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text: Does anyone remember when you had to haul out a typewriter and spend all bloody day on an application? No one applied to 25 schools back then. Doing applications would have been a full-time job!I even remember getting records inserted in college promotional materials. You could only play them once or twice on the record player, because they were just plastic (or vinyl) over paper. I love the internet.

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The Green Bay Packers today announced plans for the ninth 'Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour,' set for April 15-19. This year's tour includes two stops in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in addition to three Wisconsin stops, to visit with fans and thank them in person for their support.
The tour will make stops in Escanaba (April 15), Ironwood (April 16), Superior (April 17), Rice Lake (April 18) and Merrill (April 19), with tailgate parties held in each city to support a local non-profit organization.
Tour celebrities will include Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy, players
The tour will take place aboard a customized motor coach emblazoned with the logo "Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour" and the phrase "Touching Down in Your Community." In addition to the designated locations, tour celebrities will make surprise stops as the schedule allows.
The tailgate parties will welcome the players and alumni arriving at each location at 6 p.m., and will run until 8:30 p.m., except in Merrill, where the tailgate party will take place from 12:30 to 3 p.m. A local non-profit organization will host each party which will feature food, giveaways, question-and-answer sessions and autographs. Tailgate party tickets cost $30.
General admission tickets also will be available for $5, which includes access to the Q-and-A sessions as well as tailgate party activities. Food and beverage will be available for purchase. Due to space limitations, no general admission tickets will be available in Ironwood.
One hundred percent of the Tailgate Tour proceeds will benefit the hosting organizations.
"The Packers are very excited to embark on the ninth annual Tailgate Tour," said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy. "Thanks to the loyalty of our fans, this has been an extremely successful event for the past nine years. We're excited this year to visit the northern parts of our state, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and look forward to supporting great organizations throughout the tour."
Tickets for the tailgate parties at all locations will go on sale Friday, Feb. 28. 'Green Bay Packers Tailgate Tour' tailgate party locations, hosting organizations and ticket information are as follows:
- Escanaba: Ruth Butler Building. To benefit Lakestate Industries. Tickets on sale at Island Resort and Casino, W399 Hwy. 2&41, Harris, Mich. Tickets also available online at www.islandresortandcasino.com.
- Ironwood: Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort. To benefit Ironwood Volunteer Fire Department. Tickets on sale at Super One Foods, 1480 E. Cloverland Dr., Ironwood, Mich.
- Superior: Superior High School. To benefit the National Bank Commerce Spartan Sports Complex. Tickets on sale at Screen Graphics, 1327 Banks Ave., Superior.
- Rice Lake: Barron County Fairgrounds. To benefit Benjamin's House. Tickets on sale at Marketplace Foods, 330 S. Main St., Rice Lake; and Rainbow Home Center, 1124 Hammond Ave., Rice Lake.
- Merrill: MARC. To benefit Riverbend Trail. Tickets on sale at Merrill Chamber of Commerce, 705 N. Center Ave., Merrill; Dave's County Market, 300 E. 1st St., Merrill; and Drew's Piggly Wiggly, 3404 E. Main St., Merrill. Tickets also available online at www.merrillchamber.org.
Fans interested in 'Tailgate Tour' details are encouraged to visit www.packers.com often as tour information will be updated as the dates near.


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Hear Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' Covered by the Head & the Heart
It's already been covered by everyone from Boy George to Carrie Underwood, but what's one more version of 'Go Your Own Way' between friends, right? The Head & the Heart stopped by the AV Club this week to take part in the site's long-running Undercover series, and decided to add their own spin to the Fleetwood Mac classic first released on 1977′s 'Rumours.'
So what sets this latest version apart from the original? Well…where the music Fleetwood Mac released during its commercial peak was marked by an extreme attention to sonic detail, led by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham's distinctive tone, the Head & the Heart got one take in an office studio, and the results were, shall we say, charmingly ragged. Depending on your tolerance for pitchy vocals, your mileage may vary.
Either way, give the band points for bravery; it takes guts to sit down in front of the cameras, tackle a song everyone knows by heart, and send the results out to the World Wide Web. The Punch Brothers recently took the same dare by covering the Cars' 'Just What I Needed.' And who knows? Maybe hearing this will be the motivation Fleetwood Mac needs to get back in the studio and on the road.
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By JEFF HELMINIAK
Peninsula Clarion
The Soldotna girls basketball team is not going to state after all.
After announcing Sunday night on a webcast show that Soldotna had made the Class 4A tournament based on its Winning Percentage Index, or WPI, the Alaska School Activities Association received an email from an undisclosed school that two scores from the Southeast Conference tournament at Sitka had been left out of the WPI calculation.
Those two scores were added to the WPI calculations Monday morning and Lathrop jumped ahead of Soldotna and snapped up the second WPI berth to state. Lathrop's adjusted WPI is .5649, while SoHi's is .5644.
Soldotna girls coach Doug Blossom held a practice at 10 a.m. Monday in order to start getting his team ready for a presumed March 21 date with Kodiak.
Blossom checked his cellphone at 11:30 a.m. as he was leaving the school's parking lot and found out the news.
"The girls took it pretty hard," Blossom said. "It was one of those things where we knew we were on the bubble, and it wouldn't have been surprising if they'd announced Lathrop instead of SoHi on Sunday night.
"But after celebrating all night, having a fun practice, then getting all enthused, it was tough on them."
The incident will bring more scrutiny on the WPI system. Gary Matthews, the executive director at ASAA, said the whole process will be discussed at an April meeting of the ASAA board.
The WPI is calculated based on wins and losses against Class 4A competition. Those wins and losses are weighted according to the record of the teams they came against.
Starting last season, the WPI was used to determine two at-large berths to state. The other six berths are determined by finish at the conference tournament. Matthews said the idea was to make sure a great team is not left home from state due to upsets at a conference tournament or being in a conference loaded with powerhouse teams.
The execution of that idea is a mountainous undertaking with little room for error. Russ Schreckenghost, the associate director at ASAA and the one responsible for maintaining and computing the WPI, said over 850 scores were used to compute this year's WPI.
"The correct team according to WPI is going and that is Lathrop," Schreckenghost said. "Unfortunately, we thought that was Soldotna as of Sunday.
"We did get it correct. Unfortunately, there were two missing scores. It proves every score is important in WPI."
The two Southeast tourney games that swung the WPI in favor of Lathrop were Thunder Mountain defeating Ketchikan and Juneau-Douglas defeating Thunder Mountain.
When the WPI was computed Sunday, two scores from the Southeast Tournament were used — Ketchikan defeating Thunder Mountain and Juneau defeating Ketchikan.
Matthews said in the past, the three-team Southeast Conference tourney has consisted of two games — No. 2 vs. No. 3, then the winner playing in the championship. This year, a round-robin format was used, adding the two pivotal games.
Schreckenghost said the incident will lead to a change in how conference tournament games are reported.
"Before region play, teams will have to report to us how many games they are playing," he said. "Instead of just checking off that a region has reported, I would know that the region just reported two games, and two more scores have to come in."
Even with that change, Matthews and Schreckenghost said there are still potential problems with the system for reporting regular-season games.
Schools and coaches are responsible for reporting the results of their games. Matthews said those scores are all posted on ASAA's website the first Monday in February and March. Coaches and athletic directors have a week to look at the list and report any errors.
In addition, Schreckenghost said he has people assigned in each area of the state to make sure all the scores are being reported.
"We've designed a program to try and take care of that," Schreckenghost said. "We knew we had to create checks and balances."
Matthews said some scores haven't been reported in the past. This season, Blossom pointed to a Feb. 15 game between Colony and visiting Kenai that wasn't on the list of reported WPI scores. There are only two Colony-Kenai games listed — Jan. 9 and then the March matchup in the first round of the Northern Lights Conference tournament.
"We think there was a game that wasn't reported from Feb. 15 that wasn't included in WPI," Matthews said. "It's released in March, and the schools have a week to review it, and neither school said a game was not reported as far as we know."
Kenai Central girls coach and athletic director Stacia Rustad said Monday that the Jan. 9 and Feb. 15 scores were reported.
"Russ admitted that he knows it's there and that it's not being counted," Blossom said. "He said it wouldn't change it for us. I have to take him at his word."
Matthews said the difference between the Kenai-Colony game and the Southcentral Conference tourney games is that coaches and athletic directors had a week to review the regular-season games. There was no similar review period for conference tournaments.
Matthews said there must be a deadline for regular-season games. If there were no drop-dead deadline, games could trickle in up to the moments before tipoff at state that would alter the teams on the floor.
Blossom said there should be a review period for conference tournament games as well. He said there's no reason to rush the brackets to the web Sunday night when the tournament doesn't start for over a week.
"I think they really messed up by broadcasting live and having that deadline, then they found out there were two region games in Sitka they didn't have recorded," Blossom said. "They said that to be fair, we need to put those two games in. I buy that.
"Why not wait until Tuesday or Wednesday until they are sure?"
Blossom said he still believes in the WPI concept of getting the best teams to state. He said he wants Monday's mixup to lead to reform of the system so no team has to go through Soldotna's plight again.
"Nobody did this on purpose," Blossom said. "It's rough. I just wish my kids would have found out last night. They got all excited last night."


