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Starting in the 2010-2011 academic year, there are two tracks within the Film Studies minor. Students interested in film theory and/or film history should pursue the Film Analysis track. Those students interested in film production and/or screenplay writing should pursue the Film Production track.
All students pursuing an interdisciplinary minor in Film Studies are required to:
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During their senior year, students doing the Film Analysis track must either complete a Senior Project (EXP 194C) or take an additional film-related course from the Film Analysis elective list in which they can write a paper of at least 15 pages on a film-related topic (the CMS Course Option). Students doing a project must also take the CMS Senior Colloquium (EXP 190C), a half-year, half-credit, pass-fail course that assists them in developing their senior projects.
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During their senior year, students doing the Film Production track must complete a Senior Project that is either a film or screenplay. They must also take the CMS Senior Colloquium (EXP 190C), a half-year, half-credit, pass-fail course that assists them in developing their senior projects.
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It may possible for you to be placed on probation with the money being paid to the employer
If you are in another county, they may come to your home or place of employment. Otherwise, it means if you are stopped for a traffic violation, they can arrest you at that time. It depends on how badly they want you. But yes, they may, can and will come to your home
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We're just starting to scratch the surface of Pam's sordid human past and we're already intrigued.
Until now, little was known about her life prior to becoming a vampire in 1905. But it's not her job as a brothel madam that fascinates us so — it's how she breathed her last few human breaths.
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DAYTON, Ohio - Freshman Patrick Guinane drove in seven runs and senior Grant Fillipitch had five hits and three runs as the Butler baseball team finished the regular season with a doubleheader split at Wright State. The Bulldogs will enter the Horizon League Baseball Championship as the No. 5 seed.
Each game was a blowout, with Wright State taking the first game, 17-5, before Butler answered with a 15-4 win in the second game.
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WSU led 5-2 when it broke the game open by scoring eight runs in the bottom of the 5th inning. The Raiders scored at least one run in the first six innings and would score in seven of eight innings overall. Wright State had seven extra-base hits in the game, including two home runs.
The second game was all Butler, with the Dawgs taking control by scoring six times in the top of the 1st inning. The first three batters reached for BU, and a two-run single by Guinane made it 3-0. Moments later, senior Corey Moylan pulled a three-run homer to left. Moylan added an RBI double in the top of the 3rd for his fourth RBI of the day.
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Hugh needed to ace this interview with the mysterious SM, Inc. He had looked for work for over a year, and soon he'd have to drop some of his journal subscriptions. That would be tragic.
He was ushered into a small, undecorated office where a woman wearing a clingy, leopard-print dress greeted him. She rose to greet him, giving him a glimpse of long, athletic legs. "Welcome to SM. I'm Veta Patrick."
Hugh liked what he saw. He never expected a hiring manager to be gorgeous, but he'd be happy to work for one who was. He shook her hand and introduced himself.
She asked him questions about his undergraduate coursework, his graduate coursework, and his field expeditions.
Hugh enthusiastically answered, talking at length. He loved geophysics.
Veta leaned forward. "Your research project on geothermal energy was very unusual. Where did you get the idea?"
Hugh's heart started to race. Here it was. The reason he was kicked out of grad school. The reason he was blackballed from every scientific position. A former friend claimed he stole her research. The department's "Ethical Issues" seminar had made him an example faster than he could protest. He leaned forward and growled, "The idea was mine. Even if Dr. Patel and the rumors say it wasn't, the idea was mine."
Veta smiled. "We believe you, Hugh. And we believe in you. So we'd like to offer you this lab."
Surprised, Hugh pulled back his head. He had assumed this discussion would lead to another rejection. "You're offering me my own lab?"
"Do you like it, Hugh?"
Confused, Hugh looked around the small room. "This would be my lab?"
Veta waved to the large area outside the door. "That will be your lab. This will be your office."
Hugh was too stunned to speak.
Veta asked, "Do you have any other questions for me, Hugh?"
Hugh couldn't believe what he was hearing. There had to be a catch. "What would you expect me to do on a typical day?"
"Every morning you'd be asked to read a couple of papers. Every afternoon you'd be doing the research of your choice. You'd get a budget for your lab and a travel budget as well. Any other questions?"
Hugh stalled for time by asking, "What does SM stand for?"
Veta winked. "Some people think it has a secret meaning, but it's really just a meaningless acronym."
"It's got to stand for something if it's an acronym."
"Then you'll have to define it for yourself."
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After two months of reading "a couple of papers" a day, Hugh stopped reading them. He had found the catch. The papers were nonsense, a waste of his time. He needed to do some real research, to prove his brilliance. But, while the company provided plenty of nonsense papers for him to read and an excellent salary, they hadn't granted him any budget to outfit his lab. So he read from the journals and ate the fruit he brought in for himself. Today it was the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union and apples.
Hugh just about bit into an apple when Veta sauntered in, wearing a tight red sweater and short yellow skirt.
Hugh always enjoyed his visits from Veta.
"Hi, Hugh, I've brought you some more papers to read."
Hugh waved his hand towards a pile of papers. "Well, add them to the stack of manure. That's what SM stands for today."
He took a bite out of the apple and quickly spat it back out. There was a worm in it.
Veta put her hands on her hips. "Hugh, SM does not stand for stack of manure. And we're not paying you to pile up papers, we're paying you to read them."
