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A return to Disney had me wanting to try new places. I've dined many times at the casual dining restaurants or kiosks within the parks and I was ready to continue my ventures outside of the parks. After all, hubs and I were having a great casual vacation so some great food would make it even better. We were able to dine a few different areas over the course of the couple of days we were there prior and post cruise. Here is a recap:
Trail's End (Fort Wilderness Campground)
Over at Disney Food Blog's new(ish) podcast, episode one discusses 'jaunts'. Quick trips that you can access from the parks, thus getting a break from the crowds and the heat, plus getting something other than chicken tenders and hamburgers. A quick boat ride to the Fort Wilderness Campground had us at Trail's End. The restaurant wasn't busy at all and we were quickly seated. Hubs ordered a pulled pork sandwich, which has a surprisingly tangy barbecue sauce which I really enjoyed (yup, I steal bites on vacation too). There was a corn bacon slaw on top, but really, the taste of bacon was lacking though the sandwich overall was great. I had ordered an 'open faced Johnny Cake BLT' with a side of sweet potato fries despite looking forward to the fried chicken. But, I didn't regret it at all once I took a bite. A corn based pancake topped with bacon, arugula and tomatoes. There was a peppery mayonnaise on top too – and when all those flavors combined, all I can say is wow. It was something I would have never imagined eating at The World and was beyond tasty. Beats a burger at a stand anytime surrounded by a crowd. Highly recommend – though I do hear their chicken is great, as is their breakfast buffet.
Kona Cafe (Polynesian Resort)
The Polynesian Resort is beautiful, full of lush florals and vegetation in the lobby. Honestly, I haven't been to Hawaii but it is everything that I imagine it to be. So when we sat down at Kona Cafe for lunch, I wasn't surprised to see all of the great Polynesian food, and I wanted to get my hands on all of it. Hubs settled on barbecue pork tacos. Visually, I was surprised to see the homemade tortillas be so thick. But, it was still a great taco and hubs gobbled them up. I ordered the Ahi tuna sandwich. I absolutely loved the sweetness of the pineapple bread the sandwich was served on. The tuna was thick and seasoned well, but cooked a little bit more than I would have liked. But the pickled vegetable slaw and bread made that sandwich very good. The sweetness of the bread played really well with the vinegar of the slaw, though it did kill the overall flavoring of the fish. And of course, sweet potato fries were great as always.
Whispering Canyon Cafe (The Wilderness Lodge)
Before heading home, we ducked into The Wilderness Lodge for a bite to eat. We decided to eat a few appetizers between each other, though there is an all you can eat type of barbecue lunch that looked appetizing (and what they are known for). We started off with queso and chips, which was nothing too fancy. Though small and minor, I did like the fact the chips were sprinkled with tomatoes and green onions. No idea why, I normally don't go for that flair, but alas, I liked the extra nudge that pushed it towards nacho type. I had a salad, which was dressed in a really light apple vinaigrette. I mainly ordered it because of the candied walnuts. It was much bigger than I anticipated, but there wasn't anything too special about it. Hubs ordered the smoked salmon, which he thought was a little dry and anticlimactic. Though all of this was okay and standard, I couldn't get enough of the cheddar cheese soup. It was creamy, decadent and so tasty. I absolutely loved the sharpness of the cheddar. And to make it even better, popcorn and bacon. Candied bacon gave it a slightly sweet bite through the sharpness, while the popcorn was just fun. I loved it. I ate it so fast, maybe that's why I didn't enjoy the other bites because I was so focused on that soup. Next time, soup and barbecue.
All of these were great choices for us to try while enjoying the parks. We did eat in the park at one point, but it was in Epcot where I have a little bit more love for due to the country and ethnic drive of the food. Though all of it isn't spectacular, I still appreciate it a little bit more as there are more options than the other parks (though if you recall, the Animal Kingdom does have a great restaurant). Eating new (and great) food is always an important piece of our vacations – what about you? Anything you look forward to when on vacation?


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First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro
Gaslight aka Angel Street, The Murder in Thorton Street, A Strange Case Of Murder (1940). Directed by Thorold Dickinson. Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland, from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wyngard. 84 minutes. ** 1/2
Gaslight (1944). Directed by George Cukor. Screenplay by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John R. Balderston. Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury. 114 minutes. *** 1/2
So here we have yet another stake through the heart of the oft-repeated premise that "Remakes Always Suck."
This also serves as eloquent argument against the premise that remakes are coming closer together, today, than they ever have before. We've already covered the three versions of THE MALTESE FALCON made within ten years, the last of which was the only great one; and, only slightly less dramatic, three versions of THE THREE MUSKETEERS made within thirteen years, of which only the last one can be legitimately argued to have gotten the story anywhere close to right. The movies under discussion this time out, made only four years apart, may seem an extreme class, but a couple of the Musketeer movies were that adjacent, and the Falcon movies were almost as much so. Still, four years is an unusually narrow gap. It may not be our all-time record – that would be two POSEIDON ADVENTURE movies made a year apart –but it's close.
Both films are based on the 1938 play set in the Victorian era about the cad of a husband who, to keep his wife from realizing that he's a con man searching the attic of their London home for priceless jewels, sets about deliberately driving her insane – or, more accurately, convincing her and the world that she is insane, which pretty much amounts to the same thing. If this seems an unlikely premise, please keep in mind that much of what occurs here presents a genuinely sophisticated understanding of the dynamic between some emotionally abusive husbands and their terrorized wives. In the real world, the household becomes a closed system, where the wife is cut off from any possible reality check on the part of friends and family who might be able to halt her disintegration; she is made to believe that everything that happens is her fault; she is offered little moments of affection and reward that are just as cruelly withdrawn, in a manner designed to make her feel that the blame for the loss is her own. Pathetically grateful for any indication of kindness, as her self-esteem is reduced not just to zero but to negative numbers, a woman in this position can be made to believe the most ridiculous premises, even those that contradict the evidence of her own senses. In 1940 and 1944, the premise might have seemed over the top; today we've seen and recognized too many real-world examples where exactly this form of abuse was made to work, and the saddest truth associated with either movie is, frankly, that when each movie's independent investigator arrives to tell the heroine that she's not insane and that her husband's merely been twisting her perceptions to make her think so, the ladies in question are, if anything, restored to sanity more easily than most. Witness the oft-seen moment from any number of domestic abuse cases, where the wives with the freshly broken nose and the freshly fat lip refuses to press charges, insisting to cops that the bullying subhuman who did it is "a good man." Of course, the premise that a woman might have the right to defy her husband, or even walk out on him if he treats her poorly enough, was still sufficiently radical at the time these movies were made – let alone the time being written about – that the play hedges its bets somewhat, revealing in its final movements that the cad has another wife and child off in another country, and that our heroine is therefore not actually his wife, and is therefore free to react as his treatment of her should have been enough to dictate.
