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Directed by
Zal Batmanglij
Writing credits
Zal Batmanglij (screenplay)
Brit Marling (screenplay)
Brit Marling
Jane Owen / Sarah Moss
Alexander Skarsgård
Ellen Page
Isadora "Izzy" Duncan / Kate Cannon
Toby Kebbell
Doc / Thomas Ayers
Shiloh Fernandez
Luca Abramn
Aldis Hodge
Thumbs / Darly East Wilsford
Danielle Macdonald
Tess / Hannah Gates
Hillary Baack
Eve / Jessica
Patricia Clarkson
Jason Ritter
Julia Ormond
Paige Williams
Billy Magnussen
Porty McCabe
Wilbur T. Fitzgerald
Robert McCabe
John Neisler
Rory Houston
Jamey Sheridan
Richard Cannon
Pamela Roylance
Diane Wisecarver
Ryan Grego
Johnny Perkins
Ava Bogle
Johnny's Mom (Miriam White)
Nick Fuhrmann
Johnny's Brother (Johnny White)
Patricia French
Fake Mom
Ron Flagge
Hiller Brood Security
Han Soto
Sharon's Assistant
Billy Slaughter
Trevor "The Fed" Landon
Benjamin Passmore
Backroom Speaker
Sedef Seren
Boxcar Singer
Richard Zeringue
Railroad Bull #1
Brian Oerly
Railroad Bull #2
Randy Fife
Railroad Bull #3
Orpha Cabigting
Filipino Maid
John James Tourville
John James
Lani Bemak
Angharad Robinson
Michael Nouryeh
Voice of Jim
Anthony Michael Frederick
Bill Boslego
Barry Redman
Jonah Bascle
Steve Jimenez
David Goff
Carl Bailey
FBI Agent
Rick LaCour
Matthew L. Crowson
Undercover FBI Agent (uncredited)
Timothy Hoffman
Business Man (uncredited)
Renwick D. Scott II
Video Teen
Danielle Hartnett
Produced by
Michael Costigan
David Greenbaum
production executive
Jocelyn Hayes
Jonathan McCoy
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Original Music by
Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by
Roman Vasyanov
Film Editing by
Andrew Weisblum (lead editor)
Casting by
Ronna Kress
Production Design by
Alex DiGerlando
Art Direction by
Nikki Black
Set Decoration by
Cynthia Anne Slagter
Costume Design by
Jenny Gering
Makeup Department
Ma Kalaadevi Ananda
makeup department head
Joe Colwell
special makeup effects designer
LaToya Henderson
makeup artist (as LaToya Green)
Natasha Ladek
wig maker
Nick London
key makeup artist
Crystal Ro
special makeup effects production coordinator
Adam Walls
special makeup effects project coordinator
Crystal Woodford
hair stylist
Production Management
Sharon C. Dietz
production supervisor
J.M. Logan
post-production supervisor
unit production manager
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kyle LeMire
second assistant director
Kevin Lum
second assistant director: New Orleans
John McKeown
first assistant director
Sherman Shelton Jr.
first assistant director: second unit
Art Department
Maggie Allen
art department production assistant
Joshua Bramer
property master: additional photography
Kenneth Brown
construction coordinator
Michael P. Cantrell
set dresser
Micheal Cantrell
David J. Chamerski
property master
Mike Herriage
lead greens
on-set greensman
Phillip Joffrion
Jesse Michael Owen
storyboard artist
Cory Parker
on-set dresser
Slaid Parker
Jared Pendergrass
Craig Serody
Chad Smith
art department coordinator
Sound Department
Joe Barnett
sound re-recording mixer
P.J. Corvus
audio technical support
Marshall Garlington
Michaela Girouard
boom operator: second unit
Glynna Grimala
supervising dialogue adr editor
Catherine Harper
foley artist
Laura R. Harris
dialogue editor (as Laura Harris Atkinson)
Jason Johnston
boom operator
Darrin Mann
foley mixer
Christopher Moriana
Ryan Putz
sound utility
Brody Ratsoy
adr engineer
Tom Ryan
adr mixer
Scott D. Smith
sound mixer
Gayle Wesley
first assistant sound editor
Special Effects by
shop supervisor: Illusion Industries
Jack Lynch
special effects coordinator
Seth William Meier
special effects line producer
Visual Effects by
Patrick Clancey
digital opticals
Gus Duron
digital opticals editor
Andrew Francis
digital colorist: Efilm
Kevin Beard
stunt coordinator
Shauna Galligan
water safety
Jeff Galpin
utility stunts
Regis Harrington
stunt double: Shiloh Fernandez
Ashley Nicole Hudson
stunt double: Hilary Baack
Met Salih
stunt double: Ellen Page
Elena Sanchez
stunt double: Brit Marling
Tracy E. Thomas
stunt double: Alexander Skarsgard
Matt Thompson
Camera and Electrical Department
Myles Aronowitz
still photographer
Andrew Jason Clark
Bryan Delorenzo
first assistant camera: "b" camera
Steve Dietl
additional still photographer
Andrew Dumas
a camera first assistant: additional photography
first assistant camera
David Easley
best boy grip
Gary Harvill
lighting technician
Erin Henning
first assistant camera: "a" camera, additional photography
Mark Karavite
camera operator: "a" camera
steadicam operator
Ryosuke Kawanaka
second assistant camera: "b" camera
Matthew LeCrone
Damon Meledones
second assistant camera: "a" camera, additional photography
Brent Swampy Mullins
dolly grip
Robert Owen
Marc Polanski
key grip: additional photography
Oliver Ponce
second camera assistant: additional photography
Ted Sapp
rigging key grip
Tiffani L. Stephenson
second assistant camera: "a" camera
Kevin Stevenson
video assist
Karina Teismann
best boy electric
Arthur To
digital imaging technician: additional photography
Marvin Wright
electric grip
Casting Department
Elizabeth Coulon
casting director: Louisiana
Hannah D'Angerio
casting assistant
Tara Duncil
casting director: background
Johnny Gidcomb
adr voice casting
Candi Lei
casting assistant: Louisiana
Brinkley A. Maginnis
extras casting
Leslie Woo
casting associate
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Myeshea Baker
set costumer
Shareen Chehade
costume supervisor
Ashley M. Clark
wardrobe assistant
Carly Cooper
Hannah Gates
costume supervisor: pre-production
Emily Heyman
additional costumer
Katie Irish
costume buyer
R. Todd Jones
Courtney McClain
assistant costume designer
Amelia McKinney
Stephen Pardee
key costume ager/dyer
Michele Posch
key costumer: re-shoots
Jane Ryder
Michael Simon
costume supervisor: Washington, DC
Rachel A. Walker
key set costumer
Editorial Department
Laura Holeman
digital intermediate assistant producer
Music Department
Al Clay
music score mixer
composer: theme
Transportation Department
Skip Barbay
transportation captain
Donald Bradley
transportation co-captain
Annette Chambers
Dennis W. Cook Jr.
picture car coordinator
Bart Figueiredo
Jared Foshee
Philip D. Frost
Connie Herring
David Jennings
Buddy Loflin
Todd Martinez
driver: honeywagon
Gary McClain
John McLaughlin
transportation coordinator
Ken Moon
Aaron D. Moore
Robert Watts
Jonathan Wensel
production driver
Daniel Woodcock
James Yeates
Other crew
Kareem Audain
additional set production assistant
Ross Baringer
Robin Brackeen
second assistant accountant
Sean Bredbenner
production assistant
Phillip Jordan Brooks
assistant location manager
Dottie Buck
craft service
Jennifer Carriere
script supervisor
Caitlin Costello
Kyle David Crosby
production coordinator: Washington DC
Paul Cumbie
production secretary
Lindsey Dean
Christopher Dickerson
set production assistant
Kaitlyn Dumolt
stand-in: Ms. Page
Ritchie Steven Filippi
production secretary: additional photography
Chris Silver Finigan
production accountant
Charlie French
Mairead Gaffney
Alfred 'Fred' Gundry
Trent Hara
production supervisor: additional photography
Kyle Hinshaw
location scout
Ian Irwin
Colby Isom
Christian Juneau
travel coordinator
Allison Korrey
assistant to producers
Robert Krakower
production assistant: additional photography
Shauna L. Kroen
first assistant accountant
Liz Landers
key craft service
Devan Linforth
Lisa Mall
key set production assistant
Sean Mandell
JaLynn Martin
key stand-in
Stuart Neumann
location manager
Matthew Dillon Noonan
assistant location manager: Washington DC
Kathy Chambless Oliver
production coordinator
Danny Park
production assistant: reshoot
Lee Peglow
assistant post-production accountant
Rob Pittard
location assistant
Citlali Quintana
clearance coordinator
Jill Gray Savarese
consultant: sign language
Yana Shif
Josh Slates
Druscilla Smith
assistant production office coordinator
project coordinator: Illusion Industries
Greg Washington
set medic
Daryl Wilsford
Miranda Witherspoon
office production assistant
Geoff Yong
Anthony Yuse
office production assistant


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Monday, August 9, 2010
Financial education: What works?
