, this pertains to Oklahoma voters, but I'm sure that other states and municipalities have similar guides.
Compiled by the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan
Additional information is available online at www.lwvtulsa.org,
www.lwvok.org and www.okbar.org/public/judges.
Editorial Policy: This nonpartisan 2006 Voters' Guide contains
information on all candidates running for office in the November 7
election as well as the State Questions. All answers including spelling,
punctuation and capital letters are exactly as written and are not edited
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It can be convenient to use your smartphone or an aftermarket GPS unit as you travel, provided, of course, you can mount that phone or receiver where it can be seen and reached, and where it is legally displayed.
Typically, suction cup-style devices are used to secure a phone or GPS receiver mounting bracket to a vehicle's windshield. However, that can be problematic if (a) you drive a vehicle in which the windshield is too far ahead of the driver's position to place the unit within easy reach, (b) the unit cannot be properly angled to prevent glare during daytime driving, or (c) attaching something to the windshield violates state law.
Because mounting something in the windshield may block part of the driver's forward view, more than half of the states in the U.S. and several Canadian provinces either ban such use or restrict the location on the windshield where such a device may be placed.
Michigan does not have such restrictions, but Indiana and Ontario do -- Indiana allows mounting only in a small area on the lower passenger-side of the windshield and Ontario bans windshield mounting.
An inexpensive solution that overcomes such problems is the new Mi-T Grip Mount from Bracketron, a Minneapolis-based company founded more than a decade ago to devise innovative ways to secure portable electronic devices inside vehicles.
Although the Mi-T Grip Mount looks a lot like the typical smartphone or GPS receiver mount, it not only can be used on a windshield but also on any solid surface, even on the textured surface of the dashboard -- and not only in a car but in a boat or motorcycle or all-terrain vehicle.
Instead of the typical suction grip, the Mi-T Grip fills that cup-like area with its patented Temporbond material, a tacky, gel-type polyurethane ring.
The Mi-T Grip Mount has a suggested manufacturer's price of $29.95 and comes with the Temporbond suction cup and a rotating, spring-loaded grip that expands from 2 inches to 3 1/4 to secure a smartphone or GPS device in a vertical, horizontal or angled position for optimized viewing.
Bracketron says the Temporbond will not leave residue or any marks on the dashboard, and suggests cleaning the area with water or alcohol before mounting the mount, and then periodically removing the mount to clean the dash and also the Temporbond ring, using plain water to remove any dust or other particles that might interfere with the bond. Bracketron suggests letting the Temporbond area dry before reinstalling the mount.
The Mi-T Grip Mount, which was introduced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, comes with a one-year warranty.
I've been testing a Mi-T Grip Mount for the past week, mounted on the sloping surface of a dashboard just to the right of the instrument cluster. The combined Temporbond and suction grip has remained secure and the mount holds my aftermarket GPS unit where it can be easily seen and adjusted from the driver's seat.
For information and links to places where the Mi-T Grip Mount is sold, visit www.bracketron.com.
Larry Edsall is a Phoenix-based freelance writer. You can reach him at email@example.com.


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AV Jennings raider cuts ties that bind
SO LONG, Sir Ron. You can almost hear the sighs of relief around the AV Jennings boardroom table after veteran corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group quietly dumped its stock in the housing developer on Friday.
GPG's move to sell its 7.7 per cent - already down from the 15 per cent it held a few years back when hostilities were at their peak - and exit another company, Capral, may be a signal that Brierley and Co, which has been quiet of late, is finally ready to give up the buccaneering lifestyle.
GPG waged a long war on AV Jennings and its biggest shareholder, Singaporean group SC Global, accusing them of terrible things.
CBD remembers attending an AV Jennings shareholder meeting at an outer eastern Melbourne hotel, at which Sir Ron's offsider, the ferociously afroed Gary Weiss, rose to berate the board for what seemed like an eternity.
Three times GPG used shareholder meetings to move resolutions to flog off the company's assets and the storied AV Jennings brand and distribute the proceeds to shareholders.
Three times it was defeated.
In a note to the exchange on Friday, GPG said selling its stakes in AV Jennings and aluminium products group Capral, where it owned nearly half the company, reaped it $48.4 million.
It is believed institutional investors picked up the AV Jennings stake.
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TAX havens flung across the globe. A father's secret shareholding in the company run by his son. The fear of criminal prosecution.
It's all allegedly going on around Northwest Resources, which from the outside looks like a perfectly ordinary gold explorer.
But in a case that returns to the Federal Court in Sydney this week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges the ownership of the company has been anything but regular.
It alleges that immediately after Northwest floated in 2004, 57.5 per cent of the company was secretly owned by John Merity snr, the father of managing director John Merity jnr, through companies registered in Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and Liberia.
ASIC alleges Merity snr controlled the shares with the help of a Hong Kong-based accountant, Tony Nedderman, who ran a company called Taxation and Financial Services, or TFS.
Documents filed with the Federal Court by Merity snr and Nedderman just before Christmas show the pair are concerned that ASIC might bring criminal proceedings against them. They've asked the court to stay the proceedings until ASIC undertakes not to prosecute, or for six months.
ASIC alleges that as part of Northwest's float, 15 million shares were issued to BVI company Craigside in 2004 in return for 65 per cent of another BVI company, Elsiered.
Elsiered owned an Australian company, Tupperglenda, which in turn has its foot on the gold tenements Northwest has been exploring.
The Craigside parcel was frozen by the Federal Court in December 2011.
ASIC alleges the rest of the shares supposedly controlled by Merity snr were acquired by companies in the BVI, Belize and Liberia by subscribing to Northwest's prospectus.
It alleges that on four occasions Merity snr has failed to own up to owning various parcels of shares held by the offshore entities after being hit by an ASIC tracing notice.
