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man eating exploding shark
The most dangerous of all sea creatures, they'll either eat you, send cartilaginous, toothy shrapnel through your vital organs, or
just bite off your arm and then blow you up. Nobody knows what evolutionary advantage is attained by exploding when angry, but it sure does hurt.
If the pirañas don't skeletonize you, the man eating exploding sharks sure will.


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Four killed in car bomb attack in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Four people were killed when a car laden with explosives blew up near the parliamentary building in this Somali capital, a police official said Saturday.
The Somali terror group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the bombing. Capt. Mohammed Hussein said the car exploded at a checkpoint where it had been stopped by Somali troops.
The dead were soldiers and refugees from an internal refugee camp near the checkpoint, Hussien said.
He said Somali troops had ordered the driver of the car out the vehicle for a search when he detonated the explosives.
Seven children from the camp were wounded in the attack.
Al-Shabab has launched a campaign of attacks against Somali parliamentarians.
Somali legislators were holding a meeting at the parliament at the time of the attack.
Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab said it was responsible for the killing of a Somali lawmaker and his bodyguard in a drive-by shooting earlier last week.
The targeting of members of parliament appears to be a new strategy for al-Shabab. The parliament is seen as an emerging pillar of democracy in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.
Al-Shabab militants have previously carried out attacks against United Nations staff, government officials and African Union peacekeepers.
The terror group has launch attacks on neighboring countries including Kenyan and Uganda. Those countries have sent troops to Somalia under the banner of the African Union to bolster the country's weak U.N.-backed government from al-Shabab's insurgency.
Last month al-Shabab claimed responsibility for attack at the Kenyan coast that left 65 people dead.
Last year al-Shabab also killed 67 people in an attack an upscale mall in Nairobi, in the capital of neighboring Kenya which has sent troops into Somalia to battle al-Shabab.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Lighthouses and gentle breezes...
These photos were taken on a trip to the Upper Peninsula. My hubby and I are in love with lighthouses and waterfalls and never miss an opportunity for a quick trip to visit one. I can only imagine how the lighthouse keepers spent their days and nights. They had to be of such strong character and mind. I am always reminded of the luxuries we so often take for granted and their life was not an easy life. Would I be strong as they were - I would hope so - but I wonder!
It is a solitary life most of the time. Such responsibility for lives and safety. The breezes were not always gentle and I can only imagine the ice during those frigid winter months. Must have seemed like an eternity at times.
All of the lighthouses are so different. Some with more modern conveniences and some so rustic. Can you imagine living in a lighthouse? As I child I always thought it would be so much fun - as an adult...I admire those who did.
This one is in Traverse City, Michigan. The red roof always draws me in. If you are in the neighborhood, there is always so much to see and do in TC.
The ones which are located along miles of beach are so appealing. They are truly beacons of light in the darkness. Can you imagine being on a ship seeking the light to guide you safely in?
I feel cooler already - those gentle breezes are so refreshing. There is something so relaxing about being outdoors, hearing the water lap against the shore , rustling of the leaves and the smell of fresh air.
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A regional term referring to the jolting effects of an abuse substance when it takes effect.
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Movie Review: 3 Days to Kill
March 27, 2014
Nothing warms my heart more than a father-daughter film - unless it's a father-daughter film with kick-ass action; which means, 3 DAYS TO KILL is killer! Exhilarating! High energy! High Heart! High Humor! As the second of five films starring Costner to hit theatres this year, 3 DAYS TO KILL finds the perfect blend of Costner's "everyman" sensibility, old school practicality and matter-of-fact humor with the high octane storytelling of director McG based on a script by Luc Besson and Hasak. Not just a string of action upon action sequences, 3 DAYS TO KILL has a solid foundation in its story, creating an emotional connection and dynamic upon which humor and action flow, thanks not only to Costner's performance, but that of Hailee Steinfeld who is the embodiment of generations of teenaged girls caught between growing up, being "daddy's little girl" and pushing the envelope of "what can I get away that dad won't know about."
CIA operative Ethan Renner is at the end of a long road. One of the most successful and effective weapons in the CIA arsenal, Renner is dying. Diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer that has spread to his lungs, his days are numbered and his career over. His one regret though? Being a better agent than he was a father and husband. With little time left, Ethan heads to Paris to reconnect with his now teen-aged daughter Zooey only to find her unforgiving when it comes to her absentee father. Keeping Zooey at arms length her entire life as a means to keep her safe and unaware of her father's dangerous career, Zooey's wall of resistence is virtually impenetrable and breaking through it proves to be more difficult than Ethan's toughest mission. Undeterred, Ethan resolves to connect with his daughter and views a three day "babysitting" while ex-wife Christine is out of town for work as the perfect opportunity to prove himself. After all, how hard can parenting be when compared to saving the world on a daily basis from international terrorists? But there's a wrinkle. Vivi.
Vivi is upper echelon CIA and Ethan's former boss, yet, she also makes her own rules and plays her own game; and the latest game involves an international terrorist named "The Wolf" who needs to be taken out before taking down the world with a geopolitical domino effect. Although Ethan is officially retired, and has promised Christine he's done with "the life", he's the only man with the cunning and skill set to handle the job. Despite initially refusing Vivi's "request" for Ethan's help, she holds one card that might sway him, a card that he can't ignore - access to an experimental treatment that may delay his death or cure him completely, giving him the time and second chance he so desperately wants with Zooey. Of course, the mission is set to go down over the same three day weekend Ethan is taking care of Zooey. For a man who has never been a practicing parent, let alone balancing work and parenting, this weekend juggling both without one interfering with the other could be the death of him.
Kevin Costner has never been better. He is truly at the top of his game. He may worry about the body getting older, a little stiffer, but his acting is pure, rich. He is the master of deadpan self-deprecation of retort that zings you every time thanks to a look, a glance, a hanging of the head. On the whole, his performance both in the recent "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" and now 3 DAYS TO KILL bodes a maturity and comfort that still carries the glint of boyish exuberance we saw in "Bull Durham" or "Swing Vote", while capturing the deliberateness and purpose of life that he brought to "Dances With Wolves", "Open Range" or "Mr. Brooks". With 3 DAYS TO KILL, together Costner and McG have taken Costner, and by extension the film as a whole, to a new level of excellence. Each upped the other's game and I absolutely love it. In speaking with director McG, he was quick to point out that this is "the best version of Kevin Costner where he can have all that emotion, all that credibility, that special brand of humor that he brings and to have that dimensionalized performance that is decidedly his own. That's what this movie's all about. That's the reason for [it] being."
One of the keys to Costner's performance is that "this is a Kevin Costner film" and as Costner has always done, he is integrally involved, be it from arriving on Day One of shooting knowing the entire script off book to doing as many of his own stunt work as possible, and with 3 DAYS TO KILL, that's a lot of practical physicality from man-on-man fighting to choreographed driving. But for a couple of stunts deemed to risky (including a car chase over the Seine in which Costner could have gone off the bridge and into the river), Kevin Costner is who we see.
An important part of the equation that elevates 3 DAYS TO KILL is Hailee Steinfeld. She is absolute perfection as Zooey and soars in her father-daughter dynamic with Costner. Steinfeld brings her own brand of teen-aged precociousness to Zooey that is both endearing and frustrating (as all teens are) but what sets this performance apart is the growth of the relationship with Ethan. Costner and Steinfeld feed off each other with heartfelt, believable emotion, resonating as true to life and not fabricated for story purposes. Watching the father-daughter relationship grow is priceless. This film could have opened the film on Valentine's Day just based on that!
Amber Heard just commands the screen every time she appears. As Vivi, she is vital, vivid and vivacious in attitude and appearance. She too, has a wonderful icy tete-a-tete playfulness to Costner's Ethan that sizzles as well as drips comedic perfection. As ex-wife Christine, Connie Nielsen brings a level of well-worn comfortableness and ease that is a welcome soothing balance to the father-daughter frustration and saving-the-world action and antics. She and Costner blend like cream in coffee.