"Have you ever tried to read them?" He snatched a paper off the top of the stack. "Just listen to this: 'Propulsion through Negative Friction' – it's nonsense, even high school students know the force of friction is opposite to the direction of motion." He tossed the paper on the floor and grabbed another paper off the stack. "Or this — 'Experiments show my book crumbles when sales accelerate'. It's just a word salad — random nonsense. Really, it's wasting my time. When do I get to do real science? You told me I'd get a budget, and equipment, and assistants, but all I seem to be getting is more stupid manuscripts. I've turned in two proposals, both of which have been ignored —"
Veta interrupted him. "Now, now, before you get too excited, I had another delivery for you as well." She held an envelope out to him. "You've received your budget for your lab, and you'll be able to spend it once you've worked your way through your stack of papers."
Hugh grabbed the envelope, ripped it open, and unfolded the document inside. His eyes widened as he looked at the budget. It was larger than his former advisor's. Hugh looked up at Veta. "If I read that," he pointed to the stack of papers, "I'll get this?"
Veta smiled, "That's right."
"Well, then, if you'll excuse me, I need to get to work. Today, SM stands for serious motivation."
* * *
Two months later, Hugh still hadn't received any equipment. He paced in his office. How could he prove his genius without the equipment he needed to do his research? He grabbed a grape out of his fruit bowl and popped it into his mouth.
He grimaced. It was a sour one. He had to find a better fruit stand.
A few minutes later, Veta strolled into his office, wearing a purple tunic over a pair of black tights.
Although her visits were usually the high point of his day, his frustration with the grape and the job spread to her, and he griped, "Veta, we need to talk. It's been two months since you told me that if I read through the stack of papers, SM would buy the lab equipment I asked for. Well, I read through the papers. I even read all the papers you've brought me since then. But I still don't have any lab equipment!"
"Now, Hugh, you know it takes time to get the equipment you requested."
"Some of it, yes, but not all of it! We should have gotten at least the furniture quite quickly, but we haven't. Has SM even ordered what I asked for?"
Veta sighed. "It's all been ordered, Hugh."
"Are you sure? Because I don't believe it. I'm starting to think SM stands for suckers manipulated, although I can't figure out why you'd want to pay me to read through worthless papers. Perhaps you're just a bunch of sadists that want to punish me, but I'm no masochist. I'm done reading these sheets of misfortune."
"We'd be sorry to see you leave, Hugh."
Hugh paused. He didn't actually want to quit. He needed the salary. No one else was going to hire him, at least not until he did something brilliant here. He needed this job; he just didn't need to be reading this silly material. "Why do I have to read these papers anyway? Where did they come from? They're not nearly good enough to be professional journal articles. They're not even good enough to be elementary school science fair papers. I could spend my time much more profitably reading real journal articles, like I do in the afternoon. Couldn't I do that instead?"
"Reading the papers is simply mandatory, Hugh," Veta said. "But I will work on expediting your equipment request if you decide to stay."
Hugh bowed his head. He was trapped. "Thank you."
* * *
One month later, one of the papers actually made sense. Or, at least, it made partial sense, but the equations weren't right.
Hugh thought he saw how they could be fixed. He started scribbling on the white board. He worked through the morning, afternoon, and night.
He stopped only once to eat a peach. It was sweet and juicy.
He savored it with the thought that this discovery was far more important than his grad school one. Geothermal energy may save people's money, but earthquake prediction would save people's lives.
When morning came, Veta swept in, wearing the clingy leopard-print dress that was his personal favorite.
Hugh was delighted to see her. "I got the greatest idea yesterday!" he said. "I think I've figured out a method to predict earthquakes. I've made you a list of equipment I need — it's on my side table."
Veta clapped her hands with delight. The look on her face was worth the hours of reading stacks of manuscripts. "That's wonderful, Hugh! And very exciting! Where'd you get this idea?"
Hugh went back to scribbling on the board. "It just came to me. Really, it seemed obvious once I saw it. Now I've just got to work through the details."
"Are you sure you didn't get it from these scientific manuscripts?"
Hugh snorted. "Those are a senseless mess. These," he waved at his equations on the board, "are scientifically marvelous. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to work."
* * *
Time flew as Hugh developed his idea. Over the next few months, he worked out the theory and got the equipment he asked for. The following year, he designed a device that could predict earthquakes and got assistants to help him develop it. He got to live the life of a brilliant scientist, eating and sleeping in his lab. He got a patent.
The best moment of all came three years later when his device successfully predicted an earthquake in Japan, saving thousands of lives. After that, he was interviewed by several popular science magazines. None of them asked about his graduate work.
He had achieved the recognition he was after. With this success, he thought he finally had built up enough ammunition to convince Veta that reading the daily stupid manuscripts was a waste of his time.
So, when Veta came with the next load of papers, Hugh said, "I have a question for you: do I still need to read these papers every day?"
Veta sighed. "Yes, Hugh, it's still mandatory."
"But why? My idea is making SM, Inc. a lot of money. Why would they want to spend my time on anything else?"
"Because they don't see it as a waste of your time. It could be a source of new, valuable ideas."
"The idea for predicting earthquakes was mine."
"You developed it, yes. But you and I both know you got the idea from a paper in your stack of manuscripts. The paper was wrong in many aspects, of course, but enough of it was right to get you going in the right direction."
"How did you know?"
"I reviewed the papers we gave you when you got the idea."
"Is that where all the ideas at SM come from?"
"Now that you've publicly claimed this idea as your own and aren't likely to reveal your source, I can tell you: yes. It's our secret mechanism."
"But how does it work? My idea is a totally new one."
"I assume you've heard the saying if you let enough monkeys type on typewriters, eventually they'll produce Hamlet?"
Hugh nodded.
"We figured it would be easier, and more profitable, to try to generate scientific papers instead. But instead of monkeys, we use computers, which are a lot faster and can even filter their own work to remove the absolute nonsense. But we still need scientists to search the papers for valid ideas. After all, it's highly unlikely the monkeys would generate a perfect version of Hamlet. It's much more likely they'd generate one of the many possible versions containing a lot of typos. And any decent writer could fix it from there. It's the same with our papers. You got one of the many possible versions with typos, but you were able to develop the idea from there."