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October 2006
Welcome to Connect to Veterinary Medicine, the latest news and information about the College of Veterinary Medicine!
What's going on at the college in October? In this issue, we'll talk about the Alumni Reunion Weekend, Oncology news, new faculty diplomates, greyhound care, animal research, and annual AABP conference awards.
Alumni Reunion weekend, September 1 and 2
Alumni who returned to campus for reunion events had a new option this year: University-sponsored activities showcasing new buildings and undergraduate programs. All the regular events in the College of Veterinary Medicine - dinner on Friday night, silent auction, live auction, Saturday tailgate before an Ohio State victory – were further enhanced by the presentation of Alumni Recognition Awards on Friday at the Buckeye Hall of Fame café, and a talk by the dean on Saturday, offering alumni insight into college activities.
Welcoming the class of 2010
Entering first-year Vet Med students are the class of 2010. Thanks to our sponsors, including the Alumni Society of the College of Veterinary Medicine, students started their first year with activities designed to help them get to know their new classmates.
News from Oncology
The Oncology Section of the College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital has started a new informative "Oncology Quarterly which will be posted on the Web. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide additional information to referring veterinarians, including updates on current clinical trials and contact information on staff. In addition, the newsletter features a special column, "What is your diagnosis? offering a case study, complete with lab results, X-rays and the final diagnosis by the clinical staff.
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Congratulations to our new Diplomates
In the training of veterinary specialists, there is a clear standard of excellence in the formof the certification examination. Recent testing for specialty practice fields shows the remarkable levels of expertise demonstrated by graduates of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO) include: Dr. Ellen Belknap, Dr. Terah Robbin, Dr. Vanessa Kuonen.
Diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) Drs. Deana Schaefer, Tracey Papenfuss and Kimberly Newkirk who successfully completed all 4 parts of the Certification Examination of the last week in Ames, Iowa; Dr. Schaefer in Clinical Pathology and Drs. Papenfuss and Newkirk in Anatomic Pathology.
As Michael Lairmore, chair of the Department of Veterinary Biosciences has observed, Ohio State appears to be distinguishing itself in the training and preparation of veterinary specialists. Thesuccessof thesestudentsis yetanotherstep towardour goalof becoming the finest veterinary medical training programin North America. Please take the opportunity to congratulate these young professionals who have, in distinguishing themselves, also distinguished their College and University.
Vet Med in the News
Hospital provided care for rescued Greyhounds
The Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center performed spays and neuters for Greyhounds rescued from a Juárez, Mexico racetrack by several Greyhound Adoption organizations in August. According to Dr. Guillermo Couto, professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, the spay/neuter clinic was a "win-win situation - retired dogs from the racetrack obtained quality health care, and the veterinary students benefited from more experience performing the surgeries. All of the dogs were adopted after recovery.
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Animal Shelter Survey shows dogs fare better than cats
Linda Lord, a research fellow in veterinary preventive medicine at Ohio State University, was the lead author in a new survey of animal shelters across Ohio. Data they collected was compared with a similar study conducted 10 years ago. The outlook for sheltered dogs has improved considerably in the last decade, but conditions have deteriorated for cats. "We saw a dramatic drop in the number of dogs euthanized, which we didn't expect to see, said Lord. "But the survey showed that we are losing ground with cats.
Awards given at annual AABP Conference
Several Ohio State veterinary students were recognized at the recent conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners in St. Paul, MN.
Fourth-year students Mary (Em) Mowrer and Aaron Wise received the AABP Student Recognition Award for academics, leadership, and involvement in bovine medicine. Two of our third-year students, Gabe Middleton and Justin Keiffer, received $2,000 Amstutz Scholarships, named in honor of past Ohio State faculty member Dr. Harold Amstutz. In addition, Justin was chosen for the Student Case Presentation competition.


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The Portland Phoenix | By Deirdre Fulton
Earlier this summer, I wrote a piece about local banks versus big banks (see "Keep Your Money in Maine," by Deirdre Fulton, June 24). FDIC statistics show that in Cumberland County, more than 80 percent of the market share of deposits is in TD Bank, Key Bank, or Bank of America.
As a result of researching and writing that article, I decided to make a (tiny) dent in that percentage by MOVING MY MONEY from Bank of America to a local institution.
It took me a long time to choose among several venerable banks and credit unions. Once I finally selected (my decision was based largely on convenience), waltzing into the branch and opening a new account was easy enough.
The harder part is severing ties with my old bank.
I cribbed from a letter drafted by Catherine Austin Fitts, a bank-local enthusiast who currently serves as president of Solari, Inc., a progressive investment company based in Tennessee. It expresses my appreciation for 10 years of BoA customer service, then explains why I am leaving.
"In recent years, I have become increasingly alarmed at the growing corruption in the financial system in this country," the letter reads. In a bullet-point list, it goes on to say that "American households are experiencing record deficits while America's largest banks are enjoying record profits," and "As private banks and their investors increasingly control our government bank accounts and financial policies, it falls to the private citizen and private markets to assume greater responsibility for ensuring that our financial system operates on an ethical and lawful basis." (Read the letter here.)
I can't give this to them, though, until I deal with the seemingly infinite loose ends it takes to close an account. And this, of course, is what trips people (me) up: the transferring of direct deposits, the switching of automatic bill-pays, the paperwork. I'm muddling through, and I'll keep you posted.
• While behemoth banks dominate Maine's financial market, SMALLER INSTITUTIONS ARE GRAPPLING FOR A BIGGER PIECE OF THE PIE. And in some arenas, they're succeeding. With 47 percent of Maine residents using a credit union for at least some portion of their banking needs, Maine is the fifth-strongest "credit union state" in the country, according to Jon Paradise, government and public affairs manager at the Maine Credit Union League.
The only way to grow that number, however, is to get 'em while they're young. Right now, between 12 and 15 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds in Maine belong to a credit union. Young & Free Maine — with its 24-year-old representative, Seth Poplaski — hopes to increase that percentage. At YoungFreeMaine.com, young adults can find money-management tips and tools, blogs about finance, and information about credit unions.
The Young & Free campaign is a marketing gimmick, yes, but one with earnest roots. It was launched in 2007 by Currency Marketing, a Canadian firm that claims as part of its mission: "We can't wait for the day when credit unions have more members than banks have customers. We want credit unions to gain ground on the banks one member at a time."
Today, there are Y&F "spokesters" in eight US states and two Canadian provinces. Like Poplaski, they travel to college campuses, talking to the 18-to-25 crowd about financial responsibility and how credit unions can serve students and recent graduates (with services such as free checking accounts, shared-branch networks, and surcharge-free ATMs).
"You're more apt to just walk into a big bank," Poplaski admits. Which is why part of his task is to demonstrate that "credit unions are a viable option for young people."


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The stormy weather on the East Coast prompted the cancellation today of 28 flights at Los Angeles International Airport.
Nine scheduled arriving flights and 19 scheduled departing flights were canceled this morning, said Marshall Lowe of Los Angeles World Airports, the city agency that operates the facility.
Passengers were advised to check with their airlines on the status of their flights.


