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Flames exit Chapel Hill tournament after loss to Duke
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The Liberty Flames men's volleyball team finished seventh out of 13 teams Saturday, after falling to Duke University in three sets during the first round of tournament play at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The Flames began the tournament with a loss to North Carolina State in straight sets, 16-25 and 17-25. Jamie Stedjan led Liberty in the match with five kills on 12 attempts for a .333 kill percentage and three digs.
Virginia Commonwealth University took down Liberty in straight sets in the Flames' next matchup. The Rams took the first frame 25-20 and narrowly held off Liberty in the second, 27-25.
A two-set sweep of the host team highlighted the Flames' play Saturday, as the Tar Heels lost in straight sets to Liberty 25-16 and 25-20. Sam Eisbrenner led the Flames with three of eight kills (.375) and three blocks, and Josiah Williams added four digs and one ace.
Liberty faced the Blue Devils in the opening round of tournament play, losing the first set 21-25. The Flames battled back in the second set, winning 25-20 and forcing a deciding third set, which Duke took 15-13.
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An amusement company faces manslaughter charges four years after a young woman died from a fall from one of their climbing walls during a concert at the Comcast Center in Mansfield.
An amusement company faces manslaughter charges four years after a young woman died from a fall from one of their climbing walls during a concert at the Comcast Center in Mansfield.
Kaplan and Robbins Inc. was indicted Thursday by a Bristol County grand jury on manslaughter charges, District Attorney Sam Sutter announced.
Stacy Sarrette, 24, of Saugus died as a result of injuries suffered from a fall while climbing a rock wall at the former Tweeter Center in Mansfield in 2005.
Kaplan and Robbins Inc. was indicted for corporate manslaughter due to its alleged reckless and wanton negligence, according to the DA's office. The corporation will also be arraigned in Superior Court on a date yet to be determined.
The case was investigated by Trooper Anne Marie Robinson of District Attorney Sutter's State Police Unit.
"Our lengthy investigation into this incident revealed this corporation, through its egregious conduct, failed to protect Ms. Sarrette," Sutter said. "When a corporation offers entertainment or rides that have some risk for patrons, the company must ensure that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of those who participate. In this case, that clearly was not done. The corporation's actions with respect to the lack of training provided to its employees and the location of the ride, were both reckless and wanton."
On May 22, 2005, Sarrette was racing her cousin Kaitlyn Mulcahy up the Rocky Mountain Inflatable Wall at the WKLB Country Music Festival before falling and bouncing on her back and hitting the back of her head on the sidewalk. She suffered severe back, head and neck injuries. She was declared brain dead on her birthday and died on May 27.Also indicted
Scott J. Douglass, 48, of 114 Martin St. Rehoboth, proprietor of Quality Concrete, 254 Tripp St., Fall River, is charged with a single count of manslaughter in connection with the Aug. 18, 2007, death of 9-year-old Codey Duclos, of Fall River.
Duclos died a day after falling into a concrete sand hopper while playing on a pile of sand at the site of the Quality Concrete plant.
Douglass will be arraigned in Bristol County Superior Court on a date yet to be determined.
"Our investigation shows young Codey Duclos' tragic death could have been averted were it not for the wanton and reckless conduct of by Mr. Douglass, in his role as owner and proprietor of Quality Concrete, in failing to take any steps to install safeguards that would have protected his employees and the children that were known to play in the area." Sutter said.
"My job, at its foundation, is to protect the public's safety," Sutter said of the two indictments. "Let these indictments serve as a clear signal that the Bristol County District Attorney's Office will prosecute those who recklessly jeopardize the public's safety, whether it be a citizen or a corporation.
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A national organization is helping to bring some special joy to military brides-to-be.
Brides Across America has helped launch a movement that features individuals and retailers donating bridal gowns to military brides.
Ariel Arnson, 24, is the owner of Aeva Couture Bridal in Wales. Arnson played host Tuesday to several women searching for gowns for their special day.
Arnson has 80 gown set aside for the Brides Across America program. She said the only method of payment accepted is a smile.
"This is what brings me joy," Arnson said as she watched Kristen Lackner try on dresses. "To help them find something for their union will bring them that same kind of joy on their special day."
Lackner's fiance is currently stationed overseas.
"It is hard," she said of the long-distance engagement. "But we can send pictures. He finally got some of the boxes I was able to send him. It's taken two weeks."
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Saturday, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim started off with a designer breakfast with Tory Burch, who presented her 2014 collection at The Shore Club. The suits were serene shades of blue that were reminiscent of beautiful vases with delicate floral patterns. Other pieces from the collection bore tropical patterns in navy with pops of red, a trend carried over from the first day of shows.
Speaking of the tents, Saturday's shows lent to trends unseen the previous day, like a return to high-waisted suits, as well as trends that carried over, like suits in solid reds. Here are just a few of the highlights from yesterday's shows.
It was a throwback to the days of pin-ups at Nicolita. The show started with a dapper gentleman in a white suit walking the catwalk while smoking an electric cigarette. Afterward, the first model down the runway was Lisa Pliner, the shoe designer and reality show cameo maker. She was followed by a bevy of high-waisted suits in black and white or peach with chevron and polka dot detail. The retro show had a flavor that reflected Miami's Cuban heritage and bygone days of beach glamour.
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At Agua di Lara, the suits blurred the lines of style, mixing Deco shapes with almost Hermes-esque gold rope detail and Deco patterns with somewhat tribal shapes. It was an interesting mix that resulted in standout pieces like a teal and white maillot, as well as a sheer black jumpsuit cover-up. And like the day before, there were animal prints in the form of zebra stripes in bold orange and pink hues, sometimes mixed together.
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The most anticipated show of the night, Mara Hoffman, this year's Mercedes-Benz Presents Designer, proved she still does the boho traveler unlike any other swimwear designer. This year, her muse traveled to India and on her journey she wore tribal prints in neon with graphic prints of Ganesha, bustiers with heavy purple accents, swim shirts with evil eyes, flutter tops paired with matching bags and body conscious dresses whose prints were so bold you could see them coming from a mile away. Standout pieces from the designer included a long white maxi dress with Indian-inspired fabric atop and a neon peach high-waisted bikini with black cutout overlay. The other standout was the hair, which featured tassels and mirrors that looked to be straight from the streets of an Indian market worked into ponytails.
While not at The Raleigh, Chloe still managed to make a splash at Soho House in presenting its first swim collection in the U.S. The line was perfectly Chloe with solid suits in peach, navy and white. Triangle tops with tie sides, flutter tops with skirt-like bottoms, classic one-pieces—the line featured a little bit of everything for every body type. The standouts were the black and white stripe pieces that came in the form of boy shorts and solid black flutter tops, as well as figure-flattering one pieces in the same print. As seen at other shows, laser cutouts were present, atop a cute yellow bikini. And like with so many of the shows this season, solid red suits all cruised down the runway, proving it very well may be the overall trend of the season thus far.
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This past weekend I was involved with MSPP academically, voluntarily, and socially! On Saturday I attended a very successful Interview Day. I was a student interviewer who helped to lead the group interview round, as well as five individual interviews. I was very impressed with the quality of applicants and their ability to answer difficult questions on the spot. Many of the interviewees had done ample amounts of volunteer work and some had challenging internship experiences that may help them during their first year at Practicum. The next Interview Day is March 12th. Check out my previous blog for some advice about what to expect on the big day (sadly, I will not be able to volunteer again)!
Saturday night I organized a fondue party for some of my classmates. I think that I ate enough for an entire week! Each friend brought ingredients and we had two different kinds of cheese fondue and one oil fondue for meats. We had tasty French bread, fresh Focaccia, apples, and tortellini for dipping in the cheese. My favorite, however, was the chocolate fondue for dessert, which was accompanied by rice crispy treats, marshmallows, a variety of Oreos, pound cake, and pretzels—I'm starting to drool just writing about it! It was a fun and relaxing evening where we could kick back and have a good time.