Hugh thought he had done a lot more work than just read the papers. In fact, he thought getting ideas – whether by sharing margaritas with old friends or searching mountains of stupid manuscripts or even studying masterworks – was the easy part. Anyone could come up with ideas – geothermal energy, earthquake prediction, time travel, faster than light travel. That was easy. The hard part was to turn those ideas into reality. And he had done that. Twice. That was the valuable thing. He wanted Veta to realize that, too. "But the equations in the paper you gave me were wrong. I had to develop the idea. And that's the important part. That's where the real work is. So why keep the source of the papers a secret?"
"We don't want other companies stealing this idea."
"So does SM stand for secret mechanism?"
Veta laughed. "No, it stands for Shakespeare's monkeys."
Hugh scratched his head. "So who are the monkeys, the computers or us?"
"Does it matter who the monkeys are as long as we are successful millionaires in the end?"
Hugh thought there would be nothing better than being a successful millionaire with Veta. And if he had to keep reading the stupid manuscripts, she had to keep bringing them to him. Perhaps they could go from single to married. He smiled and shook his head. "I'm happy to be a monkey." He reached into his fruit bowl. "Want a banana?"
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Drake Addresses Rihanna Dating Rumors: "I'm Not Into Do-Overs"
Drake appeared on Ellen on September 20, and the love of our lives (Ellen, that is) was quick to ask the hip hop star about something we've all been wondering about: What's the deal with the Rihanna dating rumors?
But because she's the queen of talk, Ellen DeGeneres was able to get not just that info out of him, but a short and hilarious dating history in general. Last we heard, the equally single Rihanna and Drake were hanging out, possibly canoodling before the MTV Video Music Awards in Brooklyn at the end of August. So, what did he have to say about the matter?
Well, Ellen set it up as a super fun game. "You're a very private person," she said before kicking off a game in which she showed a picture of a famous, rumored dating partner of Drake's and asked him for the scoop. First up? Rihanna.
"Yeah, great girl…" Drake hedged. Adding, "We had our moment. Always support and have love for her and yeah …" Um, so what does that mean about the present then? Well, he didn't say exactly, but he definitely hinted pretty hard.
Rihanna certainly meant a whole lot to Drake in the past. In 2011, the rapper told Elle of his relationship with the singer, "At the time it hurt, but she didn't mean to. I'll never put that on her. I was hurt because I started to slowly realize what it was. I guess I thought it was more. That was the first girl with any fame that paid me any mind. You spend days reading about this person in the magazines. All of a sudden you have this number-one song and you're at some birthday party and there she is. And you're just some naive kid from Toronto staying in some s****y-ass hotel who got invited to this party on a whim. That's just how it happened."
After pausing nervously, he told Ellen, "I heard myself saying something else and I know I'm going to watch it back and be like, 'That wasn't what I thought I said...'" Ellen, willing to change it up to get the best answer, offered a do-over to the star.
And here's the kicker: Drake said, candidly, "I'm not into do-overs." Adding, "In any way." And then, for good measure — and to fuel our fires that we know exactly what he means — he added "Which is an ironic thing to say."
Ellen, likewise, seemed confident that Drake was saying exactly what we think he was saying, concluding "Yeah, that answers my question," Ellen said, moving on to the next pictures.
Nicki Minaj's photo was up next, and Drake commented, "Yeah, me and Nicki are like family … We haven't really shared an intimate moment."As for America's Next Top Model hostest with the mostest, Tyra Banks, Drake said, adorably, "Geeze. I went on a date with her one time … it was just one date, we went to Disneyland in disguise, actually, which was fun. I don't know if it was a date. It was like a get together. We're close as well."
And what about Kim Kardashian? "No, no, no. What's going on here?!" Drake laughed.
Lastly, Ellen asked about 2 Broke Girls star Kat Dennings, who Drake seems to have been smitten with in the past. "I just always had a huge crush on Kat Dennings. She was kind enough one night to go out with me, we had dinner."So, what's his deal now? Is he dating anyone? "I'm not, I'm single, I'm ready to mingle. The album's done, I've got free time … Well, I'm about to go on tour, but I have a couple months after that … I'm open to, you know."
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The actress took home an estimated $275,000 an episode on the latest season of Private Practice, the Grey's Anatomy spin-off that Walsh recently confided to Bethenny Frankel would becoming to an end next year. But after seven years of playing Dr. Addison Shepard, Walsh has new projects up her sleeve. She'll star in the upcoming The Perks of Being a Wallflower alongside Emma Watson and Paul Rudd this fall and her fragrances, Boyfriend and Billionaire Boyfriend did more then $2.5 million in sales between May 2011 and May 2012. Walsh owns the company outright. Total earnings: $8 million.
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|The International Rescue Committee helped this family from Myanmar resettle in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2011. This photo was snapped in snowy Park City, Utah, where the parents were applying for jobs with a ski resort. Photo: Josh Lloyd/IRC
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I have a small test framework. It executes a loop which does the following:
Generate a small Haskell source file.
Execute this with
runhaskell. The program generates various disk files.
Process the disk files just generated.
This happens a few dozen times. It turns out that
runhaskell is taking up the vast majority of the program's execution time.