The two movies are not identical. Though based on the same play, and including some nearly identical scenes, there are substantial differences between them, down to the plot level. The 1940 version is much more faithful to the play; the 1944 version changes many of the particulars, in large part to better showcase and protect its stars.
Gaslight (1940): Not Really About Her
The 1940 film, half an hour shorter, begins with a shadowy figure sneaking up behind a sweet little old lady, Alice Barlow (who's embroidering a pious sampler, just to make sure we get the dastardly nature of the crime), and strangling her. Years later, the two upper floors of her now-abandoned home are sealed off, and the rest of the home renovated for new tenants: Paul and Bella Madden (Walbrook and Wyngard, respectively), who pull up in a carriage, and at very first sight are recognizable to us as not the happiest of couples. Bella looks haunted, almost spacey. Paul seems stiff and resentful around her. There is no clear sign of even theoretical affection between them.
Clearly, he has already started to break her down, to make her the malleable thing he wants her to be. One immediate effect of this is that she is immediately removed from the role of protagonist; that position is taken by B.G. Rough (Frank Pettingell), a retired detective who worked on the old lady's murder case and whose suspicions are rekindled now that the house is occupied again. Rough is an older man, and a rather roly-poly one, so any question of actual sexual chemistry between him and Bella, in the latter scenes, is negated. The suspense lies in whether he can get the goods on Paul, and rescue Bella, before the damage done to her is irreversible.
We further learn, from a visiting relative who is denied permission to see Bella, that she has always been a frail person whose health has always been in question. There has never been any strength in her, never any personal will aside from the will she borrows from those who take care of her. We first meet her when she's already reduced by her husband's treatment of her and we therefore have no idea what kind of person she could be, if treated with genuine love or kindness. We feel sorry for her, but that's about as far as it goes, and as far as it's ever permitted to go.
The revelation, before long, that Paul is the murdered woman's ne'er-do-well nephew, and that his beastly decision to drive his wife mad began with her discovery of a letter that he sees as possible evidence against him, further removes her from the center of this, her own story. It really has nothing to do with her. She saw something she should not have seen. Before that point she was just a woman who didn't realize she was the victim of a bigamist. At some point, he either actually liked her or thought she would be useful cover to have around; we honestly don't know, nor are we given enough evidence to know.
We find out in both movies that Paul's nightly disappearances from his home are cover, to re-enter the home through the attic by first cutting into a nearby abandoned building, so he can search for the jewels he's been after all along. In the 1940 film, the explanation for what he does when he leaves at night comes fairly early, to both us and detective Rough. Also in 1940, the sexual chemistry between him and the sinister young maid is explored to a much greater degree than what we'll get a mere four years later; he actually indicates to her that when his wife is locked up in the asylum, the two of them will be free to rumpty-dumpty, and in fact takes her on an extended date to a show at a London music hall, which doesn't add as much as to the story as the screen time would seem to indicate but does permit the film to include an extended high-kick dance number, which was considered an absolute good, once upon a time.
The climax reveals that the mind-bogglingly valuable rubies the whole thing has been about, all along, were all hidden in Bella's locket, which defies plausibility, as the locket is about the size of her thumb and the jewels would all have to be the size of periods on a printed page. It's hard to credit those as valuable rubies. Those are the chips removed from valuable rubies when the jeweler cuts them into a pleasing shape.
Still, once Detective Rough tells her what's up, both apart from her husband's presence and while he's there fuming to hear it, Bella's confrontation with her exposed "husband" is a powerful one, in which the weak, fragile, shattered wife actually does look like she's about to stab him with the knife in her hand, out of sheer loathing. One advantage of not really knowing her character beforehand is that we honestly don't know what she's going to do; she is revealed for the first time in those scenes, and it's a powerful moment. The film is beautifully shot and furnished with sumptuous sets, and though neither quality is quite as magnificent as what we'll get a few short years later, it ain't nothing, either. It's not a bad film. It's actually a pretty good one, better as a predecessor to its particular classic than the first Maltese Falcon was to the Humphrey Bogart version. But few people would remember it today, or have any real reason to see it, if not for its position as footnote to what would shortly follow a few short years later.
Gaslight (1944): Beware The Attack of Pretentious Gallic Smoothies
The 1944 version – which is, let's say right off, to an order of magnitude a greater feast for the eyes – offers us a lot more, in the way of substantive changes, than just the introduction of far more charismatic actors.
To start with, the victim of the original murder is not a sweet little old lady making pious samplers. She's a world-famous opera singer, renowned throughout the world, and the owner of jewels that were bestowed upon her by a smitten crowned head of state; it therefore becomes much more believable that the jewels are priceless enough to have been worth all the to-do made about them. (She doesn't appear in the story as a character, but we see a portrait of her, and can tell that she was still relatively young and beautiful when killed; and on top of this her character helps inform that of her niece Paula (Bergman), who is here presented as a girl who has substantial singing talent of her very own, who foolishly gives up her ambitions when she falls in love with her future "husband" Gregory.) Gregory (Boyer) a piano player who once accompanied Paula's aunt, has pretensions of a great future as a composer, but we soon learn that he really doesn't have much to offer in that line; he is a non-talent, who is in evil ambitions subverts a girl who, we are made to believe, is a much grander one.
None of this is critical to the plot, but note how well all of it moves the endangered wife to the forefront. In the original, he owns the house and really doesn't need her around while he searches it; he just begins his campaign to drive her mad because she's seen an incriminating letter and he was treating her like crap anyway. In this version, she's the inheritor of the house. He needs her to gain access to it, and so he uses his wiles to first deprive her of her ambitions and then of her property and then of her freedom of movement and then of her sanity; it's a much greater series of betrayals, and it's all focused on a girl we know. We may first meet her when she's a traumatized teen being removed from her aunt's house in the aftermath of her aunt's murder, but by the time we catch up with her again on the continent, she's far away from that tragedy and, though clearly still traumatized by it, a formidable young woman with substantial potential (if not in music, then at least for attaining happiness). We see, in her radiance, the depth of the love she thinks she's found, in Gregory…and Bergman sells this feeling so substantially, so perfectly, that she's substantially more beautiful in these scenes than she was in her earlier hit Casablanca. And she's not exactly a crone in Casablanca.
