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For the first time in months, the Houston Dynamo had a scare at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Heading into the final 10 minutes, Houston found themselves down 2-1 and pressing for the goal that would pull out a result against the Columbus Crew. In the 82nd minute, Adam Moffat delivered the goods with a left-footed winner in a 2-2 draw.
After Danny O'Rourke cleared a ball out of the Crew box, Moffat set up on his left foot and blasted a shot at Columbus goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum, who failed to properly hold the ball and watched it trickle over his own line.
Houston rose to 41 points on the season and moves into a tie for third place in the Eastern Conference with the Chicago Fire. Columbus moved to 30 points, staying static in seventh place.
The Crew, coming off a midweek 1-1 draw with the LA Galaxy, matched Houston's attack throughout the night. Led by Dilly Duka in the first half and debutant Designated Player Federico Higuain, who replaced Justin Meram at halftime, the visitors took the game to the Dynamo in a team effort.
That kind of play was exemplified on both of the Crew's goals, and especially their second – a product of a seven-pass sequence finished off by a streaking Eddie Gaven in the 61st minute.
Jairo Arrieta and Higuaín combined for a well-crafted layoff and ball over the top to send Gaven through on goal, where he made no mistake with the finish.
The game had been tied 1-1 at the time of Gaven's goal, thanks to good team goals from each side in the first half.
In the 19th minute Boniek Garcia found space down the right crease and squared the ball into a streaking Brad Davis, who made it 1-0, capping off a strong run with a scintillating blast.
Columbus were not to be outdone. The Crew put together a good showing in the attack and in the 33rd minute their push paid off.
Duka found plenty of space down the right after playing a give-and-go with Gaven, and then cut back to find the onrushing Cole Grossman. The Duke product curled it home with his first touch for his first MLS goal to knot the match at 1-1.
Following Gaven's goal, Houston found themselves trailing at home for the first time since June 20, when they were down 3-1 in the first half to Toronto FC, and went on the attack to try and prolong their 19-game home unbeaten streak.
Before Moffat's equalizer, Davis capped an extended buildup in the 68th minute with a laser from 25 yards out, but Gruenebaum parried the initial attempt and Will Bruin could not get a finishing touch on the rebound.
After Moffat's goal, Higuaín came inches from putting the Crew back on top in the 84th minute but his curling free kick went just wide of the near post.
Columbus will next host Toronto FC Wednesday night while Houston enters CONCACAF Champions League play with a trip to El Salvador to face FAS. The Dynamo will resume MLS play next Saturday with a match against TFC.
Houston Dynamo (11-6-8) vs. Columbus Crew (8-8-6)
August 19, 2012 - BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston
Scoring Summary:
HOU: Brad Davis 6 (Boniek Garcia 4) 19
CLB: Cole Grossman 1 (Dilly Duka 2, Eddie Gaven 2) 33
CLB: Eddie Gaven 5 (Federico Higuain 1) 58
HOU: Adam Moffat 2 (unassisted) 82
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe (Cam Weaver 76); Boniek Garcia, Adam Moffat, Brad Davis; Calen Carr, Will Bruin (Brian Ching 76), Macoumba Kandji (Ricardo Clark 63)
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Warren Creavalle, Luiz Camargo, Je-Vaughn Watson
Columbus Crew: Andy Gruenebaum; Sebastian Miranda, Chad Marshall, Carlos Mendes, Josh Williams; Chris Birchall, Cole Grossman (Danny ORourke 80); Justin Meram (Federico Higuain 45), Eddie Gaven, Dilly Duka (Ethan Finlay 75); Jairo Arrieta
Subs not used: Matt Lampson, Emilio Renteria, Tony Tchani, Julius James
Misconduct Summary:
CLB: Dilly Duka (caution) 39
CLB: Federico Higuain (caution) 79
Referee: Drew Fischer
Referee's Assistants: Chris Strickland, Jeff Muschik
4th Official: Ted Unkel
Attendance: 20,567


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In a little over a week, a tournament will commence that millions around the world wait for during an excruciatingly long four-year period. It's a contest that players, coaches, and fans take immense interest in, and even elicits mild curiosity from the casual spectator. Many follow the progress of their national teams in the four year intervals, eagerly watching their development until the time comes when the squad is finally announced: the twenty-three that will represent their country on the world's largest stage.
This year, the stage is set in Brazil and the World Cup kicks off in Sao Paulo with the host nation playing Croatia. It's a moment that has been anticipated since the finale of the 2010 edition when Spain lifted the trophy in South Africa and proclaimed themselves champions of the world. It almost seems like an eternity ago, doesn't it?
It was a moment to appreciate the present, reflecting on all the matches the summer had offered and the brilliance the world had seen in each one, but it was also a time to envision what the following World Cup would offer. Brazil seemed so far off, yet so near. With the history the country offers as the all-time leading champion, Brazil presents itself as a land of intrigue and infinite possibilities with its size and diversity.
Since the moment FIFA announced the 2014 World Cup would be hosted by Brazil, the reaction to the news was a complete mixture of appreciation and derision. Much of the negativity stemmed from within the borders of Brazil, interestingly enough, and focused heavily on the construction of the new stadiums built specifically for the tournament. With costs skyrocketing past initial expectations, deadlines falling drastically behind schedule, entire neighborhoods moved out due to their decrepit appearances and proximity to the venues, and numerous injuries and deaths resulting from poor working conditions, the entire affair had many wondering whether the contest would even be a positive experience.
Does the World Cup provide dreams of a bright summer and even brighter future, or simply undelivered promises hidden underneath the hype and expectations?
It's interesting the differing perspectives and opinions that a single event can create; however, it's not too difficult to grasp as the World Cup literally affects the activities of entire nations that live and breathe soccer. Businesses cut hours, people skip work, crowds gather at bars, pubs, and restaurants (anywhere with access to a television and alcohol), and soon the chants begin. National anthems, players' names, the tournament's official song—it could be anything, as long as it fuels the fire of passion.

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September 12, 2003, 01:43:02 PM »
Woof All:
I found this article interesting.
Is Trauma Debriefing
Worse Than Letting
Victims Heal Naturally?
By SHARON BEGLEY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The executive was in a meeting in one of the Twin Towers when the first plane hit. Of the 30 people with him, he and only six others staggered out alive that morning. Crushed by the enormity of the tragedy, the man told his trauma counselor that it was all he could do to try to understand why he had lived while others died. Yet he had to cope with a great deal more.