However, Sunday I was rudely awakened into reality when I realized that I had 20 annotated bibliographies for my Capstone project due the following day! Luckily, we had been turning in 5 annotations each week in February, but we had our last 5 due in edition to edits from the remaining 15! I'm relieved that I'm finished writing them, but now I have an outline to start preparing that will be extremely time consuming. At least when I sit down to write my paper, I will be thankful that I have taken many steps along the way!


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The firing of Brett Ratner by the Academy Awards from the job as producer of the Oscar Telecast, and the fawning apology extracted from him by GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination) and other Gay groups, shows who really runs Hollywood. The female audience!
Ratner, the director of the upcoming Eddie Murphy/Ben Stiller action-comedy "Tower Heist," along with the "Rush Hour" series (starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker) and the final modern-day X men movie (X-Men: The Last Stand) was fired from the show after saying in an interview that "rehearsals are for fags." He then was forced to issue several groveling apologies. You can't get much more Jewish than Ratner, who spent High School according to Wikipedia in Israel. But Jews do not run Hollywood, rather it is gays, or rather the female audience that likes gays very much.
The CW actress (from the revival of "90210") Jessica Lowndes has released a song where she wishes she was gay. That's her to the right and above btw. Lady Gaga got her start, and rakes in tons of money, by appealing to gays. Katy Perry released "I Kissed a Girl," and Simone Battle released a song and video entitled "He Likes Boys" about an unrequited crush on a gay man. You could argue that nearly all Broadway shows, the X-Factor, American Idol, the Sing-off, the Voice, and all the other musical competition reality shows are big gay wonderfests aimed directly at women.
Even Tony Kushner is more gay than Jew. Kushner is very anti-Zionist, has advocated a single state in place of Israel and the Palestinians, and Zionists sought unsuccessfully to prevent him from being honored with a honorary doctorate at Brandeis University and there was an abortive attempt by City University of New York to revoke his honorary degree over anti-Israel statements. Barbara Ehrenreich among others rose to his defense. Kushner married Mark Harris, an editor at Entertainment Weekly, in Provincetown NY in 2008. Kushner's work in in the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's "Munich" is pretty much in accord with Queers for Palestine. Most gays are fairly anti-Israel and also anti-Jewish.
A goodly portion of the "alternative right" is mired in conspiracy theories, the main one being that the West fell into disrepair and despair, filled with PC nonsense, low fertility, mass non-White immigration, multiculturalism, and disgust at the culture and history and heritage of Western Civilization … because of those "devious Jews!" In their view, those devious mind control rays just took over the poor helpless and defenseless West. Others hold that Gramscian Long Marches (the original was a desperate, fighting retreat not advance) through institutions allowed "mind control" by corruption.
I hold that either explanation, either "those devious Jews" or devious Frankfurt School intellectuals (Andrew Breitbart's view expressed on the Adam Carolla Show) are at fault, nor is some combination the reason for the West's decay.
Rather, it is broad social forces, moved by technological changes that impact marriage, family, spending, wealth, and other factors that has led to this state of affairs. In other words, history as it has always been — broad forces affected in the exact wave by individual valor and cowardice, often in surprising ways. Individuals can and do make differences, both for good or bad, but cannot fundamentally change the tides. The way people marry, have kids, create wealth,consume wealth, make war, peace, and trade has the most effect on society. Not ideas that the vast majority including elites have only the most fuzzy grasp upon. If you went back in time and queried Castillian Grandees of the fifteenth century, on the Holy Trinity, only a few would have been able to understand it and explain it to you, and probably none what the Albigensian Heresy of a few hundred years prior had been. That's the elite.
Let us look at Jews in America today. Clearly, they do not run Hollywood, otherwise the concerns of Jews (assimilation versus losing one's identity and Jewish heritage) would be paramount in movies and TV. Every second movie would be Exodus and Steven Spielberg would have made "Munich" in the style of Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawks. Ratner would have won, not lost, the contest of strength against the gays. TV and movies would be filled with positive Jewish characters and positive portrayals of Israel and America. Movies like Yankee Doodle Dandy, produced by Jack Warner would predominate.
That moment has clearly passed, with gays now being the "new Jews." Most Jews today hold mildly anti-Israel, anti-Zionist sentiments (as evinced from the results of the efforts to punish Kushner) at best, awash as they are in the Yuppie mold of modern liberalism. The casual anti-semitism of modern liberalism as epitomized by Occupy Wall Street shows up in most Jews wishing that Israel would simply go away. Being as it is an embarrassing, working-class reminder of ethnic and unfashionable identity that is as "un-cool" as the battered easy chair of Frasier Crane's father on "Frasier."
Now, "Glee" features overt teen gay sex, and gay-themed characters and plotlines are everywhere. The GLAAD report on 2011 TV shows:
"While the number of LGBT characters is down, some of the most popular shows with critics and viewers such as 'Glee,' 'True Blood' and 'The Good Wife' weave storylines about gay and lesbian characters into the fabric of the show," says GLAAD's acting president, Mike Thompson. "… Americans expect to see the diversity of our country represented in their favorite programs and that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people."
FOX is the most inclusive network, according to the GLAAD study, with LGBT characters representing about 7 percent of the population on its scripted series. "Glee" has several prominent gay roles, and "Bones" and several of the network's animated comedies feature LGBT characters as well.
GLAAD counted 19 gay characters among the 647 series regulars on broadcast series set to air in 2011-12 (although that number could change a little as details about characters are revealed), along with an additional 14 recurring LGBT characters.
On "mainstream" cable networks (not including channels like Logo whose focus is already on the LGBT community), GLAAD found 28 regular LGBT characters, down from 35 in last year's study. The number of recurring characters rose, however, so the total of 54 is in line with 53 last year.
Why is this? Why are gays so popular? Why is GLAAD more powerful than Brett Ratner (who has a successful career and has given Eddie Murphy a job, a favor Murphy returned by resigning as host of the Oscars)? Its because of the domination of TV and movies by the female audience. Which is very friendly to gays.
Women find gay men interesting (and author "slash fiction" whereby straight characters like Captain Kirk and Spock have gay sex). And also, fabulous. Not being interested in them sexually they are men whom they can deal with on a non-stressful basis. The result of a vastly extended mate market, with women "on the market" and "available" for years and years, leads to fatigue with constant approaches by men they find sexually invisible. Gay men offer a relief from that, the niche filled by brothers and fathers when the nuclear family existed.
Gay men's appeal to women is at least in part driven by the failure of the nuclear family, and declining birth rates, leaving many women single children bereft of male relatives. Gay men offer the next best substitute.
Gay men further only have cultural power in the way that Jews during the Golden Age of Hollywood had cultural power — by offering stories and themes and creations that appealed to enough of a mass audience. It is true that Lady Gaga made a fortune appealing mostly to gay men and women. And that Tyler Perry made the most money last year of anyone in Hollywood. But few White people go to see Tyler Perry's movies, and his formula for success is to make cheap movies that only Black people are interested in seeing. He's the only one out there competing for that audience, so he gets pretty much most of it no matter how poorly executed his films are. Lady Gaga in twenty years will be as forgotten as Debbie Gibson is today. The same for Justin Bieber.
Meanwhile Jews like Siegel and Schuster exerted immense cultural influence (even if they mostly got cheated for creating Superman). The same with Jack Kirby, or Stan Lee, and the other nearly all Jewish writer/artist creators of comic book characters. By offering tales of nerdy guys who never got the girl transformed into heroes, they found a fairly wide group of guys (nerdy White guys who never got the girl) who lived vicariously through these (often faintly ridiculous) characters. The current flipside is the Twilight phenomena, where girls and their Moms lust after sparkly semi-gay pouty vampires. Following an ordinary girl who gets the hunkiest man alive (and has the second-hunkiest fighting the hunkiest for her favors). Even his vampire babies! This from another "niche culture" (Mormon Housewife) author. Just as Louis Armstrong taught a lot of White kids to swing, because he provided dance music, in the Depression, as did say Duke Ellington, Jews and Mormon housewives when offering stuff that a substantial portion of the population loves, can transform the culture.