Nedderman and Merity snr are alleged to have told ASIC that various parcels were Nedderman's, or someone else's, or that they did not know to whom the shares belonged.
ASIC's case relies heavily on letters and emails between the pair over a period of years.
But in his defence Nedderman "denies Mr Merity ever instructed Mr Nedderman to provide services for Mr Merity".
Sudden departure
NEDDERMAN seems to have done well in Hong Kong, serving as a board member of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club and marrying Clare, the Baroness Baillieu (she divorced the Baron, Premier Ted Baillieu's second cousin, James William Latham Baillieu, in 1993).
The couple were involved in a stoush over the baroness's membership of the Foreign Correspondents' Club that reached up to the Hong Kong Court of Appeal.
This followed what is described in court papers as an "altercation" between Nedderman and other board members in March 2005 that saw him suspended for six months.
The club said the baroness was a spouse member, so her membership depended on her hubby being in good standing. The baroness disagreed, saying she was also an absent member (don't ask).
Sadly, in November 2008, deputy High Court judge Simon Mayo found against her, saying that "she exaggerated her evidence and was not a frank and honest witness".
Nedderman suddenly up and left the Chinese Special Administrative Region in May 2010. He left behind hundreds of failed companies of which he had been appointed liquidator, forcing the courts to appoint new caretakers.
"Mr Nedderman appears to have recently left Hong Kong and has not put in place any arrangements to allow his company to continue to operate and for his co-liquidators to properly carry out their office," Justice Jonathan Harris said.
He disallowed Nedderman's fees.
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Living The Hockey Dream Captures The Magic Of The Game
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In Living The Hockey Dream, author Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., a native of Montreal, an Associate Professor of English at Pasadena City College and a freelance hockey writer who covers the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks for Inside Hockey, explores the hockey dreams—realized or not—of people involved with the game at all levels and all walks of life.
To be sure, this is not a book focusing on National Hockey League superstars and their glory days in the NHL—if that's what you are looking for, prepare to be disappointed. Read more of this post


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Serie 'A' champions Juventus are tracking Arsenal star Theo Walcott but face competition from Chelsea and Liverpool, according to talkSPORT.
The Turin-based club are monitoring the Arsenal winger's ongoing contract negotiations - and are weighing up a summer bid to lure the England international to Italy in the summer.
The 23-year-old will be able to enter talks with other clubs in January over a summer switch, and Juventus are thought to be keen to speak with the winger.
The Italian champions were in the market for a world-class forward in the summer, but only signed Walcott's Arsenal teammate Nicklas Bentdner.
And Juventus, who completed the entire season unbeaten last year, have struggled this term, losing their record to Inter Milan at home earlier this month.
But talkSPORT reports the Serie 'A' side are desperate to sign a marquee name next season, and are eyeing a bargain in the form of Arsenal's flying winger.
But they expect stiff competition from a number of Premier League sides, including Liverpool and Chelsea. The report claims the Reds are still keen on Walcott, whilst The Daily Mail claimed last month that Chelsea are willing to offload Danny Sturridge in Janaury to make space for new additions.
The Stamford Bridge side have plenty of options in attacking areas, but lack a striker, while Liverpool need forwards and wingers after a disappointing transfer window.
Walcott's ability to play out wide, or in his preferred position through the middle, has impressed Chelsea, Liverpool and Juventus, but Arsenal are still thought to be hopeful of agreeing a new deal with the England star.
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NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. man's death
NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. man's death
Jun. 18, 2013
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in Connecticut.
The agency Monday urged the Metro-North Railroad to provide backup protection for track maintenance crews that now depend on train dispatchers.
Foreman Robert Luden was killed May 28 in West Haven. The NTSB says he had requested a track section be taken out of service for maintenance. It says the section was placed back in service too soon by a student traffic controller who didn't have the required approval.
Metro-North says it has received the recommendation and "will implement safety improvements as quickly as possible." A spokeswoman says the railroad has tightened its verbal procedures and is working on a technological backup to improve safety.


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i was configure the IIS 7.0 and want to host multiple website. the first website was a default website, it can run successfully. but when i try to host the second website, it only can run at internet in a server with the address. when i type the address at another computer, cannot found the website.
Check out these resources.
They ought to get you what you need to resolve your challenge
Hope this helps,
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The "Cobra Spotlight" is a weekly highlight of a student-athlete at Coker College. Each week we take a different athlete from a different sport and display some facets to get more familiar with them. This week we take a look at Akeem Prendes, a member of the men's soccer team.
Name: Akeem Prendes
Sport: Men's Soccer
Position: Center back
Hometown: Brampton, Ontario
Year: Senior
Major: Business Administration
Why did you choose Coker? Why didn't you? I chose it because it had the type of program I was looking for, and a team that had an idea and direction so it was the best place for me.
What is your best memory at Coker (athletic related)? Goal against Limestone to win conference last year.
What is your best memory at Coker (non-athletic related)? Not even sure.
Which athletic team would you play on at Coker other than your own? Softball
Favorite class: Macro/Microeconomics
Favorite professor: Dr. Stevano by far
Plans after graduation: Wouldn't you like to know.
Favorite movie: Rush Hour
Favorite type of music: Hip Hop
Favorite food: Chicken wings
Favorite sports team: Manchester United
Favorite color: Turquoise
Favorite TV show: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Most prized possession: My ring and dog tags
What is something people may not know about you? They may not know I started my own members' only club.
Do you have a nickname? If so, how did you get it? I have a few, Keemy is used the most and it came from people hearing my family call me that and it just stuck.
