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Obama led slightly in the three key states -- 49 percent to 46 percent in Florida, 49 percent to 47 percent in Wisconsin and 50 percent to 44 percent in Ohio, which was unchanged from three weeks ago.
The random telephone poll of likely voters was conducted Aug. 15-21 by Quinnipiac University, CBS News and the New York Times. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points in each of the three separate surveys.
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Chicken pox can be uncomfortable and painful (for both the child and the parent) and the only way to deal with it is to wait for it to run its course. However, homeopathy can help speed up the healing process – and quickly calm the itch and irritation of this childhood illness.
Let's look at the handful of remedies that are often called for in cases of chicken pox:
- Aconite: Early cases, with restlessness, anxiety and high fever.
- Antimonium tart: Delayed or receding, blue or pustular eruptions. Drowsy, sweaty and relaxed; nausea. Tardy eruption, to accelerate it. Associated with bronchitis, especially in children.
- Belladonna: Severe headache: face flushed; hot skin. Drowsiness with inability to sleep.
- Mercurius: To be used should vesicles discharge pus.
- Rhus toxicodendron: Intense, annoying itching. Generally the only remedy required; under its action the disease soon disappears.
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The magic trick of great photojournalism is to reveal a hidden truth in a way that seems self-evident, effortless. Maisie Crow, an award-winning filmmaker and member of the Razon Collective, is a master of pulling that rabbit out of the hat. Her latest film, The Last Clinic, cuts to the heart of the political movement to eradicate abortion access state by state in the U.S.
It premiered to the public late last month in a cozy gallery space in San Francisco, to a room of pro-choicers sipping Sierra Nevada. After six months of work, Crow had rushed to get the final edit together and catch her plane from Mississippi earlier that day.
Though the audience was predictably biased given the Bay Area venue, Crow says she didn't set out to take sides on the issue when making the film.
"I've always felt you cannot reach as wide an audience if you don't let the viewer make up their own mind on what's happening with an issue," she says. "I wanted to let them decide for themselves, giving them what I saw. Granted, I'm sure my lens is a little biased toward the pro-choice side because I personally am pro-choice, but I tried my hardest to really, truthfully show both sides as I saw it."
The Last Clinic focuses on the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the only remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. It's one of four such "last clinics" in the country, with the others in North Dakota, South Dakota and Alabama. They're all hanging on by a thread — in the absence of a Roe v. Wade reversal, certain Republican legislators are settling for making it logistically impossible for most women in their states to get abortion services through various regulations.
"I knew [Mississippi] had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. It has very high STD rates and other kinds of issues, so I wanted to figure out why. And I also wanted to figure out why, in a state with all of those problems, were they trying to close down the only remaining abortion clinic," says Crow.
That question lead her to Jackson, where she spent months interviewing clinic employees, patients, and pro-life activists as a way of understanding the complexities of a debate that's been raging through the country for years.
The story isn't new — NPR, Mother Jones and others have latched on to the plight of the little clinic in the Deep South as emblematic of the larger issues surrounding the legalities of abortion in the United States. But even for those familiar with the story, Crow's film creates the feeling of really understanding the issue for the first time.
Even Crow had trouble seeing beyond the standard reporting formula when she first arrived in Jackson. She initially thought of creating vignettes of each aspect of the issue, from the courthouse to the doctors to the activists, but it didn't fit together how she'd hoped.
"[With] a lot of my storytelling, I try and be as intimate as possible, and I couldn't wrap my head around how I could make an intimate story about an abortion clinic," she says.
Instead, she spent days sitting in the waiting room, asking women if they'd talk to her, facing rejection more often than agreement. She slept on couches and dining-room floors, and even had a gun pulled on her while filming scenery nearby.
With backing from the Atavist and additional grant funding from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Crow was able to spend the better part of 5 months reporting on the clinic. The final piece was published last month in The Atavist, along with a collection of still images and an accompanying essay by writer Alissa Quart.
"It's probably to my detriment that I spend so much time on my stories, but I don't know how else I would tell it. Because I think it's all about time, and investing that time. And I don't think [traditional] publications allow for that anymore."
The 31-year-old filmmaker has garnered an impressive amount critical praise for her previous work, including Hungry, A Life Alone — which was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy — and Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now. But before her success in multimedia, Crow bounced around internships like many starting in the business.
In her senior year of college, she picked up a camera for the first time and begged her way into her first internship at the Vail Daily newspaper in Colorado. From there, she went on to intern at the Tico Times, an English-language newspaper in Costa Rica, to the chagrin of her mother, who preferred she didn't live abroad for too long. While she planned to stay in Costa Rica, her mother sent Crow's portfolio to the Patuxent Publishing Company in Baltimore in order to get her daughter back on U.S. soil. The plan succeeded — Crow was offered an internship, and after taking it, it later turned into a job.
In 2007, as the newspaper industry began to crumble and pressure was being placed on video content, Crow went to the Platypus Workshop to learn how to edit video with Final Cut. She went back to her paper and produced her first multimedia piece, Hungry, and went on to study in the Visual Communication graduate program at Ohio University. She interned at the Boston Globe, then at MediaStorm. She now teaches classes as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which she juggled while working on The Last Clinic.
The film's distribution system — available a la carte, through a website — makes some industry insiders cringe. With many journalists looking toward the public-service model to save journalism, asking an audience to pay to see a news story seems counter-intuitive. But Crow finds the potential exciting.
"What I think is exciting for our generation and for the industry right now is that we can kind of define where this is all gonna go," she says. "We're defining what it means to create content and how we distribute that content."
As one viewer pointed out during the Q&A session following the screening, it can be difficult to watch a film about such a hot topic in a "liberal bubble" like San Francisco without latching on to the aspects of the story that you personally agree with. As The Last Clinic was screened there, you could hear reactions from the West Coast crowd — cheering when one woman turned down literature from a pro-life activist in one scene, laughing when another activist offers to pray for a woman entering the clinic. But despite the pro-choice-leaning audience, the film itself was relatively even-handed.
Crow purposely left her film open-ended; the legal issues surrounding the clinic could drag on for weeks or years, and no one involved is certain of its future. Meanwhile, she hopes that by humanizing the larger issue through the personal stories in her film, she is able to pull away from the daily-news coverage and attempt a deeper understanding.