For Jews in Golden Age Hollywood or Comic Books, it was a Yankee Doodle Dandy story of assimilation and simultaneous embrace of immigrant roots. Superman WAS American to the core, because he was (basically a variant of Moses delivered as a baby to the Promised Land — America!) For Stephanie Meyer it was the longing of everygirl to get that one guy every girl dreamed of. For White teens in the Depression, it was dance, dance, dance. When the need was met, the culture was transformed into the specific shape of the individual artist. Respect for a master musician who made you dance, and was Black. Embrace of America and the Flag, with a living super-Flag. Getting that hunky guy by being special and magic (OK maybe the last is not so healthy). The need when filled changed things. But the need had to exist.
Tyler Perry is not going to change the culture. Neither is Lady Gaga. Katy Perry might, because millions of girls like her and want to be her (not the least of which is Mr. Katy Perry, Russell Brand). Gays are changing the culture because they are filling the need of millions of women. Who want tales of effortless sex with hunky guys and fabulous fashion, a life of eternal singlehood and choice (Sex and the City, originally written by Gay men for a Gay cast). Or stories of vampires, rich kids, and other hunks to drool over. Or fabulous singing and dancing where your native talent overcomes plain looks to land that hunky guy (Glee). Egged on by a fabulous best gay friend.
Gays writing and creating just for Gays, on their own, would be like Siegel and Schuster creating "Gefilte Fish Man" who has the magic power to eat as much Gefilte Fish as possible. Of no interest to pretty much anyone outside of the creator's group. Gays exist as a power group, more powerful than Jews (see Ratner, Brett, and the defenestration of) in naked power struggles because they deliver more of the desired audience: women. Who very much like their gays, thank you very much, which way is the next showing of "Wicked?"
And all of this is really just a reflection of social reality. Nerdy guys made Superman a hit from the first issue, along with many other comic book characters, because he filled that need. As did Twilight. Gays only exercise more power than successful producers (who are also Jewish as it gets) because they are beloved of, and deliver to advertisers and producers, the female audience. Who cast in very long lasting singleton choice-hell, demand tales of hunks and guys who will never hit on them, but offer sound advice on how to nail that Alpha.
The solution then, given that gays tilt wildly left (and demand a general libertine undermining of society that is in direct conflict with not only straight White guys but social health for everyone) is to change the conditions that give them power. Gays are not powerful because of their numbers or innate fabulousness. They are powerful because the specific condition of millions of single or late married women make them so.
Women generally happy with their husbands don't care much about gays. Even if only children, they inherit in-laws, helpers with child-care, and a husband they care about and can confide in. They don't need fabulous consumption and fashion and girlfriends and endless courtship to get the emptiness inside filled up, family and husbands do that already.
The solution is thus blindingly obvious and tremendously difficult. The restoration of the nuclear family. Nearly all the ills of modern society, the decline of the West, would be arrested if not reversed by the restoration of the nuclear family. This means generally, women marrying at an age (around 19-25) when they can get the best man available. And staying married, for the most part. This is extremely hard, because modern society has enormous incentives for women to stay single as long as possible chasing Alphas. To the detriment (maybe) of the women involved and of society as a whole unquestionably.
Women giving this enormous power to gays is neither normal nor healthy. At no time in the past has this ever happened in the West. It bodes ill for the stability and wealth generation of the West.


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This is veteran actor Jeff Steitzer. He's done Broadway. Law & Order. Oh, and if you've ever played Halo, chances are you've heard his voice more than Master Chief's, Sgt. Johnson's and Cortana's combined.
Why? Because he's the voice of the game's multiplayer announcer, meaning any time you've heard a gravelly, distant voice grunt "DOUBLE KILL', or "SLAYER", Steitzer is the man behind it. Stay tuned until the end for an awesome Dick Cheney gag.
Like all good voice actors, he looks nothing like you expect, does he?
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Bram Cohen, creator of the widely used BitTorrent software, has inked an agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America under which links to torrents of copyrighted movies would be removed from BitTorrent.com's search engine.
Users searching for copies of movies via BitTorrent.com's search engine will begin to come up empty-handed as links to files pegged as infringing by the MPAA are purged from the index. However, the agreement does nothing to keep copyrighted material from being torrented; it just will make some torrents more difficult to find. Private tracker sites that manage to elude the legal machinations of the MPAA will remain online, and there are always trackerless torrents. However, the pact may make life tougher for some torrent sites as they require a critical mass of users in order to effectively distribute content.
After the MGM v. Grokster decision by the US Supreme Court, which held that software developers could be held liable for damages if their products "encouraged infringement," talks between the MPAA and Cohen intensified. According to MPAA CEO Dan Glickman, the goal was to discover "how we can work together collaboratively and not be at each other's throats."
Recently, BitTorrent received US$8.5 million in venture capital funding. Cohen and BT's backers hope to better commercialize the software, which was originally envisioned as a better means of distributing software. The pact between the studios and BT is a step in that direction. Glickman hopes that the agreement signals the intentions of the content producers to use newer technologies as a means of content distribution.
From the MPAA's standpoint, BitTorrent would make a fantastic vehicle for downloading movies, if there were strong enough DRM in place. Delivery might take a bit longer, but the industry would save money on bandwidth. Recently, NBC and Universal announced a new P2P movie download service which uses Peer Impact, a "legit" file sharing service. Users would download movies over the network, which would then remain viewable for 24 hours after the download completes. The files would remain on the user's PC for 30 days afterwards. Again, it sounds good if you're NBC and Universal, but I'm not crazy about only getting to watch a movie for 24 hours and then keeping it around for another month to seed other users—even if it means I get "Peer Cash" for my bandwidth. AOL is doing something similar with its new AOL Hi-Q streaming video format, which will be used with its upcoming In2TV service.
The promise of leveraging new content distribution systems in order to deliver a value-added movie-viewing experience to consumers while maximizing shareholder value sounds great. But at the heart of the agreement between Cohen and the MPAA is something much more simple: a quick-and-easy way for the MPAA to deliver DMCA takedown notices to BitTorrent. It gets Hollywood's main product out of the official tracker search engine while providing Cohen immunity from future lawsuits.


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She was about five weeks old. It was too young, but "Take her now, or we'll take care of her." They didn't mean letting her stay with her mother for a few more weeks. At least she was weaned.
She was the not-very-runty runt of the litter. Black, with the tiniest of white spots on her belly. Her mother was half Siamese, and her father was presumed to be the same Siamese that was her uncle. Being black earned her the name "Humor."
She wasn't happy about being taken away from her mother. She spent the first evening yowling at the top of her lungs. The first night, too. Putting her on my chest, where she could feel my heartbeat, helped for about five minutes. Eventually, she went back into the cat carrier, as far from the bedroom as she could be, with towels over it to muffle the noise and just a little bit of air space left. She was still loud.
Over time, she settled into a bedtime routine that involved lying across the back of my neck and getting her face scritched for a little while before prowling the house, yowling, of course. She'd settle down after a while, but she never did lose the tendency to wander into a corner and yowl like a lost soul. She'd come running out if you called her name, terribly happy to find people, but she spent more time lost in closets than any cat I've known.
Once she got bigger, the routine changed again: demand I go to bed, stand on me and knead in an ecstatic trance until she came to again, then lie down for petting with her face in mine until she got bored. I was Mom.
In fact, I was all her people, and anyone else was viewed with suspicion at best. Strange voices in the house meant she was nowhere to be found, although if people stuck around for long, they might be graced with a glimpse of her. Those who came by often enough might be allowed to pet her briefly. Eventually, she allowed my husband to pick her up and hold her.