Like thousands of other victims of Sept. 11, the executive underwent psychological debriefing, a catch-all term for sessions in which a counselor encourages a group of 10 to 20 trauma survivors or disaster workers to share, in a supportive environment, what they experienced, felt and thought. Debriefing, say proponents, can prevent long-term psychological problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The disaster industry that emerged in the 1990s has vigorously promoted psychological debriefing, training more than 40,000 people a year in it. Members of the U.S. military undergo stress debriefing before deploying home from Iraq.
For the executive who survived the 2001 terrorist attacks, though, hearing other victims describe what they saw and suffered that day was too much. When one described seeing a body part roll down a sidewalk, he had to flee the session.
For weeks afterward he suffered flashbacks and nightmares, finally seeking help from Crisis Management International, an Atlanta-based company that, at the behest of 204 corporate clients, had sent hundreds of counselors to New York within days of Sept. 11. "The group debriefing had led him right into what he couldn't get rid of in the first place: the memories and images of 9/11," says CEO Bruce Blythe.
See a September 2002 special report from the Online Journal for a look at how former World Trade Center tenants -- including some business owners mentioned in this article -- worked to rebuild their businesses after the terrorist attacks.
In science, anecdotes are not data. But stories like this executive's are igniting a firestorm of controversy in psychology. After scrutinizing dozens of studies of psychological debriefing, a panel of eminent researchers assembled by the American Psychological Society -- Richard McNally of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.; Richard Bryant of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and Anke Ehlers of King's College London -- has reached a clear conclusion.
"Contrary to a widely held belief, pushing people to talk about their feelings and thoughts very soon after a trauma may not be beneficial," they write in a paper to be published in November in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest (available at
). "Although psychological debriefing is widely used throughout the world to prevent PTSD, there is no convincing evidence that it does so. ... For scientific and ethical reasons, professionals should cease compulsory debriefing of trauma-exposed people."
Most survivors who have undergone psychological debriefing call it helpful. But objectively comparing the outcomes of people who did and didn't undergo debriefing -- survivors of car accidents, police officers exposed to trauma and disaster workers -- tells a different story. Debriefing has no effect on rates of PTSD.
A 2001 analysis, for example, examined peer-reviewed studies that randomly assigned trauma survivors to receive "critical-incident stress debriefing," a commonly used protocol, or not. (Randomized controls let you separate the effects of debriefing from natural recovery.) The conclusion: There is no evidence that debriefing helps prevent PTSD in trauma survivors, partly because most recover naturally.
More worrisome, debriefing may impede natural recovery. When police officers who worked a plane crash underwent debriefing, they had significantly more PTSD symptoms 18 months later than officers who weren't debriefed. By forcing survivors to relive horrific memories, says Prof. McNally, "debriefing may consolidate emotional memories more intensely, when what you need is to shut down for a while. As one earthquake survivor in Turkey said, 'It was as if the debriefers opened me up as in surgery and didn't stitch me back up.'&"
Jeffrey Mitchell, an associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who devised critical-incident stress debriefing, dismisses the negative studies. Many include debriefings conducted by poorly trained or minimally experienced counselors, he says, or done too soon after the trauma. Moreover, "this was never designed as a stand-alone. Crisis intervention includes much more than debriefing."
In fact, at least one debriefing study found a benefit. In 1999, scientists reported that 42 emergency medical personnel who underwent debriefing after working the 1992 Los Angeles riots reported significantly fewer PTSD symptoms than did 23 nondebriefed workers. Other pro-debriefing studies, however, are problematic. Some failed to include a no-treatment group to serve as a control. In others, the follow-up period for assessing "lasting" psychological damage was woefully short.
Businesses aren't waiting for academics to resolve the debate. Concerned about the potential harm of debriefing, says Mr. Blythe, CMI has abandoned it. The company's Web site now warns prospective clients that the science behind debriefing is so iffy, and the suggestions of harm so troubling, that requiring employees to undergo debriefing could invite lawsuits.
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A brilliant article. There is so much pseudosciense in psychology that it is a joy to see "hard" science applied to the subject. I was able to access the journal article through
and then entering "debriefing" in the search box. It is a 35 page pdf file.
Debriefing reminds me of catharsis(?) therapy.
I remember a celebrity interview about 30 years ago in which the individual talked about how, over a period of months, her therapists was able to take a supposed childhood memory (it may have been the celebrity's birth) and relive and build upon it. Success was achieved when the actress was repeatedly reduced to a screaming, crying, shaking emotionally overwhelmed state; catharsis(?).
Whenever I learn of a flock of "healers" descending upon the victims of a tragedy I relive the memory of this interview. Now that I think about it, I find this very upsetting; I shall seek out help in dealing with this terrible memory.
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THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW APRIL 15, 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Interview Transcription
Host: Charlie Rose (CR) Guests: Kate Winslet, Actor (KW) Michel Gondry, Filmmaker (MG)
CR: Join me now as the director of the film, Michel Gondry, also one of the stars, Kate Winslet. Also starring Jim Carrey and others. I am pleased to have them here to talk about one of the most interesting films that you will see out there today. Welcome (to KW). Great to have you, welcome (to MG).
(To MG) There is something about you that reminds me of Charlie Kaufman. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's youth. You guys seem to be so young. Tell me about the collaboration and how you came to work with him. Because you were renound as a maker of music videos, he was renound obviously because of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich as a interesting, exciting, different film screenwriting.
MG: Don't you think it's the hair? (all laugh)
CR: It may be the hair (laughs) yes. Kind of a Versailles look (all laugh).
MG: Yeah, it is. Everybody in Versailles is wearing. We have a wig. When you come back home we have a wig (motions hands on side of head) like white hair (laughing).
CR: Tell me about the collaboration between the two of you.
MG: Yeah, I met Charlie like six (6) years ago when he was working with the Spike Jonze on Being John Malkovich. I had tried to read. I had read so many scripts that were really horrible and I was really depressed because I came to a point where I really believed that scripts were boring. And I read his script and I just realized that script to be just enjoyable and great and everything I dreamed of.
CR: What made it so great for you?
MG: Well, I think first of all you just like the character right away the way you write them. Then there is all this thing I like about it's intelligent, but it's heartfelt as well.
CR: Intelligent and heartfelt?
MG: Yeah. The story, you're led into a story that surprise you every page.