"I think people like to theorize – they like to talk about it at a level that throws out the human element, and when you get into the human element of what's going on, I think it changes the game a little bit. I think when you see a human face on an issue, it's easier to relate to."
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Khan's special show is expected to be tentatively scheduled Jan 17 – midway during the DSF which commences Jan 3 and ends Feb 3, said Saeed Al Falasi, director, Strategic Alliances, Dubai Events & Promotions Establishments (DEPE).
This year, the DSF is being marketed as "Dubai At Its Best" and the month-long event promises to be the biggest ever in its history since 1996, bringing the best across its sectors for locals and visitors alike, Al Falasi told media-persons here Monday afternoon.
He assured people that DSF 2013 will surpass "all previous editions in style, size, turnover and grandeur" with the entire city decked up to welcome international shopaholics, prizes worth crores of rupees on offer and a spectacular itinerary of international events to keep all regaled and occupied.
The major highlights this year include the world's highest catwalk at 442 metres at the iconic Burj Khalifa, and the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, a PGA European Tour sanctioned event with a $2.50 million prize pool with big names like Tiger Woods in attendance.
Last year, DSF attracted nearly four million visitors who collectively splurged a whopping $413 million, making it one of the most happening and lucrative events in the international calendar.
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(Editor's Note: The following report was accurate in that it reflected the statements of all the parties contacted at the time of its writing. Wanderlei Silva, however, later admitted that his statements were false.)
Wanderlei Silva on Monday told MMAWeekly.com that he is going to fight Gegard Mousasi on Saturday, replacing Alexander Gustafsson in the UFC on Fuel TV 9 main event in Stockholm.
"Just finish talk to Rafael Cordeiro (Silva's longtime friend and coach)," Silva told MMAWeekly.com via text message. "He gonna come tomorrow to Vegas. I take the fight."
Earlier, Silva, tweeted in broken English about stepping into the fight, but it was unclear if he was saying he'd been offered the fight with Mousasi or if he was saying he would be a replacement.
It appears he's been contacted by the UFC and has accepted the fight with Mousasi.
Pressed further for clarification, Silva was asked if his original text meant he would be a back-up opponent if Gustafsson failed to gain medical clearance, or if Silva believed he would be the one fighting Mousasi on Saturday.
"I gonna fight Mousasi on Saturday," Silva responded.
Gustafsson suffered a severe cut in sparring over the weekend. Three doctors indicated the injury would take weeks to heal.
UFC president Dana White insisted the fight card has not undergone any changes and that Gustafsson is fighting. Other MMAWeekly.com sources close to the promotion backed his statement, insisting that, "Gustafsson vs. Mousasi is still the plan."
On Twitter, Mousasi sounded no more enlightened on the situation than the rest. He is, however, ready to fight whomever the UFC puts in front of him on Saturday.
"Hey mr Silva, if this is true and you are ready to fight me than I accept the fight, It's an honor for me Much respect for you," Mousasi wrote.
Mousasi, however, courted speculation when he added, "at this moment I do not have any new info about my situation But if ufc want's and mr @wandfc is ready for me than let's Go!"
For now, it appears fans and observers are in a holding pattern.
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Dunhuang crescent moon spring, the crescent moon spring located at the Dunhuang southwest 5 kilometers place, is in a mysterious endless desert lake water marvelous sight. Under Mt. Mingsha, the water seepage forms a lake, in the sand dune surrounds, resembles a curved crecent moon to acquire fame the crescent moon spring. The crescent moon spring, the ancient name sand well, the common name medicine spring, from the Han Dynasty "the Dunhuang eight scenery" one, acquires fame "the month spring dawn penetrating". Crescent moon spring north and south long nearly 100 meters, thing wide approximately 25 meters, east water seepage west depth shallow, the most deep place the approximately 5 meters, the curving like crecent moon, therefore acquires fame. Bay spring, the ripples linger, blue like jadeite. the spring in the wind-drift sand, the drought does not dry up, the wind sandstorm does not fall, affords a marvellous view. All previous dynasties scholar to this unique mountain spring landform, desert marvelous sight commendation. Because the crescent moon spring "the spring reflects the month, but dustlessness", "through ancient times the sand does not fill in the spring, the spring is not dried out" becomes the marvelous sight. "the clear and boundless sky luxuriant blue sky, the US this world crescent moon spring, around Mt. yinshan the sand surrounds certainly, a clear duck ripple". The crescent moon spring has wonderfully four: Shape of eternity the crescent moon, place of pure running water Cheng in Quan, the Shashan wicked boundary will not flood Yu Sha, the ancient deep pool old fish food not to be old as before. Goes to the Mt. Mingsha crescent moon spring to play by the evening, the toward evening is best.
Old is Yongzhou Gansu provincial capital Lanzhou. Located in the upper Yellow River, located in the geographical center of China, between latitude 32 ° 31 '~ 42 ° 57', longitude 92 ° 13 '~ 108 ° 46' between. It is the east, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Sichuan controlled South, West Hill Xinjiang, brief Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, is the ancient Silk Road of the key sections of land and gold, and with the Mongolian border, it was like a magnificent gem, set in central China the Loess Plateau, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia plateau, something more than 1,600 kilometers meandering, aspect 453,700 square kilometers, accounting for 4.72% of the total area. Population 26 million (968 million in 1949), Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan, Mongolian, Kazak, Tu, Salar, Manchu and other ethnic groups. Among them, the Dongxiang, Yugur, Bonan is a minority of Gansu.


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This shot was taken for an assignment from a photography hangout I take part in on Google+. The idea was to shoot an 'emotionally charged splash." I tried my luck at splashes which are quite difficult. I figured I'd go with liquid dripping which is a bit more controlled.
While coming up with the idea I happened to be in the kitchen cooking and had the idea to use the butcher knife I was using. I also thought that if I used a red liquid to simulate blood that it would create a strong emotion.
For this shot I used 3 strobes, some white foam core boards for bouncing the light around, liquid dish soap with red food coloring and to hang the knife I used a wire coat hanger using a hot glue gun to attach it to the handle.