Charles Boyer's acting style has not aged as well, alas – he was a pretentious gallic smoothie then, when that was a good thing, and that has only gotten worse as most screen acting has evolved in more naturalistic directions – but that actually rebounds to the movie's benefit. Occasionally, a flawed performance is precisely the right kind of flawed performance. For instance, McCauley Culkin was not half the actor his co-star Elijah Wood was, when they played together in The Good Son, a thriller about a murderous, sociopathic child…but the limitations to his affect, and the general off-ness of his line readings, only furthered the impression that his character was a little monster only mimicking the proper emotional responses in order to seem properly human. Much the same thing occurs whenever Tony Curtis played a con man, pretending at sophistication; the pretense was transparent, and rightly so. There about a million similar examples. To our modern eyes, Boyer is affected and corny…but exactly the kind of untrustworthy guy who might impress a naïve young girl who doesn't know any better. It is a perfect twist on the material.
With this chemistry, Boyer playing Gregory as the most romantic, smooth-talking sharpie alive, and the first signs of trouble appearing as Gregory insisting to his lady love that of all the possible places where they can now settle, he wants a small house on a London Square exactly like the one that Paula has steadfastly avoided since her childhood trauma…the arrival at the house where most of the action takes place now plays a lot differently. Paula is apprehensive, but believes that she can be happy there; Gregory is clearly manipulating her and just beginning his transformation from eloquent romantic to control-freak, but she is not yet a doormat; she has every reason to believe that she might be happy. Her character begins from a place a lot different than the character from the first film. In this remake, we know her well and like her before she ever enters the house with her creep of a husband. She has a character that can be broken down. And so it plays at a much higher level when he acts downright unhinged, during a tourist visit to the Tower London; when he starts hiding household objects and leading her to believe that she has stolen them; when he encourages her to believe that she has had memory lapses; when this movie's sinister young maid (a teen Angela Lansbury, in her movie debut), bullies her out of her plans to leave the house and go for a walk. It hurts to see this vivacious, beautiful, talented young girl having the life sucked out of her. It hurts less to see the same thing happen to somebody who's already a doormat.
Paula's connection to music also adds to another key moment of the story. Both films include a scene where the husband consents to her attendance at a high-society party that includes a piano recital, only to cruelly accuse her of stealing the watch which he has hidden away in her handbag, and drive her from the room in tears. In the 1940 version, there is no special reason to believe that Bella is enjoying anything more sophisticated than the rare opportunity to be seen out in public. She seems profoundly uncomfortable, even in her seat. In 1944, it's music. It transports Paula. Bergman is able to indicate that her character feels joy at the sound – and the cruelty of then robbing it from her is profoundly underlined.
In this film, there is no indication that Gregory's dalliance with the nasty young maid goes any further than flirting on his part and yearning on hers; perhaps, despite clear evidence that the husband is a heel in other ways, 1944 Hollywood didn't want to hinge too much of the story on that hard-sell, adultery. It's a loss, even if the removal of the dance-hall sequence is a dramatic plus in that it doesn't take us away from the main story at a point where it honestly doesn't need to bleed tension.
(The smaller role doesn't stop young Angela Lansbury, a teenager at the time and still a name performer today, from nailing what she's given. She says in an interview among the extras on the DVD set that includes both movies that she was very kindly treated by everybody – which she notes isn't always the case, for actors of any age, and good luck in particular for the young girl enjoying her first big break.)
The revelation that Gregory is sneaking back into the house after leaving at night takes place a lot later in the story than in the 1940 version, and the solution to the mystery of the missing jewels is much more sensible and therefore much more satisfying. Paula's confrontation with her securely bound husband, once he's been exposed, is a killer-diller; after two hours of being reduced to an emotional invalid, she now gets to expel all of her anger and betrayal, and though there's never any real sense, as in 1940, that she might kill him, the sudden return of the girl who's been robbed from herself is the story's heart, and Bergman nails it in one of the great sequences of her career. She won the Academy Award for the part, deservedly.
But the best of the story's improvements to the play may be the most "Hollywood"; i.e., instead of giving us a fat old retired detective who swoops in to solve the case just to show he can, we get Brian Cameron (Joseph Cotton), a Scotland yard functionary who also, persuasively, serves as possible future romantic interest for Paula. He's accused by another character of being in love with her. He very likely is. There is no reasonable way, even at movie-melodrama speed, for her to reciprocate. She only has a few minutes freed of the influence of her "husband." But it is clear at the end that she is letting her rescuer into her life, and that at bare minimum she has found a friend who will be a positive presence in her days, to counter the loss of the monster who tried to destroy her. This is also more satisfying, if less realistic, than the heroine of the original getting nothing more than the opportunity to breathe fresh air. Cotton, who often played profoundly decent men, serves that function well here, though it needs to be noted that he could radiate evil when he needed to; see Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow Of A Doubt (1943). Gaslight was the seventh full-length film of his career, all made in a three-year period, and was astonishingly his fifth great one. Nor was he finished with greatness for the decade; The Third Man was still to come.
This is, by the way, one of those occasional stories that adds to the English language; "Gaslighting" somebody has become a slang term for a pattern of psychological torture designed to get them to doubt their reality, and ultimately get them to blame themselves for their own abuse. It is therefore worth noting that when I recently mentioned on-line that I'd seen this movie for the very first time, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction editor and notable scamp Gordon van Gelder immediately insisted that my memory was failing me and that we'd seen it together. It took me hours to twig to what he was doing. Thanks a lot, Gordon.
The Incriminating Papers
1940 version: a reasonably effective melodrama, marred by remote characters and too narrow an arc for its leading lady. 1944 version: an all-time classic.
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Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Gaslight aka A Strange Case Of Murder (1940). Directed by Thorold Dickinson. Screenplay by A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland, from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wyngard. 84 minutes. ***
Gaslight (1944). Directed by George Cukor. Screenplay by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John R. Balderston. Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury. 114 minutes. *** 1/2
This is one of those times when I agree with Adam on the ratings of these films. Both films are well made and for the most part well acted. But neither one really blew me away.
I had seen the 1944 version a few times while growing up and always felt that the heroine was just too much of a pushover. I mean first they bundle her off to get her away from London and the murder scene. Then, some guy she's only recently met is allowed to take over running her life and takes her back to the murder house. Then, some guy she doesn't even know is allowed to convince her that not only is she not going mad, but her loving husband is nothing more than a murderer and thief. Talk about a pushover! And, this is the heroine we are supposed to root for?
I never knew of the existence of the 1940 version or the play until we stumbled across the listing on the cable barker.
I found the 1940 storyline much more satisfying, but constrained by the boundaries set by the stage play. It had a bit more feel of reality when a former police officer recognizes a suspect from a past case, and takes the case open again. I mean isn't this what COLD CASE is based on?
I guess I need to spoil everything if I want to state my major gripe with the story. Guy meets girl/wins girl/moves with girl to supposedly strange (to him) place/begins controlling every aspect of girl's life/begins convincing her she is going insane/is found out by third party and destroyed all in time to save girls sanity and life! The very idea of a murder occurring and the criminal being so obsessed as to hatch this convoluted plot to get his hands on the property. It boggles the itty bitty grey cells. And yet, the 1944 film, following these basic storylines, is considered by many to be a minor masterpiece.