One word that describes you: Delicious


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Submission + - Chimps recognize others' ignorance and act
RogerRoast writes: Don't think that only humans can recognize ignorance in others and act to remediate it. According to a new research report, chimpanzees consider the knowledge of others before sounding an alarm. The study shows that chimpanzees produce a specific 'alert' call to threats, such as a deadly snake. They produce these calls more when audience members are ignorant, rather than knowledgeable, about the presence of the snake. The research suggests that chimpanzees keep track of the information available to other chimpanzees and make selective decisions about the messages they convey based on that understanding. "Chimpanzees really seem to take another's knowledge state into account," said Catherine Crockford of the University of St Andrews, UK, the first author of the study. The study conducted in the Budongo Forest, Uganda was published in a recent issue of the journal Current Biology.


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In the production of champagne, secondary fermentation takes place in the bottle, but as soon as fermentation is complete, the champagne is removed, the yeast is filtered out and the liquid is put into new or washed bottles. "Fermented in the bottle" is the slogan used for this process.
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Regulated information 16 November 2012
Galapagos announced that a second Phase 2A clinical trial with GLPG0634 repeated the excellent safety of the drug, as well as the significant clinical improvements to rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
patients within 4 weeks. Statistically significant improvements were seen for DAS28, HAQ-DI,
ACR and CRP for the 300mg dose. The results enable Galapagos to move rapidly into Phase 2B clinical studies in early 2013. GLPG0634 is the first selective JAK1 inhibitor to potentially treat multiple autoimmune diseases, such as RA. In February 2012, Galapagos and Abbott announced a global collaboration for GLPG0634 to treat RA and other autoimmune diseases.
Galapagos received a positive ruling from the Belgian tax authorities on the collaboration agreement with Abbott. Galapagos may exempt 80% of qualifying income, based on the Galapagos patents covering JAK1 inhibitor GLPG0634, from Belgian corporate income tax. This will result in an effective income tax rate of under 5% for Galapagos for this income.
In October, Galapagos started its second Phase I clinical study with GLPG0974, a GPR43 inhibitor being developed to treat chronic neutrophil-driven inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD). In this clinical study, the safety and tolerability of GLPG0974 will be
evaluated for 2 weeks in 32 healthy volunteers. Aim of the study is also to confirm the strong biomarker signal and the once-daily (QD) dosing of the compound after 14 days. Results of the study are expected to be reported early next year.
The Capital Group Companies gave notification of a holding of 1,554,436 Galapagos shares, which represents 5.8% of Galapagos' shares outstanding today. Johnson & Johnson notified that it indirectly held 2,350,061 Galapagos shares through Tibotec-Virco and Crucell, which represents
8.8% of Galapagos' shares outstanding today. .
Management reiterates the full-year 2012 guidance given earlier in the year: The service operations are expected to increase further their cash and profit contribution in 2012. Management guides for at least 150 million in revenues, sustained operational and net
profitability, and a year-end cash position of at least 130 million by the end of 2012.
Galapagos (Euronext: GLPG; OTC: GLPYY) is a mid-size clinical stage biotechnology company specialized in the discovery and development of small molecule and antibody therapies with novel modes-of-action. The Company is progressing its JAK1 inhibitor GLPG0634, as well as one of the largest pipelines in biotech, with four programs in development and over 30 discovery programs.
The Galapagos Group has over 800 employees and operates facilities in six countries, with global headquarters in Mechelen, Belgium. More info at: www.glpg.com
Elizabeth Goodwin, Director Investor Relations
Tel: +31 6 2291 6240 [email protected]
This release may contain forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "could," "stands to," and "continues," as well as similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which might cause the actual results, financial condition, performance or achievements of Galapagos, or industry results, to be materially different from any historic or future results, financial conditions, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Given these uncertainties, the reader is advised not to place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of publication of this document. Galapagos expressly disclaims any obligation to update any such forward- looking statements in this document to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, unless required by law or regulation.


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In his book Less Than Human: The Psychology of Cruelty, David Livingston Smith explores how people, through dehumanization, come to be able to torture, kill and dismember other people - not just the psychopaths of the world, but the soldiers and leaders throughout history that have systematically set out to remove or subdue a group of people in the name of politics, race, religion, etc.
Has anyone ever purposely killed another person (and willing to share)?
If so, how did you come to terms with it?
Anyone read this book?
There's an interview with the author on maine public radio this afternoon at 12:15 - they stream live. I'm gonna try and listen.
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The Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology was created by statute within the Department of Natural Resources in 1981 to manage the National Register of Historic Places and all related federal and state programs within Indiana. More recently, Indiana General Assembly has given the Division regulatory responsibility for older human remains, burial objects, and other artifacts. The most recent legislative session also expanded the Division's role with respect to many cemeteries. The Division also administers programs with grants and tax credits to help implement its responsibilities.
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Maine Warden Services responds to ATVs, snowmobiles and trucks through ice over weekend
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The Maine Warden Service is reminding people to use extreme caution on frozen waterways after responding to eight incidents of people or vehicles going through ice over the weekend.
The warden service says everyone survived.
The incidents included a truck that went through the ice on Long Lake in Naples to snowmobiles and ATVs becoming submerged in Moosehead, Green, Schoodic, Sebaticook and Big Wood lakes. Some of the vehicles were pulled out and others remain submerged.
Early Monday morning, a truck was reported through the ice on Long Pond on Mount Desert Island. The warden service says the driver was working with the Park Service to have the vehicle removed from the public water supply.


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Catherine Elizabeth Gecan Butler, 91, widow of Robert William Butler, died Monday, April 22, 2013.
Born in Oregon, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Antonia Dellach Gecan.
Butler was a member of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, Greenville, S.C., since 1955.
She began serving as a volunteer at St. Francis Hospital, Greenville, S.C., in 1968.
