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Natalie Portman's aware you might be getting a little tired of her face. But she offers a compelling reason for making the plethora the films she's got in the pipeline.
"Well, you have heard that the Apocalypse is coming, right? 2012 – The Mayan calendar?" Portman explains. "I thought that I would get it all in right before.
A freshly minted Golden Globe winner and leading contender to take home an Oscar for last fall's "Black Swan," Portman will be seen at more than just awards podiums this year. She's got the raunchy/romantic comedy "No Strings Attached" dropping this week, plus stints as the Thunder God's love interest in "Thor" and a comely warrior woman in the comedy "Your Highness," both due this year.
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"I feel bad for boring people with my face for a while," she conceded, "but in as an actress it was really an exciting thing to get to work on all of these things almost back to back."
"I learned so much from doing all these different types of movies," Portman said, "because you bring the research and the seriousness and the discipline of doing a drama into something like 'Thor,' and you bring the humor and the improvisational attitude from something like 'Your Highness' into 'Black Swan.'"
Along with expanding her film resume, Portman was pleased to reclaim her curvier personal proportions in "No Strings Attached" after getting scary-skinny for "Black Swan." "You're like, 'How did you get fat so quickly?'" she chuckled. "It was pretty great. It was like a palate cleanser after all of that discipline and focus and a very serious kind of set, to a really playful, fun [film] – obviously everyone is still very professional on this movie, but there's an improvisational feel all the time and everyone is there to play. It was a really great atmosphere – and I didn't have to work out because I was like, 'She's a doctor. They don't have time.'"
Now she'll be taking some time off, with plenty of new strings attached: she's engaged to "Black Swan" choreographer Benjamin Millipied and is prepping herself for the off-screen role of mother. Asked about her upcoming projects, she looks at her expectant tummy and says simply "I'm cooking a child."


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After Jimmy Fallon, Is Kevin Rose's Buddy Act Over?
Did you hear? Digg founder Kevin Rose was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Wednesday. As was Rose's forgettable Diggnation cohost — what's his name? Ah, yes — Alex Albrecht, who we hear wants out.
Rose is a geek hero, famous first for his stint hosting a tech-focused TV show on Comcast's G4TV. Diggnation, an online video show where Rose and Albrecht drink beer and discuss popular headlines on Digg, Rose's social-news site, is the centerpiece of Revision3, Rose's online-video startup. Appearing on broadcast TV, though, is a high-water mark for this icon of geek culture.
While Rose has a burgeoning mini-media empire which has won him magazine covers, Albrecht has languished in relative obscurity — the "blond guy," as Fallon called him.
Which is why when we heard that Albrecht wanted out of his contract, we didn't dismiss the rumor out of hand. As lucrative as the Diggnation gig must be for what is, let's be honest, an excuse to drink in front of a camera, Albrecht could well be frustrated at being Rose's sidekick. (The job does have one perk, though: The ability to say scathing things about Rose and get away with it. Rose is a famously prolific dater whose brief entanglements have included egoblogger Julia Allison and L.A. TV personality Shira Lazar. Albrecht's comment at a party: Rose "has basically plowed through everybody.")
We asked Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback, who was also up late, what gives. "His agent hasn't complained to me," Louderback said. "Sounds like posturing." Posturing? You mean, the kind of crick one gets from perpetually playing second fiddle?
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Last night, Nintendo held the second of its Nintendo Direct online press conferences. In it, the Kyoto-based game creator confirmed several Japanese release dates. One of them was new—the one for Fire Emblem.
While Nintendo did confirm Japanese release dates for titles like Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D (Mar. 8, which we knew), it also gave new release dates for Shin Sangoku Musou Vs., or rather Dynasty Warriors Musou Vs. (Mar. 15, which we didn't).
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream, Drop Distance, once again, was given a wide release window. Once again, March was penciled in for its Japanese release—just as it was earlier this month.
The one game that stood out was the eagerly awaited Fire Emblem 3DS title. That game will be out Apr. 19 in Japan. Yesterday, news broke that Fire Emblem will be the first 3DS game to have DLC for sale. According to the Nikkei report, Nintendo will begin moving forward with DLC in March, making it appear as though the game was dated for that same month.
Fire Emblem will be out on the 3DS in April—the 19th to be exact.
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It also has an interesting crafting system. You can create some really cool weapons by piecing other ones together, but sometimes you can find even better ones on the ground!
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Last year Dead Island was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. There were some folks who loved it, and others who didn't. Deep Silver and Techland released Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition, this version of the game, which features the campaign and post-launch DLC, is worth the price tag.
Dead Island is centered on the island of Banoi, which gets struck suddenly with a zombie outbreak. You get the choice to play as one of four characters that are stuck on the dead island of Banoi. Any character you pick is immune to the virus,a large majority of the quests center around other islanders asking you out to do their chores and run their errands.The story is largely a big let down not being very driven or gripping, and the characters aren't very likable. Don't pick up Dead Island in hopes of a thrilling and gripping zombie tale, you are just here to kill some zombies.
One of the mechanics in Dead Island is durability. The more you use a weapon, the more it degrades, eventually braking and becoming severely impaired. It also has an interesting crafting system. You can create some really cool weapons by piecing other ones together, but sometimes you can find even better ones on the ground! The more often you brandish your zombie killing weapon, the more of the durability you will exhaust. You are allowed to repair your items at workbenches, because it keeps combat interesting.
A majority of the things that you'll be doing on the island are looting and killing hordes of zombies. Combat is extremely pleasant and brutal. Weapons play a very important role in surviving the Dead Island, and throughout your journey for survival you come across everything from broken useless bats to extremely sharp and powerful machetes, guns, and crowbars. You also come across different weapon mods, and by combining what seems to be unimportant, useless items you've looted with some weapons you come across, you can create something as awesome as nail ridden bats and crowbars.
In Dead Island The Game of the Year, this release fixes old bugs and glitches, and has a load of dlc that you will love. It features a ripper mod that you could download before as a mod. This edition features the Bloodbath Arena as well which is a new level where defend yourself against entire waves of enemies. All in all the extra features in this edition are extremely well put together.
This edition also features the White Ryder Campaign, a new outlook on the Dead Island story. This DLC is not extremely long, but is loads of fun to play through, and offers a unique perspective of Dead Island. All in all the Ryder campaign is quite fun and really worth the playthrough.
All in all this game is a great game, and definitely worth picking up for the price. If you are into zombie survival games, Dead Island is the game for you.
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Next week during reading week, Brock officials will be co-ordinating an upgrade and test of the University's emergency notification system.
The work will take place over three days from Wednesday, Feb. 19 to Friday, Feb. 21 and could impact emergency communications systems in various areas around campus.
"Occupants on campus next week will experience activation of the emergency notification system at various points during the day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday," says Rick Fraser, emergency preparedness and life safety officer.
"We're going to attempt to keep the interruptions to a minimum," says Fraser. "This work will improve our ability to effectively communicate across the entire campus as well as to specific buildings."
Wednesday will consist mainly of behind-the-scenes work, but both Thursday's and Friday's tests could get loud.
Testing will include activating University-wide messaging systems as well as building-specific systems such as digital signs, PA systems, voice mail, email and text messages.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Blog Hop {i{heart}papers & Market Street Stamps}
The Introduction:
Welcome to the i {heart} papers and Market Street Stamps blog hop!
If you are hopping along with us today: You should have come here from
You should have arrived here from Stephanie Washburn's blog. If you did, you are in the right place! Welcome!
If you aren't already a follower, I'd love to have you follow my blog!
If you are one of my regular readers: Thanks for coming back! I love having you! Please join along in the hop - you can start at Kate's i {heart} papers blog.