Both films are very set bound and claustrophobic, which intensifies the drama. The earlier version, just didn't have the budget or directorial talent to pull off what the 1944 film did.
The Gaslight of 1944 had Ingrid Bergman playing weak with a steel core and Charles Boyer playing slick and cruel. One deserved all the praise heaped on her, the other wellll, not so much. Boyer's stilted stylization in this film was really just an unease with acting in English and unfamiliarity with his co-star nd director. His later roles where he evinced a sly charm, came after much more time had passed and he was more a part of the American movie community. But here, playing the foreign fella, well, the stiffness comes off as cruelty and "foreigner " standoffishness.
Both films are well worth the time invested in their watching. Neither is more, or less, than the set piece it was meant to be. The earliest a good attempt at interpreting the play, the latter and lush film remembered for one of many roles of an incredible actresses career.


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There are marinas everywhere, almost every creek and inlet has its moorings and hard facilities and every coastal town or village of any size has its yacht club.
Regattas are common events in such places as Cwm-yr-Eglwys, Newport, Fishguard, Whitesands St Davids, Little Haven, Dale, Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock, Neyland, Lawrenny, Angle, Tenby and Saundersfoot, and the bigger keel boats and yachts find perfect sailing in Milford Haven Waterway.
There are few sights so magnificent as a fleet of keel boats and ocean-going yachts in full sail, spinnakers billowing, speeding round the competition courses in the Haven. Milford Haven has been the setting for many international sailing and power-boating events and in 1991 hosted the start of the spectacular Tall Ships Race, which brought a magnificent fleet of sailing vessels into the harbour, which Nelson described as the finest deep water harbour in the world, with Trincomalee in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Milford Haven has also been the embarkation point for trans-Atlantic yachtsmen and women. Val Howells set sail from there on his successful bid, and Nicolette Milnes-Walker also set sail from Dale for her successful crossing.
Facilities for tuition are availabe from many of the Yacht Clubs and from the multiplicity of watersports providers in the county.
A major source of instruction is Pembrokeshire Adventure Centre at Cleddau Reach, Pembroke Dock, where watersports of all kinds are taught and practised by schools, colleges, individuals and clubs from all over the UK. Sailing is high on their list of activities and there are perfect conditions for learning and competitive sailing both in the sheltered waters of Cleddau Reach and in the wide estuary between Pembroke Dock and Lawrenny. Run by the Princes Trust, all the Centre's profits are directly invested in the future of young people, promoting social inclusion, character and confidence building adventure and economic activity. Their contact numbers are: 01646-622013 or email@example.com or princes-trust.org.uk/adventure.
Sealyham Activity Centre, just off the A40 Haverfordwest- Fishguard trunk road near Letterston, is another provider which includes sailing among its many other watersports and other outdoor activities. Contacts: 01348-840763 or enquiries@sealyham,com. or www.sealyham.com. The local Yachts Clubs are: Fishguard at Lower Town Harbour; Newport Boat Cub at The Parrog (01239-820503), Neyland Yacht Club at The Promenade (01646-600267);Pembrokeshire Yacht Club at Gellyswick Bay, Milford Haven (01646-692799); Saundersfoot Sailing Club at the Harbour (01834-812492) and Tenby ailing Club at The Harbour (01834-842762).
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Not content to sit on sales of phones, laptops, and iPads that tally in the millions, Apple Wednesday rolled out updates to its line of Mac computers.
And those computers are coming fully equipped with a new operating system and FaceTime -- and yes, it happens to look a lot like the iPhone and the iPad.
The new version of of the Mac OS X will be called Lion and it will include a store for Mac software. Think iTunes but with apps for MacBook instead of your iPhone.
Also ripping a page from the iPhone's playbook, Apple will introduce its popular FaceTime video chatting app to Macs -- which will allow users to have computer-to-iPhone video chats.
Apple will have its computers also impersonate its iPhone by introducing a dashboard filled with widgets that are designed to make users' life easier.
Lion is expected to be released this summer.
Of course Apple can't have a pretty new OS without shiny new computers.
Jobs announced that Apple will also be releasing two new MacBook Air computers starting at $999. The ultra-light computers will mimick the iPhone in the sense that they will not have a hard drive or an optical drive.
Instead they will both use flash memory, like the popular smartphone but the power they will carry on board will be closer to what users have come to expect from the larger MacBooks.
The two MacBook Airs will be different sizes. One will have a 13.3-inch screen while the smaller one will get into netbook territory with a 11.6-inch screen. You can take a look at the new MacBooks in the video below.
* Lion Roars: The new OS is here (again)
* FaceTime: Get your face out there, cross-platform
* Air Mac: Thinner, Faster, Better
10:01a.m.: As Steve Jobs said when he walked out on stage, he announced that "Today is about the Mac." Check out the Qik video below of Jobs opening the show.
10:10am: Software-wise, there's a new iPhoto, that lets you organize your slideshows differently, with more themes, and upload to places like Facebook more easily. Also a new iLife, with more features. And new ways to get books, and create greeting cards with your photos.
10:13am: Says Jobs: "I think its awesome. This is why we do what we do."
10:20am: New for iMovie: News and sports themes, ability to create trailers, and more. I must say, if I was an amateur filmmaker, I would be salivating at this. Another example of how technology is democratizing the movie industry. Apple is clearly pushing to put more inside of its Macs, which comes at a time when the company is seeing growth in computer market share.
10:40am: Garage Band update. More amps for your guitar, more lessons, and something called "Groove Matching," described as a spell check for your band.
10:54am: New OSX version is being rolled out. Apple is calling it "Lion." Jobs: "This is Mac OSX meeting the iPad." 10:59am: New apps for the Mac. Available on the "mac app store." You'll be able to put the apps on the Launch Pad screen .. just like your iPad.
11:01am: New app store will open in 90 days. Look for new OS update called "Lion." Jobs says Mac is a 22 billion dollar business - retail market share now at 20 percent.
11:12am: "One More Thing..." Jobs: MacBook meets the iPad: Releases new MacBook Air. Thinner, 2.9 pounds. All Flash, no optical or hard drives. Longer battery life. 13.3 or 11.1 inch screens. Starting at $999, going to $1599. Both available starting today.
Follow NBC Bay Area tech reporter Scott Budman on Twitter; @scottbudman


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Adams' presence is felt early on
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com.
LOS ANGELES -- Right-hander Mike Adams threw a perfect eighth inning Tuesday against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
It was his second appearance of the season, but it came in a big spot with the game tied.