Over the next 45 years, she worked faithfully in several areas at St. Francis Downtown, the front desk, the chart room in Outpatient Surgery and Education, contributing more than 19,500 hours as a volunteer.
Surviving are three sons, Stephen (Sarah) Butler, Simpsonville, S.C., James (Ellen) Butler, Taylors, S.C., and Richard Butler, Greenville, S.C.; a brother, Stephen (Marilyn) Gecan, Oregon; four grandchildren, Anthony James Butler, Nicholas Michael Butler, Catherine Anne Butler, and Matthew Stephen Butler; six great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Butler was predeceased by a brother, Edward G. Gecan.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated April 25 at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church. Burial was at Greenville Memorial Gardens.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, 3710 Augusta Rd., Greenville, SC 29605 or St. Francis Hospital, 1 St. Francis Dr., Greenville, SC 29601.
The family will be at their respective homes.
Arrangements were completed by Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Greenville, S.C.
Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.thomasmcafee.com.
Catherine E. Butler
Catherine Elizabeth Gecan Butler, 91, widow of Robert William Butler, died Monday, April 22, 2013.


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Here's the latest article from the Houseplants site at BellaOnline.com.
Swiss Cheese Plant
How to care for and propagate the common Swiss Cheese Plant.
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Story update August 21 - Since we first published this story in July, the National Parks Service has also banned drones from flying over the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, which traverses 14 states from Georgia to Maine
In April, a video of a black bear and her cub scaling the vertical walls of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park went viral. The video was taken by Stephanie Latimer who was kayaking the Rio Grande River in the canyon.
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This op-ed, by The Wilderness Society's Arizona state director Mike Quigley and Veterans Writing Project founder Ron Capps, is cross-posted from Stars & Stripes.
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GO Week 2014 drew to a close with a ceremony on Capitol Hill honoring three conservation champions who are preparing to retire from Congress with the Great Outdoors Week Lifetime Achievement Award.
During GO Week (June 23-26), The Wilderness Society partnered with other conservation groups to remind the nation's leaders how much Americans care about the great outdoors.
The one year anniversary of the unveiling of America's historic Climate Action Plan is upon us. Measuring how far we have come in meeting the goals outlined in the plan and the work yet to be done is as important as the plan itself.
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Drop 'em an email. "How are you? Did the kids have a nice Christmas? What was the best gift? Our favorite moment was hearing some carolers a block away. It was sort of a neat feeling--eavesdropping on someone else's wonderful moment, sort of sharing in the mood."You could, I suppose, say, "I heard about all the delays with shipping this year, it was even on the news. I hope our package got through."Just be in ordinary touch, only perhaps a little more frequent.
I'd wait till mid January. If they are going through a difficult time and are not ready to share with extended family, hearing from you now may make them feel guilty for not contacting you.
If you are used to having a friendly relationship, I don't see what is stopping you from just picking up the phone and saying, "Hey how are you guys? Hadn't heard from you in a while and we wanted to know you were doing?"
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"Perhaps you have also heard of Rupert Sheldrake and his term morphic resonance. We are all in the field of shared experiences and many of the concepts bounce from genius in the past to contemporary voices. Two or more individuals in completely different communities will all of a sudden have the same "epiphany" due to a "cloud of wisdom.""
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Also my interest wasn't purely aimed at playing back media files on my own machine, but also to see if there was something out there I could help push forward to give Linux developers and users something competitive to Microsoft's DirectMedia and Apple's Quicktime. Which meant I was looking for something which would also allow developers to relatively easily do more advanced stuff.
Anyway I started looking around and discovered GStreamer. I guess what pulled me in was the screenshots of the pipeline editor which gave me the clear feeling that this was more than just a playback application, but something that could be used for a much wider range of applications. Based on that I decided to do an interview with the developers for the news website I was involved with at the time (now gone). I guess I never left after doing that :)The Basics
The core concept in GStreamer is that of a pipeline system which your media streams through. This means you have one or more sources which can be anything like a file, an URL or a hardware device. Depending on how you construct your pipeline you can then have lots of things happening to that media stream before it ends up in one or more sinks at the other end of your pipeline. The sinks can be like the sources; a web stream, a file or hardware device; all depending on what plugins and elements you have installed.
So what can happen in the pipeline? Well the possibilities are almost endless. In GStreamer there are some different classes of elements. There is the basic stuff like elements for decoding different formats, demuxers for splitting the audio and video into separate streams, muxers and encoders for merging the streams back together and encoding them in a format of choice. Then there is a class of filter elements. Filters can do things ranging from technical transformations like colorspace conversions, stereo to mono and vice versa, to adding effects to video images like make them look old or psychedelic or make the video look as if a bug is looking at it. There is no limit to the number of elements you can apply to a given pipeline except the limitations your hardware imposes on you. For instance if you are doing an application that needs to do work in real-time, it puts limitations on what kind of things you can do, because if you do too much your machine will simply not be able to do the computations fast enough. The GStreamer architecture is designed however so that the pipeline system itself adds no latency to the pipeline. This is a prerequisite for many types of applications which demand low latency.
GStreamer also contains an advanced system for negotiating capabilities. This means that GStreamer itself can assemble a line of elements that takes the input it gets and transforms it into a form that the output device you are using supports. So if your output device is something using the I420 colorspace but the video stream coming in is in the RGBA colorspace then GStreamer will be able to automatically assemble a pipeline that converts the colorspace for you. Since GStreamer handles these things itself, a developer who wants to write media applications doesn't need to learn about colorspaces, bitrates and sound card clock speeds; GStreamer provides you with an easy to use API that lets you focus on your actual application instead of worrying about what kinds of things happen at the lower levels.