The shot was quite fun to make. I first hung the knife and set up a strobe with a red gel behind and below the knife aiming at the backdrop. Then after I had that effect, I then started to place the other 2 strobes into the shot. I have one strobe with a DIY grid behind and camera left which is what gives the rim lighting on the top edge of the handle.
I placed another strobe, with DIY grid, in front of and to camera left as well, shooting through a diffuser, to create the lighting on the tip of the blade, just where the blade and handle meet and the lighting on the bottom and back end of the handle. The handle lighting I was able to achieve by using white foam core to bounce and soften the light on the handle.
I made the blood with liquid dish soap and several drops of red food coloring. After I had the shot all set up and lighting the way I liked it, I used a spoon to pour the 'blood' down the edge of the knife. I built up the flow so that it would start dripping. I fired off shots while looking through the view finder and timing when the drips would occur.
To get the final shot you see below here, I used 2 images I had shot and brought them into Photoshop. I really like the overall shot of one image, and I liked a particular drip in the other so I masked the 2 together. After that I spent time to remove all the dust and specs from the image which took quite some time. I also adjusted the background slightly to get the mood I was after.
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Please also find below this final image a few outtake shots and bts(behind the scenes) shots I took with my phone.
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Here are some BTS (Behind the scenes) shots of my setup. As you can see from the 2 photos below, I have the 2 strobes on the left. The one on the ground is what lit the face of the blade and also bounced the light from it to the handle with the foam core boards on right.
In this shot you can see the setup after the 'blood' was poured on the blade.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a dayslong standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed the home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said Sunday.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a dayslong standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed the home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said Sunday.
Police officers went to the South Trenton home Friday afternoon after reports that some of the children hadn't been to school in 12 days, authorities said Sunday at a news conference. Officers entered the home through a rear door and smelled an odor consistent with that of a decomposing body, Trenton Police Director Ralph Rivera Jr. said.
They found 38-year-old Gerald "Skip" Murphy in an upstairs bedroom, and he told them he was armed with a gun and explosives and had three children with him, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. said. Officers retreated from the second floor and rescued a 19-year-old man from the basement, who said he hadn't seen his mother or siblings since about April 24.
A SWAT team was called in, and an arson bomb unit also appeared on the scene. Police said Murphy could be seen from a window holding a black handgun.
Police remained in contact with Murphy throughout the 37-hour-long standoff and passed food into the home through an upstairs window, state police Col. Rick Fuentes said. Murphy kept the captives with him inside the roughly 10-foot-by-11-foot bedroom throughout the standoff, authorities said.
Officers stormed the home at around 3:45 a.m. Sunday after noting Murphy's "deteriorating state of mind" and deciding it was necessary to enter to help ensure the captives survived, Fuentes said. An officer shot Murphy because he was threatening one of the children, he said.
Murphy was taken to a hospital and later died of his injuries. No law enforcement personnel were injured during the standoff or the confrontation with Murphy.
"This was a very complex matter, considering the space (where the hostages were) and that three children were involved," Fuentes said when asked about the standoff and its resolution. "Our mission over those 37 hours was to save innocent lives."
Authorities found the bodies of 44-year-old Carmelita Stevens and her teenage son in separate bedrooms. The woman's body was in an advanced state of decomposition, and police said she appeared to have died two weeks ago.
Three of her children — an 18-year-old woman, a 16-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy — were rescued and taken to a medical center for evaluation and treatment. Murphy had abused and assaulted the captives, Bocchini said.
Murphy and Stevens had been dating for a few months, and both lived in the house, police said. He was not the father of any of her children.
Authorities wouldn't comment on a possible motive or say how the victims died, citing the ongoing investigation. They also would not say whether any bombs or other explosives were recovered at the residence.
Murphy had a long criminal history including convictions for aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy, Bocchini said. He had previously been arrested for robbery and weapons offenses and child endangerment. He also had an arrest warrant in Pennsylvania for failing to register as a sex offender.
Homes on the surrounding block were evacuated as a precaution while the standoff was taking place, and police tape cordoned off the street in front of the house and nearby homes. Bocchini thanked area residents for their cooperation "as the situation unfolded" over the weekend.


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Alpenglow Sports and Tahoe Cross Country to host Lake Tahoe Nordic Festival
TAHOE CITY, Calif. – Alpenglow Sports has teamed up with Tahoe Cross Country to present the inaugural Lake Tahoe Nordic Festival, Dec. 14-16. All events are free and open to the public at Tahoe Cross Country.
The Lake Tahoe Nordic Festival is a three-day event that will cater to one of the fastest growing cross-country regions in the United States. Lake Tahoe is a famous alpine skiing destination, however, the area also boasts world-class Nordic skiing with multiple cross-country ski resorts and hundreds of kilometers of groomed trails.
Friday evening kicks off the festival with a community party and film presentation by local athletes. An on-snow demo with the latest and greatest in Nordic equipment from many industry brands will take place Saturday, Dec. 15, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Technical and health clinics, group skis, historical snowshoe tours and race series are slated for Dec. 15 and 16.
The festival has gathered the local Nordic ski and snowshoe community to lead its clinics, groups skis and races, including olympians Marcus Nash and Glenn Jobe; Far West Nordic Head Coach Ben Grassechi; Tahoe Peak Endurance's Colleen Connors-Pace; Andy Pasternak and Julie Young of Silver Sage Sports Performance; Tim Hauserman of Tahoe Cross Country; Kara LaPoint of NTHS Nordic; and Peter Fain of Atlas Snowshoes. Tahoe Institute for Natural Science and Tahoe Rim Trail Association will lead a natural history snowshoe tour and snowshoe hike, respectively.
"We are excited to be hosting this first annual event at Tahoe Cross Country with Brendan and Alpenglow Sports. We have had a long standing partnership in Tahoe City promoting Nordic skiing together," said Kevin Murnane of Tahoe Cross Country. "Our goal is to offer something for everyone: from the complete beginner looking for a first lesson, to the veteran racer looking for the best equipment available, to the trail runner looking for a great snowshoe to help them stay fit in winter."
