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Hi there I wonder if there is a list of which characters can be found where? Im thinking where they are in which parks as well as which restaurants they appear in? Has anyone come across anything like that? thanx x
Hi there I wonder if there is a list of which characters can be found where? Im thinking where they are in which parks as well as which restaurants they appear in? Has anyone come across anything like that? thanx x
we saw mickey and minnie, donald and daisy at mk and ak. winnie the pooh and gang we found at ak. chip and dale we found at epcot but we also saw them at mk. buzz and woody and other cgi characters we found at hs. jungle book characters were at ak. i didnt know before hand where the characters were going to be, but we found a lot of them by chance and i didnt expect to. i booked some character meals before hand so i knew the kids [and me!] would see the main characters.
#1. On the Times guide at the front of each park, it will list fixed meet & greet areas. A handy piece of paper to have as it will also have attraction, parade, restaurant, and fireworks times.
#2. Check the WDW website. If a restaurant has a character meal, it will list the characters (i.e. Cinderella's Royal Table, Chef Mickey's, etc.) If you would like to do a character meal, make advanced reservations as these tend to always be booked solid.
#3. Keep your eyes open. A lot of times, Cast Members will have random characters stopped throughout the park.
#4. At MK - I've meet Peter Pan by the new entrance to Philharmagic, The Faiy Godmother by the Cinderella Fountain, The Wicked Stepsisters in Belle's Garden, Snow White by the Jack & The Beanstalk gift shop. The princesses have been moved to the entrance of Adventureland, in Town Square Hall I've meet Alice & The White Rabbit, Peter Pan, Snow White, Pinnochio (and I think that's where they've moved M&M), Tigger & Pooh are over by the Pooh ride, by the main street flag pole you can see Goofy, Pluto, D&D (they rotate them out), in Tomorrowland you can meet Buzz & Stitch by the Carousel of Progress, after the block party in TL you can meet Stitch, Chip & Dale, and Pluto, you can meet Woody & Jesse in Frontierland by Splash Mountain, I've seen Aladdin by the Aladdin ride in Adventureland (and he rode the ride with a lucky little boy!) Captain Jack does a show across from POTC and the kids can be a part of the show.
#5. At Epcot - just in front of Spaceship earth they usually have one character out at park opening. Usually it's Daisy. There is a meet & greet area w/ M&M, Donald, and Pluto in Innovations West, on the way to World Showcase, there is now (during the Flower and Garden Fest) there is a Fairies meet & greet (Vidia was there when I went past) beside Mouse Gear, I've meet the Queen of Hearts by the giant fountain (sometimes they have random characters there, just across from Club Cool), in Mexico you can meet Donald, Norway has the princess buffet, China has Mulan (and sometimes Mushu), Germany has Snow White, I saw Smee in America this past weekend - which is really weird because I've never seen him there before, Morocco you can meet Aladdin (clear in the back, across from the restaurant), France has Belle & Beast - by the lake, Aurora - by the perfume shop/rose garden, and Marie - by the advertisement column, UK has Mary Poppins & Alice - between the Fish & Chips stand and the tea shop.
Also, I ate in Chefs De France for lunch and they were wheeling Remy around to various tables. HAHA! Marie the kitty is the cutest. Belle & Aurora were the nicest and Alice & Snow White were sweet & funny but, the wicked stepsisters were absolutely HILARIOUS!


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In ASCII, i wonder how is 65 translated to 'A' character? As far as my knowledge goes, 65 can be represented in binary but 'A' is not. So how could this conversion happen?
It is just a 'definition'. ASCII defines the relationships between integer values and characters. For implementation, there is a table (you can't see it) that does this translation.
EDIT: Computers just 0/1. A stream of characters is just a bunch of 0/1 streams: 0110010101... There is a contract between human and computer: 8 bits are represented as a character (okay, there are Unicode, UTF-8 and etc). And, 'A' is 65 and so on.
In C/C++ and any other languages, strings are just handled like integer arrays. Only when you need to display strings, that numbers are 'translated' into character. This translation is done by either hardware or software:
You may see this sort of contract or definition in everywhere. For example, assembly code. Your program will be eventually translated into machine code: that is also just a bunch of 0 and 1. But, it is extremely hard to understand when only 0 and 1 are shown. So, there is a rule: say 101010 means "add", 1100 means "mov". That's why we can program like "add eax, 1", and it'll be ultimately decoded into 0/1s.
Everything in a computer is binary. So a string in C is a sequence of binary values. Obviously that is not much use to humans, so various standards developed, where people decided what numerical values would represent certain letters. In ASCII the value 65 represents the letter A. So the value stored is 65, but everyone knows (because they have read the ASCII spec) that value corresponds to the letter A.
For example, if I am writing the code to display text on the screen, and I receive the value 65, I know to set certain pixels and delete other pixels, so that pixels are arranged like:
At no point does my code "really know" that is an "A". It just knows that 65 is displayed as that pattern. Because, as you say, you cannot store letters directly, only binary numbers.
'A' IS 65. It's just that your display device knows that it should display the value 65 as an A when it renders that value as a character.
The ASCII table is just an agreed upon map of values and characters.
When the computer is instructed to write a character represented by a number to the screen it just finds the numbers corresponding image. The image doesn't make any sense to the computer, it could be an image that looks like an 'A' or a snowman to the user.
This conversion is merely called character encoding. The computer only understands bytes and humans (on average =) ) only understands characters. The computer has roughly said a mapping of all bytes and all characters which belongs to those bytes so that it can present the data in a human friendly manner. It's all software based (thus not hardware based). The operating system is usually the one who takes care about this.
Everything in a computer is stored as a number. It's how software interprets those numbers that's important.
ASCII is a standard that maps the number 65 to the letter 'A'. They could have chosen 66 or 14 to represent 'A', but they didn't. It's almost arbitrary.
So if you have the number 65 sitting in computer memory somewhere, a piece of code that treats that piece of memory as ASCII will map the 65 to 'A'. Another piece of code that treats that memory as an entirely different format may translate it to something else entirely.
The code for converting the ASCII value entered to corresponding character is
Its based on a lookup table invented back in the 60's.

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Good Samaritan Restrains NH Man Suspected Of Stealing WineA Good Samaritan is being credited with stopping a man who attempted to steal wine from a New Hampshire store.
Masked Man Armed With Large Handgun Robs Manchester, NH, BankA masked man waving a large handgun robbed a New Hampshire bank Saturday morning.