Developing GStreamer has been a lot harder than I think was anticipated when the project started out. Unlike many other free software projects, GStreamer was not a simple re-implementation of something which had been done before. I guess we did what Steve Balmer claims free software never does: we innovated. The basic design and basic idea came from a research project at Portland University, research work in which GStreamer project founder Erik Walthinsen participated. It was loosely modeled on DirectShow. This research gave us the basics, but when you take something out of the lab and place it in the real world, many new issues tend to arise quickly. This means that the last three years, we have had many re-writes of core modules as the original design needed extending in order to allow people to use GStreamer for more and more varied stuff and as real world worries such as support for legacy formats reared their head.
It is important to know that GStreamer has always been focused on two things : keeping the core media agnostic and keeping it GUI independent. In fact many of the first commercial users of GStreamer used it on the server for things like audio formats conversion at a telecom, recording and storing clips of live news and archiving at a radio station, and similar applications.
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In today's New York Times, Helene Cooper wrote a news analysis advocating that President Obama slash Medicare and Social Security even though it might cost him reelection. The reporter, however, offers no reason to think that reneging on the basic commitment citizens must have to one another would make anything better. In reality, damaging our basic contract might be highly profitable to Wall Street financiers (who hope to charge commissions for managing retirement funds that Social Security now manages for far less), hedge-fund managers (who can profit as easily by betting against the American economy as by betting for it), and insurance companies (which will profit from increasingly bloated medical costs until the cost of care gets so high that no one can afford it). But cutting back on the basic guarantees we offer citizens, like cutting back on the other essential governmental services that make successful economies possible, will only make our jobs crisis worse.
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Welcome back to our second super-sized episode of All-Stars, where the shocking early elimination of Elia sits well with none of the chefs remaining, not even Marcel. Will the next elimination be equally surprising? Will Fabio and Bourdain get into a fist-fight? Will Richard and Angelo become best buds or arch rivals? Let's get this recap underway and find out.
Joe Jonas? Really? Where's Seth and Amy when you need them?
The chefs arrive in the kitchen for their next Quick Fire to be greeted by Padma, as always, and Joe Jonas, teenie-bopper musician, and not pastry chef as Dale T. suspected. As it turns out, the American Museum of Natural History is having a kids' sleep-over event and Joe is a surprise guest at it; he challenges the chefs to come up with a fun, kid-friendly midnight snack that can be served in a paper bag. With only forty-five minutes on the clock to win Elimination Challenge immunity (as well as some "advantage" in the EC), the chefs run like mad to the supply room.
Dale L. knows kids are very picky eaters so he decides to mix up some candy, pretzels, and marshmallow cream. Dale T., on the other hand, makes off with the entire container of sugar, which aggravates everyone else in need of sugar, which is pretty much the rest of the kitchen. Marcel, we learn, has a soft-side for cooking for kids, as his mother took over the food program at his school. I dare not call her a lunch lady, however. Apparently back in Season 1, Tiffani was a bit of an ass about cooking for kids; she wants to make up for that this time around. Dale T. endears himself to me by suggesting lacing his snack with Nyquil to knock the kids out at midnight.
Once time is called, Padma and Joe sample:
Antonia's white chocolate and cherry muffin with cinnamon and allspice
Richard's white bread , spiced apples with whipped hone and crunchy chocolate
Spike's homemade potato and carrot chips with mascarpone and marshmallow dip
Tre's cracker with cranberry and cherry jam, apple smoked bacon
Casey's chocolate and bacon lasagna with apple juice and candy
Dale's sweet tart nuggets and caveman boulders with chocolate sauce
Jamie's mini cheddar biscuits with homemade cinnamon apple sauce
Tiffany's coconut rice pudding with grapefruit sauce
Dale T.'s corn cake with dried cherries and whipped maple topping
Fabio's apple with white chocolate, caramel, and blueberry
Tiffani's rice crispy treat snowball with malted milk and graham crackers
Angelo's fried dough, white pepper, old bay spice, and cheddar crumbs
Stephen's snickerdoodle with white chocolate, coconut ganache, apricot and mint
Jen's bacon ginger taffy and honey grilled peaches
Mike's chocolate coconut corn bar and coconut horchata chaser
Is it me, or was there a lot of bacon in that group? Do ten-year-olds eat bacon? Every kid I know is on a strict diet of mac & cheese and chicken nuggets, neither of which were represented, so I don't know what gives. Joe, probably now high on sugar and saturated fat, renders his verdict; he didn't like Tiffany's messy food, Mike's weak chocolate, and Stephen's weak mint. His two favorites were Spike and Tiffani, but he can't decide so he's going to let the kids at the museum pick for him. The mere mention of the kids makes Dale L. cringe up—they're called brats for a reason, he opines. And worse yet, they've probably all expect the statues to come alive after repeated viewings of Night at the Museum. [Also, if you're new to the recaps remember Tiffani is the runner up from Season 1 and Tiffany won a trip to Paris and a butt-load of money on Season 7, thus paying for her wedding and honeymoon.]
The most drawn-out QF win ever.
Spike and Tiffani will have to wage a battle of potato and carrot chips versus sugar bomb, and they'll need help serving the 150 kids. They chose, in turns, their teammates. It breaks down like this: Spike picks Richard, Dale T., Marcel, Stephen, Angelo, Mike, and Carla. Tiffani chooses Jen, Antonia, Dale L., Casey, Jamie, Tiffany, and Tre. This leaves Fabio as the last kid on the playground; Padma lets him pick a team and he goes with Spike's because he wants a piece of him. Dale L. sums up the teams as "the Spice Girls and their bodyguard" and "all the cool guys and their babysitter".