About i {heart} papers:
i {heart} papers is proud that we recently celebrated our 3rd anniversary in October. We've grown by leaps and bounds and have not strayed from our core principle of stellar customer service with FAST and FREE shipping. You ALWAYS receive free shipping with your $50 US order/$150 CAN order with no gimmicks or restrictions like so many other companies, and orders are almost always shipped within 24 business hours. We're thrilled to be hopping along with the MSS team today and to be carrying the MSS line of stamps. If you've never ordered from us before, please mention that you learned about us on this hop for a free gift with your first order! Please visit us at www.iheartpapers.com, "like" us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/iheartpapers, where you'll find over 1900 other IHP fans!) and follow us on Twitter (@iheartpapers).
Enjoy the hop!
If you order by Wednesday midnight EST, all MSS sets are 15% off!
About Market Street Stamps:
Market Street Stamps, LLC, was founded in January 2010 by Angelica and Jorge Suarez, a husband and wife team who create unique stamps made from peach-tinted photopolymer, the best available on the market today! Market Street Stamps' goal is to produce durable, high quality designs that you'll turn to again and again! We are thrilled to be hopping with i {heart} papers and their incredibly talented design team today! Be sure to "like" us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MarketStreetStamps) for the latest releases and project ideas from our Design Team!
The Details:
Leave a comment on each blog along the hop. The winners will be chosen randomly from all comments on the manufacturer blogs AND the designer blogs.
Blog comments close on Wednesday, December 7th and the winners will be announced Saturday, November 26th on the ihp blog blog on Friday.
The Project:
I created a tag set with the new Market Street Stamps Honeycomb background and a sentiment from the Market Street Stamps Essential Holiday Elegance set.
The Honeycomb background naturally lends itself to a color palette featuring yellow, but I went with yellow and black on these tags for two reasons:
1 - I thought it would be fun to create tags that coordinate with the decorated gift jars I recently created.
2 - My mind went a little "punny" and when I was looking at the "Eat, Drink, & Be(e) Merry" sentiment I immediately thought it would be fun to do something "bee" themed.
I did a simple mask to merge the sentiment and background into one piece and then added a tape top border and finished them off with some twill and twine.
These tags were fairly simple to create and would be easy to mass produce. They would be fabulous attached to jars of homemade goodies or even honey. :o)
Thanks for stopping by today!
The Next Stop:
Tracy Schultz's blog
Cardstock: Core'dinations (Scotch); Georgia Pacific (White);
Stamps: Market Street Stamps (Honeycomb, Essential Holiday Elegance);
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black);
Twine: The Twinery (Buttercream);
Other: LittleRedCottage - etsy (Twill); K&Co. (SmashTape);
Tools: Fiskars (Trimmer, Scissors); Martha Stewart/EK Success (Scoring Board);
26 comments:
- Miriam Prantner said...
Great set of tags! Thanks for the inspiration!
- December 6, 2011 at 6:34 AM
- Kendra said...
What fun little tags and very cute too! Great hopping with you today.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- i {heart} papers said...
Adorable! Love that greeting paired in a unique way with that background.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Deb said...
Big smiles here! Love your punny tags (especially since my name, Deborah, means bee!)...fun combination of colors and designs! Thanks so much for hopping with our ihp team!
- December 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- Brenda Weaver said...
what a fun set of tags, Tifany! Love the black white and yellow combination!
- December 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Kelli Hull said...
HAH!!! Honey would bee Perfect!!! :)
- December 6, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- Samantha Casey said...
Super cute and clean tags!
- December 6, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Unknown said...
Great project - love these tags. It has me buzzing with ideas. Love it!
- December 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- sharon g said...
Should it say "BEE" merry? ha ha ha . Love it.
- December 6, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- B. Poteraj said...
I like the twine on the ribbon. Nice touch.
- December 6, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Emily Keaton said...
What a great idea for these fun tags! Love how you used the honeycomb background.
- December 6, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Ca-ute! Love these punny tags and the color combo is fab :)
- December 6, 2011 at 7:23 PM
- Becky Sorensen said...
I love that background stamp and the greeting. Great colors.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- Michele Gross said...
Such a fun idea for tags :)
- December 6, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- Lori said...
What a great way to personalize holiday gifts! Fun design.
- December 6, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- Mamarazzi Scraps said...
I wouldn't have thought to use the honeycomb stamp for a holiday card...and you did it so well. I guess that's why I follow the blogs instead of posting one of my own, haha!
- December 6, 2011 at 11:53 PM
- Gretchen said...
I love tag sets! Awesome job and ver punny too :)!
- December 7, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- whoistracy said...
These are so cute!! Love the bright colors.
- December 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Gail said...
Gorgeous tag!
They'd look great attached to some honey wine too!
- December 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Marianne S. said...
This is a fun set of tags. Love the black and yellow color combo with the Honeycomb stamp. Great job and thank you for sharing.
- December 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Tammy V said...
Love the black and white and use of the honeycomb stamp!
- December 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- DoBea A. said...
What fun tags! I am really digging that Honeycomb background!!
- December 7, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- simplykincke said...
Love that honeycomb! Thanks for sharing such cute tags.
- December 7, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Love the honeycomb pattern.
- December 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Love the honeycomb.
- December 7, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- pattie said...
love it
- December 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM


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Wrath of the Titans (2012)
So let me get Wrath of the Titans (2012) straight. This is about Perseus (Sam Worthington). He's the one proudly parading in a skirt as opposed to Andromeda (Rosamund Pike) who's the warrior Princess sporting the full-dress armour you would expect on the battlefield. It seems rather insulting to the LGBT community that men in films can confidently walk around wearing a mini (what did these ancient Greeks wear underneath their skirts?) with their swords in an erect position, whereas modern men seen in public, with or without swords, run the risk of assault and arrest (which in some countries will be the police assaulting the man in the skirt). Except in Greece itself, of course. The modern Greek army, following in the noble tradition of the Scottish regiments with their kilts (and, if we're to believe the myths, nothing underneath) continues to celebrate heroes like Perseus when turning their soldiers out for guard duty (see below). It brings in much needed tourist revenue during this time of austerity as homophobic men from around the world come to view one of the few national armies retaining gender neutral uniforms, albeit with a female bias — will you just look at those shoes with the bobbles. Having repealed "Don't ask, don't tell", President Obama will no doubt be introducing comparable uniforms to further enhance the morale of US troops, should he win the next election, of course. Anyway, the reason for this fixation with skirts is the way the CGI plays with them in this film. For example, if Perseus were to jump feet-first from a height, you would expect the force of the air whipping past his ankles to wrap the skirt around his waist, thus exposing him to criticism from the film censors. Except, no matter what our hero is doing, the skirt never outrages his modesty (see the poster above).
I begin in this way because the film itself is set at a comparable level of idiocy — on the poster, note how the hero avoids using the forked end to attack the beastie — one spike good, three spikes bad. It all starts with the polyglot approach to dialogue. In the good old days of Hollywood, there were voice coaches who would train everyone involved to approximate the same mid-Western accent. So here comes Sam Worthington with his native Australian, Rosamund Pike and Ralph Fiennes with their cut-glass English, Liam Neeson reverting to type with his Northern Irish brogue and, most hilariously of all, Bill Nighy approximating the Galápagos Islands which are just north of Huddersfield if you approach via Surrey. Ares (Édgar Ramírez), of course, is from Venezuela so he can speak with a funny accent without trying and then there's Toby Kebbell who wins the prize for the most anonymous accent — it's the beard that filters out the phonemes as they leave his lips.