She was never the bravest of cats. She ran away when I sneezed, which was sadly and funnily ironic in such a danderous cat. Trips to the vet involved the drawing of blood–my blood–for getting her into the cat carrier the first time. Once we were in the car, she had to be let out and snuggled up on my chest if we wanted any hope of hearing other traffic.
She was determined, though. Enough heat was worth lying across the vanes of the radiator. No matter how many times she was yelled at for playing monster under the bed, ankles were always fair game. When I sat in front of the computer, the back of my chair was her preferred spot, with just a bit of her draped over my shoulder. When I read in the big, comfy chair, she'd settle onto one arm for a little while after enough petting, then wander between me and the book when she decided I'd ignored her long enough. And people food…well, she'd generally stay at a polite distance as long as I was actually eating. After that, all bets were off.
It was the eating that tipped me off. Humor had always been good about telling me when she needed more food or water: meow, wander in the appropriate direction, look accusing until I followed and fixed her problems for her. It took a few days to notice that, while she was getting fussy about her water being dirty, she wasn't making much dent in her food. Last I saw her alive, she was busily tucking into some moist food that I'd given her to tempt her palate.
This morning, the moist food was mostly gone, and she was lying underneath the computer desk, where the warm air from the fan blows. She was racked out on her side , the way she usually slept. Usually, however, she would wake when I walked into the room. Not today, and not ever again.
I made my husband make sure she wasn't just ill. I'm making him move the body, as well. She was the softest cat I've ever met, a medium-hair made up of just the fluffy underfur. I want to remember that, and I want to remember her as warm and pliant, tucked under my chin or curled neatly into my lap. I have seventeen years of those memories, of her being very much my cat, and those are the memories I want to keep fresh.
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LES ESSARTS, France (AP) — He's a 30-something American, a retired former rider and crowned with success at the Tour de France.
And Jonathan Vaughters is also a leading anti-doping crusader in cycling.
Sunday afternoon, Garmin-Cervelo riders hoisted Vaughters, their manager, in the air in glory after the nine-man squad won the Tour's team time trial in Stage 2, a flat 14 miles in and around Les Essarts in western France.
Competing in its fourth Tour, Garmin-Cervelo was popping the champagne after its first-ever stage win at cycling's greatest race.
For Vaughters, the victory was especially sweet because Thor Hushovd of Norway — a Garmin-Cervelo rider and former teammate years ago — took the yellow jersey off Philippe Gilbert, a Belgian who won the first stage.
"This is an extraordinary dream, I'm very proud, I'm very happy to take the jersey — and that the team won the stage," said Hushovd, who won the team time trial at the 2001 Tour with Vaughters when both rode for now-defunct French squad Credit Agricole. "This is a great day, we did a really good team effort, everything worked perfectly."
The Norwegian leads teammate David Millar in second, with the same time. Cadel Evans of Australia is third, 1 second back.
Vaughters calls Garmin-Cervelo "an anti-doping team. We are not an anti-ex-doper team," pointing to Millar, who served a two-year doping ban.
The 38-year-old and former teammate of seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong is one of the most vocal opponents of doping in cycling and has sought to build a clean team. He said the sport has made important strides to rid drug cheats from the peloton, but the work isn't yet complete.
Some in cycling, Vaughters said, think "'if I talk about it, it's just going to be in the newspaper more, then it's going to give the public the idea that everyone is doing it' — which in my opinion, is the exact opposite of what is true."
But when asked if he had been involved in doping himself, Vaughters declined to answer.
"A lot of the energy and the passion I have now that I put into anti-doping is derived from my past mistakes and my past experiences," he told The Associated Press. "Beyond that, I don't want to get into it."
"I want the focus to be on the riders who are racing today," Vaughters said.
Those riders, too, have a hard time deflecting questions about doping.
Defending champion Alberto Contador has been riding amid controversy. He tested positive for the banned muscle builder clenbuterol during the Tour last year, but has denied any wrongdoing. The Spanish three-time Tour winner could be stripped of his latest title if the Court of Arbitration for Sport rules against him next month.
Some Tour fans have been unforgiving: He again faced roadside boos on Sunday. Worse, he lost even more time.
After losing time because of a crash in Saturday's stage, Contador lost even more Sunday as his Saxo Bank team finished 28 seconds behind Garmin-Cervelo. He is 75th overall, 1:42 behind Hushovd.
Cycling's image has been battered by multiple doping scandals in recent years, and some linger still.
U.S. federal authorities are investigating whether Armstrong and his former U.S. Postal team participated in a systematic doping program. Armstrong, who won the Tour every year from 1999-2005, has steadfastly denied doping and has never failed a drug test.
Vaughters, a former member of the U.S. Postal team, said he has not been contacted by special investigator Jeff Novitsky but would abide by the law if asked to testify.
In recent years the International Cycling Union, responding to the ever present doping scandals, has put in place some of the most stringent anti-doping measures in sport — in hopes of both catching those who dope now and dissuading young riders from doing so.
"That work has been good, and it needs to continue. It doesn't mean ... we're running up the victory flag or anything," Vaughters said. "It's gonna be a war. Every single year we have to keep on top of it, and as long we do that, I'm confident that clean riders can win big races."
"Anti-Doping" Team Wins Time Trial at Tour De France
LES ESSARTS, France (AP) — He's a 30-something American, a retired former rider and crowned with success at the Tour de France.


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As you can infer from the title, I'm quite excited about my latest progress.
Firstly, Browse can now save bookmarklets. When you trigger the palette (right click) on a bookmarklet, the 'Download link' option in the palette is replaced with a 'Save bookmarklet' option. A new toolbar appears where all the bookmarklets are lined up as buttons. They work rather well and are saved through to SSBs.
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Thirdly, userscripts almost work. The UI and store are not quite ready, but the main part is that I've figured out how to very nicely do javascript injection. Like userstyles, I can make userscripts to be immediately executed, but it'll be slightly harder.
There's another small feature I've added. When you create an SSB, the activity preferences of Browse (without caches and cookies) are saved in the SSB bundle. When first run, they are copied over to that specific SSB's activity data.
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After downloading the latest file from My BeerTools. The best way to install updates for the PC version is simply to run the installer. It will replace the old application (1.5.x), leaving preferences and databases intact.
Same principle for the Mac. Just replace your entire BeerTools Pro 1.5 folder (likely in your Applications folder) with the new one.
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[Opt] = Optimization
[Fix] = Bug Fix
[Imp] = Improvement on bug, but problems may still exist
[New] = New Feature
[Chg] = Changes Previous Functionality
[Kis] = Known Issue
[Wrk] = WorkAround
[Dep] = Deprecated
[Pat] = Describes a backwards compatibility issue.
[Ref] = Major refactoring, functionality should be identical to
v1.5.24 2012-11-02
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
[New] [All] Added Swedish Krona to list of currencies.
[New] [All] Main window has new lock buttons instead of
checkboxes to lock volume field values. Final volume
and efficiency fields get new scale buttons to
perform recipe scaling based on these values.
[Chg] [All] Improved undo functionality connected with the
recipe scaling window. Instead of logging each
change in the window as a separate undo, the entire
scaling operation is recorded as one undo.
[New] [All] Added option to change the working temperatures for
kettle, evaporation, water added and final volumes
using popup menus next to the label for each field.
[Fix] [All] Fixed inconsistencies related to the volume
configuration fields that caused incorrect values
to be applied while performing undo.
[New] [All] Added new H2O tab to calculators window where water
volume estimates based on temperature changes can be
[New] [All] Popup menu and lock checkbox selections are
remembered when the calculators window is closed and
[New] [All] The calculators window is reopened upon application
launch if it was open when the application quit.
v1.5.23 2012-04-26
[Fix] [Lnx] Fixed license key error that occurred on some
systems using regional settings other than US
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
v1.5.22 2012-03-26
[New] [All] Added ingredient proportion next to fermentable and
hop quantities in text export.