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Android is Google's Agent Smith
Smith began as an agent, an AI program in the Matrix destined to keep order within the system by terminating troublesome programs and humans, which would otherwise bring instability to the simulated reality. Smith is significantly more open from the start, seeming far more intelligent, adaptable and destructive than other agents. At the end of the first Matrix movie, Smith appears to have been destroyed by Neo, but he makes a calculated return with somewhat altered motivations and abilities. The Matrix has lost control of Smith – he can no longer be forcibly sent to the system source to be deleted. This process makes him into a renegade program with the ability to make uncontrolled and non-conforming copies of himself, rather than simply having the ability to switch between bodies, as normal agents are able to. Smith is now threatening the very stability of the Matrix…
When Andy Rubin, co-founder and former CEO of Android named Google's mobile OS, little did he know that his very own Android would – like Agent Smith – become a renegade program...
Google's motivation behind Android is a very controversial topic, but we can all agree that behind the simulated reality of "free-for-all openness", lies a calculated set of control points to bring to the masses a platform that would extend the reach of Google's main source of revenue: advertising. At first glance, it looks like Android is doing a pretty good job at that. Google made plenty of partners (both carriers and handset makers) and acquired a very strong developer support. Armies of Android-powered or Android-based devices of all shapes and sizes hit the market every day. At its base, Android is a customizable low-level operating system that is perfectly suited for embedded devices. It has built-in support for networking and familiar user tools that can easily be integrated into a higher-level application ecosystem. With Google's acquisition of Admob, the mobile-ad sales market is growing faster than anything we've ever seen. A new report from analyst firm Piper Jaffray even suggests that in the long run, Android is going to be the OS running on around 50% of the Smartphone market. So it seems all is going as planned for Google? Not quite…
"You hear that Mr. Schmidt?… That is the sound of inevitability…"
Over the past few months, the Tech world has been imploding over Android's openness. MG Siegler's Techcrunch article on the topic created a riot of comments (over 1000 replies, 3500 tweets and 2000 Facebook shares) all over the blogosphere. Fan-boyisms aside, the fact IS that Android is breaking itself free from Google…and as in the Matrix, users are starting to wake up to the simulated reality of the Android landscape.
Since July, just to cite a few, we have faced four major releases with four different firmwares: Droid X launched with Android 2.1, Droid 2 followed with Froyo, Dell Streak shamelessly displayed Android 1.6 and then came along Dell Aero with the egregious Android 1.5. Of course, users are always promised updates to the newer version but in an environment driven by a different set of priorities and incentives, they are often faced with the short end of the stick (e.g. Samsung Behold II). Complaints of fragmentation across versions of Android are nothing new; the question is: is this a problem for Google? The short answer to that question is "yes" but the long version is far more convoluted.
In the short term, Android is making a whole lot of people a whole lot of money. Android, single handedly gave life back to Motorola and increased HTC's earnings by 58%. Verizon is cashing in off AT&T's iPhone exclusivity deal. The real problem is that customers are not going to come back to Android if they keep being lured into different versions of the OS. A lot of Android users are feeling shafted and once their contracts are up they will most likely want to switch to a more stable OS. Handset makers are the only ones able to fix this problem but where is the urgency? Why devote valuable time and investments into a phone that you have already sold? Wouldn't you rather have your engineers focus on the newer upcoming version to boost your future earnings? Result: some new devices are released with Android OS versions as old as 18 months…
"Mr Schmidt, welcome back. We missed you…Like what I've done with the place?"
Now, let's take a look at what is happening outside the U.S. and Canada. In China, the world's largest mobile market, officially sanctioned versions of Android are flourishing, starting with last year's Ophone OS from state-owned China Mobile. Motorola is also developing a line of Chinese flavors for Android with Baidu as the default search engine (ouch!). In Europe, French newspaper Lefigaro reported last week that heads of France Telecom-Orange, Deutsche Telekom (Germany), Telefonica (Spain) and Vodafone (UK) met to discuss the possible creation of customized common platform for mobile devices based on Android.
In the tablet market, manufacturers are making their own versions of a compatible Android-based OS to fight Apple's iPad (e.g. Samsung Galaxy tab) even though Google's view is that Android is not suited for tablets. But guess what? They don't need Google's benediction to act on their impulses. Will this affect Android and Google's reputation in the tablet market? You bet!
Sadly, fragmentation amongst versions of Android is the least Google has to worry about nowadays. Agent Android has now acquired the ability to duplicate Google's very own app marketplace. The symbiotic relationship between manufacturers and carriers is coming to an end. Carriers have now realized that they can exploit the open-source nature of Android to their own advantage. Verizon is expected to launch it's own V CAST App store on Android – and the new store will exist outside of the Google Marketplace. Verizon could in this way sell some valuable mobile real estate to the highest bidder (just as it recently did shoving Bing into Android phones). The trend has been set and we can expect a lot more companies to follow. Rumor has it Amazon is also going to launch its own Android app Marketplace – now Google should worry about this one! Amazon has a lot of experience running online stores – more so than Google, or even Apple for that matter.
"Can you feel it, Mr. Schmidt, closing in on you? Oh, I can"
So what does all this mean in the long term? Android users will soon have (on top of pre-loaded apps on their devices) to shop around different app stores with possibly different products and price structures. For things to really work for them, maybe there should be one kind of device, one OS version and one App store (sounds familiar?). Nexus One was Google's attempt at that but the experiment failed and Agent Android is now in the wild making copies of himself and gaining new abilities and powers that are often not in Google's own interest. The stability of Google's Matrix is now threatened and they need The One to save it. Will it be a new phone? New OS? New licensing terms? Or maybe a full system reboot? (worked for the Matrix…and Facebook). The fact remains that cracks are starting to show and Google needs to get their act together and clean things up – it is not too late.
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We must check the safety of this road (From This Is Wiltshire)
We must check the safety of this road
Updated 2:31pm Tuesday 8th April 2014 in By Elizabeth Mackley
SUNDAY'S fatal collision between a car and two lorries is just the latest in string of accidents to occur along the same stretch of the A420.
During the past five years, 17 accidents have taken place between Buckland Road and the B4508 – a two-mile stretch of road where Sunday's incident took place.
Although data provided by Oxfordshire County Council shows that 14 of the recorded incidents since 2009 to the end of February this year were slight, there was one fatality in 2012 and two accidents were considered to be serious.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a man in his 30s, who has yet to be identified, died after his car was in collision with two lorries on the vital commuter link between Swindon and Oxford.
The incident took place at around 3.50am and involved a white Seat Leon car, a white articulated DAF lorry and a white articulated Volvo lorry.
The driver of the Seat was pronounced dead at the scene while a female passenger was rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where she continues to receive treatment for her serious injuries.
MP for South Swindon, Robert Buckland, said: "First and foremost it's a human tragedy and my heart goes out to the family, it must be awful.
"The A420 is a very important road especially for Swindon because of the links between Swindon and the Oxford area.
"It's an important link road for a lot of commuters and Swindon residents who work in the Oxford area and use that part of the road, and it's an important road for economic reasons.
"I do think it's important to check the safety of the road and that there needs to be a safe linking road from Swindon to the Oxford area.
