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Been off work for a few days, health nothing serious with a lot of time on my hands so I got to investigating Hardball Times, Sons of Sam Horn, Redszone, Justin Inaz site On Baseball and the Reds (http://jinaz-reds.blogspot.com/2007/...ne-rating.html),
David Pintos PMR Stats (http://www.baseballmusings.com/archi...l_of_range.php)
and others, checking fielding stats and effects on runs allowed above average.
Now Im no statistician so Im not going to lay out a line of numbers on you, but what I did discover really opened my eyes to some things. First, defensive metrics have come a long way, baby maybe they arent as definitive as offensive metrics yet but they are getting much, much better and used together, OOZ, RZR, SAFE, the Fielding Bible, BIZ, and others used together provide a pretty good look at each players abilities.
Now, mind you, I thought the Reds were pretty average defensively in 2007. After all they had a decent fielding season, didnt they? Fewest errors in a long while, that sort of thing.
I figured combined with a perceived lack of range that the sum of things was well average. Shows how dumb some perceptions can be. The Reds Out of Zone fielding was mind bogglingly (is that a word) bad. Really, maybe Cincinnati should be renamed 'The City of Statues' with this defense.
The Reds in a nutshell are a horrible defensive team. Except for 2nd and short, where the Reds arent bad (Phillips has good range, average reliability; Gonzalez and Keppinger exactly the opposite, +reliability with average range) just about everything else is bad or worse.
EdE continues to be horrible at third base, sub par range no matter what metric you use, and sub par on routine plays. That surprised me. I always thought of him as mostly arm problems but he has below average range, too.
First is bad, too. Hopefully, Votto is an improvement because Hatteberg is a statue. Although his numbers with the Reds were limited Cantus stats suggest decent range so maybe between Joey and Jorge the Reds can at least improve things at one position.
So, the infield corners are bad? The outfield is a slaughterhouse! Statistically Dunn is the worst left fielder in baseball depending on your stat and how you compute things he ends up losing 24 runs over replacement value with bad defense (especially with Inazs computation). Now his offense is so good he still winds up a very plus player overall but giving up 24 runs at one position over league average is just nuts!
Griffey in right field well its no secret the board already knows how limited his range is. His arm is no longer a plus either but he is still reliable to balls hit in his zone, at least. He gets to nothing out of his zone anymore, and I gotta tell ya I already knew what we call his zone is shrinking pretty badly. Pretty much he spreads his arms and theres his zone.
So bad at third, bad in left. Adequate to below average at first, bad in right. As long as they hit it up the middle were okay. Well, wait a minute. As long as Hopper is playing center (I knew youd hate that) were okay. Hamilton, at least right now, is a butcher in center. Below average reliability and below average range. Heck, I knew that the guy is a prototypical rifle armed right fielder, not a center picket. Besides after a long layoff the reliability will improve (reliability meaning handling balls in zone). Freel is below average on BIZ, though a bit above average getting to balls out of zone albeit an arm better suited for left.
Now I understand (better anyway) why Hopper got so much playing time last year. Hes the only guy beside Ellison who could catch a ball hit in and around his general vicinity. Actually Norris fielding numbers last summer were an anomaly the numbers suggest he was a fielding giant, especially earlier in the year. Really, its crazy but he had terrific numbers by all the stats. Add an impossible to replicate BABIP and OBP and I can almost understand why he played ahead of Hamilton. Someone has to catch fly balls. I mean while moving. (Being fair to Junior).
All of which brings me to my real point. The Reds can add all the pitching they want but unless the pitchers they acquire obtain a large number of outs themselves (aka Strikeouts) or are extreme ground ball pitchers (conveniently hit where the SS and 2B can handle a large number of them) they wont be terribly effective. Or perhaps that is simply reversed. They will likely be Effectively terrible.
League average BABIP is .301. The Reds pitching staff was at 3.18? BABIP is considered the luck factor. For a pitcher too high its unlucky. When its your whole pitching staff it suggests lousy defense, a hitters park, or both. GAB is a home run park but generally closer to neutral all things considered. Certainly for balls in play it should be pitcher friendly. Not huge gaps or cavernous ground to cover. But if your defense stinks AND youre pitching in a launching pad youre going to get creamed.
Carlos Silva, for instance. Hes going to be an improvement in this park with the Reds defense behind him when he has a tendency to allow the long ball already? His BABIP will likely go up because the defense is worse, he doesnt strike people out to help himself much, and he isnt a ground ball pitcher. Hoy MiltHaynes!
Either sign, or trade, for a couple of flamethrowers who can help themselves out of jams (is it much wonder our best hurler tends to strike out a lot of people, and our next starter has a decent K rate, too?), or improve the defense a lot which I think equates into Belisle magically becoming much better (decent K/9, excellent K/BB but high hits per inning which should drop quite a bit with a league average defense helping to bring his BABIP from .330 to .301). At a hit per inning, given his excellent command, Belisle is a solid pitcher. Bailey also stands a much better chance of staying confident and just letting his talent take over if the defense behind him improves a lot. Arroyo's 2007 was marred by bad luck (and bad defense) as his secondary numbers look 2006ish. Pitching, especially when a guy is young, is huge on confidence. The Reds defese canot be any young pitcher's psyche buddy, that's for sure.
I think Ive undervalued what a bad defense can do to a pitcher or an entire pitching staff. Maybe this is something we have to face up to it will hurt to morph into a good defensive team but as it stands how many pitchers can come to Cincy or want to come and expect to have great seasons? Harang has shown it can be done but thats the Mendoza line for pitching talent. Lesser or younger, less experienced arms will likely be swallowed into mediocrity by the bad combination of factors that work against pitchers as it now stands.
Everyone wants to improve the staff. Maybe a big part of the solution is painful but necessary finding trades for at least a couple of defensive under achievers and plugging the spots with above average defenders. It is a quandary since Dunn has such enormous offensive production, Junior is unlikely to go anywhere at least until the end of 2008 (No way I think hell sign off on a trade now that ship has sailed) and Hamilton has enormous potential but is left playing out of position. Precisely why I said painful.
Sorry so long. Like I said Ive had a lot of time on my hands.