As we reviewed the many papers that have been written on this topic, we faced the difficulties commonly encountered when looking at the existing work. Navigating the bulk of existing literature and figuring out the common findings is a challenge, but our analysis of that extensive literature led us to what we called a "cautious optimism" about the effects of financial education. Along with this optimism, we are mindful of several difficulties inherent in evaluating financial education interventions. First is the issue of self-selection: i.e., are the people who attend financial education programs those with an existing interest in the subject, and is it their interest or the content of a program that motivates them to make certain financial decisions? Second is the dearth of details regarding program content, frequency, delivery method, and goals (to improve knowledge or change behavior or to satisfy a legal requirement) of the programs that are reviewed in the literature. This lack of information makes it hard to evaluate what makes a program effective (or ineffective). Third, one has to be mindful of the size of the intervention. Small interventions, for example, providing information on a particular issue cannot transform naïve investors into Warren Buffetts.
The team identified places where financial education seems most effective and methods to make financial education more effective. The most effective place for financial education was concluded to be the workplace; important methodology was judged to be that relating to adult education and to informal learning.
There are many (some obvious) reasons why the workplace is an ideal venue in which to provide financial education. First, this is where many adults are and also where many important financial decisions are made, e.g., how much to contribute to a retirement account, how to invest retirement wealth, whether to annuitize retirement wealth, and the list goes on. There are also benefits to employers in making sure that workers save for retirement and avoid financial problems, as financial problems and/or worries can affect worker productivity and morale. One benefit to both employers and employees, which in my view is not discussed enough, is that financial education can make people aware of and able to take advantages of benefits an employer offers (for example, employer matches of retirement contributions) or better understand and take advantage of tax-favored assets.
Financial education has normally been conceived of as being delivered in a classroom, but one has to think more broadly and creatively about adult education. In contrast to young students, adults have a rich set of experiences that shape how they view their financial situation. Additionally, financial education can be made more effective with reference to theories of learning that offer important suggestions and insights. One such theory is Mezirow's transformative learning theory. This theory has been around for over 30 years and has been used as a framework to help make sense of learning and teaching in numerous disciplines—health and medical education, intercultural relations, psychology, environmental sciences, higher education, instructional technology, archaeology, human resource development, just to mention a few. I mention the importance of theory here because, in my view, one of the reasons why financial education has not been as effective as it could be or has not been given the attention it deserves is because it is not considered within a rigorous and theoretical framework.
Even within such a framework, it is possible to incorporate different ways of learning, including informal learning. Informal learning is increasingly becoming recognized as significant to workplace education. Instead of having employees participate in traditional workshops or training sessions, employers are creating conditions in which workers can learn from each others. Financial educators, policy makers, and program planners will do well to recognize that financial education efforts can be successful outside of the formal settings that are the traditional venue for financial education.
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, to run a successful conference you need to have good people, good papers, and good food. Having provided, I hope, a little glimpse of the energetic discussion that went on throughout the meetings in Denver (as well as the informal learning that occurred outside of the meeting rooms!), let me turn to the topic of food. Our meals were a blend of French and Italian cuisine. We went to a wonderful French bistro one night where we tried pâté, saucissons, onion soup, and a wonderful pistachio-crusted trout. The Brown Palace hotel, where we stayed, provided us with succulent breakfasts. At a lunch one day we had gourmet pizza. Some were surprised by this lunch choice. Not me. Give me pizza, and I am happy!
3 comments:
- Danielle Perry said...
It's great to see that there is growing understanding of how to improve financial literacy in America. Our CEO left the hedge fund industry 11 years ago to start an unbiased workplace financial education company because she noticed even people with huge amounts of money, couldn't manage it. We've seen the companies we work with who offer financial education at work have overwhelming success in retirement plan participation and people are very grateful to them for offering the free service. I hope that companies will continue to see the benefit of offering their employees this kind of help that really is changing lives and helping Americans grow more literate.
- August 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM
- Unknown said...
I always feeling learning is just the start and feel we need to finish the implementation and testing!! anyways thanks for this interesting post!
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Same-sex marriages have been put on hold in Wisconsin by a federal judge who last week struck down the state's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's ruling Friday means that gay marriages, which have been taking place across the state for a week, will end while the case is pending.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen requested that Crabb's ruling be put on hold.
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Crabb last week declared the state's ban unconstitutional but did not tell the state how to proceed. On Friday she issued an order saying the weddings are legal, but then put it on hold per Van Hollen's request.
All but 12 of Wisconsin's 72 county clerks began issuing licenses to same-sex couples after Crabb's ruling last week, even though Van Hollen had argued that was premature.


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Program outline
Making The News…for two to three hours teams will literally create "front-page news", with a teambuilding challenge that goes beyond the headlines and gets to the real story of your conference messages. This fun, fast-paced and energetic teambuilding challenge will take your team out of their comfort zone and drop them into the world of newspaper publishing. The task sounds simple.
All the teams have to do is create the front page of a newspaper that reports on the day's conference. But the teams will have to do much more than just get the scoop. They will have to name their newspapers, complete a number of articles, create a cartoon, design an advertisement and even write a 'business forecast'.
This will be a powerful shared experience that will get your delegates thinking and talking about where the business is heading - and one that will be remembered long after the event.
Learning and development outcomes
An engaging solution to consolidate your conference content or explore pertinent business issues. Making the News focuses collective creativity on whatever is relevant to your company, such as managing change, visualising the future, reaffirming company values or intelligently questioning policy and practice. Good project management is required to meet tight deadlines throughout the program. Each team's creation is displayed at the activity venue and can be taken back to the workplace to form a roadmap for future actions.
Corporate Social Responsibility ideas
This exercise often asks people to project news into the future. It presents a useful vehicle to explore elements of your own CSR statement: predicting 'tomorrows news' provides a great sounding board for participants to explore their impact on the environment and what steps can be taken to maintain a committed CSR policy.


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Intro video for the exhibit, posted on YouTube
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
What looks like a wonderful and fascinating exhibit on Jewish heritage travel in the early 20th century has opened at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York. The title of the exhibit says it all: 16mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland.
The exhibit
brings to life the landscape and people in Poland through the amateur movies of immigrant American Jews who traveled "back home" to visit their families, friends, and former communities in the 1920s and 1930s. Intended to be viewed by family and fellow landsmen (friends from the Old Country), these films offer a rare, intimate and—quite literally—moving picture of Jewish families, towns and society in pre-World War II Poland. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and in cooperation with the Center for Jewish History.The films can be seen at the Center for Jewish History web site.
Adam Kirsch writes in Tablet Magazine that the exhibit
demonstrates how different things were in the early 20th century, when the ancestors of most American Jews came here from Eastern Europe. This extraordinary show consists of home movies—all silent, mostly fragmentary—taken by American Jews who visited their relatives in Poland in the 1930s. (Many of the films can be seen at the exhibition's website.) What makes these films so powerful is their extreme rarity: It was only a small handful of Jews who had the wherewithal, and the desire, to go back to the villages they had left behind decades earlier. And the encounters they document show how drastically the fates of American and Polish Jewry had diverged by the 1930s. In many films, we see the American cousin, prosperous and dressed in a Western suit, standing next to his poor, bearded, caftanned relatives; and it is impossible not to wonder what must have been going on in their minds and hearts.
Did the American cousin, clutching his camera like a badge of modernity, give thanks that he had been rescued from ancestral poverty and anti-Semitism—or did he feel nostalgia for the Jewish world from which he was cut off? Did the Polish cousin envy his American relative, or resent his intrusion, or long for his help? The pathos is infinitely greater, of course, because the viewer knows that all these Polish Jews—old and young, men and women and children—are just a few years away from the Holocaust. Virtually none of the people we see in these home movies was alive 10 years later. Because of the Holocaust, the natural growing-apart of the Old Country and the New World became an irreparable break, and a source of permanent guilt. Jews who came to America lived and flourished, while those who remained behind suffered and died: How can such a gulf ever be crossed?