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I agree that a firm's treatment of its employees is probably a bigger consideration for those of us looking to be there long-term. I just don't assume that, in organizations as large as the ones we're talking about, the communications of the recruiting department are necessarily indicative of the firm's overall treatment of employees. I'm not saying that, once at a firm (should that ever actually happen), I will accept relatively inconsiderate treatment as a trade-off for prestige.That said, I say "relatively" because I think that it's reasonable to expect a certain level of inconsiderateness (if you want to call it that) from client-service organizations as large as these (law firms or not), where it isn't feasible to remain competitive while still ensuring that all of their workers are kept absolutely happy. So, my concern would be with working at a firm that treats its people noticeably worse than its competitors (and, sure, recent decisions can be indicative, but I don't know that the speed at which someone in the recruiting department answers e-mails is enough for me to make that judgment). To the extent that it's across the board, though... well, both conditions and salaries are market-driven (and we have labor laws to prevent true exploitation).I also say "prestige" because, yeah, I'm willing to sacrifice the best treatment and working conditions for more exciting work down the road (which is seemingly often, but not always, correlated with prestige, etc). I don't think we are contributing to a problem by "accepting" less desirable working conditions, though, when we are fully aware that we are applying to work in organizations that will prioritize profit over employee satisfaction.I don't think that this is false consciousness at all. I'm not saying "I'm going to accept this because, if I want to move up as a lawyer, I must be treated poorly!" I'm saying that I understand why these firms make their business decisions in a certain way, and (would like to) choose to be a part of it regardless. I fully recognize that there are other ways to run a business, and that they can allow incoming lawyers significantly better working conditions. Many people choose to work for those organizations, likely because they also recognize that there are other ways to determine priorities in an organization. That said, large firms provide incentives, in terms of compensation (including at the partner level) and (very much depending on one's goals) experience. The "experience" here is not, as you seem to assume, some generally superior path of advancement in society. The specific interests and goals that led me to law school are such that the trade-off is worth it to me. I'm not arguing that this is the case for every single person who enters these firms (or even for enough people that firms could attract the same quality of workers if everyone were to resist the temptation of $160K and assess where they actually fall on this trade-off). I'm just saying that it isn't necessarily some misguided decision for every person who enters a large firm and doesn't complain about the conditions. (Of course, to the extent that you just don't think that, for example, corporate M&A is a worthwhile life passion... well, that would be a completely different discussion, and one that we probably wouldn't be able to resolve.)*One more caveat before I end this novel: Yes, I realize that I have not actually worked as a junior associate as a large law firm, and that there is a chance that my career interests won't actually outweigh the working conditions once I'm actually going through it. We can only make choices based on the information available to us.
Quote I'd also like to throw in a plug for secondary market firms. Recruiters were much nicer and more prompt at firms that interview, say, 30 people per year for 10 spots, as opposed to mega-sweatshop firms that interview 200 of the best and brightest for 10 spots. I had nothing but good experiences with places in my secondary markets. I actually had several really awful, awkward secondary market interviews and great primary market interviews. I think a lot of it was that as soon as it became clear I wasn't a good ol boy, the interviewers lost interest. Then again, I didn't interview at the mega-sweatshop (skadden et.al.) firms in primary markets either.
I'd also like to throw in a plug for secondary market firms. Recruiters were much nicer and more prompt at firms that interview, say, 30 people per year for 10 spots, as opposed to mega-sweatshop firms that interview 200 of the best and brightest for 10 spots. I had nothing but good experiences with places in my secondary markets.
The absolute kiss of death. You have to go all out with the good ol boy mentality.
But I think that's a lot different from feeling like they owe it to me to explain themselves.
Not surprisingly, many of the most attractive and preppy kids in my class got offers, almost regardless of grades. They outperformed their grades because they fit the BigLaw mold. Because they look sharp, corporate, and clean-cut, they look like someone BigLaw wants on the profile page or chatting with a client. Looks were far, far more important than I think most people give them credit. Sure, a 3.8 might land Wachtell, but for people with median and above median, the difference maker was being a good ol boy.
Quote from: dischord on October 11, 2009, 09:43:29 PMI mean, come on guys, where's everyone's healthy disrespect for authority, right? Although I suppose that the fact that I'm speaking to a bunch of law students who want to go into Biglaw really answers that question for me.Right, I had forgotten about how you were rebelling against that career path. It's not like you have at all considered that there might be some benefit -- even to someone who isn't completely naive -- to putting aside some pride and joining The Institution.
I mean, come on guys, where's everyone's healthy disrespect for authority, right? Although I suppose that the fact that I'm speaking to a bunch of law students who want to go into Biglaw really answers that question for me.


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The West Hawai'i Fund advisory committee, made up of local volunteers, awarded $63,375 to 16 organizations that contribute in diverse ways to improving the quality of life for residents in West Hawai'i.
The West Hawai'i Fund was established in 1990 to provide a stronger link between charitable donors and the specific needs of West Hawai'i communities from Kohala to Hawaiian Ocean View Estates. Through the years, local citizens have created additional funds that are also distributed by the West Hawai'i Fund advisory committee including the Hartwell and Rebecca Carter Fund, the Robert C. and Helen F. Nichols Fund, the Arthur Mullaly Fund, and the Oscar and Ernestine Armstrong Fund.
Organizations receiving grants from these five funds include:
- Friends for Fitness received $3,500 to provide much needed repair for the 1-mile long walking, jogging Makaeo Walking Path.
- Habitat for Humanity received $5,000 in support of a specialized home repair and renovation program for Veterans currently living in sub-standard housing in West Hawai'i.
- Hawai'i Forest Institute received $7,000 for their Aupaka o Wao Lama Forest Education Program to restore endangered dryland habitat and share its historical, cultural and scientific aspects with the West Hawai'i Community.
- Hawai'i Learning Resource received $4,000 for their Summer Academic Enrichment Camps that will provide students with a fun, hands-on learning experience designed to inspire joy in learning for students with learning differences.
- Holualoa Foundation for Arts received $4,000 for the creation of a multi-use performing arts and intimate concert area within the current Donkey Mills Art Center.
- Hospice of Kona received $4,000 in support of their Patient Support Nakamaru Hale, their 5-bed residential care home.
- Innovations Public Charter School Foundation received $5,000 for their Planting Wellness with Our Keiki program that provides healthy mini meals for aftercare students incorporating healthy food education, environmental stewardship and physical activity.