[Imp] [All] Improved filtering of invisible and whitespace
characters inserted when copying and pasting license
information in the registration window.
[New] [All] Enabled duration field for hop and special
ingredient late additions, and fermentable pre-boil
and boil additions.
[Chg] [All] Changed 'Boil' column heading to 'Duration' to more
accurately fit the data in the column.
[Chg] [All] Changed 'Finish (Bottle)' stage label to 'Finish
(Storage)' to be less specific about the type of
container used to store the finished beer.
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
[Fix] [All] Fixed a calculation error that occurred in pellet
hop utilization when using Daniels, Garetz or custom
utilization formulas.
[Chg] [All] Short date now displayed in the date column when
listing recipes.
v1.5.21 2011-12-21
[Fix] [All] Fixed an intermittent NilObjectException issue that
occasionally occurred when updating the database
file during startup.
[Fix] [All] Repaired a problem that caused older files
containing no color model to be ignored during file
system scans initiated by rebuilding the library and
scanning for recipes.
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
v1.5.20 2011-10-31
[Fix] [All] An error that occurred on systems using a decimal
separator other than '.' when saving files has been
v1.5.19 2011-10-28
[Fix] [All] Excessive delays during the license key validation
process are reduced.
[Chg] [All] Non-breaking space is used to separate the unit
portion from the numeric portion of measurement
values as well as separate the whole from the
fraction portion of fractional values.
[New] [All] Added message box to inform the user that BeerTools
Pro will update the library database so long pauses
won't be interpreted as a program crash.
[Fix] [All] Fixed an error that occurred when reading hop
utilization algorithms from a file causing parts of
the overwritten algorithm to remain.
[Fix] [All] The maximum of 7 decimal places has been increased
to 15 for all numeric values saved to files. The 7
digit limit caused issues with inventory and
shopping lists.
[New] [All] Added 'In Stock' amount to the information shown for
ingredients in the info window.
[New] [All] Added item 'ID' to the information shown for
applicable items in the info window.
[Fix] [All] Fixed a bug in the shopping list display that caused
inconsistencies in how ingredients are listed.
Missing ingredients was a typical symptom of the
v1.5.18 2011-09-23
[New] [All] Moved the recipe scaling features to a separate
modal dialog accessed by choosing 'Scale…' from the
'Recipe' menu. Scaling can be performed using final
volume or mash efficiency as the basis.
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
[Imp] [All] Improved localization to French.
[Fix] [All] Adjustments made to the window sizes and layouts to
prevent clipping of text in some languages.
[Fix] [All] Fixed an issue that affected how some values are
displayed in the interface, specifically the
'Duration' value of the schedule tab.
[Ref] [All] Updated help engine implemented.
[Fix] [All] Repaired disabled multiline editing in notes and
descriptions fields on some editor windows.
[Fix] [All] Fixed broken language setting that prevented the
correct language from displaying in the 'My Recipes'
and 'Check For Updates' windows.
[Fix] [All] Fixed a problem with blank dates not being saved to
the recipes folder in the library. Dates are now
correctly saved as blank.
[Fix] [All] Eliminated the display of zero amounts in the
purchase column of the shopping list window that
occurred occasionally when units were converted
between those in inventory and those in the recipe.
[Fix] [All] Dragging ingredients from the recipe to the 'My
Ingredients' folder will set the status of the
recipe to modified if the ingredient received a link
to a new database record effectively changing the
[New] [All] Parsing of quantities input by the user has been
refactored to improve efficiency and allow for
greater flexibility in entering units, including
localized unit abbreviations.
[Chg] [All] Number fields now allow thousands separators based
on the operating system's regional settings. This
requires more strict handling of decimal separators
so the decimal separator specified in the regional
settings must be used when entering numbers.
[Fix] [All] Color model settings are honored when saving a
recipe to the recipe library so the color shows
correctly in the list.
[Imp] [Lnx] Improvements made on listbox selected row colors.
Some themes may display selected rows better than
[Chg] [All] Removed the point delete button from the curve
editor window in favor of deleting points with the
backspace or delete key.
[New] [All] Compatibility with universal multi-platform license
v1.5.17 2011-07-07
[New] [All] Added supplier information to ingredient rows in
recipe ingredients list and print outs.
[Fix] [All] Removed 'S.G.:' label from density reading displayed
next to kettle and final volumes.
[New] [All] Added database version number to about window.
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
v1.5.16 2011-04-26
[Fix] [All] Density unit preference now displays in the
fermentable ingredient gravity column.
[Fix] [All] The term "original gravity" has been changed to
"bitterness" in the quantity adjustment dialog
opened by the hop editor when the hop settings are
changed. Affects English only.
[Fix] [Win] Fixed modifier key settings for the recipe menu to
eliminate overlap with other keyboard shortcuts.
[Fix] [All] Contents list now honors search string when listing
ingredients after making changes to and adding new
ingredients in the list.
[Fix] [All] The catalog number is included in the search fields
when searching contents of the yeast category.
[New] [All] New ingredients added and existing ingredients
modified in the permanent ingredient database.
v1.5.15 2011-03-14
[Fix] [All] Color model now saves with default settings when
choosing 'Make Default' from the 'File' menu and
and selecting the 'Color Model' option in the
template configuration panel.
[New] [All] When edits are made to the parameters of an
ingredient in a recipe and the edits change the
original gravity or bitterness of the recipe, the
user is given the option to have BTP adjust the
quantity of the ingredient so the results remain the
[New] [All] Added density setting in preferences panel for
choosing default density (specific gravity) unit.
[New] [All] Added density to the 'Convert Units' panel.
[New] [All] Added checkboxes next to all of the unit settings
popup menus for choosing which units are applied and
which are not.
v1.5.14 2011-03-10
[Fix] [All] Fixed an issue that occurred when overwriting an
existing license file during the registration
process that caused the application to crash.
v1.5.13 2011-03-10
[New] [All] Added color model choices accessible from the new
Color Model Window opened by choosing 'Color Model'
from the 'Recipe' menu.
[Opt] [All] Eliminated unnecessary user interface text
refreshes on text hidden in the tab section.
[Fix] [All] Fixed minor issues affecting spline function
evaluation and editing.
v1.5.12 2010-08-31
[Ref] [All] Updated help engine implemented.
[Fix] [Lnx] Fixed schedule graph overlap that occurred when tabs
other than the schedule graph were visible and the
graph was redrawn.
[Fix] [Mac] Fixed double-clicking and drag and drop of files to
open them on Mac OS.
[New] [All] Updated style database to use 2008 BJCP style
v1.5.11 2010-07-19
[Fix] [All] Fixed a small issue that affected Rankine and Kelvin
[Fix] [All] Heat capacity fields used the wrong set of units and
the correct set has been implemented. For backward
compatibility the old set of units is still stored
in saved files.
v1.5.10 2010-05-08
[Fix] [Lnx] Fixed problem with style graphs appearing on other
tabs when making selections with popup menus.
[Imp] [Lnx] Improved recipe file deletion for most Linux systems
implementing GNOME and KDE desktops.
[Fix] [All] Fixed problem connecting to library database file
immediately after changing the library folder
location using the preferences panel.
[Imp] [Lnx] Improved display of multiline field labels in most
ingredient and other editor windows.
v1.5.9 2010-04-27
[Fix] [All] Fixed an issue with erroneous inventory calculation
for recipes containing ingredients independent of
the ingredient database.
[Imp] [All] Improved visual formatting of water chemistry window
so column values line up with column totals.
v1.5.8 2010-04-18
[Fix] [All] Corrected the Recipe->Add->Transfer menu item label.
[Fix] [All] Repaired broken regular expression matching which
falsely identified unit abbreviations containing
parentheses as invalid.
[New] [All] Added Simplified Chinese language support.
[New] [All] Added Italian language support.
v1.5.7 2010-02-18
[Chg] [All] Adjuncts can be set to 'steep' in the recipe
ingredients list.