The questions that "16 mm Postcards" raises, silently and by implication, are addressed head-on in a new book that might serve as a companion to the exhibition: The Glatstein Chronicles (Yale University Press). This is the title given by the volume's editor, Ruth Wisse, to two novellas published by the great Yiddish writer Jacob Glatstein in the late 1930s, based on his own pilgrimage to the Alte Heym. Glatstein was born in Lublin in 1896 and came to New York in 1914. After working for a time in sweatshops, he established himself as a Yiddish journalist, while writing poetry that brought the influence of Joyce, Eliot, and Pound to bear on Yiddish literature. "The term experimentation," Wisse writes in her introduction, "hardly suffices to describe the many subjects that Glatstein addresses, the poses he adopts, and the poetic variations he attempts."


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A response to Marianne de Laet's "Anthropology as social epistemology"Ratner, Helene (, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: As her title indicates, Marianne de Laet suggests that social epistemology could be thought of as anthropology, in terms of how this mode of knowing has helped flesh out the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. She does so firstly, by accounting for how anthropological methods and concepts have contributed to science and technology studies (STS) by providing an alternative to "believing the natives" i.e., scientists, hence challenging positivist and objectivist accounts of science. She then specifies selected analytical insights of anthropology. The concepts 'culture' and 'practice', she argues, enable us to learn how "knowledge is social in an epistemic sense" (2012, 421). She concludes her argument by questioning the distinction between epistemology and ontology, maintaining that anthropology is social epistemology. De Laet touches several key debates in the history of STS and much of her commentary on the sociality of knowledge is difficult to disagree with. There are however, also some elements in her argument with which I wish to engage critically. These include the relationship between anthropology and STS and the relationship between the concepts of culture and ontology. I will do so by drawing my inspiration from a contemporary a debate across STS and anthropology that — like de Laet — regards entanglements of epistemology and ontology, practice, and materiality. This project is also known as post- ANT and empirical philosophy in STS (Mol 2002; Gad and Bruun Jensen 2010, 55-80; Law and Hassard 1999) and lateral, multi-natural and ontological engagements in anthropology (Maurer 2005; Riles 2000; Strathern 2004 [1991]; Carrithers et al. 2010, 152-200; Viveiros de Castro 2004, 463-484). De Laet mentions some of the same sources. I will focus my commentary on these debates' implications for the concept of culture and "our terminological tinkering" (2012, 420). My aim is to provide a different account of what anthropology has to offer STS and, as a consequence, to keep some interesting tensions open between the conceptual and the empirical, between "us" and "them", which I believe de Laet resolves too quickly. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8691
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Abstract: This thesis examines "reflexivity" as the key theme for understanding how Danish school managers work with the currently influential political vision of including students with special needs in the common school (educating children aged 5-16). Despite repeated attempts to realize the vision of inclusion, the number of students referred to special pedagogical services, and thus segregated from the common school, has continued to grow, especially since 1995. There is a widespread consent that this development is due to the schools' practices and socially constructed categories of "special needs" and "normalcy." Pedagogical scholars and recent policy initiatives posit that schools can achieve the much-wanted cultural change towards inclusion if teachers reflect (more) on their mindsets and practices. When advocating inclusion, scholars often refer to school managers as "leaders of meaning construction," thus emphasizing their importance in facilitating cultural change. Existing knowledge practices are depicted as too "durable" with the unintended side-effects of segregation and budget overruns, and school managers are, following, encouraged making teachers change their practices through (self-) reflexivity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8459
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A huge thank you to our fine community
Boy Scout Troop 187 in Breckenridge thanks our entire community for their ongoing support at our annual Christmas tree lot sales. We would like to thank the following businesses for their generosity in making it all happen – Summit Daily News and its entire great staff, Anita Koverman with LaserGraphics, town of Breckenridge, KSMT/LIFT 106/KRKY, Mike Osborn with Amerigas, Krystal 93, Andy Webster, Denny Rogstad and staff at Breckenridge Building Center and Fez Fairfield-Smith and his crew with Strategic Fencing. Also, thanks to everyone who let us place our flyers throughout the county. It took a whole team of people to make our one-and-only fundraiser a success. Thank you all for your support of Troop 187 for over 23 years.
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Gareth Southgate insists Wayne Rooney's England swansong will not have a negative impact on the next generation – either on or off the pitch.
England's all-time leading goalscorer will be honoured in next Thursday's friendly meeting with the United States, with the match now officially known as the Wayne Rooney Foundation International.
Rooney, 33, will receive his 120th cap despite having not featured for the Three Lions in almost two years – although Southgate confirmed the former captain will not start the match nor wear the number 10 jersey.
He will also not be considered for selection for the Nations League meeting with Croatia three days later.
The decision to mark Rooney's contribution to the national team in such a way has split opinion, with some questioning whether indulging in such a move will come at the detriment of other, up-and-coming players such as Callum Wilson – the Bournemouth striker receiving his first senior call-up for the United States and Croatia games.
But Southgate – who revealed he has not spoken to Rooney since the announcement – feels having the former Manchester United man on the training ground next week and in the squad for the United States friendly can only help the current crop and show them how England treat their greatest talents.
"It's a shame because you want it to be a fitting tribute to an outstanding player who I think has often been undervalued in terms of how well he played for England," Southgate said of the criticism of the Football Association's gesture.
"That's a disappointment. Hopefully by the time we get to the game, and him being with us next week, the focus will be on 'actually, let's think about what he did and how well he played, and there's an opportunity here to thank him for that'. Any opportunity for us to honour a player we will hugely respect.
"I think the team totally respect what he did and I think it is important they respect what the players did in the past.
"We talk to them a lot about that they have the shirt now but it is not their shirt, great players have worn it before them and great players will wear it after them.
"That lineage and heritage of the shirt and the team is important to me because I think whether you join a club or (play for) your country you need to know the history of that shirt and the importance of it – then you are not playing for the name on the back but for the crest on the front."
Callum Wilson has received his first @England call-up and joins Wayne Rooney in a 28-man squad for the upcoming matches against the USA and Croatia: https://t.co/2WFGgVZoH2 pic.twitter.com/wOfc2ROzgM— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) November 8, 2018
Southgate knocked down suggestions Rooney would play for the final moments in a match now named in honour of his charity – and intends to include the DC United forward in training sessions leading up to the game.
"I don't want to give an exact minute because if I don't get it right…there will be a bookmaker running a book on it," he said.
"I think it should be appropriate that people are not heading for the tubes before he comes on and also we have got out of the game what we wanted and not taking someone off too early.
"We will look at all the players we want to look at. The football decisions are my decisions. There's players who have either been with us who I feel need to play to make sure they feel valued.
"There are young players we want to see from the start – that has to be the start point. And then we are able to acknowledge Wayne's contribution after that.
"We've got to get the part of the game we need. But we are able to facilitate both. With England there are many objectives we are trying to achieve."
Asked if it would be a strange sight to see a man who retired from international football training with the current players at St George's Park, Southgate replied: "But he is not a duck egg, is he?
"He is playing at a pretty decent level in the American league. I have joined in on training sessions so they will be thinking 'we are one up from where we were last month, when the gaffer joined'.
"The fact is, given where a lot of our players are physically, and the games we have on Sunday, we are not going to have everyone training."
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James Lee DiMaggio, the man suspected of abducting Lakeside teenager Hannah Anderson after killing her mother and brother, appears to have a troubled family history.
According to San Diego Superior Court records, DiMaggio's late father – James Everet DiMaggio – had a criminal record.
Court records show that two felony cases were filed on July 18, 1989, and on August 9, 1989, in San Diego's East County. It is unclear it those particular cases are related.
Records show another felony case was filed against James Everet DiMaggio on February 14, 1990, in downtown San Diego.
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According to a February 1990 article published in "The Tribune," James Everet DiMaggio was charged with attempted murder stemming from the beating of two people at an El Cajon motel on Christmas Day, 1989.
The archived article says 35-year-old James Everet DiMaggio disappeared shortly after victims Cynthia Marie Bryant, 32, and David Aaron DeBord were attacked with a baseball bat at the Ha'Penny Inn on Main Street.
James Everet DiMaggio wound up turning himself in to police nine days after the attack, the article states.
The article references DiMaggio's preliminary hearing on the case, which took place in February 1990.
A visibly scarred Bryant testified at the hearing, saying she had arranged for James Everet DiMaggio – whom she knew as "Jimbo" – to buy crystal methamphetamine on Christmas Eve.