- Ka Moku o Keawe Makahiki received $3,000 to engage a broad range of schools and community groups, utilizing Hawaiian Makahiki cultural practice and championship games to strengthen families around physical education, health, fitness and honest competition.
- Kona Adult Day Center, Inc. received $4,000 for their Adult Day Care program which provides social and recreational programs and activities for impaired adults and respite for their families and caregivers.
- Kona Hospital Foundation received $6,000 for their Panda Baby Warmer Project that will provide options for medical staff to administer safe, effective airway management of any life-threatening situations for infants.
- Kona Pacific Public Charter School received $4,000 in support of their Supplemental Nutrition Program that provides breakfast and afterschool snacks and subsidizes lunch for students of disadvantaged families.
- Miloli'i Emergency Response Team received $3,000 for their Emergency Response Team to acquire the necessary equipment and supplies to support their community in the event of an emergency.
- Moku O Kohala Royal Order of Kamehameha received $2,000 in support of the Hale Mua Cultural Group who will repair rock walls surrounding the Kamehameha Birth site monument that were damaged during the earthquake of 2006.
- PATCH (People Attentive to Children) received $4,750 to provide training and technical support to early childcare providers in West Hawai'i.
- Pukoa Kani Aina Community Development Corporation received $2,000 for their I-3 (Investment, Interdependence, and Impact) program that helps Native Hawaiian non-profits achieve their mission and become high impact organizations.
- Waikoloa Dry Forest Institute received $2,305 for construction of an outhouse facility, four picnic benches for visitors, and a hand-washing station and sink to be located at the 275 acre dry forest restoration project in Waikoloa Village.
About the Hawai'i Community Foundation
With 96 years of community service, the Hawai'i Community Foundation is the leading philanthropic institution in the state. The Foundation is a steward of more than 600 funds, including more than 170 scholarship funds, created by donors who desire to transform lives and improve communities. In 2011, more than $44 million in grants and contracts were distributed statewide. The Foundation also serves as a resource on community issues and trends in the nonprofit sector.
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We asked for readers' opinions last week on whether a certain video should be posted to a newspaper's website. Whether to air such a video was posed at an editors' convention the week before.
Briefly, the video shows a deer wounded by a hunter. Trapped and unable to escape a stream due to his injury, the deer is found by the hunter the next day. His efforts to dispatch the animal are inefficient and torturous.
We received more than 20 responses, with the majority saying that the video should not be posted, that a description alone would suffice.
Two examples posted below show readers' thoughts on the matter.
We don't have the video and thus are not considering posting it on our website. But while we would not be interested in "pandering to the gutter," as Mr. Machado suggests below, we do think that sometimes the news value of a painful video would warrant its airing.
Think for a minute of the TV commercial which highlights the plight of homeless dogs and cats. The video, accompanied by a mournful tune, drives home the message far more than mere words could do.
Recall videos of starving children, neighborhoods torn apart by war or the attack on 911. In every case the news value of these difficult to watch videos overrules our sensitivities.
The key phrase is news value.
It's something to think about.


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Thanks for the heads up...but....cherries imported from Utah? You boys in Whyoming don't need to worry about such things, but I suggest that folks in Colorado should be Colorado Proud and seek out produce grown in Western Colorado. We have the best pie cherries around anyways!Why would brewers even want sour cherries? Yacko
Sour cherries are GREAT in Lambics (heard of a kriek?). Supposedly the Balaton is the closest you can get to the Morello cherries in Europe, as the Montmorecy cherries are not as good for beer.


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Wild Re-Sign Harding to 3-Year Contract
The Minnesota Wild signed goaltender Josh Harding to a 3-year $5.7 Million contract extension Tuesday. Harding would have become a unrestricted free agent next month. The 28-year old Harding has been a backup throughout his NHL career behind 34-year old Niklas Backstrom. Backstrom is entering the final year of his contract and will turn 35 in February.
Harding was 13-12-4 with a 2.62 goals against average and a .917 save percentage in 34 appearances and 30 starts in 2011-2012.


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Our msnbc2 hosts responded to your comments about "Hard Choices"
One of the most talked about politicians of the year, Hillary Clinton, released her memoir "Hard Choices" Tuesday. With heightened expectations of being the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, this book is said to reflect on her former leadership roles as a senator and U.S. Secretary of State, but will it also help us understand her future?
msnbc.com senior editor Beth Fouhy and national reporter Aliyah Frumin discussed the release of Clinton's latest book, dove into the "Benghazi: Under Attack" chapter, and responded to your questions and comments.
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Cargo Cult Agile | exotribeby greut, 1 comment (via)
After all, a cargo cult shop is imitating what they have seen about agile. However, like waterfall proponents, cargo cult agile shops are led by people who have looked at pictures of agile models, "read" agile books, or "learned" agile development from PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps there are a number of developers who know agile, but they may not be able to move the company towards agility in the face of generations of managers and developers who have been indoctrinated by DoD-2167.
the story of my life
James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agileby greut
Or maybe we need to stop selling Agile. Maybe we need to say, "Agile is hard, and you can't master it by sitting through a two-day course." Maybe we need to be firm and say, "Sorry, if you don't use agile engineering practices, if you don't have high-bandwidth communication, and if you don't include a strong customer voice, you're not going to succeed. Try something else instead." Scrum is popular because it's easy--and that's part of the problem.
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Tonight we watched Trading Spouses on Fox. I think it was a repeat or a best-of or something. I felt like we had seen a similar show like this before but it was different tonight.
Regardless, tonight's episode was a doozie. Shit, if they are all this nuts, I might have to spend some more time on the Fox Network. Interesting equation. Crazy people and Fox Network. Hmmm.
Anyways. The Perrin Family was religious and the mother, Marguerite, was just downright psychotic, irrational and obsessive with her relationship with Jesus and her religiousness. The father appeared dislocated and distant, from what I feel was a defense or a survival mechanism. The kids appeared typical but restrained. At first, Marguerite, was just annoying and then you began to pity her. Not to mention feeling for the children that actually have to live with this insanity. And then it just became a circus and was humorous. The other family was just some neo-hippie family that believed in astrology and that was simply too much for a Jesus-totin' woman from Louisiana to handle.
It is television at it's finest, I tell you.