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Lecture, Symphony Performance Celebrate Global Music
- 04-24-2013
- By University Communications
James Marsh Professor-at-Large Srinivas Krishnan is back on campus this week for a performance and lecture, both free and open to the public. Krishnan, a master percussionist from Chennai, India, is founder of the Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble, which showcases world music performed by dozens of artists.
Krishnan will conduct the UVM Symphony Orchestra along with Yutaka Kono, Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Davis Center's Grand Maple Ballroom. The performance will include "Symphonic Episodes" by Professor Emeritus Thomas L. Read and "Romeo and Juliet" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsy. Special guests Marion de Peraza, violin; Aaron Bishara, drums; Arjun Chandy, voice; Patricia Julien, flute; Jeff Queen, snare drum; and Garin Webb, saxophone, will also perform.
While the concert is free, tickets are required and are available at the Davis Center information desk.
On Friday, April 26, Peraza, Queen and Webb will join Krishnan for a special lecture, "Journeys through Broadway, Bollywood, El Sistema and Las Vegas," in the Davis Center's Silver Maple Ballroom.
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DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper is supporting a proposed ballot measure that would raise $950 million in new taxes to fund public schools.
Governor's aide Alan Salazar says the governor told business leaders on Wednesday it should be up to voters to decide how to pay for education.
Salazar tells the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/oqnbp9q ) Hickenlooper wants to make Colorado a public education leader.
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Skip to comments.Geneva talks a facade, US-Iran worked secretly on deal for past year
Posted on 11/17/2013 10:48:47 PM PST by Nachum
The Geneva negotiations between the so-called P5+1 powers and Iran are a mere facade, because the terms of a deal on Irans nuclear program have been negotiated in talks between a top adviser to President Barack Obama and a leading Iranian nuclear official that have continued in secret for more than a year, Israeli television reported Sunday. Despite ostensible full coordination between the US and Israel over strategies for thwarting Irans nuclear weapons drive, the administration did not keep Israel fully informed on those talks, Channel 10 news reported, but Jerusalem nonetheless has a pretty clear picture of what has
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Another batch of lies from President Fake-Man.
I hope Zero had the common courtesy to give them our nuclear secrets, like Bubba did to the Red Chinese.
And you expected "Truth, Justice and the American Way" from the Commie-in-Chief?
top advisor = valarie jarrett, the iranian
Beware the coming weeks while all of our attention is on the sham that is obamacare. Wheels within wheels.
This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.
FWIW, Jarrett was born in Iran, lived some of her early life in Iran, and has close ties to Iran.
Time the mullahs got the"gift that keeps on giving" via rocket mail..
America's credibility in the world of nations eroding one Obama-Jarrett step at a time. It is right before our eyes yet none of our Republican Congresspersons can see! Sad.
"Time the mullahs got thegift that keeps on giving via rocket mail.."
I think that'll be taken care of...
Israelis and Saudis doing the job American (Kenyans) won't do.
Americas credibility in the world of nations eroding one Obama-Jarrett step at a time. It is right before our eyes yet none of our Republican Congresspersons can see! Sad.
Why blame Republicans any more than Democrats? They keep supporting this Muslim in the WH.
They are so busy fighting each other that they watch America go to hell in a handbasket.
There are no more than 20 real patriots in the whole of the Congress, the rest are feathering their nests and kissing Obama buttocks. Vote for No Imcumbent.
I'm sure the Israelis are now absolutely sure they cannot trust the lying sonofabitch in the White Hut, so he and his regime will be fed false intel to further expose their incompetence and allying with the moose slime world.
Since it has been going on for over a year ...What does Hillary know about this? And when did she know it?
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
The Jewish community overwhelmingly supported Obama's re-election.
Maybe Iran will reduce Israel to a radioactive crater...
It was said in another post that ValJar was secretly negotiating with the Iranians for the past year. That would fit in with a show negotiation conference now.
—"What does Hillary know about this? And when did she know it?"
'What difference does it make?'
-Hitlery Clinton /sarc
Now just a cotton pickin' minit here. Let's be fair. Bubba only gave them advanced guidance systems for missiles, not nuclear stuff. That he'd never give away for some badly laundered campaign cash...(would he?)
I hope the Ayatollah had the common courtesy to give Obama a reach-around while he was buggering the U.S. president.
IMHO there is a very, very important consideration when assessing how people like Hillary, Bill, Obama, and many, many others came by their political positions and obtained what I call IBTT (influence beyond their talents). Most of them obtained political connections and ultimately political power via the Academy. Places like Harvard Law School etc. have become the training camps for political power. This leads to an incredible amount of 'group think', establishes an almost 'royalty' aspect to politics, centralizes the power brokers (thus promoting corruption), and has IMHO deprived us of having the most visionary, creative, and ethical elected government that we can have. Elected government should look like America, not Harvard, or any other 'elite' academy. That model hasn't worked, and won't ever work.
If Hillary were the same person she is now, but had attended the U of Illinois, how likely is it now that she'd be a potential Presidential candidate? If Bill Clinton had been a Razorback, how likely is it he would have become President?
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2003-04 Men's Basketball
fc 77, bc 59
Franklin College takes Bluffton
By Ben Risinger, SID
February 4, 2004
FRANKLIN , IND. - The Bluffton College men's basketball team (9-11, 3-6 HCAC) were defeated by the Franklin Grizzlies (12-8, 4-5 HCAC) 77-59 on Wednesday night.
The game started off on a pretty even note as Bluffton was behind for most of the
first half, but kept the score consistently within a 5-point Grizzly lead. The halftime
score was Franklin 34, Bluffton 29. At the
mark in the second period the Beavers took the lead 38-37 off of a lay-up by Scott
Bergman. Over the next five minutes
used turnovers and missed Bluffton shots to take the lead for good to go up 52-42
with eight minutes left in the game.
Leading Bluffton was sophomore Scott Bergman (Elmore/Woodmore) with 18 points for the contest. Eric Sweet (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) was the only other Beaver in double figures with 12 for the night.
Alan Davidson led Franklin with 15 points. Justin Brown threw in 14 points with Darrius Jackson scoring 11 for the Grizzlies.
Statistically, the game was very even. Bluffton out-rebounded
26 to 23. The Grizzlies shot 52 percent from the field compared to the Beavers 51
percent. Turnovers hurt Bluffton as they committed 23 to
's 16.
Bluffton will be back at home on Saturday when they host Transylvania University . Tip off for the game is scheduled for 3 pm. Take a Kid to the Game Day will also be on Saturday. Any child age 14 and under will receive free admission with the purchase of an adult ticket.


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In a week with too many worthy column topics and too many valid questions deserving answers, let's spend a few moments with each one.
First up, "The Lionel Hollins Situation." The very name tells you what a mess it has become. There are many questions here, but let's focus on these three:
Question: At what point did it become possible the new ownership group headed by Robert Pera and CEO Jason Levien might not bring back Hollins as coach?
Answer: From Day 1. Look, regardless of how the season finished – and no one really anticipated a trip to the Western Conference Finals – this was about people with wildly different NBA/world views. That over time Hollins has continued to make public comments that could be considered as insulting, or at least disrespectful, to his bosses makes a change understandable, if not ideal, in the wake of the most successful season in team history.
Question: Nothing in the NBA makes sense anymore. The Grizzlies may let Hollins go and the Denver Nuggets aren't bringing back George Karl, who just won Coach of the Year. What happens from here?
Answer: Would you believe what in effect would look like a "trade," with the Grizzlies hiring Karl and the Nuggets going after Hollins? None of this is certain, of course, but ESPN reported Thursday morning that this scenario was indeed possible with both franchises having interest. Previously, it was assumed assistant Dave Joerger would be promoted if Hollins did not return. But it's worth noting that Stu Lash, the Grizzlies' director of player personnel, worked with Karl in Denver. Stranger things have happened than a Hollins-Karl switch.
Question: If you're Levien, do you bring Hollins back?
Answer: No, not now. Hollins did a good job but this has gone too far. Hollins is prideful and stubborn – that's the best of Lionel and the worst of Lionel. For the sake of the franchise's future, change is the better course. If Karl's the new guy, the criticism of him would be only getting past the first round of playoffs once in nine trips in Denver.
The University of Memphis basketball team has received a commitment from former Missouri guard Michael Dixon, who has never been charged with a crime but has been accused by two different women of sexual assault.
Question: What does this tell us about Tigers coach Josh Pastner?
Answer: Pastner just got a nice raise and with it come increased expectations. He's also going to a new conference and playing a tougher schedule. On the court, he sees Dixon as insurance and maybe a game-changer the way Geron Johnson was a year ago. Johnson, recall, had several run-ins with the law and was considered a risk but got through the season without a hiccup. The allegations against Dixon are far more serious and suggest a disturbing pattern. Pastner never utters a curse word but, frankly, I'd much rather he cuss a blue streak and not lower himself to taking a player with this kind of baggage. I understand Dixon wasn't charged, but two separate accusations? If he's really that unlucky, he should start carrying a rabbit's foot.
Baseball has another big steroids story.
Question: When will it end?
Answer: Never. Remember, baseball was complicit in performance-enhancing drugs taking root in the game. After Bug Selig canceled a World Series, baseball was only too happy to use whatever means necessary to bring fans back through the turnstiles. In short, the powers that be made their deal with the devil during the Great Home Run Chase of 1998. Fifteen years later, they're still paying for it. They want the public to now see them as "cleaning up the game," but baseball has been so ineffective in this regard that the players – from stars to minor-leaguers – will continue to gamble that they won't get caught in order to gain an edge and bigger paydays.
Don Wade's column appears weekly in The Daily News and The Memphis News. Listen to Wade on "Middays with Greg & Eli" every Tuesday at noon on Sports 56 AM and 87.7 FM.


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Nicole Altomare squeezed her teammates' fingers, their hands locked in solidarity, as the finalists in the National High School Cheerleading Championships were announced earlier this month in Orlando, Fla.
She and her fellow Mepham High School cheerleaders did not know they would advance in the competition, as one of them fell while executing a stunt in the semifinals. But their overall performance was good enough to make the cut, as they learned in the announcement that brought tears to Samantha Maddalena's eyes.
"When the names went out for finals, we all started crying," she said. "I had been waiting for that moment since my freshman year."
Mepham's varsity cheerleading team went on to place fifth in the nation, an accomplishment added to this season's long string of successes.
Nicole Kyriacou, who coached the team with Jayna Von Gerichten, has led the co-ed Mepham squad for eight years. Kyriacou attributed many of the squad's regional and national competition victories to the fact they didn't need coaches to motivate them.
"They were driven to the point where they didn't need myself or their other coach to push them. They were pushing themselves," she said. "They have sacrificed so much and are true competitors."
The team began taking titles on the state level last month. Mepham placed first in the co-ed division of the Hudson Valley Cheer Championships on Jan. 19. The squad was also named grand champions of all varsity divisions, which included 18 top teams from across eastern New York.
Kyriacou said the group then won the Eastern New York State Regional Championships on Jan. 26. She explained that the team was proud to have been a part of and win the co-ed level of the competition, which was sponsored by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association for the first time this year.
The regional competitions helped prepare the team for the national championship, which was sponsored by the Universal Cheerleaders Association and held at Walt Disney World Resort on Feb. 9 and 10. Mepham ranked fifth out of 17 teams in the "Small Varsity Coed II" division.