[Fix] [All] Restored style information display in the info panel
when clicking on styles in the list.
[New] [All] Enabled basic BeerXML export (ingredients only).
[Imp] [All] Improved removal of invisible control characters
embedded in text entries prior to saving data to
XML files.
v1.5.6 2010-01-17
[Fix] [All] Repaired disabled multiline editing in style editor
text areas.
[New] [All] Added contents list printing for printing out
ingredient, style, and other lists.
[New] [All] Improved printing of mash schedule steps by adding
elapsed time, mash thickness, final temperature and
available runoff columns as well as row separators.
[Chg] [All] Selecting items in the library style lists no longer
changes the style of the current recipe unless the
alt or option key is pressed.
[New] [All] Added context menu for style items.
v1.5.5 2009-12-15
[Fix] [All] Repaired miscellaneous interface irregularities
including text size issue in date field and disabled
multiline editing in notes field.
v1.5.4 2009-12-15
[Chg] [All] Updated the Fowler hop utilization algorithm to use
new gravity correction formula.
[New] [All] Added new ingredients to grains, adjuncts, hops,
yeast, and special.
[Fix] [All] Fixed the database update system which failed when
making minor version updates as a result of
prematurely closed database connections.
v1.5.3 2009-04-19
[Chg] [All] Online access security improved by favoring SSLv3
when supported on the server side.
[Chg] [All] Changes implemented to reduce the frequency of
license key renewals caused by changes to system
software and moving installations to new computers.
[New] [All] Added the 'Late Addition' stage for extracts and
adjuncts so these are omitted from hop utilization
[Fix] [All] Schedule values no longer display erroneous data
when the apparent attenuation value is modified.
v1.5.2 2008-10-01
[Fix] [All] Swapped the HCO3 and SO4 column values for water
profiles displayed in the contents list.
[Fix] [All] Fixed a calculation error that caused erroneous
results when tabbing from one field to another in
the vessel editor.
[Fix] [Win] The help menu is no longer empty in the shopping
list window although the menu items are disabled.
[Fix] [Win] Fixed unhandled exception that occurred when closing
the online recipe window or quitting the application
without logging out.
v1.5.1 2008-09-13
[Fix] [Mac] Fixed unhandled exception that occurred when closing
the online recipe window without logging out.
[Fix] [All] Corrected a deactivated license error that occurred
when upgrading from a previous version that had at
least one license renewal.
[New] [All] Implemented a new help engine.
v1.5.0 2008-08-23
[Fix] [All] Fixed display menu update when adding ingredients to
the recipe using the context menu.
[Chg] [All] Minimize buttons removed from all movable modal
windows to prevent confusion resulting from
an unresponsive state while a modal is minimized.
[Chg] [All] Changed the vessel selector in the heat source
editor to a popup arrow instead of a popup menu.
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I've often wondered if the Saw franchise is going to turn into another Friday The 13th series with an astronomical number of sequels. I need to state first and foremost, I am a fan of the Saw franchise. While all the movies have not been great, most have been entertaining. The 4th has probably been the most disappointing to me. It was way to complicated to make much sense with all the same screen flashbacks and way too much information. I liked the 5th one fairly well, but none can compare to the original or even the 2nd one. It was the games and obviously the results of the games that made the movies interesting. However, there was a perverted sense of reason and judgment that Jigsaw threw in to almost make it morally acceptable... almost. Tobin Bell as Jigsaw is a refreshing serial killer. Not your typical killer who is only satisfying his own lust for blood, but claims he has never killed any one... the games do the killing.
I saw on FEARnet.com that Saw VII has already been approved before Saw VI has even been released. It does make you wonder what more they can do to make the series meaning and not just a bloody bunch of games. There has to be a purpose behind the games. Justice, no matter how perverted must be the reason someone dies in the Saw movies. We have gone to all the Saw movies at the theater and have watched most on DVD after they have been released. I'm sure we will continue the pattern because we are fans. Check out the trailer below... it does look promising.
Kevin Greutert
Shawnee Smith
Tobin Bell
Costas Mandylor
Tanedra Howard
The evidence has been destroyed, the truth buried with the dead. And now, Detective Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) has emerged as the heir to serial killer Jigsaw's bloody legacy. With the FBI closing in, Hoffman must set into motion one last grisly game. And in the end, Jigsaw's grand scheme will finally be revealed. Five-time Saw editor Kevin Greutert helms this shocking installment of the horror franchise.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Saw VI (2009)
I've often wondered if the Saw franchise is going to turn into another Friday The 13th series with an astronomical number of sequels. I need to state first and foremost, I am a fan of the Saw franchise. While all the movies have not been great, most have been entertaining. The 4th has probably been the most disappointing to me. It was way to complicated to make much sense with all the same screen flashbacks and way too much information. I liked the 5th one fairly well, but none can compare to the original or even the 2nd one. It was the games and obviously the results of the games that made the movies interesting. However, there was a perverted sense of reason and judgment that Jigsaw threw in to almost make it morally acceptable... almost. Tobin Bell as Jigsaw is a refreshing serial killer. Not your typical killer who is only satisfying his own lust for blood, but claims he has never killed any one... the games do the killing.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
As an avid Netflix member, I really appreciate those in my "Friend's List" who send out notes and reviews from a various range of movies. I tend to send notes more on horror related films because that's what interest me. However, Tina and I watch a wide range of movies, with horror being our favorite genre. The thing is, when you look at a movie in the "At A Glance" section on Netflix, you get a look at all the reviews of that movie from NF members. It really helps me understand just how many opinions and differences there are in the minds of the average movie watcher. Some love this movie and others hate it and yet others are somewhere in the middle.
In my opinion, this movie has a lot to offer in the ghost/haunted house genre. After we watched the movie, we watched all the interviews from the actual family members, neighbors, and paranormal investigator's who lived through this ordeal. Over all the movie was fairly close to the actual events. Of course Hollywood is going to sensationalize the events, but generally it seemed close to the "true" events. The acting in this movie was good with Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner doing quality work. The characters were believable even it you don't believe in the actual events. I for one do believe that there are forces (demonic) all around us and things like this could happen. The movie itself was very creepy and has a fair amount of tension in it (which I love). As the synopsis below states, the family moves to a house in Connecticut to be closer to the hospital their oldest son needs for his cancer treatments. It doesn't take long before bizarre things to begin to happen. Since the home was a former mortuary the dead's spirits have not left. The haunting of the family begins in earnest and all members of the family are touched by the spirits. Watching the interviews in the special features really showed just how freaked out these people really were. While there are skeptics (neighbors) interviewed who didn't believe, I tend to be a believer. There would be not point or anything to gain from making up such a story, at least not at the time. I don't know if the family received compensation from the books or movies. In the haunted house genre, this movie is well worth a watch. Check out the trailer below and give this movie a shot!
In this supernatural thriller, the Campbell family's move to Connecticut takes a mysteriously dark turn when a series of shocking paranormal events reveals that their inviting new home is a former mortuary with a sordid past. Based on a true story, this terrifying tale stars Virginia Madsen and Martin Donovan as the well-meaning Campbell parents, Kyle Gallner as their cancer-stricken son and Elias Koteas as the enigmatic Rev. Nicholas Popescu.
PG13: For some intense sequences of terror and disturbing images.
102 minutes
Peter Cornwell
Elias Koteas
Virginia Madsen
Amanda Crew
Kyle Gallner
Martin Donovan
D.W. Brown
John B. Lowe
Sarah Constible
Ty Wood
Adriana O'Neil
Matt Kippen
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Friday The 13th (Remake)...