Bryant said she, DeBord and James Everet DiMaggio all injected crystal meth in the El Cajon motel room, staying up all night the article said.
Then, on Christmas morning, things turned.
The two men argued over her, Bryant testified.
While in the bathroom she said she heard a yelp and when she walked out, she saw DeBord lying face down on the floor in a puddle of blood, the article said.
Bryant testified that a "deranged" James Everet DiMaggio then attacked her with an aluminum baseball bat, saying "he had nothing to lose."
Her arm was broken and she was struck in the head with a bat. Bryant said she fell to the floor, and then James Everet DiMaggio allegedly placed tape over her mouth and tied her up with extension cords.
Bryant lost consciousness, and when she awoke she left the room and called police the article stated.
At the time of publication, the February 1990 article stated that James Everet DiMaggio was in jail, serving a two-year sentence stemming from an unrelated case.
That particular case included breaking into an ex-girlfriend's home and holding the woman and her daughter at gunpoint after a dispute over a new car. He pleaded guilty to burglary in that case, the article said.
In the newspaper clip, James Everet DiMaggio is described as a former car salesman who worked at a car dealership in El Cajon. He was described as a divorced father of two.
James Everet DiMaggio wound up committing suicide more than a decade ago on Aug. 10, a family friend confirmed.
Meanwhile, his son -- kidnap and murder suspect James Lee DiMaggio of Boulevard -- was killed in the Idaho backcountry near Morehead Lake on August 10, 2013.
James DiMaggio is suspected of killing Lakeside resident Christina Anderson, 44, and her son, Ethan Anderson, 8. Their charred bodies were found on DiMaggio's property east of San Diego where a log-style cabin and detached garage burned to the ground on Aug. 4.
After the fire, DiMaggio fled San Diego with Hannah Anderson, 16, Christina's daughter and Ethan's sister. Authorities believed he may have abducted the girl, and officials issued an Amber Alert that spanned across six states.
Ultimately, the pair was spotted in Idaho backcountry near Morehead Lake by a group of horseback riders, who then tipped off law enforcement officers.
On Saturday, officials honed in on Hannah and DiMaggio and found them at a campsite in rugged terrain. Hannah was recovered by officials, while DiMaggio was killed at the scene.


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Eight months ago at the Royal Rumble WWE sacrificed Edge's title run to keep the Cena-Triple H match-up intact for Wrestlemania. Will history repeat itself? Or will Edge finally put the "interim champion" tag behind him? We found out Sunday night as the 19th annual SummerSlam emanated from Boston, Mass.
Edge complained about the deck being stacked against him at the Royal Rumble, but tonight's match was even less kind to the champion. Not only was Cena in his backyard, but the stipulation was also in the challenger's favor: if Edge was disqualified, he would still lose the WWE Title. As it turned out, the unusual stipulation did come into play in the midst of a head-scratching conclusion.
Early on Edge nearly ran into the ref. Cena did run into a spinning heel kick, but came back with a suplex to Edge. The champion dodged a cross body block, responding with a chin lock on Cena.
Cena fought his way out of the hold, but caught a boot from Edge after shooting off the ropes. Edge blocked a superplex with a head butt, and then hit a flying clothesline. Edge then locked in a camel clutch. Cena fought out, pulling the Throwback out of the closet and confusing Jim Ross in the process.
Lita, sensing the title was slipping away, slipped a chair to Edge. An irate Edge tossed the chair from the ring. Cena took advantage of the opening and hit a flurry of clotheslines. A side slam set up the Five Knuckle Shuffle. The champion countered the F-U with an impaler DDT. Edge climbed to the top, but was met by Cena, who tried to F-U him off the turnbuckle. Edge countered again, but Cena nearly stole the title with a victory roll. Edge was able to hit a flying body press, but Cena rolled through. He picked up Edge and threw him up for an F-U, but Edge floated over. Cena sidestepped a charge from Edge, who instead knocked Lita from the apron. Edge hit Cena with a reverse facebuster and sized up the challenger for the Spear. Cena countered with a drop toe hold into the STFU. Lita grabbed the belt, but Edge begged her not use it, instead breaking the hold by grabbing the ropes.
Lita quickly slipped a pair of brass knuckles to her man as the ref looked away. Cena ducked a punch and set up Edge for the F-U. At this point Lita ran in, jumping on Edge. The ref chose not to call for the DQ, so Cena F-U'ed Lita off Edge. As the ref checked on Lita, Edge nailed Cena with the brass knucks. The ref turned back around in time to count the three as Edge covered Cena to retain his WWE Title.
As is the case more often than not, the World Heavyweight Title match between King Booker and Batista almost seemed like an afterthought in the middle of the SummerSlam card. The Animal showcased his power in the opening minutes, but Booker was able to turn the table as the Smackdown announcers put over the challenger's lengthy absence due to injury.
A shot from the royal scepter knocked Batista woozy while Queen Sharmell distracted the ref, but Batista was able to kick out at two. The world champ missed with a sidekick and got crotched and clotheslined, but he bounced back quickly to score with a missile dropkick and the Bookend.
King Booker set up for a match-ending scissor kick, but Batista stepped aside and borrowed a page from the Bill Goldberg playbook, hitting a jackhammer. With the threat of a Batista Bomb looming, Sharmell decided she had seen enough and jumped into the ring, earning Batista a victory but keeping the gold in the hands of her man. A frustrated Batista could only sit and ponder asking for the same stipulation that Cena got for the next Smackdown pay-per-view, though he did get to take some of his frustration out by hitting his finisher after the bell.
The next WWE pay-per-view is the Raw-only Unforgiven on September 17.
The SLAM! Wrestling oracle has made the following decree: Nick's comments will be in plain type with Dale's remarks in italics.
It's got two theme songs, including one suggestively called Cobra Style. It's billed as the biggest party of the summer. But it has no bra and panties match, no lingerie pillow fight, and no Divas matches of any sort on the card. Alright, maybe that's not all bad.
Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero
Potentially a good way to kick things off in front of a live Boston crowd. The usual fast-paced action causes Rey to lose his mask for a second -- I think that's why it has a chin strap -- but he's able to retrieve it quickly before we all flashback to his later WCW days. Chavo strikes with a bulldog off the top rope that leaves both men down, but Rey rallies with a 619 and a hurracanrana that hurls his foe to the outside. Things take a turn for the worse when Vicky Guerrero gets involved, slapping Chavo and crotching Rey on the top rope. Always one to sieze an opportunity, Chavo scores with a brainbuster and follows up with a Frog Splash to get the pinfall, settling (for now, anyway) the question of who is Eddie's true heir.
Winner ... Chavo Guerrero at 11 minutes and 58 seconds.
Match Rating: 6.5/10
King Booker tells Queen Sharmell that he has to beat the peasant Batista so the two of them can return to Smackdown as the most powerful couple in sports entertainment. Two people who can protest that claim show up right on cue -- and no, it's not Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, it's Edge and Lita. The usual trash talking ensues, and a wager is made. If Edge loses his match and Booker wins, Edge has to show up on Smackdown. And if that's not enough, he has to kiss Booker's feet. But if Booker falls and Edge retains, the King has to come to Raw to be Edge's royal servant.
Big Show (Champion) vs. Sabu (challenger) - ECW World Title Match
I got to cover this match since the removal of the Undertaker-Khali match left the Smackdown side of the card pretty bare. Brian Whorl, close friend of SLAM! Wrestling's Pennsylvania branch, comments that even though it's painful to say, Sabu has lost a step. That's especially evident against someone like Show, and this match is chock full of partially missed spots. There are some decent ones though, like when Sabu comes off a chair to bulldog the champ through a table set up in the corner. Sabu eventually goes to the well one too many times trying moves through tables, and Big Show plants him through one with a chokeslam to keep his belt.
Winner ... and still ECW Champion... Big Show at 8 minutes and 55 seconds.
Match Rating: 5/10
Newest WWE Diva Leyla is hazed by the other Divas. They throw her in the shower. Oooooohhhhhh......
I think Dale is trying to say that he enjoys Diva rookie hazing more than he would like covering another WWE women's title match. So it's all good. J.R. has a good line when he tells Jerry Lawler he's probably "just hoping the water's cold."