With two hours on the clock to prepare the snacks, the kitchen is a bit crazy. Tiffani's snack involves freezing marshmallows with liquid nitrogen, so there is a lot of steam from the cold hitting the air. Her team works pretty well, a bit joviality between Dale L. and Casey as always, and they get their bags packed. Spike's team gets their bags packed as well, but not without some grumbling from Dale T. about the lack of interest he has in making some ill-defined dipping sauce for the chips.
The chefs arrive at the museum and set up their tables of snacks. The kids pour in, already seem hyped up on too much sugar. They get their bags and dig in while the chefs try talking up their team's dish. Then, in walks Padma and Joe Jonas; the room erupts with excitement at the sight of a Jonas brother. He asks the kids which snack they like the most, and far and away Tiffani's snack wins, giving her an advantage in the EC and immunity.
No rest for the weary, no herbs for a carnivore.
The kids depart, leaving piles of trash on the floor in the dinosaur hall, and in walks Tom to set up the Elimination Challenge, which starts right then—at 1:30 a.m. They're going to stay the night and prepare a breakfast for the kids and their parents at 7:30, using whatever is in the museum's kitchen. As they're in the dinosaur hall with the T. Rex and "brontosaurus" (more properly called Apatosaurus) skeletons, one team will be assigned the carnivorous diet of the T. Rex and can use meat and meat byproducts such as eggs and dairy. The other team will be cooking with fruits, vegetables, and grains only. Tiffani's advantage is that she gets to choose which diet she wants to use; she goes with the meat and dairy diet of the T. Rex.
They do get to spend the night in sleeping bags and Top Chef pajamas in the Hall of North American Mammals. Stephen isn't exactly loving the lack of his usual loft-like comforts of home and Tre isn't so cool with the situation either, since he likes to sleep naked (though it does beg the question of whether he sleeps clothed back at the Top Chef house). Before they get any shut-eye, the teams group off to plan their breakfasts. Spike divides up his team into smaller groups right away to tackle the menu. On Tiffani's team, Jen balks at the idea of dividing up, because everyone is on the line for elimination equally, but eventually she consents and will work with Jamie.
About half of the group decides to actually get a bit of rest before the EC, but a group of guys decide to take their flashlights and explore the museum. Given that I'd probably be so wired on adrenaline, and would never have another chance to even come close to living out From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler (yeah, I know—wrong museum, but close enough since it's just across Central Park), I'd do it too.
The alarm clock goes off at 3:45 a.m. and Tre did indeed sleep shirtless. For the record, Tre should always be shirtless. The chefs find their pantries fully stocked; for Team Brontosaurus, there is a bounty of fruits and vegetables to work with. For Team T. Rex, there is meat, meat, more meat, and some cheese and eggs. Tiffani admits she thought a carnivore was an omnivore, and the team struggles with the lack of any herbs or acid such as lime. Most of their dishes will have to be re-tooled to work with the limited range of ingredients.
Team Brontosaurus gets busy with Spike and Carla's gazpacho and Stephen and Fabio's gnocchi. Over on Team T. Rex, Jamie cuts down some bacon and summarily cuts her thumb; the medic deems Jamie needs stitches and goes off to the hospital, leaving Jen to work her dish alone. Fabio recalls his own hand issue, taping it up with a fork in his season, and thinks leaving is weak. Jen is absolutely punchy and will soldier through with her bacon and egg dish. Casey and Tre work up a salmon dish while Casey and Antonia are working on some frittatas in un-even cooking ovens. Fabio gets put out by Spike's manhandling of his gnocchi in the boiling water; he thinks they may be ruined. Meanwhile Casey tastes Jen's braised pork belly and thinks it tastes like wet bacon, though Jen thinks it is good. They push the food out and head to set up.
A vegan's revenge.
The chefs have an hour to set up before service. As they do so, Marcel, Richard, and Angelo plate up what they've made and Angelo thinks the plums are too large. Angelo directs Carla to cut up the plums, which irritates Marcel who now has it out for Angelo. Jamie returns after having a measly two stitches; Tre and Dale L. both find her absence extremely unprofessional. The kids arrive and don't really get Team T. Rex's dishes because they're looking for straight up bacon and eggs. Team Brontosaurus, Carla says, has more solid and recognizable foods.
The judges arrive, and, alas, there is no Bourdain; Katie Lee, host of Season 1, is the guest judge. They stop by Team Brontosaurus' table first where they sample Dale T. and Mike's fresh corn grits, stewed peppers, and salsa verde; Marcel, Richard, and Angelo's banana parfait with seasonal fruit and tandoori maple; Carla and Spike's "V9" gazpacho with fruits and vegetables; and Fabio and Stephen's potato gnocchi with leeks, spinach and mushrooms. The gnocchi are a hit, the gazpacho isn't with a kid who doesn't like tomato, and everyone likes the banana parfait.
The judges then hit up Team T. Rex's service line where they taste Antonia and Tiffany's trio of mini frittatas: bacon and cheddar, ham and cheese, and chevre; Tre and Casey's salmon with shrimp and apple smoked bacon sauce; Jen and Jamie's braised bacon and hard boiled eggs; and Dale L. and Tiffani's steak and egg with hollandaise. The judges aren't keen on Jen's bacon not having enough flavor, while Tre's sauce is too salty. The frittatas are either cooked properly or not, depending on the plate, but Tiffani and Dale L.'s steak was good.
The chefs finally at least get to sit down for a few minutes, albeit in the stew room. Undoubtedly exhausted, they mull over the past 24+ hours. Tiffani regrets choosing the herbivore diet and sees she had no advantage; Fabio says it wasn't easy making gnocchi with no eggs or butter, implying she should get over it. Padma calls in Team Brontosaurus to see the judges first; they are the winning team. Fabio gets praise for his gnocchi, though does veer the bus pretty close to Spike's head for his murderous boiling technique. Katie loved the banana parfait Marcel, Angelo, and Richard put out; she gives them the win, so all three are deemed winners. Richard is over the win after five minutes, Angelo gets an ego boost for two wins in a row, and Marcel is peevish that he didn't get the sole win since he had more components on the plate.