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This. One's. For. Gallo.
With Danilo Gallinari out of the game because of a knee injury -- a source close to the situation said Gallo thinks it's an ACL tear -- Nuggets teammate Andre Iguodala made a stupendous drive from the right wing. Dre hit the left-handed layup, with 2.8 seconds left, giving Denver the lead Thursday night against the Dallas Mavericks.
"I whispered to A.I.: 'If they're disrupting Andre (Miller), you've got to go,' and he finished the shot," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "It's a win, but it doesn't feel as exuberant."
Corey Brewer then blocked Anthony Morrow's shot at the buzzer, and the Nuggets won at home 95-94 in the second game of a back-to-back set.
But the Gallinari injury looks bad. A source close to the situation said Gallinari "heard a pop" when his knee buckled and that Gallo "thinks it's a torn ACL."
Denver's No. 2 scorer buckled his left knee in the second quarter, collapsing to the floor. It looked bad. Real bad. Gallinari is scheduled for an MRI on Friday morning, but the way he hobbled off the court, fell upon a stretcher and screamed in pain, it would suggest it looked more severe than a sprain.
"I can't deny — it didn't look good," Karl said. "I usually look at the player's face. He was scared. ... But I've had ones look bad and (the MRI) turned out to be OK. Nene went down a couple of years ago and it was just a sprain."
Gallinari entered the night averaging 16.3 points per game, and he's a key cog in the Nuggets' machine, playing small forward, floating 3s and driving hard to the hoop.
Here's how it happened: In the second quarter, Gallinari was on the right perimeter when he darted past Dirk Nowitzki, dribbling with his left hand from near the top of the key. Open and now near the basket, Gallinari tried to plant his left leg and jump, but the leg buckled with 4:27 left in the quarter. He hobbled for a few moments and then fell to the hardwood on the baseline, while the game continued. Soon, play stopped and trainers, coaches and teammates rushed to the small forward. He used teammates as crutches to get toward the tunnel to leave the court, where he landed on the stretcher.
In the second half, Brewer started at small forward, but it's possible that if Gallinari is out for the season, Wilson Chandler could start for Denver, with Brewer providing his usual spark off the bench.
Ty Lawson (heel) remains sidelined, but Karl has suggested the point guard could return in a week or two. The playoffs begin April 20 — two weekends away.
"It's tough, you never want to see anyone go down, especially a guy like Gallo, who's so important to us," Brewer said. "But we're going to fight through it. It's going to be tough on us. We were just trying to keep his spirits high."
The Nuggets battled Thursday. Dallas had been in the Mile High City the night before, relaxing while the Nuggets played at Utah.
With Denver trailing 94-93 and 21 seconds left, Brewer forced a steal.
On the other end, Kenneth Faried was fouled shooting, but missed both foul shots. But Brewer was there again, this time nabbing the offensive rebound before falling out of bounds and passed to Faried. Denver called a timeout with 7.7 seconds left, setting up the Iguodala basket.
Brewer, traded by Dallas to Denver before last season, scored 23 points off the bench on 7-for-17 shooting, while 37-year-old Miller, starting for Lawson, tallied 22 points and seven assists.
And Iguodala, who helped the defense keep Dallas to 22.2 percent shooting from 3-point range, had eight points, nine boards and eight assists.
The Nuggets are 52-24 and third in the West.
"I was really proud with how we fought," Karl said. "It's what I say all the time — winning playing poorly against a good team is usually a pretty good sign. ... We win the game with Wilson (Chandler) and Corey's hustle play and the guts of Andre Miller."
But the Gallo news looms.
"You've got to play the cards you're dealt in the NBA, especially when it comes to injuries," Iguodala said. "That's why it's so important for the ninth and 10th men to always be mentally ready.
"Now it's time for somebody to step up and just see if they've been preparing themselves for any given situation."
Nuggets Recap
What you might have missed: The Nuggets have won 19 consecutive games at the Pepsi Center. The Nuggets' record for a win streak at home is 20 (1984-85). ... O.J. Mayo, one of the Mavericks' top players, scored only four points. He's been battling a shoulder injury and he fouled out after just 23 minutes played. ... The Nuggets had 18 second-chance points, while Dallas had nine. ... Only 10 3-pointers were made in the game. Denver was 6-for-17; Dallas was 4-for-18.
Final thought: The Gallo injury looked terrible.
Up next: Vs. Houston, Saturday, 7 p.m.
Benjamin Hochman, The Denver Post


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THIS year I watched 123 movies, which is down on previous years.
Maybe if I hadn't spent so much time watching The Avengers again and again I would have fit more movies in.
Anyway, here's my take on the hits and misses (in no particular order) that reached our cinemas and DVD players in 2012. And before anyone starts whining about how some of these movies came out last year (or even the year before), yes, I know that, but they didn't reach south-west Victorian audiences until this year, either through belated cinema releases or on DVD. So chillax.
The top 20 movies of the year
The Muppets
To see Jim Henson's beloved creations returned to the big screen so faithfully, with such humour, style and intelligence, made me weep tears of nostalgic joy.
A 2010 coming-of-age movie that took two years to reach DVD here. Well worth the wait for its subdued British charms and humour.
The traditional superhero movie, re-imagined with found footage and the question 'what if it was the troubled kid that got the super powers?'. Stunning and clever.
Martin Scorsese's ode to filmmaking pioneer George Méliès and the wonder of childhood was an eye-candy-filled fairytale for grown-ups.
The Descendants
George Clooney gives one of his best performances as the husband of a comatose woman in this sad yet life-affirming drama about grief, memories and family.
Just when you thought you knew where this quiet drama starring Ryan Gosling was going, it punched you in the face. Repeatedly. A disturbing masterpiece.
The Artist
Ingenious silent film, totally deserving of every award it won. They don't make films like this any more, but they really should.
The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
The Aardman crew painstakingly animated this side-splittingly funny family adventure, packing it full of gags and great lines.
Baseball and business make for a surprisingly intriguing film starring the always-good Brad Pitt and a pleasingly subdued Jonah Hill.
The Avengers
Not only the best superhero film of the year, but one of the funniest movies of the year. So much was riding on this, and Joss Whedon pulled it off.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gripping spy thriller that takes a refreshing softly-softly approach to the world of espionage. Stellar performances abound, particularly from Gary Oldman.
Attack The Block
Aliens invade a London council estate, making for a surprising twist on the traditional horror/monster movie.
The Amazing Spider-man
Unneccesary reboot but Marc Webb does a great job in trying to find a new angle. Andrew Garfield makes for a good Spidey.
Joseph Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis both play Joe in this time-travel mind-twister, which features some of the most iconic and memorable scenes of the year.
Edge-of-your-seat perfection from Ben Affleck, who balances the tension and absurdity of this based-on-a-true-story thriller. Deserves Oscars.
One of the best Bonds ever, with a look and vibe that's new to the series, yet still somehow classically 007.
Rise Of The Guardians
The Avengers for kids, with Santa, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy doing battle with a memorable villain. Intelligent and visually stunning.
You'll laugh, you'll cry. Gordon Levitt again, in another great performance, this time as a cancer sufferer dealing with the ups and downs of his disease.
The Cabin In The Woods
Inventive and subversive interpretation of the tropes of the horror genre that's as blackly funny and briefly terrifying as the classic Evil Dead 2.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Returning to Middle Earth was like catching up with an old friend... and riding off to slay orcs together. Perhaps overlong, but the magic is still there.
Honourable mentions: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, The Guard, Super, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, My Week With Marilyn, Brave, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Lawless, Rampart, Wreck-It Ralph.
The worst movies of the year
A style-over-substance mess about samurai-fuelled revenge that wastes a great cast by being ponderous instead of profound and boring instead of bombastic.
This based-on-the-boardgame travesty left its brain in the dry dock. Bodes badly for Monopoly: The Movie, but at least that won't have the galaxy's stupidest aliens in it. Probably.
The Five Year Engagement
I like Emily Blunt and Jason Segel, but they couldn't save this frustratingly annoying and predictable rom-com, which lacked both rom and com.
Kath & Kimderella
Oh the pain. Proof of what happens when an already-tired joke is retold again and again... for 90 minutes.
That's My Boy
Another year, another Adam Sandler bomb. The surprising thing is that it's not as bad as expected. Mind you, it's still terrible.


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Electronics manufacturers are ready to roll the dice in Las Vegas again.
More than 330 new companies are expected to be among the 2,500 exhibitors showcasing their gadgets at the 2010 Intl. Consumer Electronics Show next month.
That's good news for the Consumer Electronics Assn., which organizes the annual Las Vegas confab, considered the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow.
The recession hit last year's event, as heavyweights like Yahoo, Cisco, Seagate, Logitech, Belkin and Philips opted not to attend or held back on building pricey booths on the show floor in order to save money.
Overall, 2,700 exhibitors booked a presence at the 2009 show, and 113,085 people attended the event, less than the 130,000 that were hoped for.
The economy is still taking its toll on the show, however. While CEA can tout a slew of new exhibitors for 2010, the overall figure is down by 200; the event will be making use only of the Las Vegas Convention Center and not the additional Sands Convention Center that CES has also utilized in previous years.
While a down economy should hurt overall attendance levels, "Innovation is flourishing within the technology industry, and the 2010 CES is the only place to see it all," said Gary Shapiro, prexy-chief exec of the CEA. He also boldly predicted that "more technology deals will be made during the four days of CES than anywhere else on Earth."
This year, 3D is expected to receive a major plug, with manufacturers hoping to entice attendees with 3D TVs and Blu-ray players plus new glasses with which to watch movies and play videogames.The suc-cess of "Avatar" and a number of other 3D performers at the box office throughout the year should help put a spotlight on the new technologies.
Apple will be the focus of the iLounge, which will feature products and technologies for the iPod, iPhone and Mac. The iLounge was expected to take up 4,000 square feet when first planned, but demand from exhibitors led to an expansion to 25,000 square feet.
Despite the strong presence, Apple chairman Steve Jobs won't be giving a keynote speech at the event. Instead, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will step up to the podium.
Ford Motor Co. president and CEO Alan Mulally will also give a keynote to tout the automaker's voice-activated Sync system, powered by Microsoft, and how its vehicles can essentially serve as docking stations for mobile devices.
In-car technology will have a major presence at the tradeshow, as that area of the tech biz is expected to rev up more than $9.3 billion in sales this year.
More than 380 exhibitors will be on hand at the Las Vegas Convention Center to showcase the latest in-vehicle technology trends, including entertainment systems, GPS and broadband offerings.
In addition, CES will include 20 market-specific TechZones highlighting emerging markets, such as e-books; mobile TV for cell phones and other handheld devices; and netbooks.
More than 250 sessions will take place during the show, and 800 expert speakers will be featured, including new-media execs from CBS, Hulu, Nielsen, Sony Pictures Technologies, TiVo and YouTube.
Other keynoters include Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini and Qualcomm chairman-CEO Paul Jacobs. Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski will also attend.
NBC Universal is returning as the official broadcast partner of CES.
This year, NBC U used its 9,000-square-foot booth to produce live telecasts of CNBC's "Power Lunch" and "Closing Bell" and MSNBC's "Your Business." CNET/CBS Interactive will also exhibit and serve as the official online media partner.