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Claudia Nelson
Claudia Madge Nelson passed away Sept. 28, at the Cheney Care Center where she resided following a stroke in February 2008.
Claudia was born March 6, 1920 in Danville, Wash. and was the oldest child of Claude and C. Madge Brinkman.
On Dec. 17, 1939 Claudia married Albin Nelson and for the next 50 years they lived on Little Goosemus Creek, outside of Curlew, Wash. Not only was Claudia his lifelong partner, but she was also Albin's book keeper for his sawmill/logging operation, Nelson Lumber. Together they raised three children: Dale (Elaine) Nelson of Anchorage, Alaska, Gary (Mary) Nelson of Curlew and Lois (Allen) Bremner of Cheney. In September 1989, Claudia and Albin moved to Cheney.
During her children's school years, Claudia was an active part of the PTA, a willing driver for selling annual ads and followed the basketball and baseball teams as well as later on, her grandchildren's sporting events
She served as secretary for over 25 years for Malo Grange No. 679 of which she was a member for over 70 years. She belonged to Eastern Star in Republic and in Cheney.
Her brothers David and Glenn, her parents and her husband, Albin, preceded Claudia in death.
She is survived by her children, four grandchildren and three great- grandchildren, sister Margery Simanton, sisters-in-law Aleen Brinkman and Helen Brinkman as well as many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Monday, Oct. 7 at the Curlew Civic Hall. Interment followed at the Danville Cemetery.
Claudia loved flowers, but cut flowers wilting made her sad. In lieu of flowers, please support your favorite charity, Shriners Children Hospital or the Cheney Care Center.


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The Delaware County Daily Times (http://www.delcotimes.com)
Thursday, January 16, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — Ken Giles throws pitches 100 mph — harder if he's in the mood to sacrifice a little movement for raw heat.
It's tough to say how many humans on Earth at any time can throw a baseball as hard as Ken Giles, but it's tough to imagine there are 100 of them.
The need for speed, be it that of a baseball, or car, or a human running anywhere from 100 meters to 26.2 miles, draws its appeal because the properties that measure it — time and distance — are the building blocks for our most basic competitive instincts.
Ask who the 100 hardest throwers in baseball are, and you could put together a pretty definitive list. Ask who throws the 100 nastiest curveballs? Good luck with that.
Giles has received a non-roster invitation to big-league spring training, and there is no sugarcoating the reason why. He hasn't pitched above Class A and has worked fewer than 125 innings as a professional, even when you throw in his appearances in the Arizona Fall League. Billy Wagner, who was a first-round pick and slightly older than Giles when his pro career got under way, worked 400 innings in the minors before he joined Houston's bullpen. Brad Lidge, another first-round college selection by Houston whose velocity hit triple digits, had four injury-riddled minor-league seasons to open his career, yet worked more than 200 innings in the minors before joining the Astros.
Yet Giles will be with the Phils in spring training, meaning that they at least think enough of his potential to give Ryne Sandberg and new pitching coach Bob McClure a chance to see him.
"It's a challenge," director of player development Joe Jordan said of Giles' development. "A lot of relievers come up as starters and come from guys who get that extended work.
"Hopefully we can keep him healthy and get him the work he needs."
The Phils got Giles some extra work in Arizona this fall, and that played a role in his getting an invitation to make a statement this spring.
"I felt a lot of it coming out, what I believe is the big-league potential everyone is expecting of me — wanting to throw more strikes, wanting to get more strikeouts, wanting to close out games," Giles said. "To me, yeah, that's getting there. I feel like I'm a lot closer than I was when I started."
When he was in Little League, Giles was the hard-throwing kid everyone feared.
"No one wanted to play catch with me," he said, "… though I probably had better command then than I do now."
His favorite player growing up was Randy Johnson — even though Giles is right-handed and about nine inches shorter than Johnson, his three-quarters delivery is an homage to a pitcher who should be a Hall-of-Fame lock next year. And his favorite Big Unit moment was when Johnson sailed a fastball over the head of an emotionally scarred John Kruk in the 1993 All-Star Game.
Giles' primal gift gets him a lot of attention, yet he has a friendly rebuttal when a fellow pitcher asks him with envy is his voice what it's like to throw a 100 mph fastball.
"I'll ask him, 'Well, how does it feel to throw a changeup, because I'm struggling with it while you can master it,'" Giles said. "I don't compare myself any differently to anyone else."
That Giles treats his velocity like a gift instead of the gift offers hope that he can become something more than a live arm. He knows that there is more to success than merely throwing hard. He only made 24 appearances for Clearwater in 2013 and gave up enough hits (23 in 25 2/3 innings, including four homers) and runs (a 6.31 ERA) to understand that it will take more than an extremely live arm to make a living.
"When I leave the ball up, it's straight," Giles said. "I'm just learning how to locate, how to command and how not to get too wild.
"In a lot of cases I have to hold back just a little bit, even though I have a lot more in the tank. Everyone knows I have it, but I have to learn how to ease back a little bit."
That might mean a few more 98s and a few less 100s on the radar gun. But for an organization with a lot of bullpen prospects and not enough bullpen performers of late, the Phillies would sacrifice a little speed for years of competence.
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From the makers of Quantum Conundrum
Airtight Games, the folks behind recent the fantastic first-person puzzle-fest, Quantum Conundrum, recently announced the launch of a mobile games studio. And now they've just released their first mobile game, called Pixld.
It's a matching-style puzzle game with a pixely design where you'll work to clear as many blocks as you can before time runs out. When you tap a block you'll change its color, but this will also change the color of the other blocks around it.
There's a gameplay trailer out there, but I'm not embedding it into the story as it's absolutely useless in showing how the game works. Hhmph.
Pixld is up on the App Store for iOS devices, and is being offered at a introductory price of $0.99, which cuts the original cost by 50 percent.
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The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now (I got banned from a forum for the first time for criticizing Hutin in 2004 or thereabouts), but this law is like opening the proverbial floodgate of abuse.
Good luck fighting back. Democracy is a process, not a state -- unless the people are prepared to stand up for it, it goes.
In passing, hardly anyone would think the site has crashed -- those who use it often will read the notice, and those who don't will only go there because they've seen the news of the protest.
(I got banned from a forum for the first time for criticizing Hutin in 2004 or thereabouts)
I've gotten banned from American websites countless times for silly things. Guess that means The American Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now
What's with the snarks? What's so funny?
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html [blogspot.com]
http://w2.eff.org/Activism/russian_coup_netuse.article [eff.org]
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 00:17:31 +0300 (MSD)
Don't worry, we're OK, though frightened and angry. Moscow is full
of tanks and military machines, I hate them. They try to close all
mass media, they shutted up CNN an hour ago, Soviet TV transmits
opera and old movies. But, thanks Heaven, they don't consider
RELCOM mass media or they simply forgot about it. Now we transmit
information enough to put us in prison for the rest of our life
Hope all will turn out well at long last...
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 21:12:26 +0300 (MSD)
Thank you, Larry!
Now all information media are on, CNN transmites our
"Time" TV program, and I can watch them both!
I'v heard (may be it was CNN) that they withdraw
armed forces from Baltics cities. I'm not near the
parliament, I'm still at the computer, but the situation
on the net became lighter now and I hope to sleep a little, it was
my dream during last two days
You can't even imagine, how grateful we are for your
help and support in this terrible time! The best thing
is to know, that we aren't alone.
Looking at the above, and then looking at this "discussion", I have one word for all of you: regression.
The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now
Exactly. They are creating a nyet-net.
That's called PravdaNet.
Not really, hence the emphasis on the first time I recall it happening. The removal of even mildly anti-government stuff began in the early 2000s, but it didn't end there. Later on quite a few sites in the
There are reports that on many occasions the FSB (Federal Security Service) has requested that ISPs and sites provide information on users. Things have gotten pa
The Russian Internet has been under a very strong pressure to shut up from the political elite for a long time now (I got banned from a forum for the first time for criticizing Hutin in 2004 or thereabouts), but this law is like opening the proverbial floodgate of abuse.
Did Putin ban you personally on that forum, or was it someone from the Russian political elite?
If not, that's hardly a good example of the oppression - forum bans because of the political squabbles happen in the USA all the time.
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# 1. Tor Discussion Forums (two hidden services)
We need an official Tor discussion forum.
I did not see this issue mentioned in Roger's *latest* notes post, so for now, mature adults should visit and post at one or both of these unofficial tor discussion forums, these tinyurls will take you to:
** HackBB:
http://www.tinyurl.com/hackbbonion [tinyurl.com]
** Onion Forum 2.0
http://www.tinyurl.com/onionforum2 [tinyurl.com]
Each tinyurl link will take you to a hidden service discussion forum. Tor is required to visit these links, even though they appear to be on the open web, they will lead you to
I know the Tor developers can do better, but how many years are we to wait?
If you prefer to visit the hidden services directly, bypassing the tinyurl service:
HackBB: (directly)
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You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
I always support the Russian people, government not so much.
WTF are you talking about?
I always support the Russian people, government not so much.
As someone with a degree in Russian studies, I can tell ya that Russians love semantic cop-outs.
You stop flying fighter aircraft with nukes across the West Coast where I live.
As a Russian, I fully support that. Flying those aircraft is expensive and ultimately pointless (both they and their load is easy to intercept).
Nuclear subs with ICBMs, now, are a whole different kettle of fish (how many do you think are close to West Coast right now?). ~
what is extreme?
Along with "obscene," everything that the government doesn't like.
Get it right.
You don't hate the Chinese, or Russians.
It's the govt stupid!
Connect the dots, the resultant map, can't be much different than the psychopaths in the USA
Add child to pornography, replace ads with sales, and promoting suicide with cyberbullying, and things sound eerily similar to what US lawmakers keep trying to push.
To put it bluntly the people in power hate the internet and want to shut it down. They want to roll back the world to the mid 20th century when a very few large corporations had total control over production and dissemination of information.
What the 99% need is a network that nobody controls. Freenet was a good idea but it is not usable by non-techies and it relies on existing infrastructure.
We need a mesh network that bypasses the existing infrastructure and where anyone can set up a node using cheap com
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View from the Corner: Ranking the top heavyweights
Published 5:04 pm, Saturday, April 2, 2011
Opening flurry
Ranking boxing's top heavyweights:
1. Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs) After several false starts, looks like we'll finally get to see Klitschko-David Haye in much-anticipated unification bout either June 25 or July 2.
2. Vitali Klitschko (42-2, 39 KOs) First-round KO of Oldanier Solis in last fight didn't live up to promise.
3. David Haye (25-1, 23 KOs) Big talker, but hasn't backed it up, at least when it comes to fighting the Klitschkos.
4. Alexander Povetkin (21-0, 15 KOs) 2004 Olympic gold medalist from Russia gave up mandatory title shot and $2 million to fight Wladimir Klitschko in September.
Sports Channel
- Braves Rookie Ronald Acuña, Jr. Leaves Game With Leg, Back Injuries Sports Illustrated
- Will Power Wins 2018 Indianapolis 500; Danica Patrick Finishes 30th After Crash Sports Illustrated
- Defending French Open Jelena Ostapenko, Venus Williams Lose In First Round Sports Illustrated
- Real Madrid Wins Its Third Straight UEFA Champions League Title Sports Illustrated
- Cavaliers' Kevin Love Placed in Concussion Protocol, Ruled Out For Game 7 Sports Illustrated
- LiAngelo Ball Set For Pre-Draft Workout With Lakers Sports Illustrated
5. Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KOs) Scheduled to face Kevin McBride — who beat Mike Tyson in 2005 — on pay-per-view in Newark, N.J., on April 9 in tune-up before he fights one of the Klitschkos in September.
Straight shots
Clancy dies: Hall of Fame trainer Gil Clancy died Thursday in Lynbrook, N.Y., at age 88.
A former schoolteacher who trained amateur boxers in the evenings, Clancy eventually became one of the top trainers and managers in professional boxing.
Although best known for guiding the career of former welterweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith, Clancy also worked with Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya, among others.
Local note
Boxer released: The Marine Corps boxer severely injured during a bout in February at Lackland AFB, was released from Brooke Army Medical Center on March 17, a hospital spokesman said.
Cpl. Joel Bolden, 21, of Orlando, Fla., suffered a head injury during the bout at the Armed Forces Championships on Feb. 18. He underwent emergency surgery to relieve swelling to his brain and spent the next month recovering at BAMC.
Bolden was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Tampa, Fla., said Jesse Ravelo, coach of the Marine Corps team.
"He's talking, eating solid food, he can change the channels on the TV," Ravelo said. "He's doing real well."