"If the road or a stretch of road needs updating and there is a danger to drivers then it needs to be maintained and I know that Swindon Council and Oxfordshire County Council regularly check and maintain the roads.
"I know that part of the road has been updated over the years.
"It's a 50 mile per hour speed limit along that road and I think this will serve to remind people of that along that stretch of the A420. If it is not safe then it ill have to be looked at and improved."
A spokesman for Oxfordshire County Council said: "The council will be carrying out an investigation with Thames Valley Police in due course to try to determine the cause of this accident."
Anyone with information regarding the collision should contact the Road Death Investigation Unit on Thames Valley Police's 24-hour non-emergency number 101. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org
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3:13pm Tue 8 Apr 14
nobody says...
Some people seem to think the speed limit is a target that must be met at all costs. Worse still are the drivers who just don't care about anyone else but themselves.
3:18pm Tue 8 Apr 14
Ladyharvey says...
The council could do with re-doing the road with the amount of holes in it as well, it's disgusting!
4:15pm Tue 8 Apr 14
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4:42pm Tue 8 Apr 14
umpcah says...
Ladyharvey wrote:The council could do with re-doing the road with the amount of holes in it as well, it's disgusting . That goes for the majority of roads in the area !
I use ths road every day to go to and from work... It amazes me that there hasnt been more accidents! The way people drive on this road is ridiculous.
The council could do with re-doing the road with the amount of holes in it as well, it's disgusting!
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MrAngry says...
LordCharles wrote:Driver awareness won't protect you from someone driving like an idiot. Driver error might be the cause of most accidents, but you can still be the victim of someone else's error.
Driver awareness prevents ALL driver error accidents. Awareness of road ahead, behind you, speed, road condition and weather condition. If all drivers had more pride in their driving instead using their car as an extension of their home settees there would be fewer "accidents". Driving is a skill set - not an X Box game. Bad driving can kill kill you. You cannot reset your score from under a lorry.
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Seahawks players already knew Sunday was going to be special. Then they watched as Mike Holmgren was introduced before the game, their coach...
Seahawks players already knew Sunday was going to be special. Then they watched as Mike Holmgren was introduced before the game, their coach jogging out of the tunnel toward them.
After beating the New York Jets 13-3 at Qwest Field, some Seahawks packed away their game jersey, to be preserved as a memento.
"After everything we've been through this year, with all the ups and downs, and for us to stick together as a team and persevere and send Mike out of here on a note like that was special," wide receiver Bobby Engram said. "He's a special coach."
Quarterback Seneca Wallace reflected on what Holmgren has meant to his career.
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"I came in as a guy that a lot of teams kind of passed on and said, 'He can't play quarterback in the National Football League,' " Wallace said. " 'He's too short. He can't do this, he can't do that.' And Mike gave me that opportunity since Day 1.
"When I first got here, he said, 'Hey, you're a quarterback, and that's exactly what you're going to do.' And he's given me the opportunity to do that and to prove to people that I can play this game. And that's why I got a little choked up, because I know he's stayed with me since Day 1."
Linebacker Julian Peterson had never seen a coach come out of the tunnel to join the players in pregame introductions.
"I told him he should have had something coming out of the fog," said Peterson, joking. "He should have done some kind of dance or something for his last one, but he wasn't with it."
An "A" for the D
The Seahawks' defense was at its best on Sunday.
The Seahawks gave up 265 yards, more than the season low of 240 against St. Louis in a 37-13 victory in Week 3. But they allowed the Jets only three points and made four sacks. They had one sack in that early season win against the Rams.
The pass rush generated 12 quarterback hits, four by defensive tackle Brandon Mebane.
"We knew we could have been doing this the whole season," safety Deon Grant said, "but you know, things just aren't falling our direction. Sometimes when the cookie doesn't crumble in your area, you can't eat anything."
Peterson said this was the game the defensive unit wanted to play all season.
"It was a lot of a combination of coverage sacks and guys just kicking butt up front," Peterson said. "Obviously, we didn't do all the things right, but we made enough plays out there to impact the game. If we continue to do that, we should carry the success on next year."
Bye-bye, Bobby?
Engram admitted he might have played his last game at Qwest Field as a Seahawk. The 13-year veteran's contract expires at the end of this season. Engram had sought a new deal following his 94-catch season in 2007. He has been with Seattle eight seasons.
Engram missed the first three games this season with a shoulder injury but has 41 catches for 439 yards in 12 games since. He led the Seahawks with six for 65 yards against the Jets, and was inspired to stay on the field to watch Holmgren's postgame victory lap and goodbye to fans.
That got Engram thinking about his career.
"There's no certainty that I'll be back," he said. "I wanted to make sure that I took in that moment in its fullest. So I just said a quick prayer … and was very thankful and very fortunate having spent eight years out here and played in as many games and had the type of success I've had around here. Very blessed."
Pass the catfish, Brett
Holmgren was asked what he said to New York quarterback Brett Favre after the game when the two met at midfield. Holmgren coached Favre in Green Bay.
"I just wished him well, and said next year when I'm riding my motorcycle around, I want to come down and have a little catfish with him. And just sit down in a different setting and see where he lives. That could happen," Holmgren said.
• WR Courtney Taylor's roller-coaster season continued with two important catches for 35 yards against the Jets.
He was a starter in Week 1, then was waived before being signed to the practice squad and brought back to the 53-man roster.
Taylor's catches were his first since Nov. 23 against Washington.
"He is my project," Engram said of Taylor. "I keep him as close to me as I can, and I was happy for him. The guy works like a dog in practice. … He'll be making a lot of plays here in the future."
• Second-year LB Will Herring made his first career start. LBs Leroy Hill and D.D. Lewis were inactive with injuries. Herring made four solo tackles. OL Na'Shan Goddard and DE Brandon Miller, signed in the past few weeks, made their game debuts. Miller made one special-teams tackle.
• When the Seahawks put OT Sean Locklear on injured reserve Saturday, they signed S Jamar Adams to the active roster. Adams was one of eight inactives, including QB Matt Hasselbeck and DB Jordan Babineaux.
• The Seahawks announced 68,181 tickets distributed, but there were plenty of empty seats.


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Hankook Plans to Raise Tire Prices 5% as Rubber Costs Rise
Hankook Tire Co., South Korea's largest producer, plans to raise prices as much as 5 percent this year to reflect the higher cost of rubber, President Cho Hyun Bum said.
The increase may help the company post better earnings than it had previously expected, Cho, who's also chief strategy financial officer at the Seoul-based tiremaker, said in an interview yesterday.
Hankook, the biggest seller of passenger-vehicle tires in China, is joining companies such as Aeolus Tyre Co. in raising prices after the cost of material climbed 27 percent in 2012. Profit at the company will probably rise 78 percent to 631.6 billion won ($561 million), according to the average of 26 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
"This shows Hankook's confidence and its pricing power has risen," said Shin Chung Kwan, an analyst at KB Investment & Securities Co.
