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Harvard's Ali Farag won the CSA Individual Championship tournament with a 3-0 win over Ramit Tandon on Sunday (photo courtesy Michael T. Bello).
AMHERST, Mass. – Ali Farag of the Harvard men's squash team gave the Crimson its second national champion in three years with a 3-0 win in the College Squash Association (CSA) Individual Championship in Amherst, Mass., Sunday. Farag swept Ramit Tandon of Columbia in the title match.
Farag and Tandon, who had not met during the 2011-12 season, played a tight first game to open the match. The game was tied at three, four, nine and ten before Farag finished off Tandon with the final two points to win, 12-10. The initial game was Farag's closest of the three-day tournament, as he had swept the previous four matches without needing extra points.
The second game started just as close as the first, as the score was knotted at eight. Farag proceeded to take the next three points, including strokes in the final two rallies, to win, 11-8 and build a 2-0 lead in the match.
With control of the match, Farag used his momentum to put away Tandon with ease. Harvard's sophomore started the third game with an 8-1 lead and eventually finished the match, 11-4, and the match, 3-0, to give Farag the national championship.
The title was Farag's first in his first season of college squash, as he finished the season with an unblemished 16-0 mark.
Harvard players have won 34th Pool Trophies, which are awarded to the nation's individual champion. Colin West '10, who was crowned in his senior season, had been the Crimson's last championship winner.


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Boot up the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS role-playing game Bravely Default and you'll get some tips about how to enjoy the game "to the fullest".
You see these tips before you even see the game's title screen. You get a different screen of tips each time you start the game. Some explain how to use Bravely Default's special StreetPass systems or how to view some of its augmented reality bonus scenes.
This tip though... I'm not sure if it's a tip for the game or a tip for life:
Special bonus tip/taunt:
Bravely Default, which is both pretty good and a sort of alternate-reality Final Fantasy, was released in Australia on December 7. The game's pretty good!


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WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats moved on a vow to crack down on U.S. companies that move overseas for tax purposes, outlining a proposal to make the economics of the practice less appealing that could come up for Senate vote ahead of the midterm elections.
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Successful mom bloggers all have one thing in common — their blog templates are absolutely beautiful and extremely well designed. Besides professional logos, Google Blogger and WordPress offer themes that bloggers can use to help their blogs appeal to readers.
Google Blogger themes
Google Blogger has built in customization tools that are incredibly easy to use, which make it simple for you to adjust the design and layout of your blog. Google recently released a very sophisticated template designer tool that virtually needs no instructions to use.
If you want to customize your theme beyond what the template designer is capable of, you can use a site like HTML Goodies to learn HTML.
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If you want to find a safe, free theme, it's in your best interests to download one only from WordPress.org. Another kind of WordPress theme falls into the trusted category: premium themes. These themes are put out by professional designers and developers.
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Having these files makes it easier to edit the theme images without having to change any of the theme code, but does require that you own a copy of Photoshop to use them. If you were to hire someone to do all of this for you, it could cost you five to ten times as much as the theme price.
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Choosing a great template to use is important, but not as important as making it unique to your website. Your blog design is an important aspect of your blog's brand. This is your chance to offer a visual representation of who you are as a blogger and what your blog is about.
It's a little bit like choosing the outfit you wear to an important meeting or first date — you want your blog appearance to back up your words and intentions, just as you would when you want to make a great first impression with another person.
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Change fonts and font colors: You have a rainbow of colors available to you when it comes to changing them in your theme. For fonts, generally you only have a handful to choose from that are Web-friendly such as Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Georgia. For WordPress users, you can also use the All-In-One-Cufon plugin to use a wider range of fonts for more design options.
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When it was announced that Disney had purchased LucasFilm for $4.05 billion and announced that they would be making Episodes VII, VIII, and IX we all just knew that wasn't going to be the whole story. Nobody on this planet would lay down that much money for the rights to make three movies, no matter how potentially profitable those movies could be. We've heard rumor after rumor that the companies would be working to make "spin-off" films set in the same galaxy about characters apart from Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, but it's all been speculation. However, it all just became a lot more real.
Bob Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation, appeared on CNBC today (via Movies.com) and has confirmed that in addition to the new trilogy of films they are also developing other stories set within the Star Wars universe. The executive said that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg are currently developing "a few" projects that will be released during the six year period that features the release of Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. You can watch Iger speak in the video below:
Could Robert Rodriguez really get the chance to make some kind of Han Solo movie in the future? Could yesterday's rumors about a Yoda standalone film be true? Perhaps Joe Johnston will actually get the chance to make his Boba Fett solo film? There are so many great characters and awesome stories that could be told within the world of Star Wars, either based on established characters or introducing brand new ones. The future is bright!
UPDATE: Coming Soon has gotten an official statement from LucasFilm about the spin-off films and you can read it below:
The Star Wars cinematic galaxy is about to experience a Big Bang. Lucasfilm is officially announcing new spinoff films that will expand the mythos and depths of the Star Wars universe in previously unexplored ways.


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THQ Second Quarter Financials
THQ will "continue migrating PS2 users to PS3" this Holiday season
Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ, said during the company's financial call to investor that, so far, they are pleased with sales of PS3 since the new model and price point has taken effect. He also said that the company's goal during the holiday shopping extravaganza is to "continue migrating PS2 users to PS3". The main […]
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If we are to take the Bible account seriously, then we must recognize that the days of Genesis 1 are normal days, i.e., the period of the rotation of the earth about its axis.
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Kopp skippered the A-division team in the Schell Trophy this weekend and helped contribute to a second-place finish and a birth into the Atlantic Coast Championship. (Photo Courtesy of Gil Talbot)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard coed sailing team posted a second-place finish at the 70th Erwin Schell Trophy over the weekend, qualifying for the Atlantic Coast Championship. The Crimson women's team also competed this weekend placing 14th at the Victorian Urn.
Harvard's success was compounded with the strong
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13th races. Harvard secured 228 points and finished only
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top three, finishing two points behind Harvard.
In the Victorian Urn hosted by the Crimson, Harvard had the A team of sophomores Morgan Russom and Caitlin Watson and B-division squad of Isabel Ruane and Caroline Lowe. Russom and Watson secured five top-10 finishes for 149 points during the weekend, while Ruane and Watson had two top-10 showings and 154 points in their grouping. The Crimson finished with 303 points overall. Dartmouth once again took top honors, with Rhode Island and Connecticut College coming in second and third, respectively.