"He came in last night throwing strikes," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "That's huge. We're talking about strikes out of the bullpen, challenging the hitter, down in the zone, mix pitches, but come out of the bullpen throwing strikes has been the message from Day 1. I would say the guys that are here now have been doing that. That's good. That's good that some guys did step up."
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SIU uses big finish to beat Northern Iowa
Desmar Jackson hit a go-ahead jumper with six seconds left and blocked the ensuing layup attempt to complete Southern Illinois' 68-66 come-from-behind victory over Northern Iowa Tuesday night.
Northern Iowa (9-8, 3-2 Missouri Valley Conference) used a 28-7 run to race out to a 36-19 lead in the first half.
The Salukis (6-12, 2-3) stormed back from a late 64-52 deficit as Sean O'Brien hit a 3-pointer and Jackson converted a three-point play to tie the game at 66 with 1:10 left.
After a Davante Drinkard block, Jackson sank a jumper and blocked Deon Mitchell in the final seconds. Chip Rank's putback couldn't find the net either.
Southern Illinois shot 46.2 percent, closing the game on a 16-2 surge. Jackson finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds, O'Brien had 15 points and Anthony Beane added 14.
The Panthers were led by Seth Tuttle with 24 points and nine rebounds.


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The introduction of the jet has changed the way people travel. It opened up air transportation as a reliable and fast means for travelling long distances. Some people acquire private jets for a wide variety of reasons: from the superior convenience it offers to the powerful image boost it provides. Avšak, not everyone can afford or maintain a private jet. The next best option is to rent a private jet. Here are some of the things you need to know when getting a private jet charter flight in Albany.
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Why Get a Private Jet?
When people are making their travel plans, not a lot of them actually consider getting a private jet as one of their options. In some scenarios, going for this option can be immensely helpful. Here are some of the reasons why you should at least consider hiring a New York aircraft rental service.
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The trouble with the World Economic Forum and its annual conference in Davos Switzerland, is that they do a poor job of summarizing the main trends, conversations and sentiment about its attendees. Instead they rely on the press and individual observers to convey their own individual accounts. More often than not, they are subjects that most of us don't care about or misrepresent the majority opinion. What a wasted opportunity.
Because of that, I turned to KPMG International and their World Economic Forum Live Twitter aggregation and data visualization service to provide us the key trends and insights from the conference's world leaders, celebrities and CEOs.
Here are the top 5 insights:
1. A lack of women (17% of the total) at the conference caused a stir but were able to have their voice heard anyway. Almost 35% of the social media conversations involved women.
2. "Young Global Leaders" #ygl were the subject of many conversations. In fact much was made of the ability for young leaders to connect and work with each other to cause positive change.
3. British Prime Minister David Cameron caused an uproar with his speech on how the European Union must change or the UK may return to an island state.
4. Global economy appears to be in recovery – delegates optimistic. At least that was the sentiment of delegates at the conference. But George Soros was a notable pessimist.
5. Delegates discussed how to adapt to social technologies and finally seem to recognize its importance in world affairs.
While the media delegation to Davos averaged three retweets for every tweet they posted (1,936 tweets to 5,629 retweets), 'Public figures' averaged 17.5 retweets for every tweet they posted (433 tweets to 7,591 retweets), including Mario Monti (78 retweets, 16 replies), Christine Lagarde (89 retweets, 95 replies) and David Cameron (79 retweets, 47 replies) -- demonstrating the power of social media to enable the public and political leaders to engage more directly.
David Green, Global Head of Digital Marketing, KPMG International summarized it this way: "this data shows the power of social media to enable the public and political leaders to engage more directly. There is now greatly transparency around, and public engagement with, important events such as Davos. Business and individuals alike have a chance to air their views on the issues that matter, as the discussions happen."
So, yes, Davos delegates are out of the mainstream. But there's no doubting the importance of the attending leaders and their conversations. These are the business and government kingpins that are making big decisions that impact the rest of us. So it was refreshing to see how active some of these leaders were on Twitter because we could tune in from afar.
Indeed, transparency is a good thing. Let's hope the rest of them get the message.


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I am an aerospace engineer and a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University. I am currently working with prof. Zavattieri in the CMMLAB developing a multiscale framework that can be used to describe and predict the cellulose nanocrystals mechanical behavior, and connect atomistically informed models to experiments using continuum-based modeling techniques. __A little bit more about me__ I was born In Argentina. Since I was young I was interested in aircrafts and helicopters, and I always knew my future was going to be related with them. At the age of 18, I got my Private Pilot License, and at the same time I started my career as an aerospace engineer. In 2009 I got a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (five years program). I graduated at the top of my class obtaining the "Dr. Joaquín V. González" award offered to the best students of Universidad Nacional de La Plata. One year before graduation, I became a member of the Applied Mechanics Testing Group (GEMA), a team integrated by professionals from the Department of Aeronautics who perform technology transfer throughout special services, testing, research, assessment and technical support to industries and companies. Being a part of this group allowed me to build up my skills as an engineer not only in the technical aspect, but also working in groups and networking. As a part of GEMA, I worked in different projects ranging from numerical simulations of entire train cars, to assessments of the failure of aircraft parts after accidents (expert report), and numerical simulations of aerospace components (SAC-D and TRONADOR project) In my last year at GEMA, I was in charge of the preliminary structural design of the entire expendable launch system: TRONADOR, including internal and external parts for Vex-1 to Vex-4 and Tronador II. In 2010 prof. Zavattieri contacted me, and in August of that year, I became a member of the CMMLAB starting my exciting career as a PhD. Student …


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David Scott '87 gazed out on a wind-whipped sea of 50,000 people at the National Mall on Feb. 17. As a member of the Sierra Club's national board, he was pleased to see the large turnout for the group's event on such cold day in Washington, D.C. But the environmental activist came home to Columbus only further convinced that more people, more energy, and more attention must be cultivated in order to avert the catastrophic consequences of global warming.
Scott brings that passion to his new role as president of the Sierra Club. Fellow board members elected him to the post on May 18. In addition to taking on the more public role of serving as spokesperson at public functions, writing for blogs and op-ed pages, and engaging with donors, Scott also helps lead the organization as a whole with the executive director. It's a demanding role – but one that comes with great opportunity to affect change globally.
"Anyone who isn't humbled by being elected president of the Sierra Club doesn't know the history of the environmental movement," Scott said. "Our past presidents include John Muir and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Dr. Edgar Wayburn. Justice William O. Douglas served on our board, as did photographer Ansel Adams and David Brower. I stand on the shoulders of giants, and I'm gratified beyond words."
During the last three years, Scott served as the national vice president. In that position, he shared responsibility for overseeing the organization's conservation program. While traditional lands protection work falls under that program, Scott says the group is focusing most of its resources on combatting the policies and apathy that contribute to U.S. reliance on coal, natural gas, and oil.