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2009 Track and Field
Bluffton to rebuild under first year Head Coach Gary Labonte
By: Evan Miller, sports information assistant
January 26, 2009
This 2009 Bluffton track and field teams are under the direction of first-year head coach Gary Labonte and graduate assistant Thomas Smith. One thing that coach Labonte has noticed early on in his first campaign is the team's diligent work ethic as pre-season practices have focused largely on conditioning. Coach Labonte also stated that, "The team's overall attitude is focused on trying to improve for the good of the group, not just for individual results."
The 2009 squads have a balanced mix of new freshmen to go along with a number of returning upperclassmen with experience. Coach Labonte feels that the freshmen will bring excitement and energy to the team, while the older, more experienced members of the team will be able to help guide the newcomers in their first collegiate season.
This year the throwers will be counted on heavily to score points for Bluffton. Junior Jason Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) is one of the top returners on the men's side. Last year, Fisher broke the school record for the weight throw with a throw of 14.03 meters. Following the conference championships in 2007, Fisher was named the HCAC Freshman of the Year. Throwing for the women will be senior Karyn Davis (Liberty Center) who will also look to build on her success from last year. Adding depth in the field events for the women will be sophomore Kayla Pickering (Jamestown/Greenview), also a standout on the Bluffton volleyball team. She had a monster start to her collegiate career with a second place finish in the shot put at the Ohio Northern Friday Night Series 1 meet.
|The Beavers will also count on an experienced group to lead them in the distance events. For the men, junior Ben Siebert (Celina) will lead the way. Also running distance for the men will be senior Justin Derringer (Brookville) sophomore Brian Timpe (Swanton/Pike-Delta-York) and freshman Andrew Chaffee (Clarkston, Mich./Clarkston). For the women, Sarah Binkley (Bluffton/Cory-Rawson) is back for her third year after a successful fall on the cross country team. Senior Deb Davis (Seneca, Penn./Christian Life Academy) will look to contribute to the Beavers as a senior who is in her first year on the team.
|Senior Ashley Smith (Delta/Pike-Delta York) has been working in an attempt to better a pair of school records that she already holds. The sprinter holds the 500m school record of 1:24.24 which she set in 2007, as well as the 600m record of 1:48:52 which she established during the 2006 season. Junior Jenn Sandy (Defiance/Ayersville) will be running sprints in her first year on the team. Donelle Parker (Painsville/Thomas Hanty) will be participating in the sprints and jump events this year. Running sprints for the men's team is Robert Johnson (Columbus/Marion Franklin) who also plays on the pitch for Bluffton's soccer team. Along with Johnson, fellow soccer player Michael Timpe (Swanton), a sophomore, returns at sprints and high jump.
In order for Bluffton to achieve success this track season, the Beavers will need to overcome their lack of depth, while continuing to focus on team-oriented goals and the development of a youthful squad. Both the men and women finished in fifth place at Ohio Northern University on January 16 while setting three school records. Bluffton is scheduled to open its outdoor slate on March 21 at the Dick Small Invite on the campus of Defiance College.


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Erik Guay might be the reigning world downhill champion and a strong contender to repeat this week in Schladming, Austria, but 2013 should be the turn of Manny Osborne-Paradis, shouldn't it?
The FIS world alpine championships, which are held every two years, begin this week in the small Austrian town that has produced some of that skiing-mad country's best racers, including Klaus Kroell, last season's World Cup downhill champion.
But it's Canada and the Canadian Cowboys who will be looking to keep a streak going in the sport's marquee discipline.
Jan Hudec of Calgary won world championship silver in the downhill in 2007. Two years later, another Calgarian, John Kucera, captured the downhill title with a surprise victory. In 2011, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Guay, the Mont Tremblant, Que., native, scored the signature win of his career.
Osborne-Paradis, the free-spirited North Vancouver native who has three World Cup wins in his career, would love to be the next Canadian to become a first-time world championship medalist.
"It's funny," he said Monday from snowy Schladming. "Nobody really kids anybody about it being their time. Everybody's hungry to get it themselves, become a world champion.
"I would love to throw down a good result here and there's no reason why I can't. I'm in the top 30 (starters) now and I'm skiing well."
Osborne-Paradis, who turns 29 on Friday, a day before the downhill is run, missed the 2011 worlds after breaking his left fibula and tearing the ACL in his knee in January of that year at Chamonix, France. He missed the rest of that season and all of the 2011-2012 campaign before returning to the World Cup circuit last November.
Despite having to start outside the top 30, including a couple of times as far back as the mid-40s, Osborne-Paradis has four top-25s in downhill, including a seventh and a 10th. Last weekend, at downhill's most storied race, the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuehel, he was second fastest at the last split before winding up in 10th.
"The season has definitely had its ups and downs," said Osborne-Paradis. "Not finishing in Wengen (on Jan. 19th) was a huge disappointment, but Kitzbuehel gave me a lot of confidence.
"And I actually think I'm a better skier now than I was before (the crash at Chamonix). I've started at square one again and thinking about all the little things that you sometimes forget about, being aerodynamic, initiating your turns properly, really studying the terrain."
Osborne-Paradis, Guay, Hudec and Ben Thomsen of Inveremere will all ski the men's Super G on Wednesday before participating in training runs in advance of the downhill.
Guay, 31, probably has Canada's best shot in the Super G. The 2010 Crystal Globe winner as season champion in that discipline is coming off a fifth-place finish in the Super G at Kitzbuehel.
"I know to be on the podium in Super G, I'm going to have to take a lot of chances, push those limits," said Guay, who was 19th at Schladming last March, the only time he has raced on that course. "I expect it to be very close for the top three guys. I'm just going to have to take those risks."
Guay has also been one of the hottest downhillers on the circuit in the last six weeks. He was third at Val Gardena, Italy, just before the Christmas break, 24th at Bormio, fourth at Wengen and second at Kitzbuehel, where he earned his 19th career World Cup podium.
"I feel good about everything," he said in a conference call on Monday. "I was really satisfied with my month of January. We had a good game plan coming in. I knew it was important to have good results at Wengen and Kitzbuehel coming in here to make sure my confidence was in the right place. I feel like I'm well prepared."
The only troublesome issue could be the conditions. It snowed heavily at Schladming for a couple of days before turning to rain Monday. Guay said he expected the course to be "really saturated wet snow," completely different from what the Canadians had experienced last week while training in Northern Italy.
Guay said he'd love to keep the men's downhill title an "in-house" Canadian thing, adding that it's good to see Osborne-Paradis is at the top of his game now as well.
"We've got a good streak going and we plan on defending that. Manny's looked extremely strong. After the last couple of weeks, he's in a great place, really motivated."
The 25-year-old Thomsen, who had a breakthrough second half of last season with an 11th and fifth at Chamonix and a second at Sochi, has struggled at times this season – a 12th at Wengen is his best result – and says he put a little too much pressure on himself to live up to big expectations.
But he was 10th at Schladming in the season finale last March, sandwiched between Hudec's eighth and Guay's 13th.
"And that was with some pretty good-sized mistakes," said Thomsen. "I was running second into the last pitch. So I know I have the ability and I can do it.
"I expect somebody on this team to go home with another world championship. Everybody on our team is capable."
The women's Super G goes today.