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Mahāmudrā in India and Tibet
Roger R. Jackson
Mahāmudrā, "the Great Seal," is a Sanskrit term (Tibetan: phyag rgya chen po) that connotes a wide range of concepts and practices in Indian Mahāyāna and, especially, Tibetan Buddhism, most of them directly or indirectly related to discourse on ultimate reality and the way to know and achieve it. The term first appeared in Indian tantric texts of the 7th or 8th century
Modern Yoga
Andrea Jain
Modern yoga refers to a variety of systems that developed as early as the 19th century as a consequence of capitalist production, colonial and industrial endeavors, global developments in areas ranging from metaphysics to fitness, and modern ideas and values. Modern yoga systems transformed from largely controversial, elite, or countercultural ones to pop culture varieties when entrepreneurial gurus became strategic participants in a global market and succeeded in marketing yoga by establishing continuity between their yoga brands and dominant values and demands. Today, modern yoga is most frequently prescribed as a part of self-development believed to provide increased beauty, strength, and flexibility as well as decreased stress and that can be combined with other worldviews and practices available in the global market.
Visualization in Hindu Practice
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Broadly, visualization stands for a specific mode of imagination in which certain objects or concepts are "viewed as" or "viewed in light of" something else. In the religious context, something is "discovered" as the sacred in the process of visualization. In essence, what constitutes an object or image as sacred is the way this entity is encountered through visualization: it is this act that provides a surplus of value to the entity. When we visualize something, we activate multiple cognitive mechanisms and the added meaning is gained through metonymic and metaphoric structures. The new value of an entity or the discovery of new meaning is often a consequence of the blend of the existing inputs. Historically, ritualized visualization evolved in the Hindu context alongside the Vedic rituals and later became a central feature of everyday Hinduism. Tantric traditions in particular utilize visualization to gain greater access to the mechanism of the mind. Studying visualization thus not only reveals how an imaginative life meshes with reality in constituting the sacred, but it also demonstrates the power of imagination in transforming everyday reality.


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Illinois Abolishes Ban on Carrying Concealed Weapons
Legislature Override Veto From Gov. Pat Quinn
Illinois has lifted its long-standing ban on concealed weapons, ending its distinction as the only state to prohibit its citizens from carrying firearms outside the home.
A bill to allow concealed carry passed each of the state's two legislative houses Tuesday by more than a three-fifths vote, overriding a veto last week by Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.


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I'm an app designer who works with clients to realize their iPhone projects. Before starting development, I create wireframes of different app concepts to see whether this is what the client wants. I used to print out my wireframes to show my clients, but paper makes it difficult to get a feeling of how the app will work on an actual device.
For this reason, I created an app that allows me to display designs created with my favourite wireframing tool Balsamiq (http://balsamiq.com/) on the iPhone. I now want to sell this app and need an app icon for it.
UX professionals, interaction designers, and software engineers who create user interfaces and need to test their designs on an iPhone.
My iPhone app Mockups is a tool that helps interaction designers and software engineers to display their user interface designs on the iPhone. For example, you can create a wireframe with Balsamiq (http://balsamiq.com/) and use my app to display your design directly on the iPhone.
I imagine an app icon related to displaying and reviewing user interface designs (designs in the form of sketches, wireframes, or Photoshop images).
I need your design for an app icon as a layered Photoshop file or Illustrator file (CS4 or older).
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- 29x29 (search results iPhone, settings iPad)
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- 57x57 (application icon iPhone)
- 58x58 (search results iPhone high-res)
- 72x72 (application icon iPad)
- 114x14 (application icon iPhone high-res)
- 512x512 (App Store icon)
It's important that your design looks great in all image sizes mentioned here. Bonus points for designers that optimize PNG images to look perfect for their size rather than just downsizing a large original.
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Custom dancewear and accessories for professional dancers, students and anyone who likes to dance. Arleo Wear is designed and made by a professional ballet dancer Vilia Putrius.
All of the items are made-to-order from the options available on the website. Allow approximately from 4 to 8 weeks for your item(s) to be made.


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Hello, I have a big problem in Gothic 2 Gold Edition.
I still do the same damage with any sword, axe, blunt etc... I can increase my strenght but nothing happens(I can have any melee weapon, but i still do the same damage). But spells and bows are OK(they do damage as they have to), but this problem ruins the whole gameplay for me. I didn´t changed anything in ini. file. This has been problem on my friends PC too(I borrowed him the game), maybe the CD is bugged.
Version of game is 2.7, its in czech language.
Windows 7 Home premium 64bit
Intel Core I5 2500k 3.30 Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Night Hawk
4 GB of ram
I hope no other specs are needed.
Please help, I really want to play Gothic 2 again !
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Rolena Adorno is the Sterling Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her books on colonial Latin American literary and cultural history, including The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative; De Guancane a Macondo: estudios de literatura hispanoamericana; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, and Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, have been awarded prizes by the Modern Language Association, the American Historical Association, the Western Historical Association, and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She holds an Honorary Professorship at La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and is an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America. In 2015, she received the Modern Language Association's Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born and raised in an Iowa farming family of German descent, Ms. Adorno holds a BA from the University of Iowa, an MAT from the University of Hartford, and a PhD from Cornell University.


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Knights Of The Online Republic: KOTOR MMO Is Go
It's a big day for Bioware. First, Dragon Age scrubs up very nice indeed, and now EA have only bleedin' gone and revealed they're planning Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: The MMO. Yes, with Bioware at the till. [Pauses for internet-wide cheer]. "As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in rapture and were suddenly fanboys…"
It's been rumoured for ages, but E3 saw EA's John Riccitiello drop a conclusive bombshell. Quote'n'that under the jump.
I've said it before and I'll say it again – I'd better be able to play as a Jawa.
"We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development," said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. "And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it."
Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online? "Yes," he said.
"Yes" can be such a magical word.
In a way, the Bioware involvement is in many ways the least important element of this. It's a certain seal of quality, sure – and crucially it's the first time they've done Massively Multi – but what's really big here is that it's a Star Wars MMO. From EA. In a post-WoW climate (which puts it on an entirely different footing to poor Galaxies right from the off). In other words, perhaps the most serious rival World of Warcraft could possibly have.
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Paul Joseph Watson
January 27, 2011
New York Republican Peter King has introduced a bill that would protect the army of citizen spies Homeland Security hopes to recruit under Janet Napolitano's "See Something, Say Something" snoop campaign from lawsuits brought by innocent people wrongly accused of being terrorists or extremists.
"A top US lawmaker unveiled legislation on Wednesday to protect individuals who tip off authorities to potential extremist threats from lawsuits, in the event that they turn out to finger innocents," reports AFP.
House Homeland Security Chairman King, who is pushing the "See Something, Say Something Act," wants to shield "good citizens who report suspicious activity" from facing the consequences of misidentifying innocent behavior as extremism or terror.
Of course, this will only encourage untrained people to report any behavior whatsoever, no matter how benign, as potential terrorism, creating an army of enthusiastic but hapless citizen spies.
"King said his bill would extend protections from individuals "who report suspicious activity anywhere," adds the report, making reference to the DHS' "See Something, Say Something" campaign, which characterizes paying for things with cash as a suspicious activity.