As you will gather, Slight Disagreement Between the Gods is all about men in skirts being given silly things to do while pretending to live in the Tower of Babel. The next big truth about this epic is that all but one of the men has Daddy Issues, a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe sons who would prefer their fathers to be elsewhere. So Helius (John Bell) is annoyed by his father Perseus who won't let him play with his sword. Perseus is upset with his father, Zeus, because he resents having to save the world whenever Zeus messes things up. Zeus, Hades and Poseidon are upset with Cronus, their father, because he never made time for them when they were baby Gods — just to be sure you understand, Cronus was the Titan lacking in parenting skills, while Chronos was an earlier God of Time. Ares as the God of War just wants to fight with everyone including Zeus his father. Only Cronus has no Daddy Issues because he's a product of CGI. And talking of the CGI, we get to see Cerberus, a few cyclops, some randomly thrown together nasties with lots of arms and legs, all holding swords, and the horse with wings. When he finally appears, Cronus looks like a grown-up version of Lavagirl without Sharkboy around to liven up the party. He makes all those slow-motion moves much beloved by overweight professional wrestlers who want to look silly when faster-moving, good-looking heroes stop pretending to be hurt and close in for the knockout.
I think the moment I began to feel really ill was when the pride of the ancient Greek army did that everyone-make-ape-noises-together thing that's supposed to show group solidarity as Perseus had his Pegasus moment wheeling in the sky (the US Marine Corp apparently use the verb to "oorah" as opposed to the "hip, hip, hooray" more commonly used by the British when they want to make a sarcastic comment). If this had been part of a more general attempt to make the film amusing, I would have accepted it as one failed joke. But I think this was intended, somehow, to be serious. So there you have it, Sam Worthington, Toby Kebbell and Rosamund Pike travel to an island that doesn't exist, go through the labyrinth where the Minotaur makes a cameo appearance, and enjoy a package tour round the Underworld where nothing stays the same until you get to the missing Daddy and the red hot Titan in the soft centre. Wrath of the Titans is completely without humour, interminably boring, and lacking anything approximating intelligence. Even the Gods die in despair — obviously, there's no convenient Heaven for them to adjourn to when they shuffle off this immortal coil. I suppose this means it's a blockbuster, but my money says it will sink without trace at the box office once the word-of-mouth spreads.


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This guys job is to walk on a mattress. No, seriously. His name is Reuben Reynoso and he's a professional mattress walker. This is apparently the important, final step in making a mattress. I am not joking.
If you watch the video of Reynoso walking above, you wouldn't be crazy to think that anyone could do that job. Sure Reynoso looks like a well-built walking machine with powerful footwork and solid weight-to-body distribution but... it's walking on a bed. There's a science to it though! Well, sort of. Reynoso says:
"It's work. It's not for everybody. There is a right way and a wrong way to do it."
So I guess it's not exactly a science. But still, there's a purpose. Reynoso needs to walk on a mattress to "expertly compress no fewer than 28 layers of fluffy cotton batting while seeking to detect tiny lumps or other imperfections."
The mattresses aren't your run of the mill springs either, they're handmade at the McRoskey mattress factory in San Francisco and retail for about £1720-odd. The walking on the mattress needs to be precise to make the cotton batting perfectly compressed but still fluffy and most importantly without any lumps. What a gig. Read more about the mattress making and walking process here. [Arbroath via Neatorama]


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A bodice (American English /ˈbɑːdɨs/, British /ˈbɒdɪs/) historically, is an article of clothing for women, covering the body from the neck to the waist. In modern usage it typically refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, or to the upper portion of a modern dress to distinguish it from the skirt and sleeves. The term comes from pair of bodies (because the garment was originally made in two pieces that fastened together, frequently by lacing).[citation needed]
In historical usage, particularly in Victorian and early 20th century fashion, a bodice (in earlier sources, body[citation needed]) indicates the upper part of a dress that was constructed in two parts (i.e., with separate skirt and bodice, such as a ballet tutu), but of matching or coordinating fabric with the intention of wearing the two parts as a unit. In dressmaking, the term waist (sometimes given as "dress waist" to distinguish it from a shirtwaist) was also used. During wear, the parts might be connected by hooks and eyes.[1] This construction was standard for fashionable garments from the 18th century until the late 19th century, and had the advantages of allowing a voluminous skirt to be paired with a close-fitting bodice, and of allowing two or more bodices to be worn with the same skirt (e.g., a high-necked bodice and a low-necked bodice allowed the same skirt to serve for both daywear and evening wear). One-piece construction became more common after 1900 due to the trend for looser, more simply-constructed clothing with narrower skirts.
In modern usage, bodice typically refers to an upper garment that has removable sleeves or no sleeves, often low-cut, worn in Europe from the 16th century to the 18th century, either over a corset or in lieu of one. To achieve a fashionable shape and support the bust, the bodice was frequently stiffened with bents (a type of reed), or whalebone. The bodice was different from the corset of the time because it was intended to be worn over the other garments. In earlier periods, bodices and corsets were laced in spiral fashion, with one continuous lace. In later periods, both were laced like the modern tennis shoe, with eyelets facing one another. This was more convenient for women who had to dress themselves.
One mid 19th century style included the Agnes Sorel bodice, named after 15th century royal mistress Agnes Sorel. This style was a day wear bodice, with a square cut neckline that had a high front and back and bishop sleeves.[2]
Bodice continues in use to refer to the upper portion (minus the sleeves) of a one- or two-piece dress. The bodice of a dress was called the corsage in the 19th century.
Bodices today[edit]
Bodices survive into modern times in the traditional or revived folk dress of many European countries (see, for example, Austrian dirndl or the Aboyne dress worn by Scottish highland dancers). They are also commonly seen today at Society for Creative Anachronism events or a Renaissance Fair.[3]
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Further reading[edit]
- Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560-1620, Macmillan 1985. (ISBN 0-89676-083-9)
- Steele, Valerie: "The Corset: A Cultural History" Yale University Press, 2001.
|Look up bodice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ Butterick (c1905). Dressmaking, Up To Date. New York: Butterick Publishing Company. p. 75.
- ^ Valerie Cumming; Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington; C. W. Cunnington; P. E. Cunnington (1 September 2010). The Dictionary of Fashion History. Berg. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-84788-738-2. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "'Bodacious bodices' at the Renaissance Festival". Chicago: Metromix. 2009.


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Imam Rabbani reveals that the Mahdi will appear in the second millennium following the death of our Prophet (saas):
"It is expected that, after 1,000 years, this secret administration will be renovated. It will be granted with superiority... This way, genuine virtue will emerge and cover the degradation... And it is expected that the Mahdi, the supporter, will come. May God be pleased with him." (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, vol. 1, p. 569)
The confirmation of the religious law, the renovation of people takes place in this second thousand. The just witnesses of the truthfulness of this cause are the existence of the Prophet Isa [as] and Mahdi in this period (the second thousand years). (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, vol. 1, p. 611)
Those among the nation of Allah's Messenger (saas) are highly perfected in faith. It does not matter whether they are few in number, even a thousand years passes after the death of our Prophet (saas). Their being perfected in faith serves to the following end: strenghtening the Islamic law in its true sense.The coming of the Mahdi after 1,000 years serves this purpose. Our Prophet (saas), the last Messenger, gave the glad tidings of his coming. The Prophet 'Isa (as), on the other hand, will come down after 1,000 years. (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, vol. 1, p. 440)
A thousand years after the death of our Prophet (saas), people will enter the second millennium. According to Imam Rabbani, quoted above, the Mahdi and the Prophet 'Isa (as) will come during the time between this millenium and the second millenium.
Great Islamic scholar Imam as-Suyuti states in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) that the life span of the community will be limited to 1500 years:
The life of this community will exceed 1,000 years, yet be limited to 1,500 years. (Muhammad ibn `Abd ar-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha`ah li Ashrat as-Sa`ah, p. 299)
Then the rule of Islam will be until 1500s. Thus, degeneration and then Doomsday is to be expected between the years 1500-1600.
Beddiuzaman Said Nursi states that the life span of the community will be up until 1506.
"The first statement, with reference to 1500, indicates the last times of those who struggle for religion in the End Times; the second statement, with reference to 1506 calls attention to the date of the victorious struggle.