I have never been a fan of the 80's style mindless teen slasher horror. This movie and the original fall into that category. There isn't a purpose behind it other than to kill all the "bad" kids and let the "good" kids survive. Some T&A and plenty of killing... that's about it. I have seen almost all of the Jason movies and they are all about the same in my mind. When we were watching this the other night, I kept thinking how campy and boring it was. My wife loved the original as a kid and saw it many times. However, after the movie she made the "campy" comment about watching it now as an adult. That leads me to my point of it being mindless. As a kid we are scared and excited about the "horror" of being chased by the likes of Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers, but as an adult we need more thought behind the story. Something we can grab hold of and some substance. This remake featured mostly unknown actors and for the most part they will never have a career in film. Average acting and boring story line filled the screen. In most of these type of movies, the kids do and say things we as "normal" people would never do or say. Why do they always run upstairs or into places they can't get out of? Am I being to picky that I would want some smart... maybe common sense thinking in a horror film. I don't think that is too much to ask for. I have to say that I liked the Zombie remake of Halloween much better than this remake. I could rant longer concerning this trend of one remake after another, but what good would it do. I have said several times the Hollywood is lazy and can't seem to come up with an original thought for quite some time. It's just too easy to remake money makers in hopes of making more money. That's a shame. There are many talented people out there that are not afraid to imagine the unimaginable. Where's the Ray Bradbury's of our day??? Watch this if you liked it as a kid or young adult, but don't expect anything new from it.
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Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker and Aaron Yoo headline director Marcus Nispel's chilling remake of the classic 1980s slasher-thriller that spawned a legendary horror franchise. Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake -- on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears), a masked, homicidal maniac.
R For strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material
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Marcus Nispel
Jared Padalecki
Danielle Panabaker
Amanda Righetti
Travis Van Winkle
Derek Mears
Aaron Yoo
Julianna Guill
Arlen Escarpeta
Willa Ford
Ryan Hansen
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Vampire Movies... 100 Years In Film...
To say that vampires in film are a critical part of our film heritage would be an understatement. As I was reading many sites on the history of vampires in movies, I was pleasantly surprised to see how important of an influence the genre really has been. I have printed several key points from Wikipedia concerning the subject just to prove a point... OK, probably several points. The first thing that caught my attention was that Dracula has been the subject of more films than any other fictional character... that is a huge statement. Considering there have been so many movies of all topics over the last 100 years, to realize that Dracula had that much influence over our film culture was quite surprising to me. There is also an interesting article by Morgan Bell where he develops "theories" as to the deviant, sexual, and immoral nature of the vampire. He tries to understand why we "fear" the vampire. Good article and if you're interested here's the link to copy and paste: http://www.helium.com/items/695177-exploring-the-vampire-in-cinema. I can see his point on many levels and maybe that is why the vampire still scares us today, because he is a character that we don't understand and we fear what we don't understand.
I have and always will be a traditionalist when it comes to the "undead". As a kid, I loved the old vampire movies. I didn't see Dracula as a sexual being. I was more impressed with his superhuman strength, turning into a bat and a cloud of smoke, and his ability to control his victims. It's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies like Blade when the vampire is a daywalker. I do appreciate writers and directors adding a few twist to their work... the problem is that it's not possible for a vampire to go into daylight. It's also not possible for a vampire to have sex and children. They are dead. Therefore, a dead person cannot procreate. The Vampire survives off the drinking of the blood of his victims. That doesn't mean he has blood in his veins. Therefore it would be impossible to have sex. The only way to "create" more vampires is for a vampire to "change" a human into a vampire. There have been many ways this has taken place in film over the last 100 years, but my favorite is by bleeding the human of his or her blood and when they wake up as a member of the undead, they must drink the blood of their master to fully change.
Vampire of the Coast (1909) (the first silent Vampire film)
I saw that the first vampire movie was Vampire of the Coast (1909). I really haven't been able to find out much about it, but it was probably a silent short. More importantly, it means that we have had 100 years of vampire movies and have seen the evolution of the genre evolve into quite an interesting art form. Are there moral questions to be answered? Do we really fear or hate things and people we don't understand or are different then us? In many cases the answer is yes, but when it comes to vampires... I love them! Thanks for 100 years of fear and entertainment!
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Vampire films have been a staple since the silent days, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in movies throughout the years. The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date. By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character.
The earliest cinematic vampires in such films as The Vampire (1913), directed by Robert G. Vignola, were in reality 'vamps' or femme fatales deriving inspiration from a poem by Rudyard Kipling called "The Vampire", composed in 1897. This poem was written as kind of commentary on a painting of a female vampire by Philip Burne-Jones exhibited in the same year. Lyrics from Kipling's poem: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, were used as the title of the film A Fool There Was (1915) starring Theda Bara as the 'vamp' in question and the poem was used in the publicity for the film.
A genuine supernatural vampire features in the landmark Nosferatu (1922 Germany, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau). This was an unlicensed version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, based so closely on the novel that the estate sued and won, with all copies ordered to be destroyed. It would be painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the five surviving prints that had escaped destruction.
The next classic treatment of the vampire legend was in Universal's Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Five years after the release of the film, Universal released Dracula's Daughter (1936), a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) both starring John Carradine and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other movies during the 1930s and 1940s, it was only in this final film that he played Count Dracula onscreen for the second (and last) time.
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
The Killing Gene...
This was a very well made psychological (gory at times) thriller. When a movie really interest me, I tend to watch all the special features on the DVD after the movie. There were several that I watched including the making of the torture scenes and comments from the directer, producers, and writer. I like to do this for the simple reason, I want to know if I took the movie the way they intended me too. I "got it" on this movie. Stellan Skarsgard plays the enigmatic character of Eddie Argo, a veteran police detective who has a few skeletons in his closet that make him difficult to completely figure out. The character is very complex, but yet seems to be so transparent. We think we know him, but do we really? Searching for a serial killer who takes two hostages at time and tortures one until that one succumbs to the pain and kills the other hostage. The reason... revenge. The serial killer is targeting a local gang who brought unbelievable harm to the now serial killer. The point of the killing is to see how much pain a person can endure before they will kill someone they truly love. This leads to all sorts of moral dilemmas. I truly believe I would die before being forced by pain to kill my wife. At least I would think I would be honorable enough to do that. The movie has an interesting story line and quality acting. It has elements of Saw, Hostel, and the like, but I thought it was darker, not only visually, but mentally as well. It made you think while entertaining you. Really good movie and I highly recommend it!
There are a couple of things that I should mention concerning the film... for one it is visually dark throughout. This can make it difficult to see at times. Also there are many twist to it that you may miss if you really don't pay attention. This movie will make you think... there is a moral overtone that cannot be ignored. The question seems to be, "Would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death"? Sorry to say that I could not find a trailer for this movie. however, it is still worth a watch!
Stellan Skarsgård
2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (in which he plays the undead pirate Bootstrap Bill).
Well worn by years of gangland brutality, veteran detective Eddie Argo prides himself on playing by the book. However, loyalties wane as he and his new rookie partner, Helen, find themselves entangled in a string of violent and horrific killings that are targeting a notorious local gang, forcing Argo to revisit a case he would rather forget. In the midst of mounting terror, the calculating killer stays focused on the ultimate goal--coerce Argo to pay for his previous mistakes and answer the ultimate question: would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death?
104 minutes
Tom Shankland
Stellan Skarsgård
Melissa George... Played Josh Hartnett's wife in 30 Days Of Night.