The program was launched with the aid of Orwellian telescreens at Wal-Mart checkouts that play a message from Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano encouraging Americans to report anything unusual to Wal-Mart managers. The program was subsequently expanded to include 9,000 federal buildings, as well as sports stadiums, businesses and communities in general.
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DHS will no longer be limited to the airport in the form of the TSA, but will become a ubiquitous entity policing everyone through a network of citizen spies and infrastructure security technology. The agency will also assume the mantle of regulating Americans' every behavior and activity. DHS signs are already in place all over the country telling people where they can and can't park their cars.
As we have documented, every historical example of such informant programs illustrates that they never lead to a more secure society, but instead breed suspicion, distrust, fear and resentment amongst the population. The only "benefit" that such programs have ever achieved is allowing the state to more easily identify and persecute political dissidents, while discouraging the wider population from engaging in any criticism against the government.
Since its official launch, the See Something, Say Something campaign has successfully wasted thousands of dollars of taxpayer money after people reported half-empty flasks of coffee and bags of clothes as deadly threats that required a response from bomb squads.
Of course, as we have documented, the federal government is fully aware of the fact that Americans are just as likely to be killed by lightning strikes, peanut allergies or accident-causing deer than they are by terrorists.
See Something, Say Something has little to do with combating terrorism, and everything to do with implanting the notion that Americans are constantly under surveillance from each other and may be reported to the authorities for any minor example of aberrant behavior no matter how benign.
In addition, since the Department of Homeland Security has characterized political activism which targets the state as extremist and terrorist activity, Americans are being trained that exercising their constitutional rights could get them in hot water with the law should their behavior be deemed suspicious by ignorant wannabe citizen spies who see themselves as terrorist hunters.
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In an ironic twist, Rep. King, who is now trying to protect snoops who identify innocent behavior as extremism from lawsuits, was one of the primary co-sponsors of a 2009 House resolution that attempted to get answers as to why Homeland Security equated veterans, gun owners, Ron Paul supporters, and people who fly the U.S. flag, with violent terrorists, following the release of the agency's infamous MIAC report.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.


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|Apr 4th, 2010 02:27 AM
|Well at least we don't get to see his wife in all of her manatee-sized ugly glory in this movie.
|Mar 30th, 2010 07:28 AM
|Tom Foolery
|You mean Tim Burton made a remake of an old movie starring his wife and Johnny Depp with gothic undertones? Surely you jest. You say he altered storyline to be centered around Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter so they they somehow get more screentime than any other actor in the picture, with maybe the exception of Mia Wasikowski. Johnny Depp looks likes a clown and Helena Bonham Carter has a great big giant head. That's what fills theaters? Steve Buscemi played a better Mad Hatter on SNL for crying out loud. Although I am with narcolepticsloth in the fact that Martin Short was definately the best Mad Hatter.
|Mar 28th, 2010 03:46 PM
|Deadly Towers Sux
|It was a great movie! If you've heard of American McGee's version of Alice, you'll notice that some elements of the game's storyline were incorporated into this movie. The main one being a grown-up Alice returning to a darker Wonderland to kill the Jabberwocky and dethrone the Queen of Hearts.
|Mar 27th, 2010 08:11 PM
|mew barios
|i saw this movie somehow though i didn't choose to on my own, it was short enough that i didn't have any major complaints though i'm sure i could come up with a few if i was paying closer attention. johnny depp seemed disturbingly lucid.
|Mar 26th, 2010 06:25 AM
|Rufus the Perturbed
|Normally I'm a huge Tim Burton fan, but I do have two exceptions: his remakes of Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Planet of the Apes made no sense (how did the apes take over if the humans hadn't devolved like in the original?), and Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka came off as just awkward and annoying. I much perferred Gene Wilder's whimsical-yet-creepy Wonka. Those two aside, I've liked everything else Tim Burton has ever done, and I'll probably like Alice in Wonderland, too.
|Mar 24th, 2010 12:10 PM
|I found the Queen of Heart's blue eyeshadow a little off-putting as well, but otherwise I agree with your review.
|Mar 23rd, 2010 08:16 PM
Hey Proto,
Did you See SciFi channels Alice 4 hour special.
I was ready for it to be absolutely horrible, but it had just enough of everything to hold together. I have yet to see Tim's version, but I think, from what you say, I'll like it.
|Mar 23rd, 2010 01:53 PM
|Tetsu Deinonychus
I love Tim Burton (but, I agree with Proto that his version of Planet of the Apes sucked!). And, I love Alice and Wonderland.
Anyway, saw this on IMAX 3d this weekend and thought it was awesome! Tim Burton's the only one who can take a classic story like this, mess with it, and make it even better!
|Mar 20th, 2010 11:08 PM
In Burton's defense, I would say that if I found the method to earn 8 "squillian" dollars from a movie, I would repeat that process until it stopped making money.
That's kind of an unfair statement to make about him not being unique or creative after Nightmare, especially since some of his most creative and innovative films were made before Nightmare.
also Ed wood and Big Fish came out after Nightmare, and both of those movies were two of his best films. I have yet to any Ed Wood shirts in hot topic.
|Mar 17th, 2010 04:07 AM
|I will say however I enjoyed Sweeny Todd and NBC.
|Mar 17th, 2010 04:05 AM
The problem with this, Choclete factory and anything else Burton seems to get his hands on is that he is a one trick pony. Take [Plot] add [Hot Topic marketable character] make the senary all spiraly and spikey. Possibly make a character WACKY and ZANY.
And lets be honest, Alice didnt need that, it was already and insane dream world, with incredible visuals and outstandingly charming characters, but no, put the hatter as one of the main characters, that'll sell lots of merch.
I hear that Burton is Unique all the damn time but the fact is he hasnt been unique or "new" since Nightmare before Christmas, every single movie he has done since has just cribbed off of the visual styles of that movie because it made him 8 squillian dollars.
Its like saying Micheal Bay is a groundbreaking new thinking kinda guy because his movies have blowing up stuff.
|Mar 14th, 2010 07:39 PM
|The last movie I really liked with Burton and Depp was Sweeney Todd. Man, that was great.
|Mar 14th, 2010 04:25 AM
I hated the plot of this movie. It made me wish that Burton would give up on cgi and go back to live action stuff since he is clearly more comfortable in that area.
Also this is by far one of Danny Elfman's worst scores to date. it sounded as if he took all the left over songs from Charlie and the chocolate factory, mashed them together, and repeated it over and over again without taking in consideration what was happening onscreen.
I agree with Gix about the ending. it was pretty weak.
But on the other hand the characters were really well done, with the exception of Mia who was kinda dull.
I think that people expected the movie to stay close to the book because of Burton's treatment of Charlie and the chocolate factory, which was a brilliant movie, and way better than the original mostly because it didnt stray too far from the book. (interesting bit of trivia: Roald Dahl gave Burton's version his approval and completely loathed the Gene Wilder version.)
the movie was titled "Alice in Wonderland" which one could safely assume that it is close to the book. If it were titled "Alice fights the Jabberwocky in Underland" then I'm sure the reviews you mention wouldnt have much of a problem with how far it strayed.