On one hand, the fact that
runhaskell manages to load a file from disk, tokenise it, parse it, do dependency analysis, load 20KB more text from disk, tokenise and parse all of this, perform complete type inference, check types, desugar to Core, link against compiled machine code, and execute the thing in an interpreter, all inside of 2 seconds of wall time, is actually pretty damned impressive when you think about it. On the other hand, I still want to make it go faster. ;-)
Compiling the tester (the program that runs the above loop) produced a tiny performance difference. Compiling the 20KB of library code that the scripts link against produced a rather more noticeable improvement. But it's still taking about 1 second per invocation of
The generated Haskell files are just over 1KB each, but only one part of the file actually changes. Perhaps compiling the file and using GHC's
-e switch would be faster?
Alternatively, maybe it's the overhead of repeatedly creating and destroying many OS processes which is slowing this down? Every invocation of
runhaskell presumably causes the OS to explore the system search path, locate the necessary binary file, load it into memory (surely this is already in the disk cache?), link it against whatever DLLs, and fire it up. Is there some way I can (easily) keep one instance of GHC running, rather than having to constantly create and destroy the OS process?
Ultimately, I suppose there's always the GHC API. But as I understand it, that's nightmarishly difficult to use, highly undocumented, and prone to radical changes at every minor point release of GHC. The task I'm trying to perform is only very simple, so I don't really want to make things more complex than necessary.
Update: Switching to
GHC -e (i.e., now everything is compiled except the one expression being executed) made no measurable performance difference. It seems pretty clear at this point that it's all OS overhead. I'm wondering if I could maybe create a pipe from the tester to GHCi and thus make use of just one OS process...


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15 Amusing Tweets About Americans Moving to Canada Because of the Election
UPDATE: Obama won. Guess most people will be staying in America.
With the U.S. election still undecided Mashable has assembled a list of 15 Funny 'Moving to Canada' Tweets for Election Night. Here's a sample:
Others include, "If Mitt gets elected AND doesn't coin the term Romneypresent, I'm double moving to Canada" and "If the wrong person wins tomorrow I'm moving to Canada."


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What are you're 10 favorite rap songs? If you don't like rap, please keep it to yourself.
#1 Can I get a-Jay Z
#2 What's Beef-Biggie
#3 Murder was the case-Snoop
#4 Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos/Rebel without a pause-Public Enemy
#5 Nuthin but a G thing-Dre
#6 I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)-Jay Z
#7 Posse in Effect/Root Down-Beastie Boys
#8 Trill-Clipse
#9 Gravel Pit-Wu-Tang
#10 Insane in the brain-Cypress Hill
In no order. As you can tell, I'm a little older so my tastes reflect that.
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One of my favs:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_089EURkNo]YouTube - Lil' Troy - Wanna Be A Baller[/ame]
Used to listen to a little NWA and Eazy E back in the days too. Been so long since I've listened to a lot of rap I can't even remember some of them rightn now.
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You said "favorite" and "rap songs" in the same sentence. Almost like saying "favorite Country and Western songs".
Guess I'm just the wrong generation...
This could be a very entertaining thread (get my shareaza fired up) or it could be very short! LOL.
#1 Walk This Way - Run DMC/Aerosmith
That's it for me. I don't think I know another 9 songs. Oh wait, maybe a little Salt n Pepa
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Some of these may not be true rap, more hip-hop, but anyway...
Country Grammar - Nelly
I'll Call Before I Come - Outkast
Get Down (Like a Pimp) Remix - David Banner ft. Twista and Busta Rhymes
Southern Hospitality - Ludacris
Area Codes - Ludacris
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-Lot
Right Thurr - Chingy
Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve
Where the Party At - Jagged Edge
Po' Folks - Nappy Roots
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Anything from Run DMC or the Fat Boys.
no 2pac songs mentioned, this thread is terrible
Whatever happened to JaRule? He still out there? Great voice...
Mine should give away my age a bit too and will lean heavily to one group that I still like to listen to today. I just wish they wouldn't have put out their last album or two.
1. Foe The Love of $ - Bone
2. The Crossroads - Bone
3. Look Into My Eyes - Bone
4. Juicy - B.I.G.
5. Notorious Thugs - B.I.G./Bone
6. I Ain't Mad At Cha - Tupac
7. Your Sister - TQ
8. Laughing At You - Big Punisher
9. It's So Hard - Big Punisher
10. Put It On Me - Ja Rule
These are in no order as well and don't really represent my top 10 but are probably close.
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Whatever happened to JaRule? He still out there? Great voice...
I took care of you, most of these songs just remind me of good times in my life and where I was at the time.
Anything MF DOOM or Madvillain or Viktor Vaughn or DANGERDOOM (all aliases of the same MC but with different producers). 2004's "Madvillainy" album is probably my favorite hip-hop album of all time. Completely different from mainstream rap though... no hooks/choruses, very short songs, obscure samples, etc. His lyrical skills and flow are amazing, though. I'd suggest to check it out, even if you are normally not a big rap fan.
In no particular order:
Things Done Changed - Notorious B.I.G.
Brothaz - Mr. Lif
ShoYoA** - The Coup
The Grind Date - De La Soul
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo - A Tribe Called Quest
The Light - Common
So Far to Go - J Dilla
The Next Movement - The Roots
Hoe Cakes - MF Doom
Accordian - Madvillain
Run-DMC - It's Tricky
Run-DMC - Peter Piper
Salt 'n Pepa - Push It
The Knux - Life In A Cage (Electric)
The Knux - Fire (Put It In The Air)
Plastilina Mosh - Nino Bomba
Anything by the Beasties (although I wouldn't really consider them rap)
The Wild Thing - Tone Loc
Standard suburban white boy 80's stuff, plus a few others I've come across recently. I love The Knux.
1.Back to the Hotel - N2Deep
2.Nothin But a G Thing - Dre
3.Whats My Name - Snoop
4.Next Episode - Dre and Snoop
5.Regulate - Warren G
6.Hypnotize - Biggie
7.Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
8.Can I Get A - Jay Z
9.Gravel Pit - Wu Tang
10.No Diggity - Blackstreet
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What is a Comprehensive Plan?