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The Board of Supervisors today sought to modify a plan by the Los Angeles Unified School District to cancel "interdistrict permits,'' which enable students who live within LAUSD boundaries to go to
schools in other districts.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said students should be allowed to finish out their education at their current elementary, middle or high schools before being forced to attend an LAUSD school.
The district should "do this rationally, in a phased-in approach,'' rather than canceling all transfer permits summarily, Yaroslavsky said.
As proposed by the LAUSD, students enrolled outside the LAUSD would have to transfer to LAUSD schools this summer, unless they have less a year left to graduation or promotion to the next level of schooling.
Superintendent Ramon Cortines and the LAUSD Board of Education are hoping that canceling interdistrict permits will save about $51 million in state funding.
The change is expected to affect about 80 percent of the 12,000-plus students granted interdistrict permits. In Torrance alone, 2,169 students attend school under the transfer permits.
But Yaroslavsky said the LAUSD's gain will be a revenue loss to other districts, calling it a "zero-sum game.''
The board voted unanimously to send a letter to the LAUSD asking for the change.


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Whether you're a workout junkie or just want to stay healthy, a diet rich in protein is great for your body. Did you know that hair and nails are mostly protein? Protein also builds and repairs tissues, builds bones, muscles, skin and blood and makes enzymes, hormones and more.
Sometimes we don't have enough time to get all the right nutrients in our system daily. Vitamins and supplements are easy ways to help. When it comes to protein, protein bars are quite popular. However, one can almost cost $5.00 at your local grocery store. So why not save some money by making your own?
Protein Bars via Food Network
1 cup soy protein powder
1/2 cup oat bran
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup dried cherries
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup dried apricots
1 (12.3-ounce) package soft silken tofu
1/2 cup unfiltered apple juice
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
2 large whole eggs, beaten
2/3 cup natural peanut butter
Canola oil, for pan
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and line the bottom of a 13 by 9-inch glass baking dish with parchment paper. Lightly coat with canola oil then set aside.
Combine the protein powder, oat bran, wheat flour, wheat germ, and salt in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
Coarsely chop the raisins, dried cherries, blueberries and apricots and place in a small bowl and set aside.
In a third mixing bowl, whisk the tofu until smooth. Add the apple juice, brown sugar, eggs, and peanut butter, one at a time, and whisk to combine after each addition. Then add to the protein powder mixture and stir well to combine. Fold in the dried fruit.
Spread evenly in the prepared baking dish and bake in the oven for 35 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 205 degrees F. Remove from the oven and cool completely before cutting into squares.


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This is our pick of the best of the burbs. For more informa-tion, go to www.boston.com and search music, restaurants, arts and crafts, and other goings-on throughout Greater Boston.
Acton: At Bessie's New Year's Eve PJ Dance Party, join the dinosaur mascot (at right), create party hats, and dance the morning away while waiting for the count down to 12 (noon) and a toast with sparkling juice Monday, 10 a.m., at the Discovery Museums, 177 Main St. 978-264-4200, www.discoverymuseums.org
Arlington: For those who cannot get enough of the Who, David Bowie, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, you can't get closer to the anthemic rock experience than seeing and hearing the 12-member Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra (above), in concert at 8 p.m. Monday at the Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St. $25. 781-646-4849, www.regenttheatre.com.
Concord: Verrill Farm's Winter Pancake Breakfast features pancakes, Massachusetts maple syrup, bacon or sausage, juice and milk or coffee Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, at 11 Wheeler Road. $7.50, $4.50 for ages 9 and younger. 978-369-4494, www.verrillfarm.com.
Newton: The Solstice MFA Winter Reading Series opens with Venise Berry (author of four novels, including the forthcoming "Pockets of Sanity"); Iain Haley Pollock ("Spit Back a Boy," winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize); and Laura Williams McCaffrey (author of the speculative fiction and young-adult novels "Alia Waking" and "Water Shaper") Friday, 7:30 p.m., in the Founders Room at Pine Manor College, 400 Heath St. Free. 617-731-7684, www.pmc.edu/mfa.Event organizers: Submit items directly at www.boston.com/ addevents.


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also know as, "The Raoul vs. the World Thread"
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this game isn't be called as close as Brazil game
i missed one minute of play and missed the goal. i haven't even seen the replay
France getting lots and lots of good chances and shots.
USA looked sleepy during end of first half of Brazil game too.
Passing has been crap.
Those French girls have excellent ball skills.
Yup, France is totally outplaying the USA. They need a spark. Hopefully Rapinoe can do something here but the whole 2nd half is being played on our side of the pitch. Not good.
whoa. 2 goals in 5 minutes... and scene for France
All the momentum was with France for what seemed like 30 minutes of the 2nd half. That header was a dagger in the heart!
France has had tons of chances but rarely capitalized. The US has had relatively few chances but is scoring on them.
I'd be interested in the final shots-on-goal comparison.
and how many 16 year old boys are going Hand Solo on Hope Solo these days?
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Abby Wambach is cold blooded. 2 huge goals at crucial points in the biggest games in your sport. Insane.
this japanese team looks to be the most technically sound I've seen. they are ouplaying sweden at this point and their passing is very crisp. they could win it all.


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Holiday Closings at Milwaukee Public Library
All city of Milwaukee Libraries will be closed on Friday, April 18 and Sunday, April 20th in observance of the Easter holiday. Many libraries will be open on Saturday, April 19th. The following libraries will be open from 10:00 AM to 5:00PM on Saturday: Atkinson Library, 1960 W. Atkinson Ave. Bay View Library, 2566 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. Capitol Library, 3969 N. 74th St. Center Street Library, 2727 W. Fond du Lac Ave. East Library, 2430 N. Murray Ave. Forest Home Library, 1432 W. Forest Home Ave. Villard Square Branch, 5190 N. 35th St. Washington Park Library, 2121 N. Sherman Blvd. Zablocki Library, 3501 W. Oklahoma Ave. Additionally, Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., will be open from 9:00 AM to 5:00PM on Saturday, April 19th.


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Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs 206
crookedvulture writes "Shipments of all-in-one PCs are growing exponentially faster than those for typical desktops. Unfortunately, highly integrated systems like the iMac have traditionally made it difficult to replace or upgrade parts. And forget about assembling an all-in-one for yourself. Now, however, Intel has developed a Thin Mini-ITX platform that allows system builders and end users to put together all-in-one systems with standard parts. This hands-on look at Thin Mini-ITX pieces together an ersatz iMac using off-the-shelf components, and the process is pretty easy. While the end result isn't quite as slick as one of Apple's creations, parts can be swapped out with ease, and the configuration can be tailored to suit one's needs."


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New Report on Possible Expansion of Idaho Medicaid
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers considering expanding Medicaid for more low-income people will hear a new report concluding Idaho would see financial benefits that exceed earlier estimates. House and Senate Health and Welfare committees meet today to discuss, though not vote, on a plan to broaden Medicaid coverage, while eliminating Idaho's system for covering indigent people's medical bills.
Despite this new report, however, Republicans exhausted considerable political capital on another provision of President Obama's overhaul by passing a state-based health insurance exchange. Consequently, GOP appetite to tackle Medicaid is limited.
Additionally, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter opposes expanding Medicaid, at least until he wins reforms to boost patient responsibility. House Minority Leader John Rusche says Medicaid expansion is arguably more important for Idaho than the exchange issue, but "politics are what's going to block it."


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Two Minnesota men died early Tuesday morning when their van crashed into the backend of a semi trailer truck on Interstate 94 in St. Croix County.
The Wisconsin State Patrol says the semi was merging onto the interstate from the Woodville exit and traveling at about 35 miles an hour when it was rear-ended.
The victims were from Minneapolis and Maplewood. Their names had not yet been released.