Ashley Walters
Paul Kaye
Selma Blair
Peter Ballance
Lauren Hood
Tom Hardy
John Sharian
Sally Hawkins
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DESIGN-TIME SOFTWARE QUALITY MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS by Leslie Chi-Keung Cheung A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Leslie Chi-Keung Cheung
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|As our reliance on software system grows, it is becoming more important to understand a system's quality, because systems that provide poor quality of service have costly consequences. It has been shown that addressing problems late, such as after implementation, is prohibitively expensive, because it may involve redesigning and reimplementing the software system. Thus, it is important to analyze software system quality early, such as during system design. In early software quality analysis, in addition to analyzing components that are developed from scratch, it is also necessary to analyze existing components that are being integrated into the system, because software designers make use of them to save development cost.; We focus on two aspects of early software quality analysis: the cost of analysis and parameter estimation. First, we address the high cost of existing design-level quality analysis techniques. In modeling complex systems, existing design-level approaches may generate models that are computationally too expensive to solve. This problem is exacerbated in concurrent systems, as existing design-level approaches suffer from the state explosion problem. To address this challenge, we propose SHARP, a design-level reliability prediction framework that analyzes complex specifications of concurrent systems. SHARP analyzes a hierarchical scenario-based specification of system behavior and achieves scalability by utilizing the scenario relations embodied in this hierarchy. SHARP first constructs and solves models of the basic scenarios, and combines the obtained results based on the defined scenario dependencies; this process iteratively continues through the specified scenario hierarchy until finally obtaining the system reliability. Our evaluations indicate that (a) SHARP is almost as accurate as a traditional non-hierarchical method, and (b) SHARP is more scalable than other existing techniques.; Second, we address the high cost of testing-based approaches, which are typically used in analyzing the quality of existing software components. However, since testing-based approaches require sending a large number of requests to the components under testing, it is quite an expensive process, particularly when testing at high workloads (i.e., where performance degradations are likely to occur) -- this may render the component under testing unusable during the tests' duration (which is also a particularly bad time to have a system be unavailable). Avoiding testing at high workloads by extrapolating (from data collected at low workloads), e.g., through regression analysis, results in lack of accuracy. To address this challenge, we propose a framework that utilizes the benefits of queueing models to guide the extrapolation process, while maintaining accuracy. Our extensive experiments show that our approach gives accurate results as compared to standard techniques (i.e., use of regression analysis alone).; Finally, we address the problem of parameter estimation in existing design-level approaches. An important step in software quality analysis is to estimate the model parameters, which describe, for example, how the system and its components are used (this is known as their operational profile). This information is assumed to be available in existing design-level approaches, but it is unclear how existing approaches obtain such information to estimate model parameters. We identify sources of information available during design, and describe how information from different sources can be translated for use in the context of component reliability estimation. Our evaluation and validation experiments indicate that use of our approach in determining operational profiles results in accurate reliability estimates, where implementations are used as ground truth.
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This max. size open loop antenna for 14 MHz with a totall circumference of 6m. ( 19.68 feet ) is designed to attach to a wall . Not sutable for reenforced concrete walls . It has a no tune bandwidth of more than 300 KHz with a centre swr of 1 : 1.1. A capacitor was put over the feedpoint to shunt up the feedpoint impedance. The 150 pF parallel capacitor was the best value in my situation ( brick wall ) but can be replaced by a 500 pF tuning capacitor in order to find the lowest SWR at resonance in any setup. First contacts gave good reports in Europe. Although a lot of the hf power is absorbed by the wall, the results are surprisingly good. A test was made with 100 Watts without arcing however 5 Watts are more than enough for indoor use...
The top capacitor is made of twisted pvc coated antenna wire or a piece of 25cm RG-213 coax and is cut for tuning to the frequency . This antenna can also be build on a fibreglass or wooden frame in a diamond shape for field or attic use. Loop circumference for other bands:
30m : 7m
20m. : 6m
17m. : 4.8m
15m. : 4.2m
12m. : 3.5m
10m. : 3m
Tuning steps : Change the length or the turns of the top capacitor to tune the loop to the desired frequency then put a 500 pF tuning capacitor over the feedpoint and look for the lowest swr.
You can replace this capacitor by a fixed type.
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If Herman Cain's alleged philandering was comedy gold, then Donald Trump's promised GOP debate might be comedy platinum.
"Thank you, Jesus!" crowed Jon Stewart on Tuesday at the news of The Donald's plan to moderate his own debate. "Sometimes when God closes a door, He opens a window."
The best news about the Trump debate, which could contain as few as two GOP candidates (only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have committed to it)…? The disgust it prompted in party heavyweights, Stewart said.
"I love this guy!" said a delighted Stewart. "And he's gonna moderate a debate. You think he's gonna have any follow-up questions?"
Stewart did his best Trump imitation, imagining the back-and-forth that might ensue: "'No, no, no—I wanna hear what you said when you meant I cut you off! No. Who are you to tell me, Donald Trump, whose debate this is, how the f--- to moderate a debate?'"
Stephen Colbert used his own show Tuesday to badmouth Trump ("Donald's a clown, only with more make-up"), perhaps baiting the famously relentless tycoon to fight back.
And with some over-the-top jokes on Trump's ostentatious lifestyle and some extended mimicry, the faux-conservative host promised to moderate his own GOP debate: The South Carolina Serious, Classy Republican Debate.
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Syrian airstrikes kill at least 18 in Aleppo
- Airstrikes in Aleppo killed almost another 40 people%2C Sunday
- Five children are reported to be among the 18 dead
- Bombing in Aleppo has been steady since December 2013
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 18 people, including five children, activists said.
President Bashar Assad's air force has pounded opposition areas of the divided city since mid-December, reducing apartment blocks to rubble and overwhelming already strapped hospitals and medical clinics with the wounded. On Sunday, government aircraft also targeted areas of east Aleppo under rebel control, killing nearly 40 people.
Monday's air raids hit the districts of Hanano, Qadi Askar and Mouwasalat, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group, which monitors the conflict through a network of activists on the ground, said helicopters dropped crude bombs — barrels packed with explosives, fuel and scraps of metal — on the neighborhoods, causing immense damage.
Amateur videos posted online provided a window on the carnage.
In one clip from Hanano, residents frantically dig through the shattered blocks of concrete and twisted metal strewn across the street in search of survivors. A man stumbles as he carries a wounded boy wrapped in a blanket, his arm and face covered in blood. Further down the street, the facades of buildings have been torn off by the bomb.
In a second video, two men place the shredded remains of a body onto a carpet. Another body covered in a blanket lies in a pool of blood on dusty pavement. Nearby, two women rock back and forth as they wail over a third body.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting of the events depicted.
The Syrian government has not relented in its bombardment of rebel-held areas of Aleppo since launching what appeared to be a concerted aerial campaign there late last year. Over a two-week stretch in December alone, activists say airstrikes killed more than 500 people.
Syria's opposition has pointed to the air raids as evidence that Assad has little interest in peace despite sending a delegation to Switzerland last week for U.N.-sponsored negotiations aimed at ending the nearly three-year uprising. The first round of talks failed to secure any meaningful agreement other than to meet again later this month for more talks.
Since it began with largely peaceful protests in March 2011, the Syrian conflict has killed more than 130,000 people, forced almost a third of the country's prewar population of 23 million from their homes, and inflamed sectarian tensions that have jolted the entire Middle East.
Despite the immense suffering and terrific toll of the war, the violence shows little sign of abating.
On Monday, the Observatory said that January was the deadliest month of the conflict. The group said it recorded 5,794 deaths that it had evidence of last month, plus around another 1,000 that it knew of but for which it did not have names, photographs or video to provide final confirmation.
The high death toll is at least partly due to intense infighting among rebels in northern Syria that broke out on Jan. 3. The clashes, which pit the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant against ultraconservative Islamic brigades and more moderate rebels, have killed more than 1,400 people alone.
Also Monday, the main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the son of senior member Faiz Sara recently died in "a regime intelligence prison."
The office of Coalition leader Ahmad al-Jarba said in a statement that Sara's 28-year-old son, Wissam, was working as an activist and with aid organizations when he was arrested more than two months ago. It said that on Monday "the regime informed Wissam's sister to come to collect the body, under the condition that she signed a statement that her brother was killed by terrorists."
The opposition and rights groups accuse the government of holding tens of thousands of detainees, many of whom it is feared have been tortured. Last month, a trove of photographs was published that document the killing of some 11,000 detainees by Syrian authorities. The digital images, smuggled out by an alleged defector, showed the victims' bodies with severe marks of beating and extreme emaciation suggestive of starvation.