I think Burton should have stretched it to 2 hours so he could give some of the better characters more screen time and figure out a decent plot that actually had a decent resolution. Why didnt he just use the plots from the books? One would think that Tim Burton of all people would "get" the nonsensicalness of the stories and would be able to work in that setting and with that story comfortably.
Overall it was a bit of a letdown...
My favorite version of Alice in wonderland has to be the 1999 tv movie, simply because it has Ben Kingsley as the Caterpillar, Robbie Coltraine (aka Hagrid) as Tweedledum, Gene Wilder as the Mock Turtle, and Martin Short as the Mad hatter (who looks remarkably like the hatter already). I think it captured the essence of the books better than any other version I've seen, including the disney cartoon..
|Mar 13th, 2010 08:59 PM
|Joe Musashi
|I had gone to see this at the theater a couple days ago. I found it an interesting watch. I still have a bit more of a liking for Burton's older work, but this wasn't too bad.
|Mar 13th, 2010 11:57 AM
|Waiting for the DVD.
|Mar 13th, 2010 09:59 AM
|I really loved this movie, the White Queen was fun to watch,thou i do have to say the the ending was weak but to me it was amazing and ill atlest see it again. also they take alot form the poem,"Jabberwocky"
|Mar 13th, 2010 03:45 AM
|Even without 3 beers the movie had its moments. A few of them were really entertainingly morbid. But did anybody notice the white queen kept holding her hand up and making the shocker?
|Mar 13th, 2010 03:22 AM
Whoah hold up... so you enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, HATED Planet of the Apes and found Corpse Bride to be lackluster?
Well that settles it man, I can never take any of your reviews seriously ever again.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the massive stinker, what with it pissing all over Gene Wilder's PERFECT performance. Planet of the Apes was suprisingly Enjoyable and Corpse Bride might have been one of his better animated works. While I can excuse you for not caring for Apes and the Bride, finding, C&TCF enjoyable destroys any credibility you have on anything.
Seriously I couldn't even ask you if "this smells funny to you" and trust your answer anymore.
|Mar 12th, 2010 12:22 PM
|Taco Head
|I wish I could go and see this in the theater sadly we don't have an Imax in my town (I'm not paying for a 3 hour bus trip to San Antonio)and movie tickets are a bit out of my budget right now. I haven't been in a movie theater in over 6 years if I had the money I would go see this.
|Mar 12th, 2010 10:56 AM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
|Gotta see in in IMAX.
|Mar 12th, 2010 10:38 AM
|Waiting for this to hit the Dollar Theater, but I do intend to see it.
|Mar 11th, 2010 02:32 PM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
|And it comes with a preview for TRON!
|Mar 11th, 2010 01:39 PM
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Pure Evil: Top 10 Worst Celebrity Stans
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Stans are the worst human beings on Earth. Completely-evil and relentless, stalker + fans are dark plagues upon humanity. More of a curse than gift to artists, stans devote their lives to defending famous strangers (who will never know they exist). Pathetic? Absolutely, but reality in celeb-obsessed America.
Here are the ten worst celebrity stans. Take a look.
Beyonce A$AP Bey's legion of psychotic minions live to protect the hive. If you ever criticize their Queen, leader and reason for breathing, they pop up at your house, job or even in your dreams with baseball bats, ready to fight.
Team: MJ
Michael Jackson stans love every MJ complexion, tragically-sculpted nose and record ever. Insult their world, their everything, and they'll come through your computer screen dressed like MJ in the "Bad" video. ALL of them.
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Team: Obama
President Obama has more thirsty Code: Orange groupies (disguised as supporters) than any other male celebrity, maybe ever. At times, he's more of a GOD than political figure. Twitter search A) "President Obama can get it" B) "Obama smash oval office mistress" or C) "YAAAS" during his speeches. You'll see.
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Justin's "Beliebers"
Biebs' monstrous fanbase famously threatened ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez because they didn't like her for him. Mostly "Twilight"-obsessed tweeny-bops (with glittery pink rubber bands in their braces), they're far more possessive and vicious than they seem.
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Team: Kobe
Basketball discussions start and end with Kobe, in the twisted minds of Kobe stans. Before Kobe, there was Kobe and after Kobe, is Kobe. Greatest to ever dribble a basketball? Kobe. Greatest in the game today? Kobe. That one night in Eagle, Colorado? Never happened. Reasoning with Kobe stans? Impossible.
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Rihanna Navy
RiRi's unwashed fleet of hoodrats genuinely believe their dysfunctional shero can SANG. Like, in their Molly-damaged minds, she sounds exactly like Whitney Houston, not tortured tropical birds. Loyal? Yes, but the most thoroughly ratchet of ALL stans.
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Team: Lil Kim
The only people (in the universe) who still believe Liddo Kimmie is "beautiful" are her deeply-delusional stans. Currently embroiled in a Civil War with the Barbz, Kimmie stans patrol the internet and attack anyone who slanders their shero's sock puppety-face.
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Lady Gaga's Little Monsters
More like a cult than actual fanbase, Little Monsters are an army of socially-awkward weirdos and outcasts oddly-attached to Gaga. Not feeling Gaga? Never say this online because they WILL stalk you to the ends of the Earth.
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Team: Breezy
With life's greatest cheat code comes millions of brain-damaged super-stans. For every sensible Breezy fan are thousands who yearn to be savagely-beaten by him. SMH.
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"Marginal Win Score per 48" (MWS48) explained
"Tell me how you come to your conclusions and I'll decide if they are intelligent or horsecrap" — An astute commenter
Q: What is Marginal Win Score per 48 (MWS48)?
Marginal Win Score per 48 is the basketball metric I use to attribute wins and losses to individual players on any given basketball team. It is based upon the Win Score metric created by economics Professor David Berri and his colleagues who wrote the excellent book The Wages of Wins. Their work uncovered how traditional basketball statistics correlate with wins. Win Score is simply an expression of their findings, and Marginal Win Score is derived from that.
Now, always bear in mind when considering the value of MWS that Berri's Win Score is the original work and is the only variation of the metric that has been rigorously tested, researched, and reviewed. Marginal Win Score on the other hand is just a derivative idea hatched in the mind of a basketball fan and submitted for the approval of other interested basketball fans, and I wouldn't ever represent it as anything more than that. To the extent I've tested it, sure it works, but nevertheless take it for what it is.
Q: How is Win Score calculated?
A: Points + Rebounds + Steals + .5Assists + .5Blocks – Field Goal Attempts – Turnovers – .5Free Throw Attempts – .5Personal Fouls
Q: Why do you like Win Score better than other metrics?