Supporting players knock it out of the park, starting with Tomas Lemarquis whom I first noticed in "Errors of the Human Body". Lemarquis oozes "creepy" from every slick shaven pour of his body. As The Albino, one look and you feel the eyes of a cold blooded killer - which with his tailored impeccable Italian suits - is perfection and sets the visual tone for a showdown with the blue jean, work boot clad, messy Ethan. (Notable is that the subtext created by visuals in 3 DAYS TO KILL is some of the best I've seen in awhile.) Marc Andreoni is a hoot and a holler as Mitat, a limousine driver who starts out providing information on The Albino and his boss, kingpin terrorist The Wolf, but then becomes the "father knows best" encyclopedia for Ethan with every crisis he's encountering with Zooey. Andreoni has you in stitches with every word, every movement, capitalizing on physical nuance within the subplot of Mitat being kept alive to keep giving parenting advice. The absurdity actually makes sense and is fuel for comedic fodder.
Joining in the familial and comedic tone of the film is Bruno Ricci as The Wolf's moneyman Guido. Garnering some of the biggest laughs in the film, Ricci steals a scene from Costner while duct-taped on a toilet in a public bathroom, giving spaghetti sauce recipes to Steinfeld's Zooey over the phone.
But it's not just Costner's dynamic and the character structure with adults that makes 3 DAYS TO KILL work, it's the familial structure and the kids within various families that help create the character growth of Ethan, starting with a family of squatters in Ethan's apartment. Head of the family Jules, played with pride and eloquence by Eriq Ebouaney, and Jules' little boy and daughter giving birth to the first grandson, are just more familial prongs that buttress the heart of the film. And I have to say, Costner and kids is a wonderful site to behold, eliciting frustration, warmth and heart.
Described by Costner as "a very scripted film" written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak, characters are well developed and fleshed out with interconnections solid and complete. The main storylines of fatherhood/parenting/family and espionage/terrorist manhunt not only run concurrent, but are interdependent on one another, with each threaded to the other for a tightly woven structure. The family element plays so strongly thanks to the character of Mitat and his daughters, Jules and his family, as well as Guido and his mama's spaghetti sauce that they not only buttress the Ethan-Zooey thread, but serve as various examples of family. Thanks to strong story construct, it's each of these intersecting sub-plots that help create and develop Ethan. Nice craftsmanship of story not only in the Besson/Hasak script, but in McG's visual execution in finding and maintaining the film's tonal bandwidth. Even the seemingly most minute character is important to not only the structure of Ethan's life, but also to the humor of life. A particularly funny scene involves a kid on a bus reading a comic book, absolutely gleeful watching Ethan on a bicycle wearing a gas mask while his mother was trying to shush him oblivious to what was happening outside the bus window, is so telling as to the parental theme of the film. One of the only unresolved story points is that of Zooey's boyfriend and a climactically explosive party scene.
Besson and Hasak play on life's touchstones to not only tacitly show the absence of Ethan in Zooey's life, but the sentimentality of moments we take for granted - like a dad teaching his daughter or son to ride a bike, calming fatherly words when a daughter's whole life is crashing because of a bad hair day, and of course, dad always finding the time to take a call from his child while he's working. Of course, Ethan is doing all of this while killing bad guys which gives rise to the innate humor of life.
According to McG "the action is decorative. It's ultimately a character driven piece. We're hoping that the defining characteristic of this film is the balance of, certainly action and comedy, but most particularly a dramatic investment in this Ethan character." Bearing that in mind, the action and stunt work is magnificent and the fact that McG opted to do them in-camera and practically as opposed to CGI/VFX is more than worthy of applause. Exciting is that McG was shooting in Paris for the first time, with new stunt people untested to him prior, and working on different street types (notice that cobblestone in one of the big chase sequences) than that in the US, and pulling off some amazing action. So taut and well executed, at first blush I thought that McG had reteamed with stunt coordinator Mic Rodgers or gone with veteran Charlie Picerni, especially with the car chases as Picerni virtually wrote the book on those decades ago. I was amazed to see a completely new set of Paris based stuntmen! Man-on-man fight sequences are also well executed and are a nice blend of old school punching and straight on shooting by Ethan with the bad guys trying to add in some more current martial arts type moves.
Paris is its own character. There is a richness and warmth in the architecture, the layout of streets, closeness of shops, the cobblestone on some of the streets - like that of days gone by, days when family was first. It's an interesting juxtaposition with old school analog Ethan who left his family only to rediscover them in Paris. The images create a palpable sensory feel that is embraceable, but then contrasted with the chrome and glass world of Vivi, The Albino and The Wolf. Production design by Jeremy Cassels and Sebastian Inizen is exemplary with Christine's apartment and particularly Ethan's - chipped peeling aged paint, hidden safe with guns and ammo and tools of the spy trade, low light creating metaphoric shadows for Ethan's life.
As comes as no surprise cinematographer Thierry Arbogast, one of my faves, uses light and lens to create warmth and intimacy while widening out to give us Ethan's perspective of the world only to incrementally come in tighter as the story progresses and Ethan becomes more focused on Zooey. Arbogast also creates some lovely eye-popping imagery in Vivi's club "training sequence", the rave party, the underground Spider club (gorgeously designed and lensed) as well as at the rooftop party thrown by boyfriend Hugh's parents.
Be it three days to kill with his daughter or three days to kill bodies, the double entendre is more than satisfied on multiple levels. Killing time with Zooey, killing bodies and even wanting to kill himself with the frustration of fatherhood, the tongue in cheek title speaks well of the blend of action, warmth and the inherent humor of parenting and family life and finding that balance with work.
A tapestry of life, love and fatherhood, with 3 DAYS TO KILL, McG truly establishes himself as a director who can tell a story that's "dimensionalized filmmaking where it's dramatic, it's funny, it's action packed and it's clicking on all cylinders."
Directed by McG
Written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak
Cast: Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld, Amber Heard, Connie Nielson


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The Vector Coil [18, 54] is a portion of the Exodar that crashed into western Bloodmyst Isle. The area is a source of power of the blood elf invaders in the Azuremyst Isle, and is fortified by saboteurs and agents of the Sunhawks — the minions of the Sun King, Kael'thas Sunstrider. The blood elves are pumping magic power out of the crystals to empower their own. An eredar named Sironas is the leader of the Sunhawks in Bloodmyst and is harvesting power from the Vector Coil itself.
The sun gate is located to the south of the Vector Coil and it is guarded by Sunhawk Defenders and Sunhawk Pyromancers. It is used to summon more and more Blood Elf invaders into the island from the other world, Outland.
The Vector Coil and the Sun Gate are both tainted due to the blood crystals from The Exodar's crashing.
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Guest blog by Glenn Rutherford
The Gulf of Mexico is a natural wonder and an international treasure.
Families flock to its beaches. Every spring about half of Louisville heads south to bask in the sun along the Gulf's shores. Family picture albums in this community are filled with the faces of smiling children collecting shells or playing in the mostly gentle edgewaters.
And now this resource, this vacation Mecca, this treasure of wind and sand, sun and surf, is threatened by the very people who love it so.
The Gulf of Mexico is under attack not just by oil, but by our way of life. "Drill, baby, drill" has been embraced by all sides of the political spectrum, from the Democratic administration of President Obama to the leaders of the political right, some of whom have continued to embrace the lust for Gulf of Mexico oil as it gushes unabashed from a man-made hole a mile beneath the surface waters.
But "drill, baby, drill" is morphing into "kill, baby, kill" as the oil we so selfishly crave kills fish and turtles and birds. And along the Louisiana coast it's killing the careers and lifestyles of fishermen and their families, too.
It's all maddening, because we've been warned about this kind of threat time and time again.
Way back in 1976 a tanker called the Argo Merchant ran aground off Nantucket and spilled 183,000 barrels of oil that produced a slick a hundred miles long. Politicians, including the president, said we'd take steps to see that such a thing didn't happen again.
Then in 1979 an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico spilled 140 million gallons of oil into the water. A decade later the Exxon Valdez skidded onto the rocks in Prince William Sound and spilled 240,000 barrels of crude onto Alaska's shore. In 1990 another tanker accident sent 300,000 gallons of the ineptly named "light, sweet" crude oil onto one of Southern California's biggest nature preserves.