CR: You do not know how it's going to go from page to page to page.
MG: Yeah and it's always a surprise. I think that's really important. I think that's usually the way he writes. He doesn't know how the story will finish or. I mean you probably know him better than me. You talked to him or? (CR and KW laugh).
CR: I wouldn't say that! You made a film with him (laughs).
MG: Oh yeah, that's right (all laugh).
CR: (Turns to KW) So, what's it like for an actress? Let's just talk about a Kaufman film, then we'll look at this particular film. That makes it different, uh (digital feed skips) to working with a script like that?
KW: Well, for me, and you'll have to excuse me I have a terrible cold. For me, the thing that was such a relief, to be honest, was that I was being asked by Michel to play this crazy, neurotic, wonderful American girl in a contemporary movie because people are so used to seeing me play the more period roles that I have done and the more classical pieces and so on. So, I really just jumped at this because it was an opportunity to do something, like Michel says, that I had also dreamed of doing.
CR: But he had not made a lot of movies. This was not somebody who had made a whole series of films, other than music videos. How many movies did you made before this?
MG: I did just one movie, Human Nature.
CR: Only one. Human Nature?
MG: Yeah, yeah.
CR: So, he did not have a body of work that recommended you. He had what?
KW: Michel had. What did you have?
MG: The French touch.
KW: The French touch. (giggling and visible teasing between the two).
MG: I tell you, I had the good script. But it didn't matter who I was at the time. Although, I had to start very humble.
KW: That's, that's very, very true actually.
MG: Okay, thanks! Thanks a lot for that! (all laugh).
KW: No, but when I met Michel. You know, I said well, who is this director? I really didn't know anything about him. Just on hearing his name. And then when I had found out he had directed Human Nature and some of the music videos Michel has directed in the past. I went "Oh my God, it's that guy??!! And so I was incredibly excited because Michel…
CR: That guy had what?
KW: That guy has a totally, I think, Michel, a totally unique vision. In my opinion that's was…
CR: Fresh. Inventive.
KW: Yes, incredibly fresh. And also, frankly, he had the guts to cast me. The classical you know English Rose, whatever, in this totally different, diverse role and so I was, you know…
CR: Ready to go.
KW: I was ready to go. But, as Michel says, the thing is different on every single page as you go along. As an actor, you find yourself wanting to be challenged by new things all the time and this was very much a script that kept us all on our toes and it was very funny and also incredibly touching. And I felt, as well, underneath all the kind of complexities of telling of this story. It's a very simple love story of two kinds of social misfits who were kind of meant to be together. And, to me, the love they have for each other is very sort of realistic. It's true to life. You know, you can't have every day in a relationship as though it's the first day that you've met and so on.
CR: Or the best day.
KW: Exactly. And it had this kind of light and shade. And I really like that more and more these days. Movies are kind of. They're sort of, they're cautious. And they sort of, they shy away from, you know, telling the truth I think, in a way, and that to me was the thing about this particular script that Charlie had written that was so incredibly unique actually.
CR: This film is about the device to tell the story of love. In memory is a doctor that erase someone from your memory. So, if you want to erase a bad love affair you can just wipe it out.
MG: Yeah, in the story.
CR: In the story.
MG: (Mumbles) People should not get used to this side of me. Nothing is gonna happen soon. But, I think to me…
CR: What does that allow you to do?
MG: Well, let's say you go through a horrible experience in your life and you can't live with the memory of it. You just go there and you get it erased. So then you forget.
CR: But as a filmmaker, you…
MG: I'm sorry. I was trying (all laugh). I thought it was in real life. What it does is like, it's not that it's science fiction but in fact it's just a tool of a different aspect of a relationship that you don't normally see so much in movies. That's something we talk so with Charlie about. It's like those little details in a relationship. You like how somebody are when they are just met, and how they are two (2) weeks later, and how they are together six (6) months, and how they are after two (2) years. We don't really see that in movies because basically it's all about the journey they have before they meet. And then after, they're happy, they have children, end of the story. (CR laughing). So we wanted to see all the different nuances that you go across in…
CR: But this is a movie that is going forward and going back. Digging down and reaching up.
MG: Yeah, the narration is a little convoluted?
CR: Convoluted would be a good word.
KW: Yeah.
CR: Convoluted would be a perfect word (claps hands once, laughs).
MG: Ah, thanks.
KW: He's very clear, very clear (CR laughs).
CR: It's convoluted for sure.
KW: Mmm, hmm.
MG: But I think the emotions are really we try to make them true.
CR: Try to make the relationship true.
MG: And the emotions. Actually, I have to say that with my accent Kate was alway here to translate my English. English…
KW: I doubled up as sort of actress stroke ( / ) translator on this film because for some reason I always found it very easy to understand Michel and sometimes no one else could understand what on Earth he was talking about. He would give Jim Carrey a direction. Jim would say, "Okay. Okay!". "What did he tell me to do?" And I would translate.
MG: And I would say "Now I'm going to do a close up of you Jim," and she would say, "No he's doing a close up of me." (laughs).
KW: (gesticulates to MG) I'd say, "What said is he's going to do is entirely coverage of me." (MG
and KW laugh).
CR: So, what, Jim Carrey is also in this movie. He plays the love interest. You chose him?
MG: Yeah. Oh, he chose me.
CR: He chose you?
MG: Well, I chose him and he chose me. Like, he like the script at the beginning and we liked him. Charlie and I talked together and to me had something that's missing in lot of actor, especially in Hollywood. A lot of actor, male, they have this kind of attitude, this Marlon Brando syndrome. (KW and CR laugh). I should not talk about him because he's alive. Let's talk about somebody dead like James Dean. Like the frowning actor that's Jack Black who can get like that. And it's just so right.
CR: The what actor? Oh, frowning. (laughs).
MG: Frowning. (makes a tough guy face and holds hand up like a mask). They're very serious about things. Like all the actors when they start to be a little famous they start to maintain this very masculine image of very serious. And I really don't like that because I cannot identify with that. But Jim has this kind of childlike quality, he's very outside. So what I started working with him I have to put him outside in. To get all this energy that he project outside, keeping inside, because his character was much more content intellectually. Kate's character was the big one.
KW: She was sorta, she was the Jim Carrey character.
MG: And I used that. We kind of planned, Kate and I, little tricks to make Jim off guard all the time.
CR: Off guard.
KW: Off guard, yeah.