In house news, our kitchen sink got clogged up this evening for the first time. We tried the key on the bottom of the disposal. Even that elusive "reset" button. We tried the vinegar and baking soda. But what worked was the plunger. The last resort fixed the problem on the second plunge. I love simple machines.
And last but not least, my favorite Marguerite Perrin quotes from the show:
You look like Jesus, so I'm comfortable.
Find me a church!
Get the hell out of my house! In Jesus' name, I pray.
She was tampering in dark-sided stuff! Gargoyles! Psychics!
Everything is ungodly!


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SAN FRANCISCO — Sony is considering buying a chip fab from the Japanese company Renesas for $96 million.
Nikkei reports that Sony plans to expand its complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor production. The company already has a share of around 30% in that market.
A memorandum of understanding between the companies could be signed early next week. Sony would acquire operating power at the Tsuruoka plant in Yamagata Prefecture by March 31, along with approximately 900 workers.
The Wall Street Journal reported that talks began several months after Renesas announced it would close the plant in two to three years. The company was bailed out by a government-backed fund, but it remains open to the possibility of selling the plant.
Sony has aggressively cut costs to turn around losses in its television sector while increasing its presence in smartphones and image sensors. OmniVision, a rival in the image sensor market, cited "intensifying competition" Tuesday in reporting its fiscal second-quarter results.
— Jessica Lipsky, Associate Editor, EE Times


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Lindsay Lohan is a free woman, unless she fails random drug and alcohol testing, moves away from Los Angeles or skips court ordered psychological counseling.
L.A. Superior Court Judge Elden Fox entered the order to release Lohan from rehab at UCLA Medical Center Tuesday night.
Fox and Lohan's attorneys were in court Wednesday morning to discuss the terms of the release. Lohan was not present and cameras were not allowed in the courtroom.
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Fox allowed the 24-year-old "Mean Girls" starlet to be released on day 23 of her court ordered 90 day rehabilitation because her doctors felt it was in her best interest to move to outpatient therapy. He also dismissed two drug counts that Lohan pleaded guilty to in 2007, The Associated Press reported.
Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman, said his client was "very serious" about her sobriety and that she has "learned her lesson."
Under the terms of the release, the court placed a series of orders on Lohan including:
- undergo psychotherapy 4 times a week.
- have a minimum of 7 contacts per week with a mentor of some kind - not a physician.
- attend behavioral therapy 2 times a week
- 5 visits a week visits to 12 step programs
- stay clean and submit to random alcohol and drug testing no less than 2 times a week
Any violation of the agreement could result in 30 days of jail for each occurrence. If she complies, she could be off supervised probation in November, according to the AP.
The original judge in Lohan's case, Marsha Revel, issued a 90-day jail sentence, which was later shortened to 14 days due to overcrowding in the L.A. county jail system and Lohan's good conduct.
Judge Revel, who threw the book at Lohan for violating the terms of her probation after a 2007 DUI conviction, later recused herself after the D.A. inquired about her handling of the case.
Lohan will be seen on screens next month in Robert Rodriguez's action flick, "Machete" and is free to star as porn star Linda Lovelace as planned in an upcoming biopic.
Another hearing is scheduled for November 1st.
Selected Reading: TMZ, RadarOnline, E!


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Steve Ballmer has kicked-off a $500m marketing push designed to convince businesses they really need to buy the planned Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Speaking in New York on Thursday, Ballmer unveiled Microsoft's new "vision" - "people-ready" business - a vision that apparently boils down to using Windows Vista and Office 2007, due later this year, with new email and collaboration applications to help improve companies' team-based productivity.
Any of this sounding familiar? See the launch of Office 2000, XP, 2003...
The difference this time though is IBM who, according to Ballmer, is offering a services-based approach to collaboration compared to Microsoft's approach of providing software.
"We're staking out a position quite different than our leading competitor. That's IBM," Ballmer told press. "We are talking about making the people in the business more productive. IBM increasingly is a services company. At the end of the day, we're a software company."
Ballmer wrapped his "people-ready" presentation with a very serious pitch from fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger on how technology is an "enabler" and, surprise, empowers people with the resources they need to position the company for success.
Microsoft is promoting Windows Vista and Office 2007 to businesses having, so-far, largely failed in this respect. Chief software architect Bill Gates positioned Windows Vista as software for consumers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Advances in Office 2007, meanwhile, continue Microsoft's ongoing mission to integrate Office with its server products, while making many of the suite's existing capabilities easier for users to actually find. ®


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Multi-strike move
Multi-strike moves are moves that strike an opponent more than one time in the same turn. Most multi-strike moves will hit the opponent 2-5 times in a turn, but some work differently. Multi-strike moves generally have low base power and imperfect accuracy to compensate for the fact that they hit multiple times. Bide and Counter only take the final hit of a multi-strike move into consideration.
Generation I
If an opponent is knocked out by a multi-strike move, the game does not state how many times the attack hit.
Although only the first strike can be a critical hit, each successive one will deal the same amount of damage. Multi-strike moves end instantly upon breaking a substitute. Bide and Counter deal damage based on the last strike alone.
Generation II
If the target faints, the number of strikes is shown afterward.
Each strike has an independent chance of being a critical hit.
Multi-strike moves can now continue hitting even after breaking a substitute, then dealing damage directly to the targeted Pokémon. If a multi-strike move activates a target's Focus Band, no subsequent hits can knock it out.
If the user is holding a King's Rock, the chance of causing the target to flinch is independent of how many times the move hit (i.e., always ~12% in Generation II).
Generation III
The number of hits is now shown before the target faints.
Color Change will activate after the first hit of a multi-strike move, possibly changing the type effectiveness of the remaining strikes.
Each strike from a multi-strike move has an independent chance of activating an Ability that activates on taking damage, and each strike of a multi-strike move that makes contact has an independent chance of activating an Ability that activates on contact. If a Pokémon using a multi-strike move falls asleep or faints between strikes, such as due to Effect Spore or Rough Skin, the move will end immediately.
If the user is holding a King's Rock, each strike now has an independent chance of causing the target to flinch.
Shell Bell activates after each strike, considering the damage from that strike only.