And since the year 2000, it's become even worse. Where we used to have an oil-related accident two or three times a year in the '70s, '80s and '90s, as demand for oil skyrocketed so did the number of environmental catastrophes. The Marine Group, a Norwegian company that tracks and cleans oil spills all over the world, says that since 2002 there have been at least a dozen major oil-related accidents on coastlines around the world each year.
The point is that we've seen this coming; we've seen the photos of the oily birds and the beached turtles. And yet our demand for fossil fuel is as overwhelming as our greed. As Mark Twain said nearly a century ago, man is the only animal who has taken a thousand useless luxuries and turned them into necessities. And Twain never saw an SUV or a plastic water bottle; he never dreamed of central air, eight-lane highways or desktop computers.
We can't keep doing this to our home. We can't keep fouling not only our beaches but also our air and our water and expect that life will continue to purr along just as it always has. Environmental change is coming because it has to, and Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized that fact.
In his message for World Peace Day last January, the pope noted that we can no longer afford to be indifferent about what we are doing to our home.
"It is becoming more and more evident that the issue of environmental degradation challenges us to examine our lifestyle and the prevailing models of consumption and production, which are often unsustainable from a social, environmental and even economic point of view," he said. "Protecting the natural environment in order to build a world of peace is thus a duty incumbent upon each and all. It is an urgent challenge."
It is a challenge that begins with you and me. While the oil continues to spread over the Gulf of Mexico, you and I need to examine our own failed environmental policies. You and I need to reduce the number of miles we drive whenever possible. We need to turn off lights, unplug electronic devices at night, and avoid the use of plastic bags and water bottles.
We need to take all the little steps we can while there's still time to do it. And when we get mad about the Gulf, the oil companies, or coal companies or any other easily identified target, we need to get mad at ourselves, too. And then change our ways.
Glenn Rutherford is assistant editor of The Record of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky. This article first appeared as The Record's May 13, 2010 editorial.
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Sarasota-Bradenton area is No. 8 in the nation
Home defaults rose across Southwest Florida in November as lenders turned renewed attention to distressed properties still on their books.
In all, 1,697 foreclosures were filed in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties last month, a 6 percent jump from October and a 15 percent spike from November 2011 -- making the region's foreclosure rate among the highest in the country, new data show.
The foreclosure uptick was the sharpest in Sarasota and was consistent with a resurgence in home delinquencies that have occurred over the past several months across Florida.
By contrast, foreclosure activity fell in most other parts of the country, according to real estate research firm RealtyTrac Inc.
"Unemployment in Florida is higher than the national average still, and that's a huge indicator of the housing market," said David Hicks, a Sarasota foreclosure attorney. "The fact also remains that half the borrowers in Florida are underwater on their homes, and those are just the ones who can afford to pay their mortgages -- for now."
The problem here is so acute that one in every 277 residences in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metropolitan area was in some stage of foreclosure last month -- the eighth highest default rate in the nation.
Sarasota led the three-county area with 950 total foreclosures in November, up 28 percent from the previous month and 43 percent from the same time last year, according to RealtyTrac, which measures default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions.
In Manatee, the county tallied 500 total foreclosures, a 22 percent drop from October and a modest 2 percent gain from November 2011.
Charlotte had both the area's lowest rate of foreclosure in November and also the smallest number of new filings, with home defaults rising 12 percent over the month to reach 247. That figure, however, was down 24 percent from the 327 reported a year ago in November.
Although total foreclosure activity has picked up, early-stage foreclosures, or lis pendens -- Latin for "suit pending" -- cooled somewhat in November, after gaining traction much of the year.
The 594 lis pendens issued in the three counties in November slid 11 percent from October and 19 percent from the same month last year. Early-stage filings made up about one-third of all foreclosure activity in Southwest Florida last month.
Market watchers attribute the overall foreclosure turnaround, which began this fall, to the $25 billion fraud settlement signed by the nation's five largest banks in April, which gave lenders clearer guidelines for processing backlogs of foreclosure cases and more defined penalties for mistakes.
Many loan servicers also are refiling cases that were put on hold in 2008 and 2009 amid the so-called "robo-signing" fiasco, in which lenders seized homes despite fraudulent and incomplete paperwork.
Unlike previous years, however, Realtors do not expect banks to flood the market with new foreclosures, which could cause home prices to plummet.
"I don't think we will see a big dump like we did in the past," said Marcus Vanzant, the broker and owner of Marcus & Co. Realty in Bradenton. "This is just a product of how long a foreclosure takes in our system right now; this is going to be the new norm. It's part of what we have to deal with."
Florida remained the foreclosure capital of the U.S. in November, with the nation's highest rate for the third consecutive month.
Sunshine State cities accounted for seven of the top 10 foreclosure rates among all U.S. metropolitan statistical areas with a population of 200,000 or more. The combined Sarasota-Bradenton area was No. 8.
Florida posted a 12-month-high of 29,612 total foreclosures in November, rising 3 percent from October and 20 percent from November 2011, according to RealtyTrac.
The monthly foreclosure snapshot looked brighter across the U.S., though, with new foreclosure filings slipping to their lowest level since December 2006.
Foreclosures were reported on 180,817 U.S. properties in November, a decrease of 3 percent from October and down 19 percent from November 2011 -- the 26th consecutive month with an annual decline.
Many housing analysts expect the filings, at least across the Florida, to continue to rise in 2013.
"We're not anywhere near a normal market yet," said Jack McCabe, a Deerfield Beach real estate consultant.


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The better we understand how our brains function, the closer we get to controlling them at a molecular level. And that means a possible cure for depression, but it could also mean foolproof brainwashing.
Over at Wired, Quinn Norton has just published a series of articles that take you on an in-depth tour of the nascent science of neuroengineering. You and I can just call it "brain hacking," because that's what it is. The scientists that Norton interviews are literally rewiring mouse brains and sticking devices into them that instigate new behaviors. (See video.) They've mastered the technique of causing neurons in mouse brains to fire when they want them to, which means they can literally make a mouse decide to turn to the left just by hitting a button.
How do they do it? By using viruses to insert two foreign genes into the mouse brain: one that causes neurons to fire when exposed to blue light, and one that causes neurons to go silent when exposed to yellow light. These new genes integrate themselves seamlessly into the mouse neurons, essentially adding a light switch to neural impulses. As Norton explains:
Then there's the matter of getting the right colors of light past the skull and into the precise spot to be controlled. All of this means Deisseroth's team has to open up the mouse's head surgically, apply the virus to the desired area, then feed in a fiber optic cable that will continue to protrude out of the mouse's head after the surgery has healed up. Then they attach the fiber optic cable to lasers that can pump in the precise frequencies of light needed to control the cells.
Once it's done, though, they have absolute control over the section of the brain involved. Fed into the left motor cortex, the area that controls movement, it could make someone dance to the right. Fed into the pleasure center of the brain, it could make someone happy with the press of a button.
It's hard to tell if a mouse is happy, but attaching this system to its motor cortex makes a dramatic demo. Deisseroth, who is still developing this technology at Stanford, plays the video of a mouse wandering around its container. The fiber optic cable leading into its brain is barely visible until someone turns on the blue light. Then the animal runs to the left in large, almost perfectly circular loops. "You've got to wonder what he's is thinking," Deisseroth muses. "It's 'I gotta go left, I gotta go left.'"
Read more about this at Wired.
Imagine what will come next, when these devices get less crude and are wired into people's pleasure and reward systems. That's exactly what Norton asks in a follow-up article on dialing up happiness.


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The Sea Prince and the Fire Child/The Story of Sirius is currently available both in uncensored sub and slightly censored dub on Crunchyroll for FREE. Both versions run at 108 minutes.
.... How... just HOW does this film even exist??
So a few back notes. First of all, this is a Sanrio movie from 1981. You will find absolutely no reference to any of the beloved Sanrio characters in the film, as it acts as a stand-alone.
What hooked me, outside of the flashy poster, is the Sanrio name initially, but looking further, I found the following Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal actors:
Mami Koyama: Esmeraude in Sailor Moon R and Queen Serenity in Sailor Moon Crystal.
Tôru Furuya: Tuxedo Mask in Sailor Moon through Sailor Moon: Sailor StarS. Also, ex-husband of Mami Koyama.