A: Because, unlike John Hollinger's PER metric, and the NBA's Efficiency metric, the Win Score metric actually tells you which players are producing wins. The others have no relationship to wins. The key finding that Win Score made that the others seem to overlook is the importance of effectively using and creating possessions in basketball. This difference shows up in two main ways. First, Win Score deducts for every field goal attempt taken by the player, the others only deduct for missed field goal attempts. Thus the other metrics reward players for the simple act of shooting the basketball, an act that has no value in and of itself. Win Score requires players to turn field goal attempts into points, and penalizes them if they do not. Second, Win Score values rebounds and steals (possession creating acts) more heavily than assists and blocked shots, NBA Efficiency does not (PER does). Assists and blocked shots are helpful acts, certainly, but they are not as important as Rebounds and Steals when it comes to producing wins, and Win Score recognizes this.
Q: How does Marginal Win Score differ from Win Score?
Its basically a comparative difference.
Win Score attributes wins to players by comparing their Win Score per 48 (WS48) to the NBA average WS48 at the player's position. Marginal Win Score attributes wins produced on the basis of the Player's Win Score and the Win Score he and his team allow opponents who play the same position to produce.
The reason I prefer this method is simple. No team and no individual player ever competes against "the average". They compete against actual opponents. And in the game of basketball, one can impact the level of efficiency one's opponents are able to achieve (I am loosely referring, of course, to "defense"). That fact has to be recognized, I believe, in any win calculation.
Think of it this way. Lets say you have a team that produces, at all five positions, the average NBA Win Score per 48 minutes. Under the traditional Win Score calculation, you would expect that team to finish the season with as many wins as losses, a .500 team.
But lets add a ridiculous element to illustrate an important point. Lets say that ".500 team" wishes to protest against their frugal owner and lets say they elect to do so by collectively refusing to cross half court to play defense. Under those circumstances, one would expect their opponents to produce Win Scores against them at every single position that are much higher than the NBA average.
If that is the case then traditional Win Score is in a logical bind. How can that team still be considered a .500 team? If "Win Score" statistics correlate with basketball wins, and they do, then the fact that the team's "Opponents" are producing Win Score statistics that are far beyond the average would suggest that the team itself must ALSO produce Win Score statistics far beyond the average if they themselves are to win? Right? The obvious answer is yes.
That means a team's level of defense can affect the amount of "Win Score" they must produce to win games. And if "defense" or more precisely "Opposition Win Score average" can be affected by the team itself, and our little thought scenario shows that it can, then that "defense" has to be recognized in any win calculation. That is precisely what Marginal Win Score does.
I bring up one additional point to help prove my case. If you calculate Team Win Score averages for every NBA team, and then try to translate them into wins, you will find that you MUST account for Opposition Win Score or you will not accurately calculate the team's wins produced. That also suggests you must use the Marginal Win Score comparison (For instance, go back to 2007-08. As a team, the Celtics Team Win Score average was much lower than the Team Win Score average produced by the Phoenix Suns. So, if you are strictly comparing against the average, as Win Score does, then Phoenix should have more wins. But that wasn't the case. But, once you factor in Opponent Win Score, you solve the problem. Once you account for the fact that the average Celtic Opponent Win Score was much, much lower than the NBA average, and that the average Suns Opponent Win Score average was slightly higher, then you get the proper win calculation. The Celtics and Suns, in other words, created different "win atmospheres" for themselves. The Celtics didn't have to produce as efficiently to win games because they did not allow their opponents to produce efficiently. That is Marginal Win Score in a nutshell).
Q: So Marginal Win Score is Win Score with defense?
Yes and no. Basketball defense is so intertwined between the individual and the team, its impossible to precisely value each player's defense. So that's not what I'm claiming to do. Instead what I like to say is "With Marginal Win Score each team and each player on that team produces wins based upon a comparison between his positional Win Score and the Win Score average that he and his team allow at his given position". Is defense part of that? Yes. Can individual defensive effort effect that? Yes. But are there elements of that defense that are not in each player's control? Yes.
That's why I don't claim that "Marginal Win Score" is necessarily about defense per se. Because basketball defense is partially an individual act, and partially a team act. And since its really a poorly compensated act, it relies somewhat on the cooperation and collective morale of the entire team.
Therefore a player's Marginal Win Score will be effected by elements out of his control. A player on a hopeless team whose teammates play no defense has little to no incentive to play defense himself. And even if he does, how is he going to stop his counterparts alone? So you have that element.
But I'm comfortable with that, because, really, that is what winning in sports is all about. You're not always faced with ideal circumstances or circumstances that are 100% under your control. Producing wins, or more precisely, performing the acts that produce wins, is often circumstantial. That's just sports.
So how is Marginal Win Score calculated?
Marginal Win Score per 48: (Player's Win Score – his collective "same position" Opponent Win Score / 2) / his minutes played * 48
How does MWS48 translate into wins?
There is a formula that uses the player's MWS48 and his minutes and plugging those individual numbers into that formula you get the number of wins produced by each player.
How accurate is Marginal Win Score?
I've done about 5 full NBA seasons, and I've found that each team's total Marginal Win Score wins explain, on average, 95% of each team's Pythagorean wins (its almost identical for actual wins, but I use Pythagorean wins for historical purposes). Normally the explanation is in the 93 to 99 percent rant, but you will occasionally find it varying, never by anymore than 88% of Pythagorean wins.
Do you have any examples of MWS48 in use?
Yes, here is a page attributing wins and losses to every player on every team from the 2008-09 NBA season.
And here is a page that uses what I call "Historical Marginal Win Score" to attribute wins to every player on every team from the 1964-65 NBA season. I will explain Historical Marginal Win Score on another page. Its just Marginal Win Score that relies on inductive reasoning to fill in the necessary but missing statistics. You might find that interesting. My dream is to someday complete every NBA season and then publish my findings.


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During the first week of December, Jill Peleuses and Michelle Frazier set off on a two-day journey to the Outer Banks hoping to spy a lingering interloper � a non-native snowy owl who�d been spotted hanging out on the beach at Cape Hatteras.
�We have the fever,� said Peleuses, owner of Wild Bird & Garden in Wilmington. �We were so excited. Neither one of us had ever seen a snowy owl before. It was the day after the Bonner Bridge closed, so it was a series of two ferries and probably eight hours of travel one way.
�And the whole time we�re hoping, �Please don�t let that bird fly away.� �
The trek may seem extreme but was well worth it for the birders, who viewed the excursion as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spy a snowy owl in person. This winter, North Carolina has seen an unprecedented influx of the birds, which are native to the Arctic tundra in Alaska and Canada and almost never fly this far south.
Since October, 14 owls � white, with black markings and bright yellow eyes � have been spotted in the state, from Wrightsville Beach to Cape Hatteras and as far west as Asheville.
Biologists and birders don�t have a definitive explanation for the influx, though it�s most likely related to northern food supplies.