Hankook rose 4.2 percent, its biggest gain in more than a month, to close at 43,750 won in Seoul trading today. That compares with a 0.7 percent decline in the benchmark Kospi stock index. The tiremaker, whose customers include Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Hyundai Motor Co., has fallen 3.3 percent this year.
Prices Will Fall
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. will increase prices of consumer tires by as much as 6 percent next month, Tire Review reported on its website.
Passenger tire prices rose an average of 15 percent last year, according to Modern Tire Dealer, a U.S. trade publication. Raw material prices climbed 27 percent per tire, the publication said, citing Saul Ludwig, a managing director at Northcoast Research Holdings LLC.
Hankook increased tire prices by about 12.5 percent last year, according to KB Investment's Shin. While rubber prices have continued to climb on a seasonal shortage of supply, costs will eventually fall, he said.
Average prices of so-called natural rubber is expected to fall to $4 a kilogram this year and 2013, compared with $4.60 last year, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates in January.
No.1 in China
Separately, Cho said he expects Hankook to keep its lead in China, which generated about 14 percent of the company's revenue last year. It currently has two plants in China that produce 30 million units annually between them. More than two-thirds of the tires produced in China are sold in the local market, said Cho.
Hankook Tire entered the Chinese market in 1996 and built production facilities in Jiangsu and Jiaxing three years later.
By 2003, Hankook became the country's largest producer and has held more than 20 percent of the passenger market since 2010, the company said.
"We expect the company's growth in China to continue well above the forecast market average this year," Cho said, even as rising competition from other global players pose as a challenge. "This year, the plan is to maintain our market share," he said.
Tire output in China may rise 6 percent this year, matching the pace of 2011, as domestic demand remains "robust," Fan Rende, head of the China Rubber Industry Association, said in an interview in Qingdao on March 20.
BMW Supplier
Hankook Tire has been supplying tires to BMW since July from a plant in Hungary. So far, the company supplies tires to the Mini, and 1 series models. Hankook and BMW have "almost finalized" terms for a deal to supply tires for the 3 series, according to Cho, increasing the likelihood of Hankook becoming the official tire supplier at all platforms in the German automaker.
"An automaker does not select a tire manufacturer to just get supply for smaller cars," Cho said. " They plan to get tires across the board, so eventually we expect to become their official supplier that supplies the whole model class," he said.
The goal is to become a key supplier taking up 30 percent of total supply for one of the top 3 luxury automakers of BMW, Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG's Audi unit, namely, Cho said. After the deal with BMW, other premium brands have shown interest in Hankook and negotiations are under way with some of those players, he said, without elaborating.


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Over 100 killed in Bangladesh's worst-ever factory fire
A fire has swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital killing over 100 people in the country's worst-ever factory blaze.
Bangladesh fire death toll over 100Anis Ahmed
More than 100 people were killed in a fire that razed a Dhaka neighbourhood, and rescue workers scrambled to pull bodies out of the debris on Friday.
Special tribunals to try Bangladesh mutineersAnis Ahmed
Tribunals will try paramilitary mutineers who killed at least 80 people, mostly army officers, as more than 70 others remain missing on Sunday.
Bangladesh army reaffirms support for governmentAnis Ahmed
Bangladesh's powerful army has reaffirmed its support for the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after a mutiny by paramilitary troops.
Fresh gunfire in Dhaka as troop mutinies spreadAnis Ahmed
Fresh gunfire erupted at a paramilitary camp in the Bangladesh capital on Thursday as troops took to streets in towns across the country.
Bangladesh troop mutinies spreadAnis Ahmed
Mutinies by members of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles have broken out in various towns around the country, police and witnesses said on Thursday.
Hasina takes massive majority in BangladeshAnis Ahmed
An alliance under Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina won a massive parliamentary majority in the country's first polls in seven years.
Bangladesh candidate rhetoric heats up as poll nearsAnis Ahmed
Candidates in Monday's Bangladesh election to restore democracy after two years of emergency rule have traded heated charges of corruption.
Bangladesh cyclone relief operation in full gearAnis Ahmed
A week after a cyclone killed nearly 3 500 people on the Bangladesh coast, relief workers said on Wednesday they had been able to get food, medicine and other provisions to almost all those affected. A relief operation by civil authorities and the army, navy and airforce was at full force after roads blocked by fallen trees has been cleared.
Tragedy unfolds in BangladeshAnis Ahmed
Four days after Cyclone Sidr killed more than 2 500 people in Bangladesh, rescuers were struggling to reach isolated areas along the country's devastated coast and give aid to millions of survivors. "The tragedy unfolds as we walk through one after another devastated village," said relief worker Mohammad Selim in Bagerhat, one of the worst-hit areas.


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Mostly you'll find me rambling about what I've been up to, wearing frocks, getting angry about vanity sizing and body image and indulging in fantasy shopping trips.
In my increasingly rare spare time I like watching Poirot, drinking Manhattans and looking at pretty things I can't afford. I'm a big fan of full 50s frocks, picnics, crazy tights, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, platform shoes, Roller Derby, hair dye, sunny days, lipstick, pencil skirts, cocktails and cheese.
I don't like jeans, tomatoes, running shoes when I'm not running, ugg boots, TV Talent Shows, spare ribs or early mornings.
I started this blog in 2007 to promote a now defunct eBay shop, and soon discovered it was more fun than trekking to the post office. I am now a freelance writer, social media manager and events organiser with my fingers in many pies (take a look at my portfolio!). When I'm not writing blog posts in my pyjamas and passing Facebook off as work I also play Roller Derby with the Norfolk Brawds, as number #79 Gem Warfare.
As a lifelong natural hoarder my house is always groaning at the seams with Boot Fair and Charity Shop vintage bargains of china, cocktail paraphernalia, 78 records and other assorted ephemera which I promise I will sort out one day. I have a particular passion for the styles of 1930s to the mid 1950s and from childhood a mild obsession with the styles and every day life of World War II.
I have an honours degree in Media & Film Studies from Southampton University and write on many topics, both on the blog and for other people. I have written a lot about Vanity Sizing and have featured in several national newspapers on this topic and made radio appearances on Women's Hour and Moncrieff! .
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La Liga Preview: Celta Vigo v Barcelona
Barcelona will look to carry momentum from the triumph in El Clasico into Tuesday's visit to the Estadio de Balaidos to face Celta Vigo.
Gerardo Martino's side continued their unbeaten start to the Liga campaign as Barca saw off the challenge of Real Madrid on Saturday with a 2-1 victory at Camp Nou in the marquee fixture.
A goal in either half from Neymar and Alexis Sanchez put Barcelona into a commanding lead before Jese Rodriguez's consolation effort for Carlo Ancelotti's side in injury time.
That result took the Catalan giants' record to nine wins and one draw from their 10 La Liga fixtures, meaning the defending champions head into Tuesday's game top of the table by one point from Atletico Madrid and six clear of Real.