Keiko Han: Luna in Sailor Moon through Sailor StarS.
The film is only one-third anime. One third was done in Australia, the other in New Zealand.
The film was originally released in Japan in 1981. It was first advertised as a "family film" but the family thing would later be dropped. It would again be sold in the United States quietly in 1982 on VHS as a "family film" only to be later re-sold on DVD as "Unrated". As such, the MPAA has yet to give this film an official rating.
And it's existence is driving me nuts.
So a little back story. Once upon a time, King Glacus/Oceanus lived with his sister, Queen Themis/Hyperia. The two were inseparable, almost like lovers, and they used their combined powers over fire and water to create the Earth. The two gods lived peacefully, until a third god, Argon/Algorac got jealous of their union. So he spread a bunch of lies about the two, got them to fight each other, and due to sea trolling, had them split apart, so that Queen Themis would sulk on land and King Glacus would take to the sea. A higher god punished Argon for trolling, took out his eye and banished him to the sea, and gave the eye to Glacus. But the fire and water people were now at odds, so the siblings agreed to keep their kingdoms separate forever. Glacus used the eye to bring peace to the water kingdom and Themis created a sacred flame to also keep the water calm and help her kingdom stay youthful.
Centuries later, King Glacus has two sons, Sirius and Teak/Bibble. It's Sirius's 16th birthday, so the King decides "Eh, you're grown enough." and hands over the eye and the crown to the boy, making him king of the sea. But while everyone starts kissing each other, (this really happens) the party is interrupted by a giant salamander named Mabuse/Mugwug. He wants the crown and the eye for himself, so he stalks Sirius and Teak for the rest of the movie along with his gang of thugs. his job is to annoy.
Sirius swims for a while, and finds the sacred flame, which is being fanned by a naked fairy named Malta. Malta is to keep the flame going for the next week or so, until her 16th birthday, where she is to become the new fire queen. At first, the kids are afraid of each other, but quickly let teenage hormones get the better of them, and they fall in love.
This leads to a very long series of issues for the teens. While Sirius is away, evil jellyfish attack all of his friends and bloody his younger brother, who rats him out for dating a forbidden fire child. Malta's friend Piale completely rejects the fire and water children's relationship, and is jealous as it's revealed she really really really has a crush on Malta. But when Malta neglects the sacred fire, Piale sets herself on fire and kills herself, so that a new flame will stay alive for a few hours for the fire queen. And while the good natured turtle Moelle means well by telling the star-crossed kids about a way they can restore the relationship of fire and water by making their way to Mobius/Elysium Hill before Malta is turned into the next queen, his wise words come too late, as the kids are imprisoned by their parents... um.... shortly after finding out they are cousins.
Malta escapes and finds the hill, but is not able to do anything without Sirius, who is not only imprisoned, but ends up being trapped as Teak accidentally awakens Argon on a failed mission to free his older brother, getting himself, Mabuse and a whole ton of innocent fish killed in the process. By the time Sirius climbs up to the hill, it's too late. He's blind, Malta is the new fire queen and the spores they needed to travel to a new star have all left without them.
The ending is morbid and depressing. If you ever read William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, then you already know the ending, but the royal siblings have learned their lesson, and fling the bodies into space to form a new world, while they fix the mess on Earth, reunited.
Oh and as for Argon? Well um.... Glacus took care of that in the four seconds he was on screen. We just um... let's move on.
The mouth animation is almost non-existent. It's all over the place one scene, and then freezes the next. Some segments look like they were drawn in the 1960's, while random sea waves will be done in a foil style with either tricaster or CGI. Some parts are animated well while other parts have a serious lag.
The timing of the film is another issue. Some segments are too long while other segments are short and have little explanation.
The characters are a point of contention. The friend characters come across as obnoxious, and Malta's snarky hot and cold behavior is grating. One minute, she's loyal to Sirius, the next she's accusing him of forgetting her. The only character I actually felt badly for was the fire queen, who isn't really a bad person. In fact, she doesn't even do anything violent. She's just put into one bad situation after another while trying to parent Malta. Although both siblings should be slapped for dumping their king and queen roles onto teenage kids, who are still trying to find themselves.
And then there is nudity. So much of it! While you can argue it's not "too bad" for a bulk of the film, the segments with Malta get more heavy, especially where both Sirius and Piale hold and touch her inappropriately. As she becomes the new queen, the nudity gets more explicit. Considering the age of the kids and the fact that their parents are fully clothed, this is highly disturbing.
And then there's the big issue. This film is an incestuous take on Romeo and Juliet. You would think that after learning that they are cousins that the focus might be on setting things straight with their parents, but instead, they use this as a fuel to keep their romance going. Why is this not an issue?? Why does this film make incest look romantic??
The Sea Prince and the Fire Child is not suitable for children, or anybody sane over the age of 18. It's a bleak film with a depressing ending and an unsavory cast of visuals.
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When a company name makes the leap from proper noun to active verb, you know there's just a little bit of hype in the air. Google Inc. has, of course, become synonymous with "search."
Who hasn't spent a few hours online "googling" themselves (and others) to see what information comes up? Google's revolutionary technology has changed the way people think about gathering relevant information from disparate sources. And the effect is even being seen in the suddenly popular market for enterprise search tools.
"Google is the rising tide" that is lifting up all search technology companies, says Whit Andrews, a research director at Gartner Inc.
Despite its current buzz factor, however, enterprise search technology hasn't advanced all that much in the past five years, according to Laura Ramos, a vice president at Forrester Research Inc.
The major technological difference is that a company can now deploy one search solution for all its applications and databases, whereas in the past each application had its own search function.
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That means that e-mails, Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and anything else related to a specific topic can be returned in one well-executed search. But that is not exactly a quantum leap forward.
The hype factor can be easily measured by one simple comparison: While some vendors claim the market for enterprise search is around $10 billion, Ramos estimates it's only a fraction of thatroughly $700 million.
"It's all hype driven around a very public IPO and the brand that Google has built in the Internet search space," says Ramos.
All of which is contributing to some basic misunderstandings about enterprise search technology.
"The market expectation is that you can buy Google and all your problems will go away," Ramos says.
In reality, the growing challenge of organizing and properly labeling the reams of data that most companies are required to store continues unabated. Analysts estimate that over 80 percent of corporate data is "unstructured," or does not reside in an indexed, organized, easily searchable database.
And without the thoughtful indexing of this information, even the best search engine will be just as confused as are most employees.
The news isn't all bad, though. Better search capabilities, facilitated by better content management practices, can improve your company's efficiency and cut costs by helping employees find information faster.
Content managementhow information is classified, where it is saved, and the rules created to help users get the most appropriate answers to their queries is key to getting the most out of your search tool, whether you buy a new product or not.
As Ramos says, "There is a direct link between the quality of the content management and the success of enterprise search."
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At Austin, Texas-based National Instruments Corp., a $514 million manufacturer of sensitive digital instruments for engineers and scientists, enterprise search is critical on several fronts, says Jeff Watts, the company's search and community manager.
National Instruments' products are highly technical, so call-center support plays a big role in maintaining customer satisfaction. In fact, all of the company's frontline tech support reps are degreed engineers. To help keep callsand costsdown, National Instruments created a massive database with hundreds of thousands of documents, all of which can be searched and accessed online by any of the company's 25,000 customers (in 90 countries) in a matter of seconds.
"We make every effort to push customers to use the Web first," says Watts. In fact, he adds, customers who want to speak to an actual call-center rep are encouraged to first qualify their questions online and get a support number, thus giving agents time to find the information (using the same search tool, by the way, as the customers) they need in order to successfully field the call. That's significant, considering the company averaged 350 support requests per day in 2004.
But the search engine, from Oslo-based Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), wouldn't be worth a dime without the intense content management effort Watts oversees.
"Creating the content is a massive companywide effort," Watts says. As many as 1,000 employees at NI are involved in writing content, from application tutorials to troubleshooting articles. Each document is carefully classified and stored so that users will be able to find it easily.
Tagging and classifying data is an expense that many companies overlook when it comes to search, says Joseph Busch, principal of Taxonomy Strategies, a San Francisco-based consultancy.