Generation IV
If a multi-strike move activates a target's Focus Sash, no subsequent hits can knock it out. Each strike has an independent chance of activating a Razor Fang. Shell Bell activates after the last strike, considering the damage from all of the strikes.
Pokémon with Skill Link will always hit five times when using a 2-5 hit multi-strike move.
Generation V
The number of strikes is now shown after the target faints.
The Focus Sash, Focus Band, and Sturdy need to activate for each individual strike. A Focus Band can still activate repeatedly to prevent fainting, but each chance is independent.
Color Change now activates after the last hit of a multi-strike move, so type effectiveness will not change during the attack.
Each individual strike from a physical multi-strike move will activate Weak Armor. Each individual strike from a Dark-type multi-strike move will activate Justified; however, a Grass-type multi-strike move will only activate Sap Sipper once. Each individual strike from a contact multi-strike move will activate a Rocky Helmet.
Each strike has an independent chance of activating Stench (but this does not stack with the Razor Fang or King's Rock).
Items like Cell Battery etc. activate on the first strike and are consumed in the first strike itself.
Generation VI
Parental Bond turns most single-strike damaging moves into multi-strike moves that hit twice per use.
If a contact multi-strike move is blocked by Spiky Shield or King's Shield, the negative effect will only apply once.
Generation VII
Each individual strike from a multi-strike move will activate Stamina.
List of multi-strike moves
2-5 strikes per turn
Most multi-strike moves will hit an opponent two, three, four, or five times in one turn. These moves are more likely to hit two or three times than four or five, but will always hit five times when used by a Pokémon with the Skill Link Ability.
In Generations IV and earlier, moves in the below list will hit on average 3 times, provided that the move does not miss. From Generation V onward, the average number of hits is now ~3.167, provided that the move does not miss.
- Average power is equal to the move's base power per hit multiplied by the average number of hits, provided that the move does not miss. To take accuracy into account in the average power, multiply the two together (this does not handle modifiers to accuracy and evasion, including taking aim and No Guard).
- If Battle Bond is activated, Water Shuriken will always hit three times, and its base power will increase to 20.
2 strikes per turn
Several multi-strike moves hit an opponent exactly twice in one turn. For the most part, these moves are found on fewer Pokémon, several of them being signature moves, and generally have higher power than other multi-strike moves, as they only hit twice. Moves affected by Parental Bond become this type of multi-strike move.
Uniquely for a multi-strike move, Dragon Darts can hit different targets with each of its strikes.
3 strikes per turn
Triple Kick and Triple Axel works differently than other multi-strike moves. It can hit an opponent up to three times per turn, but its base power of 10 and 20, respectively will increase by 10 and 20, respectively with each subsequent hit, so the first, second, and third hits have powers of 10 or 20, 20 or 40, and 30 or 60, respectively. Also unlike other multi-strike moves, each hit has its own accuracy check, and if one hit misses, the entire move ends.
Surging Strikes works like other 2-hit moves, except that it always hits 3 times instead of 2.
- For Triple Kick and Triple Axel, effective power is average power with all three accuracy checks taken into account (modifiers to accuracy and evasion, including taking aim and No Guard, are not considered).
1-6 strikes per turn
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Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it.
- Double Slap is the only multi-strike move with "double" in its name that can hit 2-5 times.
- Triple Kick is the only multi-strike move that powers up on each consecutive hit, and the only one in which subsequent hits can miss.
- Beat Up is the only move that can hit the target more than five times per turn.
|This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.


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Bacteremic disseminated tuberculosis in sub-saharan Africa: a prospective cohort study.
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BACKGROUND: Disseminated tuberculosis is a major health problem in countries where generalized human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection epidemics coincide with high tuberculosis incidence rates; data are limited on patient ...
Leptospirosis among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania.
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We enrolled consecutive febrile admissions to two hospitals in Moshi, Tanzania. Confirmed leptospirosis was defined as a ≥ 4-fold increase in microscopic agglutination test (MAT) titer; probable leptospirosis as reciprocal ...
Etiologies of illness among patients meeting integrated management of adolescent and adult illness district clinician manual criteria for severe infections in northern Tanzania: implications for empiric antimicrobial therapy.
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We describe the laboratory-confirmed etiologies of illness among participants in a hospital-based febrile illness cohort study in northern Tanzania who retrospectively met Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness ...
Etiology of severe non-malaria febrile illness in Northern Tanzania: a prospective cohort study.
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INTRODUCTION: The syndrome of fever is a commonly presenting complaint among persons seeking healthcare in low-resource areas, yet the public health community has not approached fever in a comprehensive manner. In many areas, ...
Chikungunya and dengue fever among hospitalized febrile patients in northern Tanzania.
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Consecutive febrile admissions were enrolled at two hospitals in Moshi, Tanzania. Confirmed acute Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), and flavivirus infection were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction ...


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First Human Genome Project Mapping Goal Is Met.
First Human Genome Project Mapping Goal Is Met.
September 1994
BETHESDA, Md. - An international team of researchers has published a detailed linkage map of the human genome, meeting one of the project's scientific goals a full year ahead of schedule.
The map and an accompanying article will appear in the September 30 issue of Science.
"We can no longer say tracking down a specific disease gene is made difficult by lack of a good map," said Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NHGRI). "We have a good map."
NHGRI is the component of the National Institutes of Health charged with overseeing NIH's role in the Human Genome Project (HGP).
Linkage maps consist of an array of DNA patterns, called markers, positioned on chromosomes. They are the first tool gene hunters use in the search for a disease gene because they tell the scientist which general area of the chromosome contains the gene.
Four years ago, HGP planners established specifications for the quality of linkage map they wanted to produce during the coming five years. Those specifications called for high-quality markers to be established between 2 and 5 centimorgans apart throughout the genome. (A centimorgan is roughly 1 million bases.) Markers on the new map contain high-quality genetic information, are located on average less than 1 centimorgan apart, and are available to the research community a year sooner than planners expected. Information about the markers is available in public databases.
Coordinated by Jeffrey C. Murray, M.D., and his coworkers at the Cooperative Human Linkage Center (CHLC), the published map is the result of work by four major groups in the United States and Europe and hundreds of individual scientists worldwide. Headquartered at the University of Iowa, CHLC is one of NHGRI's Genome Science and Technology Centers.