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July 24, 2012 -- Federal authorities in New Hampshire have charged a traveling cardiac cath technologist with infecting patients with hepatitis C after he allegedly stole syringes containing fentanyl and replaced the dirty needles with saline solution. The case has authorities fearing an outbreak of hepatitis C in more than half a dozen states.
David Kwiatkowski, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, was arrested in Massachusetts on July 19 and charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product, according to a statement released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire.
In a criminal complaint filed on July 19 in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire in Concord, Marcie DiFede, an FBI special agent, charged Kwiatkowski with acquiring the anesthetic fentanyl, intended for patients in the cardiac catheterization lab at Exeter Hospital, for his own use. He is also charged with tampering with syringes of the drug by injecting himself and then replacing the fentanyl with another liquid which was then given to patients, exposing them to hepatitis C, the complaint said.
Kwiatkowski worked as a cardiac cath technologist at Exeter Hospital between April 2011 and May 2012. In May, Exeter Hospital discovered that several patients had tested positive for hepatitis C; the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services began an investigation, and on July 13 it announced that 30 people who had been treated at Exeter Hospital have tested positive for the virus.
The case has expanded beyond New Hampshire, however, as Kwiatkowski has also worked as a technologist in at least six different states, including Kansas and Maryland.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) issued a warning on July 20 to patients who underwent cardiac catheterization at the cardiac cath lab at Hays Medical Center (HaysMed) between May and September 2010. Approximately 460 patients had procedures at the HaysMed lab during this time period.
"Due to the fact that Kwiatkowski worked as a contract radiology technician in the HaysMed cardiac catheterization laboratory from May 24, 2010, to September 22, 2010, HaysMed and KDHE are working together to notify all patients who were treated at the cardiac catheterization lab during this time and recommend they receive testing for hepatitis C," KDHE said in a statement.
In addition, Kwiatkowski had previously worked in four Maryland hospitals between 2008 and 2010, according to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH): Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Southern Maryland Hospital, and Maryland General Hospital.
"Mr. Kwiatkowski is known to have been infected with the hepatitis C virus since at least June 2010," DHMH said. "Whether he was infected prior to this time and was a potential risk to patients in Maryland is not yet known. ... However, out of an abundance of caution, we are recommending that patients who were potentially exposed to healthcare procedures involving Mr. Kwiatkowski be notified and advised to seek testing for hepatitis C."
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire is collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the departments of public health in other states where Kwiatkowski worked to address any possible public health implications, according to the FBI's statement.
Kwiatkowski faces up to 20 years in prison for tampering with a consumer product and four years in prison for obtaining controlled substances by fraud. Each offense is also punishable by a fine of $250,000, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office statement. The Attorney's Office and the FBI are attempting to contact all of the potential victims in the case.
The case comes only months after another radiologic technologist pleaded guilty to infecting patients with hepatitis C while working in the interventional radiology department at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.
In May, Steven Beumel of Jacksonville pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product resulting in death, four counts of tampering with a consumer product resulting in serious bodily injury, and five counts of stealing fentanyl by deception, according to a May 11 press release issued by the FBI. Beumel faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.


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EDITH HUGHES is quite attractive at thirty-three. There's no strong tie to her brother Chris or her sister-in-law Nancy. As a matter of fact there has been no strong tie to anyone in Edith's life for some time now. Edith's frustration and bitterness became a part of her as she grew into womanhood. Her twin brother John - well, it was different with a boy, he could just up and leave, and he did. Later, perhaps too late, when Chris became what his family thought successful, there were monthly checks, but these were eaten up by the farm.
Five years ago when her mother died, Edith left the farm. Chris gave her enough money for a course in beauty culture and today a woman of poise, she is a beauty operator in the very swank salons of Margo, not too far from where her brother practices law.
She's an infrequent visitor at her brother's home in the suburbs, and sees her father just as rarely. Edith can never forget the great investment her parents had made in just one of their children, nor can she forgive Nancy for having everything she, Edith, ever wanted...an education, marriage, a family, a home of her own. Yes Edith always felt that she had been deprived of so much. Even Chris himself would admit anyone might say, I wonder why she never married. That's been said of many attractive women, and there is always a reason Mr. Right hasn't come along? Mr. Right did come along for Edith when she was twenty-three.
During the Second World War an Air Corps training base was built not far from the Hughes farm. Because they needed the money, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes had no arguments to offer when Edith got a job as a switchboard operator at the base, and when she met Lt. Frank Rice, Edith knew she had found the man she could love.
In civilian life Frank was a construction engineer and the position would be waiting for him when he got out of the service. Frank seemed to love Edith as deeply and genuinely as she loved him, and the six months of their romance was a happy, wonderful time. The only marring element was that Edith could not persuade Frank that they should be married before he went overseas. His reasons were logically and wholly unselfish. He said he would like to marry her and he meant it, but suppose something should happen to him?...No, it wasn't fair to her. No matter how she pleaded, he was not going to do that to her.
He gave her an engagement ring and flew with his squadron to the European theatre. But eight months later Edith received a letter -- he was sorry, he hated to hurt her, but he guest it wasn't the real thing between them - he had married an English girl. Edith Hughes has never loved another man.
And so resentments and bitterness grew within Edith. When her mother died, she left the farm and developed a philosophy which she's going to make work: Take all and give nothing. That's a hard philosophy and a cold one and can be seen reflected in the veneer that Edith has built around herself.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The next part will focus on the character of Fred (Grandpa) Hughes.