As defined by the American Planning Association, a comprehensive plan is a long-range policy document that addresses a wide variety of interconnected social, environmental, and economic topics; provides legal, political, and logical rationale behind a community's development and settlement patterns; and shapes long-term decision making for a jurisdiction over a 20-year time frame.
Why is the City Preparing a Comprehensive Plan?
In 2012, the City of Rock Island was awarded a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to prepare a forward thinking comprehensive plan that promotes the following sustainability principals:
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- Recommend appropriate types of land use for specific areas of the City.
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- Preserve natural, cultural, and agricultural resources in and around the City.
Once adopted, the plan will function as a blueprint for City staff and local decision makers to help them achieve long-term community objectives.
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Nathan Brown lavished praise on Danny Brough after the stand-off guided Huddersfield Giants to a 30-16 win over London Broncos in the capital.
Brough scored a length-of-the-field try, conjured up two others and booted 10 points to guide the visitors to a hard-fought triumph.
And Giants coach Brown was a happy man after seeing his side make it three wins from four Stobart Super League games this campaign. He said: "If Danny had been playing for the opposition there is no doubt we would have lost that game today.
"Sometimes you need that bit of individual brilliance to get you over the line and Danny gave us that today.
"There are going to be games like this and it is that extra talent that gets you the win.
"We were not at our best today but we came here to get the win and we got the win."
It was the hosts who were fastest out of the blocks and they took a deserved early lead when Antonio Kaufusi barged over from close range.
But after dominating that opening spell, the Londoners were rattled when Brough intercepted a lofted Michael Witt pass and raced away to draw the sides level.
Minutes later Leroy Cudjoe cashed in after a Brough spill confused the Broncos defence and suddenly it was the Giants who had their tails up.
A Brough penalty and a Kevin Brown score right after the break opened up a healthy lead, and although Kaufusi and Jamie O'Callaghan touched down for the hosts further Huddersfield tries from Joe Wardle and Cudjoe again saw the Giants home.
London coach Rob Powell said: "I though physically we were the stronger team, but we lacked that bit of polish.
"When you have yet to win a game confidence can be lacking and I thought we tried to force things a bit too much today.
"We had three tries disallowed, and rightly so, but that shows how close this game was.
"I thought at times our play was a bit erratic and that let us down," he said.
"If we keep performing like we did today the wins will come, but we will have to start all over again next week."
London Broncos: Robertson, Dixon, O'Callaghan, Howell, Colbon, Witt, Gower, Kaufusi, Randall, Bryant, Golden, Bailey, Clubb. Substitutes: Melling, Dorn, B. Bolger, Krasniqi.
Huddersfield: Murphy, McGillvary, Cudjoe, Wardle, George, Brough, Grix, Crabtree, Robinson, Gilmour, Fairbank, Chan, Brown. Substitutes: Mason, Faiumu, Patrick, Lunt.
Referee: T Roby (RFL).


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The University of Iowa men's and women's cross country teams will compete in their second meet of the 2011 season Friday at the Iowa Invitational. The Hawkeyes will compete against the University of Northern Iowa at the Ashton Cross Country Course. The men's 8K event will begin at 6 p.m. before the women's 3K at 6:30 p.m.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams competed in the Iowa Open against the Illinois State Redbirds. The men's team took first place in the event. Hawkeye All-American junior Jeff Thode won the men's 6K event with a time of 19:01. The Iowa women's team took second. The top finisher for the Hawkeyes was junior Kelsey Hart with a time of 14:42.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams posted dual victories at the 2010 Iowa Invitational. The men and women posted wins over Wichita State and Northern Iowa, respectively. Jeff Thode won the men's 8K event with a time of 25:05. Sam Balin finished third with a time of 25:39. James Paul rounded out the top five with a time of 25:59. Brooke Eilers was the top finisher for the Hawkeyes. She placed second in the women's 3K event with a time of 10:15. Betsy Flood finished third with a time of 10:18, while McKenzie Melander finished fifth with a time of 10:26.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams are ranked in the USTFCCCA week one Regional rankings. The Hawkeye men's team is ranked seventh in the Midwest Region and the women's team is ranked third. Nationally, the women's team improved upon their preseason ranking. The Hawkeyes are now 27th overall, up one spot from number 28.
The Hawkeye women's team is looking to its seniors for experience. Betsy Flood was an all-region and second-team All-Big Ten selection last season while Brooke Eilers and McKenzie Melander both have NCAA Championship experience.
Junior Jeff Thode has been Iowa's top finisher in 12-of-13 career races, including the last eight meets. The Schaumburg, Ill, native earned All-America honors last season and has been the Hawkeyes' top finisher in each of the last two NCAA Midwest Regionals.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams welcome an outstanding freshman class. The women's team welcomes Kayla Beattie, a USA Today All-USA high school track and field team selection and a 2011 Pan-Am Games participant. The Hawkeye men's team welcomes Kevin Lewis, Evan Selsor, and Ben Witt. The three finished second, fifth, and 10th, respectively, in the Iowa Open.


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Animal rights groups are asking Gov. Rick Scott to veto a measure that would do away with a nearly 50-year old prohibition on dyeing animals.
Lawmakers passed the bill (HB 1197) this week over the objection of a handful of those who objected that the ban is needed to keep colored bunnies, chicks and ducklings from popping up in kids' Easter baskets then abandoned months later when their cuteness wears off.
Senate bill sponsor Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, said she filed the measure at the request of a pet groomer who wants to be able to dye dogs for competitions.