Martino may use the game as an opportunity to once again rotate his squad, as the Celta fixture marks the second of three matches that Barcelona will play in the space of seven days.
The likes of Alexis, Pedro and Carlos Puyol were all named on the bench against Real and Martino could utilise his squad in order to keep them fresh, with a league clash against Espanyol on Friday on the horizon.
Key to Barca's success could be the form of Brazilian Neymar after his starring role in his first Clasico appearance, when the 20-year-old scored to take his Liga tally to three goals this season.
Lionel Messi will also be keen to make an impact, after failing to hit top form against Real. Martino is without full-back Jordi Alba (hamstring) and midfielder Jonathan dos Santos (knee).
Barcelona will be wary of an upset, having drawn the corresponding encounter between the two sides 2-2 last season.
Luis Enrique's side have endured a difficult start to the season and sit in 16th position with just nine points from 10 games.
Celta, though, will be buoyed by their 5-0 rout of Malaga on Saturday, a victory that ended a run of seven league games without a win, including four straight defeats prior to facing Bernd Schuster's side.
Denmark international Michael Krohn-Dehli could come back into contention following a sprained ankle, although former Barca star Enrique may opt for the same starting XI that comfortably saw off Malaga.


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It�s not always easy putting a face with a name � or vice versa. But Janice Barnes has worked with a lot less. �You can always find people; it�s just a matter of looking in the right place for them,� Barnes said, who has worked 19 years as a part-time genealogist for the Jefferson County Public Library - Madison Branch.


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Gym dedication for 'Dude' set for May 3
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A dedication ceremony is scheduled May 3 to rename the Los Altos High School gymnasium after former coach, teacher and principal Dushan "Dude" Angius Jr.
Angius, who served 20 years at Los Altos High, including as principal from 1965 to 1975, was also chairman of the physical education department, director of athletics, director of student activities and counselor. He was known for his strong leadership skills and the high ethical standard he set for his students.
A scholarship fund in Angius' name has been established to support Los Altos High students who demonstrate excellent leadership potential.
To donate to the fund, send checks to Los Altos High School Scholarship Fund, with "Dude Angius Scholarship" on the memo line, c/o Mary Prochnow, 164 Main St., Los Altos 94022.


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LAS VEGAS – The Linemakers on Sporting News continue our division-by-division preview of the 2014 NFL season. Here is the NFC East.
Previously in this series: NFC West | NFC South
Philadelphia Eagles 7-5
Dallas Cowboys 7-2
New York Giants 5-2
Washington Redskins 7-2
Who does a Las Vegas bookmakers like?
"It's the Eagles division to win, but they have a difficult schedule this year," said LVH SuperBook manager Ed Salmons, a Philadelphia native. "I look for Dallas to implode this year. They did nothing to help one of the worst defenses in the NFL, and as usual, Sean Lee is out for the year. The Giants can't possibly get worse quarterback play than last year but seem like an aging defense and figure to be around .500 this year.
"The Redskins are a team that I believe should be a real player this year. They remind me of the Eagles from this time last year -- a new coach (Jay Gruden) and Griffin was injured all last year. I look for Washington to win the division with Philly second Giants third and Dallas a miserable dead last-place finish.
Who are Vegas books taking the most action on?
"We don't have much action on the odds to win the division, where we have the Eagles a 7-to-5 favorite," said the South Point's Jimmy Vaccaro, who then noticed a bet coming in. "Oh look, we just got a $13 bet on the Cowboys (+375).
"As for the Super Bowl odds, we don't lose on anything among those (four) teams. We win a little bit on everyone, with I'd say the Cowboys being the least attractive for us. We got Philly at 26-to-1, the Giants at 27, Dallas at 40-to-1, and 47-to-1 on Washington. No risk, no danger with any of them."
A team-by-team breakdown ....
Dallas Cowboys
Season wins: 8 UNDER -185
Super Bowl odds: 50/1
2013 record: 8-8 (9-7 ATS)
LM outlook: We're not always kind to the Cowboys just because they continually play below expectations, but they started out 2013 with a bang by covering seven of their first eight games (4-3 SU). The one game they really impressed was in their Week 5, 51-48 home loss to the Broncos while getting 7.5 points. However, a few weeks later, most realized the Cowboys weren't that good when they lost 49-17 at New Orleans, which started a run of five straight OVERs with their matador defense. They failed to cover six of their final eight games, but they still covered the number more than any other NFC East team.
There just doesn't seem to be any reason to believe Dallas will be improved from last season, especially defensively where they lost some of their biggest playmakers. New defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli is a very good coach, but he's not a miracle worker, but they can't get any worse than No. 32, which is where they ranked last season. Dead Last. Allowing 415 yards per game.
Despite the defense, there seems to be a pattern with extremely poor play in December, and the common denominator since 2006 has been Tony Romo. Another 8-8 season seems likely, which would be the fourth straight year they've ended up with that record.
"They have 8-8 written all over them, but they have the talent to be 11-5," says The Linemakers on Sporting News' Kenny White.
Key quote. Former Cowboys QB and Fox Sports analyst Troy Aikman, per the Dallas Morning News, on what Dallas needs to be successful in 2014: "The defense is going to be better. They can't possibly be as bad or worse than they were a year ago. But is it going to be enough? It's hard for me imagining that being the case, with the injury now to Sean Lee and being out for the season.
"It's a bottom-line business and Jason Garrett understands that. How many more chances are you going to get if you fail to make the playoffs. For that to happen, they've gotta to stay healthy; Tony Romo has to stay healthy. He has to play well. The defense has to be better."
New York Giants
Season wins: 8 OVER -110
Super Bowl odds: 40/1
LM outlook: They were busy with transactions in the offseason, and the offensive line figures to be improved, but they still have the same QB, Eli Manning, who threw 27 INTs. They can't possibly start 0-6 again, and the discipline of Tom Coughlin is respected in Vegas. Getting at least eight wins should be in the cards, but the value of the opening number of 7.5 is gone.
"Coughlin will never let this year's team play like last year's," says Kenny White. "Manning – 27 INTs – you're not going to see that happen this year. He'll cut down on the interceptions. This will be the most improved team, I think, in the NFL this year. … You can bet them in Weeks 1 and 2. They should win their first two games."
Key quote. Eli Manning, per the New York Daily News, on learning new offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo's system after 10 years under Kevin Gilbride: "It's reenergized me. I'm trying to speed up the process of getting comfortable in the new system. I don't have 10 years. I have a few months."
Philadelphia Eagles
Season wins: 9 OVER -130
Super Bowl odds: 20/1
2013 record: 10-6, lost wild-card game at home to Saints (8-7-1 ATS)
LM outlook: Chip Kelly's high-octane college offense snuck up on Vegas regarding to totals (five of first siz games went OVER), with the numbers peaking with a 58 against the Broncos (52-20 loss), but the Eagles gained the respect of bookmakers when their defense (No. 29 ranked) started playing better and the offense played keep-away – seven of their last 11 games stayed UNDER the total.