While companies such as Google make searching for information look easy, "it would be a real disservice to imagine that this is going to be a plug-and-play solution," he says.
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"It needs to be painstakingly configured in order to really make it work." For example, software programs don't always associate files with the proper keywords, which forces companies to sift through documents manually and add keywords file by file.
Furthermore, to create a solid taxonomy for datawhich is key to ensuring that documents can be searched properlythat data needs to be tagged with "metadata," which assigns content and context information to any given file, including subject matter, type of file, last modified date and other information.
Ananthan Thandri, vice president of IT at Cadence Design Systems Inc., a leading maker of CAD-CAM software, agrees that search alone won't solve the problem of getting relevant data.
Cadence, which has been using search products from Verity Inc. since 1998, puts all employees involved in creating content to work on properly assigning keywords and affixing meta-tags to each piece of datamore than 1.1 million documents.
"We spend a lot of time on tagging and making sure we have our taxonomies set properly," he says.
While you're sorting out the content management issues, be sure to consider sensitive and personal data as their own separate categories, protected from general searches.
National Instruments found that employees often save personal information to internal databases without knowing it. "Before we had search, people saved a lot of things on the public intranet that shouldn't have been there, but it was next to impossible to find. Now our new search engine has crawled all of that.
So it's not difficult for one employee to accidentally find personal information about someone else," Watts says. Getting people to be more mindful of where they save their data has been a challenge, he says, and Watts and his team are drafting guidelines.
Because of that, the company has been wary of adding more searchable databases until it can be sure that sensitive documents are saved to the proper servers. Watts estimates that at least half the company's content is still not on the system as a result.
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About three years ago, QCSI, a Phoenix-based healthcare software development firm, had a problem.
The feature sets of its product offerings had quadrupled, which left only about 10 percent of the company's employees "knowledgeable" about those productsroughly 15 people out of 150.
These employees were constantly deluged with questions from their coworkers, business partners and customersand often had to answer the same questions over and over again, like a breed of human search engine.
"About 90 percent of the company's information resided in the heads of about 10 percent of our workforce," says Matt Denison, executive director of knowledge transfer at QCSI.
One employee, Denison says, had more than 2,000 form e-mails at the readyeach one responding to a different question that she was asked repeatedly.
So QCSI's executive team created what it calls the knowledge transfer program. First, Denison interviewed each employee and rated their knowledge based on 14 parameters.
At the same time, he asked the knowledge experts to devote a majority of their time to developing frequently asked questions, which were then reviewed and collated.
That information became part of a companywide training program that taught QCSI employees how to solve more than 200 product-related problems.
Once the data had been gathered and organized, Denison deployed an enterprise search portal, using software from Entopia Inc., that gives employees and clients access to nearly 100 gigabytes of corporate data.
Although he won't disclose actual figures, Denison says the payoff has been huge. For one thing, the new search capability allowed employees to find information more quickly, which helped QCSI deliver a new software application on time and with the fewest number of bugs of any previous product release.
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"That's something we all attribute in part to operating with this common knowledge," says Denison. What's more, he says, the search application saves each employee 20 minutes per day, which translates into roughly 150 hours of freed-up time per week companywide. "That's big bucks," he says.
Depending on your company's needs, you may not have to spend anything to improve search results.
"Never spend money first," says Gartner's Andrews. "Get the search log for the past three months and find out what people are looking for."
Then, he says, take the top 100 terms, assign business owners to the content and have them create 100 pages that address those issues. "You do that," he says, "and suddenly things start getting betterand you didn't even have to spend any money."
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Even as some search engines are being used to dehumanize knowledge management, others are reintroducing the human element.
The truth is, people are always going to be the best sources for some types of information.
And with that in mind, search software vendors are increasingly adding expertise location services to their offerings, thus allowing employees to go straight to the source for a particular query.
At ABN AMRO, the Amsterdam-based financial services giant, for example, employees who submit queries to the company's search engine are given not just relevant documents, but instant access to the authors of the content.
"People often want to find someone to talk to rather than read a document," says David Kemp, development and communications director of the wholesale client legal department at ABN AMRO.
The company's search software, provided by Autonomy Corp., creates a virtual online community around specific topicsemployees can find out not only who the experts are, but also who else is looking for similar information.
Using search queries themselves to do deeper data analysis will also be a future enhancement, says Forrester's Ramos.
She envisions analyzing search queries to find content gaps, determine how users are looking at data, and tailor content to specific users.
This is already happening at Capital One Financial Corp., where enterprise search is used to help call-center reps answer questions more rapidly. To make sure that employees have all the information they need, managers look at the list of search queries regularly to see how many were unfulfilled.
If they discover a group of similar queries with no answers, they know it's time to create new content that addresses the issue.
Like all data tools, enterprise search will forever be at the mercy of the quality of the data. "There's no magic in enterprise search," says Busch of Taxonomy Strategies. "Do people expect to buy an ERP and plug it in and magically have control over their entire company? Of course not. Common sense tells us that enterprise apps require care and feeding, and there's no exception here."


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Angry Dennis Rodman defends N. Korea visit
- Designer vodka%2C one giant player and an angry interview with CNN
- Rodman says his game will bridge North Korea and the West
- Exhibition game will mark the 31st birthday of Kim Jong Un
BEIJING — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman lashed out Tuesday at suggestions that he is playing a patsy to dictator Kim Jong Un by putting on an exhibition game in one of the world's most brutal dictatorships.
"You know, you've got 10 guys here, 10 guys here, they've left their families, they've left their damn families, to help this country, as in a sports venture. That's 10 guys, all these guys here, do anyone understand that?" he told CNN's Chris Cuomo in an interview.
When asked about whether he would raise the issue of American missionary Kenneth Bae, who has been detained in North Korea since May, Rodman again became agitated.
"Kenneth Bae did one thing ... If you understand what Kenneth Bae did. Do you understand what he did in this country? No, no, no, you tell me, you tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country, why? ... I would love to speak on this."
Rodman led 12 U.S. players to Pyongyang on Monday in what he described as an attempt to use basketball to build a bridge between the West and his "friend," North Korean President Kim Jong Un.
The flamboyant former Chicago Bulls forward has struck up an unlikely friendship with the reportedly basketball-loving leader, who had his powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek executed last month and continues to jail whole families for criticizing his dictatorship.
Rodman said he will play an exhibition game Wednesday to mark the birthday of Kim, the third generation of the Kim dynasty that has ruled North Korea since the 1950s. His roster includes former NBA stars Vin Baker, Kenny Anderson, Doug Christie, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, Charles D. Smith and Cliff Robinson, and some players who were never in the NBA.
On Tuesday, Rodman and his team were keeping busy. The players went to a practice session Tuesday with their North Korean opponents. En route, Rodman showed off a locally designed bottle of vodka bearing an illustration of Rodman and North Korea's young dictator. The pair bonded over a liquor-fueled banquet last February.
On Monday, after the team arrived from Beijing, Rodman was treated to an evening banquet and speeches with the North Korean ministry of Sport.
Michael Spavor, a Canadian co-organizer of Rodman's trip, released photos showing the U.S. and Korean players bonding with linked arms in a huddle during practice Tuesday.
The Korean players suffer a distinct height disadvantage, though Rodman had to look up at one of their players, Ri Myung Hun, who stands at 7-foot-8. Ri 's NBA dreams in the 1990s were thwarted by the tense relations between the USA and North Korea.
Rodman insisted Tuesday that his trip can "open the door" to the isolated nation. When asked by reporters in Beijing on Monday about whether he had anything to say about Kim's repressive rule, Rodman said it was not his concern.
"(It's) not my job" to talk human rights, he said. "This game is for his birthday, and hopefully this opens the doors and we can actually talk about certain things and we can do certain things. But I'm not going to sit there and go 'hey, guy, you're doing the wrong thing.' It's not the right thing to do, he's my friend first. ... I love him," Rodman said.
Fellow player Smith said the players were invited by North Korea to take part in a "cultural exchange" with other Americans and to "put smiles on people's faces."
"We've been doing these games for 3½ years," he said. "Outside of what people know of Dennis, you don't know Dennis. He's got a great heart, his passion is about children and families, that's why we are here.
"We are here because it's about doing great will around the world," Smith said.