MG: Off guard.
KW: Because I'm just thinking about that now. God, we did do a bit of that actually. Not necessarily to kind of trick him. But Jim as a person has a wonderful energy that's very alive and kind of buzzing and he loves to make people laugh. And, you know, he's very funny and Michel was always trying to keep him as contained as possible. Michel would always get me to be big and loud and I would say to him "What do you mean more?" And he would say "Bigger bigger, do it bigger!" the whole time and I jus. And for whatever reason I just thought, well you know, I'm just gonna trust him otherwise I'm doing this properly. And Jim was always brilliant about that there wasn't. He would always say to Michel "You know got…"
MG: Well, yeah.
KW: "to tell me if you see me doing something you know that you've seen me do before that isn't Joel. You have to tell me." He was very concerned to make sure that he was as consistent with the character as possible and that he was indeed very different from all the other parts he's played before. And he is in the movie, I mean, he's nothing like no one's ever seen him in any other movie.
CR: Absolutely not.
MG: I mean, Kate, if I could correct one thing. I don't think I've really tried to contan. Contan him?
CR/KW: Contain.
MG: Contain him. I think it be more I tried to. I saw him on the set of another shooting when we were preparing and I saw him in between two (2) takes that they had to retake one set and they had to go down the stairs. And I just realized that in between the takes he was a little bit different and it was really touching. And I just the tape. I just found the DVD of Living Color. In Living Color. That's how the…
CR: Yes. I used to see him on the set of In Living Color when he was doing it a hundred years…
MG: I don't know if you noticed, but at the end of the show they all go forward. They, like, stand in a line and they all say thank you. And always Jim is like totally lonely and he's in the back. It's so charming and I don't know what's going on. I have to call him and find out what's going on his head. You see this kind of skinny guy, he just there. And I really wanted to just capture that and I thought to get that on the screen. I need to mess around with him. Create a carousel…
CR: There was a kind of bewilderment you wanted to create. Is that? No, that's not…
MG: This word, I don't know.
CR: A sense of not knowing quite what is going on?
MG: Yeah, exactly. Totally. Sometime he would be a little upset in the beginning. I remember we tried to find the words to not say action because when you say action everybody start to stiffen. But then, when he saw the dailies he understand. He began understood and he became totally relaxed.
KW: Yeah. Michel would keep the camera running a lot. We used a lot of film stock because it would keep running and keep running between takes. Which for me was sometimes difficult, because not only was playing Clementine a wonderful experience obviously, but incredibly exhausting because she is larger than life and she is, you know, neurotic and sort of always on fire all the time.
CR: All right. Here's a scene in which Clementine, played by Kate, talks to Joel. Basically set this up. Michel, I can't risk having you do this. This is when he wants to, basically she says that he should try waking up to stop the procedure because what is happening is in his head is that. what you know all these scenes in this experience have been wiped out.
MG: Uh huh.
CR: And she wants him to stop this procedure. Just set it up and give a context to me before the audience sees it.
MG: Okay, that's a little bit like a dream quality. So he's in his mind. Now he realize that what's happening and he realize that he really love her and he doesn't want to lose her memory to (rambles off indecipherably).
KW: And Clementine is in on it now, you know. She is aware with him that this is what is happening, that his memory is being erased. So she is within the memories with him.
MG: So they're trying some tricks to wake up. Honestly, it's something I've done many time. I've dreamed, tried to wake myself up because I've realized, I mean my dream, I just get scared want to get wake up. So he's doing stuff he's, like the, he's pulling his eye with his finger.
KW: Trying to wake himself up after the procedure.
CR: Roll tape. Here it is.
(Plays the "Wake yourself up!" in the woods scene).
CR: (MG laughing). For many people that who even loved this movie, you gotta pay attention. You gotta make sure you're focused, uh, because it's going in lots of different directions. That's on purpose. You won't be. Almost like reading a difficult novel.
MG: Well, we. Well, I don't know, it's not, we're not trying to be difficult on purpose. But, it's like, as well we're not trying to take people for idiots. We think…
CR: For idiots?
MG: Yeah. We think like, maybe they could use their brain a little bit. And the good think, it's like, I remember Charlie saying that, "Well, if they don't get it, they can go see it a second time." (CR laughing). Uh, in fact, a lot of people go many times.
KW: So many people. So many people. I mean friends of mine who have seen it. They, you know, they very graciously phone afterwards and go, "Hi. You know, I just saw the movie. Ohmigod, I want to see it again immediately!" And I, they feel very kind of energized by it. And in fact, it isn't, I mean, I don't personally think that it's confusing. There were times that we were shooting it when I was incredibly confused.
CR: But you will give that you have to pay attention?
KW: Yeah you do have to pay attention, but at the same time it does. You know, you almost have to sort of surrender to it and let it take you where it's gonna take you, you know. And if you're on the ride then you're on the ride and if you aren't then, then you aren't. But it's one of those movies that has energy…
CR: Yeah, yeah.
KW: That does kind of sweep you up.
CR: If you're not on the ride it wouldn't seem to be fun to me if you don't get on the ride. You know?
KW: Of course not, of course not.
CR: You know if you're resisting where it wants to take you.
KW: Yeah, absolutely.
CR: What's the difference in the Clementine the real and the Clementine in his mind?
KW: There is no difference. It's simply that the real Clementine, or certainly some of the sides, that we see in the present.
CR: Right.
KW: There's part of her that you know she's a little bit of a cow.
She's, she's not that pleasant all of the time. She could be a bit of a bitch.
CR: Cow is an English expressing that means what?
KW: Cow means, you know….
CR: Jerk?
KW: Bitch, basically. (laughs). Yeah. But there are some parts…
CR: A Versailles expression, too.
MG: Uh, yes. In Versailles is ghetto (all laugh)
KW: There are some parts in the present when Clementine and Joel are at a bad place in their relationship. You see her, there's a lot of yelling and screaming at him and being very critical of him as a person and so on. And then a lot of the memories that you see, a lot of the sequences that Joel walks into from having his memory erasing procedure done ,you see parts of their relationship that were incredibly touching. And the thing about this story is that the memories are erased in reverse order from most recent to most past in their relationship. So as the movie goes on, rather than see things get worse and worse, they almost get better and better. And you realize at the end of the story just how perfect they were and how incredibly heartbreaking it is that they've done this awful thing to each other. That they've had them; that they've had all memories erased and all memory of this wonderful, crazy relationship is, it's gone. And that's where I think it's really quite moving, in a surprising way, too.