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Alex Proyas's derivative sci-fi movie is a close encounter of the nerd kind, mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.
A string of numbers scribbled by an obsessive schoolgirl back in 1959 is given to the son of MIT astrophysicist Nicolas Cage, when a time capsule buried fifty years before is disinterred. Although Cage's father is a pastor, since the death of his wife he has believed that life is just a random string of accidents. Then he finds patterns in the numbers that seem to correspond to the dates of disasters, and starts to wonder if our fates really are predetermined.
Unfortunately, consideration of these weighty issues soon gives way to what feels like an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' on steroids. There is hard scientific talk about unusual solar flare activity, and intimations of a global ecological disaster. But then the pale-faced 'Whispering People' start handing out smooth black stones, and rationality gives way to portentous religious talk about God's prophet Ezekiel. By the time single mother Rose Byrne, daughter of the now-dead 50s schoolgirl, takes Cage and his young son to the crazy lady's abandoned mobile home in the woods, it's easy to predict where this is headed.
The apocalyptic images are impressive, but what do they all add up to? You may end up asking yourself, in the spirit of Erich Von Däniken, 'Was God An Astronaut?"
Release details
|Release date:
|Wednesday March 25 2009
|121 mins
Cast and crew
|Alex Proyas
|Nicolas Cage
Rose Byrne
Chandler Canterbury
Lara Robinson
Ben Mendelsohn
D.G. Maloney
Nadia Townsend
Average User Rating
4 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:67
- 4 star:15
- 3 star:14
- 2 star:14
- 1 star:0
This movie makes you think. As for the movie maker's depiction of Ezekiel's Biblical vision, very good rendering. The scenes that include stones build up toward the final close encounter to where they are everywhere beneath Cage's feet taking on a behavior of their own were also significant in the Bible " and the rocks will cry out " I enjoyed the film, the plot heads in the right direction. From begining to end the movie was brilliant, borrowing biblical inclusions muled the movie story line forward and had me captivated to think " what if "
Personally, i thought the film was a triumph. Im in a media studies lesson at school studying this film. Reading some of these comments upsets me slightly. i thought the plot was original and i love anything to do with Exogenesis and "new beginnings" This film clearly gives that idea out. Agreeeably, Cage's acting skills do slightly falter on occasion but i think thats the same with many of his films, especially World Trade Centre. This is why i had deducted a star. If it wasnt for Cage, the folm would recieve 5 stars.
I'm watching it again now for the probably 20th time. I actually really like this film, you don't have to be religious to like or understand it, the plane and train crashes are spectacular however I don't think it would happen like that but still the scenes are impressive, I always laugh at the plane crash because Mt Cage is screaming at a bloke who was just in the plane crash and on fire which might hurt a bit and he is screaming at him to do what I don't know, it is a really curiouse part. But anyway loved it.
This is a truly great movie. The whole story is very good and is gripping and is a bit mysterious. The ending is emotional, for a moment I tought that they were the 4 riders of the apocalypse, but then I saw those other "flying ships". Great movie!
Just watched the rented DVD. The film was disappointing. It didn't live up to the expectations after watching the trailer. The storyline started well with predicting incidents but the ending was rubbish. Even Nicholas Cage couldn't save the film (and he is a good actor)
Without a shadow of a doubt this was the worst film I have had the misfortune to sit down and watch. Complete nonsense from start to finish. Its like someone had an idea for a movie but without any idea of where or how to end it so fell back on the old Alien Cliche. And why were the aliens modelled on Rydian from X Factor, Pointless American Drivel. I'd guess there was some originality in the script. The hero didn't end up saving the world from solar destruction. Instead the Rydian Aliens saved a few kids and dumped them on a new planet full of cornfields. You'd have thought that after that all that time looking after the kids and then saving them from certain death the least they could have done was to give them a house to live in.
I personally think the film was really good apart from some low quality acting from cage and his new girl friend. People seem to be missing the point and take the film too seriously, Afterall it is only a fictional film and nothing more. This film makes people come to their own conclusions and I had my own, as did my wife. Whether your a Christian or not it has to make you wonder what life is all about! Doesn't it?
Probably a bit too overrated, although some good ideas and a fantastic ending. Typical of most people to want a happy ending where everything is great! Dissapointing to see that most people didn't have the concentration span to spot multiple UFO's arriving on the new planet. Good religious conotations, e.g Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve although slightly ridiculous frequency of distasters and links to the main characters. One to watch for the ending alone.
Only in America, what a load of codswallop. The storyline was predictable and weak, full of quasi religious undertones (and overtones) the acting was putrid. This movie was totally unconvincing from start to finish. As you would expect the special effects were brilliant, but who would watch a film just for special effects?. This is a film made by the stupid for the stupid. Do yourself a favour and save your money.
for the first hour or so i was absoloutely gripped to this film. the intricate story line, mixed with the dark and almost gothic style that brought a new side to the usual 'sci-fi' style. however, the ending was a complete joke. i understand some people saying they enjoyed it - and thats fair enough, but for the writers to dump the whole story line and go: "brilliant. aliens explain evertything" was the complete kop out in my view. it was SUCH a dissapointment.
Spoiler Alert*** I would like to say this movie did hit up in my top 10 (end of the world) type of movies. And for the idiots who didn't understand this movie here's the simple breakdown of the key parts people didn't quite understand or just didn't watch mainly the ending part there wasn't only 2 kids there was multiple ships, because you cant just breed 2 kids and not have inbreeding so they had to get more kids. They took them young due to start over fresh without all the bs the world was in today Just basically wing-it from the start. Just like Adam and Eve. This movie was like a Noah's ark story with a more believable story than the bible. I didn't say I don't believe there's a god just I there is something greater just everyone has there own depiction. I guess people just want to see a face and make money off donations. Anyways this movie is a must see on a suspense scale from 1 - 10 I'd say it's about a 7. As of the story/plot it's about a 9 ( the CGI couldve been a little better at the very end made me thought they were in toonworld lol)
What a load of typical American dross, the film was way too dark in parts and as for Nicolas Cage, well he mumbled only slightly less than Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation.
The film was fab!!!! The plane crash is the most amazing part in the film. i wasn't able to close my mouth. i had to go back and watch it again it was spectaculer plus the train crash AWSOME!!!! The strange people in the darkness also known as the whisper people in the film really do create the suspense. The begining was very interesting...and once you see the numbers you feel so into the film. All of it is absoloutly outstanding, untill you come to the point when you find out that they are aliens, well that is ok but the ending was terriable and really dissapointing. I was really looking forward to the ending because everything else had been just great. These aliens seemed to be so advanced with there technology, why could they save everybody on earth or stop the sun's flare from destroying the earth? just because these kids can hear some voices in their heads. And seeing them not leting the dad go with him was really upsetting. The ending could of been alright but they just had to put an adam and eve shot in the end. WHY?WHY?WHY? it totally killed the ending.
It was not only two children taken away as some people here perceived. You see many lighting alien vehicles lifting up
Just watched this movie tonight and loved it! I did not expect the ending but it was a great twist, if Nick had gone with Caleb then that would have made for a boring end but when he was saying goodbye it was so sad and made for such a good film, everyone in my family agreed that it was the best movie we had seen in a long time. I don't understand why people think the ending was bad as i think if it had been how people wanted it too be then it would have been extremely boring and not emotional at all, i loved everything about the film. Absoloutely amazing.
Bought Time Out yesterday, read the review for this one, thought might be worth a watch, went to the video shop and got it... really not too bad until about 3/4 way through but you really should have prepared me for the fact that this is clearly a Scientology propaganda film... drivel by the time it gets to the end... to those who wonder about the "amazing" combination of science, religion and action, get yourselves down to the local Scientology meeting, you've found your calling.
**Spoiler Content Ahead - Expect Delays** My favorite part was the plane crash, although being as it may, it portrayed my absolute greatest fear. Aye, the fear of witnessing twisted metal spiraling into its impending doom and exploding into a burst of flame is very lovely thing to witness. But I'm very glad they did in such a way that I was glad to be tormented whilst they destroyed the aircraft. Anyway, as comments said before me, they have noted that 'Knowing' had patterns derived from other movies with end of the world plots and aliens. To be honest, however, what these past movies had captured before was what set them apart from others and thus made them into such classics. I found that this movie, shall I say, over emulated these other movies and interwove way too many common themes? Since I do enjoy developing stories and creating original ideas, I found that they butchered themselves in the writing department with an overflow of cliché ideas. So, my point being, it needed to be more original. The most magical moment was the ending. With the easily noted CGI effects and the children giggling in the wheat fields of some planet in the far end of the universe, how could anyone decline its presence on film? *cough* But besides what I thought was terrible, my surprisingly distant related cousin, Nicholas Cage, did a rather good job acting and I did enjoy many elements that occurred during the movie. So, it wasn't all bad. By the way, can someone get me the dentist of that alien that blinded Nicholas Cage? Look at them pearly whites!
This movie was ridiculous! i just went to all that suspense for aliens to be the answer to all the numbers1111 that is bull crap!!!! im so frusturated right now! i cant beleiv this crap! that was a waste of life!!!! why! why! why!
I am extremely disappointed with many comments about this film: particularly those people opposed to what they perceive as a religious angle. Knowing follows in a ling line of excellent science fiction film dealing with "end of the world" scenarios. Inevitibly these types of fims (at least the best of them) address metaphysical or spiritual issues (we are speaking here about the demise of humanity, after all). This film leaves enough to the imagination for the viewer to apply his or her own beliefs to the ending. Religion is at least partly a cultural phenomenon. Whether a Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, etc., I believe all religions have the common thread of attempting to understand what lies beyond this life and dealing with realities outside our own. To me, science describes the mechanizs of how the Universe works. Religion approaches the "why" of the universe. They are truly different sides of the same coin. I believe this film joins the spiritual with the scientific very well. That is what attracted me to the film. I think that many people were put off because such a film provides a modern context within which give the tales in scripture believability to people living in a modern environment. People ambivalent about religion are uncomfortable about this. That is too bad because they are missing much. A scientific life without spiritualism is quite empty. Ask a believer like Einstein. he would attest to this.
This movie made my clothes smell! If the aliens were so powerful to see into the future and travel between galaxies, then why didn't they just shield the Earth or turn off the flare.If they cared so much about life, why did they let six billion people fry to save two kids. Who do the kids' kids procreate with? No wonder it is out in DVD already!
I thought this movie was unique although the ending was not so great thats was the only thing i did not like about this movie. but nicklas cage did a fantastic job on the charter he played. so i give this movie must see
Okay, well I've read some of these comments and I have to say, some of you are idiots. Those of you who say the movie's ending was terrible and didn't make sense I would like to let you know, if you possessed a brain you'd realize that the ending was beautiful for the way the director melded religion, science, and spiritual beliefs in one movie. I would like to take into consideration that there are many not-so-intelligent people in this world, but even with that said, the movie was spectacular visually and mentally. Not a big fan of Nicholas Cage, but I have to give it to the man, much better than Mark Walberg in "The Happening". And for those of you who still disagree with the opinion that the ending of the movie was brilliant, i would like to tell you one thing. I am 14 years old and I could figure out the plot and understand the ending.
*SPOILER ALERTS* There's actually people who do that God and his angels are exterrestrial- that alien is the divine.. and they can tie a lot of Biblical passages and elements of the Bible together to support that theory. The loosely touched one was the Ezekial notion. If you care to research, there's a quite a few. But with any theory, if you believe it enough, you can find evidence in anything and make it tie together. I thought the movie was excellent because it tied multiple elements together - science, religion, action, suspense ; however I must agree with others that they needed a different actor besides Cage. He is too predictable and drawn out. Also, I agree with the comment that a plot gap was him figuring out the message but not being saved. If it was destined that the child was to be saved, it would of happened regardless. I guess you couldn't make a movie just off of that alone, however. The purpose of his decoding I believe was for him to meet that women and the other child, but besides that, null.
I don't realize the stupidity of people untill situations like these bring it out in the open. WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING IN AN APOCALYPTIC MOVIE? I found it hilarious how many people were either confused or found the ending to be terrible. My favorite quote from this comment page is "When the plot was discovered the entire cinema groaned." First off, WOW. If you couldn't figure out the plot of this story within the first 10 seconds of the freakin trailer you must be either mentally challenged or have failed the 1st grade. Look. The old woman, the 'prophet', was predicting events that would happen, were people really expecting the entire chain of events to break off for one point and have Nich pull something out of his arse and save the world? The aliens, I found that they tied the alien and bible references together masterfully, most directors may shy away from producing such a theory in a film. Acting wise, I believe Nich did a fine normal job for him, not always my favorite actor but I usually enjoy the movies he is in. Im not really sure the name of the 'prophet's' daughter but I found myself nearly screaming at my screen because of how many hollywood mistakes she made in the movie. Basically like when you are watching a horror movie where the victims walk around in complete darkness with no freakin defense. I actually laughed so hard when she died and I was overjoyed. I have seen a lot of hate comments about how the ending was bad, I challenge anyone to come up with a better ending. Have everyone just die, including the kids?...No because that would defeat the purpose of even having the numbers. There is no better way I would have ended the movie. Judging by the grammar and the shortness of most people's comments on the end they are probably ignorant to all of the biblical references present. The one and only problem I had with the ending was the fact that it really didn't matter that Nich figured out the coords because he wasn't getting taken anyway. The aliens kidnapped the children without Nich even being there, I found that to be a type of gap in the plot. All in all I enjoyed the film and found many clever references with a neat storyline. Amazing special effects and a GOOD ENDING. :)
for those saying the story was rubbish, they didn't call it a sci-fi movie (based off a sci-fi book) for nothing. it's just a movie - can't expect everything you see in a movie to be real can you?? The special effects were great and there was quite a bit of reference to religion. At the very end, it shows references to the very first chapter in Genesis (from the Bible).
I loved this movie too and completely agree with Andrew and Informer's reviews. I also wondered what movie were the people watching to those who didn't like it. From their comments, it is obvious they dIdn't predict the whisperers being aliens ( obvious) or understand the that solar flares can anielate a planet, and the Adam & Eve reference at the end. The fleeting Ezekial reference is a reference to how Ezekial in the bible is taken by God without dying by going up in the sky. Some people think is could have been aliens even back then. Definitely a GREAT Sci Fi with GREAT disaster effects and yes, it helps if you already understand that solar flares could indeed end life as we know it (not to mention interfere with satellite communication devices - - already happening) AND I LOVE everything Nicolas Cage is in, so of course that was a bonus for me.
very disappointed! good effects in the disaster scenes but overall it was boring!
Okay, so I thought that the trailer looked damn good, but what they dont mention in the trailer, is the ending. (which is clearly where the whole movie unraveled, in story line, and CGI). This movie was terrible! It had a good 1st half, but the story started out semi-realistic, and then ended up being about aliens!!! So what if its sci-fi! I wouldn't have bothered watching it if I knew it was a mix of better sci-fi's. All in all, not a great movie, and was not worth the time or effort.
The question that really tortures me after this movie: was it sponsored by the creationists? And this overwrites it all: clichéd dialogues, clichéd scenes, a too old, too worn out Nicolas Cage with his too unconvincing over-dramatic stray puppy look (maybe if we hadn't seen it in the every other movie he has ever made?) Yes, in the end as the world was burning down alive (oops, am I not supposed to give away this part of an apocalyptic film?) I couldn't help laughing. Ridiculous. Waste of time. That's my verdict.
I loved this movie. Saw it and couldn't stop thinking about it. I ws full on but the plane and train had to be the best bits to me. Didn't understand the ending and was stupid but a great movie all round!!
WHAT A MOVIE! Ok, this film is designed to make you think. A "what if it COULD happen?" scenario. The film is tailored for those of us out there with an open mind to possible scenario's. Yes, it did go into some "science jargon" as someone previously wrote, but they failed to mention that the "jargon" actually made sense and applied to the movie. Film lovers out there with a brain, I 100% reccommend this movie. It's based on science fact mixed with hollywood glam. "the aliens" pat of the film. And the "religious" side others have referred to is a nice twist. And really, it only refers to this at the end - which by the way was spectacular. It's nice to see hollywood churn out a film thats different from the rest. In the real world, The family doesn't go home all singing and dancing to a "well done, you saved the world" ending. This film is one for the DVD collection. Outstanding.
best movie ever seen
The plot toward the end did not make much sense to me. However, I do like the not-so-typical-Nick-save-the-world ending. It is still a bit corny but I do like the surpise ending.
The film was absolutely fabulous.... a must see again!
there is action but the story is rubbish especially the end...
Had the makings of a very good movie. Very good special effects and a good story. Unfortunately the last 20 minutes or so made me laugh out loud at how ridiculous it was.
great movie -seen it 3 times and still want more -
I really don't know what movie some of these people have seen, but it certainly does not sound like "Knowing�. I thought that it was an entertaining, sometimes unforgiving gruesome, clever and different take on a classic sci-fi story. A thoroughly enjoyable film from start to finish (yes I said to finish because although quite sci-fi'esque, what were people expecting, it is after all a sci-fi movie). OK, so the writer borrows from numerous other successful sci-fi movies for some of its character's relationships and the plots of the film (I wont say what bits because that might spoil the movie for those who have not seen it or know the plot), but AI, Signs, The Day After Tomorrow, Contact and ET were all represented, but offered with a slightly different take. The rawness of the violence at times was a little difficult to watch (but that's just me) because the way it was shot pulled no punches, when people died you saw them exploding in a mess of blood or being engulfed in flames, but this was such a small part of the movie that it was soon forgotten and I was on the edge of my seat again looking to see what happened next. Great movie. Not an all time favourite or a classic, but a damn good evening out.
Knowing is quite a impressive and entertaining little thriller but with a pointless and terrible ending to the film.
absolutely stupid ending.... ruined what could have been a good movie. i feel dumb after watching it
Tidy film, well done until the naff ending. Shame, good until last 20 minutes.
Brilliant film UNTIL 20mins from the end. The ridiculous ending was so bad it ruined the whole film. The intrigue and suspense built all the way through the film and when the plot was revealed everyone in the cinema groaned...some even walked out. Shockingly bad. Cannot believe Nicholas Cage read to the end of the script when he accepted this role.
Wow im a tall 14 yr old and one piece of advice when ur watching it....dont watch it unless you have no fear im still shaking. It is a v.gd film though and it had me gripped till the end where it got abit silly but still best scary film ive seen in years.
Good film,brilliant effects,dont know what to think of the ending tho,but i would still see it again.
This is one of the best films I have seen for a long time. It has depth and some spirituality unlike the usual transparent titillating violence that seems to prevail. It poses many questions and is not necessarily a 'religious' film. It only seems to be religious to those people who seem think there nothing in life other than what you see. I though the acting was terrific and the story line excellent. I would certainly recommend it. It is not for you if you prefer play station game like films. Well done Nicholas Cage.
The worst film I have ever seen. I don't know how Nic Cage would put his name to such dribble .
What could have been an interesting movie about the power of mathematical predictions became what I have concluded to be propaganda from the evangelical lobby in Hollywood. The characters at MIT are potrayed as morons all while Cage gives his 'concerned look' for over half the film. The daughter of Lucinda is a non-character and Abby is there only to complete the picture of Adam and Eve and the garden of Eden. The alien idea could have actually worked, had it not been in the blatant, tasteless religious context (they even spawned wings in the end). The object of this movie was to strip the scientific explanation for things of credibility while maintaining that "science" and theology can co-exist. The film also seemed to be a drama-horror-thriller-action-suspense movie with sweet special effects as to invigorate young audiences into thinking it's hella-awesome and that "it makes total sense! the holy bible is proved by Nicolas Cage's MIT math skillzzz and there is higher power (which for some reason sits idly while the earth burns and saves just 2 kids who will populate a new world [talk about a really small gene pool])
Although I think that Nicholas Cage is an exceptionally talented actor, this movie was awful. No, wait, what I meant to say was that the ENDING was awful. The movie itself was very entertaining and kept you on the edge of your seat. However, the aliens at the end were a joke. The movie made you think that it would end in some psychological and intelligent conclusion, whereas the actual ending completely destroyed the movie. With a different ending, this movie could have been one of the greatest releases in 2009. If you enjoy disappointment, I would recommend this movie.
This is the worst movie in the history in the world. The people who made it should be punished. I actually laughed when abbys mom died. The beginning was godd but the rest was horrible Dont wast your money, i think i got to go see an other movie to get this one out of my head.