�It�s probably based on having a lot of success with a lot of chicks being fledged this summer and having a lot of snowy owls out there,� said Lindsay Addison, coastal biologist with Audubon North Carolina. �They eat rodents, and if they don�t find food farther north in their typical winter range, they come south.�
That type of winter migration, known as an irruption, occurs every three to five years, Addison said. But even during those years, snowy owls are an uncommon sight in North Carolina.
�There was an irruption last year,� Addison said. �It doesn�t usually happen every year, so it was unexpected. I would say they�re a rare bird for North Carolina, but every few years, there will be one somewhere in the state. It occurs every so often.�
The birds won�t stay here long-term, though the switch from life on the tundra to days on the beach isn�t as extreme as it may seem. Snowy owls are used to flat, windswept expanses of land, so temperatures aside, coastal locations aren�t that different from their natural habitat.
�They like open spaces, so sitting out on a sand dune or on the beach itself � that�s more what they�re used to in the tundra, rather than the woods,� Addison said. �That�s why you see them there.�
Fortunately for Peleuses and Frazier, beach habitat lends itself well to bird-watching. Within five minutes of arriving at Cape Hatteras, the duo spotted the snowy owl on an open stretch of sand.
�It was beautiful. Just very grand,� Peleuses said. �We stood on the beach and watched the owl for three hours. It was something we may never have the opportunity to see again. We�ve traveled for other birds, but never gone so far for one. I�m so glad we did go.�


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Mike Tyson revealed his current struggles with sobriety and desire to make up for his past sins Friday night at a press conference following his promotional debut on Friday Night Fights.
Bad Left Hook transcribed Tyson's monologue, including his damaged relationship with former trainer Teddy Atlas. Some select quotes:
I'm a motherfucker. I'm a bad guy sometimes. I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven. So in order for me to be forgiven, I hope they can forgive me. I wanna change my life, I wanna live a different life now. I wanna live my sober life. I don't wanna die. I'm on the verge of dying, because I'm a vicious alcoholic. Wow. God, this is some interesting stuff.
I haven't drank or took drugs in six days, and for me that's a miracle. I've been lying to everybody else that think I was sober, but I'm not. This is my sixth day. I'm never gonna use again.


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Yantras for different types of nakshatras can be used effectively in order to obtain different types of benefits from these yantras, when used according to the guidelines of Vedic Astrology, and though some astrologers may think that using different types of navagraha yantra for each planet among navagraha and using yantras for different gods and goddesses is all that is required to obtain all types of benefits, but this is not true. Yantras for different nakshatras have their own significance and when used properly and when used at proper times, nakshatra yantras can also give very good and strong astrological results which can many times equal the results given by yantras for navagraha and which can sometimes even surpass the results given by yantras for navagraha. Vedic Astrology is all about finding the right kind of remedies for every Horoscope as every Kundali is different from the other one and accordingly each person can benefit from different types of remedies which include the use of different types of yantras also. Anuradha nakshatra yantra is used in order to reduce the negative effects given by Anuradha nakshatra, in a Horoscope and this yantra is also used in order to obtain more benefits from Anuradha nakshatra when this nakshatra is working positively in a Kundali. Hence, people under the positive as well as negative influence of Anuradha nakshatra can use this yantra as per the guidance of Vedic Astrology and they can obtain benefits from this yantra.
And though there are different types of benefits which can be associated with Anuradha yantra but it should be noted that this yantra can give all those benefits in the best possible way only if this yantra has been prepared properly with correct techniques of Vedic Astrology. Purification and Energization of Anuradha yantra is the most important part of its preparation and along with these steps, programming and activation of this yantra are also very important steps in order to finalize this yantra. The process of purification removes any type of negative or malefic influence of energy present on or around Anuradha yantra and the process of energization provides energy to this yantra. This energy is provided with the chant of Ved mantras of Anuradha nakshatra where the count of this mantra to be chanted can be different for different people who wish to benefit from this yantra, depending upon their overall Horoscope and their goal in question. But it should be noted that in order for an Anuradha nakshatra yantra to work properly, a count of at least 5100 Anuradha ved mantras is a must though a count of 11,000 mantras is advised to be the least in most of the cases. After this, depending upon the need and goal of the person in question and depending upon his Horoscope, this chant can be increased up to 125,000 mantra of Anuradha Nakshatra or even more. The steps called programming and activation involve the tuning of Anuradha nakshatra yantra in such a way that it gives optimum benefits for a specific person or a group of persons for whom this yantra is being prepared. Hence an Anuradha nakshatra yantra should be prepared properly by paying attention to all the required steps and by practicing each technique in the best possible way so that it may give best possible results to the native for whom this yantra has been prepared. Always remember that the preparation of any yantra is the most important part of its formation as well as its working and hence each Anuradha yantra should be prepared with great care and proper techniques of Vedic Astrology.
Some astrologers and Pandits use the technique allegedly named as mass energization, for preparing yantras and such astrologers believe that by using this technique, more yantras can be prepared in a shorter period of time. The Pandits who use this technique, keep 100s of Anuradha yantras together and they try to energize all of these yantras with a chant of 11,000 or 21,000 mantras for all of these Anuradha yantras, where such mantras are chanted only once for all of these yantras collectively. The programming and activation of such Anuradha yantras is also done on mass scale which means that no individual programming and activation is done for different individuals who are going to use these yantras. This way, the cost of Anuradha Yantra reduces a great deal and 100s of yantras can be prepared in the cost of 1 yantra. But this technique is a waste of effort and money in actual practice and hence it should be avoided because in order to achieve optimum benefits from Anuradha nakshatra yantra, this yantra should be prepared individually for each and every person who wishes to benefit from this yantra because such yantras prepared in a group, generally do not give any significant benefits at all and hence this practice of mass energization should be avoided. The natives who wish to establish an Anuradha nakshatra yantra should know that they are getting such yantra prepared, not in order to save money but in order to get the best possible benefits from this Anuradha yantra and in order to get those benefits, each one of Anuradha yantras should be prepared individually.
After you have received your energized and programmed Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra, the next thing to do is to establish it in your house, your wallet, your pocket or around your neck in a pendant depending upon the kind of Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra you have chosen which is again dependent upon the advice of your Vedic astrologer. For best possible results you should establish your Anuradha Yantra on a Saturday and you should establish it in the place of worship ( Pooja Place ) in your house, in case you have selected a big size Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra which is advised to be kept at your house. For other types of Anuradha Nakshatra Yantras, you can keep them in your pocket, wallet or you can wear them around your neck as a pendant, on a Saturday depending upon the kind of Yantra you have been advised. In order to establish an Anuradha yantra for the first time, wake up on a Saturday morning, after taking your bath, take your Anuradha yantra to your Pooja place, Chant 11 or 21 Ved Mantras of Anuradha Nakshatra, sprinkle some holy water ( Ganga Jal ) or unboiled milk on your yantra, Pray to God Mitra and ask for the best possible results or ask for your specific benefits as told by your Vedic astrologer, and then establish the Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra in your house, wallet or around your neck. Your Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra has been established now and it will start working straight away and in order to keep it working properly, you will need to attend to it on regular basis. Every day after taking your bath or preparing yourself for the day, go to the place where your Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra has been placed, concentrate on it, chant 11 Ved Mantras for Anuradha Nakshatra and then ask your specific wishes from this Yantra. In case you are carrying your Yantra in your pocket or you are wearing it around your neck, just take it in your hands after bath, concentrate on it, chant 11 Ved mantras of Anuradha Nakshatra and ask your wishes from this Yantra. Attending to your Anuradha Nakshatra Yantra on regular basis establishes a strong connection between you and your Yantra which helps you get optimum benefits from your Yantra.