Team T. Rex then faces the judges; Tiffani speaks up and says that she didn't think it was all that much of an advantage that it wasn't clear that they only could cook with meat. Gail says it is all about adaptability, and Tom notes that he told them straight that they'd have meat and meat by-products only to work with. Tiffany and Antonia get called out for their inconsistent frittatas; they admit they had problems with the oven cooking evenly. The steak and eggs made by Tiffani and Dale L. were good, but very simple. The salmon and sauce was salty; Tre admits the sauce over-reduced during the plating phase, but what could he do about it at that point? Padma notes Jen looks really pissed off; she says that she tasted the other team's dishes and they shouldn't be in the bottom. The judges ask why everything wasn't plated separately; Jen fires back that the judges should be smart enough to ask for a different plate. Tom wonders why the team wasn't smart enough to figure that out in the first place. Jen is really wound up and twitchy; I'm thinking she's had one too many cups of coffee. Jamie says she helped Jen out when she was there, but she had to go get stitches. Antonia, like others, takes issue with Jamie bailing instead of using the apparently common kitchen trick of duct taping her finger and moving on. Jen says Jamie's absence didn't really harm her at all, but the judges take issue with the lack of flavor in her bacon and egg dish. She vehemently denies that it was under-seasoned and stands by her dish.
During deliberation, Gail notes the anger of the team. Tom doesn't mind the argument because no one is going home simply for argument—it's the food that will send them packing. Padma points out Tiffani's immunity, but adds that Dale L. won't be going home either because they had the best dish of the team. The frittatas were cruise-ship worthy; and while Casey cooked the salmon well, Tre's sauce was too salty. Jen's dish was so bland and soft, no one liked it. They discuss Jamie's absence, but Padma points out that her presence wasn't missed.
The judges have reached their decision and call Team Brontosaurus back out. Tom lets Tiffani and Dale L. exit, as they had the best dish. He tells Tiffany and Antonia that they're better chefs than to put out inconsistent frittatas. Jamie and Jen's dish was under seasoned, and while admirable to defend the dish, it doesn't make it better. He adds Tre should have known better than to let the sauce overpower the salmon. After a tough deliberation, Padma tells Jen to pack her knives and go. She's so punchy, she kind of laughs and acts crazy in the stew room. She is in serious need of sleep at this point; she says her goodbyes and then loses it in the hallway upon departure.
And with Jen's elimination I'm 0 for 2; early on I thought the final four would be Richard, Angelo, Jen, and either Fabio or Elia. Those three guys better watch their backs, as apparently my choices are first eliminated.


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Pearce keen to take Butland to the European Championship's this summer
England Under-21s coach Stuart Pearce is keen to take Jack Butland to the European Championship finals this summer.
Last Updated: 23/01/13 7:25pm
Birmingham goalkeeper Butland, 19, lined up between the sticks during the Young Lions' successful qualification campaign for the Euro finals in Israel, which run from June 5-18.
As well as being first choice for Pearce's Team GB Olympics side in London last summer, Butland was also an unused member of Roy Hodgson's Euro 2012 squad having been called up from the standby list as a replacement for the injured John Ruddy.
He later went on to make his full Three Lions bow in a friendly against Italy in August last year, becoming England's youngest-ever international goalkeeper.
It now remains to be seen what 2013 holds for Butland - with England Under-21s gunning to conquer Europe and Hodgson's senior squad gearing up for a host of high-profile internationals which includes a friendly against Brazil in Rio de Janeiro in early June.
Pearce, whose Young Lions open the calendar year against Sweden at Walsall's Banks's Stadium on Tuesday February 5, said: "Jack has been a big part of the squad, how we use him and his time between the senior team and the Under 21s is very critical but we want to take the strongest possible squad in the summer.
"There is a good tour of South America in the summer for the seniors as well."
The immediate future is more uncertain for Butland having been heavily linked with a move away from cash-strapped Birmingham, who are keen to raise much-needed funds.
Southampton saw a £6million bid rejected for his services last summer but a similar offer over the remaining eight days of the January transfer window is likely to see him leave the Championship club.
No bids have been received as yet but the likes of Fulham, Newcastle, Everton and Liverpool are all reported to be interested.
Pearce added: "There has been a lot of speculation with Jack maybe leaving Birmingham this month and that speculation will continue until the transfer window shuts at the end of the month.
"He has done very well when I have seen him play to be fair. He plays above his years and you can't lose track of that he's only still 19 years old.
"The season has gone as well as to be expected for him and expectations have gone that much higher on him whenever he plays for Birmingham, I've seen them play a fair few times this season and Jack has done fantastically well."


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POV's regular season of Tuesday broadcasts begins June 22, 2010 with Emily and Sarah Kunstler's William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, which examines the life of this radical attorney from a surprising angle. Kunstler's two daughters from his second marriage grew up lionizing a man already famous for his historic civil rights and anti-war cases. Then, in their teens, they began to be disillusioned by a stubborn man who continued representing some of the most reviled defendants in America — this time accused rapists and terrorists. In this intimate biography, the filmmakers seek to recover the real story of what made their late father one of the most beloved, and hated, lawyers in America.
This season POV will partner with StoryCorps to present a selection of animated documentary shorts based on StoryCorps' groundbreaking oral-history project. StoryCorps was founded by MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay in 2003 and their broadcasts on National Public Radio have become the gold standard in public radio broadcasting. Six documentary animations will air this summer with selected feature-length POV films.