CR: That they have lost something so, you know.
KW: So incredibly.
CR: So is that the point, that we shouldn't forget any relationship regardless of where we're going?
KW: Well, I think every relationship, good or bad, teaches you something. You know, it teaches a lot about yourself and maybe not to repeat the same mistake again. I don't know, maybe something like that. But, in this case, it's almost about two people turning away from maybe, absolutely the relationship of their lifetime.
CR Yeah.
KW: And the wonderful thing is. (to Michel). Am I allowed to say what happens at the end? Well, a lot of people have seen it now, but…
CR: I don't think so, do you? (to Michel).
MG: Well…. I don't (mumbling) take responsibility. KW: You don't take what?
CR: You don't take responsibility?
MG: I don't want to yelled at for
CR: You what?
KW: No, well the thing. The thing that…
MG: I don't want to be yelled at.
CR: Oh. Who would yell at you?
KW: No, the thing I…
MG: Oh, many people.
KW: Listen. I, you know, I think this is a really great…
CR: Well, name one. (all laugh).
KW: Listen. I think this is a really great… (MG laughs). Producers or something like that. But basically when they've, when they've… CR: You're allowed to tell us.
KW: Well, when they've done this and they have erased each other from each other's minds, fantastically as very short time later they meet again as complete strangers. And that is…
CR: Right. And they don't know it.
MG: Well, that's at the beginning of the story.
KW: And yeah. Don't complicate things, Michel. (laughs).
MG: The story's like the change of our, you know like the six (6) months we have to change our watch?
CR: Yeah?
MG: And there's been going for (Michel says "sortir" or "sort here"). And remember when we change, and I was like ten or something, and still now after like sixty (60) time people are asking, "Well are, do we have to. We are, like, gaining or losing one hour?" So at the beginning of the film as little ask, "What is that before or after?"
CR: Oh.
KW: Yeah. It does. Yeah, it does have that to it.
MG: But I think to come back little bit. I mean, I want to say a something about, like, is that the real Clementine in his mind? I think it's obviously that's his point of view of her. But, she become alive, she become the real person. I think it's when you in love with somebody you start to talk to this person in you're mind. And this person give you answer you would not expect. It doesn't feel like you're talking to yourself even though you are. So I feel, you know us (mumbles), to make her real even though we are seeing through, most of the time through, Joel's mind.
CR: The film is called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Kate Winslet. Jim Carrey. Directed by Michel Gondry.
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Festivals: the cultural highlights of the summer or just nasty booze and too much mud? Whatever your opinion on them is, festivals aren't just for the discerning music fan any more. Many non-music lovers will flock to Glastonbury or Reading / Leeds just because… it's Glastonbury and Reading and Leeds. It's a multi-million pound market, and everyone wants to get in on the act.
So much so that a whole host of identikit festivals have sprung up in the last decade. The same line-ups (see: CSS, Foals), the same corporate endorsements, the same prices. Even Glastonbury – the sacred cow of live music events – isn't so unique in terms of line-up any more. Like Glastonbury, the established names will continue to thrive, but newer festivals without a reputation or backing from Mean Fiddler are struggling in an over-saturated market.
The best example of this would be Cambridge's Lodestar Festival. Organisers had to cancel this year's event due to poor ticket sales, blaming the weather that plagued the start of our 'summer'. But reasoning suggests that, for the less-than-tidy sum of £80, who's going to bother migrating to the middle of nowhere for Idlewild and Badly Drawn Boy? No-one, it would seem – unlike Truck, which was postponed due to the inclement conditions, Lodestar will not be happening in 2007. And what about the independent promoters getting in on the act? Despite the great line-ups for both Field Day and Tales Of The Jackalope, many complained about poor organisation and lack of facilities at both events. For all the complaints suggesting Mean Fiddler-arranged festivals are too expensive, at least with said events you're guaranteed an adequate toilet to take a dump in. Note to wannabe promoters: make sure your budget matches your ardour.
Of course, some new festivals have attempted to do things a little differently – and more importantly, are succeeding at it. In its second year, mid-sized Suffolk shindig Latitude sold out. Why? As well as t'music, the event incorporates poetry, literature and theatre, boasting the tag-line of 'it's more than just a music festival'. And then there's Bestival, a small boutique event which involves itself in politics and environmental issues, while aiming for a carbon neutral status. Maybe, with an ever-widening demographic becoming apparent, newer festivals need to diversify and cater for emerging markets if they want to succeed. Poetry and literature may not sound like an ideal experience on paper, but at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning it's the perfect hangover remedy.
DiScuss: In an ever-expanding festival market, which ones are worth paying £50, £100, or even £150 for the pleasure of getting drunk in a field? Do you just stick to Reading and/or Leeds, or do you take risks on the newer festivals? Or do you go abroad, where the tickets are cheaper and the line-ups seem to be getting better and better? DiS, certainly, had way more fun at Primavera and Hove than we did Reading and Download…


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Beyond concurrency, null pointers are another major source of quality issues — which Fantom directly addresses. Fantom's type system has explicit support for "nullability." If a method signature accepts or returns a type that might be null, then it must be declared directly in code. For example:
Int? read() // might return null Int readU1() // guaranteed by compiler to never return null
Annotating fields and methods with nullability is as easy as sticking a "?" on the end of the type. We've found that the process of forcing developers to think about whether a type can be null has all sorts of implicit advantages for the design and documentation of developer intent. When you combine this with Fantom's compile-time and runtime enforcement of nullability, most null-pointer bugs are caught much sooner in the development lifecycle than they would be in a language like Java.