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Jazz is a sponge for outside sounds. Add another idea to it — say, European classical or gospel-inflected R&B music — and it absorbs, assimilating the sound into a new subgenre: like "third stream" or "soul jazz," respectively. Wring it out, and its own improvisatory essence remains in the mix.
It's hard to imagine something that could be further in sound and structure from jazz than punk rock, but punk and jazz do have elements in common — the most important being attitude. Whether it came from the boundary-pushing free jazz of the late '50s or the experimental electronic sounds of the late '60s and '70s, the spirit of adventure, creativity and thumbing one's nose at "the rules" has always been a part of jazz's historical trajectory.
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Telana Starks was watching her niece play in a sandbox Monday afternoon in Lafayette Park when I asked if she was following the presidential campaign. She said she hadn't really been paying any attention, which was interesting because the candidates haven't been paying any attention to her either.
Starks makes about $700 a month as a home healthcare provider and would like to find time for another job and money for college, but she's busy looking after family who need her help.
Kathleen O'Malley, whose granddaughter was playing with Starks' niece, said she's working as a dog walker to supplement her Social Security check.
"I don't consider myself middle class," O'Malley said. "I consider myself at the poverty line."
Too bad for her, and for the one in six U.S. residents who live in poverty. If you've been following the presidential campaign, you might easily have gotten the impression that the poor no longer exist. The word "poverty" was mentioned once in the first debate between President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Together, the two candidates made 29 references to the middle class. And in Tuesday's debate, I lost count after Romney reeled off more than half-a-dozen references in a single answer.