Rodman became agitated with the questioning.
"One day, one day, this door is going to open because these 10 guys here, all of us, Christie, Vin, Dennis, Charles ... I mean everybody here, if we could open the door just a little bit for people to come here and do one thing."
On Monday he defended North Korea's regime.
"Not every country in the world is that bad, especially North Korea," he said. "People say so many negative things about North Korea. And I want people in the world to see it's not that bad."
Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Christian Solidarity Worldwide have criticized Rodman for visiting a country that has overseen the starvation of millions of its people and keeps as many as 200,000 people imprisoned for political crimes that include criticizing Kim's policies.
According to Human Rights Watch, Kim's government does not allow organized political opposition, free media or religious freedom. Arbitrary arrest, detention, lack of due process, and torture and state-approved rape "remain serious and pervasive problems." North Korea "enslaves" hundreds of thousands of citizens in prison camps, including children. The government periodically publicly executes citizens for stealing state property, hoarding food, and other "anti-socialist" crimes.
The U.N. says the Kim family directs food aid to military and government officials, and that an estimated 2 million people have died from famine due to the government's policies
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International U.K., has said Rodman or any public figure who meets with Kim has a responsibility to raise the country's "appalling" human rights record.


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LITTLE ROCK — Knowing Bret Bielema's reputation for running the football, the offensive flair and mix of Arkansas' offense in the Red-White game was surprising.
During the first half, Arkansas attempted 29 passes and ran the ball 27 times and a couple of those runs were supposed to be passes.
Given a total of 56 plays, the guess would have been 24 pass — just enough to give both Brandon Allen and Brandon Mitchell an opportunity to do some things throwing — and 32 run.
We won't know until the fall whether the first look at the offense of the new Arkansas head coach and his offensive coordinator, Jim Chaney, was a true read on the plays that will be called when something is on the line. But, knowing variety is available is encouraging.
Watching on TV, the offensive line, including tight ends galore, won some and lost some vs. a front four that is the strength of the defense. At least once, Arkansas showed three tight ends and threw the ball. At least once, Arkansas had four receivers.
In between, Arkansas both ran and threw out of the I, the offset I, single back, and the shotgun.
The "student body" sweep was appreciated on a couple of occasions. Also attention-getting was a draw out of the shotgun and a well-designed screen pass.
During the meaningful first half, Allen was 10-of-15 for 146 yards and Mitchell was 10-of-14 for 119 yards. Mitchell's numbers would have been more impressive, but D'Arthur Cowan wasn't able to hang on in the end zone after running by a defender and getting one hand on the pass. Allen missed an opportunity for a big play, overthrowing Javontee Herndon behind the secondary. Later, they were on the same page on a back-shoulder throw.
Disconcerting is the fact that receivers were often open. Play at linebacker and in the secondary has loomed large since the end of last year's disastrous season and those questions were not answered. Much like Darius Winston did last year, defensive back Carroll Washington turned the wrong way and Allen connected with Jeremy Sprinkle for a touchdown.
Mitchell suffered an interception in the end zone by Tiquention Coleman, one of many junior college players who are expected to contribute immediately. However, it appeared Coleman was responsible for Sprinkle on Allen's touchdown pass.
Pressing Allen for the starting job, Mitchell bounced back nicely from his turnover, orchestrating a 13-play, 91-yard drive that lasted more than six minutes.
Watching the running backs, you have to believe that incoming freshman Alex Collins will have an excellent opportunity to play immediately providing he can hang onto the football. High school to college is a major leap, but running backs can make the the jump quicker than players at other positions.
With the clock running non-stop in the second half and most of the starters on the sideline, Nate Holmes looked to be the fastest of the running backs and produced an 18-yard scoring run that was the highlight of the afternoon.
Likely starter Jonathan Williams made only 29 yards on nine carries. Kody Walker, sidelined in 2011 with stress fractures in both shins and in 2012 with a broken leg, showed some speed on a draw and, on another occasion, made a decent cut at the line of scrimmage for a nice gain.
Walk-on Patrick Arinze's speed is questionable, but he was the rushing leader with 66 yards on nine carries. A replay of his 21-yard gain showed no linebacker and a hole 6-feet wide.
In defense of the linebacker play, the group has little experience. Learning on the job is a must in the first three games.
Even though the demonstration was against a suspect defense, the offensive versatility provided talking points to sustain fans for a couple of months. Reality will be here soon enough.
Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media's Arkansas News Bureau. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Coffee Chronicles, NYC: Changes Already at Kava Cafe
Just steps from where the High Line takes flight, well-heeled Washington Street has itself a coffee shop apart from the others. Handsome Kava Cafe is decked out in the striated wood and moody gold-toned features of an art deco theatre lobby—or maybe that of an apartment building. And they'd like to brew you a cup as sophisticated as their environs.
The cafe, which opened just at the beginning of this year, has spared no expense outfitting itself with the shiniest new toys this side of RBC NYC. (Yes, those are indeed two three-group La Marcocco Strada MP espresso machines behind the bar, allowing Kava baristas the newest in pressure-surfing espresso technology...and clearly anticipating a gigantic, Meatpacking-calibre rush.)
Though the shop originally used Stumptown beans, they've already changed the game to surprising Annapolis, MD roaster Caffe Pronto, whose espresso and single origin filter coffees aren't widely available in NYC. And with the change in roasters heralded an expanded array of brew methods: manual brewed coffees are now available on a Hario V60 pourover bar, or via the quirky Aeropress. (And rather than waste paper, Kava is using the reusable stainless steel KONE and DISK coffee filters made by Portland's Coava for both methods.)
A traditional menu of espresso drinks includes cold brew coffee and even a con panna if you're fancy, as well as a safe selection of sandwiches. And though Caffe Pronto's beans may come with less of a front-loaded pedigree than their predecessor, the macchiato we sampled came sweet and balanced, loaded with caramel tones.
Though it may still be finding its way, all Kava Cafe needs is a tourist-filled city summer to realize all it can be—and to show our west end wanderers the potential of a great coffee.
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Dayan Viciedo is improving:
Viciedo's numbers still aren't impressive on the whole, but he's making every necessary improvement right now. Last month, it was all about the quality of his contact. This time around, it's his walks and strikeouts. Check it out:
* April: 2 BB, 19 K
* May: 3 BB, 23 K
* June: 9 BB, 11 K
He also topped .400 in slugging for the first time in a month (.426), along with his career high in OBP (.342). He's still committing plenty of errors, but the Sox paid him to hit, and he's following the correct curve right now.