(...) until this date (1506), it hints that it will, evidently and clearly, continue in a victorious manner." (Sikke-i Tasdik-i Gayb, p. 46)
Like Imam as-Suyuti, Bediuzzaman also indicated that the prevalence of Islamic moral values will continue till 1500s (Hegira) and then degeneration will commence.
In another statement of the related matter of Imam Rabbani revealed that the Mahdi will appear at the beginning of the century.
Yet his coming (of the blessed Mahdi) will take place at the beginning of the century. (Letters of Rabbani)
If the community of Muhammad does not exceed over 1500, there is only one beginning of a century is left to reach 1500 (Hegira). And this is the beginning of 1400s (Hegira). Thus, the time of the appearance of the Mahdi is the beginning of 1400s.
As our Prophet (saas) mentioned in the hadith, there will be a time of the prevalence of Islamic morality and after passing one century there will be a prevalence of tyranny and unbelief for nearly a century, then the Doomsday will be expected:
The Messenger of Allah (saas) said:
Doomsday will not take place until a century in which Allah is not worshipped has passed.
(Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir al-Zaman, p. 92)
In the light of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and the statements of Islamic scholars, the life of the community of Islam will not exceed the year 1500 (Hegira style). Thus, the Mahdi should come in the beginning of 1400 (Hegira style).


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January 31, 2013
By Kenneth Miller
Contributing Writer
Last September Ayuko Babu was at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference sitting in the audience of a panel discussion about African films.
He unquestionably has such an astute resume that would have qualified him to lead the panel, but on this day Babu was just listening and taking notes and in the room of just roughly a dozen was one of the crowd.
As renowned and revered as Babu is, perhaps his greatest human quality is that of humility which is why the 20th annual Pan African Film Festival has earned a reputation of being among the best in the world.
When the festival unfolds from Feb. 9th through Feb. 20th in Baldwin Hills at the Rave Theatres and the Baldwin Hills Mall it will not just be reflective of harnessing a vision that Babu shared with his good friend and accomplished actor Danny Glover and Emmy Award winning actress Ja'Net DuBois, but also one the Crenshaw community can embrace.
"This is a place where people come from across the planet with all of their stories. For Black folks in Los Angeles it is a God sent experience of going around the world in 10 days without having to purchase an airline ticket," Babu told the Sentinel in an exclusive interview.
He founded the PAFF in 1992 with a goal of elevating the importance of independent filmmaking and establishing a platform for people of color to tell their stories on the big screen.
This year the festival comes on the heels of the highly controversial Oscar nominated film 'Django Unchained' that sparked an outpouring debate about slavery and the dreaded N-word.
"Each year is different and an opportunity for voices to come out and tell our stories," added Babu.
While not specifically referring to 'Django', Babu explained that stories of film are always something new, ours are intimate, but the world of creativity is unlimited.
Babu attempts to explore and reveal through the festival "Our" story from more than 150 films, shorts ad documentaries, reflective of Africans from throughout the continent of Africa and America.
They come from Jamaica, Canada, Soweto, Nigerian, South Africa and more, but that language as depicted in their stories on film is directly from the chorus of the heart, with a trumpeting spirit that captures the soul.
When asked which films were creating the buzz for this year's festival, Babu said," It's hard to say, but there is a documentary about Iceberg Slim produced by Ice T that clarifies the mystery of what he was all about."
He also pointed to a couple of others such as 'Home Again', as a film good for Blacks to see and 'Otelo Bernie', a film about South Africa and the liberation of South Africa centered abound an integrated surfing team.
"Until we begin to understand and tell our ancient stories it will be difficult for us to see where we are going," Babu offered.
The PAFF is a non-profit organization, which has been sponsoring more than 1000 students from local middle schools and high schools to attend the festival.
Each weekend during the festival there will be a children's festival from 10am-12pm for kids' ages 4-12 where story telling will take place. It's free to the public.
A jazz concert will be held at the Baldwin Hills Mall that will also be free, and for those in the film business or who aspire to be in films there will be workshops and opportunities to meet filmmakers, producers and distributors.
There are also the massive arts that will be available for purchase throughout, paintings, beads, jewelry and the like.
As Babu would say it best, there is just no excuse to miss it…


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Associated Press -NEW-
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP)
— Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was taken into custody and was expected to appear in court Thursday after a 30-year-old woman who was believed to be his girlfriend was shot dead at his home in South Africa's capital, Pretoria.
Police Lt. Col. Katlego Mogale told The Associated Press that officers received a call in the early hours of the morning that there had been a shooting at the double-amputee runner's home in a gated housing complex.
Mogale said when police arrived they found paramedics trying to revive the woman, who had been shot an unspecified number of times. Mogale, who was speaking to the AP from the scene, said the woman died at the house.
Officers found a 9 mm pistol at Pistorius' house and Mogale said the 26-year-old Pistorius is expected to appear in court later on Thursday.
Police have not released the name of the woman, but the publicist for Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius' girlfriend, told Sky News that Steenkamp had died. Tributes to Steenkamp, a model, poured onto social media sites.
Many South African media outlets had reported that the dead woman was Pistorius' girlfriend Steenkamp and that he may have mistaken her for a burglar and shot her, but police did not clarify the dead woman's relationship to Pistorius. Mogale said the victim's family had not yet identified the body.
It was reported that the woman may have been trying to surprise Pistorius for Valentine's Day and he thought she was an intruder breaking into his home. The shooting prompted discussions on talk radio shows about the country's gun control laws.
Radio 702 talk show host Redi Thlabi discussed accidental shootings, including one in which a father shot his daughter as she tried to sneak out early one morning, mistaking her for an intruder.
"I am just shocked and speechless," Thlabi said. "I wonder if this puts the spotlight on the gun ownership debate. Do you feel safe when you hear such stories?"
Pistorius made history in London last year when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. He is one of South Africa's and the world's most famous sportsmen.
Having had both his legs amputated below the knee before his first birthday because of a congenital condition, he campaigned for years to be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes. Having initially been banned because of his carbon fiber blades — which critics said gave him an unfair advantage — he was cleared by sport's highest court in 2008 and allowed to run at the top events.
He competed in the 400 meters and on South Africa's 4x400 relay team at the London Games, making history after being have his selection confirmed on South Africa's team at the very last minute. He also retained his Paralympic title in the 400 meters in London.
South Africa's Sports Confederation and Olympic committee released a statement later Thursday saying they had been "inundated" with requests for comment but were not in a position to give out any details of the shooting.
"SASCOC, like the rest of the public, knows no more than what is in the public domain, which is there has been an alleged fatal shooting on the basis of a mistaken identity and an apparent assumption of a burglary," the South African Olympic committee said. "The organization is in no position to comment on the incident other than to say our deepest sympathy and condolences have been expressed to the families of all concerned."
South Africa has some of the world's highest murder rates, with nearly 50 people killed each day in the nation of 50 million. It also has high rates of rape, other assaults, robbery and carjackings.
U.N. statistics show South Africa has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, second only to Colombia.


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Al asks: How does one begin a career as curator? Do you go to school for it, or can you work your way up the museum hierarchy?
Marielos asks: Beyond grad school and tons of work experience, what are some tips for a curator starting their career?
Internships, internships, internships. And did I mention internships? There is really no better way to develop a hands-on understanding of curatorial work then by observing and partaking in a curatorial department's daily grind, either through volunteering as an intern or working as a curatorial administrator. It's one thing to be able to research and write about art intellectually (skills developed at university), and another to deal with it as a physical object that needs to be moved around, insured, conserved and installed in its best "light" (through actual lighting, exhibition design, didactics, etc.). Since curatorial work is a very competitive field, such positions also offer a foot into a museum and the possibility of demonstrating your skills to a staff who may be hiring in the future. I got my first curatorial job while working as a part-time research assistant at MoMA. A curator needed help organizing an exhibition and there I was, right under his nose, ready and willing to jump in.