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Rep. Todd Akin's damning statement that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant is just the latest in a string of unforced errors by the GOP Senate candidate that has Republicans fretting about his chances of beating Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
And a loss in Missouri would almost certainly quash the party's hopes of reclaiming the Senate majority.
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In just over a week since securing the GOP nomination, Akin has doubled-down on likening student loans to socialism, questioned the value of voting rights laws, called for the end of the federal school lunch program and then — in an interview that made national headlines — openly speculated about the consequences of "legitimate rape."
( Also on POLITICO: 5 controversial Akin quotes)
It's no wonder why McCaskill was more than happy to assist Akin's primary campaign with an ad hailing him as "the true conservative."
In a span of 12 short days, the six-term congressman's performance has confirmed the worst fears of Republicans while breathing a burst of fresh hope into McCaskill's underdog bid.
There's now a burgeoning sense among anxious Republicans and cautious Democrats that Akin is handing McCaskill a ripe opportunity to climb back in a race that should be close to over. At least one public poll since the primary has shown McCaskill within the margin of error — a position she hadn't seen in months. And if Akin fumbles his shot at a race that GOP operatives felt supremely confident about just a month ago, it's difficult to see how the party converts the four pickups it needs to wrest back Senate control.
"For God's sake," one Missouri GOP operative lamented Sunday after Akin's rape remarks. "DEFCON 5. Panic for the rest of the ticket. Major intervention needed."
Answering a question about abortion from a local Fox station in St. Louis, Akin said victims of "legitimate rape" very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so.
"If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," he told reporter Charles Jaco.
McCaskill hopped on the statement, saying, "It is beyond comprehension that someone can be so ignorant about the emotional and physical trauma brought on by rape. The ideas that Todd Akin has expressed about the serious crime of rape and impact on its victims are offensive."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT hosted its annual Spring Coed Invitational on Saturday, inviting a number of New England teams to the Steinbrenner track for a non-scoring meet. In addition to the meet at home, a small number of athletes traveled to Princeton University for the Larry Ellis Invitational, and performed extremely well in a very competitive field, setting a number of personal bests and breaking a 30-year old record in the process.
Sophomore Tyler Singer-Clark (Falmouth, Mass.) was impressive at home, placing second in a pair of events and running on the third-place 4x100 relay. Singer-Clark finished second in the 100 meters in 11.14 seconds and was the runner-up in the 200 with a time of 22.24 seconds. The sophomore teamed up with junior Daniel Ronde (East Northport, N.Y.) and freshmen Nick Diamantoni (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Sheldon Trotman (Gaithersburg, Md.) to run the 4x100 relay in 43.56, good for third behind Tufts University and Bridgewater State University.
Senior Chinedum Umachi (Detroit, Mich.) was solid in a pair of throwing events, winning the hammer with a toss of 176-00 feet and taking third in the discus (158-01 feet).
Junior Patrick Marx (Grand Rapids, Minn.) led a group of three Tech runners in the top nine in the 800 meters. Marx won the event with a time of 1:54.24. Junior Gilbert O'Neil (Norton, Mass.) took seventh with a time of 1:57.36 and junior Jared Forman (Newton, Mass.) was ninth.
Senior Daniel Harper (Naperville, Ill.) ran away from the rest of the field in the 10,000 meters. Harper's time of 30:30.57 was over two and a half minutes faster than his nearest competitor and is currently the 15th fastest time in Division III on the season.
Senior Nathan Peterson (Kansas City, Mo.) was the runner-up in the pole vault, as he and Mike Slovenski from Harvard each cleared the bar at 14-9.00 feet, with Slovenski taking first on attempts. Junior Yida Gao (Marietta, Ga.) was third and freshman Colin Hong (Honolulu, Hawaii) took fourth, as both had vaults of 14-3.25 feet.
Junior Jackson Wirekoh (Woodbridge, Va.) was the other event winner for the Cardinal and Gray, earning first place in the triple jump with his leap of 45-1.75 feet. Trotman was second in the event, with a 43-7.25-foot effort.
Meanwhile, at Princeton, three Tech runners were able to post solid times in their respective events, led by senior Kyle Hannon's (Park Ridge, Ill.) personal best in the 1500 meters. Hannon finished in 3:50.73 the fifth-best time in MIT history and the sixth-fastest in the country in 2012.
Senior Stephen Serene (Washington, D.C.) ran well in the 3000-meter Steeplechase, posting a personal record with his time of 9:20.32, a time that currently ranks 14th in the Division III. Freshman Sam Parker (Menlo Park, Calif.) had a time of 1:54.00 in the 800, setting a new MIT rookie record, breaking the previous mark that had stood since 1980.
Next weekend, the Engineers will look to defend their New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) title for the 12th year in a row. Smith College will host the conference championship meet beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.


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It is possible to make your zits disappear like those other not-so-nice reminders of adolescence—braces and catty friends among them. Your first order of business: Take this quiz to suss out what exactly is causing those pimples. Next, see why everything, including your physiology (hormones!) and lifestyle (skimping on sleep!), can affect your skin. Finally, find the right treatment for you—and banish blemishes once and for all.
When your hormones go haywire
You've probably experienced it, and science confirms it: When hormones go into overdrive, they can cause oily skin and, in turn, acne. Learn exactly what happens when your complexion freaks out.
Stress When you're under the gun, the adrenal glands act up, releasing male hormones called androgens. They elevate oil production and increase the risk for clogged pores, says Diane Berson, M.D., a spokeswoman in New York City for the American Acne & Rosacea Society. Tense or crazy-busy? Breathe deeply.
Your period The week before you begin menstruating, your estrogen levels begin to drop, while progesterone (the pregnancy hormone) skyrockets. As with stress, this sudden hormonal shift can cause an excess of oil production leading to—you guessed it—clogged pores and unwelcome acne.
Pregnancy When you're expecting, high levels of estrogen and progesterone mean glowing skin for some and breakouts for others. "It depends on your sensitivity to hormonal changes," Dr. Downie explains. After the baby is born, these same hormones plummet, upsetting their balance (and, possibly, your skin).