Modularity and Packaging
Fantom's concurrency and nullability features are just two examples where we've tried to improve the quality of software at the source code level. But what about the macro level? Much of the cost of a large software system comes after the initial code is written during the deployment and maintenance phases. The ability to assemble large systems from modular software components is fundamental to empowering large teams to build and maintain these systems. Modularity is baked directly into Fantom's architecture by packaging all code into modules called "pods." Pods are independently versioned and explicitly declare their dependencies on other pods. Fantom's type system and reflection APIs are all based around pods. The ease with which you can reflect pods, types, and slots is a pivotal feature and really allows for some creative designs. For example:
// iterate all the installed pods Pod.list.each |pod| { // iterate all the types packaged by each pod pod.types.each |type| { // if the type is a concrete subclass of AutoStartService // then create an instance and start it up if (type.fits(AutoStartService#) && !type.isAbstract) type.make->start } }
Other Goodies
We've covered some of the key features of Fantom, but there are lots of other design decisions and conveniences designed to make programming more fun:
- Easy integration with existing Java or JavaScript code
- Standardized build script and unit testing frameworks
- Support for mixins which are like Java/C# interfaces, but methods can have implementations
- Built-in human readable serialization syntax which can be used directly in Fantom source code
- All non-
constfields automatically have a
getter/setteraccessor method
- Multi-line strings and string interpolation
- Support for List, Map, Type, Slot, Uri, and Duration literals
- Type inference for local variables
- Method parameters can declare default values
- We've eliminated the need to think about 32-bit versus 64-bit numbers and associated overflow problems — in Fantom all numbers are just 64-bit.
Tooling, Community, etc.
To learn more about Fantom, the first thing to do is head over to http://fantom.org/. This site is home base for the Fantom community where you can find: online documentation, examples, a forum, links to source and other downloads, plus an IRC channel.
You will find the Fantom community active and helpful. Fantom has two active projects for tooling: Xored, a company based out of Russia, has developed F4, which is an Eclipse IDE for Fantom. And Thibaut Colar is actively developing FantomIDE, a NetBeans-based IDE.
Fantom is a language developed for software engineers by software engineers. We didn't create Fantom as an academic experiment to publish research papers. We take pride in the fact that Fantom is a "boring language" — a workhorse, everyday language to build large software systems. Fantom is easy to learn and bundled with all the tools a typical project needs: module system, build system, testing framework, web server, desktop UI framework, and web UI framework all packaged up into simple, easy to use APIs. Enjoy!


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English Club in Chitwan – A Fun Approach to Learning!
An English club is held every Friday in Chitwan at an all girl's children's home, called Sri Sathaya Sai Balashraman. The children who live there go to school during the day but live at the home either because they no longer have parents, or because their parents are unable to look after them. The English club was set up for various reasons.
The club was aimed at inspiring the children to develop a passion for reading. Children who read in their spare time often attain higher grades at school. Therefore, without this club the children would rarely get a chance to read story books. The children are split into groups according to ability and each group gets a book to read together. The books range from picture books with a few words in big print for the younger children, to more challenging fiction for the more advanced readers.
Most groups have two or three children and one volunteer. The role of the volunteer is to help the children read the book, rather than to read the book to the children. The aim is for the children to learn and gain confidence, so as the children read the story aloud, the volunteer helps with the pronunciation of difficult words. They also ask questions about the characters along the way to make sure the children understand the words and are not just sounding out the letters. It's evident that the children love reading the story books and they often do not want to give them up when reading time ends.
Another goal of the English club is to help develop a creative streak within the children. The Nepali education system tends to focus on the repetition method of learning, but this leaves little time for children to learn how to think for themselves. The final activity of the session is designed to give the children the opportunity to work on these skills.
Recently, the children were asked to use the crayons and pencils provided by Projects Abroad to draw a princess and there were some very interesting results! They will draw a castle and later on a dragon and every week the child's creation will be filed in their personal portfolio. Once the three drawings are complete they will be asked to write a story about the princess, castle and dragon and we look forward to some creative stories.
The English language has become important in Nepal, with tourism being the largest industry. The club gives the children a chance to practice their English every week with people from all over the world. Some weeks there are four or five foreign nationalities and this gives the children a chance to find out about other cultures.
The program lasts about two hours and is broken up by songs, games and snack time to help the children maintain concentration and it also helps to create a fun atmosphere. Reading should be seen as something pleasurable, rather than a chore.
The children's favorite song is probably Bananas Unite, which involves hand-gestures and dancing as well as singing. All the children and volunteers gather in a circle outside and do the activity together and it's a fun atmosphere! Team games like Mr. Wolf and Telephone are also played outside and you can't help but notice how wide the children smile and jump for joy when their team wins!
Care volunteers are involved in planning and leading the English club and it wouldn't be possible without their enthusiasm. Regular volunteers are also able to help by joining in with games and songs and taking a group of children for the reading section and final activity. The club is enjoyed by volunteers, children and staff alike.
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Privacy Panic Focused on Wrong Issues
Privacy concerns, which are increasingly part of the online safety discussion, need to be based on real, not imagined dangers.
by Larry Magid
August 17, 2010
Lately I've gotten a sense that lots of Internet users are suffering from "privacy panic," not unlike the "predator panic" that plagued the Internet a few years ago when lots of people falsely believed that children faced a grave risk of being sexually abused by Internet predators.
The problem with these panics is they tend to be based on extreme and often rare cases, or just plain myths. And they tend to focus attention on the wrong issues. A few years ago, obsession by the media and certain politicians with rare cases of predation distracted attention from much more likely risks, such as cyberbullying. Lately, fears of a loss of privacy at the hands of big Internet companies such as Google and Facebook have been obscuring more serious privacy issues that get less attention.
For example, a few months ago it was revealed that the cars that drive around taking pictures of buildings for Google Street View were also collecting data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Google said the data collection was unintentional and that it never used that data. Critics accused Google of deliberately spying on people's Wi-Fi networks, leading to official government investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.
The furor over this alleged attack on privacy was silly. To begin with, data was collected only from unsecured networks. Most people now know to put some type of encryption on their Wi-Fi networks, and those who don't face risks a lot more serious than a Google car driving by accidentally collecting snippets as it passes the house. It's no surprise to me that the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office found it "unlikely that Google will have captured significant amounts of personal data," and further found "no evidence — as yet — that the data captured by Google has caused or could cause any individual detriment."
If you want to be paranoid, why worry about tiny amounts of unencrypted data picked up by passing vehicles? You'd be better off worrying about the data Google really does have access to. That includes not only what people search for but also the incoming and outgoing e-mail messages from millions of Gmail users and literally everything people do with Android phones — e-mail, text messages, Web surfing and even phone calls.
If Google wanted to get evil about user privacy, it could do a great deal of damage. What I worry about is not so much what Google is now doing with this data but what could happen if some future U.S. government or law enforcement officials conjured up ways to access Google servers.