As Marielos mentions, the conventional approach to becoming a curator also involves an advanced degree in art history. At one time an MA was sufficient, but increasingly (again because of competition), a PhD is "preferred." A PhD takes at least five years to obtain if you go straight through, and up to ten (or more) years if you stretch it out, as I did, by gaining work experience throughout. Either way, it's a definite commitment but one that's truly worthwhile for those who love art (both as idea and object) and bringing it to the public.
p.s. There are, of course, also unconventional approaches to becoming a curator that you see more often in the field of contemporary art. In cities like Los Angeles with vital art communities, there are lots of alternative spaces and art galleries that offer emerging curators opportunities to organize shows.
Leslie Jones, Associate Curator, Prints and Drawings


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Launch of an Employee Share Ownership Plan
Clichy, 15 May 2018 - L'Oréal is announcing the launch of its first Employee Share Ownership Plan.
The plan will be rolled out in 52 countries and will give L'Oréal employees, in France and internationally, the possibility to be even more closely linked to the Group's development.
Following the implementation of a "Worldwide Profit Sharing" policy which gives employees a stake in the company's results in France and internationally, and the roll-out of the Share & Care programme, which has offered a set of social benefits to employees in all countries since 2015, L'Oréal is starting a new chapter of its social policy with this Employee Share Ownership Plan.
On this occasion, Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman and CEO of L'Oréal, said, "L'Oréal has always intended that its employees benefit from the Group's success and prosperity. This first Employee Share Ownership Plan will give employees who want to participate a new way to support the company's development and be involved in its strategic projects."
The share purchase price will be set on 1 June 2018. It will be equal to the average of the opening price of L'Oréal shares on the Euronext Paris exchange over the twenty trading days preceding the decision, after a 20% discount.
The plan is limited to 500,000 shares (including employer contribution).
The subscription period will run from 4 June to 18 June 2018, and settlement (payment-delivery) is planned for 24 July 2018.
The shares issued will be entitled to dividends and will rank pari passu with the existing shares from the time of issue.
Beneficiaries will have the possibility to purchase L'Oréal shares in a "classic" subscription formula, where the value of their investment will vary with changes in the L'Oréal share price. They will also benefit from an employer contribution, subject to the terms and conditions described in the plan documentation.
Shares purchased in registered form, as well as employee shareholding fund units, will be blocked for a five-year period, subject to early release exceptions defined by applicable regulations in France and the other countries in which the offer is made available.
The application for admission to trading on the Euronext Paris exchange of the shares issued will be filed as soon as possible after the capital increase. They will be listed under the same code as the existing shares (ISIN code: FR0000120321) and will be fungible with those shares from their admission to trading.
This press release constitutes the information document required by article 212-4 5° of the AMF general regulations and AMF instruction no. 2016-04.
About L'OréalÂ
L'Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With its unique international portfolio of 34 diverse and complementary brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 26.02 billion euros in 2017 and employs 82 600 people worldwide. As the world's leading beauty company, L'Oréal is present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and e-commerce.
Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 3 885 people, are at the core of L'Oréal's strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all over the world. L'Oréal's sustainability commitment for 2020 "Sharing Beauty With All" sets out ambitious sustainable development objectives across the Group's value chain.
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Dynamic Impact updates
May 18 -- John Oxley's Dynamic Impact, who finished seventh in Saturday's Preakness, was boarded on a van bound for Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport for an early Sunday morning flight to Louisville, Ky.
May 16 -- John Oxley's Dynamic Impact galloped 1 1/2 miles in a driving rain at Pimlico Friday morning, going to the track at 7:30 with exercise rider Wayne Brown up.
"We are not used to training in this kind of weather at Woodbine; we try to avoid it," said trainer Mark Casse, who arrived from Ocala, Fla., Thursday night. "But it looked like he went well over it."
Dynamic Impact, riding a two-race win streak that includes a victory in the Illinois Derby (G3), will break from post No. 1 and be ridden by Miguel Mena.
Casse, who is set to saddle his first Preakness starter, was asked what he would like to see unfold for Dynamic Impact on Saturday afternoon.
"I think there is a lot of speed in there," said Casse, who reported that Dynamic Impact would not go to the track Saturday morning. "Of course, a lot of times you think that way and it does not materialize, but I think that will happen. I hope he is able to sit right behind the speed.
"Things have to go our way and he has to save ground and then move out at some point. We will be closely watching the earlier races, and there could be some last-minute changes in our strategy."
May 15 -- John Oxley's Dynamic Impact enjoyed an easy first day at Pimlico after arriving from Churchill Downs by galloping 1 1/2 miles under exercise rider Wayne Brown.
"He likes to take his time out there," said Norman Casse, assistant to his father Mark Casse, who will be at Pimlico Friday. "It was a very good first day and it looked like he got over the track real well."
Dynamic Impact went to the track after the renovation break, which was a departure from his normal routine of going out around 6:30 with the second set of Casse-trained horses.
"It was our first day here and I'm glad I brought another horse so I could do a test run," Norman Casse said of taking Miss Preakness entrant Tepin to the track first on a foggy morning.
"Tomorrow he will go out at 6:30."
Training hours Friday are 5-9 a.m. with no renovation break and training Saturday is limited to Preakness horses from 5-6 a.m.
For Brown, it was the first time he had been aboard Dynamic Impact since March at Oaklawn Park.
Dynamic Impact, listed at 12-1 on the morning line, will break from post position one and be ridden by Miguel Mena. This is the first Preakness mount for Mena.
May 14 -- John Oxley's Dynamic Impact completed his Wednesday morning activity just in time to make it back to the barn before a heavy downpour hit Churchill Downs a little after 7:30.
With exercise rider Marco Cano aboard, Dynamic Impact galloped 1 1/4 miles and then visited the starting gate in the mile chute.
"That is standard for us (going to the gate)," said Norman Casse, assistant to his father Mark Casse. "It is just to let him know he is running this week."
Norman Casse will accompany Dynamic Impact on the Wednesday flight to Pimlico along with stablemate Tepin, who is entered in Friday's Miss Preakness Stakes. Miguel Mena will ride both Casse horses.
Joining the Casse team in Baltimore will be exercise rider Wayne Brown. Coming from Woodbine, which is home to the main Casse string, Brown was at Oaklawn Park this winter with Dynamic Impact.
May 13 -- It was back to business Tuesday morning for John Oxley's Illinois Derby (G3) winner Dynamic Impact.
With exercise rider Marco Cano aboard, Dynamic Impact was on the fast track at Churchill Downs to gallop 1 1/2 miles. Dynamic Impact had worked five furlongs on a track labeled as "good" in 1:01 3/5 Sunday and walked the shedrow Monday.
Assistant trainer Norman Casse indicated that Dynamic Impact would visit the starting gate Wednesday as part of his morning routine.
Dynamic Impact will be ridden in the Preakness by Miguel Mena, who rode the Tiznow colt for the first time in the Illinois Derby.
In that race, Dynamic Impact eventually wore down 2-5 favorite Midnight Hawk, winning by a nose with the third-place horse 8 1/2 lengths back.
"He is a classy horse," Mena said of what will be his initial Preakness mount. "Those kinds of horses dig in and don't like to get beat.
"He's a fighter, but he doesn't like to be inside. At the half-mile pole (in the Illinois Derby), I was able to pull him out (from the rail) and he found another gear. He fought so hard until he got the job done."
May 12 -- John Oxley's Dynamic Impact walked the shedrow at Barn 36 at Churchill Downs, a day after working five furlongs in 1:01 3/5 in preparation for the Preakness.
"He came out of the work fine and will go back to the track Tuesday," said Norman Casse, assistant to his father Mark Casse.