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Resignation final
UNIOPOLIS — Uniopolis Mayor Bill Rolston made his resignation official Saturday by signing and giving a letter of resignation to Council President Greg Ritchie.
Rolston confirmed his resignation in a telephone call Sunday, saying he delivered the letter to Ritchie's home on Saturday. Rolston said Ritchie was not home, but he left the letter with Ritchie's brother.
Ritchie confirmed receiving the letter in a telephone call on Sunday.
Ritchie said the letter simply stated "I William Rolston, resign as mayor." The letter was dated for Dec. 25. Rolston's resignation was discussed at Wednesday's council meeting.
Councilors showed up for their council meeting to find a letter from Ritchie announcing his resignation sitting at Ritchie's seat at the council table. However, the letter was unsigned, so councilors chose not to accept the resignation until getting official confirmation from Rolston himself.
Rolston said he took the letter to Ritchie's home after seeing the story in the newspaper.
Ritchie said the letter delivered to his home was worded exactly the same, with the exception of the signature.
While Rolston did not give a reason for his resignation in his letter, he elaborated a little during his telephone interview.
Rolston and the council have been at odds ever since the council announced its intentions to dissolve the village, or to surrender its incorporation to the township, during a Feb. 8 meeting. The mayor was against the move.
"I just got tired of listening to the rest of them," Rolston said. "No matter what I said, they were going to do what they wanted to do anyway. I always came home with an upset stomach. I felt it was time to step down and just let them do what they want to do."
Rolston said while he was stepping down, he still cares for his village and hopes councilors take the steps the residents want them to take.
"I see where they are going to try for some mills on an operating levy, and I think they needed to give it a try," Rolston said. "I think what they are trying for may be a little high, but I think that is the direction they need to go right now."
The move was narrowly defeated by voters in November, and councilors felt the defeat was largely due to what they felt was misinformation delivered to village residents in a letter circulated by the mayor a week prior to the election.
"The general consensus seems to be to wait awhile," Ritchie said. "The earliest it will probably be now is November, if then. Right now we think there needs to be a cooling down period. We (the council) tried to do what we thought was right but that wasn't what the people wanted to do. We will ride it out until then."
Councilor Jason Wenning said the council still has one direction to go in.
"The money is not there," Wenning said. "The only direction we have to go is to salvage what we have. There is nothing else we can do. It is just like me at home, if you don't have the money something is getting shut off. When you run out of money you go bankrupt. I think they are trying to get rid of the smaller communities."
Councilors originally expressed a desire to get the unincorporation vote back on the ballot in May, but now seem to be leaning away from that move for now.
Several councilors announced their plans to appoint Ritchie as the new mayor until the election in November. Ritchie is the de facto mayor as council president until the council officially appoints him.
Councilors also will face the task of appointing a new council president at the January meeting and looking at options of filling the council seat left vacant by Ritchie's appointment.
Councilor Marilyn Fleck said the council needs to use this move as an opportunity to move forward.
"We need to let the healing of our village begin," Fleck said.