A 1-3 or 3-5 start like last season seems improbable. It's natural for a team to struggle early with a first-year coach, but they sure became a family quickly. Cutting DeSean Jackson in the offseason sent a clear message to everyone in the locker room – and one they all respected. Look for them to win the division again with 10 or 11 wins and be a threat to challenge San Francisco and Seattle for the NFC title.
"This division, I think, is a toss up," Kenny White says. "I do like Chip Kelly. We'll see if his offense continues to baffle NFL defenses. That usually doesn't happen, but I think for at least one more year it actually will."
Key quote. LeSean McCoy, appearing on Rich Eisen's podcast, regarding Darren Sproles: "Sproles has the quickest feet I've ever seen out of any player. He'll help us out tremendously. I think the best thing about him, what he brings to this team is not only leadership and experience, but also just another big playmaker on the team. You talk about losing DeSean, but I think (GM) Howie (Roseman) and Chip did a great job of bringing another playmaker to our team.
"With me and him in the backfield together it will definitely cause an issue with the defense."
Washington Redskins
Season wins: 7.5 OVER -120
Super Bowl odds: 50/1
2013 record: 3-13 (5-11 ATS)
LM outlook: They were one of the hardest teams to make spreads on during their eight-game slide (2-6 ATS) to close out 2013. No matter how low a rating put on them, they'd play at an ever lower level. Bad offense, and an even worse defense, marked a a complete change from the final half of the 2012 season that spurred them into the playoffs. New coach Jay Gruden has some great offensive talent to work with, but getting more than seven wins seems like a stretch, even though bettors have taken the season win total up from 7 to 7.5.
Says Kenny White, "I have the Redskins rated lowest in the division, but I actually think the Redskins have a shot to make a run because I think RG3 will be a lot better in year three at 100 percent, and I think he'll get along with Gruden."
Key quote. Griffin III, on what player is the Redskins' biggest weapon: "I think everyone would lean towards DeSean or Pierre (Garcon) or Jordan Reed. I think it's Alfred (Morris). With him, defenses have to make a decision whether to put guys in the box to stop him or leave the box light and allow Alfred to go between the tackles and lure in the safeties. I think it will be interesting to see what defenses do against him."
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Latest Super Bowl odds: Prices at the LVH
LVH Games of the Year
It's always fun to see whose ratings rise and fall during the season. If the Eagles have a great season and improve upon 2013 while the Giants struggle under new offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, the rating differential between the two teams will drastically change by the middle of the season. So while the LVH has Philly about 2-points better on a neutral-field – which makes the Eagles -5 at home against the Giants on October 1 – if things go as handicapped, the rating figures to widen to maybe 3.5-points by the time they meet again on December 28, where the Giants opened as a 1-point favorite. It's not much of a difference, but you get the idea, and the bottom line is to try and get the best number. So when that late season game comes around and everyone is laying 2.5 points with Philly, you can look like the smart one holding a ticket that shows Eagles +1.
Games of the Year involving NFC East teams
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014: Eagles at Colts -2.5
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014: Giants at Redskins -2
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014: Eagles at 49ers -6, Saints -3 at Cowboys
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2014: Texans at Cowboys -3.5
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014: Seahawks -6 at Redskins
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014: Cowboys at Seahawks -10, Giants at Eagles -5
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014: Giants at Cowboys -2.5
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014: Redskins at Cowboys -3
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2014: Cardinals at Cowboys -2.5
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014: Colts at Giants -2
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014: Panthers at Eagles -3
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014: Eagles at Packers -5, 49ers -3.5 at Giants
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014: Redskins at 49ers -7.5, Cowboys at Giants -3.5
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014: Eagles -2.5 at Cowboys
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014: Cowboys at Bears -4.5
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2014: Cowboys at Eagles -6.5
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2014: Eagles -1.5 at Redskins
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014: Eagles at Giants -1
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How do I set an environment variable in Perl?
I want to set $HOME to a different directory than the default.
How do I set an environment variable in Perl?
I want to set $HOME to a different directory than the default.
You can do it like this:
But please note that this will only have an effect within the rest of your script. When your script exits, the calling shell will not see any changes.
Also see perlrun
When perl gets started it makes it own sub shell. That sub shell does not contain all features like sourcing a shell file which are available only for main shells. You can not set any environment path for your main shell. You can do one thing if you have a shell file from where you want to access your paths you can use it in your code.
You can do this by installing external module from CPAN which is Shell::Source.
As perl creates its own instance while running on a shell, so we can not set environment path for the main shell as the perl's instance will be like sub shell of the main shell. Child process can not set environment paths for parents.
Now till the perl's sub shell will run you'll be able to access all the paths present in your temp.csh
It's cheesy, but you could call a VBS script using system("cscript your_vbs_script") to have it handle the environment variable assignment. It will exist for the next shell opened, not the running shell in that case.


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whats your preference?
Dog. I much prefer the excitable and friendly animal, the one that bothers to want its humans around.
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cat, since i have a cat.
I like both, but prefer dogs.
dogs all the way
cats no way
I have always thought that if a cat were big enough, it would eat me, but my dog would still want to play, because it can show love. So I am a dog person.
Originally Posted by CycloneErik
Dog. I much prefer the excitable and friendly animal, the one that bothers to want its humans around.
and the plus is unlike a child you can ignore them when they upset you
Just in case you didn't know... I'm a girl.
Originally Posted by CYCRAZY
whats your preference?
See my avatar. You don't have to take your cat with you everywhere you go to keep it from destroying your home. To back myself up I submit the movie 'Marley and Me'.
I don't mind cats, I've had several great cats. What I like about dogs is that you are the master; with cats, your their servant. You can interact with dogs in ways you can't with cats. If I had to chose between a cat and a dog, I would chose a dog.
Since I: don't live in the country, don't appreciate dead spots in my yard (or the smell), have zero desire to pick up dog crap, like to be able to have the freedom to take a long weekend away without having to worry about kenneling, don't appreciate the barking, do not like fur or drool on my carpet, floors and/or furnature.....I could go on...
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'd say cat person (if I have to choose one or the other). Otherwise, I could be happy without either.
I have about 4 or 5 cats, and i like them, but im a dog person
(but only certain kinds of dogs)
Originally Posted by Cyclone42
See my avatar. You don't have to take your cat with you everywhere you go to keep it from destroying your home. To back myself up I submit the movie 'Marley and Me'.
I've had cats do ten times the damage of any dog I've ever had. If the cat is declawed it helps. I personally like to take my dog with me, I would take him to class if I could.
I guess that is the difference between dog and cat owners. Dog owners need something they can take care of and cat owners want something they can ignore. I don't mean that in a bad way.