Miguel Mena will have the mount Saturday in his first Preakness.
May 11 -- John Oxley's Illinois Derby (G3) winner Dynamic Impact worked five furlongs in company in 1:01 3/5 with jockey Miguel Mena aboard.
Dynamic Impact started a couple lengths behind his workmate and finished even at the wire with fractions of :13, :37.3/5 and a six-furlong gallop out time of 1:15 2/5. The move was the 18th fastest of 41 for five furlongs.
"I am glad we got the work in," said Norman Casse, assistant trainer to father Mark Casse, of the move that had been postponed a day. "He started off a little slow, but finished strong and moved well over the track."
Dynamic Impact had worked five furlongs in company in 1:00 1/5 on May 3 in his first breeze since winning the Illinois Derby on April 19.
Dynamic Impact is scheduled to fly to Baltimore on Wednesday and Mena, who will be riding in his first Preakness, is headed to Pimlico on Friday to ride Tepin for Casse in the $100,000 Miss Preakness Stakes at six furlongs. Mena has ridden Tepin in all four of her starts, including a victory in her most recent outing in the Delta Downs Princess (G3) in November.
May 10 -- John Oxley's Illinois Derby (G3) winner Dynamic Impact was scheduled for a workout Saturday morning in preparation for next Saturday's Preakness, but weather forced assistant trainer Norman Casse to call an audible and scrub the work.
Before the track opened at 6 o'clock, Casse stood in a light rain as tractors floated the track.
"I am afraid this will be the last day we will be able to work," said Casse, son of trainer Mark Casse. "There is more rain coming and who's to say it won't be worse later today or tomorrow?"
In the end, Casse decided to wait a day and instead have Dynamic Impact gallop 1 1/2 miles under exercise rider Marco Cano at 6:30.
"A lot of my horses didn't go out and I am happy he at least got to gallop," Casse said. "We are prepared to go tomorrow and if not, it is not a big deal and we can go Monday."


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The House of Representatives easily passed legislation on Wednesday to re-authorize the FISA Amendments Act, the 2008 law that allows the federal government to intercept the international communications of Americans with minimal judicial oversight. The vote was 301 to 118.
"I think that the government needs to comply with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution all the time," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) in a floor speech opposing the bill. "We can be safe while still complying with the Constitution of the United States."
But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, (R-TX) disagreed. "Foreign terrorists continue to search for new ways to attack America," he said before the vote. "Foreign nations continue to spy on America, to plot cyber attacks, and attempt to steal sensitive information from our military and private-sector industries."
But not all Republicans supported the legislation. One opponent was Rep. Tom McClintonck (R-CA). "We're told, don't worry, the law requires that any irrelevant information collected in this manner be disregarded," McClintock said. "But here's the problem: the enforcement of this provision is itself shrouded in secrecy, making the potential for abuse substantial and any remedy unlikely."
The American Civil Liberties Union also blasted the legislation.
"Yet again, the House has rubberstamped a law so broad and vague that, despite its passage four years ago, we still have little idea how the government is using it," said Michelle Richardson, ACLU legislative counsel. "It is at the very heart of the Fourth Amendment that Americans and their communications are fiercely protected from government intrusion."
The return of general warrants
The FAA was originally enacted in the heat of the 2008 campaign season. During the primary, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) declared his opposition to a provision providing retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that illegally participated in surveillance programs, vowing to filibuster the legislation if it came to the Senate floor. But once he secured the Democratic nomination for president, he switched sides and voted in favor of the bill.
The immunity provision received the most attention in 2008, but as we reported at the time, it wasn't the most troubling part of the bill:
The legislation establishes a new procedure whereby the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence can sign off on "authorizations" of surveillance programs "targeting people reasonably believed to be located outside the United States." The government is required to submit a "certification" to the FISA court describing the surveillance plan and the "minimization" procedures that will be used to avoid intercepting too many communications of American citizens. However, the government is not required to "identify the specific facilities, places, premises, or property" at which the eavesdropping will occur. The specific eavesdropping targets will be at the NSA's discretion and unreviewed by a judge.
Crucially, there appears to be no limit to the breadth of "authorizations" the government might issue. So, for example, a single "authorization" might cover the interception of all international traffic passing through AT&T's San Francisco facility, with complex software algorithms deciding which communications are retained for the examination of human analysts. Without a list of specific targets, and without a background in computer programming, a judge is unlikely to be able to evaluate whether such software is properly "targeted" at foreigners.
In a recent blog post, Julian Sanchez, a Cato Institute analyst and former Ars contributor, noted that this kind of broad surveillance power bears an eerie similarity to the "general warrants" that inspired the founding fathers to adopt the Fourth Amendment in the first place. During the colonial era, agents of the crown could obtain legal orders allowing them to enter any residence in search of criminals. These powers were sometimes used for fishing expeditions designed to smoke out "seditious" writers who criticized the government anonymously. To prevent this kind of abuse, the authors of the Fourth Amendment required that search warrants specifically describe "the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Today, Sanchez writes, that logic is being stood on its head:
Modern defenders of the FISA Amendments Act argue that sweeping NSA surveillance of our digital "papers" is constitutionally unproblematic precisely because it does not "target" the Americans whose papers are searched: The groups or individuals who are the "targets" of programmatic NSA communications interception must be foreign. One wonders what the Founders would have made of this strange "defense": When the king's messengers burst into printer Dryden Leach's home in the dead of night to ransack his personal papers—acting on a secondhand report that John Wilkes had recently been seen in his shop—the fact that Wilkes and not Leach was the ultimate "target" of the search hardly excused it in the eyes of liberty-minded observers on either side of the Atlantic. What was so egregious was precisely that the messengers enjoyed "a discretionary power… to search wherever their suspicions may chance to fall," and not merely a power limited to the person and property of their specific "target."
While the FAA passed easily in the House, the fight is far from over. The bill must still be approved by the Senate, where Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has placed a hold on the bill. Wyden has been pressing for more than a year to get basic information about the surveillance programs authorized by the FAA. Incredibly, the National Security Agency has claimed that it can't even give a ballpark figure for the number of Americans who have been subject to surveillance, because such a disclosure—not the spying itself—would violate the targets' privacy.
A legal challenge to the FAA has been working its way through the courts since it was originally approved in 2008. The government has argued that the plaintiffs, a group that includes journalists and civil rights groups, lack standing to sue because they cannot prove that they have personally been the target of surveillance under the law. The Supreme Court is due to hear arguments on that question on October 29.


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Exploding Soda and Flying Potatoes: How to Ignite the Science Spark in Your Children
Are your kids interested in science?
Want to try cool experiments with your family?
To learn how to have messy scientific fun with your kids, I interview Steve Spangler for this episode of the Parenting Adventures podcast.
More About This Show
The Parenting Adventures podcast is a show from My Kids' Adventures.
It's for parents (and grandparents) who are looking for creative things to do with their kids.
The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).
In this episode, I interview Steve Spangler, one of the web's top science guys. His books include Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes and Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste.
Just search "Steve Spangler" on YouTube and you'll find more than 1,300 videos that have a total of more than 145 million views. He's a regular guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and has three sons who test out all of Dad's experiments.
Steve shares ways to make science fun for kids by performing experiments as a family.
You'll discover the reasons why science is so important for kids.
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NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- BET Networks announced Friday it has renewed its semi-scripted comedy series "Real Husbands of Hollywood" for a second season.
The mockumentary-style program stars Kevin Hart, Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe, Duane Martin, J.B. Smoove and Robin Thicke.
Season 2 of the show will consist of 12 episodes.
"When we launched this series in January, we knew our audience would have as much fun watching it as we had making it, and since it has been on the air, fans have voiced on social media that they want more. So this was a pretty simple decision: 'Hey! Let's make more!'" Stephen Hill, BET's president of music programming and specials, said in a statement. "We are beyond thrilled that Kevin Hart and the stellar 'Husbands' will be back bickering and back-biting, for another season on BET."