"Determining the location of genes, including altered genes which cause disease, on human chromosomes is the first step in determining the causes of genetic disorders, whether it's a rare disease or a common one such as diabetes, heart disease, or cancer," said Dr. Murray.In addition to CHLC, major contributors to the map include the French company Genethon, NHGRI grantees at Yale University and the University of Utah, and the NHGRI (NIH)-Centre d'Etudes du Polymorphisme Humain mapping consortium.
The new map is a compilation of linkage data generated during the past decade. In addition to the high density of markers, the new map and has several technological advantages over older maps. First, most (3617) of the 5840 markers are of the type known as short tandem repeat polymorphisms (STRPs), which are easy to trace in DNA samples from extended family members. Second, these markers are easy to use in the laboratory; they can be amplified in DNA by the polymerase chain reaction. And third, the markers are close enough together to bridge to a more detailed map, known as a physical map, which consists of cloned DNA pieces.
"A particular strength of current human genetic linkage maps is that their construction ... allows for the immediate integration of linkage maps with the developing physical maps," the authors say.
Scientists first linked a disease to a human chromosome in the 1930s when they associated both color blindness and hemophila with the X chromosome. Since then, several types of linkage markers have been developed and improved. In 1986, the gene for the immune disorder chronic granulomatous disease was the first gene to be isolated using linkage maps in the process. That procedure for isolating genes is now termed "positional cloning." Since then, 36 genes have been isolated using linkage mapping and positional cloning methods.
The map and the report, "A Comprehensive Human Linkage Map with Centimorgan Density," will appear in the September 30, 1994 issue of Science. Authors are: Jeffrey C. Murray, Kenneth H. Buetow, James L. Weber, Susan Ludwigsen, Titia Scherpbier-Heddema, Frank Manion, John Quillen, Val C. Sheffield, Geoffry M. Duyk, Jean Weissenbach, Gabor Gyapay, Colette Dib, Jean Morrissette, G. Mark Lathrop, Alain Vignal, Ray White, Norisada Matsunami, Steven Gerken, Roberta Melis, Hans Albertsen, Rosemarie Plaetke, Shannon Odelberg, David Ward, Jean Dausset, Daniel Cohen, and Howard Cann.
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When you set out to make a big-budget, two-hour-plus 3D movie that takes place in zero-gravity and stars a woman stranded on a space station trying to get back to her kid on Earth, there are going to be problems.
Writer-director Alfonso Cuaron struggled for months to get a female lead--a character scripted to basically carry the entire film--before finally getting Sandra Bullock on board to star in "Gravity."
But the search went on for so long that he eventually lost Robert Downey Jr., who had agreed to playing a supporting role. There aren't many people who could replace RDJ without giving up a lot in terms of star power and chops, but George Clooney qualifies.
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Clooney will play an astronaut who, along with Bullock survives a space disaster, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With any luck, the film will start shooting in the spring.
The long wait will allow Clooney to finish shooting his next directorial effort, "Ides of March," a political drama based on the play "Farragut North." The film will star Ryan Gosling as a young press secretary who falls prey to some backroom politics.


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Carrie Underwood's Post-'American Idol' House Is So Modest! [Pictures]
Carrie Underwood didn't exactly go crazy with her money after winning American Idol in 2005. She went out and bought herself a house, and though it was very nice, you can see in the pictures above that it was actually pretty humble for a budding superstar.
Underwood's winnings when she was crowned the Idol champ at the end of Season 4 reportedly included a recording contract worth at least a million dollars, use of a private jet for a year and a Mustang convertible. She bought a 3,099-square-foot home in the affluent Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tenn., that year for $384,000, and as the pictures above show, the 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath home was quite nice, but it's certainly not the kind of elaborate mansion you'd picture for a huge star. The stone and stucco home in a gated community features a library, a vaulted ceiling and lovely amenities throughout, but it's not much different than any upper-mid-level corporate executive might live in.
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Underwood was a huge success right out of the gate with the release of her debut album, Some Hearts, in 2005, and according to Zillow, she bought another house in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood in 2007, and listed her home in Franklin for $419,900 before finally selling it for the reduced rate of $372,500.
The country music superstar married hockey player Mike Fisher in 2010, and they purchased 400 acres of land in Franklin, an area which is home to many top country stars. They built a custom estate there, but listed that residence in early 2019 and moved to their dream home.
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Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points and the New York Knicks ruined Washington's home opener, beating the Wizards 117-110 on Saturday night.
Anthony hit a jumper with 1:35 to play to give New York a 108-106 lead. Langston Galloway added a 3-pointer with 1:03 left to make it 111-106.
With the Wizards trailing 111-110 with 21.5 seconds to play, Galloway was able to call a timeout in front of his bench with Otto Porter grappling with him for the ball.
Anthony added two free throws with 20.4 seconds to play for a 113-110 lead.
Washington failed to start a season 3-0 for the first time since 2005-06.
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1 dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at PoconoLONG POND, Pa. (AP) — A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after a rain-shortened NASCAR race Sunday killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said.
By: DAN GELSTON,AP Sports Writer, Associated Press
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after a rain-shortened NASCAR race Sunday killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said.
It wasn't immediately clear if all 10 people were actually struck by lightning in the parking lot behind the grandstand, nor was it known whether one or multiple strikes occurred during the thunderstorm.
Two people were taken to hospitals in critical condition after the strike, racetrack officials said. President Brandon Igdalsky said one of them later died at Pocono Medical Center, but he provided no further details.
"Unfortunately, a member of our raceway family here, a fan, has passed away," he said.
The race was called because of storms, with 98 of the 160 scheduled laps completed. The track posted warnings on its Twitter page near the end of the race encouraging fans to "seek shelter as severe lightning and heavy winds are in our area."
Jeff Gordon, who won the race, said he could hear a huge crack as he walked down the pit road during the storm. "You could tell it was very close," he said. "I mean, that's the thing that's going to take away from the victory, is the fact that somebody was affected by that."
One person remained hospitalized in critical condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, said Bob Pleban, a track spokesman. The other five people were taken to various hospitals with minor to moderate injuries, he said.
"Certainly our thoughts are with them," Gordon said. "I hope everything is OK there."
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