Both. In fact, I like all kinds of animals.
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So, I've entered a contest on another site - a private D&D forums site. This contest has Amazon gift certificates as prizes - 1st ($75), 2nd ($50), 3rd ($25).
Contest is in 4 categories - game setting, fantasy short story, create 3 NPC characters and/or "create a map with 25 locations for fantasy setting..."
I actually might place an entry 3 of the 4 categories - not NPC generation. Though you can only win with a single entry.
The map is of a temple, being used by a priestly lich named Lhessadrak. I plan to place this shrine on a smalll islet within a great swamp, accessed by a bone bridge.
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A black felt derby hat with a customized mounted steel brim worn by Harold Sakata playing Odd Job in "Goldfinger" (United Artists, 1964). The hat remained in Sakata's collection after filming was finished and was given to his son Jon Sakata. The hat was restored by applying eight metal rivets and tape to re-seal separation between the steel brim and the lower brim of the hat. Sakata is best remembered for his role as the villainous Odd Job, the most famous henchman of the entire Bond seriess, who used this hat as a deadly weapon. This hat is one of the two known to exist. The other hat was sold at Christie's in 1998 for $120,000. 12 1/2". Sale History: Julien's Auctions, June 2006.
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A $50 million gift from two generous UCLA alumni has now set the stage for a transformation of the UCLA School of Public Affairs. In recognition of this tremendous investment, the School will be re-named The UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs, effective March 18, 2011.
Meyer Luskin, a Los Angeles business leader who once commuted from Boyle Heights to the UCLA campus to earn his degree in economics, and his wife Renee, have given UCLA the second-largest gift in the university's history, a total of $100 million. From that gift, $50 million are designated for The "Luskin" School of Public Affairs, the professional school that houses graduate programs in social welfare, public policy, and urban planning.
"I live and work in the region and wanted to give back in a creative and unique way that helps UCLA to continue its important work with the broader community," Meyer Luskin said. "In addition to educating students, providing them a way to improve their lives, and conducting research, UCLA should apply faculty expertise to help address our society's biggest issues, and I am appreciative of being able to contribute to those ends."
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., dean of The UCLA "Luskin" School of Public Affairs, describes the impact of the gift as "allowing us to develop a truly contemporary learning environment for the next generation of public leaders and decision-makers, many of whom choose to devote their professional lives to improving Southern California."
"The Luskins' generosity will enable us to expand a regional, national, and global debate on some of the most challenging questions of our time," said Gilliam, "For example, how do we design modern cities that are livable and sustainable? How do we assimilate immigrants while securing our borders? How do we move toward a more just and equitable society?"
Gilliam said the vast majority of the $50 million flowing to the school will be used to establish endowments to strengthen its academic base, support emerging research areas, and attract the best talent to both the faculty and student body. He said priority areas include graduate student fellowships, faculty teaching and research, civic engagement and new academic programs in urban studies and social justice – all critical to ensuring continued competitiveness with other leading government and public affairs schools.
UCLA "Luskin" School of Public Affairs currently houses the Luskin Center for Innovation, established with support from the Luskins in 2008. The center works closely with elected officials and non-profit, business and community leaders to develop solutions to important policy challenges. "The Luskins' philanthropic priorities are a natural fit with what we do," Gilliam said.
Meyer Luskin, 85, is president, CEO and chairman of Scope Industries, which recycles bakery waste to make an animal-feed ingredient. He said a $30 scholarship allowed him to continue his UCLA studies, which were interrupted by his military service in World War II, when he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps (later known as the Air Force.)
"The multi-disciplinary education I received at UCLA has helped me immeasurably in business, whether it's organizational, management or philosophical issues, and I am eternally grateful," said Luskin, a history enthusiast.
Luskin met his wife, Renee, while she was a UCLA student. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1953. After completing his bachelor's degree at UCLA in 1949, Meyer Luskin earned an MBA from Stanford University in 1951.
The Luskins are long-time supporters of UCLA, with their generosity extending to endowments for undergraduate student scholarships and graduate student fellowships, a children's clinic at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, the alumni association and numerous advisory boards. Meyer Luskin also has served as chairman of the advisory board for the Santa Monica UCLA-Medical Center.
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The mighty Colorado River offers a fantastic rafting experience to one and all. The sections of the river that flow through Westwater Canyon, Cataract Canyon, and the Grand Canyon are deemed to be some of the most dramatic stretches of river on Earth. Rafting along the Colorado River will give one memories they will never forget. Floating along in the river one will enjoy the sky-high sandstone cliffs, exciting rapids, and amazing wildlife.
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The Havelock High soccer team split its first two matches of the season, beating Northside 9-1 but falling to East Duplin 3-1.
In the victory against Northside, Noah Kemble scored four goals to lead the Rams, while Kevin Quinn added two goals and an assist. Miguel Diaz Maurino and Jason Hollister each added a goal and an assist, while Nick Seegel also hit the back of the net for Havelock. Justin Temple and Roy Howard added assists for Havelock.
Zach Martin had two saves, while Kevin Garay and Darren Miles each had one for Havelock, which outshot Northside 18-4.
In the loss to East Duplin, Seegel scored Havelock�s lone goal on an assist from Kemble. Martin and Temple had two saves each in goal.
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While "Harry Potter" was clearly the story at the studio box office, a very different British import - Nigel Cole's "Made In Dagenham" - was the major debut in the specialty market.
A dramatized account of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham assembly plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination, "Dagenham" stars Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike and Bob Hoskins. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the Sony Pictures Classics release film took in a rather unimpressive $41,112, averaging $13,704 along the way. It's not a disastrous number for the film by any means, and the film's crowd pleasing nature could easily propel it to strong legs as it expands over the next few weeks, but for a screen count that low a higher per-theater-average should have been in the cards.
Director Cole - known for similarly female-oriented crowd pleasers - saw his last film, 2003's Helen Mirren starrer "Calendar Girls," gross $31 million after averaging only $6,308 from a 24 screen debut. Before that, 2000's "Saving Grace" - starring Brenda Blethyn as a small-town English widow who stars selling pot - debuted to a $9,581 average from 30 screens en route to a $12 million final gross. Considering the screen counts, both those films had more impressive debuts than "Dagenham," but they also give hope that the kind of film Nigel Cole tends to make is the kind of film you can't judge by its opening average.
Also opening on three screens this weekend was Claire Denis' "White Material," which IFC Films debuted in both New York and Chicago. The result was a $36,300 gross, averaging $12,100 - which nearly topped "Dagenham"'s average on the same amount of screens despite being a foreign language film with a tough subject matter. The film - which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival - stars Isabelle Huppert as a failing coffee plantation owner in an African country increasingly torn apart by escalating civil war violence. It was the best recorded Stateside debut for a Claire Denis film. Her last, 2009's "35 Shots of Rum," averaged $9,576 from 1 screen when it opened in the U.S. via Cinema Guild. In 2005, "The Intruder" averaged $3,527 from 3 screens, while in 2003, "Friday Night" averaged a similar $3,127 from the same count. Both those films were released through Wellspring.