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Kiffin Dream Job became Trojan Nightmare
Tempe Arizona became the final stop on the Lane Kiffin farewell tour. Though Pat Haden came out publicly to say the head coach's job was "safe", after a 7-6 finish in 2012, those words were easily read as false to anyone following and knowing the expectations of USC football . Truth is that Kiffin began the season on the hotseat. And following an embarrassing 62-41 loss to the Sun Devils last Saturday, he was quickly unseated.
Southern California has chosen to move in another direction. Ed Orgeron has been elevated to lead the program for the remainder of the season, as it searches for another to lead into the future.
Kiffin never hesitated to accept his dream job, when USC came calling on the then coach at Tennessee. He skipped out of Knoxville in the wee hours of the morning, triggering chaos among the locals, whose coach had abandoned them after only one season. He accepted the west coast position, with pending consequences for past violations.
In all, it was to be a match made in heaven, as the nation's most arrogant coach was paired with one of the most arrogant programs. This union would soon prove to be a nightmare for both, as each would suffer in the presence of the other.
Lane Kiffin, by the numbers, isn't anything to be admired. Based on wins and losses, he was easily the most overhyped and overpaid head coach over the past 7 years at any level. His combined record of college and NFL positions read 40-36, with no playoff appearances or bowl victories.
Kiffin is something different, depending on whom you may speak. Some may describe him with derogatory terms, while others sympathize for the 38-year old that could never catch a break. What he is is a mystery. And what he is not is an "X" and "O" man, with career numbers to support it.
Recruiting is what Kiffin did best, though some tactics were deemed dirty by fellow coaches or violations by the NCAA. Success weighed heavily on the expectation of talent filled rosters overcoming predictability, and too often it did not.
Despite heavy sanctions placed on the program, Kiffin managed to land a top-10 recruiting class in 3 of 4 seasons at USC. The 2013 class fell to 13th, according to rivals.com, though it included some of the nation's top players at their positions. His 2010 class was ranked No. 1 overall.
NCAA penalties also allowed an easy escape for players wanting to relocate, but with the exception of Seantrel Henderson, there were no significant deserters. Depth was to be an issue, with a reduced number of scholarships leading to fewer players on roster. This became the cry of Kiffin crusaders, who accepted disappointing outcomes from a coach with his hands tied. But even bodies short, USC was fielding one of the most talented teams in the nation, and easily the most talented in conference. Game results would have you believe otherwise.
Kiffin was 28-15 (.651) overall in his Southern California tenure, and a closer look at the numbers may reveal reasons behind the mid-season termination.
Kiffin finished 17-12 (.586) in conference play, and was just 1-5 (.166) in his last six Pac 12 games. 2011 was the best year for the Trojans and their coach, as they finished 10-2 with a top-10 ranking. But USC played just 2 ranked opponents during that campaign, managing a split (1-1), as it held off Oregon for the most significant victory of Kiffin's coaching career. He was 2-7 (.222) overall versus ranked opponents at USC, and 3-10 (.230) as a head coach against all college programs bearing a numeral before their names.
One of the most startling figures of the Kiffin tenure is USC's 11-12 (.478) record versus opponents that finished the season .500 or better. The Trojans are currently 2-2 against .500 or better opponents in 2013, making them mediocre at best. Three years of smoke and mirrors managed to screen inadequacies, and what was visible was blamed on sanctions, giving an ill-prepared team and its leader a pass for each loss.
Kiffin career vs Teams .500 or better
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Kiffin advocates cited lack of depth as the catalyst of Trojan woes. Fatigue was the major issue, with fewer bodies to rotate, and even less when injuries occur. But his teams were least productive in the first and third quarters of games, which is when players are most rested and coaches are expected to excel. The games opening is scripted, based on film review. The third quarter reflects halftime adjustments, and Kiffin offenses were held scoreless in the period in six of the last eight games.
The Kiffin era of USC football began in 2010, and it came with a motto of "No Distractions". This proved to be great in theory, yet impossible for a freshly sanctioned program with renegade leadership.. USC continued to make headlines, mostly negative, as the NCAA findings were announced. And as the calendar flipped forward, Kiffin would prove to be a distraction of his own.
From jersey switches to deflated footballs, USC continued to receive bad press. There was also the sudden resignation of defensive backs coach Willie Mack Garza, after being connected to Willie Lyles while an assistant under Kiffin at Tennessee. The Trojans also drew mention in NFL headlines,when Jeff Fisher and the Titans filed a tampering lawsuit against USC and its head football coach. It was a lawsuit sparked by the hiring of Kennedy Polamalu to coach running backs for his Alma Mater, and built on the premise of respect. It wouldn't take long for Polamalu to be disrespectfully forced from the program, while everyone watched and waited for what would happen next.
Kiffin's travels ended in a parking garage at Los Angeles International Airport, where he was pulled from the team bus upon arrival from Arizona. He was axed by the man that targeted him in a coaching search nearly four years earlier, and the same man that appeared to stand behind him through troubled times. The coach's reign would end not because USC was losing football games, but because the team had failed to compete in far too many of them.
With Sanctions so severe, Kiffin was asked to keep the program respectable and afloat. Championship dreams were those of fantasy, with expectations lowered along with the number of players on the roster. But USC became a sinking ship, similar to sanctioned Alabama under Mike Shula. Like Kiffin, Shula also posted a 10-2 season in Tuscaloosa. And like Kiffin, Shula also had six losses in his follow-up, and was terminated soon after. Shula, like Kiffin, also had crusaders, who claimed he wasn't given a fair shake. But those supporters were quickly silenced by the hiring of Nick Saban and the three National Championships that followed.
Did USC make a mistake in firing Kiffin? Was the coach treated unfairly, being a victim of the circumstances he inherited? Based on the numbers, I answer no to both. The Southern California football program wasn't built over a century to be average, so it is deserving of better than average leadership. Of all the candidates, I can't say for certain who is best suited to lead us the rest of the way. But after calculating a career of mediocrity, I can say Lane Kiffin it was not.
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I recently published the ABC Classification article in www.daxpatterns.com, which is a more structured and organized way that recap what I already described in this blog a few years ago (see ABC Analysis in PowerPivot). The pattern describe how to implement the classification through calculated columns, so we consider it a specialization of the Static Segmentation pattern. You can implement it also as a measure, implementing a Dynamic Segmentation, and Gerhard Brueckl already described such implementation in his blog. I am not sure about creating a pattern for the dynamic version, because of the performance issue that could arise even with a few thousands of items to classify.
Any feedback on this is welcome, we already have other patterns in the working, but we can always change prioritization based on comments!
Hi Marco,
Thank you for the great article! I have your books (Excel and SQL server 2012) and started to implement ABC analysis.
I have added calculated columns (total/running total/%) into the Customer table and the sales data is on Sales table with many to one relation to the Customer table.
I have a timeline in Sales table to select sales in certain time period. However this filter is not propagated into the calculated columns resulting that ABC analysis is based on the whole contents of the DB.
Is there a way to propagate the Sales table filter in the calculated Total Sales in Customer table?
Thank you for your help!
Mikko Lipsanen
in order to filter data used in ABC classification, you have to use the dynamic segmentation.
As I wrote in the blog post, Gerhard Brueckl described a possible implementation on his blog (follow the link in the blog post). However, I know that performance might be very bad and I don't have so many use case that justify that. Usually the number of filters you might want to implement is limited, and it's better to create different calculated columns, one for each filtered classification.
Thank you for your answer! I guess I have to create the date filtering when loading the data (which is not so dynamic as I have hoped).