Randy Orton vs. Hulk Hogan
Hogan pushes Orton into the corner. Orton slows things down with a side head lock. Hogan breaks the hold, but Orton responds with a series of punches. Hogan mounts Orton in the corner and bites him. Orton pulls Hogan from the ring, slamming his knee into the apron. A chop block sends Hogan to the mat. Hogan ducks a flying body press, giving Hogan the opening he needs. The Hulkster whips Orotn to the ropes, but Orton ducks the Big Boot and drop kicks Hogan in the back. Orton nails the RKO and thinks he gets a three count. But wouldn't you know it, Hogan's foot was on the rope, and the match continues. Hogan hulks up, and Orton runs into a Big Boot. Hogan hits the leg drop and gets the win.
Readers of Dale's Raw reports, please e-mail him to let him know how much you enjoyed the Hulkster's big win. Just know that the blood is on your hands if his head explodes.
Winner ... Hulk Hogan at 10 minutes and 56 seconds.
Match Rating: 6/10 (Nick), 4/10 (Dale)
Melina tells Foley that maybe this match isn't a good idea. She doesn't think Mick can win, and she doesn't associate herself with losers. Foley says he won't say I Q-U-I-T.
Mick Foley vs. Ric Flair - I Quit Match
Foley takes it to Flair early, crushing him with a trash can in the corner. Foley gets the mic early to ask Flair to quit. Flair grabs Foley by the jewels. Flair steals Mr. Socko and goes after Foley with a Mr. Socko wrapped in barbed wire. Foley pulls the barbed wire board out from under the ring. Foley asks a bloody Flair to quit, and when he doesn't, Foley breaks out the thumbtacks. Flair is slammed back first onto the thumbtacks. Flair counters the bat with a mule kick, then tosses Foley into the ringpost. With the crimson mask in full effect, Flair nails Foley with the bat. A low blow sends Mick to the apron, and Flair sends him to the floor with a bat shot. The ref calls for paramedics as Melina runs to ringside. Flair throws Foley back in the ring, working him over with barbed wire. Flair tries to gauge Mick's eyes out, as Melina throws in the towel on Mick's behalf. The ref calls for the bell, but Flair won't accept it, and the match continues. Melina puts herself in harm's way, with Flair almost hitting her with the bat, and Foley finally quits.
If you would have told me two or three years ago that at SummerSlam 2006, we'd see Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair notch victories and the original DX members reunited, I would have laughed until Mountain Dew shot out my nose. And I'd feel pretty dumb tonight.
Winner ... Ric Flair at 13 minutes and 14 seconds.
Match Rating: 8.5/10
Armando Alejandro Estrada assures Vince and Shane McMahon that the Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga, is at their disposal tonight. As if there was any doubt about that.
King Booker (champion) vs. Batista (Challenger) - World Heavyweight Championship Match
Winner via DQ ... Batista at 10 minutes and 26 seconds ... and still World Heavyweight Champion... King Booker.
DX is talking with someone in the locker room. They tell him Mr. McMahon has been calling Umaga a monster. This upsets the mystery figure, as DX leaves the locker room.
DX vs. Vince and Shane McMahon
I was really hoping we'd get some new members of DX tonight, but that ending was pretty cool, so I'll take what I can get.
Winner ... DX at 13 minutes and one second.
Match Rating: 7/10
Edge w/ Lita (Champion) vs. John Cena (challenger)- WWE Title Match - Belt Changes on DQ
Winner ... and still WWE Champion... Edge at 15 minutes and 41 seconds.
Match Rating: 5/10 (points docked for confusing ending)
Isn't SummerSlam supposed to be the second-biggest pay-per-view of the year?
Our list of complaints: only seven matches (only two for Smackdown), no tag team action, only three titles were defended, unsatisfying endings to both main title matches and the two biggest wins were by wrestlers over 50. It's a pretty legit list.
Total Event Time: 2 hours and 47 minutes
Event Rating: 5.5/10
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In theory, Gnome Zetigeist makes me happy; kudos to the people working on it for daring to make something new. Its concept excites me, but its design specifics leave me wanting. I think we can do better, and here are some concrete design ideas to back up my claim.
First I want to recognize that the iTunes-style (or Rhythmbox-style or Banshee-style) interface is successful at mitigating the complexity of a huge collection of files. There are just a few salient aspects of such an interface: a list of "data sources" on the left (including "playlists" and "smart playlists") and a data display on the right. The data display is usually, but not always, a scrolling table with sortable columns. It is also searchable and the results update instantly (sub-250ms or, ideally, before the next frame).
This interface should be applied to all user files, not just media. I don't advocate an auto-generated interface. Rather each data source (each item in the blue side bar) must be thoughtfully designed. Here are a few examples.
For the Music, Movies, and TV Shows, start with an exact copy of iTunes. It's pretty good. Then go ahead and make changes if you wish, but your changes must actually be better, not merely different.
The Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations items would simply give appropriately-filtered lists of files.
I'm staring at three windows. The first one is drawn by Firefox; it shows a list of files I am currently downloading. The second is drawn by Nautilus; it shows a list of files I have recently downloaded. The third is drawn by Transmission; it shows a list of files I am currently downloading with BitTorrent.
Most of the time I do not care about these distinctions. I simply want to get the file I just downloaded. If it hasn't finished yet, tell me so. I do not know, a priori, if it has finished downloading – that's part of why I want to see it.
The Downloads item should present a list of files that have been or are being downloaded (in reverse chronological order by default). It should handle HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and all other things (hello, plugins…) that conceptually allow you to "download" a file.
Firefox lets me make bookmarks of web pages. Gnome lets me make bookmarks of things on my computer. Again, I mostly do not care about this distinction. Any open window that represents a file should let me make a bookmark. The window could be showing a spreadsheet, video, web page, mail message, or something else. I don't care. Just give me a little star button like in Gmail. The star should probably be in the window title bar. (I think this would require an EWMH extension.)
The Bookmarks item should then present a list of things I have starred.
It should also understand Delicious, Weave, and similar things (hello, plugins…).
Gnome keeps a list of recently opened files. Firefox keeps a list of recently visited web pages. You guessed it; I don't often care about that distinction. The actual data display should be at least as useful as what you get in a modern web browser.
Trash is relatively prosaic, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that items in the Trash should be deleted automatically after 30 days, or when space is needed. I should not have to empty the Trash myself.
This one is interesting because it probably makes most sense to show thumbnail images rather than a table of text. Sort of like F-Spot.
Preferences & Applications
These aren't in my mockup, but might make sense to include.


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Opinion: Democrats Run for the Cliff
Assistant editorial page editor James Freeman on Harry Reid and President Obama demanding that the fiscal cliff deal be coupled with an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. Photos: Getty Images
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... Republicans to agree as well ... also on this bill was urges Congress ... sends my way ... or repeat got that ... for the site ... welcome to Opinion Journal Live by Mary Kissel that was present Obama ... in these last hours to reach the inner aiding his commitment ... to cut middle-class taxes as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations ... the system editorial page editor James Freeman joins me now to talk about ... the stock's James ... welcomed however I interesting tension Republic is jump on board here in ... Dayton president up on his offer a window to be careful because of the he actually cares if taxes go up on everyone is going to seek employment on someone else um but I I think what they do need to do now that the Mr banner has been saying that they will accept the some revenues are going to increase to the government intended ... to close some deductions ... they are resigned to the Democrats I would see the spending cuts that are supposed to be the other half of the steel Republican said ok we'll let some revenue where the spending cuts what leverage the Republicans have right now given him only control ... one chamber of the house while they have but it made two nice pieces of leverage when is the sequester this is so the deal from the last debt ceiling funny that ... it ... is going to automatically cut though both social programs and defense this year so a Republican should say the sequester is going to happen and the Brock Obama ... make us an offer if you don't want that to happen and we also have Harry Reid saying he wants to ... tie the of the next debt ceiling increase in with the fiscal cliff deal ... um that's gonna come at a price to Republicans need to say ... we're going to give you a bunch of short term extensions unless you give us some real spending reforms pushed back a little bit came so we had a debt ceiling debate ... round in twenty eleven ... did Republicans achieve anything other than having to get the sequester that you can say in the scope of our massive bud that are out of our trillion dollar plus deficit it's you know cutting a hundred billion in spending in the year maybe isn't ... a ... isn't anything more than a baby step and as a step toward fiscal sanity so out ... of the interacting ... of HSBC's tenure the house of entering and saying this time I wanna see a dollar and spending cuts for every dollar we get a debt ceiling increase in net it seems unreasonable so what's plan this out here the president says no ... I'm not getting you that dollar and spending cuts for the dollar and ... effective tax increases that go with the deduction an option ... we go over the fiscal cliff what happens ... well I think your of ... it certainly can be a big drag on the economy and my concern is that of the month ... I don't think the president really thinks that's a big problem because I think he thinks that ... as long as government is taking in more money and spending on more programs and ... and putting out more infrastructure projects that the economy will grow I think that's one problem in this discussion is that ... the two sides don't agree on what makes an economy grow ... aam ... but the but it said it's a problem there's no questioning over the cliff is a problem but I think to ... instead of by continuing to negotiate with themselves on the how much to give away on taxes and the Republicans ... might want to realize the leverage they have both in terms of sequester because the president eats ... the reduction in government spending and the debt ceiling level it does seem really wanna go through the president's second term mayor ... every month or two having to come back to Congress and say I wanna spend more money at will you let me ... the chance it seems like Republicans are really caught in a catch twenty two here ... they go over the fiscal cliff ... and if the economy slows the president can say see they didn't cut middle-class taxes into a deal with me ... um or ... they can choose to cut middle-class taxes ... and rates go up on the rich and him they ... they didn't do what they said they were going to ... stand firm on tax you're you're looking at all the tax side of what is the least bad outcome because you have all of these increases scheduled in law they're going to occur if you do nothing aam ... what I'm saying is I I think you do get the best deal out of the president if you ... if you make it clear that he's going to have to come up with some spending cuts for any increases and maybe just ... maybe he says you know I hate the idea of the sequester any ... accepting any domestic spending cuts of willing to extend all Bush trades for ... another year ... I'm ... you know and I think more than Republicans to do is see how much ... of the price he's willing to put on not having the sequester mochi were to leave it that assistant or a pigeon are James Freeman ... thank you so much thanks for being with us ...