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I think 25 posts is ok to post pics! If not post more! Can't wait to see ur photos!
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Gawker is just mad they didn't get the scoop. Maybe next time they should offer Assange cash. Apparently that's how they get their scoops.
Gawker media has become Fox News of the blogs. But unlike Fox, their loyalty is only towards money - weather it's earned with facts, rumors or slanders.
I wondered few days ago why on earth Gawker has started such hate campaign against Julian Assange: they have several posts with titles like "Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac?". What is their motivation?
I keep hearing that Remy Stern raped and murdered a girl in 2001. Why isn't he commenting on this? Does his silence mean confirmation?
He'll just wear the darn condom! REALLY.... This is a joke, right?
according to the daily mail [dailymail.co.uk] there is some confusion over whether the condom used with woman A broke intentionally or accidentally, but they claim that the police report clearly shows that the condom was worn but it failed. Then the following report about woman B from an anonymous source:
One source close to the investigation said the woman had insisted he wear a condom, but the following morning he made love to her without one.
This was the basis for the rape charge. But after the event she seemed unruffled enough to go out to buy food for his breakfast.
Her only concern was about leaving him alone in her flat. 'I didn't feel I knew him very well,' she explained.
So let's see, at night she said wear a condom, in the morning he boned her without one, but she went out and bought him breakfast and left him in her apartment even though she "didn't know him very well", so obviously she wasn't too concerned.
It seems to me from where I am sitting that one or both of these women were coerced or at least cajoled into testifying against him on the basis of their anger for both being seduced by the same guy who wasn't as into them as they were into him. It's called jealousy, and it's sad, and at least one of these women has already realized that.
Of course, there could be additional facts to which I am not privy...
ok... ok.. I got it, so they are pissed that they were just used as a penis cozy and now upset that it wasn't exclusive. So women being women and scorned now show fury by trying to make life tough for him with trumped up charges.
Hmmm... Sorry, she fed him. At that point there was a payment (food & train ticket) made for the sex and then becomes a male prostitute doing her a service. Case closed. Go home.
He must have a magical penis to get this kind of attention. His client list is going to sky
The Daily Mail is perfectly trustworthy. You're just upset because they're telling the truth about the black gay Muslims who are ruining good, honest, hard-working, British society with their evil immigrant ways that killed Princess Diana (peace be upon her).
Amusingly, you will see their figure for the number of street cameras in Britain, which was created by counting the number of, mainly private, CCTV cameras in a mile busy shopping street in London and multiplying it by the number of miles of roadway in Britain, quoted here quite often. In spite of having been debunked, this is still used by a lot of Slashdot posters as evidence that Britain is an Orwellian surveillance state.
Orwellian, no. Endemic surveillance society, as a recent human rights report called it, no doubt. Alas we seem to be all headed in the same direction in Europe as well as the US.
Yeah, that seems kind of odd to me. Failing to use a condom for the second time isn't rape unless she withheld consent from that time.
Not so sure about this. It depends on the laws of the jurisdiction in question, but there are jurisdictions where using certain types of deception or fraud to obtain consent to sex is rape. The classic examples are deceiving a woman as to your identity (e.g., if her boyfriend's twin brother were to impersonate him), or making her believe it's a necessary part of a medical p
It's not a stretch to say that it's rape if a man obtains consent for sex by falsely telling her he will wear a condom.
Rape implies the sex was non-consensual. If the sex was consensual but the risks of unprotected sex were not, that would be more appropriately regarded as assault (similar to subjecting someone to such risks in other ways, such as deliberately exposing them to various hazardous substances without their consent).
In the same vein of legal exploration, if a male consents to sex on the conditio
Now the case has been reopened to investigate 'molestation charges.'
The case will then be dropped.
It will then be reopened to investigate 'looking at boobs, whilst pulling out his shirt collar and making a phwooar face', which will also be dropped.
Don't worry, they'll get him even if they have to resort to the testimony of a girl who was pushed over by him in the playground when they were both 4 years old.
In this case, the testimony of someone who wrote "a seven step guide Ardin published in January to 'legal revenge' that involves, in one example, sabotaging a victim's sexual relationships." [gawker.com]
not that that makes Assange pure, holy, or free of any wrongdoing, but perhaps it should make one think...
Your assumptions abound. Yes, it could be like "...going to a concert and sleeping with the lead singer and crying rape/molestation?"
It could also be like going to a concert to listen to music, getting invited back stage because you're hot, and having a lecherous musician paw and grope you when you just accepted the invite because you were excited to meet someone you previously held in high regard. You have no idea.
You are identifying with Assange and imagining all of the things that evil people might try to do to him, then treating those imaginings as fact. I think what Assange has done is important, and that he is making enemies. I don't think that he is infallible, and I don't think it wise to presume his guilt or innocence until you know both sides of the story and try awfully hard to recognize and mitigate your own biases.
Heh, I RTFA (how apt an acronym) and:
1) I had a really hard time believing the whole thing wasn't a joke...
2) But if those really are the turn of events, they only seem to support Assange's "dirty tricks" assertion. But as a slashdot reader, I'm not particularly familiar with the whole one-night-stand culture and social conventions. And apparently Assange isn't either?
3) But above all else -- if all I have to do is embarass the US military in order to get women like Anna Ardin (job title: "Forskningsassistent" ) to come play "dirty tricks" on me, WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!
I support public education: I married a teacher.
how do you get the woman to the cheese?
Unlike mice, building a huge maze doesn't work. Women tend to just glare at you as if you're supposed to bring the cheese to them.
Cats don't expect you to send them half your paycheck every month when they decide to leave.
So women are like cats then?
Here, pussy, pussy, pussy. Here, pussy. Come here!
how do you get the woman to the cheese?
Grow it between your toes. Trust me.
...try charging them with everything you possibly can.
Note that "molestation" is a broad category of sexual offenses in Sweden. Two women came forward to the police to report sexual misconduct, but denied that rape had occurred. Thus the dropping of the rape charge. In reality, the offense is that Assange alleged seduced the women, got them to buy stuff or him, and then he refused to call them back. In America, this behavior is par for the course. Apparently, in other cultures, this is a sexual offense.
Or in lyrics by The Clash "indecision me molesta!" There, being Spanish, but with the same Latin roots that basically mean "to bother or harass."
The only time you hear about molestation in the US is when it involves a minor.
You have to be careful reading that much into a particular word when working between languages. (Translation issues are a bonanza for inciting war).
If that is the case, I know a lot of serial molesters.
The problem is the name of the charges is inflammatory, and carries certain connotations in different parts of the world. From the details that have emerged, it really does sound like he is just a player.
In reality, the offense is that Assange alleged seduced the women, got them to buy stuff or him, and then he refused to call them back. In America, this behavior is par for the course.
It's par for the course when the guy buys the stuff and the woman doesn't ring back. Like most things, when you reverse the sexes it becomes an act of deviancy. Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
Well, with that hair, he really should be going more for pastels.
Uh... I mean yeah, women... not fair man. Beer and stuff.
It's par for the course when the guy buys the stuff and the woman doesn't ring back. Like most things, when you reverse the sexes it becomes an act of deviancy. Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
The sexual revolution is not over until that statement no longer holds! People always confuse feminism with the sexual revolution but that is just half the story. It's time for men and women to be completely equal in rights while keeping in mind the differences and strong points of both sexes. And to achieve that we first need to get trough the masculist revolution. Although I must admit I am not looking forward to the prospect of walking around on high heels...
After reading this [gawker.com], assuming it's at all accurate, whatever you attribute these charges to, they are all absolutely ridiculous. So... the guy had sex with two women, both groupies, who found out about the other one, and then got angry that they had agreed to have sex without a condom with him because shocker-of-shockers, he had banged some other woman recently.
This is classic rape-after-the-fact, i.e. not rape at all, since they had already consented to the relationship. There is nothing in any of this to indicate that the guy forced himself or coerced anybody. Nor even that he lied or misled anybody, beyond saying that he'd call and then not calling.
I think Julian Assange is a narcissistic creepy fellow, and I have serious reservations about some of what Wikileaks has done. I support the goal of more openness in government, but they do a terrible job at presenting information in an unbiased fashion (at least with those leaked videos) and they dump out huge volumes of classified information without consideration as to whether the public interest in that material outweighs the risk to people's lives of having that information disclosed.
I don't claim to know whether these charges originate with the US Government in any way, but it sounds more like the by-product of the Swedish legal system gone completely and absolutely bonker-nuts-insane, having criminalized relatively normal everyday behavior among single men and women.
Governments either are or should be open, something which, unfortunately for any of their citizens, is routinely opposed and undermined by the very same people who swore to represent their fellow citizens, uphold the law and respect democratic values. Sites such as wikileaks are here to enforce the rules of government that those who managed to find themselves in positions of power and influence actively push to quench or undermine.
The main point is that governments must and should follow the law, which forcefully means that their actions must be free from illegalities and unethical behaviour, and their constituents must be informed of their actions and of the consequences that they bring. In short, every government, due to their nature, must be opened and failing to be so constitutes a violation of their own founding principles.
On the other hand, private citizens do not have that responsibility. Private citizens have the right to privacy and do not have absolutely any responsibility or obligation to disclose every single piece of information regarding their lives, their business or even their relations. They are entitled to live free from tyranny and free from any oppressive influence imposed by their government and, even moreso, by fellow citizens.
Therefore, trying to impose to private citizens the very same full disclosure principles that is expected from governments is either a perfect sign of ignorance or a poorly thought out harassment campaign based on an unexplainable demand for revenge. I don't know why that the idiot from Gawker believes the idea to persecute Assange is any reasonable or even if he decided to do that to be able to profit from the controversy. What I know is that this sort of campaign, which is nothing more than persecuting someone for his attempts to defend healthy and lawful government behaviour is not in anyone's best interests.
governments must and should follow the law, which forcefully means that their actions must be free from illegalities and unethical behaviour,
You are assuming that ethical and legal are the same thing. They aren't.
Tell me exactly who should be treated as 'government' and who should be a private citizen. Give me a cast iron definition in a single sentence.
One of the general principles I teach my kids is that people who think that difficulty in drawing an infinitely precise line based on a trivially simple criterion constitutes an argument are intellectually bankrupt.
Here's my counter-challenge: give me a cast-iron definition in a single sentence that will tell me exactly, to within the width of an atom, where the ocean ends and the land begins. Can't do it, can you? You can't even get one that will be good to within a couple of meters! So I guess you have to accept that boats and cars are impossible, as they would require knowing excatly where the land ends and the water begins.
Difficulty in defining precise boundaries is completely unrelated to the the ability to clearly identify entities that are undoubtedly on one side of the (ill-defined) line or the other, and only people who've never been to the beach can possibly believe otherwise.
That's great. Someone comes forward with evidence of war crimes, and all anyone wants to talk about is his sexual habits.
I was just in Denmark, a friend and I met 2 Swedish women in a bar. Contrary to the rumors, they did not have blonde hair. They were out celebrating a recent birthday, and appeared to have all the same motivations going for them as anyone from anywhere else in the world.
Let me be the last person on Earth to attack a victim, if this 'molestation' actually happened that is just awful. But let me be the first to say, war crimes are more important. Evidence of armies going around wiping out villages is not something to ignore because there is some juicy innuendo (which may or may not be true) going on.
Err yeah, but there's little evidence of these so-called war crimes so far.
I mean, Assange drummed up excitement, played the media really well, and then released these so-called Afghan War Diaries, to much fanfare...and it's turned out to be a fat lot of nothing.
Most of the data in there was already public knowledge.
Let's see...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary [wikipedia.org]
Err, we have evidence that Pakistan is screwing over the US, UK and other NATO nations, and aiding the Taliban to kill our soldiers.
Assange drummed up excitement, played the media really well, and then released these so-called Afghan War Diaries, to much fanfare...and it's turned out to be a fat lot of nothing.
The of course, we have the civilian casualties, currently standing at a few hundred.
The very Wikipedia article you link to, and your second statement above, contradict your first claim that the leak was "a fat load of nothing". Wikipedia says "revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents," and "Hundreds of civilians have been killed by coalition forces in several instances that were not previously revealed."
The fact that hundreds of civilians have been killed by NATO troops and that this has been hidden from the public is significant.
That's great. Someone comes forward with evidence of war crimes, and all anyone wants to talk about is his sexual habits.
I thought that was kind of the point. Isn't it obvious that this is a smear campaign to discredit him and distract from the evidence?
Yeah, he's being smeared / discredited by a hardline feminist member of the far-left organization which invited him to speak in Sweeden in the first place. Right. Makes perfect sense.
He also flipped off a box of kittens and punched a baby in the face. In his defense, the baby was being a dick.
Mmmmm. Puppy stew. Only kitten stew is better, with a side of roast baby seal.
From what I've understood, "molestation" in Swedish law isn't necessarily sexual. It seems closer to what anglophone systems call "assault". FWIW.
These "charges" seem to be that Assange had a one-night stand with some girl. If you were one of the millions of other guys having one-night stands that night, it's a nonissue. If you're associated with Wikileaks, you're a rapist or molestor.
Assange was charged with rape in a highly public manner. It was all over the news everywhere that Assange was a suspected rapist. The next day, it was withdrawn, because there was nothing to the case. Now they're going to do it again. Soon I'm sure he'll be a child mole
Confirm our editor applied for Swedish residency on Aug 18 to obtain prior-restraint protections http://bit.ly/czWlGT [bit.ly]
When you follow the link, you will read nothing about "prior-restraint" protections - in fact Wikileaks has until now no protection at all under the Swedish press laws. And they will not get it soon, because Wikileaks did not fill out the application correctly.
Another migration board spokesperson, Gunilla Wikstroem, told Swedish news agency TT the application was on hold since some information was missing,
This is only one of the countless contradictions Assange was caught on. For example Assange claimed in 2009 a 17 year old Wikileaks contributor by the police in Iceland to press him for information about Wikileaks. In fact the juvenile was caught breaking into a business premises and was subsequently interrogated in the presence of his parents, police did not even know about any Wikileaks connections. Even when he had to wait for less than 30 minutes at an airport in Australia Assange did spread conspiracy theories about foul play and intelligence agency involvement.
As with most things in life, and especially most things in law, it isn't cut and dried.
Unfortunately you are talking to a very biased audience here. For many
You see it big time in history books. Try and find a US history book that mentions any faults of any president. They were all model citizens according to that telling of their lives.
So same thing here. Read the comments and you'll see most people are convinced this HAS to be a CIA (or US government at any rate) plot. They aren't interested in the facts of the case, or that Sweden might be its own nations with its own laws and its own reasons for an investigation. Their hero is being attacked and thus it must be for nefarious reasons. They can't accept that he could possibly do both things they approve of and things they do not.
What made me laugh in the Bloomberg article was this gem of irony:
"Assange is also disappointed that his name was released to the media, he said."
Of course he didn't wear a condom -- they prevent leaks!
"No, no, I don't mind being called the smartest man in the world. I just wish it wasn't this one." -- Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, WATCHMEN