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(lovers; 1990s) |image1 = file:jessica-tuck-gh-cassandra.jpg }}'''Cassandra Pierce''' is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera [[General Hospital]]. She was portrayed by {{W|Jessica Tuck}} from September 20, 2017 until August 2, 2019. Tuck reprised the role on September 17, 2019. == Casting == On September 19, 2017, it was confirmed that former OLTL alum {{W|Jessica Tuck}} would join the cast of ''GH'' in a mysterious role. She made her first appearance as the mysterious Cassandra Pierce on September 20. On January 5, 2018, Soaps.com learned that Tuck would be exiting the show as her time on General Hospital has come to an end. She made her last appearance on January 10. On August 13, 2018, Soaps.com announced that Tuck appeared to be making her way back to the series as Cassandra Pierce. She briefly reprised the role from August 23-24. On July 30, 2019, sources confirm that Tuck will be heading back to ''GH'' with her first airdate being on July 31. She last appeared on August 2. On September 13, 2019, Soaps.com reported that Tuck will return to ''GH'' again during the week of September 16 when Cassandra turns up in Port Charles. She returned on September 17. == Storylines == [[File:FinnCassandraMonaco.jpg|thumb|Hamilton Finn meets Cassandra Pierce|left]] On September 20, 2017, Dr. [[Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton)|Hamilton Finn]] and [[Anna Devane (Finola Hughes)|Anna Devane]] went to Monaco and they saw their target Cassandra Pierce in a restaurant. She drank some tea and she had an allergic reaction to it which was part of Anna's plan. Finn helped her get better and she was immediately charmed by him. Cassandra invited Finn to see her again on October 3 and he told her she was suffering from three or four ailments, but he also told her he couldn't legally treat her there in Monaco so she would have to go to Port Charles for Finn to treat her. She didn't seem interested at first but later on she called [[Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart)|Valentin Cassadine]] and asked him to tell her everything about Hamilton Finn. She eventually decided to go to Port Charles so she can be treated by Finn although she didn't know Finn was trying to help Anna take her down. Cassandra arrived in Port Charles on October 13 and Anna went to introduce herself but Cassandra said she knew who she was and assumed they were "lovers" which caused Anna and Finn to begin pretending to be a couple. On October 18, Cassandra met Valentin in the park after getting some tests ran and she wanted to rekindle her old business and romantic partnerships with Valentin but he turned her down although she was sure he would change his mind sooner than he thought. On October 27, Cassandra blackmailed Valentin into working with her in her drug trafficking operation by threatening to reveal a mysterious photo about him. [[File:NinaCassandra.jpg|thumb|Cassandra meets Nina and Charlotte|right]] On November 7, Cassandra met [[Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros)|Nina Reeves]] and used the alias Cassie White. She had taken a selfie of herself with Nina and his daughter [[Charlotte Cassadine (Scarlett Fernandez)|Charlotte]] and later threatened Valentin by threatening his family, so Valentin ultimately was forced to comply and work with her. However, unbeknownst to her Valentin met with Anna the next day and agreed to go undercover for her to take Cassandra down. Cassandra met with Nina at the Metro Court on November 15 and Nina told her she knows she lied to her. She told her that she knew her real name was Cassandra Pierce and that she was involved with Valentin back in the day. She knew she had an ulterior motive that day but said she didn't blame her for what she did. Unbeknownst to her though Nina was actually on to her. On November 20, Cassandra met [[Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard)|Sonny Corinthos]] and was going to offer him a business opportunity but when Valentin showed up Sonny said that any friend of Valentin Cassadine is no friend of his. On November 29, Cassandra met with Nina for breakfast and Nina was working Cassandra by being friends with her so she could feel out her weak spot. [[File:CassandraNina.jpg|thumb|Nina threatens Cassandra|left]] On December 26, Nina threatened Cassandra. On December 28, Valentin's cover was blown since Cassandra finally figured out he was playing her all this time. When she was holding Valentin captive she figued out Finn played her as well. Cassandra had kidnapped Anna and had her tied up in a chair with Valentin and she confronted Finn about betraying her. [[File:CassandraComa.jpg|thumb|Nina drugs Cassandra in self-defense|right]] On January 2, 2018 Finn confronted Cassandra and she eventually blew opioids in his face and knew that drugs have a stronger effect on former addicts. As he was messed up from the drugs he fought her in self-defense and she was revealed to be unconscious. She was eventually transferred to a WSB hospital since she was in a coma due to being drugged. On January 10, it was revealed that Nina drugged her into a coma in self-defense. [[File:CassandraPierceAwakened.jpg|thumb|Cassandra wakes up|left]] On August 13-14, it was revealed that these men had intercepted Cassandra Pierce from WSB custody and they used Anna as bait to have Finn wake her up. On August 23, Finn woke Cassandra up from her coma and he and Anna told her she had an infectious disease so they made a deal with her. If she helped them figure out who their captors are then Finn would treat her and if she refused then they would put her back into a coma. As Cassandra pretended to be in a coma Finn drugged their captors and they escaped while Cassandra was left behind. She was eventually kidnapped by a mysterious man wearing a Cassadine man ring. [[File:SandyMichaelSasha.jpg|thumb|Cassandra meets Michael Corinthos and Sasha Gilmore|right]] On July 31, 2019, Cassandra was seen on vacation and met [[Michael Corinthos (Chad Duell)|Michael Corinthos]] and Nina's 'daughter' [[Sasha Gilmore (Sofia Mattsson)|Sasha Gilmore]]. On August 2, while having breakfast with Michael and Sasha, Cassandra drugged the latter and left the island after taking selfies with the couple, telling them it was a pleasure being with them. On August 26, it was revealed that Cassandra poisoned Sasha with Avian Influenza A and she eventually sent Nina a text. It was the selfie she took with Sasha and Michael in Puerto Rico. Nina told Valentin about the picture and what Cassandra did so Valentin offered [[Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner)|Curtis Ashford]] $5 Million to find her and bring her to him. == Crimes Committed == *Ran a drug trafficking operation with [[Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart)|Valentin Cassadine]] [prior to her 2017 arrival; revealed Oct 18, 2017] *Blackmailed Valentin into working with her again [Oct 27, 2017] *Threatened Valentin's family [Nov 7, 2017] *Became friends with [[Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros)|Nina Reeves]] with an agenda as part of her blackmail threat to Valentin [Nov 7, 2017] *Threatened Valentin [Dec 28, 2017] *Kidnapped Valentin, tied him to a chair and held him captive along with [[Anna Devane (Finola Hughes)|Anna Devane]] [Dec 29, 2017-Jan 2, 2018] *Drugged [[Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton)|Hamilton Finn]] by blowing her opioids in his face [Jan 2, 2018] *Attempted to drug Nina [Jan 2, 2018] *Drugged [[Sasha Gilmore (Sofia Mattsson)|Sasha Gilmore]] with Avian Influenza A [Aug 2, 2019; Sasha was hospitalized from Aug 7-Sep 16, 2019] *Stalking [[Laura Collins (Genie Francis)|Laura Collins]] and [[Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner)|Curtis Ashford]] [Sep 13-17, 2019; revealed Sep 17, 2019] *Held Curtis and Laura hostage at gunpoint and ordered the two to tie each other up together [Sep 17, 2019] == Health & Vitals == *Had an allergic reaction after drinking a cup of spiked tea [Sep 20, 2017] *Suffers from hypochondria [revealed Sep 27, 2017] *Threatened by [[Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros)|Nina Reeves]] [Dec 26, 2017] *Attacked by [[Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton)|Hamilton Finn]] in self-defense [Jan 2, 2018] *Attacked and drugged by Nina in self-defense [Jan 2, 2018; revealed Jan 10, 2018] *In a coma due to being drugged [Jan 2-Aug 23, 2018] *Threatened by Finn and [[Anna Devane (Finola Hughes)|Anna Devane]] to be put back in a coma if she didn't cooperate [Aug 23-24, 2018] *Kidnapped by a mysterious man wearing a Cassadine crest ring [Aug 24, 2018-Jul 31, 2019] {{General Hospital}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierce, Cassandra}} Templates used on the current version of this page: Template:! 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Aaron Hernandez is charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd and is being held without bail in a case that could end his NFL career.
The judge issued a gag order Wednesday after Hernandez's arraignment.
Key pieces of evidence have arisen since his arrest, including a set of text messages from Lloyd to his sister and a potential motive for Hernandez.
The following text messages came minutes before Lloyd's murder.
Lloyd (3:07 a.m.): "Did you see who I am with?" [no response] Lloyd (3:11 a.m.): "Hello?" Sister (3:19 a.m.): "My phone was dead. Who?" Lloyd (3:22 a.m.): "NFL." Lloyd (3:23 a.m.): "Just so you know."
Lloyd's sister saw him leave the house with three men including Hernandez at 2:30 a.m., the prosecution said. Lloyd was murdered between 3:23 a.m. and 3:27 a.m. Workers in a nearby plant reportedly heard gunshots. Lloyd's body was found in an industrial park by a jogger at 5:30 p.m. the next day.
Earlier Thursday, Hernandez was linked to a 2012 double-murder in Boston. Investigators said that Hernandez and a group of friends got into a fight last year with two men, Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado, at a Boston bar.
Abreu and Furtado were shot and killed in a car while stopped at a stoplight. A third passenger riding in the back seat was wounded but survived.
Police say Lloyd may have known Hernandez was involved in the shooting, which may have been his motive in killing Lloyd.
Hernandez has been questioned several times by police since a car rented in his name was tied to the murder on June 18. He was arrested and arraigned Wednesday for a charge of first-degree murder and five other weapons charges.
News about Hernandez's connection to the 2012 murder was broken Thursday.


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Tofu absorbs the richness of sesame oil and the tang of rice vinegar in a fresh salad that pops with crisp celery.