There has also been paranoia about Facebook privacy policies. It's true that Facebook has raised suspicions on more than one occasion by abruptly changing its privacy policies, making them too complicated and at times reaching too far. That's why the company in May acknowledged its mistakes, backed away from some of its policies and streamlined its privacy settings. But at least Facebook has been transparent about the information it shares, and gives users control over most of the information they share with friends or the public.
Facebook is often accused of harvesting reams of data about users that it shares with advertisers. I suppose it could do that, but it doesn't, not only because it would violate the company's privacy policy but because it would be a bad business decision. Why turn over member information to advertisers when you can make more money by displaying their ads? Once the advertiser had that information, it would no longer need to advertise on Facebook. It makes business sense for Facebook to keep it confidential.
Facebook readily admits that it targets ads to members based on demographic information, just as Google admits that it targets ads based on people's search queries or the content of their Gmail. That's how these companies are able to offer free services — by making lots of money with highly targeted advertising.
I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't be vigilant about Google and Facebook's privacy policies. It's important not only to be aware of their current policies but to keep abreast of any changes they might make in the future. The same goes for other companies you do business with, especially your bank, credit card companies, health insurance company, phone companies and even the grocery stores where you use loyalty cards.
It's also important to be aware of cookies that can track your whereabouts on the Web. And, most of all, it's important to be cautious of what you say online, especially in public forums.
There is a role for regulators, politicians and the media to keep companies accountable for protecting privacy, but what these parties do about privacy should be based on reasonable concerns, not paranoid fantasies and urban legends.
Disclosure: Google and Facebook are supporters of ConnectSafely.org, a nonprofit Internet safety organization where I serve as co-director.


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There is a certain urban block in the commercial district of town which I think of as Poetry Street because some years ago the downtown business association subsidized the installation there of three tons of poetry on panels laid into the concrete sidewalk. Neither this project nor other similar gentrification-through-the-
Poetry Street
The winter has been long and hard. It has taken its toll on the transient citizenry. Still there remains a tiny spring of hope in the internal biological clock of everything that lives. One reaches out gratefully to grasp at the slightest of encouraging signs, even when they are illusory.
After a few days of gentler weather early in the week, this evening a cold drizzle returns. Into the wet blue fog the street lighting of the avenue casts an eerie orange-red glow. The ghostly figures of street drifters shuffling and huddling, loitering with and without intent, populate the night much as dark vessels afloat in a polluted river. Small puffs of breath emanating seem to tug the body bundles along. These random shifting configurations, representing what passes for social organization. In such stunned and affectless times, who can know what lies beyond the opaque physical representation.
It was once thought that souls bereft in the underworld could not return across the river Styx.
Just as he is about to make contact with the blind men, I reach out and gently touch the howling man's arm. He stops howling, his head whips toward me, his eyes appearing to roll back down to earth from some remote planet where life has long since been extinguished. Yo, I say. They can't see you. He looks at me, then at the two terrified and cowering blind men, a split second goes by. Heaven has opened for a moment to bless and protect its own. The bearded man steers around the blind men, crosses the avenue against the flow of traffic, ignoring a red light. When he reaches the other shore, he begins once again to howl. It is an unearthly outcry, reaching up into the night, gradually growing fainter as he moves away from the avenue.
noise absorbed: Larry Eigner, poetry panel from the Addison Street Project


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Is "looking like a wolverine" referred to 'furry' (that is hairy) people, who never have a haircut or shave?
Thank you in advance,
This is not a common slang term. As was said, more context would be needed. Mostly due to Marvel Comic's X-Men, wolverines kind of got a bad rap as being one of the most feared animals. They can be aggressive, but not always.
So the term could mean "looking aggressive, like they might attack". However, many sports teams use a wolverine as their mascot, so it could possibly even mean "looking like a Wolverine sports fan".


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Consumer Protection warns against Powerball phone scam
If someone calls and says you're eligible for unclaimed Powerball prizes, Wisconsin officials warn that it's most likely a scam.
The state's consumer-protection agency says the scam is unusual because the caller seems to be setting up the consumer for future scams.
The agency says the caller tells residents they might be eligible for Powerball prizes, and asks them to pick some numbers. Later the caller calls back and says they've won a third or fourth prize worth millions of dollars.
However, where most scammers ask for money to cover fictitious fees or taxes, these scammers ask questions about the residents' investments and home values. That information tells the scammer the consumer has money and may be an easy target.
The agency has additional information on its website at http://datcp.wi.gov .


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Louise C. Ivers, The New York Times
February 22, 2013
On Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, rejected a legal claim for compensation filed in 2011 on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti. Through a spokesperson, Mr. Ban said the claims, brought by a nongovernmental organization, were "not receivable" because of the United Nations' diplomatic immunity.
Regardless of the merits of this argument, the United Nations has a moral, if not legal, obligation to help solve a crisis it inadvertently helped start. The evidence shows that the United Nations was largely, though not wholly, responsible for an outbreak of cholera that has subsequently killed some 8,000 Haitians and sickened 646,000 more since October 2010. The United Nations has not acknowledged its culpability.
Now, as the cholera epidemic appears to worsen, Mr. Ban and the United Nations have an opportunity to save thousands of lives, restore good will — and, yes, fulfill the mandate that brought the organization to Haiti in the first place: stabilizing a fragile country. The United Nations should immediately increase its financial support for the Haitian government's efforts to control the epidemic. While that may not satisfy everyone, it will go at least some way toward compensating the people of Haiti for the unintentional introduction of the bacteria that caused the epidemic.
Before October 2010, cholera — a diarrheal illness caused by consuming water or food contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae — had never been reported in the country. In the epidemic's first year, the striking loss of life attracted international media attention. Even in its third year, the outbreak continues to sicken thousands.
There were 11,220 cases nationwide during the month of December — significantly more than the 8,205 cases seen during December 2011. Our clinic in St. Marc treated more people with the infection last month than in the previous eight months combined.
That soldiers at the United Nations camp were responsible for introducing the bacteria seems apparent. After local and national protests and an Associated Press investigation, Mr. Ban empaneled a group of international experts to determine the disease's source. Their report stated that evidence "overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that the source of the Haiti cholera outbreak was due to contamination of the Meye Tributary of the Artibonite River with a pathogenic strain of current South Asian type Vibrio cholerae as a result of human activity." The strain was not indigenous to Haiti.
The report also found that sanitation conditions at the United Nations camp were not sufficient to prevent contamination of the local waterway with human waste. Investigators found that the potential existed for feces to enter the tributary from a drainage canal in the camp and from the open septic disposal pit that was used to handle the waste.