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Sylvia Nasar, economist and author of A Beautiful Mind, to speak at CSB
February 20, 2008
Author, economist and professor Sylvia Nasar speaks at 5 p.m. Monday, March 3, at the Gorecki Family Theater, Benedicta Arts Center of the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph.
Her speech, "Globalization: Then and Now," is free and open to the public.
Nasar earned her master's degree in economics at New York University. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief at the Institute for Economic Analysis and then became a journalist. Since 1983, she has been a writer at Fortune, a columnist at U.S. News & World Report and, until recently, a reporter at The New York Times, where she covered economics.
A Beautiful Mind, her first book, deals with the story of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who for 30 years was stricken with paranoid schizophrenia. The book won the 1998 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Biography, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography, and inspired a feature movie directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, which won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Picture. She recently served as a consultant on a PBS television documentary about Nash.
Nasar, who edited The Essential John Nash, is currently working on a book about 20th century economic thinkers. She has recently been named the first John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Nasar's visit is sponsored by the CSB Renaissance Lecture Series, the Literary Arts Institute at CSB, the department of economics at CSB and Saint John's University, and the Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement at CSB/SJU.


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Artist Holly Shannon found joy in sculpting exquisite female forms, but a new beginning awaited her in adorning real women with her own elegant jewelry designs. It was on a whim that she opted to learn more about jewelry design and fabrication. "I started by sculpting, I was working with clay initially. But I had learned of a jewelry class and wanted to give it a try." Holly described the class as a sort of "Jewelry 101" where she learned basics such as how to cut metal, basic soldering, wire work, and how to work with metal and smaller scale. "I loved it," she said. Over a decade later, the acclaimed artisan has collaborated with couture clothing designers and major brand names to create a signature style in sparkling accessories.
She finds the best results come from incorporating all of the many multiple mediums she enjoys, including her original roots in sculpture and dabbling in painting as a hobby. "They really do all inform one another," Holly explained. "Sculpting kind of informed my metal work in a different way. Some of the etching techniques I've applied in the clay work as well. I just did a relief of a butterfly where I used some techniques from painting to achieve the appropriate texture and feel. I enjoy oil painting for exploring color theory. In just doing metal I don't think I'd have come this far in jewelry, so I enjoy playing in it all, it allows me to give life to my jewelry."
Holly experiments in both silver and gold, semi-precious stones, and a revolutionary metal clay; a medium made of binder and pure metal that can be manipulated like ordinary clay, then fired to forge the art into a piece of pure metal. It's that variety that allows her fans to favor what suits their style without compromising: from a more contemporary rough-hewn look, like hammered metal and wire work, to delicate nature-inspired pieces that are hand-sculpted for a classic aesthetic, like her light All Things Wings collection.
A big break came when she collaborated with celebrated West Coast designer Rachel Roy on her 2005 Holiday Collection. "I really enjoyed working with Rachel Roy," she enthused. The duo has paired up twice now with impressive results. "The first time was really a fantastic experience. It was a very all-encompassing project." The clothing designer wanted one of her halter necklines suspended by a necklace from Holly, while a dress would be belted by a looped chain she created with dangling stones in rich winter tones. "It started with this idea from a runway piece by Oscar de la Renta; she wanted to transform it for her collection. We reworked it until it was a piece that was perfect for the dress, perfect for the halter. That was a very exciting project to be a part of and it really pushed me in another direction."
Another direction also came after a manufacturing snag surprised Holly and she improvised to deliver on the dresses' accessories. She laughed reflecting on the unlikely circumstances."I'm really excited to do the design part," she remembers telling Rachel, "but I can't do the manufacturing." She was assured it'd be taken care of, but something went awry and the necklaces were never produced. "They sold all of the pieces and the necklaces had not been manufactured-- about five-hundred necklaces and two-hundred belts! I literally had to transform my living room and train people to do metal and bead work, and turn them out in a four week window. Rachel was very gracious and let me put a tag on all of them that said 'Holly Shannon for Rachel Roy".
"What a great experience to collaborate with her," Holly said fondly. "It was good to go through the process." They have also teamed up for trend-setting Rocawear Clothing, with designs featured on MTV, while Holly has went on to also work with cosmetics giant L'Oreal and seek out other opportunities in fashion. But more timeless creations have been on her mind for upcoming seasons. "I've been thinking about putting together a new collection for the summer, I'm feeling a bit of nostalgia. Even before "The Great Gatsby" film came out, I had something in mind with an Art Deco feel, perhaps: some up-cycling with old coins and make rings, old ID bracelets into earrings, one-of-a-kind pieces. "
Her signature pieces aren't necessarily getting put away for the summer, though-- especially the carefully crafted scarab, from her 21st Century Cleopatra line. The ancient Egyptian inspired icon has garnered rave reviews and become one of her most sought-after creations. "I've been getting so much feedback on the scarab, I'm not sure I'm ready to be done with it just yet." No matter what direction she chooses, art enthusiasts with a passion for fashion won't want to miss Holly Shannon's next collections.
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As always we had a ton of fun making this green and pink polka dot cake! It was for a 9th Birthday Party at a local hotel in Gettysburg, PA. We delivered the Birthday Cake to the hotel in Gettysburg, PA this past Saturday. The green and pink twist around the bottom and top tiers of the cake was something new. We haven't done this on any cake we have made yet and think it turned out to be really cute! With all the polka dots on the Birthday Cake I didn't think our normal look of small and big multicolored balls going around was going to do the trick!
The final cake looked a little different we added some balls sticking out of the Birthday Cake with thin wires. Giving it a truly 3 dimensional look! The cake itself was a white cake with Italian Buttercream Icing! Our first attempt at making Italian Buttercream from scratch and it was well worth it. Alot of work but so worth it. Italian Buttercream for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is a basic bend of melted sugar and water whipped into egg whites that have been whipped prior to melting the sugar. Then you combine the two mixtures and whip for about 15 minutes! My arm was so tired! Add the butter next and after that you add the flavoring (which we used vanilla) and voila! you have Italian Buttercream, so silky smooth it literally melts in your mouth!
Ready for delivery! The cake turned out beautifully and made it the whole way to Gettysburg, PA without any problems! Whew…that is always a happy ending 🙂


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The Milo and Don Anselmo images share some similarities and would make a great collection. The (final) lighting treatments and compositions are the same: gritty, and frame filling. (Makes me wonder if they are cropped and edited the same way from their originals to achieve the similarities.) The somewhat empty stares beg a viewer to wonder what are on their minds and what kind of lives they must have.When I capture this kind of head shots, I often rotate them horizontally to see how they would look differently. In both cases, I think a rotation would improve the images. Anselmo seems to take on a more positive outlook into the future. Milo, OTOH, seems to be just raising an eye (with catch lights) from a distraught state in a questioning or challenging manner. Between the four, I like the rotated Anselmo the most.A few VERY picky comments:- In both images, there are too many catch light spots in one eye.- Parts of Anselmo's left (unrotated) forehead and cheek have a distinct skin tone that is different from the rest of the face. Perhaps due to lighting, but may look better if corrected.- There is a small hot spot below Milo's left (unrotated) ear lobe.Lastly, what in the world is "Lazio effect"?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=171986\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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Glad you did not find my comments offensive By rotation, I meant that in PS, Image>Rotate Canvas>Flip Canvas Horizontal. Some images, like these two, would look quite different while at the same time maintain the context and objectivity. But some would consider this too "manipulative". Would like to hear what you think about the rotations.Since I also shoot such portraits in available light, I do appreciate the challenges. We can't control/adjust the lighting, the subject posing, or the background. We can only shoot a lot, with different compositions, and pray for luck. Your two images, after editing the originals, address these problems very well. As I said, I was being VERY picky about the skin tone differences. OTOH, this is something that can be easily corrected digitally, if so desired.Do you have a link for that Lazio effect tutorial?[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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