IFC Films will open "Material" in the top 20 markets next month.
Two less high-profile films also debuted this weekend. Oscilloscope released Yony Leyser's doc "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" on a single New York screen to a decent $7,054 gross, adding on to the $4,102 it had made since opening on Wednesday to total $11,156. Alerion/Vitagraph, meanwhile, put David Kaplan's comedy "Today's Special" on a much more aggressive 50 screens, and saw a gross of $91,000, for a $1,820 per-theater-average.
Last weekend's top debut, Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" (which is also being released through IFC), held on to its sole engagement at New York's IFC Center before its expansion next weekend. It managed to hold on to its opening weekend numbers quite substantially, taking in $15,200, which was only a 27% weekend-to-weekend drop.
Twice nominated at this year's Gotham Awards, "Furniture" is a self-portrait of sorts, in which Dunham plays a version of herself wandering around New York City in post-graduate limbo. Its gross is now $47,240, an impressive number for a micro-budget indie playing on only one screen.
A not-so-micro-budget indie, Danny Boyle's "127 Hours," also continued to impress in a much grander way. Expanding from 22 to 108 theaters, distributor Fox Searchlight saw "Hours" gross $915,206, good enough to nearly crack the overall top 10 despite playing on just a fraction of the screens of its competitors. Based on the true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), a mountain climber who becomes trapped under a boulder and is forced to amputate his own arm, "Hours" averaged a respectable $8,474 and took its total to $1,901,009 going into Thanksgiving weekend, where it will expand to 46 markets on approximately 270-300 prints.
Notable is that "Hours" is lagging behind some of the films it was tracking ahead of in its scorching debut weekend three weeks ago. "Slumdog Millionaire," for example, experienced a much stronger hold than "Hours" back in 2008, averaging $27,470 from 49 screens in its third weekend. By the time it hit 169 screens in its fifth weekend, that film was still averaging $12,873. Mind you, "Millionaire" had inevitable-best-picture-winner buzz going for it that "Hours" doesn't quite have (though it still seems like a very likely nominee). Essentially this suggests the $100 million+ mainstream breakout glory that "Millionaire" eventually reached is very unlikely for "127 Hours," though a final gross could still end up being quite strong for the reportedly $18 million budgeted film. The next few weekends of expansion should really make that more clear.
Other holdovers included Doug Liman's "Fair Game," a fictionalized account of the 2003 outing of former CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) and the impact it had on her marriage to United States Foreign Service diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn). On a more aggressive 386 screens (up from 175 last weekend), distributor Summit Entertainment saw fair numbers for "Game" - it grossed an estimated $1,500,000, averaging $3,808 and taking its cume to $3,700,000. That was enough for the film to crack the top ten, and suggests a $10 million+ final gross is quite possible.
Finally, three docs that were all shortlisted for this year's Academy Awards each continued their runs this weekend.
Lucy Walker's "Waste Land," which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, expanded from 5 to 8 screens in its third weekend. Distributor Arthouse Films reported the film grossed $14,603, averaging $1,825 and taking its total to $57,176.
In its seventh weekend, Charles Ferguson's economic crisis doc "Inside Job" dropped from an assumed high of 250 screens to 185, but saw its per-theater-average actually slightly rise from $1,915 to $2,005. Grossing $370,932, the film also impressively crossed the $2 million mark, finding a new cume of $2,171,387.
Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting For 'Superman'" also receded its screen count. The film - which takes on the U.S. public school system - dropped down from 204 to 118 screens in its ninth weekend and took in $108,000. That gave "Superman" an impressive new total of $6,129,000, making it the 20th highest grossing doc of all time.
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Very colorful China with yellow bullseye and pink pinwheels on each end. Bold, black band circles the middle of the marble and on each side of the black band is a flowering reef encircling the entire center. Reef consists of green leaves and blue and yellow flowers. This is an extremely rare type of China marble. Damage to glaze from play wear.
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Palestra.net has put together a couple of nice pieces on the SU women's basketball team, including a look at how it has quickly become a program on the rise.
They also did a profile of assistant coach Matt Luneau and his wife, Ilze. She is a basketball dribbling wizard who performed at halftime Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, for those attending the SU-Ohio State game. She also has performed at numerous SU men's and women's games, along with her children.
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by Eugene Hernandez
The feature lineup is set for the 33rd New Directors/New Films Series, presented by the Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The festival will kick-off on March 24, 2004 with a screening of Jim McKay's "Everyday People," which debuted last month at the Sundance Film Festival. The festival will conclude on April 4th following screenings at Alice Tully Hall and the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and at MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theater on 23rd St.
The films in the series were programmed by a six-person committee from both organizations, including Marian Masone, Joanna Ney and Richard Pena from the Film Society and Mary Lea Bandy, Laurence Kardish, and Jytte Jensen from MoMA.
The complete list of films follows (information provided by the festival):
"B-Happy," directed by Gonzalo Justiniano, Chile/Spain/Venezuela, 2003
"Berlin Blues," directed by Leander Haussman, Germany, 2003
"Captive," directed by Gaston Biraben, Argentina, 2003
"Checkpoint," directed by Yoav Shamir, Israel, 2003
"Control Room," directed by Jehane Noujaim, USA/Egypt, 2003
"Dig!," directed by Ondi Timoner, USA, 2004 (Palm Pictures)
"Eager Bodies," directed by Xavier Giannoli, France, 2003
"Everyday People," directed by Jim Mckay, USA, 2003 (HBO Films)
"Fuse," directed by Pjer Zalica, Bosnia And Herzegovina, 2003 (Global Film Initiative)
"In Your Hands," directed by Annette K. Olesen, Denmark, 2004
"Kounandi," directed by Apolline Traoré, Burkina Faso, 2003
"The Middle Of The World," directed by Vicente Amorim, Brazil, 2003
"Le Monde Vivant," directed by Eugene Green, France, 2003
"No. 17," directed by David Ofek, Israel, 2003
"Seducing Doctor Lewis," directed by Jean-François Pouilot, Canada, 2003
"Silent Waters," directed by Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan/France/Germany, 2003 (First Run Features)
"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring," directed by Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea, 2003 (Sony Pictures Classics)
"The Story Of The Weeping Camel," directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, Germany/Mongolia, 2003 (THINKFilm)
"Strong Shoulders," directed by Ursula Meier, Switzerland/France/Belgium, 2003
"Three Step Dancing," directed by Salvatore Mereu, Italy, 2003
"Untold Scandal," directed by E J-Yong, South Korea, 2003
"Vodka Lemon," directed by Hiner Saleem, France/Armenia, 2003