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Better late than never is the new mantra for three elderly brothers who met for the first time this weekend after being separated more than 70 years ago.
Since meeting at a Florida airport Friday, David Beyer, 75, Noel Thompson, 70, and Donald Thompson, 92, have relished spending recent days getting to know each other before they fly back to their respective homes across the country, the brothers told ABC News.
"You can't believe how much joy this has brought," Beyer of Fort Myers, Fla., said.
All three brothers have the same father, but only Beyer, who was born out of wedlock, was offered up for adoption before he was born. He said he knew that he had a younger, full biological brother somewhere out there.
"I knew Noel existed, but it would be a fleeting thought," he said.
What he didn't realize was that he also had another, older half-brother, Donald Thompson, who was born to a different mother and had gone to live with her after their father left.
Donald Thompson became aware of his youngest half-brother, Noel Thompson's existence after their grandfather's obituary revealed he had left behind another grandson. He had been searching for him for a number of years, without success.
It wasn't until Beyer's daughter, Nancy Taylor, 49, jumped onto ancestry.com four months ago and did some exhaustive research that the mystery of her father's family origins began to become clearer.
Taylor said the "need to know" who her grandmother was drove her to dig deeper into the family's roots. The mother of the men falsified some aspects of their birth records with misspelled names, so it took a lot of digging for Taylor to uncover the truth.
"I wasn't going to stop until I found them," she said. "When I did find them, it was more a relief than a surprise."
After weeks of careful investigation and a few nerve-wracking cold calls, Taylor tracked down both of her father's brothers and finally united the trio.
The siblings, who sat talking and laughing in Beyer's living room Saturday afternoon, said the similarities between them were not so much physical as they were mental.
"I never thought this would happen," big brother Donald Thompson of Michigan said Saturday. "I can't believe the bond that's been created between us, although we've only seen each other for the first time. The blood in our veins is mingling right now."
The three were already talking about the next time they might be able to visit and about meeting the rest of their newly discovered families. Donald Thompson and Noel Thompson are even considering moving to Florida so all three can be closer to each other.
"There's a whole generation of people we don't know yet," Beyer said. "This has been a day and a half of unimaginable things."
Noel Thompson of Arizona said, "It's like an empty feeling that you've had all your life. You don't know, though, until you find what it is that can fill that."


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text: Lodging for the entire family. Home cooked breakfast is included. Located in Lancaster County's Dutch country, exactly 4 miles from Lancaster City square (and Lancaster County Convention Center), two blocks from Millersville University. Within minutes of Sight and Sound Theater and many other attractions. The Blue Rock Bed and Breakfast Inn offers affordable accommodations for individual and family travel. Lodging of a hotel in the comforts of home. See website for specials and packages.


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Release Notes: Default booting of the initial ramdisk happens via the ramfs file system. Support has been added for FedoraCore 7, and BusyBox has been updated to 1.7.2. All #!/bin/sh were replaced by #!/bin/bash so that scripts continue to work under newer Ubuntu versions.
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KNOXVILLE - One brief stretch of Saturday was a party for Tennessee's defense.
All that was missing was the cake and ice cream.
The opportunistic Volunteers forced five of their seven turnovers in a wild six-play stretch in the first half to turn what looked like would be a long afternoon into a rather easy 52-20 win against Western Kentucky with 86,783 on hand on a sunny day at Neyland Stadium.
"That was very special," said safety Brian Randolph, who intercepted two passes in the turnoverpalooza.
"We work very hard, we try to be up-tempo every practice and have a lot of energy, and it just carried over to today's game."
It was the Vols' first seven-turnover performance in nearly 30 years, the last coming against Memphis State in November of 1984. Tennessee intercepted five passes for the first time since 1999, returned two for touchdowns and recovered two fumbles. During a disastrous 2012 season defensively, the Vols managed just 17 takeaways.
Through two games in 2013, they have nine.
"Never been associated with anything like that," first-year Tennessee coach Butch Jones said.
"It's up to the coaches to put our players in the best possible situations, and it's up to them to execute, and they executed. We made the plays. We didn't drop the football. We finished the deal, and that was great to see.
"I thought we had a great game plan, but our players, they're the ones, they executed it."
The Hilltoppers, led by former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino, marched down the field on the opening possession, settled for a field goal and forced Tennessee to punt on its first series.
That's when the turnover spree started.
A ball that deflected high into the air off Western Kentucky receiver Taywan Taylor's shiny chrome helmet fell right into Justin Coleman's hands, and he raced 23 yards for a touchdown.
After the only turnover-free play in the decisive stretch -- a 3-yard Leon Allen run -- freshman Cam Sutton read 'Toppers quarterback Brendan Doughty, stepped in front of his pass and dashed 36 yards to the end zone.
The next three Western Kentucky plays: Tennessee linebacker Dontavis Sapp stripped Western Kentucky tailback Antonio Andrews and fell on the ball; linebacker Brent Brewer popped the ball from Andrews' grasp and walk-on safety Max Arnold scooped it up; and Doughty hit Brewer right in the No. 17 on his jersey as Corey Miller blasted him.
With a whopping 68 yards of offense, Tennessee led 31-3 only 22 seconds into the second quarter.
"It turned in a hurry," Petrino said. "That's for sure."
Said Tennessee defensive end Jordan Williams: "Every one was like a new surprise. It was hard to believe."
Randolph twice picked Doughty in the end zone as the Vols kept the 'Toppers from coming any closer than two scores.
"We were in the film room an awful lot," Coleman said. "We were trying to do our best because we knew this was a great team and it was going to come down to the fourth quarter. Basically we just tried to execute everything 100 percent."
"I just believe," Randolph added, "that that was 100 percent hard work for us and just being in the right place in the right time."
In an opposite fashion from a year ago, Tennessee's defense picked up its scuffling offense, which was outgained 236-84 and ran 22 fewer plays in the first half.
"That's really big," left tackle Antonio "Tiny" Richardson said. "It's just showing how our defense is starting to come together. I think they played really well because they got us out of some bad situations early in the first half.
"They put us the red zone twice to score, because we were struggling in the first half a little bit, but it's really good to see those guys coming together like they are."
Tennessee took the opening possession of the second half 59 yards for a touchdown and a 38-17 lead.
"We knew that if we went out and executed and came out with a good drive and scored, it'd help with our momentum," quarterback Justin Worley said after bouncing back from a 3-of-9 first half to finish 11-of-19 passing for 142 yards with one touchdown and one interception. "They got a little bit of momentum back late in the first half. We put a lot of emphasis of going out and scoring that first drive."
The Vols leaned on tailbacks Rajion Neal (74 yards, three touchdowns) and Marlin Lane (97 yards, one touchdown) after halftime to put the game away.
Tennessee expected a four-quarter game against Petrino and Western Kentucky, which took out Kentucky without much trouble in Nashville a week ago, but the turnovers helped remove much of the doubt in the outcome.
"It would have been really close [without the five-turnover stretch], because they were moving the ball on us a little bit," defensive tackle Daniel Hood said . "They started off, I think, with that [14]-play drive, so that was a big momentum swing. It put everything in our favor and gave us a chance to go up by a lot.
"Any time you've got a team coming in trying to upset you, and you could do that to them, it takes away a lot of what they're doing."
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On February 25th, the Watauga County Sheriff's Office of Criminal Investigation, received a report alleging an inappropriate sexual relationship between a 17 year old juvenile foster child and a foster parent in Watauga County. The Watauga County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Unit, along with the Watauga County Department of Social Services (DSS), and the Children's Advocacy Center of the Blue Ridge, conducted an investigation into the incident. As a result of interviews taken in the investigation, Jason Hatfield, 42, of 320 River Knoll Road, Banner Elk, was charged with six counts of Sexual Activity by a Substitute Parent. Hatfield was taken before a Watauga County Magistrate on March 3rd and set a $50,000.00 bond. The court date for Jason Hatfield is scheduled for April 30th.


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The lights are on
For all things Pokemon and Pokemon related
Yeah im getting white.
I just ordered Black. I don't know who I thought I was kidding when I said "I'm done with Pokemon games" a few months ago.
My brother will probably get White. He's denying that he wants it right now, but it never fails.
Just got it. I could not resist. I just beat the first gym, I'm glad I pre-ordered it.
Happily ever after, amen. Now where's that cake?
I hear ya.. got white today, am getting black later this week with the custom DSi.
i got black. im loving it. making good progress. i need to get the grass and fire starters
My only New's Resoloution is to start restoring my video game collection.
i got fire.. need black and white friend codes.... gotta start new thread for those i guess.
can you breed that fire one? i got a female grass starter off the GTS and i could make you a snivy egg.
probably... need to find the pokemon that can be traded into hearthold/soulsilver anyway, and once i get my ditto its on again. but i got celebi and shiney suicune for black/white so i can get the exclusives.
if anyone could do a trade i really need the fire & Grass starters D:


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text: ZTE is still far from a household name in the U.S. While they do offer some consumer products — like the brand new 4G hotspot ZTE Jetpack from Verizon Wireless — they're still far other handset makers. That said, they did show some decent products at the CES, though I can't say we were that impressed. Will the Chinese company do something about it in 2012? Most likely, but as far as know how these things work – they'll start with mid-tier products, gradually building brand awareness to eventually launch a solid high-end device (just as we reported before). In the meantime, you can check out their booth from the gallery below. Enjoy! 😉