The group's Beyond Coal campaign alone is a $33 million program involving hundreds of staff members and thousands of volunteers, and that's just one of four major initiatives in which Scott helps provide leadership. Sitting in a Sierra Club office in downtown Columbus this winter, he quietly discussed scientific research about the need to end all coal emissions in the next 10 to 20 years and to move to renewable energy as quickly as possible.
"We're already seeing what scientists predicted – more droughts, heat waves, and intense storms," he said. "In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences signed a joint statement urging governments to cut carbon emissions. The Pentagon started issuing warnings during the Bush administration that we're going to have international conflicts due to climate disruption. We've got bodies like the World Bank warning that we absolutely must avoid the warming scenarios we're on course for. The difficult thing about climate is that if you're not an alarmist, you're not telling the truth about what we're facing."
The debate over climate change, Scott said, is manufactured by the fossil fuel industry. Ninety-seven percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree on the root cause of climate disruption, he said, adding, "There hasn't been a debate among actual climate scientists for years. If I'm obsessed with climate change, it's because I know what's at stake."
Scott has spent a lifetime taking in nature. He has watched grizzly bears and moose roam the Alaskan tundra and gazed upon cedar trees that are 1,000 years old. His passion for the environment was ignited when he was a boy, staring out from the bluffs and beaches surrounding Lake Erie on summer trips with his parents.
"It's a body of water you can see from space. It's something to look at – where you can't see the other side," he said. "It evokes that kind of awe you get from a forest that once covered the continent or the way the sky looks at Denali. It humbles you."
He took part in Sierra Club-sponsored hikes in the 1970s and 1980s. He became an official member in 1990 and started leading hikes in the Columbus area a few years later. When a spot on the Ohio Chapter's executive committee opened in the late-1990s, Scott ran for it and became the conservation chair soon after.
He's worked at the national level for the last decade, and he was elected by the general membership to a three-year term on the national board in 2009 and re-elected in 2012. The board selects officers, and Scott was elected vice president for three consecutive years beginning in May 2010.
In addition to the obligations Scott tackled in that volunteer role, he also has had a busy practice with Disability Rights Ohio, the federally designated protection and advocacy agency for individuals with disabilities. He has concentrated mostly on accessibility and fair housing issues. "It's also idealistic work, and it's given me a feeling for how revolutionary the Americans with Disabilities Act was when it was adopted," he said. "It's generally making America a more accessible place, and that involves individuals with myriad different needs."
Scott is proud of having built an "activist's resume," as he calls it. He shrugs when asked if he ever minds the travel and long hours on nights and weekends dedicated to the Sierra Club and other environmental causes. Despite the dismal outlook on a future with climate change, Scott still considers himself an idealist.
"I wouldn't do what I do if I weren't. Climate is discouraging because the stakes are so high. There's already too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now to avoid Hurricane Sandy on a regular basis," he said. "But there really are solutions. Germany has days where it gets 30 percent of its power from renewable sources. They changed their laws to be favorable to renewable energy and rooftop solar, and they invest in solar. We haven't done that, and we need to promote efficiency through building codes, improvements to the grid, crafting policies that support renewable energy."


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Nets trip Pacers, land at least No. 4 seed
Deron Williams scored 33 points and the Brooklyn Nets secured home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs with a 117-109 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night in Indianapolis.
Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson each had 24 points for the Nets (47-32), who have won four of their last five games.
David West had 26 points and nine rebounds, and Paul George had 21 for the Pacers (49-30), who have lost three of four.
The Nets are guaranteed the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference and pulled within two games of the Pacers for No. 3.
The Pacers took their only lead of the game when Lance Stephenson hit a 3-pointer with 5 minutes left, but the Pacers couldn't hold on.
Jerry Stackhouse tied the game from the free throw line and the Nets took a 104-101 lead when Johnson hit a 3-pointer.
George hit a 3-pointer to tie it again and Stackhouse hit a 3 to make it 107-104 with 2:56 left.
The Pacers trailed by as many as 24 points and couldn't duplicate a similar comeback they had in a win over Cleveland on Tuesday.
The Nets took a 69-50 lead by halftime, the most points they scored in a half this season.
Williams had 25 points in the half, including four 3-pointers.
The Nets took a 21-point lead late in the second quarter when Johnson hit a 3-pointer and Williams hit back-to-back 3s to make it 67-46 with 1:02 left.
The Nets shot 71.4 percent in the first quarter alone. The Pacers shot over 50 percent but couldn't keep up.
When it wasn't Williams, it was Lopez, who had 16 points in the first half on 7-of-8 shooting. Johnson (5-of-7) had 11 points by halftime.
Johnson and Lopez put together an 8-2 run for the Nets midway through the first quarter to take a 22-12 lead with 4:29 left in the first quarter.
The Nets opened a 74-52 lead early in the second half before the Pacers slowly chipped away and took the lead late.
The Nets were without forward Gerald Wallace, who was sidelined with a lower left leg contusion.


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After watching the success of photo- and video-sharing apps like Snapchat, Twitter is working on bringing the direct message to all its users, according to a report.
Twitter has been testing the direct-messaging product which would allow users to send direct, secret messages without following one another, AllThingsD reported. The service is now running in limited beta.
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However, the report goes on to say that Twitter is thinking of creating a whole different product for direct messaging, much like Snapchat, which shares ephemeral photos and videos that self-destruct within 10 seconds. Twitter has also met with employees from other messaging services -- which seems like it's checking out which startup to buy.
Adding a direct-messaging product could enhance Twitter's value, especially just before its initial public offering.


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BUFORD, Ga. -- A Georgia mother's mission to share her son's beauty is working in a way that she never expected.
Meagan Nash is the mother of Asher, a ridiculously adorable 15-month-old who just happens to have Down syndrome.
Back in July, Nash submitted photos of Asher to a local advertising agency handling a campaign for children's clothing brand OshKosh B'Gosh. Nash said that she never heard back from the agency, so she reached out to them.
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PHOTOS: Asher Nash
According to Nash, the agency said that Asher's photos hadn't been submitted because OshKosh hadn't requested "a baby with special needs."
Nash said she responded with, "Did they say they were not casting a baby with special needs?"
To which the agency replied, "No, they didn't say anything."
Nash said that Asher met the "size, eye and hair color" that was being cast. Plus, Nash said she told the agency, "My son wears your clothes every day."
The agency apologized and promised to work to include more diverse faces in future campaigns, Nash said.
Later, Nash said that she saw the work of Changing the Face of Beauty, a non-profit group working to get brands to feature people with disabilities in their ads. That spurred her into action.
Nash shared a post featuring three photos taken by photographer Crystal Barbee, and things took off quickly.
A post on the Facebook page Kids with Down Syndrome has been liked more than 91,000 times and shared more than 107,000 as of Thursday night.