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- 1 (14-ounce) block of firm tofu
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3/4 teaspoon Asian sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons rice vinegar (not seasoned)
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 large celery ribs
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted
- Rinse tofu and pat dry, then cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Arrange slices in 1 layer on a triple thickness of paper towels, then cover with another triple thickness of paper towels. Put a small baking sheet on top of tofu and weight with 3 (1-lb) cans (this removes excess moisture), 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk together oils, vinegar, soy sauce, and pepper in a large bowl. Trim celery, then peel with a vegetable peeler and slice very thin diagonally. Cut tofu crosswise into 1/4-inch-wide sticks and transfer to a bowl. Toss gently with dressing, celery, sesame seeds, and salt to taste.
Per serving: 181 calories, 14g fat (1g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 130mg sodium, 6g carbohydrates, 2g fiber, 10g protein


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Ohio University says it is conducting its own investigation into an alleged rape near campus that gained international attention when photos taken by witnesses exploded on the Internet.
The university said in a statement Thursday that its investigation is "supportive" of the probe being conducted by the city police department.
Police say they are examining photos taken and posted to social media as part of the investigation. The alleged assault occurred early Sunday on a street in the city center near campus.
Explicit photos were tweeted and quickly reposted across the Internet. Later the woman contacted police and reported that she was a victim of a sexual assault.
The university said also that it is supporting and providing resources to the alleged victim.


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- 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 1/2 pounds medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, cut lengthwise into 1/8-inch-thick slices
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt plus additional for mushrooms
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper plus additional for mushrooms
- 1 1/4 cups (or more) heavy whipping cream, divided
- 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (about 3 ounces), divided
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
- 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 12 ounces fresh crimini (baby bella) mushrooms, sliced
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Preheat oven to 375°F. Brush 13x9x2-inch glass or oval ceramic baking dish with 2 tablespoons oil. Arrange 1/3 of potatoes, slightly overlapping, in dish. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Pour 1/3 cup cream over; sprinkle with 1/4 cup cheese. Repeat layering 1/3 of potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1/3 cup cream, and 1/4 cup cheese 2 more times. Bake uncovered until potatoes are tender, adding cream by tablespoonfuls if dry, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven; maintain oven temperature.
Sprinkle thyme and garlic slices over gratin. Toss mushrooms in medium bowl with 3 tablespoons oil; sprinkle with coarse salt and pepper. Arrange mushroom slices atop gratin around edge of dish. Drizzle with 1/4 cup cream; sprinkle with 1/4 cup cheese. Continue to bake uncovered until mushrooms are tender and potato edges are golden brown, about 20 minutes longer. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool 1 hour in dish; cover and chill. Before serving, cut gratin into 10 pieces. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet. Cover with foil and rewarm in 350°F oven, 10 to 15 minutes.


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Burger City Guides: Linton Hopkins' Favorite Burgers in Atlanta
Lists of top 5 burgers.
This year, Atlanta super-chef Linton Hopkins tied with Hugh Acheson for the title of James Beard Best Chef: Southeast. He was happy to share the glory: Linton is gracious in the way Georgians are, and he's appreciative of good food. He won the award for his fine-dining restaurant, Eugene, but it's his gastropub Holeman & Finch—and its limited-edition burger, served only after 10 p.m. each night (and during Sunday brunch)—that's captivated reviewers and satiated Southerners. He's passionate about food, about Atlanta, and about burgers: He's said a good cheeseburger is one of his ideal meals. Read on for Linton's top five burgers in Georgia's capital.
1. At Bocado, Todd Ginsberg has made what I consider one of the burger ideals: two griddled patties, American cheese, pickles, mustard, and ketchup on a toasted bun. He and I were both inspired by the classic American diner double cheeseburger. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, this cheeseburger is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.
887 Howell Mill Road #2, Atlanta GA 30318 (map); 404-815-1399; bocadoatlanta.com
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2. Steven Satterfield believes more than any chef I know that food should have a sense of place and season, and that it should be from scratch. His "daily grind" cheeseburger at Miller Union is just that. Grass-fed local beef ground daily, with Alabama cheddar, and in summer, a perfect slice of tomato.
999 Brady Avenue Northwest, Atlanta GA 30318 (map); 678-733-8550; millerunion.com
3. Chefs Terry Koval and Dan Latham helm two locations of Farm Burger (one in Atlanta, one in Decatur) with the same great burgers—even though I think I enjoy their farmers' market booth even more. It's a 100 percent grass-fed beef burger with your choice of toppings, and the toppings are excellent. My favorite variation has a sunny side up farm egg with crispy red onion, cured lardo made in-house (Dan used to run the charcuterie program for Mario Batali), Vermont white cheddar, and arugula. That is good food.
3365 Piedmont Road, Atlanta GA 30305 (map); 404-816-0603; farmburger.net
4. Run by Ford Fry and his chef Brian Horn, JCT Kitchen is where I go if I'm craving the wood-grilled burger. Ground in-house on a grilled pain de mie bun with white cheddar, the hickory in this eight-ounce burger provides the perfect smokiness and char.
1198 Howell Mill Road #18, Atlanta GA 30318 (map); 404-355-2252; jctkitchen.com
5. I go to Yeah! Burger with my two kids, who love it. They offer beef, bison and turkey burgers, and it is here that I have become a turkey burger fanatic. Topped with avocado and sliced jalapeños, it is both juicy and spicy. They have awesome onion rings and buttermilk sauce and a killer beer selection. During soccer season, a game is always on.
1168 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta GA 30318 (map); 404-496-4393; yeahburger.com
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Perennial. This treasured, heirloom wildflower, native to the eastern and central U.S., is a long-lived perennial that blooms for a month or more beginning in midsummer. The pinkish-purple petals of the stunning, daisy-like flowers surround a large, dark brown cone. Petals begin to droop as the cone enlarges and fills with seeds, which attract birds in the fall and winter. Echinacea grows well in a variety of conditions, and is excellent for borders and water-wise gardens. Perfect for fresh cut flowers. Perennial in USDA zones 3-8; grown as an annual in warmer zones.
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When to sow outside: 2 to 4 weeks before average last frost or as late as 2 months before first fall frost.
When to start inside: 10 to 12 weeks before average last frost (might bloom first year if started indoors).
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|1. A function, part or responsibility, either assigned or performed by a particular human, group or system, specifically in or for a particular Failover Test Management related operation or process.
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DTP Connectivity Project Committers Meeting Minutes: November 9, 2006
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Discussed API Readiness:
- API Declaration
- Refactoring of SQM plugins nearly complete
- Core complete
- ODA plugins complete
- Question about sqlParser extension point and supporting API
- Documentation
- Need to review SQM plugins
- Need to review core plugins (mostly complete)
- ODA plugins complete
- Unit Tests
- Create tracking BZ entries for classes/interfaces in core/SQM plugins
- Linda will be tracking status of ODA plugins
Recent work completed (or near completion):
- Better support for drivers that require native libraries
- Specialized UI for Derby connection profile (near completion)
- Refactoring for public API (moving from internal to public packages; near completion)
- Wiki page created for discussing usability of connectivity
Action Items
- Rob: Compile list of public API packages/classes for John by 11/15.
- Rob: Clarify handling of any non-API classes in public packages.
- 11/13 - No action is necessary. Public API are defined at the class level, not the package level. This means any classes which are not public, should not be included in the public API declaration, regardless of which package contains them.
- Rob: Clarify unit test requirements for UI components.
- 11/13 - A best effort should be made to create tests for these components.
- Rob: Coordinate with SQL Development Tools team regarding SQL parser extension mechanism.
- 11/13 - A BZ entry will be created to discuss the issue. This will not be public API for 1.0.
- Rob: Track status of Javadoc completion for core and SQM plugin APIs.
- Rob: Track status of unit test completion for core and SQM plugin APIs.
- Linda: Track status of unit test completion for ODA plugin APIs.
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Preventive Health Care for Men Who Have Sex with Men - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2015 - Men who have sex with men (MSM) comprise at least 4% of males in the United States. MSM may describe themselves as gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. Because current medical practice does not always facilitate discussion of sexual behaviors, this group of men may face barriers to receiving...
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