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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has drawn a lot of attention lately, mostly due to new regulations that went into effect March 15, 2012. A New York Times article is adding to that attention by focusing on efforts by some lawyers to sue businesses that do not comply with the ADA.
The New York Times article notes that 3,000 lawsuits have been brought under the ADA in the past year, which is more than twice as many as were brought under it five years ago. No fitness facilities were mentioned in the article, but health clubs and rec centers are not exempt from these lawsuits.
Some lawyers seek out businesses that do not comply with the ADA and then find disabled people to file a lawsuit against those businesses. The plaintiffs typically receive about $500 per lawsuit while the lawyers collect thousands of dollars in legal fees from the sued businesses. Many of these lawsuits are brought against business owners without allowing them to comply with the ADA first, as a 90-day notice currently is not required in the ADA. However, legislation is pending in Congress that would amend the ADA so that business owners would have 90 days from the date of notice to comply.
Whether you see these lawsuits as a shakedown of businesses or as a laudable civil rights crusade, the fact is that they are happening. So, if you do not know if your facility complies with all ADA rules—particularly the amendments that went into effect March 15 and the pool requirements that were postponed but will go into effect at some point in the future—then you need to check the ADA rules to ensure that you comply. You may also want to hire an architect or consultant to ensure you are in compliance.
Don't just sit there and cross your fingers hoping that no one will notice if your sinks in the locker room are too high. Get busy and make sure you comply, but do not do it just for the sake of preventing a lawsuit. Do it also for the sake of a growing group of disabled people in our population who deserve full access to your facility.


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THE FINANCIALLY ORIENTED DIRECTOR New Role and New Responsibility by RUSSELL E. PALMER/Managing Partner, Touche Ross & Co, Is the rote of the financially oriented director different from that of other corporate directors? To a degree it is. Most directors tend to see themselves as directors first, placing their primary occupations, skills, personal interests, and even their board committee memberships in a context of broad responsibility—a view that is both appropriate and necessary. A financially oriented director, like any other, needs this breadth of vision because, ultimately, his job is direr ling, not doing. A director with a financial background should not assume a broader respon-sibility for all financial problems, nor should he narrow his responsibility to exclude other matters. Lawyers might argue that all directors bear the same responsibility, but whether they would advise all director-clients to assume the same role is open to question. What is certain is that the roles of these directors have changed. In his testi-mony before the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on citizens' and shareholders' rights and remedies in 1977, J. Wilson Newman, a retired chairman of the board of 6 Dun & Bradstreet and a director of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, raised an important point about the changing role of directors: "Added responsibilities are being placed on directors and being demanded now, in terms of legal concept They have been there all the time, but now they have surfaced" Before Watergate, for example, how many directors would have bothered to ask about corporate codes of conduct, illegal political contributions, or bribery of foreign government officials? Or, until recently, how many directors would have asked about women or minori-ties in their organizations? Few, probably. Now, under the law, directors must concern themselves with such questions. Adapting to Reality A 1975 Conference Board report suggests another important area of change. The report, entitled "Corporate Directorship Practices; Role, Selection and Legal Status of the Board," cites the "increasing legal recognition of the complexities of modern business, and of the diver-gent backgrounds, experience, and responsibilities among directors on the board." Moreover, the article argues, there is a trend toward "more flexibility, with the law adapting itself to the problems at hand." No longer do the same principles necessarily "govern the directors of all corpora-tions-whether a thousand or a billion dollar operation or whether a service or a manufacturing organiza-tion." Nor does every director bear "the same responsibility, whether he be an insider, an officer, an outsider, an attorney, an investment banker, an educator, an environmentalist, or whatever. Significantly, there are more and more instances of courts look-ing to the realities of the facts presented," Those "realities" are far from clear. But one thing is becoming more apparent—specialized knowledge does influence the role a director will play while serving on a board. An officer-director, for example, can gather more from the information the board receives about corporate activ-ities than a director who has not served as a member of corporate management. Similarly, the financially oriented director is expected to apply his experience and insight to the
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Airlines: Passengers Being Used as Political Pawns
As the Federal Aviation Administration prepares to furlough air-traffic controllers as a result of sequester cuts, the airline industry is fighting back. WSJ's Jack Nicas reports on The News Hub. Photo: REUTERS.
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... the the ... I'm Kelsey Hubbard ... yet another impact of the sequester temporary lay off the air traffic controllers due to the sweeping sequestration cuts could result in major summer travel disruptions ... this is sparked a fight between the airlines and the FAA joining us from Chicago with more exactly guess that things are going up this morning ... avoided ... so don't think that what cuts were in the sequester that affects the airlines ... so it needed ... to question a lot of the top five percent of their annual budget for each program actually ... end of the FAA that the payout by five percent savings ... in their air traffic control budget now because the ... for over six months than over your ex is ten percent cut ... in that ... space that is pretty drastic can basically ... that they were pipped requiring them to furlough all of their employees ... one video opportunity ... and that means there's going to be understaffed under ... control ... of course been there for up to protecting the ninety minute flight delays but ... didn't report the summer ... while more delays on like that so ... this seems to be sitting up as a political fight as well and there seems to be eyes and started to be brewing as to whether or not the FA actually does have flexibility when it comes to implementing these cuts ... can you outline the four S in the D then ... sure what it says it very very political issue it a very very complex issue ... of the noted big budget that the ball to the interpretation of law falls ... in the airline to basically saying that the FA have more flexibility it said in a discussion that the purple but not actually get ... it ... making a political pawns ... yet that that was there there's certain accusing FKO of I'm ... a bit deeper using air travel to the poster child ... for the sequester ... aam it in and taking no wise to start in the fight between a Republican in your palm ... over the budget ... so I think a lot of the flying public will wanna know what impact on safety this could happen it seems to be that cutting air traffic controllers and then making cuts ... around the air industry ... where the impact that some extent Iran ... well yes they have in their capital is both thinking that it will not ... be affected ... on the heels of it to the top priority is always that mobile offering it efficiently and therefore ... I will keep the weight of ... course all the ... talk of taking a plan to make a better handle ... on it yet but ... agreed that the discover the cave but ... there are some of that is where I'm ... from ... untold hours actually will be entirely eliminated ... a not so small airport in rural areas across the US ... the note is that I'm ... again I was ... trained to be able to win without controllers but that clearly not as safe as it was good that the total percentage wish ... and and and getting back some of the political aspect of this when the sequestration cuts were looming either side CDB jockeying for public opinion as to whose fault ... it was that the compromise can be reached is the goal here to sort of upset the flying public and people in general for more delays at the airport were Lions for security that ... somehow either side land of getting blamed more than the other for this ... understanding the origin of the first thing ... I mean it that the fate of all federal government is key ... to the FAA has been one of the controls ... while it's still fall under forced to delay the airport ... that didn't make it into something that ... the public is outraged over ... to Navy that could push on the other ... two are going to go into a budget deal ... certainly now trades as a summer affair are a lot of those times thank you so much for joining us and we appreciate it ... thank you


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From today, Australian users of Android devices are able to get purchase magazines on their smartphone or tablet, Google has announced. Magazines from publishers ACP Magazines, NewsLifeMedia and Pacific Magazines are now available to Australians through Google Play, the Android App store.