Nash said she's heard from several national media outlets and from people across the country.
"I really never expected it to get this big," she said.
And it could get even bigger.
As Nash and Asher's story spread, OshKosh took notice. Nash said the company, which is owned by Atlanta-based Carter's, contacted her and asked for a meeting on Tuesday.
While Nash isn't sure what will come of that meeting, she's hopeful that Asher can help open the door for other children with disabilities in the modeling world.
And what does Asher think about all this?
"He loves the attention," Nash said.
A lot more of it could be headed his way.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Penn State or State Penn?
According to an ESPN study of Pennsylvania criminal records, 46 Nittany Lion players have faced 163 criminal charges since 2002 and 27 have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to a combined 45 counts.
In 2007 alone, 17 players were charged with 72 crimes, with nine guilty pleas.
Joe Paterno, when asked about the disturbing numbers, told Steve Delsohn of ESPN's "Outside The Lines" that the network was on a "witch hunt."
The centerpiece of the "Outside The Lines" report chronicled an incident last year when several Penn State players forced their way into an apartment and attacked several people attending a party, including one individual who tried to break up the altercation and was knocked unconscious after being hit in the head with a beer bottle. While unconscious, police say the man was repeatedly punched in the head.
Paterno is entering the final year of his contract and the speculation continues that this season will be the last for the 81-year-old coach. After watching the "Outside The Lines" report, which you can view by clicking here, you have to think Penn State officials have had enough and are ready to send Paterno into retirement.
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If you're looking for the runaway leader in off-field troubles, look no further than Penn State.
Really? Where is your data on arrests and convictions for the other I-A teams?
I'm not defending the conduct of PSU's football team, but your statement is completely out of context. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't, but please back it up with data rather than just blurting it out in a vacuum.
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Ditto. I would venture to say that Miami has got to be somewhere in the running. Ohio State just had a guy arrested for a DUI as well.
Just because ESPN says something, doesn't mean it is necessarily true.
- Unknown said...
A lack of institutional control. Plain and simple. Pathetic.
- Aldo Quintanilla said...
I love how people like Kevin are dumb enough to think Miami guys get arrested like they do in the 80s. That is an ESPN myth. People are so easy to manipulate that it's sad. In the past 8-10 years, I can maybe count on one hand who has gotten arrested from Miami while on the team.
Antrel Rolle-misunderstanding.
Robert Marve-punched a car window on Halloween
Ryan Moore-kicked a car door.
Stop believing the Thug U nonsense already.
Another factor that no one at ESPN has taken into account is that fact that the State College police take a VERY hard line against anything Penn State.
Walk down College Ave drunk on a Saturday night, minding your own business, not hurting anyone, and you could easily wind up in jail with 3 or 4 charges against you. PSU students, football players or not, are given NO slack by the local cops. Do you think that's the case in Miami, or Columbus or Ann Arbor or L.A.? I'm sure that the police in bigger cities have better things to do than hassle college students about offenses that would be considered minor anywhere else.
If you want to see the data on other D1 teams you need look no further than the Fulmer Cup, which gives teams points based upon criminal activities. PSU finished second in the rankings in 2007 and is currently 8th in 2008. Overall, they rank 3rd among D1 schools since the rankings started.
In other words, when you compare PSU to other D1 schools they come out look pretty damn dirty. That's the facts, not some witch hunt.
And PSU players are not simply getting arrested for public drunkeness. We're talking serious violations, so trying to excuse this as some aggressive local police force is bogus.


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Despite economic downturn, China's domestic markets continue to scale-up low carbon technology
This report shows that in an incredibly short space of time China has taken the lead in the race to develop and commercialize a range of low carbon technologies.
On the back of ambitious government policies and a new breed of entrepreneurs, Chinese businesses are amongst the top producers of electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and energy efficient appliances. Even with this growth, the opportunities for Chinese and foreign companies are huge. A successful agreement in Copenhagen later this year will open the door to further collaboration and growth.
Building on The Climate Group's 2008 report, the new report, China's Clean Revolution II: China's opportunity for a low carbon future is a synthesis of the latest information on China's progress towards a low carbon economy and aims to keep a-pace with a rapidly evolving green agenda in China, as well as expanding to cover new industries including geothermal power.
In the last year, the global economic turndown has hurt China's exports of renewable and low-carbon technologies and created a new impetus to expand its domestic markets. The Chinese government's 4 trillion Yuan (US$ 585 billion) stimulus package put a strong emphasis on clean development and is backed by many new laws and policies focused on increasing the uptake of low carbon technologies.
The report examines four key areas of China's low carbon economy: low carbon vehicles, energy efficiency in industry, renewable energy and low carbon buildings and urban design. In each of these areas Chinese businesses, supported by the Chinese government, are demonstrating solid progress*:
- Thirteen Chinese cities have signed up to a government scheme to purchase 13,000 electric vehicles (EVs) this year in total. The aim is to manufacture half a million EVs in China in 2011;
- The energy intensity of the Chinese economy has fallen by over 60% since 1980, and the government has set a goal of reducing it by a further 20% between 2005 and 2010;
- Internationally, mainland China supplies 30% of the world's solar PV technology (Greater China, including Taiwan, 40%); domestically, China is the largest wind power generator in Asia and fourth in the world;
- China's energy conservation goals include a 50% energy conservation standard for all new buildings and a 65% standard for new buildings in some major cities by 2010.
* China's Clean Revolution II draws on a wide range of sources, including government reports, independent academic analysis, news reports, interviews and informal conversations. While every effort has been made to present a balanced account with information corroborated where possible, some evidence - in particular the most recent information - is inevitably circumstantial.


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Union Pacific Railroad Urges Drivers to Drive Safely in Winter Weather
Omaha, Neb., December 11, 2013
With winter in full swing, Union Pacific Railroad reminds drivers to follow good winter driving habits and arrive safely at your destinations during this holiday season.
"Too many people have been injured or killed over the years driving too fast during winter weather conditions," said Ron Tindall, safety general manager at Union Pacific. "We want to remind drivers to slow down when winter weather conditions - snow and/or ice - are present on the roads."
"Reducing your speed and allowing plenty of time to come to a complete stop is especially important near grade crossings. It can take a mile or more to stop a train, and by the time a locomotive engineer sees you on the track, it is too late to stop. If you're driving too fast for the slick conditions you won't be able to stop in time to avoid running into the path of, or into the side of, a moving train at a crossing," added Tindall.
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, 271 people died and 930 were injured in 2012 in grade crossing incidents across the United States. The Department of Transportation studied accident reports over a 10-year period and found 94 percent of public grade crossing accidents were caused by risky driver behavior, such as driving around activated automatic gates. Union Pacific urges drivers and pedestrians to use caution near railroad tracks and offers the following rail safety tips:
- Expect a train and look both ways before crossing railroad tracks.