But PETA and the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida have sent action alert to their members and today asked Scott to use his red pen to kill the bill, saying coloring farm animals for Easter treats is a "death sentence" for the critters.
"Blue and pink bunnies and chicks may appeal to children, who will pester their parents to purchase them, but dyeing these small animals can be a death sentence for the animals as every humane agency in the country well knows," PETA Vice President Daphna Nachminovich said in a press release. Read PETA's letter to Scott here.
The abandoned animals will crowd the state's already overburdened animal shelters, PETA argues.


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BOSTON Days after the Boston area was effectively locked down during the search for the surviving marathon bombing suspect, 91 percent of Massachusetts residents said they supported authorities' manhunt shelter-in-place request, a poll conducted at the time found.
Now, on the one-year anniversary, public backing for the controversial shutdown has waned slightly, but still a strong majority of residents — 83 percent — agree with the decision.
The finding comes from a new poll of 501 Massachusetts residents. The question was commissioned by WBUR as part of a larger MassINC Polling Group telephone survey, in an attempt to gauge how views might have changed since last year's deadly bombing and gripping manhunt, when emotions were raw throughout the region.
While 83 percent said they support the shelter-in-place, 10 percent said the lockdown was the wrong decision. Two percent answered "both/depends," and 6 percent said they didn't know.
It's the third time the MassINC Polling Group has asked about the shelter-in-place entreaty. In addition to the April 2013 survey and the new poll, in October of last year 84 percent said that the shutdown was the right decision, and 10 percent said it was the wrong decision.
Gov. Deval Patrick requested that residents across the Boston area stay indoors early on April 19, 2013, after one suspect, later identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed amid a shootout in Watertown, and the location of the other suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was unknown.
Regional public transit shut down, and schools were closed. Streets were largely deserted.
A security expert interviewed by NPR called the scope of the shelter-in-place "incredible."
While many labeled it prudent, authorities' order had some critics. One observer, for instance, wrote that "[e]mpty streets provide their own kind of trauma."
But Juliette Kayyem, a former homeland security adviser to Patrick (and now a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts governor), called the poll results a "pleasant surprise."
In an interview, Kayyem — who supported her former boss' shelter-in-place request, but called for a review to glean lessons learned — spoke about the unique communal circumstances of last year's events, likening them to the response after natural disasters.
She added that the request "was really about relieving [overworked] public safety officers."
"Seen in the light of, well, what you're really just doing is relieving a lot of public resources, seen in that light, then it doesn't feel like a lockdown, and that's why it feels OK a year later," Kayyem said. "And that's why these polling numbers seem very consistent with what we see after natural disasters. And I think that says something about how our leadership talked about it and how Bostonians experienced it."
A second poll question commissioned by WBUR found similar year-over-year movement among respondents' views on whether authorities find the right balance between investigating terrorism and protecting constitutional rights.
In the days after the manhunt, 48 percent said they were more worried the government will not go far enough to investigate terrorism because of concerns about rights, while 36 percent said they were more worried authorities will go too far in compromising rights.
Now, 44 percent of poll respondents said they were more worried the government will not go far enough in its investigation, compared with 42 percent who said they're more worried authorities will go too far in order to prevent terrorism.
The MassINC poll, conducted from April 3-6, has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
4/19 Update: For more on the poll results, see the crosstabs here. For instance:
– Female respondents (88 percent) supported the shelter-in-place more than male respondents (78 percent).
– Backing for the order cut across party identification, with Democrats (85 percent), Republicans (87 percent) and independents (84 percent) all supporting the request.
– The outer Boston suburbs backed the shelter-in-place most (90 percent), with southeastern Massachusetts the most critical (71 percent support).


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State police have identified a masked intruder who was fatally shot in a Hunlock Creek home invasion Tuesday.
Robert Muntz, 44, of Sweet Valley, was killed at 59 Old Tavern Road, said Trooper Tom Kelly, spokesman for state police at Wyoming. In March 2009, Muntz was one of 22 charged in connection with a drug ring allegedly operated by the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
A female occupant of the home was shot Tuesday, but was expected to survive, police said.
Witnesses told investigators three masked people -two males and a female - entered the home around 11:39 a.m. prompting an exchange of gunfire.
"Right now, we're treating it as a home invasion with shots fired," said Kelly.
The female victim shot the intruder, police said. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The two other alleged intruders fled in a car and remain at large.
"At this point, we have two people who fled the scene. They were allegedly wearing masks and left in a vehicle. We have troopers canvassing the area looking for evidence and any people. So yeah, we'd ask neighbors to remain in their homes, stay secure and be leery of any strangers right now," Kelly said.
Anyone with information is asked to call state police at Shickshinny at 570-542-7105.
In March 2009, authorities seized more than 40 pieces of evidence - including gallons of hydrochloric acid and drain cleaner, glass jars and funnels - and 10 guns from Muntz's Nanticoke home, according to Times-Shamrock archives.
Muntz was charged with delivery of methamphetamine, manufacturing methamphetamine and criminal use of a communication facility in connection with the probe into the Ashley-based Outlaws Motorcycle Club, the local affiliate of a dangerous nationwide biker gang.
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It's easier to get forgiveness than permission
According to my dad, that's something they say in the Navy.