Magazines can be read using the Google Play Magazine App, and titles are available in 16 different categories, including automotive, business, entertainment and sport. Users can purchase single issues or subscribe to a title.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 by Rowan Horncastle
Pageant of Power 2010: The North's big secret
We have already discussed that the Goodwood Festival of Speed is the best car show in the world. What some people don't know is that it has competition – and it is Northern. The Pageant of Power is held in the grounds of a Lord's big estate like Goodwood, but Lord Cholmondeley has one better over ...


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What I want to do is slightly different. I want to post to have a 'Subscribe' button. Clicking this would then allow the user to receive by email subsequent comments to that post. They would not need to post a comment themselves.
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Recipe Summary
Recipe Servings: 6 portions
Recipe Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Recipe Cook Time: 9 minutes
1/4 cup Lucini® Premium Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil®
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
4 medium zucchini, scrubbed and cut in half lengthwise
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons Lucini® 10 Year Gran Riserva Balsamico
1/3 cup coarsely chopped mint
Heat the oil and garlic in a small saucepan over low heat, just until the garlic is very aromatic, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Build a charcoal fire in an outdoor grill and let it burn until the coals are covered with white ashes. In a gas grill, preheat on high.
Brush the zucchini with some of the garlic oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Grill the zucchini, skin side down, until it begins to soften, about 3 minutes. Turn and cook until tender, 3 to 6 minutes more, depending on the size of the zucchini.
Cut each zucchini half at a sharp angle into 2 or 3 pieces and place in a bowl. Add the vinegar, mint, and the remaining garlic oil. Toss well.
Season with additional salt and pepper. Serve warm or cool to room temperature.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Well? All's well until it ends
I'll admit I probably like movies about the shooting of U.S. presidents more this year than I will next year. It's a moot point in the case of Vantage Point since the trailer reveals that the President survives the assassination attempt.
President Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain (played by Mexico City) for a conference in which Western and Arab countries are expected to unite to "put a stranglehold on international terrorism." Naturally some international terrorists are opposed to the idea, which explains the shooting of the President when he gets up to make a speech at the Plaza Mayor and the bomb blast that follows.
First we get an overview from an outside perspective, that of the Global News Network crew covering the event, directed by Sigourney Weaver with Zoë Saldana reporting. The Secret Service bursts into their control room to see what they've recorded.
The Secret Service is up next. They're led by Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), but the big attraction is Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid), who's been out of action since taking a bullet a year ago. His sharp eyes miss nothing. When the shooting occurs, his first suspect is Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), a local cop protecting the mayor. He's the subject of the third segment.
Enrique isn't as focused as Barnes because he gets jealous when he sees his girlfriend, Veronica (Ayelet Zurer), talking to another man, Javier (Edgar Ramirez). Later, he thinks he sees her doing something that upsets him more on a professional level.
Taking everything in and capturing a ridiculous amount of it with his HD videocam is American tourist Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), who's trying to enjoy himself and not think about the "bad patch" he's going through with his wife back home. In his segment he makes friends with some locals, a guy named "Sam" (Said Taghmaoui) who says he goes "where the moment takes me" and a little girl named Anna (Alicia Jaziz Zapien), who's about the age of Howard's son back home.
President Ashton is the focus of the fifth version, in which he's swapped for a double (also Hurt) before arriving at the Plaza Mayor because he's thought to be in danger. An advisor (Bruce McGill) is on the phone with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who recommend bombing a suspected terrorist camp in Morocco.
The plot thickens with each retelling and gets thickest in the last one, which focuses on the terrorists and reveals the intricacies of their plan.
Ending a movie used to be so simple. The good guy killed the bad guy, grabbed the girl and rode off into the sunset. Vantage Point seems to do everything right, with a big car chase and a conclusion that ties up all the loose ends; yet it feels unsatisfying somehow. Perhaps it's too busy connecting the dots to be cathartic, but the adrenaline rush of the first 80 minutes fades away, landing us too gently back on our home planet.
Maybe we need to come full circle, to see how GNN reports what we've just witnessed. Now that we know the whole story, our own vantage point is the most important one; but if the media tell it differently, their version will stand.
Director Pete Travis keeps things taut, barely giving us a chance to catch our breath. The scenes of the crowd and the bomb blast hold up through repeated viewings and the car chase, though logistically impossible, is exciting. Travis balances the epic and the intimate, always keeping our eyes on whoever or whatever we're supposed to see. Unless it's a post-coital thing, I can't explain why I felt let down at the end or why the whole movie, good as it was while it lasted, didn't leave me with more to ponder afterward.
And why, when the Secret Service has a different code name for each president, do they use the generic POTUS (President of the United States) for this one?


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Biega's third, fourth, and fifth goals of the season came within a 10-minute span (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Michael Biega recorded a natural hat trick to rally the Harvard men's hockey team from a two-goal deficit, but Brown scored twice in the third period to defeat the Crimson, 4-3, Friday night at Bright Hockey Center.
Garnet Hathaway scored the tying goal on a delayed penalty, and Harry Zolnierczyk tallied the game-winner 19 seconds later to erase a 3-2 Harvard lead, courtesy of Biega's second career hat trick. Marco DiFilippo made 32 saves to pick up the win in the 157th renewal of college hockey's oldest rivalry.
Alex Killorn and Danny Biega each recorded a pair of assists for Harvard (3-10-0, 2-8-0 ECAC Hockey, 0-4-0 Ivy League). Ryan Carroll made 31 saves, as each side finished with 35 shots. Brown twice scored two goals in spans of 35 seconds or shorter and had two power-play goals in five chances. The Crimson was 1 for 4 with the man advantage.
After 27 minutes went by without a goal, the scores came fast and furious. The Bears (5-5-4, 3-3-1, 2-1-0) built a 2-0 lead with goals 35 seconds apart. Chris Zaires struck first, on the power play, collecting a wide shot from Mark Hourihan and tucking it inside the right post. Next up was Bobby Farnham, putting away a rebound after the Crimson could not corral it.
Michael Biega tied the game almost as quickly. He blasted a one-timer over DeFilippo's shoulder off a left-to-right, cross-ice feed from Killorn at 8:28. His next goal came 76 seconds later, when he finished from the right slot after Killorn found him on the rush. Danny Biega assisted on both plays.
Harvard took the lead about two minutes before the second intermission and 34 seconds after a Brown penalty. Dan Ford got the puck to Eric Kroshus on the left side of the zone, his shot was blocked, but Biega found it in space around the bottom of the right circle, waited for DiFilippo to commit and then shot it in for Harvard's first hat trick of the season.
The Crimson held a 14-8 edge in third-period shots, but Hathaway tied the game at 7:11 of the period and Zolnierczyk struck on the next shift. Harvard could not score in 73 seconds of six-on-five play to close the game.
The first period featured 25 shots on goal but no shots in goal. Brown held a 15-10 shots advantage. Six of those shots came from the near the blue line or outside it, but with the Bears on a power play, Matt Wahl forced a diving glove save by Carroll to keep the game scoreless.


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By Nathan Petrashek
Wily Peralta, Michael Fiers, Marco Estrada, and Mark Rogers have all thrown quality innings as starters for the Brewers this season, but there projects to be a need for a veteran starter in Milwaukee next year. In August, Ron Roenicke had this to say about adding an experienced arm:
"I don't want to say we need to," he said. "I think you'd always like to. But who's out there and for what number? It gets to the point where some of these salaries are getting a little ridiculous. We've got to be really smart in what we do, and who's out there as far a quality veteran you really want.
"If you can have young starters, then maybe spend your money in the bullpen to make sure the bullpen is really good and you can close out games when you have leads. If a guy has a 4.50 ERA, which is up there, if he can go six innings, that's three runs. If you have a good bullpen, you can win a lot of games. I think you can do it, if you have a really good bullpen.
"If you don't have the money to go out and get $20-million-a-year pitchers, why not do it with a 4.50 ERA. What does that cost you? I think you can do that."
The economics of pitching certainly have changed, especially this year. The Brewers made overtures to resign Zack Greinke, only to be priced out of the market by Matt Cain's monster deal. The best arms now project to make at least $20M per year, with many expecting Greinke to push his free agent salary up to $22 or $23M annually.