- Wait for trains and do not attempt to beat approaching trains.
- Avoid getting trapped on the railroad tracks by ensuring there is enough room on the other side for your vehicle to completely clear the tracks.
- Pedestrians should cross the tracks only at designated railroad crossings. (Where the street intersects with the tracks.)
- Never walk between the rails in other areas that are not designated railroad crossings.
- Avoid distractions such as loud music, texting or talking on cell phones when crossing the railroad tracks.
In an effort to educate the public about grade crossing and pedestrian safety, UP established the Union Pacific Crossing Accident Reduction Education and Safety (UP CARES) program, which brings together communities in a collaborative and caring effort to promote railroad grade crossing and pedestrian safety. Union Pacific is committed to fostering public safety through various outreach channels, such as community events, paid advertising and media outreach, education and enforcement activities and coordination with Operation Lifesaver. UP CARES activities include:
- Grade crossing enforcement with local, county and state law enforcement agencies;
- Safety trains that provide local officials a firsthand look at what locomotive engineers see daily while they operate trains through communities and
- Communication blitzes that educate the community at events, or via media outreach and paid advertising.
Do not become a statistic; slow down when there are winter weather conditions present and never race a train to the crossing.
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP). One of America's most recognized companies, Union Pacific Railroad links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. From 2007-2012, Union Pacific invested $18 billion in its network and operations to support America's transportation infrastructure, including a record $3.7 billion in 2012. The railroad's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Coal, Industrial Products and Intermodal. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways. Union Pacific provides value to its roughly 10,000 customers by delivering products in a safe, reliable, fuel-efficient and environmentally responsible manner.
Union Pacific media contact: Mark Davis, 402-544-5459 or firstname.lastname@example.com
The statements and information contained in the news releases provided by Union Pacific speak only as of the date issued. Such information by its nature may become outdated, and investors should not assume that the statements and information contained in Union Pacific's news releases remain current after the date issued. Union Pacific makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update any of this information.
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Lorna Elizabeth Tuck Colbert, the mother of The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert, died Wednesday, according to The Post and Courier. She was 92.
See who else we've lost this year
Last February, Stephen Colbert canceled two shows when his mother fell ill. "Evidentially, having 11 children makes you tough as nails," Colbert, the youngest of those 11, said at the time. "Confidential to a lovely lady."
According to her obituary, Lorna was an accomplished artist, church leader and business woman. Lorna lost her husband and two of her sons in a plane crash in 1974.


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Bond is back
First official picture from SKYFALL revealed
Posted 01.02.2012
First official shot released from SKYFALL of James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) from a scene set in Shanghai.
SKYFALL, from Albert R Broccoli's EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his third film as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007.
Joining Daniel Craig the cast includes Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw with Albert Finney and Judi Dench as M. The screenplay is written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Logan. SKYFALL will begin its worldwide roll-out later this year in the UK and Ireland on October 26th and in North America on November 9th.


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Eugene Palmer, 73.
A manhunt for a 73-year-old diabetic wanted for murder entered its fourth day Thursday as authorities in Rockland County, N.Y., looked for proof that their suspect was even in the state park they were searching.
"The woods are too thick for a general sweep," Haverstraw Police Chief Charles Miller said. "There are so many places to hide ... [Or] he could have made it to a road and gotten picked up by somebody, and he could be staying elsewhere."
Eugene Palmer, of Haverstraw, is accused of killing his estranged daughter-in-law, Tammy Palmer, 39, who lived in a trailer 50 feet from his house, The New York Times reported. His sister, Elaine Babcock, said he stopped by her nearby home Monday morning, gave her money for his property taxes, and then told her that he had killed Palmer before asking her to wait an hour before calling police.
But Babcock immediately called 911, The Journal News in New York's Hudson Valley reported. Officers said a separate 911 caller heard three gunshots coming from the home; they found Tammy Palmer, who has two teenage sons with Eugene's son, dead on the ground behind her trailer, NBCNewYork.com reported.
Authorities have been combing the thick woods of the 46,000-acre Harriman State Park, which spans Rockland County and Orange County, in their search for Palmer. They believe Palmer is armed with at least one shotgun; at a news conference at the state park on Wednesday, Haverstraw Police Chief Miller said there is also "a lone rifle missing from his house. I don't know if he has that."
So far, clues have been sparse in the manhunt for Palmer. On Tuesday, authorities found Palmer's abandoned pickup truck at Harriman State Park, The Journal News reported. And on Wednesday, police said dogs followed his scent to leftovers of a campfire close to the truck in an area of the park known as the Irish Potato Trail, but they lost his scent afterwards, Miller said in Wednesday's news conference.
About 30 officers from Haverstraw were looking for Palmer on Wednesday, and authorities from nearby jurisdictions were also participating. The Department of Defense was sending infrared helicopters to track Palmer's body heat, Miller told reporters.
His family does not know whether Palmer, who is a diabetic and who suffered a heart attack about a year ago, brought any medication with him.
"I'm hopeful he is still alive," Miller said, adding police would like to "hear his side of the story."
Part of what makes the search difficult is Palmer's familiarity with the area. According to New York Times, Palmer was known as a loner to his neighbors. He would frequently go into the woods to camp and hunt on his own.
Palmer's dislike for his daughter-in-law was obvious to family members.
"He's been trying to look out for the kids, and her being a mother, didn't want him butting in. But him being a grandfather, thought it was his place, so they started to aggravate and annoy each other," his sister, Babcock, said, according to NBCNewYork.com. She said the feuding also was related to marital problems between Tammy and Palmer's son.
Tammy Palmer and John Palmer had been married for about 17 years, John Pannirello, Tammy's father, told The New York Times, but they separated five months ago, and in the past few weeks, they had been in a custody battle over the kids.
"He's very coldhearted," Pannirello told The Times of Eugene Palmer. "The detective says he won't be surprised if something goes on between us and him, if he has guns with him. I just have a bad, bad feeling."
Haverstraw police confirmed on Thursday they were still searching for Palmer, but said they would provide more details on Thursday's efforts later in the day.
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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I have been given the opportunity to share my experience in caring for patients with breast cancer over these past years. I am a radiation oncologist at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital and meet More…
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As October brings renewed awareness and emphasis on breast cancer early detection and screening, an Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital patient felt compelled to share her experience as a reminder of the need to be diligent about mammograms and screenings. Here More…
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Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital welcomes sports cardiologist Jonathan H. Kim, MD, who recently opened a sports cardiology clinic on the Emory Saint Joseph's campus. The recently recognized sub-specialty of sports cardiology is rapidly growing worldwide. Kim is the first sports More…
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