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Since about 2007, if you ask me, something's been very wrong about the whole direction of the first person shooter. Sure, FPS is a genre that arguably evolves throughout the generations, but this generation, I feel, the fun has been removed from a lot of first person shooters.
My personal blame for all this is the intertwining of genres, although some great games such as Bioshock have come out of this and the fact a first person shooter has mostly just become an online game competing against each other for a short time span until the next best thing comes along. I'm not saying that I haven't enjoyed a FPS in the last 4 years or so, I've enjoyed Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare campaigns a lot and enjoyed Killzone 2 and the Resistance series to date and I'm a fairly big fan of the Halo universe. I'm just saying I think the genre is getting to the point of stagnation with all of the 'modern' based FPS after we all got virtually sick with the old silent 'space marine' cliche last generation, which nobody EVER came near to Halo. it's time to move on. It's time to escape from the confines of the real world and the wars within it. It's time to be a hero with one liners and a crapload of guns and shoot stuff in block sized arenas or struggle shooting enemies in cramped corridors.
With Bulletstorm, Duke Nukem Forever and Rage coming out this year, it looks like developers are beginning to pay attention that first person shooters are wholly meant to be fun and concentrating on the single player side of the game and have gotten fed up of people buying the game to 'go online'.
When I like a FPS, I prefer a FPS to feel 'chunky'. I can only describe a 'chunky FPS' as a FPS where your gun takes up most of the bottom of the screen, keycards, labyrinth levels, powerups, pick ups, health packs and a basic sci-fi inspired story. Examples, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake 1&2, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Serious Sam, Nitro Family, Painkiller, Will Rock, Doom 3, Quake 4, quite recently, the shamefully badly marketed but great Singularity. The kind of gameplay in these games were the blueprints for what we play now.
IF you think you think those games are 'linear'. I challenge you to actually go back and play your Call of Duty game, play a level of the campaign and hopefully it'll sink in that the level design and freedom in first person shooters has actually gone backwards, the level design in Doom is more complicated than Call of Duty.
To date, I must say the last 'chunky FPS' released that I played was 2K Games Prey released in 2006. I loved Prey because of the odd, scary, physics breaking world it injected you into and the creative, but basic FPS weapons it supplied you with. The lead character, however, spoke, which is a rarity in chunky FPS. Not since Duke had I heard someone speak so clearly and not be afraid of showing the lead character at the beginning of the game. Prey also had (static) portal mechanics, before Portal, so I do find it a little annoying that Prey gets forgotten so often because to me, it had so many achievements as a game and had real character and concept. Bethesdea now have the rights for the franchise, so hopefully Prey 2 will be under Id tech 5.
Back to the games releasing this year, Bulletstorm arguably, looks like People Can Fly are applying everything they learned making Painkiller and just upping the scale. Combos in FPS aren't a new thing though, shooting combos can be found in the Xbox port of Serious Sam and a little known game made with the Serious Engine for PC named 'Nitro Family' (Go check it out, insane game), I believe the last point award system with multipliers was ironically, CoD4's Arcade Mode. But Bulletstorm looks to put the 'shooting' back into FPS and to be a whole lot of fun. But is actually a continuation of the early 2000's budget shooter that got kickstarted on PC again by Serious Sam which arguably picked up popularity because the FPS genre was getting stale because of getting too 'serious' ingrained in reality, sound familiar?
Duke Nukem Forever, goes without saying. Most people think that DNF will be a grand end for one big joke. I think that it'll be a revitalisation for the first person shooter. For a first person shooter, you really don't need a big story. A first person shooter is the equivalent of an 80's action film and Duke 3D reveled in that. Looking at Duke Nukem Forever, it looks to be giving a swift kick in the balls of what a first person shooter should be, plus, still following 3D Realms trademark as in Duke 3D and Prey, there's going to be a lot of doors to open, buttons to press and general interactivity, maybe even a pool table again.
Rage is Id Software's new baby. John Carmack, what can I say. Id software basically vanished from the development scene after 2004's Doom3, although Doom3 wasn't the macho hell cheese fest everyone expected it had it's moments. For those who did want that kind of crazy action, try the expansion pack 'Resurrection of Evil'. In the past, Id was always the developer to set the ball rolling with how to evolve the FPS. Doom, then Quake, Quake 2 and then hit the online world with Quake 3 Arena and then, arguably. Epic took over with anything with Unreal stamped on it being quality, barring Unreal 2. Meanwhile Id licensed their engines to numerous games and even allowed other developers to follow through with their IP. Rage is Id's IP and unfortunately, Id Software need to keep up with the rest of the gaming world this time. It may just look like another Fallout 3 or Borderlands, but this is Id we're talking about. Id start trends, they don't follow. So I expect a lot out of this.
I hope you agree with my stance of the first person shooter and how personally, they were more fun when they didn't actually take their selves too seriously, connect to real world events or have realistic damage that couldn't be repaired by a box on the ground by a man carrying 10 guns on his back. The chunky FPS returns and I'm all for it.
2011 is the First Person Shooter Renaissance.
i kno im in the minority here but i dont like when a FPS (or any game for that matter) has a serious overtone but has unrealistic attributes.
Take the weapon wheel in R:FOM. obviously, the devs want us to take the story seriously, yet we can carry 10 huge weapons. i think u kind of shoot urself in the foot that way. be silly or be serious, dont straddle the line.
There are so damn many FPS's coming (as an FPS fan, that's hardly a complaint) this year.
I'm really liking that a lot of the FPS games this year actually have some originality to them.
The last truly original FPS's we've had were probably Portal and Mirror's Edge. But now we've got games like Bulletstorm and Brink which both look really awesome in their own ways.
2011 will be an awesome year.
That and there's a ton of awesome blockbuster games which I've been looking forward to for 3-6 years now that are finally coming into fruition like Portal 2, Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3.
Cant wait for the demo of bulletstorm on the 25th going to be really interesting to see how good it is, the dev trailers are just so funny
Its really gotten me interested as it has such a great care free feel, because sometimes after a long day you do just want to go home n really let it out on some mutants with some big ass guns. If they make that feel rewarding without it being over easy then its going to be such a good game