With that, it's time for a blind taste test. Here are the 2012 stats of three players projected to be free agents in 2013:
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|Player B
|Player C
If you were a general manager, and basing your decision solely 2012 stats, it's obvious which you would choose. Player A is Zack Greinke, the premier pitching free agent. Despite faltering after his trade to the Los Angeles Angels, Greinke is still likely to command a mountain of money. Expectations for the former Cy Young winner are high; just look at what the Angels were willing to pay the Brewers in terms of players for just a few months of his service. Greinke puts up some remarkable numbers and will be compensated accordingly. The financial risk will be a long-term one, too; any team making a serious run at Greinke will likely have to put a 6- or 7-year deal on the table. That would lock the pitcher up through at least his age 34 season, a point at which many pitchers have begun to decline.
Player B is likely to be the second-most desired pitcher should the Angels decline their $15.5M 2013 option. Dan Haren has had a rough go of it in 2012. At age 32, it is entirely possible that Haren is losing his edge; this season, for example, Haren has dealt with lingering back issues and dip in velocity on virtually all of his pitches. Still, he has history on his side; just last year, Haren was a Cy Young candidate after pitching 238 innings of 3.17 era ball. For that reason, Haren is likely to command at least a three-year deal, and I can't imagine him getting less than $13M per year. I mean, Randy Wolf got just under $10M a year for 3 years from the Brewers, and he was an All-Star just once … in 2003.
Player C is the much-maligned Shaun Marcum. It seems all Brewers fans will remember of him is his postseason blowup in 2011. And it was a blowup, to be sure; a 14.90 ERA in 3 clutch games isn't exactly what you want out of a key player in your rotation. But those three games mask Marcum's solid 2011 and 2012 campaigns. Other than a slight uptick in WHIP and K rate, Marcum's 2012 looks a lot like his 2011 – at least when he was on the field. The major knock on Marcum has always been his health. A tommy john surgery sidelined him in 2009, and his throwing mechanics have been the subject of much criticism. Marcum managed 195 innings in 2010 and 200 in 2011, but has struggled in September and October in both years. Thus, an entire healthy year for Marcum probably consists of 170 innings.
Of course, a GM doesn't have just statistics to worry about. There's money, too. And if I'm the Brewers shopping around for one of these guys, Marcum's my man.
I'd love Greinke, but not his price tag. Few teams can shoulder a $23M annual contract, and the Brewers aren't one of them. Dan Haren's age and struggles worries me more when accompanied by a minimum $40M price tag. At age 31 next year, Shaun Marcum isn't exactly young, but he also isn't going to cost much. Marcum is making just under $8M this year, which is probably where the free market – once it factors in the injury risk – will price him, too. I can easily see Marcum signing for 3/$20M. In terms of value for dollars, that's a no brainer.
Now, Marcum is not going to be a fit for every team. If he's only going to pitch 170-180 innings there are going to be some valuable innings that someone else is going to have to pick up. But the Brewers are ideally situated to deal with that issue.
The Brewers currently have about $52M committed for next season, not counting arbitration salaries. With a young back end to the rotation and most position players already accounted for, there projects to be some substantial money available for the bullpen.
To cover the additional innings a Marcum signing would require, the Brewers could add a very good long relief arm. Or they could use Marcum out of the bullpen to provide 130+ innings of quality relief during the year, as suggested by @simplekindoffan on Twitter. Alternatively, the Brewers could keep Marcum as a starter and give him every eighth or ninth start off. One of the nice things about this team is its starting pitching depth; with Rogers, Fiers, Peralta, Estrada, and Narveson not all going to make the rotation, there will be some arms available for a spot start. The point is that the Brewers have ways to deal with Marcum's innning cap in ways that many other teams may not.
Marcum isn't the only free agent starter the Brewers should think about pursuing. But he – and players like him – certainly offer value in a way that guys like Zack Greinke and Dan Haren will not.


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I read on a SoIaF message boards that Feast of Crows was soooo long the publisher made him go back and split it in two. Opinions are mixed if this now means there will be 8 books or still 7. It also sounds like the first book will deal solely with the South and the second with the North and they should both be out this year
can't have 14-year-olds getting married and what-not.
"They tried for 50 years to make 'Lord of the Rings' as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three," Martin said. "My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you'd have to choose one or two characters."
doesn't that seem just a tad arrogant? "sure tolkein made a cute little story, but mine is faaaar more sophisticated." Should I be turned off already?
I have some exciting news to share.(But please, guys and gals, don't get TOO excited. This is what it is, and so far that's all it is, so don't make any assumptions).HBO has just exercised its option, and purchased the television rights to A GAME OF THRONES.For those of you who don't know Hollywood, an option gives a production company the right to buy a property (a book, a screenplay, whatever) at a certain agreed-upon price for a certain period of time (a year, six months, whatever). When that time runs out, they can let the option lapse, renew the option, or exercise the option and buy the property. The last is what HBO has just done.What they have NOT done is greenlight the project. A GAME OF THRONES remains in development. They're still budgeting, still looking at locations (Spain and the Czech Republic at present, I hear). No decision has been reached, so any celebration would be premature. In Hollywood it is always best not to assume something is going to happen until it actually happens. Even so... this is a very encouraging sign, and one that suggests a continued high level of enthusiasm and commitment for A GAME OF THRONES at HBO.So keep your fingers crossed.
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Given a matrix with function entries, which are smooth and homogeneous, and having smooth eigenvalues, can we find a conjugating matrix with smooth and homogeneous entries that triangularize the given matrix? For instance, given $A(x)$ is an $N\times N$ matrix with entries $a_{ij}(x)$ that are smooth and homogeneous in $x$ of order $1.$ Also, given that the eigenvalues of $A(x)$ are smooth. Find an invertible(may be in small neighborhood) matrix $E(x)$ with smooth entries such that $E^{-1}(x)A(x)E(x)$ is upper-triangular.
Sometime back I had asked a question on triangularizing a function matrix. Now, it is clear to me that it is possible to find, by Schur decomposition, a triangularizing matrices which are measurable. Also, one of the answers posted for that question was, it is not always possible to uniformly triangularize especially for certain matrices with non-differentiable eigenvalues. The question in this post is directed towards smoothness and homogenity of such matrices under the condition that they have smooth eigenvalues.
I would be grateful for any reference or insight in this direction. Thank you.


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5 Tips for Cutting Paper Accents for Scrapbook Pages
The Princess and the Cheeseburger by Stephanie Howell for Sassafras, as seen in Budget-Friendly Scrapbooking, page 73.
Cutting out intricate paper details by hand for your scrapbook layouts, a process called fussy cutting, can sometimes prove challenging for those of us with less-than-nimble fingers. There are, however, a few tricks that can get you cutting accents for your scrapbook pages in no time.
1. Choose a sharp pair of micro-tip scissors. The smaller the tip, the easier it will be to snip out those tight corners when cutting out your image.
2. Start by roughly cutting out the image you wish to fussy cut, so you can easily handle the image as you cut out the details.
3. Place your paper near the fulcrum of your scissors, not the tip. This will allow you better maneuverability and result in clean-cut edges.
4. Make long, slow cuts rather than quick snips. Quick snips result in choppy edges. If you encounter tight corners that won't allow you to make long, slow cuts, go back later and snip those pieces out using the tip of your scissors.
5. Turn your paper, not your scissors, as you cut around the edges of your image. This will lessen the urge to snip.
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Months ago while watching videos on YouTube I stumbled onto a TV Show called "Fin de Semana."
Fin de Semana was a long running variety show in El Salvador similar to Sabado Gigante with a host by the name of Willie Maldonado. I asked Carlos if he remembered the show and he said he remembered someone named "Don Cuatro."
I searched all over the internet and couldn't find anything about Don Cuatro, and Carlos has only a vague memory. He says that the way he remembers it is like this:
Don Cuatro was a mystery character that they never showed on screen. At some point during the show they would say "Don Cuatro is in such-and-such neighborhood" and they would give viewers a code phrase that they were to say to Don Cuatro while shaking his hand to get him to reveal himself. People who lived in that neighborhood would rush outside and start going around trying to find Don Cuatro by shaking other people's hands and saying the code phrase. Whoever found Don Cuatro would win money and be brought on the show.
I don't know why, but this struck me as hilarious. Does anyone remember Don Cuatro? Has Carlos remembered it correctly?