A research study published in January 2011 in The New England Journal of Medicine lent further support to the claim that the cholera came from the United Nations camp, as did an August 2011 study in another scholarly journal.
The interplay of biosocial factors inherently involved in epidemics make it difficult to pinpoint causality. If Haitians had better access to clean water and sanitation, of course, the cholera epidemic would have had a smaller impact and thousands of deaths might have been averted. (By comparison, there were few, if any, deaths from cholera in countries with effective water and sanitation systems where the organism appeared as part of this same epidemic — including the United States.)
But all of this is background to the urgent matter at hand. The United Nations recently started a 10-year initiative to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, based on a plan that was developed with multiple partners, including the governments of both countries. It is a collaborative and comprehensive approach that aims to eliminate transmission of the disease with substantial investments in water and sanitation infrastructure, as well as through prevention and treatment.
On Feb. 27, Haiti's minister of health will introduce one important component of this plan — an initiative to expand access to cholera vaccination.
If the United Nations were to finance this initiative, along with the rest of the government's anti-cholera program, it could have a significant and immediate impact on stemming this epidemic. As of now, however, the United Nations plans to contribute just 1 percent of the cost. That is not enough.
Meanwhile, the organization's stabilization mission in Haiti is budgeted for $648 million this year — a sum that could more than finance the entire cholera elimination initiative for two years.
It's time for the United Nations to rethink what true stabilization could be: preventing people from dying of a grueling, painful — and wholly preventable — disease is a good start.
Louise C. Ivers, a senior health and policy adviser at Partners In Health and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, has been leading cholera treatment and prevention activities in Haiti.
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|Gluten Free German Dumplings with carrot salad
|Me, my Opa and his best friend
Update Feb 25, 2013 - I've recently found that adding approx 2 Tbsp of glutinous rice flour (a.k.a. sweet rice flour - don't worry, it IS gluten free) helps to bind the dumplings even more.
|Mashing, Shaping and Boiling Potato Dumplings
*OAS Info: Potatoes are on the OAS chart. The double boiling process *should* eliminate reactive allergen proteins and make this ok to eat. If in doubt, try substituting with all sweet potatoes, or avoid altogether. Most stock is made with celery, a common OAS food. In the case of celery, boiling may not destroy the allergen protein, and it may cause a reaction in severly allergic people. If in doubt, make your own stock without celery.
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Media Mixup!? Reporter Says Lil Wayne Is In A Coma After Drinking Too Much "Size-Er Up??" But Weezy & Mack Maine Say That's Nonsense!
Mack Maine recently tweeted out "don't believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe...that's false!! & Lil Wayne followed up on twitter telling everyone he's doing good & thanked fans for the prayers & love
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SARASOTA, Fla. — Brian Roberts and Nick Markakis each had two hits and Brian Matusz pitched two scoreless innings as the Baltimore Orioles won their third straight game, 5-1 over the Yankees on Monday.
Roberts and Markakis, the two most senior Orioles, were injured and missed the team's first postseason appearance in 15 years. Matusz, who was reinvented as a left-handed reliever last August, started and allowed two hits to a Yankees lineup that featured only two regulars – center fielder Brett Gardner and catcher Francisco Cervelli.
Gardner had three hits for New York, which lost Curtis Granderson on Sunday for 10 weeks with a broken right forearm.
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The win lifts the Dynamo into a tie for 11th place in MLS with 23 points, just five points behind the Colorado Rapids, who currently occupy the eighth and final playoff spot. Houston plays at Colorado next Saturday.
The Dynamo had been winless in league play for almost exactly three months, going 0-6-4 in league play since a 2-0 win over D.C. United on May 22.
Brian Ching's hat trick was the fourth in Dynamo club history and his first since a four-goal performance in the team's opening game on April 2, 2006. The other hat tricks came from Brad Davis (June 21, 2007) and Nate Jaqua (September 8, 2007). It was Ching's first multi-goal game since August 1, 2009, when he scored two goals in a 4-3 win over D.C. United. In netting the hat trick, Ching doubled his 2010 goal total from three to six goals, most on the team. Ching now has 71 goals in his MLS regular season career.
Defender/midfielder Richard Mulrooney, who began the game at right back and finished it at central midfield, had a hand in all four Dynamo goals, which all came from set pieces. He was credited with two assists, his first multi-assist game since August 20, 2008.
Midfielder Lovel Palmer scored the other Dynamo goal, driving home an indirect free kick to put Houston up 2-0 early in the second half. It was Palmer's fourth goal of the year in all competitions but his second in MLS play.
For the Dynamo, defender Bobby Boswell made his 20th MLS start of the season, the sixth consecutive year in which Boswell has made at least 20 starts. Midfielder Brian Mullan made the 225th start of his MLS career. Geoff Cameron started at center back for the second consecutive game and made the 60th appearance of his MLS career. Forward Dominic Oduro made his 50th career appearance for the Dynamo in all competitions and his first start in MLS play since May 29. Oduro and Brian Ching started together for the first time since April 1.
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The Dynamo started without defender Adrian Serioux (hamstring) and midfielders Corey Ashe (hamstring) and Brad Davis (quad), although Davis entered as a substitute.
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A. About 50,000 would be typical, so one out of three ain't bad. Assuming you learned most of these by high school, that figures to 3,000 a year, or eight every day!
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Stephen Amell has no hang-ups about his new role on "Hung": "I'm a fun-loving gigolo!"
When the third season debuts next fall, Amell will be the newest cast member of HBO's quirky dramedy following struggling high school coach Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) who sidelines as a male prostitute, and the actor – most recently seen on "The Vampire Diaries" – is ready to give Ray a run for the lady clients' money.
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Amell's keeping tight-lipped about whether his character Jason will be a rival or a protégée of Ray's. "We're definitely going to cross paths," he says. "And I think that we're going to have moments of friendship and partnership and definitely some uneasy moments, because I am infringing on his territory just a little bit."
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We could resist asking: exactly what sort of, ahem, research did Amell do to prepare for his role? "I didn't have any time, actually," he laughs. "It would have been great to research it. Although walking the streets of Detroit may not be the best idea. We actually just got back from shooting in Michigan. I really enjoyed it. But this job came up so fast that there was no time. I just put myself in the hands of the show's creators who have crafted a very good world and just trusted that they would make the right decisions."
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