POV's summer schedule includes The Beaches of Agnès, airing on June 29. In this delightful memoir, pioneering French filmmaker Agnès Varda ("Vagabond," "Cléo From 5 to 7") employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy. For the 81-year-old artist, memories live through her films. In The Beaches of Agnès, she uses film clips, old photos and gorgeous reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy ("The Umbrellas of Cherbourg") and the making of her movies. You don't need to know anything about Varda to enjoy this enchanting glimpse into the treasure chest of her memories.
POV presents two films looking at different aspects of life, politics and economics in Africa. Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen's incisive Promised Land, on July 6, the most potentially explosive issue is land. The film follows two black communities as they struggle to reclaim land from white owners, some of whom who have lived there for generations. Amid rising tensions and wavering government policies, the land issue remains South Africa's "ticking time bomb," with far-reaching consequences for all sides. Promised Land captures multiple perspectives of citizens struggling to create just solutions. A co-production of the National Black Programming Consortium, American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Landon Van Soest's Good Fortune in July is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. In Kenya's rural countryside, Jackson's farm is being flooded by an American investor who hopes to alleviate poverty by creating a multimillion-dollar rice farm. Across the country in Nairobi, Silva's home and business in Africa's largest shantytown are being demolished as part of a U.N. slum-upgrading project. The gripping stories of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development present a unique opportunity see foreign aid through eyes of the people it is intended to help.
Also in July, POV turns to Latin America with El General. Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006) brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, a revolutionary general who became Mexico's president in 1924. In his time, Calles was called El Jefe Maximo (Foremost Chief). Today he is remembered as El Quema-Curas (Priest Burner) and as a dictator who ruled through puppet presidents until his exile in 1936. Airing during the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, El General moves between a daughter's memories as she grapples with history's portrayal of her father and the weight of his legacy on Mexico today.
Presumed Guilty, a film by Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, tells a harrowing tale of a justice system turned on its head. Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City and, like thousands of other innocent people, he was wrongfully imprisoned. The award-winning Presumed Guilty is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga. With no background in film, Hernández and Negrete set about recording the injustices they were witnessing, enlisting acclaimed director Geoffrey Smith (The English Surgeon, POV 2009) to tell this dramatic story.


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Ballmer to Wall St: we always back a winner
Microsoft Bob, who?
An unapologetic Steve Ballmer has committed Microsoft to investments in an array of new markets, while ruling and end to monumental delays on flagship products.
Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday prepared Wall St for ongoing long-term R&D and marketing spending, which will push up costs and bust margins, into already occupied markets.
Ballmer was closing Microsoft's annual financial analysts' summit, where company executives had spent the day beating investors into accepting the wisdom of betting on online services, search and internet advertising as growth strategies.
It was clear from comments during the day executives had been grilled on the wisdom of this strategy, asked whether they see Microsoft as a leader or on the defensive, and what the implications are for margins and operating expenses. At 30-years' old, Wall St has is accustomed to Microsoft as a stable, non-risk stock.
For Ballmer there was no question investors should put their faith in Microsoft. "There are very few areas where, except for Microsoft Bob, we haven't succeeded or were we're [still] telling you we are going to succeed," Ballmer almost joked. "We think the business we pick are very good businesses and we should stick with them."
While Microsoft is not first in business intelligence, search and media players (with Zune), Ballmer said Microsoft could innovate against incumbents and leverage its size. Focusing on Zune, Ballmer said: "There's no other company that would be attempting to get into that business at this time, no other company has the opportunity, financial resources or the... no let's just leave it at that."
Ballmer said such a spread of investments meant Microsoft is turning into a "multicore" company, making it difficult for investors to quantify. "There is a Sony that lives inside of us, and an aspiring Yahoo! or Google that lives inside of us, and an IBM mainframe that lurks inside of us... I want Microsoft to be in all of the good important big growth businesses in the world," Ballmer said.
At about this point, investors must have been hankering for the security of Office, and client and server operating systems. With Windows Vista bedevilled by delays, Ballmer promised: "We will never repeat this experience with Windows again. We will never have a five-year gap between flagship products."
Pressed to explain what the company has done to avoid delays, Ballmer said - chiefly - it had learned the classic lesson of promising too much in one go. He said he shared this mistake jointly with Bill Gates, Craig Mundie chief research and strategy officer and Jim Allchin, co-president for platforms and services. "We tried to incubate too many new things and integrate them simultaneously rather than let them bake. There was too much complexity. We worked down that path for a while and said it wouldn't work. We re-booted where we were.
Other changes include the promotion of Steven Sinofsky, former Office development Czar, and named senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live engineering in March, to take over Windows from Allchin. Sinofsky has a track record for bringing in new versions of Microsoft's desktop productivity suite on time. ®
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Wish we had gone after Chad Henne harder this offseason.
Wish we had gone after Chad Henne harder this offseason.
Man these Tebow plays just aren't working.
Still it is a two way street. Can't put all the blame on him, he doesn't call the plays and chooses when to use them either.
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No teams whiffs on more sacks than the Jets.
Bardford has gotten hit alot I can only hope Brady gets hit twice as much on turkey day
Cut that slow Jesus Freak can't throw an accurate pass mother f*cker! He is a waste of a roster spot! His claim to fame is that he's a "great football player", but yet he hasn't done sh*t yet. Enough is enough!
Come on kyle wilson, pick 6 this schotty call and end tnis game.
IF we beat the Pats ... We have a shot at a WC birth.
Jets are just smothering them here. They're forced to pass but the Jets are a top team against the pass. Call the game, St. Louis is done.
Schotty showing his genius. Team down and dink and dunking all over the field.