In an institution in which, literally, everyone's job has a manual covering every possible eventuality, you really can't get an exception made for your brilliant idea. (What if the boat sinks?!) So, if you've got a brilliant idea: it's easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Here's one of my favorite stories of clever rule-breaking. From a Harvard Business Review interview with Kenneth Cole:
In the early 1980s, there were two ways of addressing shoe buyers. One could take a room at the Hilton Hotel with about 1,100 other companies, where the buyers would walk all the rooms. Or one could take a big fancy showroom near the hotel. I didn't really have the resources to afford either. So, on a whim, I called a friend who was in the trucking business and asked to borrow one of his 40-foot trailers. Then I called the mayor's office and said, "Excuse me, how does one get permission to park a trailer on the corner of Sixth Avenue and 56th Street?" And they said, "Sorry, son, they don't. This is New York. You get permission only under two circumstances: If you're a utility company servicing our streets, or if you're a production company shooting a full-length motion picture.) So I hung up the phone and changed the name of my company to Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., and the following morning I filed for a permit to shoot a motion picture called The Birth of a Shoe Company. I opened for business on December 2nd. I had a cameraman, stanchions, and klieg lights. Within two and a half days, I had sold 40,000 pairs of shoes. And the company today is still Kenneth Cole Productions to remind us of the importance of resourcefulness and problem solving, and that the best solution is rarely the most expensive and almost always the most creative.
Apparently, you can do anything if you make a movie of it. Or, more generally, if you exploit the rules for all they're worth.
See Bullish: How to Sell Without Selling for a less impressive (but still clever, I think) story about marketing a business with no money.
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And yet, I've enjoyed researching and writing this column. Molly and I often talk about how you can't make it in the art world if all you want to do is make art -you're running a business, and it takes a fiendish work ethic and the willingness to look outside your own field for ideas and expertise.
The fashion world seems to operate in much the same way: unless you're born into a famed fashion family, you'll have a hard time making it in fashion if all you care about is fashion.
As always, the magic ingredients are an undeniable expertise in your field (generally developed through difficult and solitary single-mindedness), surrounded by a penumbra of fiendish hard work, networking skills, marketing acumen, comfort discussing and asking for money, ballsiness, and willingness to circumvent rules and requirements for a higher purpose.
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Earlier police erect roadblocks in Sharon area after receiving alerts that suicide bomber on his way to Israel to carry out attack; no explosives device found as of yet
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Israel Police have lifted the alert in the Sharon area Wednesday afternoon after erecting roadblocks earlier at the entrances to Kfar Saba and nearby towns following warnings that a suicide bomber infiltrated the country.
During the morning hours a manhunt for the terrorist was conducted in the area.
Police are looking into the possibility that the terrorist was driven to Israel in a car that was later abandoned in the Arab-Israeli town of Kfar Qassem; no explosives device has been located as of yet.
Police erected roadblocks at entrances to cities in the Sharon area around 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday for fear that a suicide bomber has infiltrated Israel to carry out an attack in Kfar Saba.


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There's likely not all that much left of "Community." While it was picked up for a fourth season by the skin of its teeth, the cult NBC comedy has been moved to the Friday night death slot, and will be without most of its key behind-the-scenes personnel, including creator Dan Harmon and directors the Russo Brothers, who've gone off to make "Captain America 2." Bad news for fans of the show, then, but good news for those who long since recognized that it was bursting at the seams with talent who would go on to big-screen fare. Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Donald Glover and Jim Rash are all starting to make waves in the movie world, and it looks like Gillian Jacobs will be the next to join them. The 29-year-old Pennsylvania native first came to notice in two dark 2008 dramas: the harrowing "Gardens of the Night," with John Malkovich, and Clark Gregg's Chuck Palahniuk adaption "Choke," with Sam Rockwell. Soon after that, she was cast in "Community," and at first, she seemed decent, but in something of a weak part -- Britta Perry was envisioned mostly as a straight woman and a love interest for McHale's Jeff Winger. But Harmon & co swiftly realized that Jacobs was capable of much more, and over time Britta's evolved into the M.V.P. of the recent third season: a would-be-rebel whose own self-interest and incompetence has made her referred to as 'the worst' by pretty much every other character on the show. From locking herself in a cage to protest the model U.N to proving the world's least proficient war photographer, she's been a consistent delight in the last couple of seasons. And the movies are starting to take notice; she'll be seen in a few weeks in "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World," and has a few indies bubbling about too, including "Sin Bin" and "Teddy Bears." And after narrowly missing out on the lead in "The Dictator" to Anna Faris, she's venturing into studio territory for the first time too, as a magic groupie alongside Steve Carell and Jim Carrey in the promising-sounding "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." Assuming "Community" doesn't somehow find an audience by this time next year, there should be much more film work where that came from after that.
Nearly 40 years into its run, "Saturday Night Live" is at one of its occasional changing of the guards. Kristin Wiig and Andy Samberg, who've been the major breakouts on the show of the last few years, are leaving to pursue movie careers, with Jason Sudeikis looking likely to join them soon. As such, some of the existing cast members are likely to step up in a big way, and the most likely candidate looks to be 30-year-old Taran Killam. The actor (who is the great-nephew of "Untouchables" star Robert Stack, and is engaged to Cobie Smulders of "The Avengers" and "How I Met Your Mother") actually had an extensive career before joining the SNL roster, as a cast member on "MADtv" aged only 19, and a regular on Nick Cannon sitcom "Wild 'N Out," along with a recurring role on the last couple of seasons of "Scrubs," and small parts in rom-coms "Just Married" and "My Best Friend's Girl." But the Groundlings vet impressed swiftly once he joined "Saturday Night Live" two years ago, thanks to dead on impressions of the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael Cera and Eminem, as well as being central to some of the more memorable recurring sketches of late, "Les Jeunes De Paris" and "J-Pop America Fun Time Now." He's a true versatility player, capable of playing straight roles and far-out characters, and is nearly certain to graduate to become a full time Rep player in the next season, and will likely make even more of an impression. He further won over comedy fans with a killer guest spot savaging "Glee" on the Christmas episode of "Community," but he's getting his big-screen break in a much more surprising venue: he recently joined the astonishing cast of Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years A Slave," alongside Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt (who presumably approves of Killam's impression, given that he's the film's producer), Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Ruth Negga, Garret Dillahunt and Scoot McNairy, among many others. It's a smallish role -- of a circus employee responsible for capturing Ejiofor's lead character -- but it's a serious compliment to be included among a line up like that, and suggests that comedy is only the beginning of his talents.