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The Fever Dream of Mrs. Stowe
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
The death of Uncle Tom, the good husband and gentle slave who epitomizes the Christian virtues of charity and self-sacrifice, came to Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851 in a sudden "vision" that inspired the writing of the book over many months. She was thirty-nine, and known already as a gifted observer. Stowe had recently witnessed the death of her youngest child, "the most beautiful and most loved" of seven children, as she described him; there were "circumstances," she said, "about his death of such peculiar bitterness" that for the first time she was made to understand the feelings of a slave mother from whom a child at any moment could be snatched away. She believed that her private tragedy was the incitement for the book; but it had a longer and public background.
Stowe came from a family that embodied the New England conscience at its unappeasable height. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was the Congregationalist minister in Litchfield, Connecticut (William Lloyd Garrison was a member of the congregation). In 1832, he had been offered a position as head of Lane Theological Seminary; the family went with him to Cincinnati, and it was there that Harriet Beecher heard firsthand stories about slavery in Kentucky, and saw its uneasy aftermath in the lives of freed men and women. As a member of the Semi-Colon Club, she came to know distinguished men of abolitionist views, including Salmon Chase, the future chief justice, and the professor and widower with whom she fell in love, Calvin Stowe.
In writing a book against slavery, then, she was confirming the traditions in which she had been raised; but no one predicted her success. Uncle Tom's Cabin was serialized in an antislavery magazine, the National Era, between June 8, 1851, and April 1, 1852. A first edition sold five thousand copies in four days. Within a year, more than 300,000 copies had been sold in the United States, and more than two million in the world. The national debate on the spread of slavery in the 1850s often seemed to depend on an argument about whether Stowe's portrayals were true to life.
"We hate," wrote Keats, "poetry that has a palpable design upon us"; but Stowe was born into the age of Dickens and Browning, when high imagination and a moral message were felt to be compatible. Uncle Tom's Cabin is in one sense a work of public speech; and it suffers from the defects of pace and economy of an author whose dramatic sense was always weak; yet she managed here to produce a sensational plot without the help of a single surprise. The slave trader, Haley, "a man of leather" who appears on the opening page of the book, and the cruel plantation owner Simon Legree are singular triumphs of melodramatic allure: characters separable from their context, who seem to embody situations in themselves. The lukewarm Kentucky slave owner Arthur Shelby, who trades Uncle Tom to Haley in order to keep his other property at the…
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"Tropical forests are commonly thought of as the lungs of the Earth and how many flowers they produce is one vital sign of their health," said Stephanie Pau, who conducted the research as part of a Forecasting Phenology Working Group while she was a postdoctoral associate at NCEAS.
The study, which used a new globally gridded satellite dataset, examined how changes in temperature, clouds, and rainfall affect the number of flowers tropical forests produce. Analysis of the data indicated that clouds mainly have an effect on short-term seasonal growth, but longer-term changes in these forests appear to be due to temperature. While other studies have used long-term flower production data, this is the first study to combine these data with direct estimates of cloud cover based on satellite information.
"This study is an inspired example of integrating diverse existing data to do something never imagined when the data were originally collected," explained Stephanie Hampton, deputy director of NCEAS.
Clouds and temperature drive dynamic changes in tropical flower production
Stephanie Pau, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, Benjamin I. Cook, Christopher J. Nytch, James Regetz,
Jess K. Zimmerman & S. Joseph Wright
Nature Climate Change Article, July 2013
UCSB News Release
A sample of media coverage of this study:
Nature World News: Tropical Forests Sensitive to Global Warming: A Study
Mongabay.com: Rising temperatures are triggering rainforest trees to produce more flowers
Working Group:
Forecasting Phenology: Integrating Ecology, Climatology, and
Phylogeny to Understand Plant Responses to Climate Change
Principal Investigator(s): Benjamin I. Cook and Elizabeth M. Wolkovich
The forest canopy from Barro Colorado Island, Panama
showing Tabebuia guayacan in bloom (yellow flowers).
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Florida TaxWatch called on Gov. Rick Scott Friday to veto $150 million in hometown projects lawmakers stuck into the budget this year.
The tax watchdog group urged Scott to review, but not necessarily veto, another $20 million in projects that didn't go through the legislative review process.
The list of 159 items contains earmarks, known as turkey or pork, generally championed by a single legislator and meant for local, rather than statewide benefit.
The projects still thrive in the face of $1.4 billion in spending cuts and thousands of eliminated state jobs.
And in an election year, lawmakers may feel extra pressure to prove their worth by bringing money home for their districts.
Last year, TaxWatch identified $203 million in turkeys, and Scott vetoed 83 percent, said Dominic Calabro, the organization's president.
So what would TaxWatch choose for this year's chopping block?
Also on the list: $100,000 for the Autism Center of Miami, $250,000 for the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Broward, and $500,000 for the Dan Marino Project, a Miami foundation to help autistic kids.
In the Tampa Bay area, big ticket items include $6.9 million for the University of South Florida-Heart Health Institute, $2.5 million for St. Petersburg College science labs and classrooms, and $150,000 for the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Pete.
The list also contained some twists.
For example, TaxWatch identified $5M for a world-class regatta in Sarasota as turkey, but recommended further review by the governor, rather than a veto.
Robert Weissert, TaxWatch's vice president for research, said that's because the issue came up last year and emerged early this year.
"The classic turkey is one where everybody says what the heck is that," he said. "This was on people's radar screens throughout the process, it was more of a grey area."
The creation of Florida Polytechnic as the state's 12th university also didn't make the list because it went through so much legislative debate, Calabro said.
"The Polytechnic thing is really the definition of what a turkey isn't," Calabro said. "It had substantive legislation behind it, it was reviewed all the way through the process."
Sen. JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, who pushed hard for the university and lobbied Scott Thursday to discourage a veto, called Calabro weeks ago to ask if Polytechnic was on the list.
"We're going to get criticized either way," Calabro said. "It's our job to play it as straight as we possibly can."


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