Diet "Refined carbs spike insulin, which, in high doses, may switch on oil production," says Diane Thiboutot, M.D., professor of dermatology at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey. Dairy may also stimulate breakouts. Milk (even organic) contains hormones similar to zit-causing androgens.
Why your habits can create complexion chaos
Of course it's crucial to remove makeup, but did you know your cell phone can trigger a breakout? Ouch!
Friction overload Anything rubbing against skin (such as an iPhone glued to your cheek or a bike helmet pressed against your sweaty forehead) can lead to irritation of the hair follicles at the base of each pore, causing inflammation or bumps called papules. Switch to Bluetooth and slip a bandanna under your helmet.
Subpar cleansing If you hit the hay without washing your face, the day's grime can make its way into pores, Dr. Downie warns. What happens next? Your body initiates an inflammatory response to fight off bacteria, leading to a small, pink, pus-filled bump called a pustule. Massage in cleanser for at least 30 seconds to remove makeup completely.
Constant picking Manhandle or otherwise mess with bumps and blackheads and you risk pushing oil and dirt deeper into skin, creating an even bigger blemish and possibly a scar. Worse, if you rupture the clogged pore, you could wind up with a cyst (a pustule beneath the skin's surface that becomes swollen and inflamed).
Your first line of defense
Create a customized over-the-counter skin-care arsenal to target every trigger.
Pore prettifiers Look for products with salicylic acid to give pores a clean sweep. SA actually enters pores to dissolve buildup, says Amy Taub, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Opt for either an SA gel cleanser or a scrub such as St. Ives Apricot Scrub Blemish & Blackhead Control, $4; doubling up on products could irritate skin.
Bacteria blitzers "Benzoyl peroxide is one of the most potent bacteria fighters available," Dr. Thiboutot says. But it needs time to work its magic, so apply a leave-on cream nightly. (Dab on DermaDoctor Ain't Misbehavin' Medicated Emergency Acne Spot Treatment, $36.) To kill more bacteria, tackle blemishes with an at-home thermal gadget such as the Zeno Mini, $89. Aim the metal tip at your zit to hit the area with heat.
Redness erasers Ease swelling and redness with a spot treatment that contains bacteria-banishing sulfur. (Try Malin+Goetz Acne Treatment, $22.) Or zap problem areas and camouflage them with an oil-free concealer that boasts SA (like Clinique Acne Solutions Clearing Concealer, $14). Apply a bit with a brush to avoid a cakey look.
Derms' top 3 prescriptions
If using OTC blemish fighters isn't cutting it, try these Rx.
Powerhouse retinoids Prescriptions such as Retin-A and Differin (as well as less irritating non-Rx versions) encourage regular cell turnover. That's a good thing because if oil doesn't clog pores, bacteria can't thrive. Antiaging bonus: Retinoids stimulate collagen and exfoliate, so skin looks younger and brighter, too.
Hormone helpers Birth control pills reduce androgens and increase levels of a protein that stymies male hormones in your system, Dr. Thiboutot says. But in some women, the Pill can spark pimples merely by changing the balance of hormones. Whatever you try, if breakouts don't improve in a few months, talk to your doc, as you may have an underlying medical condition. To learn even more about the link between your health and your skin, go to Self.com/beauty.
Pore-cleaning devices Photopneumatic therapy such as PPx or Isolaz uses both suction (to draw out pore-plugging debris) and intense pulsed light (to blast bacteria). The pro procedure also helps get rid of blackheads, although admittedly at a price: Treating the entire face runs from $100 to $300 a session, and you'll likely need four to eight weekly treatments, then a follow-up every one to three months.
If your acne is persistent…
It may be time for an even more powerful skin improver.Oral antibiotics These meds (e.g., minocycline) attack bacteria from within and can clear up acne in a month or two, although the potential side effects—yeast infections, sun sensitivity, developing treatment-resistant bacteria—mean they're not right for everyone. For those with severe or cystic acne, however, these prescriptions can work wonders.
Photodynamic therapy If you'd rather not pop a pill, ask about PDT. Your doc applies a solution that cells within the oil glands then absorb, Dr. Taub says. Next, a blue light is used, and its heat constricts or possibly destroys the glands, along with bacteria. It sounds scary, but it's painless (although some experience redness for up to a week afterward). Worried about drying out your skin? "There are so many oil glands in the face that you can't get them all," Dr. Taub says. PDT is pricey, though (about $550 a session), and three or four sessions are required along with maintenance every three to four months.
Stay smooth
Your last red bump is gone—yes! But stopping treatments cold can cause oil and bacteria to build up again. Simply apply antiacne products a few times a week instead of nightly, or use a lower strength (e.g., 5 percent benzoyl peroxide versus 10). One caveat: If you're on prescription acne meds, keep using as directed. Finally, to ease evidence of pimples past, use a pigment-fading product such as Origins Brighter By Nature Skin Tone Correcting Serum, $40.
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I See the Promised Land (Hardcover)
A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tara Books, 9789380340043, 142pp.
Publication Date: November 1, 2010
"Both evocative and factually rich...Older teens, in addition to adults, will find this to be a standout both as a distinctive graphic narrative that combines two world storytelling traditions and as an examination of King's life and its enduring legacy across the globe." -Booklist Starred Review
"What excites me most here is how this approach can be used to reconnect the graphic novel to its many amazing antecedent narrative forms from around the world and reconfirms comics as a vast, unending human activity."Paul Gravett, author of Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life
"This YA crossover shows King's life expressed through Chitrakar's rich Patua art and Flowers's poetic text."Library Journal
I See the Promised Land traverses the milestones of Martin Luther King Jr.'s short life, ministry, and journey. This graphic narrative brings together two diverse yet dramatic traditions of storytelling. Renowned African American writer and griot Arthur Flowers tells a talereplete with destiny and the human condition to Manu Chitrakar's extraordinarily vivid and eloquent art of the Patua folk style of West Bengal, India.


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Steve Spurrier: No need for 'Saban Rule'
To Steve Spurrier, it's the "Saban Rule." The "it" is the proposed slowdown of college football.
"That's what I call it," the South Carolina coach told USA Today on Thursday.
Alabama coach Nick Saban is among those who support the idea of forcing teams to take at least 10 seconds off the play clock before they can snap the ball. Player safety is the main reason cited for imposing the delay.
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Spurrier doesn't see the plan gaining much traction, no matter who's behind it.
"Looks like it's dead now, hopefully," he told USA Today.
The plan isn't dead, but a lot of coaches, including some of Spurrier's fellow SEC bosses, have buried it.
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"It's ridiculous. Let's let everybody keep playing the way they've been playing," Spurrier told USA Today, adding that a hurry-up attack is "part of football."
"The 'no-huddle' has always been available. I don't see why we'd take it away right now," he was quoted as saying.
Spurrier's offense doesn't employ a huddle, but the players often have to wait as calls are made from the sideline. The Gamecocks averaged 70.8 plays per game last season.