Aside from hooking more and more viewers all over the world into their ever-growing cults, "Downton Abbey" and "Game Of Thrones," while about as polar opposite as two shows could be, have something in common: their vast, expansive casts are single-handedly staving off unemployment in the British acting industry. And they have something else in common, too: 25-year-old actress Rose Leslie, who's had scene-stealing parts in both. Leslie (whose parents are Scottish aristocrats, who live in a castle near Aberdeen that's been the family home for 500 years) graduated from prestigious drama school LAMDA (whose alumni include Benedict Cumberbatch, Dominic Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor and John Lithgow) in 2008, and swiftly booked a role in Annie Griffin's acclaimed TV drama "New Town," which won her a New Talent award at the Scottish BAFTAs. Soon after, she filmed a new costume drama to be called "Downton Abbey," in which she played Gwen Dawson, a maid with dreams of moving out of service and becoming a secretary. the character, and her friendship with Jessica Brown-Findlay's Lady Sybil, was one of the highlights of the first season of the show, but by the time the shows became a monster hit, Leslie had already moved on, appearing on the stage at the Globe Theater in the new play "Bedlam." Appearances on cop shows "Case Histories," with Jason Isaacs, and "Vera," with Brenda Blethyn, followed, and then halfway through season two, she cropped up unannounced as Ygritte, a wildling girl held captive by Jon Snow (Kit Harrington), before turning the tables on him. It was about as far from her last major role as you could get (bar a certain feistiness in both), and yet Leslie nailed both, especially the latter; her flirtatious, wild scenes with Jon Snow were the only time the sometimes-dull character's storyline really came alive. She still had her head at the end of Season Two, so should be around for at least a little longer into the third season, which begins filming soon, but she's also spent the interim on her first role, starring alongside Dakota Fanning, Olivia Williams, Paddy Considine and Jeremy Irvine in weepie "Now Is Good." It'll be the first of many big-screen roles, we'd wager.
Some cable dramas -- HBO and Showtime in particular -- are highly star-driven. AMC have generally taken a different path, with lesser-known names leading the likes of "Mad Men" and "The Walking Dead." "Breaking Bad" did have a star name, of a sort, with Bryan Cranston going firmly against type as the mild-mannered chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin. But a less familiar face became just as important to the show over time, in the shape of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman, and the 32-year-old actor looks like he's on the verge of further big-screen success very soon. Paul had a brace of big-screen roles early on, including small parts in "K-Pax," "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" and "Mission Impossible III" (he plays Michelle Monaghan's drunken brother in a brief scene in the latter), and recurred on HBO drama "Big Love" across its five seasons. And then came "Breaking Bad." Jesse, a meth-cooking, whiteboy dropout, was meant to be killed off in the first seven-episode season, but creator Vince Gilligan soon found that he couldn't do without him, and Pinkman was spared, and it's impossible to think of how the show would be without him; he's given a consistently astonishing performance, which saw him pick up an Emmy in 2010. Film roles have been scarcer since the series got underway, with only one of the bad guys in "Last House On The Left" to his name. But as the series has grown in popularity, he's become more and more in-demand on screen. He's wrapped indies "Quad" and "Decoding Annie Parker," in the latter of which he plays the husband of Samantha Morton's title character, while he got rave reviews at Sundance for "Smashed," in which he and Mary Elizabeth Winstead play a young alcoholic married couple -- Sony Pictures Classics are putting it out later in the year in the hopes of an awards run. And he's starting to break down the door to the mainstream too; he was one of the final contenders to play John McClane's son in "A Good Day To Die Hard." While he would have been great in the role, we're secretly a little glad that he'll have the opportunity to take on more interesting roles, particularly once "Breaking Bad" winds down next year.


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The Seattle Shakespeare Company updates "The Merchant of Venice" to the era of the stock-market crash of 1929, in a production directed by L.A. theater director John Langs and starring his wife, television actress Klea Scott. The play will be at Center House Theatre at Seattle Center through April 5.
"The Merchant of Venice"
Though based in L.A., John Langs is a leading Seattle director. (His raved-about 2008 version of "The Adding Machine" provides plenty of evidence of that.)
And for his gig mounting "The Merchant of Venice" for Seattle Shakespeare Company, updated in timely fashion to the era of the 1929 stock-market crash, Langs brought along wife Klea Scott, who plays Portia.
Langs and Scott met in the 1990s as students at the North Carolina School of the Arts. This is their first Shakespeare outing together, but both have classical chops — though most recently, Scott spent two years starring in "Intelligence," a riveting Canadian TV drama series about domestic espionage.
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"I've wanted to work in Seattle, and this was a way we could be together, after spending so much time apart," Scott noted in a recent interview. Added Langs: "Part of my secret agenda was to get Klea up here to meet some of the Seattle theater artists I love."
So why not stay? "If I could wave a magic wand, and there was an artistic job in Seattle I'd be right for," he said with a laugh. "I'd love for us to live here."
After previews starting tonight, "The Merchant of Venice" opens Friday and plays Thursdays-Sundays through April 5 at Center House Theatre, Seattle Center; $22-$36 (206-733-8222 or www.seattleshakespeare.org).
Misha Berson, Seattle Times theater critic


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